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Vol. 164 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2018 No. 81 House of Representatives The House met at 10 a.m. and was Air National Guard Base and the Rose- The second- and third-place winners called to order by the Speaker pro tem- ville Community Schools. will hang in my office. pore (Mr. DESJARLAIS). However, what is also impressive, in I thank them all for their submis- sion. f addition to Dylan’s giving spirit, is his perseverance. You see, Dylan was born f DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO with neurofibromatosis, a condition UNDERMINING OF OUR TEMPORE which causes tumors to form in his DEMOCRACY The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- brain, spinal cord, and nerves. Dylan The SPEAKER pro tempore. The fore the House the following commu- was also diagnosed with cancer and has Chair recognizes the gentleman from nication from the Speaker: been undergoing chemotherapy for the New York (Mr. SUOZZI) for 5 minutes. WASHINGTON, DC past 4 years. None of this deters the straight-A Mr. SUOZZI. Mr. Speaker, Russia has May 17, 2018. been working to undermine our democ- I hereby appoint the Honorable SCOTT student as he helps people across the racy, as well as democracies through- DESJARLAIS to act as Speaker pro tempore 10th Congressional District. In fact, on this day. Dylan recently set a school volunteer out Europe, including Central and PAUL D. RYAN, hour record, with 236 hours of volun- Eastern Europe. Unfortunately, too many Americans Speaker of the House of Representatives. teer service last year. When asked and elected officials have been dis- f about his volunteerism, Dylan responds tracted from Russia’s secret operations that he is ‘‘happy to help’’ and ‘‘always MORNING-HOUR DEBATE because of the pitched, partisan battle here if someone needs help.’’ regarding Putin’s involvement in the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Dylan is an outstanding young man, ant to the order of the House of Janu- 2016 Presidential race. and I am extremely proud of all the The bottom line is this: Democrats ary 8, 2018, the Chair will now recog- work he does in our district to make nize Members from lists submitted by and Republicans can’t lose focus on the community a better place to live Russia’s worldwide treachery due to the majority and minority leaders for and work. I wish him the best of luck morning-hour debate. our hyperpartisanship here at home. in the future, and I hope all of you will Instead, Democrats and Republicans The Chair will alternate recognition as well. in Congress must work together to ex- between the parties. All time shall be RECOGNIZING CARLA VILLALVAZO AS WINNER OF pose Russia’s worldwide plan to sub- equally allocated between the parties, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL ART COMPETITION vert democracy. We must face the re- and in no event shall debate continue Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise ality that Russia is a strategic compet- beyond 11:50 a.m. Each Member, other today to recognize Carla Villalvazo, a itor of the United States that is using than the majority and minority leaders high school student from Eisenhower nontraditional, nonmilitary weapons in and the minority whip, shall be limited High School in Shelby Township, a hybrid warfare to undermine democ- to 5 minutes. Michigan. Carla is the winner of the racies in countries that are ill- f 2018 Congressional Art Competition for equipped to combat their malign ef- my district. Her artwork titled ‘‘For- RECOGNIZING DYLAN RHEKER AS forts. get Me Not’’ is a watercolor painting Instead of focusing on Russia’s ac- MACOMB COUNTY VOLUNTEER which will hang in the Cannon tunnel tivities during the 2016 election, I have OF THE YEAR of the Capitol for the next year. introduced a bipartisan bill, the Russia The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Importantly, it is not only wonderful Anti-Corruption Act, with 13 Repub- Chair recognizes the gentleman from artwork, it talks about the struggle licans and 10 Democratic cosponsors, to Michigan (Mr. MITCHELL) for 5 minutes. the family has with a family member expose and thwart Putin and his cro- Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise with Alzheimer’s. It is great artwork, nies’ illicit activities in Eastern Eu- today to recognize recently named but it also touches my heart and, I rope and Europe as a whole. Macomb County Volunteer of the Year, think, many others. Whether bribing politicians, cyber eighth-grader Dylan Rheker. I also recognize second-place finisher attacks, manipulating social media Dylan, age 14, volunteers at the Vil- Stefanie Frontera, also from Eisen- networks, buying media outlets to pro- lage of East Harbor senior living facil- hower High School, and third-place fin- mote propaganda, or purchasing power ity, at Francis A. Higgins Elementary isher Christina Berels from Cardinal plants to control energy supplies to School, at the Anna Mae Burdi Early Mooney High School. These students gain leverage over unstable govern- Childhood Center, as well as Selfridge all submitted wonderful pieces of art. ments, we must define, document, and

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Just 2 years anticorruption relating to illicit Rus- The institute cited Estonia in 2007, ago, Officers Lesley Zerebny and Gil sian financial activities in Europe Georgia in 2008, the Ukraine in 2011, Vega from the Palm Springs Police De- which would analyze Russia’s financial and the 2013 Energetic Bear attack as partment were shot and killed in the meddling in strategic European sec- well-known public examples of how line of duty, responding to what ap- tors, including real estate, energy, Russia is using Central Europe to per- peared to be a routine domestic dis- media, and infrastructure. fect their strategies before deploying turbance. The office will collaborate with the to other Western countries, including In the wake of this tragedy, our com- Treasury Department to train U.S. dip- what we witnessed here in the United munities came together to remember lomats to work with foreign partners States. Officers Zerebny and Vega and to do to uncover and prosecute illegal Rus- By the Congress addressing and pass- more for the entire law enforcement sian financial activity. This office will ing Mr. SUOZZI’s bill, we can help Euro- community. also work with our NATO allies to ele- peans on the front lines of the fight Over the past year, I have worked vate anticorruption operations as part against the Russian corruption, propa- with law enforcement, firefighters, and of NATO’s readiness action plan. ganda, and cyber intrusion machine. other local and national public safety Oligarchs connected to Vladimir I thank my friend for the time he so officer leaders to draft the Heroes Les- Putin are malevolent allies in the Rus- generously gave to me. ley Zerebny and Gil Vega First Re- sian President’s hybrid warfare sponder Survivors Support Act, legisla- scheme. They flood Europe with dirty f tion that honors those who have passed money, bribing politicians and pur- HONORING LIEUTENANT AARON by serving the living. chasing key assets to subvert democ- CROOK OF THE BLUEFIELD PO- We developed this bill with one cen- racy. The Panama Papers found a trail LICE DEPARTMENT tral idea in mind: that those who risk of $2 billion that leads back to the Rus- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The their lives for our community deserve sian President. Such money has gone Chair recognizes the gentleman from the peace of mind to know that if something happened to them their fam- to support fringe political parties in West Virginia (Mr. JENKINS) for 5 min- France, Germany, Austria, and else- utes. ily would be okay—that they would be where. Mr. JENKINS of West Virginia. Mr. able to pay off their debt, put their Well-funded Russian media outlets Speaker, as our Nation honors Na- kids through college, and have a fair also play a key role in this hybrid war- tional Police Week, I rise today to re- shot of making it in the world. So we did the math, looking at the fare. They spread lies and weaken faith member a fallen officer, Lieutenant in European governments. Our allies in existing Public Safety Officer Benefit Aaron Crook of the Bluefield Police Central and Eastern Europe have ac- Program to see if it achieved these Department. cused Russia of a campaign of bribery principles, and we found that families This week, the name of Officer meant to undermine the transatlantic of fallen first responders, those who Crook, along with 359 of his fallen alliance. gave their all to protect us, are being All of this, of course, complements brothers and sisters in blue, will be shortchanged and don’t even have Russia’s more overt tactics, from its added to the National Law Enforce- enough to pay off their debt and pay military aggression in the Ukraine to ment Officers Memorial here in Wash- for the rising cost of an education. its campaign of assassinations on Euro- ington. As our Nation honors our police Families of fallen public safety offi- pean soil. As Putin and his cronies officers for their sacrifices, we give cers are still struggling. My bipartisan work to discredit open societies, the thanks to the life of Officer Crook, bill will correct this and provide need- dark and dangerous sphere of Moscow’s whom we sadly lost last May. ed relief for those who sacrifice so influence grows and grows and grows. Lieutenant Crook was born in Sum- much. It will increase the Public Safe- That is how democracies can die. mers County, graduated from Bluefield ty Officer Benefit from $350,000 to Mr. Speaker, this is not about Presi- State College, and proudly served in $500,000 in order to pay off the cal- dent Trump, and it is not about Demo- the United States Marine Corps Re- culated national average debt most crats versus Republicans. Members of serve for 6 years. After serving his Na- families have. It will increase the Congress must work together to find tion, he exchanged his Marine uniform monthly education benefit from $1,024 solutions to the very serious threats for that of the Bluefield Police Depart- per month to $2,000 per month to en- posed by Russia the world over. ment in 2008. sure they can afford the actual rising I now yield to my friend and col- Lieutenant Crook was an out- cost of an education. And it will fix a league, Mr. FRENCH HILL, the original standing police officer and devoted bureaucratic loophole that costs fami- cosponsor of the Russia Anti-Corrup- family man. He loved the outdoors and lies tens of thousands of dollars for no tion Act and a real leader on this crit- would never pass up an opportunity to fault of their own. ical issue. go fishing. In fact, the city of Bluefield Right now, our men and women who Mr. HILL. Mr. Speaker, I thank my is planning to rename a lake in his risk their lives in order to save our friend from New York for yielding and honor so his legacy can carry on lives are being shortchanged. I urge all compliment him for his leadership on through one of his favorite pastimes. Members of Congress to do the right this topic. His memory is kept alive by his wife, thing, to follow words with action and Just like rebuilding our transatlantic Whitney; his kids, Brycen and Paislee; actually do something pragmatic that relationship on NATO and our partners his extended family; the Bluefield Po- will improve the lives of fallen first re- for military work and just like our lice Department; and so many others. sponders’ families. work in exporting energy now, natural He will never be forgotten. Our State I hope that all Members will cospon- gas and oil, to Europe to offset the and country lost a good man, and Offi- sor and support my bipartisan Heroes Russian dominance, this work, this po- cer Crook is missed each and every Lesley Zerebny and Gil Vega First Re- litical work, is essential. I thank my day. May he rest in peace. sponder Survivors Support Act, and I friend from New York, and I was proud f urge the Speaker to bring it up for a to be an original cosponsor on this leg- vote immediately. Let’s support this islation. MEMORIALIZING OFFICERS LOST IN THE LINE OF DUTY bill and stand up for these families I want to tell you, on a recent visit in that have sacrificed so much for us. the last few months I had to Krakow, The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Poland, I was with the Kosciuszko In- Chair recognizes the gentleman from b 1015 stitute there in Krakow, which has California (Mr. RUIZ) for 5 minutes. HONORING CHRISTOPHER’S CLUBHOUSE studied Russian cyber attacks through- Mr. RUIZ. Mr. Speaker, it is an honor Mr. RUIZ. Mr. Speaker, I want to out Central Europe extensively. to speak on the House floor today in honor an incredible organization in my

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The family made the lated illness States do it. brave and selfless choice to turn their Detective Andrew Siroka, 9/11-related How is that going to work? grief into something positive. They re- illness Well, actually, it is not a new idea. alized that, while they had done every- Officer Juan Feliciano, heart attack We tried it once before. Actually, we thing right like telling Christopher not Sergeant Donald Scott Conniff, ve- tried it by default until we had the Ei- to talk to strangers, no one had told hicular assault senhower plan, a Republican President, them that there was more that they Sergeant Michael Galvin, 9/11-related to build a national highway system. could have done. They realized that illness This was the net result of devolution: they had not taught him what to do if Sergeant Wayne Jackson, 9/11-related Kansas, Oklahoma; you build it, we someone had grabbed Christopher. illness will build it. They didn’t want any parent to face Lieutenant Marci Simms, 9/11-related Well, Kansas built it. that same realization and that same illness What is this? grief, so they started Christopher’s Officer Charles Karen, 9/11-related ill- Oh, that is the State line. Clubhouse to provide safety skills and ness This is Oklahoma: Sorry, we don’t personal defense techniques for chil- Sergeant Louis Pioli, 9/11-related ill- have the money to build and continue dren, teens, and the elderly throughout ness that beautiful new freeway—1956. the Coachella Valley. Detective Randolph Holder, gunfire For 3 years, cars crashed through a Over the years, Christopher’s Club- Sergeant Gerard Beyrodt, 9/11-related wooden barrier they built at the end at house has served more than 100,000 peo- illness the State line into Amos Sweitzer’s ple through their programs in schools, Detective Ronald Richards, 9/11-re- farm field until we had a national community events, and churches. lated illness transportation plan, from a Republican There is no doubt that they have made Sergeant Edmund Murray, 9/11-re- President, funded by a user fee, a gas a difference and saved lives, preventing lated illness tax, to build out the system nation- other parents from going through their Lieutenant Rebecca Buck, 9/11-re- wide. pain. lated illness And then it was Ronald Reagan who I thank them and I applaud them for Officer Alexander Figueroa, 9/11-re- said: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. We their years of service. While Chris- lated illness can’t just have highways. We need to topher’s Clubhouse may be closing, the Lieutenant Luis Lopez, 9/11-related have transit to serve our Nation’s larg- legacy of their work will be felt for illness est cities and our hubs. generations. Officer Matthew Gay, 9/11-related ill- So we added transit into this. That is all well and good. We built a f ness Officer James Betso, 9/11-related ill- system that was the envy of the world HONORING THE MEMORY AND SAC- ness 40 years ago, 30 years ago, maybe even RIFICE OF NEW YORK CITY PO- Detective Leroy Dixon, 9/11-related 25 years ago. Since then, it has been LICE OFFICERS illness crumbling with neglect. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Detective Michael Kenneth Davis, We haven’t raised the Federal gas tax Chair recognizes the gentleman from 9/11-related illness since 1993: 140,000 bridges need repair or New York (Mr. DONOVAN) for 5 minutes. Sergeant Charles Gunzelman, 9/11-re- replacement; $100 billion backlog in Mr. DONOVAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to lated illness. transit, just to build out to a state of honor the memory and sacrifice of New May their families continue to be in good repair for what we have and not York police officers killed in the line of our prayers. even give people new transit options to duty. f get out of the congestion and the traf- Every day, women and men don blue fic. AMERICA NEEDS A COORDINATED uniforms and head out to the streets, We are wasting billions of dollars a 21ST CENTURY NATIONAL unsure of what danger they may en- year, wasting fuel from people sitting TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM counter. They protect my family and in gridlock all around the country. the 8 million people who live in New The SPEAKER pro tempore. The They are damaging their cars through York City. I thank them for risking ev- Chair recognizes the gentleman from potholes, and they don’t have the tran- erything to keep us safe. Oregon (Mr. DEFAZIO) for 5 minutes. sit options that were promised to The following men and women, New Mr. DEFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, it is In- them. York’s finest, have met their end of frastructure Week. You can tell from So what is going on? Well, it seems watch while carrying out their duties all of the activity across the country: like the Republicans love to talk about since I came to office in Congress in all of the rebuilding of the 140,000 it. Oh, they just love to talk about in- May of 2015. I would like to honor them bridges that need repair or replace- frastructure. Everybody loves to talk by reading their names here in the ment; the 40 percent of the national about it—we are going to fill those pot- House Chamber: highway system that has failed to the holes; we are going to build those Lieutenant Jeffrey Francis, 9/11-re- point where we have to rebuild the bridges; we are going to take care of lated illness whole thing, not just resurface it; and you—but they refuse to fund it. That is Detective Miosotis Familia, gunfire the $100 billion backlog in transit. It is the bottom line. Officer Michael Hance, 9/11-related all—well, actually, none of that is hap- We need to fund an ambitious new illness pening. national infrastructure plan: transit, Sergeant Terrence Scott O’Hara, 9/11- In fact, despite the President being roads, bridges, highways, harbors and related illness right here and talking about a $1.5 tril- ports, wastewater, clean water, and the Deputy Chief James Molloy, 9/11-re- lion plan—wow, a big surprise, up by list goes on and on and on. lated illness $500 billion—during the State of the You can’t be a great nation if your Detective Steven McDonald, gunfire Union, the net result of what this people are mired in gridlock, if your Detective Stephen Kubinski, 9/11-re- President and this administration have roads are potholed, if your harbors are lated illness done is actually to reduce spending on silted in, if your jetties are failing, if Sergeant Paul Tuozzolo, gunfire infrastructure and put forward a paper your wastewater systems are 50 years

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.005 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4144 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 old and can’t take any new capacity ognize some of their youngest employ- b 1030 and actually are polluting our rivers, ees, who work not out of Houston, Do something, anything, to help and clean water is not available to peo- Texas, but from Council Rock High deconstruct the stigma. ple in some of the largest cities in the School South in Pennsylvania. If every Member of this House did United States of America. Council Rock South is one of 125 something, that is more than 440 mo- Where is the Federal partner? There schools in the Nation, and the only ments to help tear down this stigma is no Federal partner with the Repub- school in Pennsylvania, that partici- that keeps too many struggling with- licans in charge. Let the States do it. pate in a unique program that enables out care. Let’s devolve this obligation to the students to develop projects that ulti- This month, May, is also Lupus States. That is their solution: The mately could be used by NASA itself. Awareness Month. Despite affecting States should pay for it. Indeed, NASA is currently working on more than 1.5 million Americans, lupus Well, it didn’t work in the fifties. one of the projects that originated is poorly understood and often over- How the heck is that going to work in from Council Rock South several years looked even by medical professionals. the 21st century? prior: a vibration isolation chamber It is estimated that a patient with Even if one State decides now to in- that would protect fertilized eggs. lupus will go 6 years before they finally crease capacity to move freight—say I applaud these students for their receive an accurate diagnosis. California wants to move all of the contributions and would like to thank More than 90 percent of those living freight that comes into Los Angeles the technology education teacher, Fred with lupus are women, and a dispropor- out of California to the rest of the Na- Bauer, for the guidance and direction tionate number are people of color. In tion where it is going and bring the he provides these impressive young fact, African Americans, Latinos, goods in to export from there, how is women and men. Asians, and Native Americans are as that going to work when you get to the much as three times more likely to be Nevada State line and there is a two- f diagnosed with lupus than White Amer- icans. lane road—or no road—on the other MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS side? I hope that this House will mark May This is an abject failure, and it is The SPEAKER pro tempore. The and Lupus Awareness Month by recom- time for Congress to act. If the Repub- Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from mitting research, improved awareness, licans won’t act, maybe we need to re- Illinois (Ms. KELLY) for 5 minutes. and increased access to care to support place them with a party that will act Ms. KELLY of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I the 1.5 million Americans living with to rebuild America and make us com- rise today to talk about something lupus. petitive in the world for the 21st cen- critical to each and every person in the This month, I also want to draw at- tury, not devolution. We need a Fed- House and the millions of Americans tention to the fact that more than 75 eral partnership. We need Federal in- whom we represent: our health. million of us suffer from high blood vestment. We need a coordinated 21st It is no secret that the Affordable pressure. century national transportation sys- Care Act was an important start to- Tragically, more than half—or 38 tem. ward increasing access to care and ad- million—of us do not have this condi- tion under control, leading to wors- f dressing long-lingering health dispari- ties that plague our communities. ening complications, including heart RECOGNIZING REBECCA OBERT- Thanks to the ACA, millions of Ameri- disease and stroke, two of the leading THORN cans have access to quality, affordable causes of death in this country. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. healthcare, many for the first time. High blood pressure is often called DONOVAN). The Chair recognizes the The impacts have been positive across the silent killer, and I know that near- gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. the country, but especially in the Afri- ly every one of us in this House has a FITZPATRICK) for 5 minutes. can American community, where the story of losing a friend or loved one to Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, it uninsured rate has been cut in half. stroke or a heart attack. is my honor to recognize an educator Mr. Speaker, this is remarkable Again, as with nearly every disease, in my district who is making a lasting progress, but we still have a long way African Americans are disproportion- difference in the lives of Bucks County to go. Globally, the U.S. ranks 24th in ately impacted. In fact, more than 40 students. healthcare. Let me say that again. We, percent of African American women Rebecca Obert-Thorn, of Pennwood the United States, the richest country and men have high blood pressure. Our community often tends to de- Middle School in Lower Makefield, was in the history of the world, ranks 24th velop this disorder earlier and experi- recently named the winner of the when it comes to healthcare. Nations ence it more severely than our White Axalta All-Pro Teacher of the Year like Slovenia, Antigua, and Barbuda Award. For this distinction, Rebecca counterparts. outrank us. Mr. Speaker, that is out- So this month I challenge everyone has secured $7,000 for Pennwood to be rageous. We can and must do better. to ‘‘embrace the squeeze’’ and get your used on materials that promote STEM One area we desperately need to do blood pressure checked. Knowing is education and opportunities for stu- better in is mental health. One in five half the battle, and it can save your dents. Americans—that is more than 40 mil- life. This program, which is in collabora- lion of us—suffer from a mental health We have a chance for Congress to tion with the Philadelphia Eagles, hon- condition. Thankfully, the Affordable tackle these issues head-on. ored Rebecca due to her dedication in Care Act mandated, for the first time, Next week, my dear friend, mentor, the classroom, along with her work on that mental health services be included and colleague, Congresswoman BAR- the board of directors at Silver Lake in coverage. BARA LEE, will introduce the Health Nature Center in Bristol and through But stigma and a persistent lack of Equity and Accountability Act, also STEM work at the Bucks County Com- access to care continue to prevent known as the HEAA bill. munity College. It also featured an many from seeking and receiving This bill, that I have personally had event at Pennwood Middle School with treatment. It is estimated that more the honor of introducing last Congress, Eagles wide receiver Bryce Treggs. than half of those struggling with a takes a comprehensive look at where I applaud Rebecca for her work in mental health condition cannot, or do we need to address Americans’ health promoting STEM education and her not, receive the care that they need. disparities crisis. commitment to building our next gen- This Mental Health Awareness I hope that all Members will take a eration of leaders in Bucks County. Month, I want to challenge my col- careful look at this important bill and RECOGNIZING COUNCIL ROCK HIGH SCHOOL SOUTH leagues to join efforts to end stigma join us as cosponsors. Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. Speaker, and bring these issues out into the While many of these health dispari- NASA is known for hiring the brightest open: join a rally, send a tweet on ties have existed for years, they don’t and most adept people in the world to available services in your district, or need to persist. We can address them, execute the functions of space explo- host a roundtable with veterans who we can solve problems, so let’s get to ration and research. I am proud to rec- are struggling. it.

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Mr. Speaker, in per person, which anybody who works pling on States’ rights, consumer pro- honor of National Police Week, I rise tection, environmental protection, ag- today to recognize the Dunlap, Ten- in this field will acknowledge that the bureaucracy and the trouble will be ricultural protection. nessee, Police Department on its selec- more than it is worth in terms of a This bill should be rejected. tion as a finalist for the 2018 Secretary benefit to people. Essentially, they will f of Defense Employer Support Freedom hound people off food stamps. Award. NATIONAL SALVATION ARMY This is at the same time where they WEEK This award, given each year by the are expanding subsidies for wealthy National Committee for Employer Sup- farming interests and expanding the The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. port of the Guard, recognizes employ- ability to get those subsidies to people DESJARLAIS). The Chair recognizes the ers who go above and beyond to support who aren’t actively involved with gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. their employees serving in the Na- farming. This bill is going to send sub- THOMPSON) for 5 minutes. Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. tional Guard and military reserves. sidy checks to New York City and Chi- Mr. Speaker, this week is National Sal- Out of 2,300 nominations nationwide, cago and San Francisco, people who are vation Army Week, and it is a time to the Dunlap Police Department was cousins and nieces and nephews, not recognize the good that this organiza- chosen as one of just 30 finalists for the actively farming. award, whose recipients will be an- The second major problem with this tion does, but also a time to raise nounced next month. bill is it attacks conservation funding, awareness about the challenges faced by more than 40 million Americans Under the leadership of Police Chief cutting a billion dollars from essential who are living in poverty, many who Clint Huth, who is himself a Navy Re- services, cutbacks with the Conserva- are stuck in poverty, quite frankly, be- serve Master Chief, the Dunlap Police tion Stewardship Program, $5 billion cause of programs and regulations put Department has been active in their cut out of the Working Lands Project, forth by Washington, D.C., for decades support for their guard and their re- and not strengthening the ability of that serve as a spiderweb and makes serve employees. environmental programs to produce re- people feel more comfortable living in Like many employers across the sults. There is no requirement that we poverty, which is nothing we should country, Chief Huth and the Dunlap PD have high-quality environmental out- play an important role in our Nation’s ever do. comes. We should always be working to pro- military readiness through their un- In fact, the EQIP Program has a wide vide our friends, our neighbors, our wavering support of our reserve compo- variety of things that we pay farmers neighbors in need with a pathway to nents. to do that actually don’t enhance the opportunity. The Salvation Army is a On behalf of Tennessee’s Fourth Dis- environment. We are paying farmers great organization, actually, that ac- trict, I would like to congratulate for the cost of doing business: fencing, complishes that. them on their recognition and offer my hog lagoons. That is decidedly the With the help of 3.2 million volun- sincere gratitude for the commitment wrong step to take. teers, the Salvation Army serves near- they have made to our citizen soldiers. The worst aspect that is not getting ly 25 million Americans through a the attention it deserves is the so- f range of social services, including food called King amendment, the Protect for the hungry, relief for disaster sur- THE FARM BILL IS A FLAWED Interstate Commerce Act, which would vivors, clothing and shelter for the BILL prevent State or local governments homeless, and opportunities for under- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The from regulating an agricultural prod- privileged children. Chair recognizes the gentleman from uct except to the extent it is already National Salvation Army Week regulated by Federal law or the pro- Oregon (Mr. BLUMENAUER) for 5 min- began in 1954 when Congress approved utes. ducing State. the joint resolution for President Think about that for a moment. Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, Dwight D. Eisenhower to proclaim a States are moving to deal with the the debate this week in Congress cen- week to recognize the humanitarian ef- opioid crisis, and they would be pre- ters largely around the farm bill, the forts of the Salvation Army. vented from having drug prohibitions most important bill that most people The Salvation Army is one of the Na- that go beyond what the Federal Gov- tion’s largest and oldest faith-based pay little or no attention to. ernment does or other States. Currently, there is a mad scramble health and human services providers. Food packaging regulations. Many With a presence in every ZIP Code for votes for a flawed bill from a frac- States are concerned about BPA-free across the country, the Salvation tured Republican caucus. container requirements for baby food: Army uniquely understands the de- Now, we are going to have some prohibited. mands facing Americans in need. minor discussions on the floor. There Fishing regulations. In my State, and Last year, the Salvation Army served are some amendments that will be I suspect in many others, people are se- more than 56 million meals and pro- bounced back and forth, but they are rious about being able to protect fish- vided more than 10 million nights of basically beside the point, not the big- eries, commercial and recreational, but shelter. picture issues that need to be debated. under this bill, they would be prohib- The Salvation Army is on the front There are fatal flaws. First and fore- ited if another State has looser re- lines of the opioid crisis, serving more most, virtually everyone on our side of quirements. My colleague from Seattle than 173,000 Americans in 139 rehab the aisle is adamantly opposed to the might have some concerns in her State centers across the United States. efforts to cut nutrition funding about protecting the clamming oper- Since the 1900 Galveston hurricane, through SNAP, food stamps, rather ations, but some State like Nebraska the Salvation Army has served sur- than expanding opportunities to nutri- that doesn’t have them could come in vivors and first responders of every tion and healthy food. and not observe those limits. major natural disaster and numerous For example, they are cutting farm- The notion that we won’t have man-made disasters. In any given year, ers market funding, for heaven’s sake, invasive pest protections that are tai- it helps more than 275,000 survivors re- projects that are popular across the lored to what our States want, product ceive hope, healing, and comfort. country and connect consumers di- transportation laws, secure containers Through a wide variety of job train- rectly with farmers for fresh, healthy for animal carcasses and grease—low- ing programs, including culinary, hos- food. est common denominator. pitality, and landscaping training, the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.008 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4146 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 Salvation Army helps Americans build b 1045 ture projects. The report was developed the skills they need to acquire gainful And so far this year, preliminary re- through conversations and employment and lift themselves out of ports show 54 officers have died. roundtables, tours, workshops, and poverty, help them achieve food secu- Arizona has lost one brave officer so planning sessions across my district rity. far this year. The family of Nogales Po- that my staff and I convened. We have many cities in the district. The Salvation Army takes a holistic lice Officer Jesus Cordova and the en- People know the district for Seattle, approach in addressing people’s needs. tire community continue to mourn his which is very, very important, our Port It supports the physical, emotional, death after he was shot and killed by a of Seattle, an important institution, and spiritual development of those that carjacking suspect last month. He was but we also have cities like Burien, they serve. Data shows that those who the first Nogales officer to be shot and which is right next to the Sea-Tac Air- utilize the Salvation Army’s spiritual killed in 130 years. port, one of the fastest growing air- and emotional care programs are more These law enforcement officers likely to reclaim their lives and get ports in the country, and is dealing served and protected their commu- with the many challenges that comes back on their feet. nities admirably, and while we can Mr. Speaker, the Salvation Army was with that growth. never repay the debt we owe them and Each of the priority projects that are established in London in 1865, and for their families, we will forever remem- more than 135 years, it has been sup- covered in this report serves our dis- ber their service. trict by enhancing sustainability, im- porting those in need without discrimi- This week, 360 officers were memori- nation. proving the community, and contrib- alized on the National Law Enforce- uting to economic growth and job cre- Together, we can all join the fight for ment Memorial here in Washington, good. I am proud to honor this out- ation. D.C. My hope is that this report provides standing organization that for more Three brave Arizonans were honored: an overview of the types of improve- than a century has given scores of Paul Lazinsky of the El Mirage Police ments we desperately need to see in Americans the help they need during Department, whose watch ended last King County, the city of Seattle, Sno- trying times. year; Alfred Moore of the Arizona De- homish County, Shoreline, Edmonds, f partment of Liquor Control, whose Lake Forest Park, Normandy Park, watch ended in 1965; and Rupert Hop- Burien, and the Port of Seattle. NATIONAL POLICE WEEK kins of the Pima County Sheriff’s Of- Our challenge, Mr. Speaker, is to The SPEAKER pro tempore. The fice, whose watch ended in 1950. keep our district the most livable, sus- Chair recognizes the gentleman from The memorial also includes Navajo tainable, and welcoming community in Arizona (Mr. O’HALLERAN) for 5 min- Nation Officer Houston Largo, who the country. It is a challenge. utes. died last year while responding to a do- Just consider the facts: Mr. O’HALLERAN. Mr. Speaker, I mestic violence call in New Mexico. In 2016, we spent 54.8 hours in traffic, stand here today as a former law en- As we look to the future, it is impor- giving Seattle the dubious honor of forcement officer and a member of the tant to highlight the work being done being one of the top 10 cities for con- House Law Enforcement Caucus to at the local, county, and State levels gestion. In 2015, the lowest earning 20 percent honor the brave men and women in to improve the relationship between of households in our State spent three uniform who have paid the ultimate police officers and their communities. times as much, as a percentage of their sacrifice to protect, and to thank those I have seen firsthand how community policing practices benefit both the income, on commuting costs compared officers who are putting their lives on to the highest income families. the line every day to protect our com- communities and the officers on patrol. It improves safety, increases trust, and Especially significant are transit op- munities. tions for my constituents. Transit We owe a great debt of gratitude to it reduces violence. Communities across Arizona are leading the way in makes the ultimate difference in being these men and women and their fami- able to reach a place of employment lies, who make their own sacrifices as developing strong relationships be- tween these two groups, and I applaud easily, which, in turn, affects how con- they see their loved ones off every day. stituents are able to provide for them- I remember when I went off every their hard work. Mr. Speaker, I am grateful for the selves and their families. day and said good-bye to my wife and While Sound Transit has seen a 23- support I have seen this week for our my children. I usually worked night- percent increase in ridership over the law enforcement community. time. I remember afterwards coming last year, we need to ensure that all I addressed how my family felt. I home, and on some nights when an offi- communities are connected to transit have spent a lot of time at funerals cer had been killed or shot, and they networks and not forgotten. would mention it on TV, but they with the families of those that have As King County Metro found in a re- wouldn’t give the name out until the fallen, too much time. And I have spent port from 2015, while 71 percent of mi- family was notified. Those times for all too many times at bedsides with seri- nority communities live within a quar- the families in a large major police de- ously wounded officers. I was a homi- ter-mile of a Metro bus stop, only 41 partment or a small one are traumatic. cide detective, and I investigated their percent live within a half a mile of a After a while, my son, who was very shootings. Please remember in your stop that has frequent service. young at the time, would sit on the prayers not only the officers that have Mr. Speaker, transit is also essential stairway going up to the second floor fallen but their loved ones. to addressing climate change. In our and the bedrooms late in the evening f region, nearly 50 percent of our green- until I came home. house gas pollution comes from trans- I have lost friends and partners in RECOGNIZING INFRASTRUCTURE portation. In 2015, Washington State’s the line of duty; one, Erwin Jackson, WEEK transportation sector contributed 43 after he saved my life on a robbery ar- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The tons of carbon dioxide to the atmos- rest, within a year, he was shot dead on Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from phere, making it Washington’s highest a call. Washington (Ms. JAYAPAL) for 5 min- level since 2007. I have grieved with their families, utes. Not only do we need to consider im- and during the most difficult times, I Ms. JAYAPAL. Mr. Speaker, later on pacts to air quality but to water qual- have experienced firsthand the real this afternoon, in recognition of Infra- ity as well. In our region, clean water sacrifices they make. structure Week, I will be releasing the is essential to supporting our economy This week, my wife, Pat, and I pause second annual overview of transpor- and national treasures like our salmon to remember our friends, reflect on tation and infrastructure priorities in and our orcas. According to the Wash- their service. my district, Washington’s Seventh ington Stormwater Center, over 10,000 Mr. Speaker, last year, 129 officers Congressional District. unique chemicals are found in urban died in the line of duty across this The report features a number of high- road runoff, contributing to the con- country. priority transportation and infrastruc- tinuing pollution of Puget Sound.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.010 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4147 Yet not a day goes by where I do not Well, the truth is, people who use the not vote for. I will have to urge a ‘‘no’’ draw from the innovations and exam- food stamp program often work for a vote, and I hope that we learn some- ples set by our businesses, our individ- living too. They just happen to have a thing important about people who uals, and institutions in our Seventh tough patch in their lives where they struggle hard in this economy. Congressional District. need their neighbors—that is us—to f Mr. Speaker, I am proud to say that step up and help make sure that they we are a model for the Nation, whether can have food on the table. OPPOSE THE FARM BILL it is through ideas brought to reality, The idea that people who have eco- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The partnerships formed across diverse in- nomic hardship don’t want to work is Chair recognizes the gentleman from terests, or new mechanisms developed simply wrong. This body gives money Arizona (Mr. GALLEGO) for 5 minutes. to maximize the leverage of any finan- out to rich people all the time and Mr. GALLEGO. Mr. Speaker, I was a cial instruments. doesn’t ask for any work requirements. free lunch kid growing up. I was the But there is a lot to do. Later this We don’t ask for many requirements at young man that brought his ID card to year, Congress will consider its annual all, but we do it. It is all part of this the lunch lady and she looked on the budget and appropriations bills for fis- shaming and blaming the poor. back for the yellow sticker and I re- cal year 2019, including, I hope, a po- The Congressional Budget Office esti- ceived free breakfasts and free lunches. tential infrastructure bill. mates that this new work requirement, I know what it is like to come from Democratic Ranking Member DEFA- plus other restrictions proposed by the a home with a lot of love but not a lot ZIO spoke earlier about the critical farm bill, as proposed, would end up de- of money. I can tell you for a fact that need for the Federal Government to nying or reducing nutritional aid to kids with backgrounds like me cannot fund a bold infrastructure plan so that about 2 million people, mostly families succeed in the classroom if they are our businesses and our communities with children. worried about the next meal. across the country can succeed. By the way, 70 percent of poor kids in That is why this GOP farm bill is so That will put people back to work. It America eligible for food stamps live in will put money into our roads, our reprehensible. Republicans are pro- a household with somebody who works, posing SNAP cuts that will kick a bridges, our infrastructure needs, our but the Federal minimum wage is $7.25. water systems, our schools across our quarter-of-a-million students off of the On $7.25, that works out to about free lunch program. country, and our transit. $15,000 a year. You could work full-time Mr. Speaker, that is what I am com- That is right, Mr. Speaker. They and be eligible for food stamps. mitted to fighting for here in Congress. have just given massive tax cuts to People who don’t work because of millionaires and billionaires, but now, f whatever difficult patch they hit in to save money, they are trying to pass OPPOSING THE FARM BILL their life should not be shamed into a bill that could cause poor kids across The SPEAKER pro tempore. The not accepting food assistance. If they this country to go hungry. Chair recognizes the gentleman from are not healthy and they are not well- This legislation is a direct attack on Minnesota (Mr. ELLISON) for 5 minutes. fed, how are they going to get back in my constituents. It is a direct attack Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, I come the workforce? on the poor. One in four families in my before the House today to talk about Under this proposal, most adults be- district alone counts on SNAP to put the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of tween 18 and 59 will be required to food on the table. 2018. We call it the farm bill. work part-time or enroll in 20 hours a They deserve better. Our country de- It is supposed to be about supporting week of workforce training to receive serves better. I urge my colleagues to farmers, strengthening communities, assistance. It would impose stricter eli- oppose this shameful legislation. gibility guidelines for low-income fam- making sure that we have nutritious f food, looking out for our environment, ilies who qualify for SNAP through and generally feeding America and other welfare programs. b 1100 Many SNAP recipients face legiti- even sometimes the world. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE’S mate barriers to enrolling in these pro- Instead, this bill would allow compa- WORK ON CLIMATE CHANGE nies to spray pesticides into our water- grams, such as unreliable transpor- ways, which are endangered all over tation. One of my colleagues already The SPEAKER pro tempore. The this country. It will allow all sorts of talked about the difficulty with trans- Chair recognizes the gentleman from environmental challenges and will di- portation in getting to a better paying Rhode Island (Mr. LANGEVIN) for 5 min- minish the quality of life for people. job in this economy. Low housing secu- utes. They won’t even allow a provision to rity. A lot of people are homeless. It is Mr. LANGEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise have a Clean Water Act permit to very difficult to stay employed if you to address the work being done by the spray pesticides. are homeless. And shifting childcare Department of Defense regarding the The bill is also an attack on local and medical schedules. threat of climate change, and to rein- control. I thought local control was a SNAP helps 42 million people in near- force congressional intent on this im- hallmark of what it meant to be con- ly 21 million households. In 2016, SNAP portant issue. servative. Apparently not, because this lifted 3.6 million people out of poverty. Last year’s National Defense Author- bill preempts local governments from They were in poverty; now they ization Act expressed the sense of Con- taking steps to protect their commu- weren’t because of SNAP. It is a good gress that climate change is a direct nities from pesticides. I think a local program. threat to national security. We have community is in a better position to In my own State of Minnesota, more studied a number of readiness factors understand the health needs of its peo- than 69 percent of SNAP participants when it comes to our Armed Forces, ple than the Federal Government is. are families with children. Almost 30 but for too long, we have not given this The bill would also make deep cuts to percent are families with members who major, multifaceted threat the atten- the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance are elderly or people with disabilities. tion that it deserves. Program, SNAP, a program that used More than 54 percent are working fami- Current and former military leaders to be called food stamps. There are no lies. and members of the intelligence com- actual stamps anymore; this benefit is People who use food stamp benefits munity agree that climate change provided on a card that people use. The work hard every day. They work harder poses a security challenge that has the 5-year authorization of the farm bill than many of us who earn a lot more potential to affect our tactical and would cut $23 billion from SNAP—$23 than them. strategic readiness. billion. SNAP kept 111,000 people out of pov- Secretary Mattis was correct when The proposal also adds work require- erty in Minnesota, including almost he stated: ‘‘ . . . the effects of a chang- ments. Now, some people think: Oh, 60,000 children, per year from 2009 to ing climate—such as increased mari- yeah, what is wrong with making peo- 2012. time access to the Arctic, rising sea ple work for a living? I work for a liv- Let me wrap up by saying that the levels, desertification, among others— ing. farm bill, as currently proposed, I can- impact our security situation.’’

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.011 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4148 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 Naval bases, such as Norfolk or Key is prepared to address the effects of cli- one reception to another, or maybe West, are already at risk for flooding. mate change on threat assessments, re- they will blow their whole allotment In fact, Norfolk frequently deals with sources, and readiness, as well as to on one plate of shrimp, or maybe—just nuisance flooding, and that risk will conduct operations both today and in maybe—we will see more Members of only increase as storm surges increase the future. Congressional oversight Congress showing empathy for the in magnitude and tides continue to plays an undeniable role in that proc- most vulnerable in our society. rise. Inland bases will experience other ess. Now, to be clear, there is nothing weather volatility, such as extreme Mr. Speaker, the dangers of climate wrong with private organizations heat and wildfires, all of which can im- change on our national defense are spending their own money on outreach pact their ability to train, and ulti- real, and we support the researchers on to Members of Congress. I have cer- mately impacts readiness. the front lines of these critical threat tainly attended my share of receptions, The displays of dominance in the assessments. Together, we can con- as has everyone else here. But what is Arctic will grow, where new sealanes tinue to craft a sane and sober strategy truly repellent in this debate, is the will connect continents more directly to defend the United States from a va- rank hypocrisy. than ever before. The changing global riety of threats, including climate Here we sit, we get paid $174,000 a climate, Mr. Speaker, will also lead to change. year to work 4 days a week here at the greater instability in the form of eco- That is the expressed intent of Con- U.S. Capitol, and we are considering a nomic migration, increased competi- gress for the upcoming climate report, bill that would take food assistance tion over resources, and possibly more and is a necessity as we prepare for our away from millions of Americans. failed states, which we know to be Nation’s future. Members of Congress can literally walk breeding grounds for extremism and f down the hall for free appetizers any terrorism. time of the day or the week. Mr. Speaker, it is clear that a chang- CONGRESS SHOULD NOT LET Yet, Republicans are proposing to ing climate will alter our joint battle PEOPLE GO HUNGRY deny 265,000 children school meals. space. So when the U.S. Congress in- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Congress can’t pass an infrastructure structs the Department of Defense to Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from bill or DACA, but we can debate a bu- take these threats seriously and evalu- California (Ms. SPEIER) for 5 minutes. reaucratic and ineffective work re- ate the risk posed to our national secu- Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, my Re- quirement for people struggling with rity by climate change, we need ex- publican colleagues have a point. It is hunger. actly that. Our intent is clear, and really terrible that some people take Perhaps if my colleagues ran out of there can be no room for misinter- advantage of free food and drink to funds on their congressional food pretation. continue their slothful lifestyles. I stamp card and got a bit peckish, they Last week, The Washington Post re- agree. This conduct must stop. would remember that in one of the ported that during revision of the De- Of course, Members of Congress can richest countries in the world, we partment’s January 2018 Screening attend lunches and receptions with free should not let people go hungry. Pe- Level Vulnerability Assessment Survey food and drink every single day, sleep riod. report, Department of Defense officials on the taxpayer’s dime in their offices, How can we be debating on whether omitted information pertinent to how and have the taxpayers do their laun- to starve children whose parents are our military installations report their dry, too. struggling with low-paying or unstable vulnerability to sea level rise, how cli- The House has been in session for a jobs? You know what should be an un- mate change is affecting the operating measly 50 days this year, and I have stable job? Giving corporations $2 tril- environment in the Arctic, and the po- compiled at least 54 receptions, which lion in tax cuts while slashing basic tential risk to the Department’s abil- is just the tip of the iceberg of free food food assistance to 20 million children, 5 ity to conduct training and testing ac- and drink available to Members. tivities that have important impacts million seniors, and 1 million veterans. But even estimating a modest $10 for Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to on our readiness. a glass of wine and a plate of appe- While I appreciate the need to update vote against this disgusting bill. And tizers, that means that a Member who reports when it is appropriate and nec- for those who don’t, I will pray that attends a reception every night the essary, it is unacceptable to attempt to you regret every bite of free shrimp House is in session, has received a ben- bend congressional intent for political cocktail and every sip of free wine. efit of over $500 just since the begin- convenience. The Department of De- f ning of this year. fense must answer tough questions as That is about the same amount of RECESS to what motivated these changes, if money as the maximum monthly food The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- not a skewed political narrative. In stamp benefit for a family of three, ex- fact, the issue of climate change and ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair its impact on national security has be- cept Congress Members are nibbling on declares the House in recess until noon come more bipartisan over the last sev- pork sliders, and French Brie, and pate, today. eral years. while these poor families are expected Accordingly (at 11 o’clock and 9 min- In fact, last year, in the National De- to feed each family member three utes a.m.), the House stood in recess. fense Authorization Act, Congress in- meals a day for 30 days. That breaks f down to about $5.60 for each meal, or structed each service within the De- b 1200 partment of Defense to assess the top about $1.87 per person per meal. 10 military installations likely to be Now, I am sure none of my colleagues AFTER RECESS affected by climate change over the would think that they are better than The recess having expired, the House next 20 years. We also instructed com- working people who struggle to keep a was called to order by the Speaker pro batant commanders to incorporate the roof over their heads and food on their tempore (Mr. FRANCIS ROONEY of Flor- effects of a changing climate into their tables. And I am sure all of us are ida) at noon. strategic battle plans. happy to be subject to the same rules f Forty-six Republicans joined with that we vote on in this Chamber. So Democrats to support this language on here is my modest proposal: The con- PRAYER the floor of the House, and I expect gressional electronic benefits transfer Monsignor John Zenz, Holy Name that when this report is delivered to card, or congressional food stamp card. Parish, Birmingham, Michigan, offered Congress later this year, it will make We will put a little cash in it—say $1.87 the following prayer: candid assessments in line with the per reception—and Members can figure Be true to Your name, O Lord, and clear language we supported in that out how to make their monthly recep- may we also be true to Your name, O floor vote and that was signed into law tion budget stretch to fit their wining- Lord. by the President. and-dining needs. You give life to all things and make Mr. Speaker, we must ensure that Maybe we will have Members car- them holy. Keep us true to Your gift of the Department remains resilient and rying their single glass of wine from life.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.014 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4149 You manifest Your power by mercy Starting as a weekend associate at With President Donald Trump, the and compassion. May we be true to You my hometown parish in Birmingham, American-Israeli alliance has never as stewards of Your power. Michigan, Monsignor Zenz became the been stronger to protect American We call upon You as Father. Keep us pastor at Holy Name in 2008, where he families. true to Your providential care for the has faithfully served our community In conclusion, God bless our troops, human family by our loving concern since. and we will never forget September the for the common good. He also serves on the board at the 11th in the global war on terrorism. As we approach Memorial Day, may Academy of the Sacred Heart and chap- f we be true to Your promise of life eter- lain to the Detroit Chapter of the Na- TREATING THE TERRITORIES nal, remembering all who have died, es- tional Christ Child Society. He is cur- UNFAIRLY pecially those in the service of freedom rently a chaplain to the Detroit Car- and peace. dinal Club and has extensive experi- (Ms. PLASKETT asked and was given Be true to Your name, O Lord, and ence working with Catholic Network of permission to address the House for 1 may we always be true to Your name Detroit, ensuring God’s word reaches minute and to revise and extend her re- as well. as many homes as possible. marks.) Amen. Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to host Ms. PLASKETT. Mr. Speaker, I rise f Monsignor Zenz here today, and I want to strongly oppose the Roskam amend- to thank him for his tireless service ment to the Agriculture and Nutrition THE JOURNAL and dedication to southeast Michigan. Act. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The We should all strive to serve our com- This amendment is deeply unfair to Chair has examined the Journal of the munities with the same rigor that territories in the United States and last day’s proceedings and announces Monsignor Zenz demonstrates on a contrary to the original intent of the to the House his approval thereof. daily basis. Animal Welfare Act of 1976. That in- Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- f tent was to aid State and local law en- nal stands approved. forcement in jurisdictions where Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT gamefowl events were prohibited from Speaker, pursuant to clause 1, rule I, I Messages in writing from the Presi- transport from jurisdictions which demand a vote on agreeing to the dent of the United States were commu- allow it. Speaker’s approval of the Journal. nicated to the House by Ms. Gabrielle Mr. Speaker, cockfighting, like horse The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Cuccia, one of his secretaries. racing, is a longstanding recreational question is on the Speaker’s approval f activity in the U.S. Virgin Islands with of the Journal. historical and cultural significance. It ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER The question was taken; and the is regulated in the Virgin Islands along PRO TEMPORE. Speaker pro tempore announced that with Puerto Rico. the ayes appeared to have it. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The I understand the concerns of those Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Chair will entertain up to 15 further re- opposed to this sport and believe regu- Speaker, I object to the vote on the quests for 1-minute speeches on each latory processes and educational out- ground that a quorum is not present side of the aisle. reach are the best means within those and make the point of order that a f jurisdictions to address them. Outlawing cockfighting in the U.S. quorum is not present. HISTORIC EMBASSY OPENING IN territories will only create under- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- JERUSALEM ant to clause 8, rule XX, further pro- ground industries, which will prove ceedings on this question will be post- (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina problematic and create criminality, poned. asked and was given permission to ad- particularly for men of color. The point of no quorum is considered dress the House for 1 minute and to re- Mr. Speaker, to pass an amendment withdrawn. vise and extend his remarks.) that solely affects the territories that Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. f none of the Delegates from the terri- Speaker, this weekend, I was grateful tories support is pejorative, paternal- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE to lead nine of our colleagues in the istic, yes, colonialist, and downright The SPEAKER pro tempore. Will the House of Representatives on a congres- wrong. The territories have always gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. GALLA- sional delegation to Jerusalem for the been treated unfairly under numerous GHER) come forward and lead the House opening of the U.S. Embassy with Am- important Federal laws and programs, in the Pledge of Allegiance. bassador David Friedman, Ivanka and this amendment, sadly, is yet an- Mr. GALLAGHER led the Pledge of Trump, and Jared Kushner. other example. Allegiance as follows: I was joined by Representatives f MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida, RON I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the CANCEL THE AUGUST RECESS 2.0 United States of America, and to the Repub- DESANTIS of Florida, JODY HICE of lic for which it stands, one nation under God, Georgia, GEORGE HOLDING of North (Mr. GALLAGHER asked and was indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Carolina, STEVE KNIGHT of California, given permission to address the House f TOM RICE of South Carolina, DENNIS for 1 minute.) ROSS of Florida, SCOTT TAYLOR of Vir- Mr. GALLAGHER. Mr. Speaker, I WELCOMING MONSIGNOR JOHN ginia, and LEE ZELDIN of New York. stood in this very spot about 1 year ago ZENZ I appreciate Armed Services Com- urging Congress to do the work of the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without mittee Chairman MAC THORNBERRY for American people, the work they sent objection, the gentleman from Michi- authorizing the delegation. us here to do. I introduced a piece of gan (Mr. TROTT) is recognized for 1 We had the opportunity to meet with legislation called the Do Your Job Act, minute. members of the Knesset, the Israeli which is simple. It would not allow There was no objection. parliament, and I was especially grate- Congress to go into recess unless we Mr. TROTT. Mr. Speaker, I rise ful, as a senior member of the House have actually done our work, passed all today to recognize the contributions of Foreign Affairs Committee, to meet of our appropriations bills. Monsignor Zenz, a staple in southeast with the Knesset Foreign Affairs Chair- Instead, I fear that we are going to Michigan and the pastor of Holy Name man Avi Dichter. find ourselves in the same crisis that Catholic Church. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu we found ourselves in just a few Ordained almost 40 years ago, Mon- welcomed us to his office and con- months ago. That is why I was glad to signor Zenz received a doctorate in firmed our shared heritage. We must see that the President recently said spiritual theology in 1984 and has work together to stop Hamas terrorist that we should cancel the August re- served the faculty at Sacred Heart for attacks using human shields financed cess, if necessary, if we can’t do our over 35 years. by Iran. job.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.016 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4150 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 In just 2 months, we will once again Mayor Hogan passed away on May 13. ments provide for limited coordination adjourn for a month-long recess with- Throughout his nearly 8-year tenure as between the United States and foreign out a budget or getting all our appro- a mayor of my hometown, Steve Hogan social security systems to eliminate priations done, to say nothing of the oversaw a remarkable and exciting ren- dual social security coverage and tax- other issues that remain unresolved, aissance of the city. Aurora has be- ation and to help prevent the loss of like immigration—take your pick. come Colorado’s third-largest city and benefit protection that can occur when Once again, if we don’t make some the driving force behind innovation, de- workers divide their careers between hard choices, the government may shut velopment, and economic opportunity. two countries. down. I think that is unacceptable. We Aurora has also become an even great- The Agreements contain all provi- know exactly how this plays out. We er place to live, work, and raise a fam- sions mandated by section 233 of the saw it last year, as we careened from ily. Social Security Act and, pursuant to one budgetary deadline to the next, I met Steve Hogan 35 years ago when section 233(c)(4), other provisions which with one short-term extension after an- I returned home to Aurora after having I deem appropriate to carry out the other. served in the Marine Corps. I have had purposes of section 233. We simply can’t keep repeating these the distinct pleasure to call him a I also transmit for the information of same mistakes over and over again. To friend ever since. the Congress a report required by sec- do so would be the literal definition of Mayor Hogan’s career in public serv- tion 233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act ‘‘insanity.’’ ice has taken him from serving in the on the estimated number of individuals So I urge my colleagues: let’s put an Colorado House of Representatives in who will be affected by the Agreements end to this madness. Let’s stay here, if the 1970s to serving six terms as an Au- and the Agreements’ estimated cost ef- necessary, even if that means canceling rora City Council member and, finally, fect. Also included are a summary of recess. Let’s work with a sense of ur- two terms as the mayor of the city, a the main provisions of the Agreements gency and purpose to better this coun- city I know he loved so dearly. and an annotated version of the Agree- try, because that is what our constitu- Mayor Hogan exemplified the spirit ments with descriptions of each article. ents sent us here to do. of public service, and my hometown of The Department of State and the So- f Aurora would not be the wonderful cial Security Administration con- place it is today without his vision and cluded that these Agreements are in HONORING SECOND LIEUTENANT his leadership. We all are better off be- the national interest of the United RICHARD ‘‘RICHIE’’ COLLINS III cause of his decades of hard work. States. (Mr. HOYER asked and was given Mr. Speaker, I am proud to have been I commend to the Congress the permission to address the House for 1 able to call Mayor Steve Hogan a Agreement on Social Security between minute and to revise and extend his re- friend, and his family will remain in the United States of America and the marks.) my thoughts and prayers. Republic of Slovenia and the Adminis- Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, 1 year ago, f trative Arrangement between the my community was shaken by the United States of America and the Re- murder of Second Lieutenant Richard AGREEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY public of Slovenia for the Implementa- ‘‘Richie’’ Collins III, a young African BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES tion of the Agreement on Social Secu- American stabbed to death while wait- OF AMERICA AND THE REPUBLIC rity between the United States of ing for a bus on the campus of the Uni- OF SLOVENIA—MESSAGE FROM America and the Republic of Slovenia. versity of Maryland. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED DONALD J. TRUMP. He was a student at Bowie State Uni- STATES (H. DOC. NO. 115–125) THE WHITE HOUSE, May 17, 2018. versity just days from graduation. The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- f Richie was in College Park visiting fore the House the following message b 1215 friends to celebrate his recent commis- from the President of the United sion as an officer in the United States States; which was read and, together PROVIDING FOR FURTHER CONSID- Army. with the accompanying papers, referred ERATION OF H.R. 2, AGRI- He was a young man of great prom- to the Committee on Ways and Means CULTURE AND NUTRITION ACT ise, very talented and driven to suc- and ordered to be printed: OF 2018 cess. He was popular on campus and Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, by di- To the Congress of the United States: helped create Bowie State University’s rection of the Committee on Rules, I Pursuant to section 233(e)(1) of the first lacrosse team. He was an avid call up House Resolution 900 and ask Social Security Act, as amended by the player of golf, soccer, and baseball. for its immediate consideration. Social Security Amendments of 1977 Richie loved deep conversations about The Clerk read the resolution, as fol- (Public Law 95–216, 42 U.S.C. 433(e)(1)), life, politics, and philosophy. lows: The individual on trial for his murder I transmit herewith a social security H. RES. 900 has been charged with a hate crime. totalization agreement with Slovenia, Resolved, That at any time after adoption Mr. Speaker, we must do more to titled ‘‘Agreement on Social Security between the United States of America of this resolution the Speaker may, pursuant combat the spread of hatred by spread- to clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the ing tolerance and respect instead, and and the Republic of Slovenia’’ and the House resolved into the Committee of the we must never forget those, like Richie accompanying legally binding adminis- Whole House on the state of the Union for Collins, whose lives were cut short by trative arrangement, titled ‘‘Adminis- further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2) to hatred and prejudice. trative Arrangement between the provide for the reform and continuation of I again offer my condolences, as I United States of America and the Re- agricultural and other programs of the De- have, to Richie’s parents, Richard and public of Slovenia for the Implementa- partment of Agriculture through fiscal year 2023, and for other purposes. No further Dawn, his family, his friends to mark tion of the Agreement on Social Secu- rity between the United States of amendment to the committee amendment in this somber anniversary. We ask for the nature of a substitute shall be in order whom the bell tolls; it tolled for us. America and the Republic of Slovenia’’ except those printed in the report of the f (collectively the ‘‘Agreements’’). The Committee on Rules accompanying this res- Agreements were signed in Ljubljana, olution. Each such further amendment may RECOGNIZING STEVEN D. HOGAN Slovenia, on January 17, 2017. be offered only in the order printed in the re- (Mr. COFFMAN asked and was given The Agreements are similar in objec- port, may be offered only by a Member des- permission to address the House for 1 tive and content to the social security ignated in the report, shall be considered as minute and to revise and extend his re- totalization agreements already in read, shall be debatable for the time speci- marks.) force with other leading economic fied in the report equally divided and con- trolled by the proponent and an opponent, Mr. COFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise partners in Europe and elsewhere, in- shall not be subject to amendment, and shall today to recognize the passing of a cluding Australia, Canada, Chile, not be subject to a demand for division of the truly great American, the mayor of Japan, Norway, the Republic of Korea, question in the House or in the Committee of Aurora, Colorado, Stephen D. Hogan. and Switzerland. Such bilateral agree- the Whole. All points of order against such

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.018 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4151 further amendments are waived. At the con- we bring before the House provides for This legislation contains employ- clusion of consideration of the bill for further consideration of the underlying ment and education provisions for amendment pursuant to this resolution the legislation, H.R. 2, the Agriculture and those who need a hand up due to falling Committee shall rise and report the bill to Nutrition Act, a bill that is critically on hard times. the House with such amendments as may have been adopted. Any Member may de- important to my district in central Mr. Speaker, the farm bill contains mand a separate vote in the House on any Washington and to rural districts just comprehensive approaches to farm pol- amendment adopted in the Committee of the like it across the country. icy, nutrition, trade, conservation, Whole to the bill or to the committee As a farmer myself and as a former crop insurance, regulatory reform, amendment in the nature of a substitute. State agricultural director, I know how rural development, animal health, spe- The previous question shall be considered as important these farm policies are when cialty and organic crops, and provi- ordered on the bill and amendments thereto it comes to our agricultural economy. sions to help beginning farmers and to final passage without intervening motion This farm bill strengthens the farm ranchers. except one motion to recommit with or with- safety net to help America’s farmers This rule provides for further consid- out instructions. and ranchers compete. eration of amendments offered by our The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- After 5 years of depressed prices, and colleagues in the House on a great vari- tleman from Washington is recognized a 52 percent drop in farm income, our ety of these issues. I look forward to for 1 hour. farmers need us—they need Congress— listening to the robust debate on po- Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, for to reauthorize these important pro- tential provisions to strengthen this the purpose of debate only, I yield the grams. legislation. customary 30 minutes to the gen- Mr. Speaker, while American farmers As this is the first farm bill I have tleman from Massachusetts (Mr. have faced these depressed prices and had the opportunity to engage in since MCGOVERN), pending which I yield my- severe drops in farm income, we, luck- being in Congress, I welcome input self such time as I may consume. Dur- ily, have a robust safety net in place. from my colleagues on both sides of the ing consideration of this resolution, all Due to the previous 2014 farm bill, our aisle and from every perspective. We time yielded is for the purpose of de- agriculture community was able to must continue to bring forward solu- bate only. hold on and continue to provide Amer- tions for America’s farmers, ranchers, GENERAL LEAVE ican consumers with food in our gro- rural communities, and families. Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I ask cery stores, in our schools, and in our Mr. Speaker, this body, the people’s unanimous consent that all Members food banks. House, is made up of many walks of It is incumbent upon us to ensure may have 5 legislative days to revise life. We have physicians. We have at- these policies continue. We must pass and extend their remarks. torneys. We have ordained ministers. this farm bill and ensure a steady food The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there We have engineers, school administra- supply will be on the shelves and in our objection to the request of the gen- tors, former State and local govern- markets for the years to come. tleman from Washington? ment officials, scientists, and law en- There was no objection. The underlying legislation includes the creation of a new international forcement officials. Today, I am proud Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, on to come before you as a farmer. I am Wednesday, the Rules Committee met market program, which I would argue is more important today than ever be- not the only one. and reported a rule, House Resolution There are maybe about 20 farmers, 900, providing for further consideration fore. Programs within it, including the Market Access Program and the For- ranchers, and producers in the House, of a very important piece of legislation eign Market Development Program, in the people’s House. Among us are an for America’s farmers and ranchers: are incredibly important to producers almond farmer from central California, H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition seeking to maintain and expand their a blueberry farmer from the State of Act, commonly referred to as the farm export markets for U.S. agricultural Maine, a rancher from South Dakota, a bill. The rule provides for consider- products and commodities. The Market cattleman from Kentucky, a rice farm- ation of H.R. 2 under a structured rule, Access Program, on its own, is a net er from Minnesota, and, yes, a proud allowing for consideration of 31 amend- positive program, which for every $1 hops farmer from the Yakima Valley ments that were offered. spent, $28 is returned to the American from the State of Washington. Mr. Speaker, earlier this year, I trav- economy. I am privileged to come before you in eled to every county in my district for I know these critical trade and ex- support of this rule and the underlying one reason: to listen, to hear, and to port resources are at the top of the legislation, H.R. 2, the Agriculture and get the input and the concerns from minds of American farmers and pro- Nutrition Act. I humbly urge my col- farmers, ranchers and producers across ducers across the country, and we must leagues to support the rule, support the central Washington State. I traveled to continue to ensure their availability bill, and strengthen the future for Pateros, where my constituents dis- and access for the agricultural indus- America’s farmers and all of those who cussed the vital need for strengthening try. depend on them. market access and opening new sources This bill also maintains and Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of for exporting across the globe. strengthens the Nation’s nutrition pro- my time. I visited with farmers from East grams to assist those who struggle to Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield Wenatchee in Douglas County who dis- put food on the table, while providing myself such time as I may consume. cussed the importance of commodity critical training to help people attain (Mr. MCGOVERN asked and was sourcing and stressed the need for the skills necessary to gain good-pay- given permission to revise and extend stronger education for the public about ing jobs, financial self-sufficiency, and his remarks.) farming and where the food that lands better futures for themselves and their Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I on our tables comes from. families. It supports the Supplemental thank the gentleman from Washington I heard from constituents in Prosser Nutrition Assistance Program, or (Mr. NEWHOUSE) for the customary 30 and Benton and Yakima Counties who SNAP, without any cuts in funding. In- minutes. stressed the importance of agricultural stead, this bill adds further funding Mr. Speaker, I spoke yesterday about research from producers in Quincy, and empowers States with the flexi- the big-picture numbers behind this who shared their personal stories of the bility on how to best administer their cruel bill, how it would cut the SNAP impacts of crop insurance on their live- respective programs. benefits that families rely on to buy lihoods, and from farmers in Othello The State of Washington has done in- groceries by over $20 billion. That in- who raised concerns regarding regu- novative work in their administration cludes slashing benefits for vulnerable latory burdens on the agricultural of SNAP through the BFET and the adults like veterans, the chronically community. RISE programs to help some of the homeless, and teenagers aging out of Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise today most vulnerable populations, and I am foster care by $9.2 billion. to say that this farm bill makes great pleased that this farm bill will allow There is a provision in this bill that strides in addressing these challenges these programs to continue if the State would rip benefits away from nearly 1 that face America’s farmers. The rule so chooses. million people, mostly from working

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY7.003 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4152 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 families with kids, by eliminating an during this debate, and it is deeply transformation of our social safety net. important State flexibility option frustrating. It is a farm bill that doesn’t even im- called categorical eligibility. Or take Lisa, a working mother of prove the farm economy. Let me state, The bill even included a provision four kids earning about $14 per hour as our farmers work hard, they should be that would have constructed barriers a nursing assistant. Lisa has to stretch valued, and they certainly deserve a to accessing SNAP for those with dis- her monthly income to cover rent and hell of a lot better than what is con- abilities who have out-of-pocket utility utilities after-school care, clothing, tained in this bill. costs—that is, until Democrats shamed and car costs so that she can get to her If Republicans want to hurt our the majority into abandoning it as part job. Currently, she receives a modest workers and denigrate the poor, they of their manager’s amendment un- SNAP benefit to feed her family and are going to have to do it alone, be- veiled late last night. her kids receive free school meals, but cause, make no mistake about it, that But get this: this fix didn’t come because her income is just over the 130 is what this bill is designed to do and without a cost, Mr. Speaker. Tucked percent threshold for a family of five, that is what it will do unless the re- into the manager’s package—which she would automatically lose her sponsible adults in the Republican was, yet again, written in secret—is a SNAP benefits if this bill becomes law. Party join us in defeating it. provision that will kick over 600,000 For Lisa, SNAP makes an incredible Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of vulnerable adults off of SNAP in the difference in her ability to feed her my time. first 2 years after enactment of this children. Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I yield bill—2 years before their misguided Or take Elton, a U.S. Navy veteran myself such time as I may consume. work bureaucracy goes into effect. Six who lost his benefits for 2 years be- Mr. Speaker, the chairman of the hundred thousand vulnerable men and cause of the strict work requirements House Agriculture Committee, Mr. women will lose their benefits before and time limits that are already part CONAWAY, and I have worked together they even have the opportunity to take of the SNAP law. During the 2-year pe- on many issues, and I know that he advantage of the majority’s new make- riod he was unable to access SNAP ben- recognizes that the trade promotion programs that I referenced in my open- work program. efits, Elton was hungry every day won- ing remarks are vital to our agricul- Really? What are you thinking? dering what he could eat in order to This entire bill is an embarrassment, tural economy. get by. For decades, USDA export develop- and this manager’s amendment only It wasn’t that Elton chose not to makes it worse. It should be scrapped ment programs like MAP have helped work. He worked physically demanding and sent back to the Agriculture Com- American farmers create, expand, and jobs his entire life, but he lost his job mittee, where we can have real bipar- maintain access to foreign markets. after an injury. He continues to strug- tisan negotiations and craft a bill that Throughout their history, this success- gle with health conditions and doesn’t actually helps people, because despite ful public-private partnership has cul- have reliable access to transportation; some changes around the margins, the tivated hundreds of billions of dollars issues that are exacerbating his job Republican farm bill remains an un- in exports and created millions of search. Under this bill, Elton may lose mitigated disaster. American jobs both in the agricultural his modest food benefits entirely. sector and in support industries, as b 1230 These are real people, and if the ma- well as the program brings a return to Today I want to zoom in on that big jority on the Agriculture Committee the United States economy. picture and give telling examples of actually took the time and did a hear- In the findings of the underlying bill, how this disastrous Republican bill ing on the heartless nutrition title in it states: ‘‘United States export devel- would impact real people in their ev- this bill, they would have heard these opment programs significantly in- eryday lives, because that is what is at and many other real-life stories. crease demand for United States agri- stake with the Republican farm bill. Take a moment to think about what cultural products . . . generating a re- That is what we need to be focussed on, you are doing here. My Republican col- turn of $28 in added export revenue for because it goes well beyond the num- leagues are denying food benefits to each invested program dollar.’’ bers on a page. veterans, single dads struggling to find Additionally: ‘‘ . . . our global com- McClatchy reported a story earlier work, and working moms. Why? Be- petitors provide substantially more this month that put it succinctly, enti- cause PAUL RYAN asked you to? Be- public support for export promotion tled: ‘‘50-Something Food Stamp Re- cause of a myth that people aren’t than is provided to United States agri- cipients Could Face Tough Job Search struggling? It is sickening. cultural exporters.’’ Under Proposed Rules.’’ Mr. Speaker, this bill is just legisla- We are at a competitive disadvantage Take, for example, a woman named tion by sound bite; bad legislation. It when it comes to the rest of the world Sabrina, who was quoted in the story. demonizes the poor and trades in when it comes to agricultural trade. She works side jobs, like cleaning stereotypes, apparently just to help Mr. Speaker, without these private houses and doing yard work, but has a some in the majority with their next contributions and the private sector’s difficult time finding steady employ- hit on FOX News. resolve to support our export pro- ment at her age of 59. This bill will This bill has real consequences. It grams, it is very likely that the U.S. take away her benefits, because she will hurt real people, our constituents, would not be the net agricultural ex- may not meet its 20-hour-per-week re- yours and mine, in every single con- porter of the highest quality products quirement. She is working. She is ex- gressional district in this country. that we are today. I think it is time actly the kind of person my Republican Now, it is obvious that this isn’t a se- that we look at our export promotion friends say they want to support. Do rious attempt at legislating, because programs and take a serious look if we they think she purposely found jobs the process here was atrocious. The want to continue our exporting suc- that pay so little and have so few majority ignored the recommendations cess. hours? That doesn’t fit so nicely into from Democratic and Republican wit- Mr. Speaker, I introduced a bill to the majority’s press releases, but that nesses during the Agriculture Commit- grow the investment in the MAP and is the reality. tee’s 23 hearings on SNAP. Controver- FMD programs and I also offered an Or take, for example, Thomas, a sin- sial provisions were inserted into this amendment that would have made a gle dad who lost his wife a few years bill without explanation on where they smaller investment in the MAP and ago and is raising his preteen daughter came from. I asked. I still can’t find FMD programs, and while we are not on his own. He has worked diligently to out. Democrats were left in the dark as considering those amendments today, I find stable employment, but jobs are this legislation was drafted, we were am grateful that Chairman CONAWAY scarce in his community. Without left to read about it in news reports; a has agreed to come and engage in this SNAP and reduced-price school meals, total affront to the bipartisan tradi- important issue. Thomas said he and his daughter tion that has defined the farm bill for Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the ‘‘would not be able to survive.’’ years. gentleman from Texas (Mr. CONAWAY), These are the kind of people my Re- Now, the majority may be calling the chairman of the House Agriculture publican colleagues are demonizing this a farm bill, but it is really a total Committee.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.022 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4153 Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Speaker, I thank There was no objection. ers sell about a quarter of their crops Mr. NEWHOUSE for his commitment to Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield to China. In fact, in Illinois, if our ensuring that American farmers and myself such time as I may consume. State was its own country, we would be ranchers maintain the tools necessary Mr. Speaker, as my colleague, the the fourth largest producer of soybeans to remain competitive on the global gentleman from Washington, is leav- in the world. stage. ing, I would just urge him to read the So when President Trump’s thumbs As you well know, trade is of im- bill, because if he did, he would realize got the better of him and started mense importance to the agricultural that if this bill were to become law, tweeting us into a trade war with industry, with U.S. agricultural ex- there are 60,000 people in his home China, there were very real con- ports estimated at $140 billion per year State of Washington who would lose sequences for the families that I serve. and trade accounting for one of every SNAP benefits just due to categorical To be clear, those consequences and $5 of agricultural production value. eligibility changes alone; more would the harm and uncertainty that they Through its extensive farm bill hear- lose their benefits, but just for this one are generating is being felt right now. ing series and listening sessions, the tweak in this bill. In fact, just this morning, there was committee heard from every segment The majority of the people who a headline in Bloomberg News that I of the agricultural industry about the would lose their benefits under cat- want to read to you, I want to show to importance of maintaining support for egorical eligibility changes are work- you: ‘‘China Buys Record Amount of our trade promotion and our market ing families, working families with Russian Soy as it Shuns U.S. Growers.’’ development programs, especially con- kids. Children, Mr. Speaker, will lose That is this morning. sidering the uncertainty in the current their SNAP benefits and many of them The fact is, our farmers have been trade climate. will lose access to free school meals. struggling in a tightening market with While I am confident that America’s So, again, for all the talk on the low profit margins. So in 2016, when farmers and ranchers are incredibly ef- other side about how this bill is some- President Trump stood at a podium in ficient and can compete with anyone in how a good bill for families, read the Iowa and proudly declared that he the world on a level playing field, they bill. It is a pretty cruel bill for working would ‘‘end this war on the American simply cannot be expected to compete families and for children. farmer,’’ they took him at his word. against foreign treasuries on their own. Mr. Speaker, I am going to ask that Midwesterners do that; we believe peo- So in addition to maintaining and we defeat the previous question, and if ple when they say something, and we strengthening the farm safety net, H.R. so, I will offer an amendment ensuring also believe that promises ought to be 2 restores and increases funding for the that before the legislation can take ef- kept. popular and successful Market Access fect, the President must certify to Con- For farmers like Jared Kunkle of Program and Foreign Market Develop- gress that none of the administration’s Cameron, Illinois, and thousands of ment Program. recent trade and tariff actions and ne- farmers like him, that promise has This was no small feat, considering gotiations will harm U.S. farmers, been broken. the CBO zeroed out funding for FMD as ranchers, and other agriculture pro- It has been broken by this President, well as the Technical Assistance for ducers. and now, if you do not support this Specialty Crops Program in its most I ask unanimous consent to insert amendment, it will also be broken by recent baseline projections. the text of my amendment in the this Congress. But the committee worked together RECORD, along with extraneous mate- So I urge you, please keep your word. to get creative and make it happen. rial, immediately prior to the vote on Support this measure to protect our I certainly wish we could have come the previous question. hardworking farmers and ranchers closer to answering the calls for dou- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there from this Trump trade war. Let’s work bling funding for MAP and FMD, but objection to the request of the gen- together. And as the President says, am proud of the work we did, and be- tleman from Massachusetts? let’s ‘‘end this war on the American lieve that the streamlined Inter- There was no objection. farmer.’’ national Market Development Program Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I yield will give the newly established USDA 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Il- myself such time as I may consume. I think that the gentlewoman from Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign linois (Mrs. BUSTOS), a member of the Agricultural Affairs the tools nec- Agriculture Committee. Illinois speaks on behalf of a lot of essary to continue tearing down bar- Mrs. BUSTOS. Mr. Speaker, I thank Members in this Chamber. Nobody riers to trade and opening up new mar- the gentleman for yielding. I appre- wants to see a trade war. Nobody is ad- kets to U.S. agricultural products. ciate the time. vantaged by a trade war. That said, we can always do better, Mr. Speaker, hardworking families I think so many of the provisions so I am committed to working with Mr. across the heartland know firsthand that are in this underlying bill, Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2, are designed to create NEWHOUSE and my colleagues in the what the negative impacts of trade can Senate to continue searching for addi- look like. They have lived through it in more stability for farm families. The gentlewoman is absolutely right tional funding for these important places like Galesburg, Illinois, when when she references the instability trade promotion efforts while we move the Maytag plant padlocked its gates trade war conversations create. So forward. and sent every last one of those jobs to much more important, then, that we Mr. Speaker, I am very appreciative Mexico. come together now to provide that of Mr. NEWHOUSE’s efforts and his sup- They lived through it in Freeport, Il- safety net and that stability that is in- port for these important programs. I linois, when venture capitalists bought cluded here in H.R. 2. look forward to working with him in out the Sensata factory and sent every I appreciate the gentlewoman’s en- conference when the Senate gets their last one of those jobs over to China. couragement that we get to the other work done after we get our bill passed. And today, at the end of planting end of these trade negotiations, and I Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I season, corn growers and soybean farm- do believe that is something that we thank Chairman CONAWAY for his com- ers and pork producers all across the all share. mitment to continue working on this heartland are getting hit in their wal- Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of important issue, and I look forward to let by the Trump trade war. my time. working with him. Mr. Speaker, 2 weeks ago I rode in a Mr. Speaker, I yield the balance of John Deere tractor with a young soy- b 1245 my time to the gentleman from Geor- bean farmer named Jared Kunkle while Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield gia (Mr. WOODALL), and I ask unani- he was planting his soybeans. 1 minute to the gentleman from New mous consent that he may control that You see, right now as planting season York (Mr. ENGEL). time. is wrapping up, our farmers are making Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I thank The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there a lot of tough decisions. That is be- the gentleman for yielding to me. objection to the request of the gen- cause in Illinois and many of our Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to tleman from Washington? neighboring States, our soybean farm- one of the amendments made in order

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.024 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4154 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 by this rule. The Foxx-Davis amend- This bill would strip our Nation’s ple you can find anywhere in this coun- ment would dramatically alter Amer- most vulnerable of the necessary re- try. We grew up in a very resilient, ican sugar policy by eliminating the sources they need to feed their fami- independent time in the State of economic safety net for sugar pro- lies. The farm bill would bring hunger Maine, and we cared for our neighbors ducers. and pain to children. The bill kicks and friends because it is compassionate There is a Domino Sugar Refinery lo- 265,000 schoolkids out of free and re- to make sure you extend a helping cated in my district in Yonkers, New duced lunch, and I have attended a lot hand. York, which has been a staple of the of those schools where I see the kids on Mr. Speaker, my 90-year-old mother neighborhood for almost a century. Ac- free and reduced lunch. was a terrific nurse. She had a career cording to their own figures, the refin- Florida will be the hardest hit State in nursing, caring for thousands of ery employs 280 people and sustains an resulting from the removal of categor- folks in nursing homes and hospitals additional 138 jobs through trucking, ical eligibility. In addition, 130,000 throughout central Maine. My dad, terminal operations, cargo handling, hardworking Floridians will go hungry who is now 88, was a beloved seventh and ship piloting. That is more than as a result of this farm bill. grade social studies teacher and a 400 local jobs, most of them union jobs, The farm bill doesn’t just hurt Flo- coach and a basketball official for 30 supporting local families and pumping ridians. It hurts the entire country. It years throughout the State. additional dollars into our commu- hurts seniors. It hurts college students I was raised in a very big-hearted nities. and young adults. It hurts the disabled, Franco-American family devoted to These are the men and women I rep- and it even hurts our active military helping others, and that is why I work resent, and they are the ones for whom families. so hard to make sure government does I cast my vote. I will cast my vote The farm bill also hurts rural com- the same thing. against the Foxx-Davis amendment munities. I represent several of those I have got some great news for folks and encourage my colleagues to do the rural communities in north Florida, across America who are looking to es- same. and it also hurts the communities that cape poverty and work their way up America’s sugar policy is working. It we border in rural Georgia that I re- the ladder of independence. For 2 years, has operated at zero cost to taxpayers ceive calls from. I have been pushing very hard to in- in 14 of the past 15 years, and the U.S. Before voting on this bill, I want to clude job training, commonsense job Department of Agriculture projects remind my colleagues of the motto of training, community service, and work that sugar will run at a zero cost to the USDA, ‘‘Do right and feed every- requirements for able-bodied adults taxpayers over the next 10 years. one.’’ The farm bill does not do right, with no disabilities themselves, no According to the International Sugar and it surely doesn’t feed everyone. young kids at home, no elderly parents Organization, food manufacturers in Mr. Speaker, I want to end with a they are caring for, in order to receive the U.S. pay 10 percent less for sugar quote from Isaiah 58:10. food stamps. We have got to be compassionate, Mr. than other developed countries. Mean- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Speaker, to help folks escape poverty while, America’s grocery shelf sugar time of the gentleman has expired. instead of being trapped in a govern- prices are among the lowest in the Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield ment program that has no end to it. world. an additional 30 seconds to the gen- The role of government, Mr. Speaker, Again, most importantly, the reason tleman from Florida. is not to keep folks trapped in poverty I rise is that the U.S. sugar industry Mr. LAWSON of Florida. ‘‘If you pour and help make them comfortable living provides good union jobs. Without the yourself out for the hungry and satisfy in it, but to try to give them a helping current sugar policy, 142,000 American the desire of the afflicted, then shall hand so they can learn a job skill, get jobs are in jeopardy of being your light rise in the darkness and a job, and live better lives with more outsourced, and the U.S. stands to lose your gloom be as the noonday.’’ Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I yield independence. nearly $20 billion in annual economic Now, my work requirement, against myself such time as I may consume to activity. what the media has reported and con- associate myself with the gentleman Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I yield tinues to report, has no cuts to food myself such time as I may consume. from Florida in his commitment to stamps by imposing these work re- Mr. Speaker, the gentleman just public service. He is a relatively new quirements. If the benefits are not used spoke about one of the amendments Member to this Chamber, but he has because someone got a job, they are that is going to be offered today. In been fighting for his constituents since simply recycled back into job training. total, there are 51 different amend- he arrived, and I admire him for that. And if you are pregnant or caring for ments that have been made in order There are lot of men and women in young kids or you have a disability both in the rule that we did yesterday this Chamber who fit that bill, Mr. yourself, again, you are exempt from and this rule that we hope that our col- Speaker. I wish we spent more time these requirements. But if you are able leagues will support today, 51 different celebrating those good public servants to work, we need to be compassionate amendments proffered by Members of among us. and require people to work to lift this Chamber to try to make this bill Mr. Speaker, I have the pleasure at themselves out of poverty. better. If we pass this rule today, we this time to yield 5 minutes to the gen- Mr. Speaker, there is one other part will be able to move to the underlying tleman from Maine (Mr. POLIQUIN), a of the farm bill that I am really proud bill for consideration of those amend- gentleman who fits exactly that mold. of that is included in the bill, and that ments. The gentleman from Maine has come is one that helps rural Maine and rural Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of time and time again to this floor, to America. For the first time, locally my time. committees, every single opportunity grown fruits and vegetables can now be Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I want he has, to build bipartisan support, to frozen or dried or pureed in order to to thank the gentleman from Georgia work together with his colleagues, to qualify for school lunches and school for reminding us that there were 51 work not just on behalf of the citizens snacks. amendments made in order, but he for- of Maine, but on behalf of all Ameri- That means taxpayer dollars are able got to mention that 54 were blocked. cans. He really is a model for energy to buy foods that are just as nutritious Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the and partnership on something that ev- as those that are fresh, save a lot of distinguished gentleman from Florida eryone in this Chamber would agree on. money, and make sure our kids can eat (Mr. LAWSON), who is a member of the Mr. POLIQUIN. Mr. Speaker, I thank in a healthy way year round, and it Agriculture Committee. the gentleman for those kind words. I also helps our local farmers. Mr. LAWSON of Florida. Mr. Speak- would agree with him, Maine is the I have one son, Mr. Speaker, who is er, I rise in strong opposition to the greatest State in the Union. I know he 27, and I raised him from the time he House Republican farm bill. I really didn’t say that, but I know he meant was in diapers. Nothing was more im- didn’t think that I would have to say that. portant than making sure he had nutri- the ‘‘Republican farm bill’’ when we Mr. Speaker, Maine is the home of tious food on the table to eat. This worked so diligently in committee. the most honest, hardest working peo- helps us do that.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.026 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4155 Mr. Speaker, I encourage everybody fits by more than $23 billion. Mean- H.R. 2 is the farm bill, because if you to vote ‘‘yes’’ for this farm bill. while, Republicans refuse to include want to know who benefits from Amer- Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield limits on subsidies provided for crop in- ican farm policy, it is anybody who myself such time as I may consume. surance, one of the few Federal pro- eats—anybody who eats. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gen- grams without any eligibility caps or I tell folks, Mr. Speaker, we don’t tleman from Maine coming here and payment limits. That is the untold need to give every child a laptop. We giving a speech to the cameras, but I story: who benefits. need to send every child on a mission would suggest he read the bill. When he In the Republican tax scam for the trip around the globe to see how other says that nobody will lose their bene- rich, 83 percent of the benefits went to families live, to see how other coun- fits, no benefits will be cut from SNAP, the top 1 percent. The Republican farm tries do it. We are so blessed in this he is wrong. The bottom line is that bill is rigged, as well, for the rich. country, and we take it for granted of- benefits will be cut. Benefits will be Farm subsidies, which the CBO says tentimes. cut to support an underfunded, will cost $12.6 billion more than For example, I can put up charts unproven, ridiculous excuse for a work- planned, are so skewed toward the rich about the distribution of farm policy force and training program. that the top 10 percent of farms, about until the cows come home, but the I also should say I hope nobody wants 76,000 farms, received over 60 percent of largest 15 percent of farms in this to emulate the State of Maine when it all farm subsidies. country produce almost 90 percent of comes to dealing with people who are The SPEAKER pro tempore. The all the food. struggling in poverty and who need time of the gentlewoman has expired. I will say that again. Those folks who food. I would instruct my colleagues to Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield are doing it bigger and better than read an article that appeared in The an additional 1 minute to the gentle- anybody else, those 15 percent of farm- Washington Post last year about what woman from Connecticut. ers produce almost 90 percent of Amer- Maine’s harsh policies have resulted in. Ms. DELAURO. Mr. Speaker, SNAP ican food. And I will tell you some- A veteran who served this country recipients have income limits, asset thing, Mr. Speaker, we can’t afford to with distinction lost his job due to an limits. They get $1.40 per meal. Mil- lose those 15 percent of farmers. injury and, because of Maine’s strict lionaires and billionaires who pocket What keeps food in this country work requirements, was thrown off of farm subsidies do not. available and affordable is a consistent his SNAP benefits, became homeless, SNAP recipients have work require- farm policy, which is why, time and and was skinning squirrels in order to ments. Millionaires and billionaires time again, Republicans and Demo- be able to survive. That is not a com- who pocket farm subsidies do not, even crats come together from across rural passionate policy that I think any America to try to provide certainty to State or, certainly, this country should though many of them do not work the land. American agriculture. want to reach toward. It is the largest part of the Georgia Nearly 18,000 people in the 50 biggest One of the things I am proud about economy, Mr. Speaker: agriculture. cities received farm subsidies. They do the SNAP program is that it means That is true of so many districts, so not work the land. They do not till the that we recognize that we have an obli- many States across this land. gation to make sure that nobody in soil. Where are their work require- This ought to be a partnership. It is this country goes hungry. Why is that ments? not today, and I regret that. We are In fact, 23 Republican Members of such a radical idea? Why has this pro- going to have opportunities to make this Congress who vocally oppose gram been so demonized? that change going forward, but just un- SNAP have financial ties to farms that When the gentleman talks about a derstand, for folks who are here seeing receive subsidies. They are poised to life of dependency, read the statistics this debate for the very first time, go support this bill. They get theirs while from the USDA. The average time back and see the farm bill debate from the kids go hungry. somebody is on SNAP is less than a 5 years ago. You will see the same ac- The country needs to know this. In year. That is not a life of dependency. cusations. You will see the same re- the land of food abundance, in the I am not sure what he is talking about. criminations. You will see the same United States, no one should go hun- Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the fear and scare tactics used. Then you gry. The Republican farm bill is a mas- gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. will see a huge bipartisan vote because sive giveaway to the rich, which will DELAURO). this bill is so important to so many Ms. DELAURO. Mr. Speaker, the hy- deny children in our country food. It is Americans. pocrisy of this farm bill from President unspeakable. We need to eradicate hun- Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of Donald Trump and the Republicans in ger. We do not need to eradicate the my time. this Congress means more subsidies for antihunger programs. Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield the rich and greater hunger for the b 1300 myself such time as I may consume. poor. I include in the RECORD the article Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I yield The food stamp program is one of the that I referred for you to read called myself such time as I may consume. most important and successful ‘‘Trump to Poor Americans: Get to The farm bill is a little different this antihunger programs in our Nation. Work or Lose Your Benefits,’’ which year than what we have seen in years Last year, it prevented 42.2 million talks about a veteran in Maine that ba- past. We would ordinarily have more people from going hungry, including 4.8 sically was shut out of his food benefit bipartisan support here on the floor. million seniors and 1.5 million low-in- because of Maine’s policies. come military veterans. And yet my We got sideways on a couple of issues colleagues in the majority are seeking early on in the process, but the argu- [From the Washington Post, May 22, 2017] to undermine food stamps as they ments that we are hearing aren’t dif- TRUMP TO POOR AMERICANS: GET TO WORK OR LOSE YOUR BENEFITS shield farm subsidies for the rich. ferent than the arguments we tradi- When you take a look at the number tionally hear in a farm bill, as if we are (By Caitlin Dewey and Tracy Jan) of people who are the farm subsidy pitting those families in need of food For a period last year after he lost his food beneficiaries and the millions of people against those families who produce the stamps, Tim Keefe, an out-of-work and homeless Navy veteran, used his military who are the SNAP beneficiaries, what food. We are not. training to catch, skin and eat squirrels, you will see is that the SNAP bene- This bill is H.R. 2 for a reason, Mr. roasting the animals over an open fire out- ficiaries get $1,115 per year, and the Speaker. A lot of folks don’t under- side the tent he pitched in frigid Augusta, farm subsidy beneficiaries get almost stand how bill numbers get handed out Maine. $10,000 a year. Farms receive more than in this institution. They get handed The new additions to Keefe’s diet resulted six times the benefit of a person receiv- out by order of priority. from a decision by state authorities to tight- ing food stamps even though the vast H.R. 1 was the Tax Cuts and Jobs en work requirements for recipients of the Act. That bill has brought unemploy- social safety net—forcing the 49-year-old, majority of the farm bill beneficiaries who lost his job at a farm equipment factory are food stamp recipients. ment down to the lowest levels in my because of an injury, off the food stamp rolls. This farm bill would kick 2 million lifetime and economic growth to the ‘‘I was eating what I could find, and bor- people off of food stamps, cutting bene- highest levels we have seen in decades. rowed from friends and strangers,’’ Keefe

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He has spent much of high school diploma, Waxman said; another one was inclined to lose a lot of weight, I the last year living in a tent. 57 percent don’t have college degrees—put- could recommend this diet wholeheartedly.’’ ‘‘I don’t wanna worry no one,’’ said Keefe, ting them at a disadvantage when it comes Now the Trump administration in its first who recently testified to Maine’s Committee to finding work. major budget proposal has proposed more on Health and Human Services about the im- A number are also veterans, young adults stringent work requirements—similar to pact the work requirement had on him. But, aging out of the foster care system, and fel- those in effect in Maine and other states—to he added: ‘‘I hope they understand that peo- ons recently released from jail. SNAP recipi- limit eligibility for food stamps and a host of ple fall through the cracks.’’ ents who cannot find work, for these or other other benefits as part of sweeping cuts to The Trump administration is considering reasons, are supposed to attend job training anti-poverty programs. other changes to SNAP. While details remain programs—but they’re not widely available The White House budget proposal, due to sparse, Mulvaney said the federal govern- because of lack of funding. be unveiled on Tuesday, would reduce spend- ment would be asking states to share in the ‘‘This is the trick. On the one hand, you ing on anti-poverty programs from food costs for the food stamps program, through a want people to do something, when in fact a stamps to tax credits and welfare payments phased-in ‘‘state match’’ so they have a ‘‘lit- lot of folks may not realistically be able to by $274 billion over a decade, largely by tle more skin in the game.’’ find a job,’’ Waxman said. ‘‘Most states don’t tightening eligibility for these programs, ac- ‘‘We believe in, the social safety net. We want to put the money in. This is a dilemma cording to administration officials. With ad- absolutely do,’’ Mulvaney said. ‘‘What we’ve that we’re in.’’ ditional reforms on Medicaid and disability done is not to try and remove the safety net The evidence that stricter work require- insurance, total safety net cuts would top $1 for folks who need it, but to try and figure ments actually cause people to get jobs is trillion over 10 in years. out if there’s folks who don’t need it that mixed, at best. In Kansas, which reinstated Making low-income Americans work to need to be back in the workforce.’’ the requirements in October 2014, 40 percent qualify for so-called welfare programs is a Suspending employment waivers would hit of unemployed adults were still unemployed key theme of the budget. ‘‘If you are on food hard in areas with high unemployment such a year after being kicked off SNAP. Among stamps and you are able bodied, we need you as southern and central California, where the former SNAP participants who lost benefits, to go to work,’’ said budget director Mick unemployment rate can spike as high as 19 the average annual income was only $5,562, Mulvaney during a White House briefing on percent, as well as cities such as Detroit and according to the Foundation for Government Monday. Scranton, Pa., where joblessness remains Accountability, a right-wing think tank He said the strengthened requirements in rampant. The change would also hit hard in based in Florida. the budget focuses on putting the 6.8 million large portions of New Mexico, Oregon, Wash- Progress has also been hotly debated in unemployed or underemployed Americans ington, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Maine, a state that conservatives regularly back to work. ‘‘There is a dignity to work,’’ Virginia, Idaho and Michigan. hold up as evidence that stricter work-re- he said, ‘‘and there’s a necessity to work to ‘‘It’s unconscionable, cruel and ineffec- quirements are effective. When the state help the country succeed.’’ The White House did not offer details Mon- tive,’’ said Josh Protas, the vice president of dropped its waiver in 2015, the number of un- day on how the work requirements would be public policy at MAZON, a national anti- employed adults in the program immediately implemented, other than saying it would be hunger organization. ‘‘I’m honestly not sure fell by nearly 80 percent. ‘‘phased in’’ for able-bodied adults without what their goal is.’’ But a May 2016 report by the state found Critics say the changes in unemployment dependent children. that nearly 60 percent of those affected indi- The White House estimated the combined waivers would be devastating for Native viduals did not report any income in the reforms to the Supplemental Nutrition As- American families living on reservations in year after they left the program—suggesting sistance Program, better known as food North and South Dakota, Arizona and Mon- they were still unemployed or under- stamps, would generate nearly $193 billion in tana where there is chronic poverty and high employed a year later. savings over a decade. unemployment. On the national level, Michael Tanner, a In addition to SNAP reforms, Trump will ‘‘The President’s budget proposal will force senior fellow who focuses on social welfare propose taking the earned income and child kids in rural America to go hungry while issues at the Cato Institute, a libertarian tax credits away from undocumented immi- wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on mis- think tank, said he doesn’t think similar grants working in the United States, many placed priorities like a wall that won’t keep mandates will have a huge impact on moving of whom pay taxes or have American born- us safe,’’ said Senator Jon Tester (D–MT), in large numbers of recipients into employment children. That reform alone would save $40 a statement to the Post. ‘‘Parents in Mon- or result in significant budget savings. Most billion over a decade, according to the White tana and across Indian Country should not SNAP recipients who can work are already House. have to choose between food for their tables, working, and many of those who are not Anti-poverty advocates say the White gas for their cars, and shoes for their kids.’’ meet one of the various exemptions such as House could implement its desired reforms The number of Americans on SNAP re- being disabled. to SNAP in two ways: require recipients to mains high, however. In 2016, 44 million ‘‘It’s making a statement that Republicans work more than the current minimum of 20 Americans receive the benefits, compared to think people who are on public assistance hours a week, or cut the unemployment just 28 million people in 2008. should be doing all they can to get off,’’ Tan- waivers in areas with high joblessness rates. ‘‘They have not come down like we would ner said, ‘‘and that means working whenever The influential Heritage Foundation, as expect them to do,’’ Mulvaney said. ‘‘That possible.’’ well as a number of House conservatives raises a very valid question: Are there folks McGovern, who sits on the House Agri- have championed a crackdown on waivers, on SNAP who shouldn’t be?’’ culture Committee, said he was surprised to leading many anti-poverty advocates to con- Anti-hunger advocates argue that, gen- learn about the White House proposal given clude that is the most likely way the White erally speaking, there are not. Because Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s testi- House would implement its proposed re- SNAP benefits decrease gradually with in- mony before the committee last week saying forms. creased income, there is no incentive for peo- he did not favor any major changes to the Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at ple to avoid work to get benefits—a phe- food stamps program. the Heritage Foundation who has asked the nomenon economists call the ‘‘welfare cliff.’’ ‘‘It’s been a very important, effective Pro- White House to prioritize work require- And benefits are too small for people to sub- gram,’’ Perdue said, according to a recording ments, said the Trump administration needs sist on them without working: The average of the hearing. ‘‘As far as I’m concerned we to ‘‘go after’’ the four million able-bodied food stamp benefit was $465 a month for a have no proposed changes. You don’t try to adults without dependents in the food stamp family of four in 2015. Most people are on the fix things that aren’t broken.’’ program. program for between seven and nine months The Trump administration is advocating ‘‘You say to them, ‘We will give you assist- on average. other ‘‘fixes’’ to the safety net, as well. The ance, but come to the office one day a week ‘‘The notion that people would prefer not budget will also propose requiring people to to do job search or community service,’’ ’ to work to get that benefit, give me a have a Social Security number to collect tax Rector said. ‘‘When Maine did that, they break,’’ said U.S. Representative Jim credits. Mulvaney said it is unfair that tax- found almost immediately that their case- McGovern, (D–Mass.) a longtime anti-hunger payers support immigrants working illegally load dropped 85 percent.’’ advocate. ‘‘This is a lousy and rotten thing in this country. Critics say such a change could endanger to do to poor people. They look at SNAP as ‘‘How do I go to somebody who pays their people like Keefe, a veteran who has been un- an ATM to pay for their other priorities.’’ taxes and say, ’Look, I want you to give this able to find a job after injuring his wrist on Additionally, three quarters of households earned income tax credit to somebody who is the job at a plow factory in Rockland, using SNAP contain children, seniors, or working here illegally? That’s not defen- Maine. As a result, Keefe now is medically people with disabilities, said Elaine Wax- sible,’’ Mulvaney said. unable to lift more than 25 pounds—which man, a senior fellow in the Income and Bene- Rector, of the Heritage Foundation, said disqualifies him from other work in manu- fits Policy Center at the Urban Institute. he also hopes Trump will prioritize work re- facturing. Without SNAP, the country would have had quirements for those receiving housing sub- The Navy veteran was one of several thou- 3 to 4.5 million more people in poverty dur- sidies. Mulvaney did not address that on sand former food stamp recipients who lost ing the recession, she said. Monday.

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Of the remaining house- holds, nearly half include a preschool child facing record-low income and com- the gentleman from Georgia, who is or an older child or adult with a disability modity prices or hardships due to trade trying to defend the process in the Ag- who needs the supervision of a caregiver. retaliation, as my colleague from Illi- riculture Committee as that somehow, Establishing work requirements for the re- nois discussed earlier. It does not sup- with this bipartisan process, Demo- maining six percent of households who are port farmer mental health, appropriate crats didn’t want to participate. ‘work able’ but not employed would require funding for broadband, or tackling the But you know what? It is just not state and local housing agencies already fac- opioid epidemic. worth it. We have been explaining it ing funding shortfalls to establish cum- This bill cuts hundreds of millions over and over and over again. This bersome monitoring and enforcement sys- tems for a very narrow segment of rental as- out of rural development and energy process is indefensible. It really makes sistance recipients, she said. initiatives and falls short on assisting a mockery of the Agriculture Com- ‘‘This is neither cost effective nor a solu- beginning, underserved, and veteran mittee, and it makes a mockery of this tion to the very real issue of poverty impact- farmers. Why? Because it is not a bi- institution. ing millions of families living in subsidized partisan bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the housing or in need,’’ Yentel said in a state- I urge my colleagues to vote ‘‘no.’’ gentlewoman from Wisconsin (Ms. ment to the Post. Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I yield MOORE). Correction: This story incorrectly stated myself such time as I may consume. the average annual income for SNAP partici- Ms. MOORE. Mr. Speaker, I have not pants in Kansas who had lost and then found My colleague has gone through some had the privilege to serve on the Agri- jobs was $5,562. That figure applied to all really challenging times in her commu- culture Committee, but, given the SNAP participants who had lost the benefit. nity, and this Chamber has stood with comments of the gentleman there, I Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, the her in those times. She has been a would suggest as an amendment that, gentleman from Georgia suggests that great advocate for her community in since this bill is about work, we have we all take a mission trip around the the face of some really extraordinary work for 12-year-olds. Maybe boys world to see hunger and see how lucky disasters. could be shoeshine boys and the girls we are here in the United States. We can make accusations on this could be shampoo girls at the beauty Let me tell the gentleman, you don’t floor all we like, but we could also salon so that they can help subsidize have to go halfway around the world to spend some time bragging about those families. see hunger. I can take you halfway things that bring us together. There In fact, Mr. Speaker, there is an old down the block, and you can see hun- are already disaster provisions in law— saying that is appropriate for this dis- ger right here in our Nation’s capital disaster provisions that provide specifi- cussion: ‘‘If you aren’t at the table, you and in every congressional district in cally disaster SNAP, for example, when are on the menu.’’ And children are this country. communities are so hard-hit. We do definitely on the menu and at the ten- There are over 41 million Americans have these conversations, we do have der mercies of the job market. who are hungry or food-insecure in this these concerns for one another and our This bill will cut access not only for country. We are the richest country in communities, and we do work together SNAP but kids who go to school every the history of the world. We all should to address those concerns. day. This means in my State there will be ashamed. We ought to do something We are not always successful, Mr. be 23,000 kids who will not get school about it, and this farm bill makes hun- Speaker, but I promise you we are less lunch and breakfast because of this ger worse. successful when we don’t work to- bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gether than when we do. I am going to turn in, Mr. Speaker, gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands My understanding—I don’t sit on the some of the stories of people in my dis- (Ms. PLASKETT), a distinguished mem- Agriculture Committee, but my friends trict who need SNAP, real people, sin- ber of the Agriculture Committee. across the aisle do—is that not a single gle people like Jana, who has worked Ms. PLASKETT. Mr. Speaker, I Democratic amendment was offered in on a job for 11 years, lost her job, and thank the gentleman for yielding me committee. has been looking for work for 3 months this time. It is my understanding—and, again, I and couldn’t find it. I would posit to my colleague across don’t sit on the committee. I don’t I would ask that we reject this bill the aisle who said that we are trying to mind being corrected. I won’t be em- for people who need SNAP to survive. pit farm producers against food recipi- barrassed at all to have the RECORD This bill is not about work. It is about ents, I believe that it is this bill that corrected. But my understanding is taking food out of the mouths of babes. has done that. there were 5 hours of markup in the Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I re- We have worked in a bipartisan man- Agriculture Committee, and not one serve the balance of my time. ner for, I understand, years before this idea for improving the bill was offered. Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, can I bill was put through without being dis- Now, that is a legitimate, strategic inquire of the gentleman from Georgia: cussed, without the hearings on both position to take if folks want to take Do you have any speakers over there or sides of the aisle. it, Mr. Speaker. I just don’t understand anybody who wants to talk about this I try to think about what it would it as someone who wants to get the job bill? Because we have a ton, and we have meant to impose the massive sys- done and make a difference in a col- just want to—— tem of new SNAP requirements under laborative way on behalf of the Amer- Mr. WOODALL. Will the gentleman the bill during the time immediately ican people. yield? after the islands were hit by two Cat- This bill is getting better every sin- Mr. MCGOVERN. It is an inquiry. I egory 5 hurricanes. How would families gle day. It has gotten better through don’t want to take it on my time. submit their monthly paperwork? How every conversation. As you heard my Mr. WOODALL. I would be happy to would they go to jobs at businesses friend from Washington say in his answer the inquiry, or we could just that were shut down? How would job opening statement, so many farmers leave it as an inquiry. slots be provided when localities must with real-world experience—we heard Mr. MCGOVERN. As long as it focus on providing receipts? yesterday from Members who have doesn’t come out of my time. There is no accommodation for dis- real-world labor and workforce devel- Mr. WOODALL. Will the gentleman aster-impacted areas in this bill. And if opment experience. This bill is getting yield? the majority did not think to exempt better every time. Mr. MCGOVERN. I would be happy to out these communities, what else was If we support the rule that we are dis- yield to the gentleman from Georgia, overlooked in terms of reasonable cussing at this time, Mr. Speaker, it but it is not coming out of my time. standards? will make 31 additional amendments in Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, we do Unfortunately, we didn’t have the op- order so that we can improve the bill have additional speakers remaining, portunity to work with the majority to even further. and, of course, if we make this rule in

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Mr. Speaker, I yield tricity bills. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the myself such time as I may consume. We can and should be doing more to gentlewoman from Maine (Ms. PIN- The gentlewoman from Wisconsin lift families out of poverty and end GREE). (Ms. MOORE) talked about how we are hunger in the United States. Shame- Ms. PINGREE of Maine. Mr. Speaker, literally taking the food away from fully, this bill does just the opposite. I thank my colleague Mr. MCGOVERN children. I want to make it clear to my Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I re- for yielding me the time and doing colleagues, there should be no mistake: serve the balance of my time. such a wonderful job on a very chal- This bill is going to hurt kids. Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield lenging bill. First, it cuts 1 million people off of 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Ala- Mr. Speaker, I rise today to voice my benefits through categorical eligibility bama (Ms. SEWELL). Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. Mr. Speak- strong opposition to the current challenges alone. These people are er, today I rise in opposition to this version of the farm bill. There are working families with kids. And once cruel and mean-spirited farm bill, a many reasons why—among them, the these kids lose their SNAP benefits, farm bill that will leave working fami- unrealistic challenges to food assist- CBO, the nonpartisan group of experts ance programs that will have a big neg- lies and our children out in the cold. that we rely on, expects 265,000 chil- The farm bill we are debating today ative impact on my State in Maine. dren will lose access to free school cuts $23 billion from SNAP, the Supple- What I want to focus on in my lim- meals. mental Nutrition Assistance Program. ited time is how much this legislation I ask my colleagues: Is that what you That would leave 2 million Americans does a disservice to the farmers in want out of a farm bill? We can do so without the support that they need to rural communities we represent. much better. put food on the table. The public is very clear. They want I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I represent both rural greater access to healthy, locally Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I yield and urban, from Birmingham to the grown food. They want more of it myself such time as I may consume. Black Belt of Alabama, and I can say grown organically, and they want to Georgia is a rural State, like so definitely that every community in my support local farmers in rural econo- many jurisdictions represented in this district will be worse off under this mies. But Federal policy is way behind Chamber. Sometimes you have a big bill. the times, and this legislation would city in one part of the State and the For children and working families in make it much worse. rest of the State is rural. The conversa- my district, SNAP means the dif- Farmers aren’t ignoring the trends tions we have in Georgia are often not ference between a hot meal or going to that consumers are asking us for. They Republicans against Democrats politi- bed hungry. For farmers and grocery are capitalizing on them. In my State, cally; it is Atlanta against the rest of stores in my district, SNAP is an in- the changing market and the demand the State politically. vestment in our food system that cre- for locally grown and organic food has Folks often don’t connect the dots ates 50,000 agricultural jobs across the reinvigorated the State’s agriculture between the food that they are buying country. economy. on the shelf at Kroger being directly After the Republicans have shoved Josh Girard, who is pictured here, is related to whether or not farmers are down a tax bill that gives the cuts to one of those farmers. After earning a producing that food in the field. the wealthiest Americans and adds $2 master’s degree, working abroad in the We have made huge strides in terms trillion to our deficit, they now want Peace Corps, and apprenticing at local of trying to bring more fresh produce to cut the benefits for hungry children farms, Josh decided to return to his not just into our school systems but and working families. hometown to start his own farm. into our local farmers markets, huge I believe this is morally wrong. You The small sources of Federal support strides into making sure that elec- see, Mr. Speaker, the face of SNAP in available to farmers like Josh pale in tronic benefits aren’t just able to be my district is not the welfare mother comparison to what commodity farm- used at the local convenience store but trying to get over. No. The face of ers receive, but it can make all of the are able to be used in farmers markets SNAP in my district—where 70 percent difference. so that higher quality produce can end of the people who are beneficiaries in The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. up on families’ tables. my district are children under the age POLIQUIN). The time of the gentle- b 1315 of 17 years old—the face of SNAP in woman has expired. America are needy children. Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield Again, Mr. Speaker, we can find dis- We must and can do better. I am an additional 30 seconds to the gentle- agreement in every bill that comes to going to vote ‘‘no,’’ and I urge my col- woman from Maine. the floor, but we can also find progress. leagues to do the same. Ms. PINGREE. For instance, Josh There is a lot of progress in this bill. Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I yield uses the Organic Certification Cost We will support this rule, we will get to myself such time as I may consume. Share Programs to help cover the cost the underlying bill, and we will spend Mr. Speaker, we feel very passion- of certification, which helps him get the rest of the day discussing exactly ately about issues on this floor. I want more for his product. The funding for that. to give my colleague from Alabama an this and many other programs is en- Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of opportunity to retract the accusation dangered in this farm bill. my time. that this is a mean-spirited and cruel Over the next 5 years, consumers will Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield bill. I know the men and women who continue to change their buying habits 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Ne- serve on the Agriculture Committee, in our food system. The question is vada (Ms. TITUS). and they don’t have a mean-spirited or whether the Federal Government Ms. TITUS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the cruel bone in their body. They care would make good policy to help farm- gentleman for yielding. about farmers, and they care about ers like Josh. I rise in opposition to this rule and families. Ask anyone in this Chamber if they the underlying bill which, much like We can argue about whether or not if support rural America, and they will the Republicans’ tax measure, comforts you are a working aged, able-bodied, say, yes, absolutely. So I ask that we the comfortable and afflicts the af- childless man in this country whether put our money where our mouths are. flicted. It will have devastating im- or not we ought to try to get you a job We should send the message to those pacts on SNAP recipients across the while you are collecting Federal bene- keeping our farming communities alive Nation, including one in seven in Ne- fits. We can talk about that. I don’t

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This bill also promotes work people investing the kind of time and heartfelt—feeding hungry children is a and individual success while empow- energy that Representative KILDEE has shared priority, and we see that every ering those dependent on government invested over his career. I want to tell single day in the bills that are passed assistance. the gentleman how much I appreciate here; and we do damage to this institu- These reforms will reduce unemploy- that. tion and we do damage to the very hon- ment and instill a sense of pride and Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of est and needed debates we have in this work ethic by helping people move my time. Chamber when we characterize one an- from dependency to independence and Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, may I other in ways that we know are not ac- self-sufficiency. These are common- inquire of the gentleman how many curate. sense improvements that we are dis- more speakers he has remaining. I know the men and women on the cussing today. Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I would Agriculture Committee. I know why The 2018 farm bill is a responsible and advise my friend I am prepared to close they chose to serve on that committee. effective piece of legislation which when he is. Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield I believe in the work they are doing. I maintains safety net programs in crop myself the balance of my time. regret that we are having this disagree- insurance for America’s farmers while Mr. Speaker, I have to give credit ment today, but we don’t need to ques- making investments in job training where credit is due. This majority tion each other’s motives or integrity programs to lift those in need out of can’t balance a budget; they can’t even in order to make this debate of value. poverty. pass a budget. They can’t fund the gov- Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of This bill has my full support, and I ernment without first shutting it my time. thank and commend Chairman CON- down. They are so busy cozying up to Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield AWAY for his hard work on moving this the big banks and passing tax cuts for 1 minute to the gentleman from Wis- legislation forward. the wealthy that they ignore virtually consin (Mr. KIND). Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield every major issue facing our Nation. Mr. KIND. Mr. Speaker, I thank my 1 minute to the gentleman from Michi- Right now as we speak, this Republican friend for yielding. gan (Mr. KILDEE). majority is trying to jam through a I rise in opposition to the rule and to Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, I thank farm bill that won’t even help most the underlying bill because it is a my friend for yielding. farmers. missed opportunity. I had offered nu- Mr. Speaker, I am here to speak But the one thing this Republican merous, fiscally responsible reform against an amendment included in this majority is incredibly good at, and the amendments to improve the bill, all of rule, the Foxx-Davis amendment, in de- one thing that they do with ruthless ef- which were rejected last night. fense of the 2,300 factory workers and ficiency is stick it to poor people. This For instance, why is a farm entity 900 family farmers who grow sugar majority is Robin Hood in reverse. with an adjusted gross income of over beets in my community. They are master legislators for the $500,000 a year still receiving taxpayer The sugar program in this country megawealthy. They might want this subsidies under this bill? Why can’t we supports family farmers. The company Chamber to look out solely for those at at least track the crop insurance pre- that is formed is a co-op formed by the top, giving them more tax breaks, mium subsidy payments to the indi- local family-owned growers who come making it easier for them to pollute vidual entities? together, and all they ask for is a fair our planet and systematically attack- Right now, that is currently prohib- chance to compete, to grow their high ing the safeguards we put in place to ited under the bill. That is not right. quality product, and to not have to stop another financial collapse, but The American taxpayer deserves to see compete with state-subsidized foreign while they work with unflagging, how their tax dollars are being run. sugar that is dumped if we don’t have a unshakeable, and dogged determina- Why are we eliminating the entire program that protects our local grow- tion to give a helping hand to the fat Conservation Stewardship Program ers. cats, they tell those struggling to get when three out of every four farmers The question is really simple. It by and those begging for an oppor- applying for conservation funding as- comes down to marginally increasing tunity and a living wage that they sistance today are denied because of in- the profits of large corporations or sup- should just work harder. adequacy of funds? porting family farmers who support Never mind that they didn’t grow up This farm bill should be about help- their families by growing high quality in nice neighborhoods or in a stable ing our family farmers succeed, not a sugar beets and sugarcane in this coun- home with good nutrition and a quality sop to powerful special interests here try. education. Maybe they started out in in Washington. That is why this is a This is a program that does not cost life having to play catchup. Maybe missed opportunity. the taxpayers a dime according to CBO. they need just a little help from the Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I yield It comes down to a simple question: Government to make the American 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Are we going to support our own grow- Dream a reality in their life. Or maybe Missouri (Mrs. HARTZLER), who is one ers, or are we going to support foreign- they were born with advantages but of my classmates in the class of 2011. produced sugar and moderately, if at have fallen on hard times and they We were once Budget Committee mates all, increase the profits of large compa- need a little bit of help. together back in the day. nies? I am standing here today—Democrats Mrs. HARTZLER. Mr. Speaker, I rise Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I yield are standing here today—giving a voice today in favor of the 2018 farm bill. myself such time as I may consume. to our workers, the middle class, and Missouri farmers work hard every Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the those trying to break into the middle day to feed the world, and they need gentleman from Michigan. He actually class. If my Republican friends actu- the certainty that this legislation pro- spent a good deal of his time just the ally listened to their voices, they vides. This bill strengthens safeguards other day in a Budget Committee hear- would join us and vote against this for our food supply and improves pub- ing trying to help get us some bipar- monstrosity of a bill that attacks lic-private risk management programs tisan solutions. working American citizens and takes that are vital to American agriculture. He got grilled by both the Repub- lunch money away from children. In addition, the farm bill makes sig- licans and the Democrats. Everybody It is disgusting, Mr. Speaker. nificant investments in broadband in- wanted their ounce of Michigan flesh in Now, I urge a ‘‘no’’ vote on the pre- frastructure in rural America by set- that day. But at the end of that con- vious question and the rule, and I urge ting a minimum speed for Federal in- versation—and I don’t say this flip- all of you—no, I plead with all of you— vestment. pantly—I felt more optimistic about to vote ‘‘no’’ on this bill.

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For whatever H.R. 2 slashes $23 billion from the Supple- demonstrate to the American people reason, we have made it the topic of mental Nutrition Assistance Program that we are here to help, that we care, something we are going to pretend to (‘‘SNAP’’), a lifeline depended upon by millions and that we are decent. disagree on today. of families and children to provide for their Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from There are more jobs available in this daily nutrition needs. Georgia commented that we are all so country than ever before. I think we But who among us can say they are truly emotional on this side of the aisle owe it to families that haven’t been surprised? when we are debating this issue. You able to connect themselves with that Since taking office sixteen months ago, the are damn right we are. We are emo- job market to help them to do better. President has made abundantly clear his indif- tional. We are angry. We are frustrated Mr. Speaker, so often, we talk about ference to the most vulnerable citizens in soci- because people are going to be hurt. all the lawyers in Congress, all the law- ety. Mr. Speaker, if you have ever met a yers who are bureaucrats, all the folks And he has been aided in his endeavors by hungry child, it should break your who are working on policy that they a feckless House Republican majority. heart, and there are millions and mil- just don’t understand. I want to close The President began his presidency with a lions in this country who are hungry. with where my colleague from Wash- concerted and determined push to repeal the We are the greatest country in the his- ington State began. Of course, he is a Affordable Care Act, a law which has helped tory of the world and the richest coun- former agriculture commissioner from over 17 million individuals gain health insur- try in the history of the world, and Washington State. He said this. ance; reduced the uninsured rate by 40 per- tens of millions of our fellow citizens He said he is not the only farmer in cent and, provided 89 percent of Americans are food insecure or hungry. this House. There are 20 farmers, with the security and peace of mind that Why isn’t that a priority? Why isn’t ranchers, and producers serving here in comes with access to affordable quality that a bigger priority than another tax the people’s House: an almond farmer healthcare. cut for a big corporation? I know my from central California, a blueberry When that effort failed, the President next turned his efforts to passing the massive colleagues on the other side of the aisle farmer from Maine, a rancher from Trump-GOP Tax Scam, which slashed taxes deep down inside care about those who South Dakota, a cattleman from Ken- for the top one percent and multi-national cor- suffer in this country. Here is an oppor- tucky, a rice farmer from Minnesota, porations, but the negative consequences of tunity to prove it. Let’s do a farm bill and a hops farmer from the Yakima which the Trump-GOP Tax Scam have been that actually doesn’t make hunger Valley in Washington State. Mr. Speaker, this body really does re- devastating for the average American. worse in this country. The GOP Tax Scam has now been revealed Mr. Speaker, I am not even asking flect working Americans, folks out not to generate broad-based economic growth you to eliminate hunger, although I there trying to be the breadbasket to but instead to create annual trillion dollar defi- wish that were a priority. I am just the world, trying to put fresh produce cits as far as the eye can see. saying: don’t make it worse. This bill on the shelves for every American fam- ily to benefit from. This bill continues Mr. Speaker, if we are to be honest about will throw millions of people off of a our commitment to serving the hun- creating an environment where individuals food benefit, and millions of children gry, and it continues our commitment have an opportunity to emerge from poverty will be impacted. conditions, there must be access to nutritious Mr. Speaker, they are not just people to being the finest agricultural produc- tion nation that this planet has ever food. who aren’t working. You know better SNAP is a critical component to providing than that. Many of these people are seen. Vote ‘‘yes’’ on this rule. Let’s con- food security to lower-income Americans. working families, people who are work- sider some amendments to make this SNAP sets children up for success. ing hard but can’t make ends meet. bill even better, and then let’s send it Children on SNAP achieve higher test You are taking away a food benefit. to the Senate and give the American scores and are more likely to graduate from What is wrong with this institution? people a bill they can be proud of. high school, helping to break the cycle of pov- We can do better. erty and build a stronger economy in the long Mr. Speaker, vote ‘‘no’’ on this rule, Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the rule governing debate, term. and vote ‘‘no’’ on this bill. SNAP is temporary. and the underlying bill, regarding H.R.2, the Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance The average family spends just ten months so-called ‘‘Agriculture and Nutrition Act of of my time. on SNAP, receiving assistance only during dif- 2018,’’ the House Republicans’ failed attempt b 1330 ficult times. to produce a Farm Bill that is good for Amer- (SNAP is critical for poor and working fami- Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, may I ica. lies. inquire how much time is remaining. A more fitting name for this terrible and bit- Most participate in SNAP when they are be- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- ter legislative pill would be the ‘‘Let Poor Fam- tween jobs. tleman from Georgia has 31⁄2 minutes ilies and Children Starve so Billionaires Can Among households with at least one work- remaining. Get Fatter Act.’’ ing-age non-disabled adult roughly 8o percent Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I yield Going back to 1962, beginning with Sen- of SNAP households work in the year before myself the balance of my time. ators Hubert Humphrey, Bob Dole, and or the year after receiving SNAP. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my George McGovern, Farm Bills have always at- Close to two-thirds of SNAP recipients are friends on the Agriculture Committee tracted bipartisan support and engendered an children, elderly, or disabled. for the work they did on this bill. It is enduring alliance between urban and rural leg- The vast majority of those who are required not easy to do big pieces of legislation. islators in the common cause of ensuring liv- to work, do work. We do a farm bill every 5 years. It is al- able incomes for farm families and an afford- The average per person benefit is $132 per ways a hard thing to do, and my friends able and nutritious food supply. month, or about$1.60 per meal. on the Agriculture Committee have With this purely partisan bill, House Repub- Mr. Speaker, if this bill were to become law, taken the slings and arrows. You have licans have turned their back on this 56 year it would cut $23 billion from SNAP and would heard the accusations that have been heritage. kick one million households off the program. made just here on the floor today. Mr. Speaker, St. Augustine, the great That means 83,000 Texas families would The unemployment rate in this coun- Catholic theologian, said: ‘‘Without justice, see their benefits cut, impacting more than try, Mr. Speaker, is as low as it has what else is the state but a gang of robbers?’’ 96,000 individuals. ever been in my lifetime, and the num- There is no justice in this Farm Bill, but In Texas, over half of all SNAP beneficiaries ber of childless, working-age men who there is harm—lots of it—inflicted on the most live below the poverty line so cutting access to are sitting it out is as high as it has vulnerable, so much so that many people are SNAP would be devastating. ever been in my lifetime. saying that the House Republican majority has Mr. Speaker, it is imperative that we not in- We can argue about how to care produced a bill that is worthy of a gang of rob- crease food security for the least vulnerable about people more, we can argue about bers. among us.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.034 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4161 If our children are not adequately and safely Adding onerous fees to rural development (3) any enforcement action taken pursuant housed, they are not protected from life’s cru- guaranteed loans; to the investigation into China’s acts, poli- eler elements. Curtailing broadband assistance in remote cies, and practices related to technology If they are not fed, they lack nourishment areas by adding administrative burdens and transfer, intellectual property, and innova- tion under Section 301 of the Trade Act of and preparation for school and all its chal- fails to boost USDA’s telemedicine initiatives 1974; and lenges. that help combat opioid abuse in rural Amer- (4) the application of global safeguard tar- Mothers know this and their children know ica; iffs on imports of large residential washing this. Underfunding the Beginning Farmer and machines and solar cells and modules under Everyone knows this, with the apparent ex- Rancher Development Program, which pro- Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974.’’ ception of the President and House Repub- vides funding to organizations that educate, THE VOTE ON THE PREVIOUS QUESTION: WHAT licans. mentor and provide technical assistance for The House Republicans’ eagerness to sac- IT REALLY MEANS new and veteran farmers; and This vote, the vote on whether to order the rifice poor and working families and children Betraying the next generation of farm and by cutting SNAP and other food assistance previous question on a special rule, is not food leaders by failing to provide mandatory merely a procedural vote. A vote against or- programs for up to 23 million people by $23 funding for scholarships at 1890 land grant in- dering the previous question is a vote billion is an accurate reflection of their prior- stitutions. against the Republican majority agenda and ities and values, which favor tax cuts for multi- This so-called Farm Bill is so bad in so a vote to allow the Democratic minority to national corporation and the top 1 percent at many ways to so many people that it is little offer an alternative plan. It is a vote about the expense of the poor and working class wonder that it is strongly opposed by leading what the House should be debating. and those striving to enter the middle class. Mr. Clarence Cannon’s Precedents of the organizations and associations from all sides House of Representatives (VI, 308–311), de- Mr. Speaker, there are other major insults, of the political spectrum, including: National injuries, and cruelties inflicted on working fami- scribes the vote on the previous question on Farmers Union, National Sustainable Agri- the rule as ‘‘a motion to direct or control the lies by this callous legislation. culture Coalition, Environmental Working consideration of the subject before the House This so-called Farm Bill changes SNAP being made by the Member in charge.’’ To from a food program to a work program by im- Group, National Young Farmers Coalition, Union of Concerned Scientists, Agriculture En- defeat the previous question is to give the posing new draconian work requirements on opposition a chance to decide the subject be- adult SNAP participants between 18 and 59 ergy Coalition, American Biogas Association, fore the House. Cannon cites the Speaker’s years old, requiring documentation showing 20 Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy, AARP, ruling of January 13, 1920, to the effect that hours per week of work or participation in a American Academy of Pediatrics, AFSCME, ‘‘the refusal of the House to sustain the de- job training program. Alliance for Retired Americans, American Psy- mand for the previous question passes the The changes include severe, harsh pen- chological Association, Center for Law and control of the resolution to the opposition’’ in order to offer an amendment. On March alties if the paperwork is not filed on time, ig- Social Policy (CLASP), Child Care Aware of America, Child Welfare League of America, 15, 1909, a member of the majority party of- noring the reality of low-wage work, which is fered a rule resolution. The House defeated plagued by unstable, uncertain work sched- Children’s Defense Fund, Coalition on Human the previous question and a member of the ules, unpredictable hours, and few benefits Needs, Every Child Matters, Families USA, opposition rose to a parliamentary inquiry, like paid sick or family leave. Feeding America, First Focus Campaign for asking who was entitled to recognition. This mean-spirited legislation threatens free Children, Food Research & Action Center, Speaker Joseph G. Cannon (R-Illinois) said: school meals for 265,000 children and SNAP Hispanic Federation, Lutheran Services in ‘‘The previous question having been refused, eligibility for 400,000 households by elimi- America, MAZON: A Jewish Response to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Fitz- nating Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility Hunger, Meals on Wheels America, gerald, who had asked the gentleman to (BBCE), which allows states flexibility to link yield to him for an amendment, is entitled to MomsRising, NAACP, National Consumers the first recognition.’’ their social service programs to SNAP. League, National Council on Aging, National The Republican majority may say ‘‘the The bill also severs the connection between Employment Law Project, National PTA, Na- vote on the previous question is simply a SNAP and Low Income Home Energy Assist- tional Urban League, National Women’s Law vote on whether to proceed to an immediate ance Program (LIHEAP), which helps families Center, NOW, Partnership for America’s Chil- vote on adopting the resolution . . . [and] pay their energy utilities, adversely impacting dren, Sargent Shriver National Center on Pov- has no substantive legislative or policy im- working families and people with disabilities. erty Law, SEIU, Share Our Strength, plications whatsoever.’’ But that is not what Mr. Speaker, this wretched legislation is an they have always said. Listen to the Repub- UnidosUS, YWCA USA, Heritage Foundation, lican Leadership Manual on the Legislative equal-opportunity catastrophe because it also R Street Institute, and Taxpayers for Common inflicts serious damage on farm families and Process in the United States House of Rep- Sense. resentatives, (6th edition, page 135). Here’s rural America at a time of great challenge and I urge all Members to join me in voting to how the Republicans describe the previous economic uncertainty. reject the rule and this cruel, heartless legisla- question vote in their own manual: ‘‘Al- Farm prices are plummeting amid the self- tion. though it is generally not possible to amend inflicted damage of President Trump’s tariffs The material previously referred to the rule because the majority Member con- yet this bill instead of providing relief exacer- by Mr. MCGOVERN is as follows: trolling the time will not yield for the pur- pose of offering an amendment, the same re- bates the economic and social pain in rural AN AMENDMENT TO H. RES. 900 OFFERED BY sult may be achieved by voting down the pre- America by killing good-paying rural jobs, cut- MR. MCGOVERN ting a gaping hole in the critical farmer safety vious question on the rule....When the mo- On p. 2, line 2, insert ‘‘The amendment tion for the previous question is defeated, net and shifting opportunity away from Amer- specified in section 2 of this resolution shall control of the time passes to the Member ica’s small towns with cuts to vital rural devel- be considered as adopted in the House and in who led the opposition to ordering the pre- opment, sustainable conservation, and energy the Committee of the Whole.’’ after ‘‘pur- vious question. That Member, because he initiatives. poses.’’ then controls the time, may offer an amend- Inexplicably, H.R. 2 fails to address the 52 At the end of the resolution, add the fol- ment to the rule, or yield for the purpose of percent decline in farm income and eliminates lowing new section: amendment.’’ ‘‘SEC. 2. The amendment referred to in the In Deschler’s Procedure in the U.S. House the Conservation Stewardship Program, the first section of this resolution is as follows: nation’s largest working lands conservation of Representatives, the subchapter titled ‘Add at the end the following: ‘‘Amending Special Rules’’ states: ‘‘a refusal program, by merging it with the Environmental Subtitle H Protections From Retaliatory to order the previous question on such a rule Quality Incentives Program, resulting in $800 Tariffs [a special rule reported from the Committee million less for investments in preserving work- SEC. 11801. EFFECTIVE DATE. on Rules] opens the resolution to amend- ing lands and sustainable farm practices. This Act and the amendments made by ment and further debate.’’ (Chapter 21, sec- The legislation hurts rural families in several this Act shall not take effect until the Presi- tion 21.2) Section 21.3 continues: ‘‘Upon re- additional ways by: dent transmits a certification to Congress jection of the motion for the previous ques- Failing to increase funding for USDA’s trade that the following Administration efforts tion on a resolution reported from the Com- assistance programs that help farmers stay will not result in adverse trade or tariff im- mittee on Rules, control shifts to the Mem- globally competitive through initiatives that pacts against U.S. farmers, ranchers, and ber leading the opposition to the previous other agriculture producers: question, who may offer a proper amendment help to develop and expand their business in (1) the renegotiation of the North Amer- or motion and who controls the time for de- overseas markets; ican Free Trade Agreement; bate thereon.’’ Abolishing the entire Energy Title, resulting (2) the application of tariffs and/or quotas Clearly, the vote on the previous question in lost investments in jobs of the future in re- on steel and aluminum imports under Sec- on a rule does have substantive policy impli- newable energy and biofuels; tion 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962; cations. It is one of the only available tools

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY7.021 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4162 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 for those who oppose the Republican major- Ros-Lehtinen Smith (NE) Walden The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Roskam Smith (NJ) Walker ity’s agenda and allows those with alter- WEBER of Texas). The question is on native views the opportunity to offer an al- Ross Smith (TX) Walorski Rothfus Smucker the resolution. ternative plan. Walters, Mimi Rouzer Stefanik Weber (TX) The question was taken; and the Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I yield Royce (CA) Stewart Wenstrup Speaker pro tempore announced that back the balance of my time, and I Russell Stivers Westerman Rutherford Taylor Williams the ayes appeared to have it. move the previous question on the res- Sanford Tenney Wilson (SC) olution. Scalise Thompson (PA) RECORDED VOTE Wittman Schweikert Thornberry The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Womack Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I de- Scott, Austin Tipton question is on ordering the previous Sensenbrenner Trott Woodall mand a recorded vote. question. Sessions Turner Yoder A recorded vote was ordered. The question was taken; and the Shimkus Upton Yoho Shuster Valadao Young (AK) The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a Speaker pro tempore announced that Simpson Wagner Young (IA) 5-minute vote. the ayes appeared to have it. Smith (MO) Walberg Zeldin The vote was taken by electronic de- Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, on NAYS—189 vice, and there were—ayes 228, noes 188, that I demand the yeas and nays. Adams Gomez Neal not voting 11, as follows: The yeas and nays were ordered. Aguilar Gonzalez (TX) Nolan [Roll No. 191] The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Barraga´ n Gottheimer Norcross ant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, Bass Green, Al O’Halleran AYES—228 Beatty Green, Gene O’Rourke this 15-minute vote on ordering the Abraham Gosar Newhouse Bera Grijalva Pallone Aderholt Gowdy Noem previous question will be followed by 5- Bishop (GA) Gutie´rrez Panetta Allen Granger Norman minute votes on: Blumenauer Hanabusa Pascrell Amash Graves (GA) Nunes Blunt Rochester Hastings Payne Adopting the resolution, if ordered; Amodei Graves (LA) Olson Bonamici Heck Pelosi and Arrington Graves (MO) Palazzo Boyle, Brendan Higgins (NY) Perlmutter Babin Griffith Palmer Agreeing to the Speaker’s approval of F. Himes Peters Bacon Grothman Paulsen Brady (PA) Hoyer Peterson the Journal, if ordered. Banks (IN) Guthrie Pearce Brownley (CA) Huffman Pingree The vote was taken by electronic de- Barletta Handel Perry Bustos Jackson Lee Pocan Barr Harper Pittenger vice, and there were—yeas 228, nays Butterfield Jayapal Price (NC) Barton Harris Poe (TX) 189, not voting 10, as follows: Capuano Jeffries Quigley Bergman Hartzler Poliquin Carbajal Johnson (GA) Raskin [Roll No. 190] ´ Biggs Hensarling Posey Cardenas Johnson, E. B. Rice (NY) Bilirakis Herrera Beutler Ratcliffe YEAS—228 Carson (IN) Jones Richmond Bishop (MI) Hice, Jody B. Reed Cartwright Kaptur Rosen Abraham Dunn LaMalfa Bishop (UT) Higgins (LA) Reichert Castor (FL) Keating Roybal-Allard Aderholt Emmer Lamborn Castro (TX) Kelly (IL) Blum Hill Renacci Ruiz Allen Estes (KS) Lance Chu, Judy Kennedy Bost Holding Rice (SC) Ruppersberger Amash Faso Latta Cicilline Khanna Brady (TX) Hollingsworth Roby Rush Amodei Ferguson Lesko Clark (MA) Kihuen Brat Hudson Roe (TN) Ryan (OH) Arrington Fitzpatrick Lewis (MN) Clarke (NY) Kildee Brooks (AL) Huizenga Rogers (AL) Sa´ nchez Babin Fleischmann LoBiondo Clay Kilmer Brooks (IN) Hultgren Rohrabacher Sarbanes Bacon Flores Long Cleaver Kind Buchanan Hunter Rokita Schakowsky Banks (IN) Fortenberry Loudermilk Clyburn Krishnamoorthi Buck Hurd Rooney, Francis Schiff Barletta Foxx Love Cohen Kuster (NH) Bucshon Issa Rooney, Thomas Schneider Barr Frelinghuysen Lucas Connolly Lamb Budd Jenkins (KS) J. Schrader Barton Gaetz Luetkemeyer Cooper Langevin Burgess Jenkins (WV) Ros-Lehtinen Scott (VA) Bergman Gallagher MacArthur Correa Larsen (WA) Byrne Johnson (LA) Roskam Scott, David Biggs Garrett Marchant Costa Larson (CT) Calvert Johnson (OH) Ross Serrano Bilirakis Gianforte Marino Courtney Lawrence Carter (GA) Johnson, Sam Rothfus Bishop (MI) Gibbs Sewell (AL) Carter (TX) Jones Marshall Crist Lawson (FL) Rouzer Bishop (UT) Goodlatte Massie Shea-Porter Chabot Jordan Crowley Lee Royce (CA) Black Gosar Mast Sherman Cheney Joyce (OH) Cuellar Levin Russell Blum Gowdy McCarthy Sinema Coffman Katko Cummings Lewis (GA) Rutherford Bost Granger McCaul Sires Cole Kelly (MS) Davis (CA) Lieu, Ted Sanford Brady (TX) Graves (GA) McClintock Smith (WA) Collins (GA) Kelly (PA) Davis, Danny Lipinski Scalise Brat Graves (LA) McHenry Soto Collins (NY) King (IA) DeFazio Loebsack Schweikert Brooks (AL) Graves (MO) McKinley Speier Comer King (NY) Delaney Lofgren Scott, Austin Brooks (IN) Griffith McMorris Suozzi Comstock Kinzinger DeLauro Lowenthal Sensenbrenner Buchanan Grothman Rodgers Swalwell (CA) Conaway Knight DelBene Lowey Sessions Buck Guthrie McSally Takano Cook Kustoff (TN) Demings Lujan Grisham, Shimkus Bucshon Handel Meadows Thompson (CA) Costello (PA) LaHood DeSaulnier M. Shuster Budd Harper Messer Thompson (MS) Cramer LaMalfa Deutch Luja´ n, Ben Ray Simpson Burgess Harris Mitchell Titus Crawford Lamborn Dingell Lynch Smith (MO) Byrne Hartzler Moolenaar Tonko Culberson Lance Doggett Maloney, Smith (NE) Calvert Hensarling Mooney (WV) Torres Curbelo (FL) Latta Doyle, Michael Carolyn B. Smith (NJ) Carter (GA) Herrera Beutler Mullin Tsongas Curtis Lesko F. Maloney, Sean Smith (TX) Carter (TX) Hice, Jody B. Newhouse Vargas Davidson Lewis (MN) Ellison Matsui Smucker Chabot Higgins (LA) Noem Veasey Davis, Rodney LoBiondo Engel McCollum Stefanik Cheney Hill Norman Vela Denham Long Eshoo McEachin Stewart Coffman Holding Nunes Vela´ zquez DeSantis Loudermilk Espaillat McGovern Stivers Cole Hollingsworth Olson Visclosky DesJarlais Love Esty (CT) McNerney Taylor Collins (GA) Hudson Palazzo Wasserman Diaz-Balart Lucas Evans Meeks Tenney Collins (NY) Huizenga Palmer Schultz Donovan Luetkemeyer Foster Meng Thompson (PA) Comer Hultgren Paulsen Waters, Maxine Duffy MacArthur Frankel (FL) Moore Thornberry Comstock Hunter Pearce Watson Coleman Duncan (SC) Marchant Fudge Moulton Tipton Conaway Hurd Perry Welch Duncan (TN) Marino Gabbard Murphy (FL) Trott Cook Issa Pittenger Gallego Wilson (FL) Dunn Marshall Nadler Turner Costello (PA) Jenkins (KS) Poe (TX) Garamendi Napolitano Yarmuth Emmer Massie Cramer Jenkins (WV) Poliquin Estes (KS) Mast Upton Crawford Johnson (LA) Posey NOT VOTING—10 Faso McCarthy Valadao Culberson Johnson (OH) Ratcliffe Ferguson McCaul Wagner Beyer Gohmert Walz Curbelo (FL) Johnson, Sam Reed Fitzpatrick McClintock Walberg Blackburn Labrador Webster (FL) Curtis Jordan Reichert Fleischmann McHenry Walden Brown (MD) Polis Davidson Joyce (OH) Renacci Flores McKinley Walker DeGette Rogers (KY) Davis, Rodney Katko Rice (SC) Fortenberry McMorris Walorski Denham Kelly (MS) Roby b 1356 Foxx Rodgers Walters, Mimi DeSantis Kelly (PA) Roe (TN) Frelinghuysen McSally Weber (TX) DesJarlais King (IA) Rogers (AL) Ms. TSONGAS changed her vote from Gaetz Meadows Wenstrup Diaz-Balart King (NY) Rohrabacher ‘‘yea’’ to ‘‘nay.’’ Gallagher Messer Westerman Donovan Kinzinger Rokita So the previous question was ordered. Garrett Mitchell Williams Duffy Knight Rooney, Francis Gianforte Moolenaar Wilson (SC) Duncan (SC) Kustoff (TN) Rooney, Thomas The result of the vote was announced Gibbs Mooney (WV) Wittman Duncan (TN) LaHood J. as above recorded. Goodlatte Mullin Womack

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY7.009 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4163 Woodall Yoho Young (IA) Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina. Mr. ginner to expert. Come out and enjoy Yoder Young (AK) Zeldin Speaker, I rise today as the chairman the day next year about this same NOES—188 of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Cau- time, and enjoy a day out in Maryland Adams Gomez Nolan cus, and it is the largest bipartisan and at the Prince George’s Trap and Skeet Aguilar Gonzalez (TX) Norcross bicameral caucus in the United States Center gun range club. It is a great Barraga´ n Gottheimer O’Halleran Congress. Bass afternoon. Green, Al O’Rourke Every year we have an annual con- Beatty Green, Gene Pallone Mr. Speaker, this trophy will reside Bera Grijalva Panetta gressional shootout, which consists of in my office, 2229 Rayburn House Office Bishop (GA) Gutie´rrez Pascrell sporting clays, trap, and skeet Building if anybody wants to come by Blumenauer Hanabusa Payne shotgunning, and it is a competition Blunt Rochester Hastings and admire it. It will have a new Pelosi between Republican Members of Con- Bonamici Heck Perlmutter plaque saying the Republicans won the Boyle, Brendan Higgins (NY) Peters gress who are members of the Sports- 2018 competition. F. Himes Peterson men’s Caucus and Democratic Members Brady (PA) Hoyer Pingree f Brownley (CA) Huffman of Congress who are members of the Pocan Bustos Jackson Lee Sportsmen’s Caucus. THE JOURNAL Butterfield Jayapal Price (NC) This year, we had 28 shooters, and I Capuano Jeffries Quigley am pleased to say that the Republican The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without Carbajal Johnson (GA) Raskin objection, the 5-minute voting will Ca´ rdenas Johnson, E. B. Rice (NY) team once again retained the trophy Carson (IN) Kaptur Richmond for another year. continue. Cartwright Keating Rosen We also had some individual competi- There was no objection. Castor (FL) Kelly (IL) Roybal-Allard tions going on, and I would like to rec- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- Castro (TX) Kennedy Ruiz finished business is the question on Chu, Judy Khanna Ruppersberger ognize those Members of Congress. Cicilline Kihuen Rush The Top Gun Member of Congress agreeing to the Speaker’s approval of Clark (MA) Kildee Ryan (OH) this year goes to Representative JOHN the Journal, which the Chair will put Clarke (NY) Kilmer Sa´ nchez RUTHERFORD from Florida. Now, Mr. de novo. Clay Kind Sarbanes Speaker, this was his first time at this Cleaver Krishnamoorthi Schakowsky The question is on the Speaker’s ap- Clyburn Kuster (NH) Schiff event, and he had the second highest proval of the Journal. Cohen Lamb Schneider score for a Member of Congress since The question was taken; and the Connolly Langevin Schrader the year 2010. He shot 61 out of a total Speaker pro tempore announced that Cooper Larsen (WA) Scott (VA) possible 75. Correa Larson (CT) Scott, David the ayes appeared to have it. Costa Lawrence Serrano We also had a Top Gun Republican Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, on that Courtney Lawson (FL) Sewell (AL) Member, RICHARD HUDSON from North I demand the yeas and nays. Crist Lee Shea-Porter Carolina. The yeas and nays were ordered. Crowley Levin Sherman We had a Top Gun Democrat. That Cuellar Lewis (GA) The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a Sinema was Representative MIKE THOMPSON Cummings Lieu, Ted Sires 5-minute vote. Davis (CA) Lipinski Smith (WA) from California, who always shoots The vote was taken by electronic de- Davis, Danny Loebsack Soto well. I like shooting against him. DeFazio Lofgren vice, and there were—yeas 217, nays Speier Delaney Lowenthal Of course, I won the Top Skeet Suozzi 188, answered ‘‘present’’ 2, not voting DeLauro Lowey Award. DUNCAN HUNTER from Cali- Swalwell (CA) 20, as follows: DelBene Lujan Grisham, Takano fornia won the Top Trap, and the Top Demings M. [Roll No. 192] Thompson (CA) Sporting Clays was Representative DeSaulnier Luja´ n, Ben Ray YEAS—217 Deutch Lynch Thompson (MS) AUSTIN SCOTT, who is also the co-vice Abraham Davis (CA) Hunter Dingell Maloney, Titus chair on the Republican side for the Aderholt Davis, Danny Johnson (GA) Doggett Carolyn B. Tonko Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus. Allen Davis, Rodney Johnson (LA) Doyle, Michael Maloney, Sean Torres Now, the caucus is made up of two Amodei DeLauro Johnson, Sam F. Matsui Tsongas Arrington DelBene Jones Ellison McCollum Vargas chairmen, one Republican and one Bacon Demings Katko Engel McEachin Veasey Democrat, and two co-vice chairmen, Banks (IN) DesJarlais Kelly (PA) Eshoo McGovern Vela one Republican and one Democrat. I Barletta Deutch Kennedy Espaillat McNerney Vela´ zquez Barr Dingell Kildee Esty (CT) Meeks Visclosky would like to take this opportunity to Barton Doggett King (IA) Evans Meng Wasserman yield to the co-chairman, the gen- Beatty Donovan King (NY) Foster Moore Schultz tleman from Texas (Mr. AL GREEN). Bilirakis Duffy Krishnamoorthi Frankel (FL) Moulton Waters, Maxine Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speak- Bishop (UT) Duncan (TN) Kuster (NH) Fudge Murphy (FL) Watson Coleman Blum Dunn Kustoff (TN) Gabbard Nadler Welch er, we only had four Democrats shoot- Blumenauer Ellison LaMalfa Gallego Napolitano Wilson (FL) ing. Somewhere along the way, we have Blunt Rochester Engel Lamborn Garamendi Neal Yarmuth to do better recruitment. You and I Bonamici Eshoo Larsen (WA) NOT VOTING—11 both know we are term limited as co- Brady (TX) Estes (KS) Latta Brat Evans Lawrence Beyer DeGette Rogers (KY) chairs, and my replacement next year Brooks (IN) Ferguson Lesko Black Gohmert will be another Texan. Walz Buchanan Fleischmann Lewis (MN) Blackburn Labrador Webster (FL) Where is my Texan? Bucshon Fortenberry Lipinski Brown (MD) Polis Okay. Congressman Mark Veasey, Budd Foster Long ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE and I know he shot better than I did, so Bustos Frankel (FL) Loudermilk maybe he will improve our lot next Butterfield Frelinghuysen Love The SPEAKER pro tempore (during Byrne Gabbard Lucas the vote). There are 2 minutes remain- time. It is a lot of fun, the camaraderie Carson (IN) Gallego Luetkemeyer ing. is great, and I just am honored to have Carter (TX) Garamendi Lujan Grisham, that time to be the vice chair, now the Cartwright Garrett M. b 1404 co-chair of it, and so thank you. Castro (TX) Gianforte Luja´ n, Ben Ray Chabot Gibbs Marino So the resolution was agreed to. Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina. Mr. Chu, Judy Goodlatte Massie The result of the vote was announced Speaker, I want to thank the gen- Cicilline Gowdy McCarthy Clay Granger McCaul as above recorded. tleman from Texas, and I want to in- vite all Members of Congress to join Cole Griffith McClintock A motion to reconsider was laid on Collins (GA) Guthrie McCollum the table. the Sportsmen’s Caucus. It is not just Collins (NY) Handel McEachin about hunting and fishing. It is about Comstock Harper McHenry f access to outdoor property that we own Cook Harris McMorris Cooper Heck Rodgers as taxpayers. Public access is impor- CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN’S Cramer Hensarling McNerney tant. It is about trapping. It is about a Crawford Higgins (LA) Meadows CAUCUS lot of other outdoor activities that we Cuellar Himes Meeks (Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina Culberson Hollingsworth Meng can take advantage of. Cummings Huffman Messer asked and was given permission to ad- The sporting clay competition that Curtis Huizenga Mitchell dress the House for 1 minute.) we had is open to all Members, from be- Davidson Hultgren Moolenaar

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Palazzo Sensenbrenner Walters, Mimi itself into the Committee of the Whole Palmer Sessions Wasserman The result of the vote was announced House on the state of the Union for the Pascrell Shea-Porter Schultz as above recorded. further consideration of the bill (H.R. Pelosi Sherman Waters, Maxine f 2) to provide for the reform and con- Perlmutter Shimkus Weber (TX) Peters Shuster Welch MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE tinuation of agricultural and other pro- Pingree Simpson Wenstrup grams of the Department of Agri- Pocan Smith (MO) Westerman A message from the Senate by Ms. culture through fiscal year 2023, and Lasky, one of its clerks, announced Posey Smith (NE) Williams for other purposes, with Mr. WEBER of Roby Smith (NJ) Wilson (FL) that the Senate has passed without Roe (TN) Smith (TX) Wilson (SC) Texas (Acting Chair) in the chair. amendment bills of the House of the The Clerk read the title of the bill. Rohrabacher Smith (WA) Wittman following titles: Rooney, Francis Smucker Womack The Acting CHAIR. When the Com- Rooney, Thomas Speier Yoho H.R. 3562. An act to amend title 38, United mittee of the Whole rose on Wednes- J. Stefanik Young (IA) States Code, to authorize the Secretary of day, May 16, 2018, amendment No. 9 Ross Stewart Veterans Affairs to furnish assistance for ad- printed in part C of House Report 115– aptations of residences of veterans in reha- NAYS—188 bilitation programs under chapter 31 of such 677 offered by the gentleman from Adams Green, Al Napolitano title, and for other purposes. Pennsylvania (Mr. THOMPSON) had been Aguilar Green, Gene Neal H.R. 4009. An act to authorize the Board of disposed of. Amash Grijalva Norcross Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to AMENDMENT NO. 10 OFFERED BY MS. HERRERA Babin Grothman O’Halleran plan, design, and construct a central parking ´ ´ BEUTLER Barragan Gutierrez Pallone facility on National Zoological Park prop- Bass Hanabusa The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order Panetta erty in the District of Columbia. Bera Hartzler Paulsen to consider amendment No. 10 printed Bergman Hastings Payne The message also announced that the in part C of House Report 115–677. Bishop (GA) Herrera Beutler Pearce Senate has agreed to without amend- Bishop (MI) Hice, Jody B. Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER. Mr. Chair- Perry ment a concurrent resolution of the Bost Higgins (NY) Peterson man, I have an amendment at the desk. Boyle, Brendan Hill Pittenger House of the following title: The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will F. Holding Poe (TX) H. Con. Res. 112. Concurrent resolution au- designate the amendment. Brady (PA) Hoyer Poliquin Brooks (AL) Hudson thorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in The text of the amendment is as fol- Price (NC) the Capitol Visitor Center for an event to Brownley (CA) Hurd Quigley lows: celebrate the birthday of King Kamehameha Buck Jackson Lee Ratcliffe Page 487, after line 4, insert the following: Burgess Jayapal I. Reed (d) STEWARDSHIP PROJECT RECEIPTS.—Sec- Capuano Jeffries Reichert The message also announced that the tion 604(e) of the Healthy Forests Restora- Carbajal Jenkins (KS) Renacci Ca´ rdenas Jenkins (WV) Senate has passed with amendments in tion Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591c(e)) is amend- Rice (NY) ed— Carter (GA) Johnson (OH) Richmond which the concurrence of the House is Castor (FL) Johnson, E. B. Rokita requested, bills of the House of the fol- (1) in paragraph (2)(B), by inserting ‘‘sub- Cheney Jordan Ros-Lehtinen ject to paragraph (3)(A),’’ before ‘‘shall’’; and Clark (MA) Joyce (OH) lowing titles: Rosen (2) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking ‘‘serv- Clarke (NY) Kaptur Rouzer H.R. 2772. An act to amend title 38, United ices received by the Chief or the Director’’ Cleaver Keating Roybal-Allard States Code, to provide for requirements re- Clyburn Kelly (IL) and all that follows through the period at Ruiz lating to the reassignment of Department of Coffman Kelly (MS) the end and inserting the following: ‘‘serv- Rush Cohen Khanna Veterans Affairs senior executive employees. ices and in-kind resources received by the Ryan (OH) Comer Kihuen H.R. 3249. An act to authorize the Project Chief or the Director under a stewardship Sa´ nchez Conaway Kilmer Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program, and for Sanford contract project conducted under this sec- Connolly Kind other purposes. Sarbanes tion shall not be considered monies received Correa Kinzinger from the National Forest System or the pub- Costa Knight Schakowsky The message also announced that the Costello (PA) LaHood Schiff Senate has passed a bill of the fol- lic lands, but any payments made by the Courtney Lamb Schrader contractor to the Chief or Director under the Serrano lowing title in which the concurrence Crist Lance of the House is requested: project shall be considered monies received Crowley Langevin Sewell (AL) from the National Forest System or the pub- Sinema Curbelo (FL) Larson (CT) S. 2349. An act to direct the Director of the lic lands.’’. Delaney Lawson (FL) Sires Office of Management and Budget to estab- Denham Lee Soto lish an interagency working group to study The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to DeSantis Levin Stivers House Resolution 891, the gentlewoman Swalwell (CA) Federal efforts to collect data on sexual vio- DeSaulnier Lewis (GA) lence and to make recommendations on the from Washington (Ms. HERRERA Diaz-Balart Lieu, Ted Taylor Doyle, Michael LoBiondo Tenney harmonization of such efforts, and for other BEUTLER) and a Member opposed each F. Loebsack Thompson (CA) purposes. will control 5 minutes. Duncan (SC) Lofgren Thompson (MS) f The Chair recognizes the gentle- Emmer Lowenthal Thompson (PA) woman from Washington. Espaillat Lowey Tipton AGRICULTURE AND NUTRITION Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER. Mr. Chair- Esty (CT) Lynch Torres ACT OF 2018 Fitzpatrick MacArthur Turner man, I thank Chairman CONAWAY for Flores Maloney, Upton GENERAL LEAVE the opportunity to speak on this im- Foxx Carolyn B. Vargas Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask Fudge Maloney, Sean Veasey portant amendment that I am offering Gaetz Marchant Vela unanimous consent that all Members to the farm bill today. Gallagher Marshall Vela´ zquez have 5 legislative days in which to re- I also want to thank my colleague, Gomez Mast Visclosky vise and extend their remarks and in- Congressman WESTERMAN, for his tire- Gonzalez (TX) Matsui Walberg Gosar McGovern Watson Coleman clude extraneous material on H.R. 2. less work on behalf of our rural com- Gottheimer McKinley Woodall The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there munities that are dependent on timber. Graves (GA) McSally Yoder objection to the request of the gen- Mr. Chairman, the key takeaway Graves (LA) Moore Young (AK) tleman from Texas? here is simple: If moneys are generated Graves (MO) Murphy (FL) Zeldin There was no objection. during restorative work in our forests, ANSWERED ‘‘PRESENT’’—2 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- then a portion of those moneys gen- Rice (SC) Tonko ant to House Resolution 891 and rule erated from that work ought to remain XVIII, the Chair declares the House in in the community.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY7.010 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4165 Traditional timber sales require that The argument that this amendment 2023 and contains a provision that al- a quarter of the revenues stay in the siphons off money from the Forest lows tribal governments to be eligible local county. But when the U.S. Forest Service is false. This amendment does to enter into Good Neighbor Authority Service or the Bureau of Land Manage- not affect or reduce the reinvestment cooperative agreements and contracts. ment use what is called stewardship from in-kind contributions. Further- Our amendment simply builds on that contracts to work in the forests, none more, little investment can be made in commonsense provision by also author- of those proceeds remain locally. our Nation’s forest at all if there are izing counties to be eligible for Good Our forested counties are facing a fi- no local communities to cultivate the Neighbor Authority. nancial crisis right now. Federal en- investment. Good Neighbor Authority projects dangered species listings have left tim- This amendment ensures that coun- have been remarkably successful. From ber-dependent counties in southwest ties can continue to invest in their for- 2002 to 2013, 63 projects treated more Washington with little to no revenue ests and their children’s future, both than 4,100 acres in Colorado and Utah. from timber sales. by protecting the good work of stew- These worthwhile treatments miti- In counties that are primarily feder- ardship contracting and by ensuring gated the threat of catastrophic wild- ally owned, like Skamania County in that our rural counties get their fair fire, reduced flooding, enhanced forest my district, which is 97-percent owned share. health, and improved water quality. by the government, they are unable to Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues Counties on both sides of the aisle re- make up these drastically reduced rev- to support a fair share for rural com- quested this amendment and new au- enues from property taxes. This means munities. thority. that, by no fault of their own, they Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER. Mr. Chair- The problem in Coconino County, a lack the local tax base to support even man, I yield back the balance of my liberal county represented by my col- the most basic needs of their local time. league Mr. O’HALLERAN, is that the communities, like schools or roads or The Acting CHAIR. The question is wood is low-value timber, so they can’t local fire and police. on the amendment offered by the gen- attract private industry to thin their To help make up some of that rev- tlewoman from Washington (Ms. HER- forest for pending work they need com- enue, Congress created the Secure RERA BEUTLER). pleted. Rural Schools program in 2000. Unfor- The amendment was agreed to. Counties want to do this type of work tunately, despite my and my col- AMENDMENT NO. 11 OFFERED BY MR. GOSAR themselves or find a contractor if the leagues’ persistent effort to find a long- The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order Federal Government won’t treat their term solution through SRS, we cannot to consider amendment No. 11 printed forests. All that is missing is the au- keep relying on the Federal Govern- in part C of House Report 115–677. thorization from Congress. ment’s short-term fixes. That is not Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Chairman, I have an The Wisconsin Department of Nat- doing right by these communities. amendment at the desk. ural Resources is already entering into This commonsense amendment will The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will cooperative agreements with counties empower desperately needed funds to designate the amendment. to partner in the management of Wis- stay in local communities. Individuals The text of the amendment is as fol- consin County Forests, and it is work- and families should not be victim to lows: ing for them as well. Federal dysfunction. Let’s not allow a Strike section 8331 and insert the following Some counties have actual foresters Federal contracting program for tim- new section: or other land management profes- SEC. 8331. GOOD NEIGHBOR AGREEMENTS. sionals on staff. These are not limited ber harvest and forest restoration to Section 8206 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 leave those neighboring communities (16 U.S.C. 2113a) is amended— specifically to large counties either. empty-handed. (1) in subsection (a)— For example, Adams County, Idaho, I urge my colleagues to vote ‘‘yes’’ (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘Sec- population of 4,000, has a natural re- on this amendment to ensure that a retary or a Governor’’ and inserting ‘‘Sec- sources committee that is chaired by a portion of the proceeds from these con- retary, Governor, county, or Indian Tribe’’; retired Forest Service employee who tracts are being rightfully directed to (B) in paragraph (4) by striking ‘‘Secretary also serves on the local forest collabo- timber counties. and a Governor’’ and inserting ‘‘Secretary rative. Mr. Chairman, I urge support of this and a Governor, county, or an Indian Tribe’’; Coconino County has a forest res- (C) by adding at the end the following: important amendment. toration director who would be in ‘‘(10) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘Indian Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he Tribe’ has the meaning given the term in charge of these county Good Neighbor may consume to the gentleman from section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination Authority agreements. This is a direc- Arizona (Mr. WESTERMAN). and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. tor-level executive position that re- Mr. WESTERMAN. Mr. Chairman, I 5304)). ports directly to the deputy county commend the gentlewoman from Wash- ‘‘(11) COUNTY.— The term ‘county’ has the manager. ington (Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER) for her meaning given the term in section 2 of title While some counties will likely con- leadership on this issue. 1, United States Code.’’; and tract with outside entities to perform Mr. Chairman, the amendment that (2) in subsection (b)— the work, county contracts will be (A) in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting ‘‘, is at the desk directs a portion of rev- county, or an Indian Tribe’’ after ‘‘Gov- overseen by someone such as an audi- enue from stewardship contracting to- ernor’’; and tor or a clerk. ward individual counties for further in- (B) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘, coun- The National Association of Counties vestment in roads, schools, and the ty, or an Indian Tribe’’ after ‘‘Governor’’. supports this amendment, stating, like. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to ‘‘NACo stands ready to work with you This amendment has no effect on in- House Resolution 891, the gentleman to promote locally supported, con- kind contributions or exchanges of from Arizona (Mr. GOSAR) and a Mem- sensus-driven solutions to address for- timber for goods or services provided. ber opposed each will control 5 min- est management challenges and reduce This amendment only affects the rare utes. the risk of catastrophic wildfire. NACo instance where stewardship contracts The Chair recognizes the gentleman encourages the United States House of are exchanged for cash. from Arizona. Representatives to adopt your amend- Per the 1908 Forest Service revenue- Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Chairman, I rise ment to H.R. 2 and give counties the sharing law, counties are entitled to 25 today to offer a commonsense amend- opportunity to assist our Federal part- percent of all timber receipts sold from ment that will empower local commu- ners to make our national forests Federal lands within their borders. nities by allowing counties to be in- healthy again.’’ This amendment simply ensures that if cluded in Good Neighbor Authority co- In addition to NACo, I am also hon- it looks like a timber sale, where tim- operative agreements and contracts in ored to have the support of the Na- ber is exchanged for cash, counties re- order to improve forest health and bol- tional Water Resources Association, ceive the same share they would if the ster watershed restoration. the Arizona Association of Conserva- Forest Service had sold the timber out- The base farm bill reauthorizes Good tion Districts, the Salt River Project, right. Neighbor Authority through fiscal year the Colorado Pork Producers Council,

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.044 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4166 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 and more than 20 other local and na- The text of the amendment is as fol- the U.S. Forest Service and BLM to tional organizations and elected offi- lows: quickly remove dead trees after cials. At the end of part III of subtitle C of title wildfires to pay for reforestation and I urge all of my colleagues in the VIII, insert the following: rehabilitation after devastating fires. House to support this commonsense SEC. 83ll. SALVAGE AND REFORESTATION IN Last year, over 1 million acres amendment that will empower bipar- RESPONSE TO CATASTROPHIC burned in Montana. Livelihoods were tisan communities throughout the EVENTS. threatened, wildlife habitats were de- country, improve forest health, and (a) EXPEDITED SALVAGE OPERATIONS AND stroyed, and whole landscapes were REFORESTATION ACTIVITIES FOLLOWING bolster watershed restoration. scarred. LARGE-SCALE CATASTROPHIC EVENTS.— My commonsense amendment was Again, this is an authorization, not a (1) EXPEDITED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESS- passed, verbatim, in the Resilient Fed- requirement. It puts more power into MENT.—Notwithstanding any other provision the hands of local communities who of law, an environmental assessment pre- eral Forests Act by this body. It would need the work done but have nowhere pared by the Secretary concerned pursuant allow the agencies to quickly respond, to turn under the status quo. to section 102 of the National Environmental as well as to raise funds to further re- Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332) for a sal- habilitate the forest. An expedited en- the gentleman from Montana (Mr. vage operation or reforestation activity pro- vironmental assessment would still be posed to be conducted on National Forest required and public input would still be GIANFORTE), my good friend and col- System lands or public lands adversely im- league, who is a cosponsor of this included in order to move forward with pacted by a large-scale catastrophic event the project. Most importantly, this amendment. shall be completed within 60 days after the Mr. GIANFORTE. Mr. Chairman, I conclusion of the catastrophic event. amendment would require that at least thank the gentleman for yielding. (2) EXPEDITED IMPLEMENTATION AND COM- 75 percent of the burned area would be Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of PLETION.—In the case of reforestation activi- reforested. this amendment I cosponsored with ties conducted on National Forest System These landscape scale projects are badly needed. The Rice Ridge fire Representative GOSAR that will expand lands or public lands adversely impacted by the Good Neighbor Authority for coun- a large-scale catastrophic event, the Sec- burned over 160,000 acres alone. Quick- retary concerned shall, to the maximum ex- ties. ly responding to the damage caused tent practicable, achieve reforestation of at will protect our public lands and re- Good Neighbor Authority allows the least 75 percent of the impacted lands during Forest Service to enter into coopera- store our watersheds for the future and the 5-year period following the conclusion of restore them to the quality we have tive agreements and contracts with the catastrophic event. come to love in Montana. States and Puerto Rico to execute (3) AVAILABILITY OF KNUTSON-VANDENBERG As I mentioned, similar language was projects that perform watershed res- FUNDS.—Amounts in the special fund estab- included in the Resilient Federal For- toration and forest management serv- lished pursuant to section 3 of the Act of ests Act, which passed the House on a ices on National Forest System lands. June 9, 1930 (commonly known as the Knutson-Vandenberg Act; 16 U.S.C. 576b) bipartisan basis on November 11, 2017. The current text of the farm bill in- shall be available to the Secretary of Agri- My amendment is supported by the cludes language to expand the Good culture for reforestation activities author- Federal Forest Resource Coalition, the Neighbor Authority to include Indian ized by this section. National Association of Counties, the Tribes. This simple amendment seeks (4) TIMELINE FOR PUBLIC INPUT PROCESS.— National Water Resources Association, to build on that commonsense provi- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and the Idaho Forest Group. sion by empowering local communities in the case of a salvage operation or reforest- Mr. Chair, I yield as much time as he ation activity proposed to be conducted on and allowing the Forest Service to in- may consume to the gentleman from clude counties as partners to these National Forest System lands or public lands adversely impacted by a large-scale cata- Arizona (Mr. GOSAR). agreements. strophic event, the Secretary concerned Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Chairman, I rise b 1430 shall allow 30 days for public scoping and today in support of my good friend and comment, 15 days for filing an objection, and colleague Congressman GIANFORTE’s Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Chair, I thank the 15 days for the agency response to the filing wildfire salvage operations amend- gentleman for his comments. of an objection. Upon completion of this ment. I am glad that, with the farm Mr. Chair, I yield as much time as he process and expiration of the period specified bill package, we have the opportunity may consume to the gentleman from in paragraph (1), the Secretary concerned to look at the forest industry and wild- Pennsylvania (Mr. THOMPSON). shall implement the project immediately. fire issues from all sides. Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. (b) COMPLIANCE WITH FOREST PLAN.—A sal- vage operation or reforestation activity au- This amendment is part and parcel of Mr. Chairman, I thank Mr. GOSAR for a broader wildfire strategy that re- offering this commonsense amend- thorized by this section shall be conducted in a manner consistent with the forest plan ap- quires proactive action from Congress ment. plicable to the National Forest System lands for the steps before, during, and after Good Neighbor Authority was one of or public lands covered by the salvage oper- wildfires are expected. Specifically, the hard-fought achievements in the ation or reforestation activity. this amendment will ensure that the 2014 farm bill that has proven useful in (c) PROHIBITION ON RESTRAINING ORDERS, National Forest System forest is improving our national forests and our PRELIMINARY INJUNCTIONS, AND INJUNCTIONS cleared and replanted if a catastrophic PENDING APPEAL.—No restraining order, pre- rural communities. I was pleased to ex- wildfire chars it to the ground. pand the Good Neighbor Authority to liminary injunction, or injunction pending appeal shall be issued by any court of the Our National Forest System lands Indian Tribes in the base text of this will be rehabilitated after wildfire dev- bill, and I am happy that my colleague United States with respect to any decision to prepare or conduct a salvage operation or re- astates them, but in a way consistent continues to improve the forestry title forestation activity in response to a large- with forest plans. That way, the eco- with this amendment authorizing scale catastrophic event. Section 705 of title system of the new forest will have bet- counties to be eligible. 5, United States Code, shall not apply to any ter management and be less susceptible Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Chair, I yield back challenge to the salvage operation or refor- to another large-scale burn-down the balance of my time. estation activity. event. The Acting CHAIR. The question is The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to This is a forward-thinking amend- on the amendment offered by the gen- House Resolution 891, the gentleman ment to fix a backwards system we tleman from Arizona (Mr. GOSAR). from Montana (Mr. GIANFORTE) and a have devised in Congress, and I urge The amendment was agreed to. Member opposed each will control 5 Members to vote for this demonstra- AMENDMENT NO. 12 OFFERED BY MR. GIANFORTE minutes. tion that shows Congress isn’t willing The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order The Chair recognizes the gentleman to just give up and let our forest sys- to consider amendment No. 12 printed from Montana. tem lands be catastrophically burnt. in part C of House Report 115–677. Mr. GIANFORTE. Mr. Chairman, I Mr. Chair, I applaud Representative Mr. GIANFORTE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may con- GIANFORTE for his strong leadership have an amendment at the desk. sume. and tireless efforts to reduce the threat The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will Mr. Chair, my amendment would of dangerous wildfires. I urge adoption designate the amendment. allow land management agencies like of this commonsense amendment.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.046 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4167 Mr. GIANFORTE. Mr. Chair, I yield section 102 of the National Environmental Mr. WESTERMAN. Mr. Chair, I yield such time as he may consume to the Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332) for a forest myself as much time as I may con- gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. management activity that— sume. (1) is developed through a collaborative THOMPSON). Mr. Chair, my amendment promotes process; Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. (2) is proposed by a resource advisory com- collaborative forest management, cuts Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman for mittee; red tape, and encourages the Forest yielding, and I thank Mr. GIANFORTE (3) will occur on lands identified by the Service to plan for the long-term for offering this important amendment Secretary concerned as suitable for timber health of our Nation’s forests. for Montana and, quite frankly, for our production; Mr. Chair, if we were to go to the National Forest System as a whole. (4) will occur on lands designated by the doctor and we had cancer and the doc- Over the past several years, fires Secretary (or designee thereof) pursuant to tor offered a treatment for that cancer have had a devastating impact on our section 602(b) of the Healthy Forests Res- but decided it might not be in our best toration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591a(b)), not- interests, we wouldn’t just leave. We forest system lands, resulting in dete- withstanding whether such forest manage- riorated landscapes. I have witnessed ment activity is initiated prior to September would want to find out what the best this firsthand across the country as the 30, 2018; or treatment was. former chairman of the Committee on (5) is covered by a community wildfire pro- What is happening in our national Agriculture’s Subcommittee on Con- tection plan. forests is, if one plan is rejected, we do servation and Forestry. (b) CONSIDERATION OF ALTERNATIVES.—In nothing, and we don’t treat the disease It is vital that the Forest Service has an environmental assessment or environ- of mismanagement that is currently the right tools, the ability to restore mental impact statement described in sub- happening in our forests. these landscapes as quickly as possible section (a), the Secretary concerned shall Implementing sound, scientifically- study, develop, and describe only the fol- based management reforms is nec- to preserve habitat, clean air, and the lowing two alternatives: significant impact that these incidents (1) The forest management activity. essary to address the growing economic can have on clean water. (2) The alternative of no action. and environmental threats of cata- Unfortunately, litigation stalls many (c) ELEMENTS OF NO ACTION ALTER- strophic wildfire. Prevention through of these projects. As Madison County, NATIVE.—In the case of the alternative of no active management is the best medi- Montana, Commissioner Dave Schulz action, the Secretary concerned shall con- cine to make our forests healthy. noted before the House Natural Re- sider whether to evaluate— By requiring environmental analysis sources Federal Lands Subcommittee (1) the effect of no action on— of a collaboratively developed proposal in May of 2015, due to the threat of liti- (A) forest health; to be weighed against a ‘‘no action’’ al- (B) habitat diversity; ternative—the impacts of doing noth- gation from outside groups refusing to (C) wildfire potential; meet or collaborate with the commu- (D) insect and disease potential; and ing on forest health and wildfire risk— nity, what started out as a consensus (E) timber production; and this amendment ensures that taxpayer proposal for 100,000 acres of fire salvage (2) the implications of a resulting decline dollars are spent only on analysis and and reforestation was reduced to less in forest health, loss of habitat diversity, project planning that protects our for- than 2,000 acres of salvage. ‘‘Fear of wildfire, or insect or disease infestation, ests’ long-term health. Further, my litigation prevents the Forest Service given fire and insect and disease historic cy- amendment ensures that long-term for- from thinking big.’’ cles, on— est health is considered by the courts (A) domestic water supply in the project when granting an injunction on critical In another quote, he offered, a ‘‘sig- area; nificant factor in preventing respon- (B) wildlife habitat loss; and forest management activities. sible management of our Nation’s for- (C) other economic and social factors. This amendment previously received bipartisan support in the House as part ests.’’ SEC. 8335. INJUNCTIVE RELIEF. Mr. Chair, I certainly support this of the Resilient Federal Forests Act. It (a) BALANCING SHORT- AND LONG-TERM EF- has no cost to the American taxpayer amendment. It has already passed the FECTS OF FOREST MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES IN House. I urge my colleagues to do the CONSIDERING INJUNCTIVE RELIEF.—As part of and is supported by a variety of organi- same. its weighing the equities while considering zations, including the American Farm Mr. GIANFORTE. Mr. Chair, at this any request for an injunction that applies to Bureau Federation, the National Asso- time, I urge adoption of my common- any agency action as part of a forest man- ciation of Counties, the National Asso- sense amendment. agement activity the court reviewing the ciation of Home Builders, and more. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of agency action shall balance the impact to Mr. Chair, inaction itself is a forest my time. the ecosystem likely affected by the forest management decision. Standing by and management activity of— doing nothing is the reason we con- The Acting CHAIR. The question is (1) the short- and long-term effects of un- on the amendment offered by the gen- dertaking the agency action; against tinue to watch our forests burn. tleman from Montana (Mr. GIANFORTE). (2) the short- and long-term effects of not Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of The amendment was agreed to. undertaking the action. my time. AMENDMENT NO. 13 OFFERED BY MR. (b) TIME LIMITATIONS FOR INJUNCTIVE RE- Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chair, I rise in WESTERMAN LIEF.— opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order (1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2) The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman to consider amendment No. 13 printed the length of any preliminary injunctive re- from Arizona is recognized for 5 min- lief and stays pending appeal that applies to utes. in part C of House Report 115–677. any agency action as part of a forest man- Mr. WESTERMAN. Mr. Chair, I have Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chair, this agement activity, shall not exceed 60 days. amendment significantly alters critical an amendment at the desk. (2) RENEWAL.— environmental review requirements The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will (A) IN GENERAL.—A court of competent ju- designate the amendment. risdiction may issue one or more renewals of and limits opportunity for the public The text of the amendment is as fol- any preliminary injunction, or stay pending to challenge forest management lows: appeal, granted under paragraph (1). projects. (B) UPDATES.—In each renewal of an in- Restricting NEPA analysis to two al- At the end of part III of subtitle C of title junction in an action, the parties to the ac- ternatives may seem like it will save VIII, insert the following: tion shall present the court with updated in- time and money, but this cuts right at SEC. 8334. ANALYSIS OF ONLY TWO ALTER- formation on the status of the authorized the heart of critical environmental NATIVES (ACTION VERSUS NO AC- forest management activity. TION) IN PROPOSED COLLABO- protections. NEPA doesn’t hurt forest RATIVE FOREST MANAGEMENT AC- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to management projects; bad planning, ig- TIVITIES. House Resolution 891, the gentleman noring science, and disingenuous inten- (a) APPLICATION TO CERTAIN ENVIRON- from Arkansas (Mr. WESTERMAN) and a tions hurt forest management projects. MENTAL ASSESSMENTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL Member opposed each will control 5 IMPACT STATEMENTS.—This section shall NEPA supports collaboration apply whenever the Secretary concerned pre- minutes. through public participation. It allows pares an environmental assessment or an en- The Chair recognizes the gentleman many voices and different voices to vironmental impact statement pursuant to from Arkansas. participate in the planning process,

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Mr. Chairman, I Much like the forestry provisions in who tell us climate change threatens in just want to say this amendment en- the base text of this bill, we have been a very factual and scientific way and sures that we prioritize the long-term down this road before. House Repub- direct way the health of our forests, health of our forest and we equip the licans tried to include harmful provi- wildlife, and the ever-increasing forest Forest Service with the tools they need sions to scale bedrock environmental fires that we must confront every year. to execute a plan. laws and restrict access to the courts We can use NEPA as a tool to consider Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues during the omnibus negotiations. these impacts, and if we are smart, we to support the sustained health of our All of these toxic proposals were re- will strengthen the law instead of Nation’s forests, and I yield back the jected by the Senate. Let’s not make weakening it piece by piece. balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is the Senate say ‘‘no’’ for a second time. The issue of forest health is a serious on the amendment offered by the gen- Mr. Chair, I urge a ‘‘no’’ vote on this issue. This amendment does not deal tleman from Arkansas (Mr. amendment, and I reserve the balance with the complexity of the seriousness WESTERMAN). of my time. of this issue. If, indeed, we are to deal Mr. WESTERMAN. Mr. Chair, this The question was taken; and the Act- with this issue, then it has to be com- ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- bill, again, does not sidestep any envi- prehensive and it has to be looked at, ronmental activity. It just simply says peared to have it. not by eliminating protections and Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chairman, I de- that we have to evaluate the do-noth- public access, but by truly doing some- mand a recorded vote. ing option and what the effects to the thing for the long-term health of these The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to forest are from that. forests, and that is to consider all clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the available information and not deny sci- ceedings on the amendment offered by gentleman from Arizona (Mr. GOSAR). entific information in the process of the gentleman from Arkansas will be Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Chairman, I rise in blaming NEPA or any other law that postponed. support of the amendment offered by exists for the public and for the protec- AMENDMENT NO. 14 OFFERED BY MR. YOUNG OF my good friend and colleague, Mr. tion of our forests as the reason why ALASKA WESTERMAN. we are having forest fires. The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order The United States is about to em- Forest fires are a direct result of cli- to consider amendment No. 14 printed bark on yet another year of ravaging mate change, and as such, not to con- in part C of House Report 115–677. catastrophic wildfire. I say ‘‘embark’’ sider that as part and parcel of a solu- Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chair- because this is ultimately a choice. tion is a grave mistake that will not man, I have an amendment at the desk. While some amount of summer wildfire solve the problem. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will is to be expected during the heat of I urge a ‘‘no’’ vote on this amend- designate the amendment. summer, the devastation we have seen ment. It should not be tucked into this The text of the amendment is as fol- in recent years is unprecedented. farm bill. It merits its own proper dis- lows: 2017 was one of the worst wildfire sea- cussion and debate in this House, and At the end of part III of subtitle C of title sons on record. More than 58,000 fires that is the direction we should go. VIII, insert the following: burned more than 9.2 million acres. Mr. Chairman, I urge a ‘‘no’’ vote, SEC. 83ll. APPLICATION OF ROADLESS AREA The Forest Service spent more than and I yield back the balance of my CONSERVATION RULE. The roadless area conservation rule estab- $2.5 billion on suppression costs this time. fiscal year alone, a new record. lished under part 294 of title 36, Code of Fed- b 1445 eral Regulations (or successor regulations), These expenditures and destruction shall not apply to any National Forest Sys- coincide perfectly with Congress’ dere- Mr. WESTERMAN. Mr. Chair, this tem land in the State of Alaska. amendment does not sidestep NEPA, it liction of its duty to ensure our land The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to does not weaken NEPA, it just simply management agencies are equipped House Resolution 891, the gentleman with the tools and authorities to prop- says you have to evaluate the alter- from Alaska (Mr. YOUNG) and a Mem- native of doing nothing. erly manage our forests. Congress has ber opposed each will control 5 min- Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the provided some legislative fixes this utes. year, but I think every Member under- gentleman from Colorado (Mr. TIPTON). The Chair recognizes the gentleman stands full well we shouldn’t pat our- Mr. TIPTON. Mr. Chairman, I think from Alaska. selves on the back just yet. that we have actually found some com- Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chair, I As the coming months will dem- mon ground when our colleague is say- yield myself such time as I may con- onstrate, we and, by extension, the ing, let’s use science. sume. American taxpayer are still on the Effectively, that is what we are talk- (Mr. YOUNG of Alaska asked and was hook here. We are susceptible to years ing about with this amendment, to be given permission to revise and extend more of supermassive fire blanketing able to have analysis, to be able to his remarks.) the country unless we build on our have project planning. Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chair- progress. Let me give you a real-life example man, this is a simple amendment. The Mr. WESTERMAN’s amendment here in southwestern Colorado: the West Clinton era Roadless Rule applies a does just that. It will require the gov- Fork Complex fire, which erupted be- one-size-fits-all approach to areas ernment to holistically evaluate the cause we had trees growing not at the where those policies rarely work, espe- impacts of its forestry decisions on elevation that they should, overgrowth cially the federally locked lands in overall forest health. By requiring the in our forest that resulted in a massive Alaska. costs of inaction to be weighed, the fire. At 16.8 million acres, the Tongass Na- Forest Service will have to dem- I would suggest that if you care tional Forest is the largest of the Na- onstrate its decisions are ultimately in about endangered species, if you care tional Forest System. Coupled with the a forest’s interest. about protecting our waterways, if you Chugach National Forest, Alaska con- Mr. Chair, I applaud Mr. WESTERMAN care about having an abundant re- tains 12 percent of the total acres of for his strong leadership and tireless source to be able to develop to be able national forest lands in the total efforts to improve a failing system that to support our schools through the United States. we have inherited. rural school programs as well, this is The Roadless Rule is nothing more Mr. Chair, I urge the adoption of the an opportunity to be able to create than another effort to end the mul- commonsense amendment. those healthy forests and to be able to tiple-use mandate of Federal forest

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.051 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4169 lands, something that is required by The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman Mr. Chairman, I support the gentle- law but often ignored by nameless, from Arizona is recognized for 5 min- man’s amendment and urge adoption. faceless, unelected bureaucrats. utes. Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chair- Although the Tongass is over 100 Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chairman, I man, the comments from the other side years old, only 400,000 acres have been yield myself such time as I may con- of the aisle were talking about Alas- harvested. Of the remaining acreage, sume. kans opposing this amendment. much of the forest is not topo- Mr. Chairman, this amendment ex- With all due respect, I am an elected graphically suitable for timber harvest, empts all national forests in Alaska representative, and if they don’t like and 6.6 million acres are congression- from the Forest Service’s Roadless what I do, they don’t vote for me. I just ally designated as wilderness areas, na- Rule, one of the country’s most impor- believe in jobs. tional monuments, and roadless areas. tant conservation safeguards. When I first got elected to this job, Not only does the Roadless Rule vio- Inventoried roadless areas account when I first started this Tongass bat- late the authorities granted under the for only 2 percent of our Nation’s land tle, we had 15,000 jobs in Alaska in the Alaska National Lands Act, it was mass, but they provide invaluable ben- timber industry in the Tongass. And adopted without proper consultation or efits: clean drinking water for over 60 through the National Land Act itself, consideration of the countless commu- million Americans, wildlife habitats we were told that no other jobs would nities that rely on responsible resource for numerous threatened and endan- be lost in the timber industry, and development. gered species, and they act as critical they slowly crept around and elimi- Nearly 96 percent of the Tongass Na- carbon sinks that mitigate the impacts nated what remaining jobs occurred. tional Forest and 99 percent of the of climate change. All of these benefits And the sad part about it, from my Chugach National Forest are protected are threatened by this amendment. point of view, they have killed the tim- by ANILCA and forest management Nationwide, the Roadless Rule is in- ber industry. That was not the intent. plans. credibly popular. Our constituents un- We were supposed to have a timber in- Exempting Alaska from the Roadless derstand the importance of keeping in- dustry. Rule would help make certain that tact roadless areas and managing our Then along comes the Clinton era what is left of the timber industry in last truly wild places in a manner that Roadless Rule that means you can’t the southeast can survive. protects old-growth forest and other build a road anywhere that has no Many individuals adamantly oppose precious resources from the pressures road. How do you have a hydropower logging old growth in roadless areas. of development and extraction. site? We had to fight for 4 years to get However, old growth will continue to It is not just people in the lower 48. a hydropower site. be predominant in the Tongass, and Alaskans understand the importance of This action here by an administra- given the remote nature of Alaska, the protecting the roadless landscape. That tion—this and past administrations— vast majority of the forest is in a is why hundreds of businesses in south- have to understand, this is about em- roadless state. east Alaska have joined together to op- ployment. This is about managing— Over 90 percent of the Tongass is pose overturning the recently adopted managing—timber. And those who unaccessible by road. The lack of ac- Tongass Forest Plan and efforts like don’t want to manage anything, you cess to timber not only costs good-pay- this amendment to overturn protection destroy it. Mr. Chairman, I am urging this body, ing jobs, but results in trees dying of for roadless areas. this Congress, to do what is right for disease and infestations. Dead trees These businesses rely on clean water the State of Alaska and right for the serve no purpose other than to become and healthy forests to support thriving timber, and the right for the people kindling, creating fires. So by having a salmon populations and a robust tour- that live there and that depend upon a robust timber industry, we can help ist economy. By rolling back safe- source of income other than living off, prevent the spread of serious wildfires guards that protect old-growth forests very frankly, somebody giving them like have been seen in the lower 48. from harmful development, this something. They want to work for it. To be clear, we are not talking about amendment threatens fundamental Mr. Chairman, I urge passage of this clearcutting the entire national forest. linchpins of the regional economy. amendment, and I yield back the bal- We just want to help it stay healthy The Roadless Rule is not a job killer, ance of my time. and fulfill its multi-use mandate of the as some make it out to be, because the Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chairman, Alas- Tongass. Tongass Forest Plan balances protec- ka recently lost in Federal court on By significantly limiting the areas tions of the old-growth forest by allow- this very issue. The Supreme Court re- that are eligible for harvesting, the im- ing public roads, hydropower projects, fused to hear the State’s appeal of a plementation of the Roadless Rule ac- utility connectors, and access to ruling that struck down the Tongass tually makes conservation more dif- inholdings, including mines. So its ap- exemption. This ended the case. ficult since locations with less con- plication in Alaska does not adversely This amendment attempts to run servation value often can’t be selected. affect community access or economic around that ruling and would exempt If any reasonable form of timber in- development projects in the legitimate Alaska from protections that are wide- dustry is to exist in the near future, it public interest. ly supported and intended to protect is imperative we restore Alaska’s ex- An exception for Alaska is a major our pristine public lands. emption from the Roadless Rule as policy change that hasn’t had a hear- With regard to the Roadless Rule, if quickly as possible. It has placed an ing or any other form of consideration the very important and significant undue burden on my State and the peo- in the House. This controversial provi- issues we confront, whether it is immi- ple of my State. sion shouldn’t be stuck in this farm gration, whether it is employment, Mr. Chairman, we worry about immi- bill without any accountability to the whether it is education, the issues of gration. We worry about homelessness. American public. poverty and hunger in this country, I We worry about employment. We worry Mr. Chairman, I urge a ‘‘no’’ vote on would suggest that the cause for not about education. I am saying this this amendment, and I reserve the bal- finding solutions rests in this Chamber, Roadless Rule takes away the oppor- ance of my time. it doesn’t rest with the Roadless Rule. tunity for people to supply for their Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chair- Mr. Chairman, I recommend a ‘‘no’’ family so they can have a sustainable man, I yield such time as he may con- vote, and I yield back the balance of sylviculture industry taking care of sume to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. my time. our forests in southeast Alaska. The CONAWAY), the chairman of the full The Acting CHAIR. The question is Roadless Rule should have never ap- committee. on the amendment offered by the gen- plied to Alaska to begin with. Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, just tleman from Alaska (Mr. YOUNG). Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance simply, I support the gentleman’s The question was taken; and the Act- of my time. amendment. It is common sense. It al- ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chairman, I rise lows Alaskans to do a better job of tak- peared to have it. in opposition to the amendment offered ing care of Alaska, and I trust them to Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chairman, I de- by the gentleman from Alaska. make that happen. mand a recorded vote.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.055 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4170 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to (1) the ‘‘Uniform Appraisal Standards for AMENDMENT NO. 16 OFFERED BY MR. LAMALFA clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- Federal Land Acquisitions’’; and The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order ceedings on the amendment offered by (2) the ‘‘Uniform Standards of Professional to consider amendment No. 16 printed the gentleman from Alaska will be Appraisal Practice’’. in part C of House Report 115–677. (h) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: postponed. Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Chairman, I have (1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ AMENDMENT NO. 15 OFFERED BY MR. PEARCE means the Secretary of Agriculture, acting an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order through the Chief of the Forest Service. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will to consider amendment No. 15 printed (2) MAP.—The term ‘‘map’’ means the map designate the amendment. in part C of House Report 115–677. entitled ‘‘Village of Santa Clara Conveyance The text of the amendment is as fol- Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Chairman, I have Act 2018’’ and dated February 21, 2018. lows: an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to At the end of subtitle E of title VIII, add The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will House Resolution 891, the gentleman the following: designate the amendment. from New Mexico (Mr. PEARCE) and a SEC. 8506. STREAMLINING THE FOREST SERVICE The text of the amendment is as fol- Member opposed each will control 5 PROCESS FOR CONSIDERATION OF lows: COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY LOCA- minutes. TION APPLICATIONS. At the end of subtitle E of title VIII, add The Chair recognizes the gentleman the following: (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: from New Mexico. SEC. lll. CONVEYANCE OF LAND AND IM- (1) COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY.—The term PROVEMENTS TO THE VILLAGE OF Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Chair, I yield my- ‘‘communications facility’’ includes— SANTA CLARA, NEW MEXICO. self such time as I may consume. (A) any infrastructure, including any (a) CONVEYANCE REQUIRED.—Subject to the Mr. Chair, this amendment deals transmitting device, tower, or support struc- provisions of this section, if the Village of with a small community that is kind of ture, and any equipment, switches, wiring, Santa Clara, New Mexico, submits to the circled around by the Gila National cabling, power sources, shelters, or cabinets, Secretary a written request for conveyance, associated with the licensed or permitted un- the Secretary shall convey to the Village of Forest. licensed wireless or wireline transmission of Santa Clara all right, title, and interest of This amendment basically is going to writings, signs, signals, data, images, pic- the United States in and to approximately allow the Forest Service to sell parcels tures, and sounds of all kinds; and 1,520 acres of National Forest System land, of Forest Service land to the village of (B) any antenna or apparatus that— as generally depicted on the map. Santa Clara. It is a small village. (i) is designed for the purpose of emitting (b) MAP.— About 2,000 people live in it. They, like radio frequency; (1) AVAILABILITY OF MAP.—The map shall (ii) is designed to be operated, or is oper- be kept on file and available for public in- many of our mountain communities, like many of our communities in the ating, from a fixed location pursuant to au- spection in the appropriate office of the For- thorization by the Federal Communications est Service. Forest Service, are slowly starving to Commission or is using duly authorized de- (2) CORRECTION OF ERRORS.—The Secretary death. vices that do not require individual licenses; may correct minor errors in the map. The land that the Forest Service and (c) CONSIDERATION.— would sell to them is adjacent to the (iii) is added to a tower, building, or other (1) IN GENERAL.—As consideration for the village. It is not a part of the larger na- structure. conveyance of land under subsection (a), the tional forest. It is just an isolated par- (2) COMMUNICATIONS SITE.—The term ‘‘com- Village of Santa Clara shall pay to the Sec- munications site’’ means an area of covered retary an amount equal to the market value cel. The Forest Service does not want to manage this land. land designated for communications uses. of the land, as determined by the appraisal (3) COMMUNICATIONS USE.—The term ‘‘com- under subsection (g). It is in the state that it is in because munications use’’ means the placement and (2) INSTALLMENTS.—The amount described it was set apart back in 1869 as a part operation of communications facility. in paragraph (1) may be paid in periodic in- of the Fort Bayard Military Reserva- (4) COMMUNICATIONS USE AUTHORIZATION.— stallments to the Secretary. tion. Because the land is reserved as a The term ‘‘communications use authoriza- (3) PARCEL CONVEYANCES.—Upon receipt of military post, it cannot be disposed of tion’’ means an easement, right-of-way, an installment pursuant to paragraph (2), in the normal fashion by the Forest lease, license, or other authorization to lo- the Secretary shall convey to the Village of cate or modify a communications facility on Santa Clara all right, title, and interest of Service. They must be released by law. Back in 1968, there was a bill that re- covered land by the Forest Service for the the United States in and to a parcel of the primary purpose of authorizing the occu- land described subsection (a) that is equal in leased other parcels of Fort Bayard to pancy and use of the covered land for com- value to such installment and identified by be sold and to be distributed to the munications use. the Village of Santa Clara at the time such State. This parcel just was not in- (5) COVERED LAND.—The term ‘‘covered installment is paid. cluded in that for some reason, so the land’’ means National Forest System land. (d) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The convey- (6) FOREST SERVICE.—The term ‘‘Forest ance under subsection (a) shall be— amendment steps around and includes Service’’ means the United States Forest (1) subject to valid existing rights; that now to where the Forest Service Service of the Department of Agriculture. (2) made by quitclaim deed; would be allowed to dispose of the land. (7) ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT.—The term ‘‘orga- (3) subject to the reservation by the Sec- It would have to be appraised. It nizational unit’’ means, within the Forest retary of an access easement over and across would be sold through normal proc- Service— Fort Bayard Road; and esses. It is just that it requires a law to (A) a regional office; (4) subject to any other terms and condi- do it. It cannot go any other way. (B) the headquarters; tions as the Secretary considers appropriate The village is desperately in need of (C) a management unit; or to protect the interests of the United States. (C) a ranger district office. (e) COSTS OF CONVEYANCE.—As a condition expansion room. Like I said, this For- for the conveyance under subsection (a) and est Service land butts up against the (b) REGULATIONS.—Notwithstanding sec- in addition to the consideration paid under village and stops their growth, stops tion 6409 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and subsection (c), the Village of Santa Clara their economic potential, and it is a Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1455) or shall pay for all costs associated with the section 606 of the Repack Airwaves Yielding very key piece of property for the vil- Better Access for Users of Modern Services conveyance, including for— lage, but it is not a key piece of prop- (1) the land survey under subsection (f); Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–141), not later (2) any environmental analysis and re- erty for the Forest Service. than 1 year after the date of enactment of source surveys determined necessary by Fed- Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues this Act, the Secretary shall issue regula- eral law; and to join me in supporting this non- tions— (3) the appraisal under subsection (g). controversial amendment, and I urge (1) to streamline the process for consid- (f) SURVEY.—The actual acreage and legal its adoption. ering applications to locate or modify com- description of the National Forest System Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of munications facilities on covered land; (2) to ensure, to the maximum extent prac- land to be conveyed under subsection (a) my time. shall be determined by a survey satisfactory ticable, that the process is uniform and to the Secretary; notwithstanding section 7 standardized across the organizational units of title 43, United States Code, the Secretary b 1500 of the Forest Service; and (3) to require that the applications de- is authorized to perform and approve any re- The Acting CHAIR. The question is quired cadastral surveys. scribed in paragraph (1) be considered and (g) APPRAISAL.—The Secretary shall com- on the amendment offered by the gen- granted on a competitively neutral, tech- plete an appraisal of the land to be conveyed tleman from New Mexico (Mr. PEARCE). nology neutral, and non-discriminatory under subsection (a) in accordance with— The amendment was agreed to. basis.

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Pro- lowing: other users of the communications site. viders have experienced lost or missing (1) Procedures for the tracking of applica- (3) DEPOSIT OF FEES.—Fees collected by the applications, paperwork left to lan- tions described in subsection (b)(1), includ- Forest Service under subsection (c)(4) shall ing— be deposited in the special account estab- guish for years, varying or undisclosed (A) identifying the number of applica- lished for the Forest Service under para- rules within agencies, redundant his- tions— graph (1). torical or environmental reviews, and (i) received; (4) AVAILABILITY OF FEES.—Amounts depos- inconsistent denials of the process. (ii) approved; and ited in the special account for the Forest In some cases, providers do not even (iii) denied; Service shall be available, to the extent and receive a response from Federal agen- (B) in the case of an application that is de- in such amounts as are provided in advance cies, resulting in stalled build-out and nied, describing the reasons for the denial; in appropriation Acts, to the Secretary to discouragement in rural areas. This is and cover costs incurred by the Forest Service completely unacceptable. (C) describing the amount of time between described in subsection (c)(4), including the the receipt of an application and the My amendment today seeks to following: streamline and expedite the regulatory issuance of a final decision on an applica- (A) Preparing needs assessments or other tion. programmatic analyses necessary to des- framework necessary to utilize Federal (2) Provision for minimum lease terms of ignate communications sites and issue com- lands for broadband infrastructure de- not less than 15 years for leases with respect munications use authorizations. ployments. to the location of communications facilities (B) Developing management plans for com- Specifically, the language would re- on covered land. munications sites. quire the Secretary of Agriculture, (3) A policy under which a communications (C) Training for management of commu- within 1 year of enactment, to issue use authorization renews automatically on nications sites. regulations that would streamline the expiration, unless the communications use (D) Obtaining or improving access to com- authorization is revoked for good cause. siting process for Forest Service land munications sites. and ensure that the process is uniform (4) A structure of fees for— (5) NO ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS AUTHOR- across all of the organizational units of (A) submitting an application described in IZED.—Except as provided in paragraph (4), subsection (b)(1), based on the cost to the no other amounts are authorized to be appro- the Forest Service, while eliminating Forest Service of considering such an appli- priated to carry out this section. overlapping requirements. cation; and (g) SAVINGS PROVISIONS.— Applications would be trackable and (B) issuing communications use authoriza- (1) REAL PROPERTY AUTHORITIES.—Nothing deemed granted if not acted upon with- tions, based on the cost to the Forest Service in this section, or the amendments made by in 270 days, which is 9 months. of any maintenance or other activities re- this section, shall be construed as providing Lastly, any fees collected for allow- quired to be performed by the Forest Service any executive agency with any new leasing ing siting on Forest Service land can as a result of the location or modification of or other real property authorities not exist- the communications facility. be used for processing the applications ing prior to the date of enactment of this and the development, management, (5) Provision that if the Forest Service Act. and improvement of sites for commu- does not grant or deny an application under (2) EFFECT ON OTHER LAWS.—Nothing in subparagraph (A) by the deadline established this section, or the amendments made by nications facilities. in section 6409 of the Middle Class Tax Relief this section, and no actions taken pursuant I ask my colleagues to support this and Job Creation Act as amended by the Re- to this section, or the amendments made by commonsense amendment that simply pack Airwaves Yielding Better Access for this section, shall impact a decision or deter- aims to improve access to rural Users of Modern Services Act of 2018 (47 mination by any executive agency to sell, broadband coverage for rural Ameri- U.S.C. 1455(b)(3)(A)), the Forest Service shall dispose of, declare excess or surplus, lease, cans, who deserve it, across this Na- be deemed to have granted the application. reuse, or redevelop any Federal real property (6) Provision for prioritization or stream- tion. pursuant to title 40, United States Code, the Mr. Chair, I yield 30 seconds to the lining the consideration of applications to Federal Assets Sale and Transfer Act of 2016 gentleman from Arizona (Mr. GOSAR), locate or modify communications facilities (Public Law 114–387), or any other law gov- on covered land in a previously disturbed erning real property activities of the Federal my colleague and good friend. right-of-way. Government. No agreement entered into pur- Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Chairman, I rise in (d) ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS.—In suant to this section, or the amendments support of my good friend and col- issuing regulations under subsection (b), the made by this section, may obligate the Fed- league Congressman LAMALFA’s Secretary shall consider— eral Government to hold, control, or other- amendment. (1) how discrete reviews in considering an wise retain or use real property that may The amendment aims to streamline a application described in subsection (b)(1) can otherwise be deemed as excess, surplus, or be conducted simultaneously, rather than se- bureaucratic process that is hampering that could otherwise be sold, leased or rede- broadband infrastructure development quentially, by any organizational units of veloped. the Forest Service that must approve the lo- in rural America. cation or modification; and The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to As chairman of the Congressional (2) how to eliminate overlapping require- House Resolution 891, the gentleman Western Caucus and Representative for ments among the organizational units of the from California (Mr. LAMALFA) and a Arizona’s Fourth Congressional Dis- Forest Service with respect to the location Member opposed each will control 5 trict, I can tell you that this problem or modification of a communications facility minutes. is all too real in the communities that on covered land administered by those orga- The Chair recognizes the gentleman I represent. nizational units. from California. (e) COMMUNICATION OF STREAMLINED PROC- Many families and businesses in the ESS TO ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS.—The Sec- Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Chairman, the West still lack basic broadband. Ac- retary shall, with respect to the regulations largest broadband deployment gap ex- cording to a November 2017 Brookings issued under subsection (b)— ists in rural communities, where more Institution study, more than 50 percent (1) communicate the regulations to the or- than 12 million Americans lack cov- of my district live in neighborhoods ganizational units of the Forest Service; and erage. without an available broadband con- (2) ensure that the organizational units of Wireless communications companies nection. Many of you all will find this the Forest Service follow the regulations. require access to land or infrastructure (f) DEPOSIT AND AVAILABILITY OF FEES.— hard to believe, but a huge chunk of (1) SPECIAL ACCOUNT.—The Secretary of the to site the antennas necessary to pro- my district has no social media plat- Treasury shall establish a special account in vide service. Often, to reach more rural form whatsoever. the Treasury for the Forest Service for the areas throughout our country, they re- Closing the broadband availability deposit of fees collected by the Forest Serv- quire access to Federal land to ensure gap should be a priority for all Mem- ice under subsection (c)(4) for communica- more complete coverage, including for bers of Congress. Doing so will create tions use authorizations on covered land providing emergency services. This jobs, improve education, and grow our granted, issued, or executed by the Forest need is expected to increase as pro- economy. Service. viders deploy facilities to support 5G I applaud Representative LAMALFA (2) REQUIREMENTS FOR FEES COLLECTED.— Fees collected by the Forest Service under wireless services, which will require for his leadership and tireless efforts to subsection (c)(4) shall be— more antennas spaced closer together. close the broadband availability gap, (A) based on the costs described in sub- Unfortunately, the process for secur- and I urge adoption of this excellent section (c)(4); and ing access to Federal land and property amendment.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY7.018 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4172 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Chair, I thank (6) the Federal response time for each fire (B) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘2019’’ and my colleague from Arizona. I appre- on greater than 25,000 acres. inserting ‘‘2023’’. ciate the support and his excellent The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to words toward that. House Resolution 891, the gentleman House Resolution 891, the gentleman In closing, Mr. Chairman, again, the from Arkansas (Mr. WESTERMAN) and a from New Mexico (Mr. PEARCE) and a concerns about this might be on envi- Member opposed each will control 5 Member opposed each will control 5 ronmental issues. This amendment minutes. minutes. does not allow anyone to circumvent The Chair recognizes the gentleman The Chair recognizes the gentleman environmental protections already in from Arkansas. from New Mexico. place. It simply requires an agency to Mr. WESTERMAN. Mr. Chairman, I Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Chairman, I yield fix the current regulatory maze, filled yield myself such time as I may con- myself such time as I may consume. with excessive red tape, to deploy sume. This amendment would reauthorize broadband infrastructure. That is it. My amendment is simple. It calls for the Collaborative Forest Landscape To be clear, if you wanted to deploy the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau Restoration Program, CFLRP, for an- broadband networks across the country of Land Management to report back on other 5-year period. This program was that support 5G, we should really be the progress they are making to ad- initiated in 2009, and, basically, it aims doing something about it now. dress the problem of catastrophic to restore vital sections of our national Americans rely on broadband for wildfires, a problem that has continued forestlands. their jobs, telemedicine, distance to get worse year after year under the There are two projects in New Mex- learning, emergency services, and current program. ico, the Zuni Mountains and the South- many more good reasons. Again, with Our current forest management proc- west Jemez, with over 420,000 acres almost half of rural Americans not ess took decades of mismanagement, total, that would be covered under this inaction, and neglect to create. We having access to good broadband inter- collaborative project. have essentially slowly and methodi- net today, they will continue to lag be- The Zuni Mountains project supports cally loved our trees to death on much hind and suffer if we do not address one of the last mills in New Mexico. We of our Federal lands. It will take dec- these regulatory barriers. used to have 123 mills that processed Mr. Chairman, 270 days, 9 months, ades to reverse the effects this mis- timber. Now we are down to just one or really, that should be a long enough management has had on our forests, two. That destruction in the capacity gestation period to process applica- during which time we will likely see and the infrastructure for our national more major, devastating wildfires. tions by these Federal agencies. forest has been devastating to our abil- This amendment simply requires our Mr. Chair, I ask for the ‘‘aye’’ vote, ity to really accomplish projects of se- Federal agencies addressing this issue and I appreciate support on both sides lective thinning and balanced manage- to report back on how they are doing, of the aisle. ment of our forests. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of not only so Congress can provide over- The extension of the program is my time. sight on their progress but so the going to provide enough certainty so The Acting CHAIR. The question is American people can know how their that this last mill operator can make on the amendment offered by the gen- Federal Government is doing so that investments that will reduce the cost we can measure, monitor, and demand tleman from California (Mr. LAMALFA). of conducting forest management ac- The amendment was agreed to. accountability. tivities in western New Mexico. Mr. Chairman, I think I speak for AMENDMENT NO. 17 OFFERED BY MR. If we lose the mill, if it does, in fact, WESTERMAN this entire Chamber when I say that close—which should not be an option— The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order our goal is to reduce the effects of it is going to increase the cost of the to consider amendment No. 17 printed wildfires and be transparent for the projects due to transportation costs. in part C of House Report 115–677. American people each step of the way. So it makes sense for the government, Mr. WESTERMAN. Mr. Chair, I have My amendment promotes transparency it makes sense for the U.S. Forest an amendment at the desk. and accountability as we work towards Service, the taxpayer, and the local The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will this goal. economy to keep this mill open and to Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to designate the amendment. find others that would reopen with support this amendment, and I yield The text of the amendment is as fol- these collaborative projects that come lows: back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is under this program. At the end of subtitle E of title VIII, insert This program is a good starting on the amendment offered by the gen- the following: point, and, when paired with other re- tleman from Arkansas (Mr. SEC. 85ll. REPORT ON WILDFIRE, INSECT IN- forms that open up more acreage for WESTERMAN). FESTATION, AND DISEASE PREVEN- treatment, it is going to increase the TION ON FEDERAL LAND. The amendment was agreed to. profitability of restoration projects. Not later than 180 days after the date of AMENDMENT NO. 18 OFFERED BY MR. PEARCE the enactment of this Act and every year The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order That will, in turn, save taxpayers thereafter, the Secretary of Agriculture and to consider amendment No. 18 printed money. the Secretary of Interior shall submit to the Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to in part C of House Report 115–677. Committee on Agriculture of the House of join me in supporting this non- Representatives, the Committee on Natural Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. controversial amendment, and I yield Resources of the House of Representatives, back the balance of my time. the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The question is and Forestry of the Senate, and the Com- on the amendment offered by the gen- mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of The text of the amendment is as fol- the Senate a jointly written report on— lows: tleman from New Mexico (Mr. PEARCE). (1) the number of acres of Federal land At the end of subtitle E of title VIII, add The amendment was agreed to. treated by the Secretary of Agriculture or the following new section: AMENDMENT NO. 19 OFFERED BY MR. TIPTON the Secretary of the Interior for wildfire, in- SEC. 8506. COLLABORATIVE FOREST LANDSCAPE The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order sect infestation, or disease prevention; RESTORATION PROGRAM. to consider amendment No. 19 printed (2) the number of acres of Federal land cat- Section 4003 of the Omnibus Public Land in part C of House Report 115–677. egorized as a high or extreme fire risk; Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303) is Mr. TIPTON. Mr. Chair, I have an (3) the total timber production from Fed- amended— amendment at the desk. eral land; (1) in subsection (d)(1)(B), by inserting ‘‘, The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will (4) the number of acres and average fire in- except the Secretary may waive, on a case- tensity of wildfires affecting Federal land by-case basis, the 10-year period requirement designate the amendment. treated for wildfire, insect infestation, or under paragraph (1)(B) of such subsection’’ The text of the amendment is as fol- disease prevention; after ‘‘subsection (b)’’; and lows: (5) the number of acres and average fire in- (2) in subsection (f)— Page 538, after line 23, add the following tensity of wildfires affecting Federal land (A) in paragraph (4)(B), by striking ‘‘pro- new section: not treated for wildfire, insect infestation, or posal’’ and all that follows through ‘‘in ex- SEC. 8506. WEST FORK FIRE STATION. disease prevention; and cess’’ and inserting ‘‘proposal in excess’’; and (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.061 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4173 (1) COUNTY.—The term ‘‘County’’ means The amendment was agreed to. The Chair recognizes the gentleman Dolores County, Colorado. AMENDMENT NO. 20 OFFERED BY MR. from Texas. (2) WEST FORK FIRE STATION CONVEYANCE THORNBERRY Mr. THORNBERRY. Mr. Chairman, PARCEL.—The term ‘‘West Fork Fire Station first, I would like to commend the Conveyance Parcel’’ means the parcel of ap- The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order proximately 3.61 acres of National Forest to consider amendment No. 20 printed chairman of the Agriculture Com- System land in the County, as depicted on in part C of House Report 115–677. mittee, Mr. CONAWAY, for his work not the map entitled ‘‘Map for West Fork Fire Mr. THORNBERRY. I have an amend- only in formulating this bill but in pro- Station Conveyance Parcel’’ and dated No- ment at the desk. moting and protecting the interests of vember 21, 2017. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will rural America. I think it is a great (b) CONVEYANCE OF WEST FORK FIRE STA- designate the amendment. tribute to him dealing with a number TION CONVEYANCE PARCEL, DOLORES COUNTY, The text of the amendment is as fol- of complex issues, and I appreciate COLORADO.— lows: very much a job well done. (1) IN GENERAL.—On receipt of a request from the County and subject to such terms Page 601, after line 26, add the following Mr. Chairman, when we go to the and conditions as are mutually satisfactory new section: grocery store, we make decisions about to the Secretary and the County, including SEC. 11105. REGIONAL CATTLE AND CARCASS what type of beef and what grade of such additional terms as the Secretary de- GRADING CORRELATION AND TRAIN- beef we are going to purchase. The termines to be necessary, the Secretary shall ING CENTERS. challenge is that the grades are dif- (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall es- convey to the County without consideration ferent from place to place because all right, title, and interest of the United tablish not more than three regional centers, to be known as ‘‘Cattle and Carcass Grading there is not a uniform grading system States in and to the West Fork Fire Station across the country. Conveyance Parcel. Correlation and Training Centers’’ (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Centers’’), to pro- (2) COSTS.—Any costs relating to the con- My amendment requires USDA to set veyance under paragraph (1), including proc- vide education and training for cattle and up three training centers to train grad- essing and transaction costs, shall be paid by carcass beef graders of the Agricultural Mar- ers so that there can be more standard- the County. keting Service, cattle producers, and other ization. If you are going to buy a prime professionals involved in the reporting, de- (3) USE OF LAND.—The land conveyed to the or a choice steak in one place, it should livery, and grading of feeder cattle, live cat- County under paragraph (1) shall be used by be roughly the same as a prime or the County only for a fire station, related in- tle, and carcasses— (1) to limit the subjectivity in the applica- choice steak in another place. frastructure, and roads to facilitate access to This will benefit consumers. It will and through the West Fork Fire Station tion of beef grading standards; Conveyance Parcel. (2) to provide producers with greater con- benefit the beef industry, and I hope fidence in the price of the producers’ cattle; (4) REVERSION.—If any portion of the land our colleagues will support it. conveyed under paragraph (1) is used in a and Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of manner that is inconsistent with the use de- (3) to provide investors with both long and my time. scribed in paragraph (3), the land shall, at short positions more assurance in the cattle The Acting CHAIR. The question is delivery system. the discretion of the Secretary, revert to the on the amendment offered by the gen- United States. (b) LOCATION.—The Centers shall be located near cattle feeding and slaughter popu- tleman from Texas (Mr. THORNBERRY). The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to lations and areas shall be strategically iden- The amendment was agreed to. House Resolution 891, the gentleman tified in order to capture regional variances Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I from Colorado (Mr. TIPTON) and a Mem- in cattle production. move that the committee do now rise. ber opposed each will control 5 min- (c) ADMINISTRATION.—Each Center shall be The motion was agreed to. utes. organized and administered by offices of the Accordingly, the Committee rose; Department of Agriculture in operation on The Chair recognizes the gentleman and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. TIP- from Colorado. the date on which the respective Center is established, or in coordination with other TON) having assumed the chair, Mr. Mr. TIPTON. Mr. Chairman, West appropriate Federal agencies or academic in- WEBER of Texas, Acting Chair of the Fork is in a remote part of Dolores stitutions. Committee of the Whole House on the County, Colorado, surrounded by the (d) TRAINING PROGRAM.—The Centers shall state of the Union, reported that that San Juan National Forest. Emergency offer intensive instructional programs in- Committee, having had under consider- and fire response is a challenge in this volving classroom and field training work for ation the bill (H.R. 2) to provide for the part of the county because the closest individuals described in subsection (a). reform and continuation of agricul- (e) COORDINATION OF RESOURCES.—Each fire station is currently 26 miles away. tural and other programs of the De- The amendment I have offered would Center, in carrying out the functions of the Center, shall make use of information gen- partment of Agriculture through fiscal authorize the Forest Service to convey erated by the Department of Agriculture, the year 2023, and for other purposes, had approximately 3.6 acres of National State agricultural extension and research come to no resolution thereon. Forest System land to Dolores County stations, relevant designated contract mar- f for the strict purpose of building and kets, and the practical experience of area operating a fire station in the West cattle producers, especially cattle producers AGRICULTURE AND NUTRITION Fork area. cooperating in on-farm demonstrations, cor- ACT OF 2018 In addition to creating emergency relations, and research projects. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. TIP- (f) PROHIBITION ON CONSTRUCTION.—Funds and fire response challenges, the lack TON). Pursuant to House Resolution 900 made available to carry out this section of a dedicated fire station has created shall not be used for the construction of a and rule XVIII, the Chair declares the insurance challenges for homeowners new building or facility or the acquisition, House in the Committee of the Whole in West Fork. In an area surrounded by expansion, remodeling, or alteration of an House on the state of the Union for the the national forestland, it is critical to existing building or facility (including site further consideration of the bill, H.R. have fire insurance for your home and grading and improvement, and architect 2. other structures on your property. fees). Notwithstanding the preceding sen- Will the gentleman from Texas (Mr. With no fire station in reasonable prox- tence, the Secretary may use funds made WEBER) kindly resume the chair. imity to the area, it is nearly impos- available to carry out this section to provide a Center with payment for the cost of the b 1515 sible for homeowners to obtain fire in- rental of a space determined to be necessary IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE surance in West Fork. by the Center for conducting training under The text of this amendment is iden- this section and may accept donations (in- Accordingly, the House resolved tical to the West Fork Fire Station cluding in-kind contributions) to cover such itself into the Committee of the Whole Act, which passed the House by a voice cost. House on the state of the Union for the vote last month. I encourage my col- (g) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall further consideration of the bill (H.R. leagues to once again support this take effect on October 1, 2018. 2) to provide for the reform and con- measure as an amendment to H.R. 2. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to tinuation of agricultural and other pro- I yield back the balance of my time. House Resolution 891, the gentleman grams of the Department of Agri- The Acting CHAIR. The question is from Texas (Mr. THORNBERRY) and a culture through fiscal year 2023, and on the amendment offered by the gen- Member opposed each will control 5 for other purposes, with Mr. WEBER of tleman from Colorado (Mr. TIPTON). minutes. Texas (Acting Chair) in the chair.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY7.019 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4174 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 The Clerk read the title of the bill. SEC. 1303. ADMINISTRATION OF TARIFF-RATE long time, 85 years, that is not cor- The Acting CHAIR. When the Com- QUOTAS. rected, is decidedly bad policy, and is mittee of the Whole rose earlier today, Part VII of subtitle B of title III of the Ag- ricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. long overdue to be corrected, and our amendment No. 20 printed in part C of 1359aa et seq.) is amended to read as follows: amendment does that. House Report 115–677 offered by the This amendment is not new. In fact, ‘‘PART VII—SUGAR gentleman from Texas (Mr. THORN- this body has debated it in every farm ‘‘SEC. 359. ADMINISTRATION OF TARIFF-RATE BERRY) had been disposed of. QUOTAS. bill for over a generation. The issue of Pursuant to House Resolution 900, no ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Notwithstanding which I speak is the issue with sugar further amendment to the amendment any other provision of law, at the beginning and the need for reform of the way we in the nature of a substitute referred to of fiscal year 2019 and each fiscal year there- treat sugar, which is different from all in House Resolution 891 shall be in after through the end of the effective period, other commodity programs. order except those printed in House Re- the Secretary shall establish the tariff-rate It is the only program that provides port 115–679. quotas for raw cane sugar and refined sugar both loan supports and supply manage- Each such further amendment shall to provide adequate supplies of sugar at rea- ment. Supply management is the ugly sonable prices, but at no less than the min- be considered only in the order printed imum level necessary to comply with obliga- cousin of direct payments. It rewards in the report, may be offered only by a tions under international trade agreements inactivity. Member designated in the report, shall that have been approved by Congress. Americans are outraged when they be considered as read, shall be debat- ‘‘(b) ADJUSTMENT AUTHORITY.—The Sec- hear tales of direct payments to farm- able for the time specified in the report retary shall adjust tariff-rate quotas estab- ers for not producing something. That equally divided and controlled by the lished under subsection (a) in such a manner same injustice—reward for inactivity, proponent and an opponent, shall not as to ensure, to the maximum extent prac- protection from competition—is what be subject to amendment, and shall not ticable, that stocks of raw cane and refined we find in the sugar program. beet sugar are adequate throughout the crop be subject to a demand for division of year to meet the needs of the marketplace, Let’s be crystal-clear about what the the question. including the efficient utilization of cane re- sugar program does. It puts the govern- AMENDMENT NO. 1 OFFERED BY MS. FOXX fining capacity. ment in charge of deciding how much The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order ‘‘(c) TRANSFER OF QUOTA SHARES.— sugar will be produced in this country, to consider amendment No. 1 printed in ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall pro- which inflates the cost, and it guaran- House Report 115–679. mulgate regulations that— tees the processing industry a base Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chairman, I have an ‘‘(A) promote full use of the tariff-rate profit by giving them subsidized loans. quotas for raw cane sugar and refined sugar We stopped these practices years ago amendment at the desk. and ensure adequate supplies for cane refin- The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will ers in the United States; for other commodities, and only sugar designate the amendment. ‘‘(B) provide that any country that has is left with this sweet deal. The text of the amendment is as fol- been allocated a share of the quotas may When the government gets into pick- lows: temporarily transfer all or part of the share ing winners and losers, American jobs Strike section 1301 and insert the following to any other country that has also been allo- are at risk. The International Trade new sections: cated a share of the quotas. Commission has stated that for every RANSFERS VOLUNTARY SEC. 1301. SUGAR PROGRAM. ‘‘(2) T .—Any transfer job the sugar program protects we lose under this subsection shall be valid only pur- (a) LOAN RATES.—Section 156 of the Fed- three manufacturing jobs. Congress suant to a voluntary agreement between the eral Agriculture Improvement and Reform transferor and the transferee, consistent should not be in the business of defend- Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7272) is amended by with procedures established by the Sec- ing a program that is a bona fide job striking subsections (a) and (b) and inserting retary. killer. the following new subsections: ‘‘(3) LIMITATIONS ON TRANSFERS WITH RE- This amendment has a broad coali- ‘‘(a) SUGARCANE.—The Secretary shall make loans available to processors of domes- SPECT TO FISCAL YEAR.— tion of support. Free market groups, tically grown sugarcane at a rate equal to— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Any transfer under this economists, environmentalists, con- ‘‘(1) 18.75 cents per pound for raw cane subsection shall be valid only for the dura- sumer groups, and manufacturers all sugar for the 2018 crop year; and tion of the fiscal year during which the support this amendment. ‘‘(2) 18.00 cents per pound for raw cane transfer is made. Let me tell you about the other coa- ‘‘(B) FOLLOWING FISCAL YEAR.—No transfer sugar for the 2019 through 2023 crop years. lition. It is not very large. It is made ‘‘(b) SUGAR BEETS.—The Secretary shall under this subsection shall affect the share of the quota allocated to the transferor or up of 13 vertically integrated sugar make loans available to processors of domes- processors. That is it. Our government tically grown sugar beets at a rate equal to transferee for the following fiscal year. 128.5 percent of the loan rate per pound of ‘‘(d) EFFECTIVE PERIOD.—This section shall is transferring wealth to these proc- raw cane sugar for the applicable crop year be effective for fiscal years only through the essors. It shifts cost onto our Nation’s under subsection (a) for each of the 2018 2023 crop year for sugar.’’. manufacturers and consumers by al- through 2023 crop years.’’. Strike section 6410. most $4 billion annually. (b) AVOIDING FORFEITURES WHILE ENSURING The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to We are going to hear that the amend- ADEQUATE SUPPLIES AT REASONABLE House Resolution 900, the gentlewoman ment subjects farmers to some new ex- PRICES.—Section 156(f) of the Federal Agri- from North Carolina (Ms. FOXX) and a posure to foreign imports. What they culture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 Member opposed each will control 10 will fail to tell you is that, between our (7 U.S.C. 7272(f)) is amended— (1) in the subsection heading, by inserting minutes. government’s suspension agreements, ‘‘WHILE ENSURING ADEQUATE SUPPLIES AT The Chair recognizes the gentle- import quotas, and tariffs, our govern- REASONABLE PRICES’’ after ‘‘FORFEITURES’’; woman from North Carolina. ment already regulates every single and Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chairman, I commend ounce of foreign sugar coming into our (2) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘ensure my colleague MIKE CONAWAY and the market. Will our amendment weaken adequate supplies of sugar at reasonable other members of the Agriculture Com- the ability of the USDA to regulate prices and’’ after ‘‘shall’’. mittee for their work on the farm bill. these imports? Not in the slightest. We (c) EFFECTIVE PERIOD.—Section 156(i) of I have every intention of voting for the simply give USDA more flexibility. the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7272(i)) is amend- bill and have stated that on many oc- We are going to hear arguments ed by striking ‘‘2018’’ and inserting ‘‘2023’’. casions. about candy bars, candy companies, SEC. 1302. FEEDSTOCK FLEXIBILITY PROGRAM Having been working on a reauthor- and lots of other distractions. But it is FOR BIOENERGY PRODUCERS TER- ization of a major bill recently, I can all brought up to shift your attention MINATION. certainly sympathize with the effort away from the very program we are Section 9010 of the Farm Security and here and say that, overall, this bill is here to debate, the sugar program. Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8110) an improvement on past farm bills be- In reality, the sugar program hates is amended by adding at the end the fol- cause it responds to the desperate need sunshine. It hates getting the spot- lowing new subsection: ‘‘(c) TERMINATION.—The Secretary may not of work requirements for able-bodied light. But I am glad we are debating it carry out the feedstock flexibility program people. here today. under subsection (b) for the 2019 or subse- However, there is another piece of Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance quent crops of eligible commodities.’’. this bill that has been around for a of my time.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.071 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4175 Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I markets because those governments, United States. And they are working claim the time in opposition. unlike ours, have a direct payment to these plants with child labor, slave The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman their farmers and producers to keep labor, in these other places. from Texas is recognized for 10 min- them in business. Is that what you want to do? Give utes. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance away our jobs to places where there are Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I rise of my time. no environmental regulations? in extreme opposition to Ms. FOXX’s Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 You go down to Brazil. They are amendment. minute to the gentleman from Wis- making sugar out of sugarcane. They She singles out sugar, cuts its pro- consin (Mr. KIND). are burning it with gas. It goes right gram back to where it was 33 years Mr. KIND. Mr. Chairman, I thank the into the atmosphere. There is no EPA. ago, and denigrates the hardworking gentlewoman for yielding. There are no regulations whatsoever. men and women who are farmers. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the They are putting this vinasse, which is Those processors she mentioned are co- amendment. I thank her for her leader- like oil, right into the river. op-owned; they are owned by those ship on this issue. And we are going to get rid of an in- hardworking farmers. There is no inac- This amendment is long overdue. The dustry in the United States that is tivity with respect to the sugar indus- sugar program that currently exists doing a good job? It is the lowest cost try. She couldn’t be more wrong or has distorted the marketplace for too producer in the world, and we are going more disrespectful of them. long. According to one estimate, it has to give it up because other people are Her amendment would not save the driven up consumer prices by over $4 cheating? taxpayer one dime. Fifteen out of the billion a year. And it is making it more Now, people say that this thing costs last 16 years, the sugar program has difficult for us to negotiate greater money. It only cost money 1 year, and worked. The reason we have not market access in trade negotiations the reason is because the Mexicans changed it over all those years is be- overseas. dumped in our market and our govern- cause it does work. If we were to move Mr. Chairman, I am also disappointed ment didn’t do anything about it. it under title I to treat it exactly the that many of my fiscally responsible When we finally got the suspension way the other commodities are treated, reform amendments were rejected late agreement in place, then we were able it would cost billions of taxpayer dol- last night in the Rules Committee, to get this thing stabilized. lars. We don’t want that, and the sugar such as: So this is an amendment that is not industry is not asking for that. Why do multimillionaires and bil- needed. This is a program that works. This amendment will not save the lionaires still qualify for agriculture The reason we have this program is to consumer one penny. These large sugar subsidies under the current bill? protect ourselves from all these other users, of whom I am a great customer, Why do those earning over $500,000 in countries that are subsidizing their in- buy by the carload. When the price of adjusted gross income get subsidies dustries more than we are in the sugar dropped to half of what it should under this bill? United States. have been in 2013 as a result of Mexico Why are multiple people on the same We are the lowest cost producer in cheating on the trade deal, they did farm receiving the same subsidies my district. We are the lowest cost pro- not share that profit with anybody. under this bill, from husbands to wives, ducer of anyplace in the world. We can Quite frankly, just to put it suc- to sons, to daughters, the nephews, the compete, but we can’t compete against cinctly, if sugar was such a driving nieces, the cousins? governments that are dumping money cost in the cost of all production and Why can’t we at least track where in and not following environmental the cost to all the jobs that the gentle- the crop insurance premium subsidies regulations and not following child woman mentioned, my diet soda would are going, which is currently prohib- labor laws. We can’t compete against cost dramatically less than a sugar ited under this bill? that. soda. They don’t. They cost exactly the This legislation should be working So please vote down this amendment. same. They still give this product away for family farmers, not powerful spe- It is something that is not necessary in restaurants. cial interests here in Washington. I and is not needed. So, as we go about this issue, this is fear it is a missed opportunity. Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chairman, not my about protecting American jobs and This amendment at least introduces words, but the International Trade American hardworking farmers from some modicum of reform, which is long Commission says that for every job unfair, undue competition from around overdue, in a program that has dis- sugar protects, we lose three manufac- the world. torted the marketplace for too long. turing jobs. We don’t let other products come Mr. Chairman, I encourage my col- Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the into this country at below the cost of leagues to accept this amendment gentleman from Texas (Mr. HEN- production. We do it when we fight today. SARLING). steel. We had a recent fight against Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I Mr. HENSARLING. I thank the gen- Turkey over the imports of steel be- yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from tleman for yielding, Mr. Chairman. cause it was below the cost of produc- Minnesota (Mr. PETERSON), who is the I come here to the House floor as the tion. We would protect all other prod- ranking member of the powerful Agri- son, grandson, and great-grandson of ucts that way. We just simply leave culture Committee. farmers. I grew up working on a farm this one in place because it works year- Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Chairman, I in rural Texas, and I strongly oppose in and year-out, except for the 1 year wish my friends on the Ways and Federal subsidies to agriculture in gen- Mexico cheated. They admitted they Means Committee would actually do eral and the sugar program in par- cheated on the program, and that is something about the illegal subsidiza- ticular. when it cost the American taxpayers tion that is going on in the sugar in- Under the Federal sugar program, money. dustry in the world instead of coming which dates back to the New Deal, do- So it doesn’t cost, it doesn’t save tax- here and complaining about a program mestic sugar prices are propped up via payer money, and it doesn’t save con- that actually works. a Byzantine system of marketing, al- sumers money. It is simply a windfall I have the biggest sugar district in lotments, import quotas, price sup- of some amount to the sugar buyers the country. The people who grow ports, and a loan guarantee program so and users. sugar in my district are small farmers. bad it would make a Soviet commissar I don’t have a grudge against them at They use their own money to build the blush. all. Like I said, I eat and drink their plant. It is probably 25 percent of the This may be a sweet deal for sugar products. I am trying to defend Amer- economy in the north part of my dis- producers, but it is not a sweet deal for ican farmers from products being pro- trict. the auto mechanic in Mesquite, Texas; duced overseas by slave labor in some All this amendment would do is give the store clerk in Mineola, Texas; or instances, child labor in other in- these jobs and this market away to the teacher in Garland, Texas, that I stances, standards under which we other countries that are subsidizing represent in the Fifth District. Where don’t produce. It is dumped into these their people more than we are in the is their government subsidy program?

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.072 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4176 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 This is antijob. It is a food tax. It is I hope my colleagues will join me in man of the committee and the Demo- income redistribution at its worst. And voting for this amendment to help put cratic ranking member of this com- it is not commensurate with any free an end to the hidden costs of the sugar mittee both oppose this amendment, market principle I know. program. for good reason. Mr. Chairman, I urge all Members to Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chair, may I in- It is a simple question: Do we want support the amendment. quire how much time is left on both to support local growers like the 900 Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I sides. families that I represent who, collec- point out that over half of all U.S. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman tively, through a co-op, own their proc- sugar processing operations in the from Texas has 41⁄2 minutes remaining. essing facility? United States since 1980 have closed. The gentlewoman from North Carolina This notion of mega producers is Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the has 31⁄2 minutes remaining. really a story of 900 families that col- gentleman from Florida (Mr. YOHO). Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I lectively bound together in a co-op to Mr. YOHO. Mr. Chairman, this is a would point out that that hidden tax own the production facility to deal farm policy. The farm policy is there to that my colleagues are talking about with the sugar that they, themselves, produce a policy so that the American will not be shared with the consumers. grow. farmers can go out and raise crops for It has never been shared with the price This is a question of local growers or the United States of America to con- of sugar. It goes down. It will simply foreign-subsidized sugar using child tinue to produce the highest quality, shift those profits into multinational labor. That is the simple question be- the most abundant, and the cheapest corporations that we are defending by fore us. food produced in the world of any in- supporting this amendment. Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 dustrialized nation. That is why we Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to seconds to the gentlewoman from Cali- have a farm policy. the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. fornia (Ms. SPEIER). This amendment of Ms. FOXX goes MITCHELL). Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Chairman, I rise in after the American farmers for the bet- Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. Chairman, as support of this amendment, which will terment of multinational soda compa- you may guess, I am a big fan of a good create some fairness for more than nies and candy companies, and the candy bar. 600,000 workers across our country who In 1983, a candy bar cost 35 cents and price of sugar won’t go down. In my are in small businesses and manufac- had a cost of about 2 cents worth of hometown, a 4-pound bag of sugar costs turing facilities that use sugar as an sugar. Thirty-five years later, I am $2.64. ingredient in the products they make. still a fan of candy bars. In 2018, that I would ask every Member of Con- Over 91,000 of those jobs and 2,300 of same candy bar costs $1.49—they are a gress: How many constituents in your those businesses are in my home State little slimmer—and the cost of sugar is district have come up to you and plead- of California. still 2 cents. This amendment would make the ed for you to do something about the United States retail sugar costs are sugar program fairer for taxpayers, cost of sugar? the lowest in the world: 59 cents a manufacturers, and American con- b 1530 pound compared to 71 cents on the open sumers. By removing the many unnec- market. The sugar program cost the This is about the American farmer, essary government interventions that taxpayers zero in the last 16 years. not about candy companies and soda have kept sugar prices excessively Rather than message about alleged companies. It is misdirected. I oppose high, manufacturers will create jobs conservative amendments, let’s focus it and strongly advise everybody to and American consumers will no longer on addressing meaningful changes. Mr. vote against it. be on the hook for $4 billion per year in Chairman, I oppose the amendment. Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I hidden sugar costs. would also point out the additional Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Oregon Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, the closed plants and jobs lost in the sugar U.S. is the third largest importer of LUMENAUER). growing industry. (Mr. B Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Chairman, sugar in the world, and virtually all of U.S.- and foreign-sweetened product the fact is that there are lots of compa- that comes in duty free. manufacturers have announced 100 nies that use sugar and are behemoths. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to plant openings, acquisitions, or expan- I represent a number of them in Port- the gentleman from North Dakota (Mr. sions within the United States over land, Oregon, that are confectioners, CRAMER). that same timeframe. candy makers, and bakers who are con- Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, not Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of cerned about this. long ago, President Trump successfully my time. In terms of the benefit, think about negotiated an agreement with Mexico Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 the 13 mega processors that the sugar to stop them from dumping illegally minute to the gentleman from Virginia program forces manufacturers to pay subsidized sugar onto the U.S. market. (Mr. GOODLATTE). far more than they need. This is a $3 This amendment would undo the Presi- Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Chairman, I billion burden on the taxpayer. dent’s good work by reopening the rise today to support fair sugar policy. We have an opportunity here to deal floodgates to other foreign countries to The sugar program represents a hid- with one other area. If we start getting send us their subsidized sugar at below den tax on American businesses and the pricing right, there is another hid- their costs of production, further de- consumers and is responsible for the den tax in terms of the sugar system pressing the prices that my farmers re- loss of U.S. food manufacturing jobs. that we have, and that has been on the ceive. Each month, families go to the gro- Florida Everglades. Vote ‘‘no’’ on this amendment. cery store, and unbeknownst to them, We have a $7.5 billion down payment Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the sugar in many of the products they because of the damage that has been the balance of my time. buy is subject to a cost that is gen- inflicted on the Everglades by the mas- Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I erally 30 to 40 percent higher than the sive cane sugar operation that has in- yield 25 seconds to the gentleman from world cost. Very few, if any, will ever creased dramatically in the last 50 Louisiana (Mr. GRAVES). know that a hidden sugar tax has been years, a cost that taxpayers will be Mr. GRAVES of Louisiana. Mr. imposed upon them by the sugar pro- footing and environmental costs to go Chairman, when other militaries chal- gram. This hidden tax totals at least with the burden on sugar-using indus- lenge the United States’ military $2.4 billion a year for American con- tries. might, we invest more dollars, just like sumers. I strongly urge approval of the we did a few months ago in our mili- There are more than 600,000 sugar- amendment. tary. using industry jobs in our Nation, in- Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I When the Panama Canal was widened cluding thousands in Virginia’s Sixth yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from and deepened, we invested more dollars District. I want to stand up and be Michigan (Mr. KILDEE). in our ports so we would remain com- counted as an advocate for keeping Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Chairman, I want petitive. When other countries have those jobs in the United States. to point out that the Republican chair- lowered tax rates, we lower ours to

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Our existing The savings that are touted by the American farmers. sugar policy levels the playing field for folks who are in favor of this amend- This amendment is a flawed amend- American producers in the ever vola- ment will not be shared with con- ment. It is going to undermine our ag- tile world of the sugar market. It sumers. They will be kept by these riculture industry across the United works. Sugar growers in my district multinational corporations and, yes, States. I urge opposition. can attest to that. Better yet, it has the small sugar users across this coun- Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 come at no cost to taxpayers for 14 of try. So prices will not go down. seconds to the gentleman from South the last 15 years. There are no tax dollars involved, de- Carolina (Mr. SANFORD). I ask everyone to vote ‘‘no’’ on this spite the rhetoric to the contrary, ex- Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, this amendment. cept for 1 year out of 16, because this amendment is not only about being PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY program worked. This program was not against a Soviet-style regime and the Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chairman, I have a changed in 2014 because it works. It quotas and a variety of other things parliamentary inquiry. doesn’t cost the taxpayers money, that come with it, but this amendment The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman sugar prices are not distorted, and the is, hopefully, about common sense. from North Carolina will state her par- manufacturers will not be able to sup- The one thing we don’t want to sub- liamentary inquiry. port the one instance where they have sidize are the things that cause us Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chairman, do I have lowered the cost of their product when problems. We are now spending more the right to close or does the gen- sugar prices did in fact drop as a result than a quarter of a trillion dollars in tleman from Texas have the right to of the unfair, unlevel playing field, healthcare costs as type 2 diabetes has close? unlevel competition around this world. ballooned. To give you the exact num- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman If we could talk the rest of the world ber, $327 billion a year is spent on type from Texas has the right to close. into going to a free market, to a level 2 diabetes. Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chairman, I reserve playing field, then I would agree com- So the idea of saying let’s subsidize the balance of my time. pletely with my colleagues who sup- our sugar so that we can then spend Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I port this amendment. more on healthcare is something that yield 30 seconds to the gentlewoman needs to be looked at. b 1545 from Minnesota (Ms. MCCOLLUM). Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I Ms. MCCOLLUM. Mr. Chairman, I We are not there. We are not even yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from rise in opposition to the Foxx amend- headed there. We need to defeat this Nebraska (Mr. SMITH). ment. amendment, protect those hardworking Mr. SMITH of Nebraska. Mr. Chair- In my home State of Minnesota, farmers out there across this country. man, I rise in opposition to this amend- sugar beet is number one. That means Say ‘‘no’’ to Foxx. ment. It is interesting to listen to the this amendment will directly hurt my Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of various arguments here, but certainly State’s economy. my time. there is unfair competition, if you Minnesota’s sugar creates more than The Acting CHAIR. The question is will—it is hard to even call it competi- 28,000 jobs and has an annual impact of on the amendment offered by the gen- tion—overseas, but we have unfair more than $3 billion. This amendment tlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. trade practices. Sugar policy here helps will cost Minnesota and other sugar- FOXX). us defend ourselves. producing States so much more. It will The question was taken; and the Act- These are manufacturing jobs in hurt farmers, small businesses, schools, ing Chair announced that the noes ap- western Nebraska that utilize, very re- hospitals—real lives of real people in peared to have it. sponsibly, our natural resources, and I rural communities that this bill is sup- Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chair, I demand a re- think it is only reasonable to continue posed to help. corded vote. a policy that is not generally a cost to We should be supporting American The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to taxpayers. farmers instead of sending their jobs to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- I urge opposition to this amendment. ceedings on the amendment offered by Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 countries that heavily subsidize sugar production, like Brazil and Mexico. I the gentlewoman from North Carolina seconds to the gentleman from Penn- will be postponed. ERRY urge my colleagues to join me in oppos- sylvania (Mr. P ). AMENDMENT NO. 2 OFFERED BY MR. CONAWAY Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, the cur- ing this harmful amendment, and I ask The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order rent U.S. sugar program represents an them to stand with farmers in Min- to consider amendment No. 2 printed in anti-free market scheme that imposes nesota and all across the United House Report 115–679. a massive hidden tax on both American States. Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chair, I have an businesses and consumers for the ben- Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chairman, in closing, amendment at the desk. efit of a small, concentrated group of our government’s current sugar pro- gram is a job killer. It ensures profits The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will special interests. designate the amendment. People say, well, we have got the for the connected few at the expense of The text of the amendment is as fol- safest, cheapest food source in the the many. It operates at a substantial lows: world in the United States. It is cheap cost to taxpayers, consumers, and busi- because we are paying for it with our nesses. It is rooted in supply manage- Page 28, line 3, insert a comma after ment economics that were drafted ‘‘2008’’. taxes. These are Soviet-style policies Page 28, line 6, strike ‘‘covered com- imposing significant, unnecessary costs nearly 90 years ago. modity’’ and all that follows through ‘‘basis’’ on the domestic food manufacturing in- Every other commodity program was on line 7, and insert the following: ‘‘covered- dustry and the consumer. subjected to reforms during the last commodity-by-covered-commodity basis’’. Policies have imposed $2.4 billion to farm bill except the sugar program. Page 103, strike lines 4 through 8. $4 billion worth of losses to sugar users Economists, consumer groups, environ- Page 110, line 17, insert ‘‘, or eligible for in- across the Nation. These industries mentalists, manufacturers, editorial demnity or compensation payments through provide jobs to 600,000 Americans, in- boards, and groups on both the left and programs administered by the Secretary’’ be- right of the idealogical spectrum have fore the period at the end. cluding 40,000 Pennsylvanians. Page 111, line 1, insert ‘‘, the Animal and Mr. Chairman, I urge passage. all endorsed the idea of substantially Plant Health Inspection Service,’’ after Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I reforming this program. ‘‘Conservation Service’’. yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from It is time to end Congress’ codifica- Page 218, line 15, strike ‘‘bachelors’’ and in- Texas (Mr. GONZALEZ). tion of a special interest giveaway. It sert ‘‘bachelor’s’’.

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Page 259, line 16, strike ‘‘(D)’’ and insert Page 269, line 25, strike ‘‘and’’ at the end. Page 232, line 5, add ‘‘and’’ at the end. ‘‘(E)’’. Page 269, after line 25, insert the following: Page 233, line 4, strike ‘‘and’’ and insert Page 259, strike lines 18 and 19, and insert ‘‘(VII) requires that the State demonstra- ‘‘or’’. the following: tion projects are voluntary for all retail food Page 237, line 24, strike ‘‘Section 5’’ and in- (F) by redesignating subparagraphs (F) stores and that all recipients are able to use sert ‘‘Effective October 1, 2020, section 5’’. through (M) as subparagraphs (E) through benefits in non-participating retail food Page 238, strike line 5, and insert the fol- (L), stores; and’’. lowing: Beginning on page 259, strike line 22 and Page 270, line 1, strike ‘‘(VII)’’ and insert (B) by striking ‘‘, supplemental security’’ all that follows through line 2 on page 260, ‘‘(VIII)’’. Page 241, line 18, insert ‘‘or disabled’’ after and insert the following: Page 271, line 1, strike ‘‘PROCESSING’’ and ‘‘elderly’’. (1) AMENDMENTS TO THE FOOD AND NUTRI- insert ‘‘PROHIBITED’’. Page 241, line 23, insert ‘‘or disabled’’ after TION ACT OF 2008.—The Food and Nutrition Page 271, line 10, insert ‘‘(as defined in sub- ‘‘elderly’’. Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) is amend- section (j)(1)(H)’’ after ‘‘switching’’. Page 242, line 5, insert ‘‘or disabled’’ after ed— Page 273, line 16, strike ‘‘ ‘independent’ ’’ ‘‘elderly’’. (A) in section 5(d)(14) by striking and all that follows through ‘‘means’’ on line Page 242, line 8, insert ‘‘or disabled’’ after ‘‘6(d)(4)(I)’’ and inserting ‘‘6(d)(4)(G)’’, and 17, and insert the following: ‘‘ ‘independent ‘‘elderly’’. (B) in section 17(b)(1)(B)(iv)(III)(dd) by sales organization’ means’’. Page 246, line 11, insert ‘‘(including volun- striking ‘‘(4)(F)(i), or (4)(K)’’ and inserting Page 291, line 5, strike ‘‘B Russell’’ and in- teer work that is limited to 6 months out of ‘‘(4)(A)(ii), (4)(E)(i), or (4)(J)’’. sert ‘‘B. Russell’’. a 12-month period)’’ after ‘‘work’’. Page 260, strike lines 24 and 25, and insert Page 296, after line 13, insert the following: Page 248, strike line 10. the following: (C) in paragraph (3)(B) by inserting ‘‘, Page 248, line 17, strike the period and the (1) by amending subsection (e)(5) to read as other than those incurred by State agencies close quotation marks. follows: in preparing State plans pursuant to sub- Page 248, after line 17, insert the following: ‘‘(5) is— section (c)(2) and notifying applicants, par- ‘‘(iv) a program of employment and train- ‘‘(A) a parent or other household member ticipants, and eligible individuals pursuant ing for veterans operated by the Department with responsibility for the care of a depend- to subsection (c)(4),’’ after ‘‘this section’’, of Labor or the Department of Veterans Af- ent child under age 6 or of an incapacitated Page 296, line 14, strike ‘‘(C)’’ and insert fairs, and approved by the Secretary.’’, and person; or ‘‘(D)’’. Page 248, line 25, strike ‘‘paragraph’’ and ‘‘(B) a parent or other household member Page 296, line 16, strike ‘‘(D)’’ and insert insert ‘‘paragraphs (4) and’’. with responsibility for the care of a depend- ‘‘(E)’’. Page 249, line 2, strike ‘‘(D), and (C)’’ and ent child above the age of 5 and under the Page 297, line 6, strike the close quotation insert ‘‘(C), and (D)’’. age of 12 for whom adequate child care is not marks and the comma at the end. Page 251, line 2, insert ‘‘and with the ap- available to enable the individual to attend Page 297, strike line 7 and insert the fol- proval of the chief executive officer of the class and satisfy the requirements of para- lowing: State,’’ after ‘‘agency’’. graph (4); and’’. ‘‘(D) FUNDS AVAILABILITY.—Funds appro- Page 251, line 22, strike ‘‘6’’ and insert ‘‘7’’. Page 262, after line 24, insert the following: priated under this paragraph shall remain Page 251, line 24, insert ‘‘most recent 24- (C) by amending subparagraph (C) to read available for obligation for a period of 2 fis- month period for which Department of Labor as follows: cal years.’’, and unemployment rates are available, nor ear- ‘‘(C) RETURN OF UNUSED EMPLOYMENT AND Page 299, strike lines 19 through 23, and in- lier than the’’ after ‘‘the’’. TRAINING FUNDS TO THE TREASURY.—If a State sert the following: Page 253, line 14, strike ‘‘15-PERCENT’’ and agency will not expend all of the funds allo- (7) in section 17(b)(1)(B)(iv)(III)(aa) by insert ‘‘PERCENTAGE’’. cated to the State agency for a fiscal year striking ‘‘3(n)’’ and inserting ‘‘3(m)’’, Page 254, line 11, strike ‘‘; and’’ at the end, under subparagraph (B), the Secretary shall Page 300, after line 10, insert the following: and insert a period. deposit such unused funds in the general re- SEC. 4037. REVIEW OF SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRI- Page 254, strike lines 12 and 13. ceipts of the Treasury.’’, TION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OPER- Page 254, strike lines 19 through 22, and in- Page 263, line 1, strike ‘‘(C)’’ and insert ATIONS. sert the following: ‘‘(D)’’. Section 9 of the Food and Nutrition Act of ‘‘(iii) FISCAL YEARS 2021 THROUGH 2025.—Sub- Page 263, line 3, strike ‘‘(D)’’ and insert 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2018), as amended by section ject to clauses (v) and (vi), for each of the fis- ‘‘(E)’’ 4026, is amended by adding at the end the fol- cal years 2021 through 2025, a State agency Page 263, beginning on line 22, strike sub- lowing: may provide a number’’ section (g). ‘‘(j) REVIEW OF PROGRAM OPERATIONS.— Page 255, after line 7, insert the following: Page 264, line 10, strike ‘‘(h)’’ and insert ‘‘(1) The Secretary— ‘‘(iv) FISCAL YEAR 2026 AND THEREAFTER.— ‘‘(g).’’ ‘‘(A) shall review a representative sample Subject to clauses (v) and (vi), for fiscal year Page 264, strike lines 11 and 12, and insert of currently authorized retail food stores as 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter, a State the following: defined in subsections (o)(2) and (k)(3) of sec- agency may provide a number of exemptions (1) AMENDMENTS.—Section 20(b) of the Food tion 3 to determine whether benefits are such that the average monthly number of and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 3029(b) is properly used by or on behalf of partici- the exemptions in effect during the fiscal amended— pating households residing in such facilities year does not exceed 12 percent of the num- (A) in paragraph (1)— and whether such facilities are using more ber of covered individuals in the State in fis- (i) by striking ‘‘6(d)(1)’’ and inserting than one source of Federal or State funding cal year 2019, as estimated by the Secretary, ‘‘6(d)(1)(B)’’, and to meet the food needs of residents; based on the survey conducted to carry out (ii) by striking ‘‘or (F)’’ and inserting ‘‘(F), ‘‘(B) may carry out similar reviews for cur- section 16(c) for the most recent fiscal year or (G)’’, and rently participating residential drug and al- and such other factors as the Secretary con- (B) in paragraph (4) by striking ‘‘sixteen’’ cohol treatment and rehabilitation pro- siders appropriate due to the timing and lim- and inserting ‘‘18’’. grams, and group living arrangements for itations of the survey.’’. Page 266, strike lines 1 through 6, and in- the blind and disabled; Page 255, line 8, strike ‘‘(iv)’’ and insert sert the following: ‘‘(C) shall gather information and these en- ‘‘(v)’’. (B) in section 17(b) by striking paragraph tities shall be required to submit informa- Page 255, line 17, strike ‘‘(v)’’ and insert (2). tion deemed necessary for a full and thor- ‘‘(vi)’’. Page 266, after line 6, insert the following: ough review; and Page 258, line 19, strike clause (iv) and re- (h) EQUITABLE TREATMENT OF HOUSE- ‘‘(D) shall report the results of these re- designate succeeding clauses accordingly. HOLDS.—Section 11(e) of the Food and Nutri- views to the Committee on Agriculture of Page 258, beginning on line 22, strike ‘‘un- tion Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2020(e)), as amended the House of Representatives and the Com- paid or volunteer work that is limited to 6 by section 4001, is amended by adding at the mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition and For- months out of a 12-month period’’ and insert end the following: estry of the Senate not later than 3 years ‘‘other work experience’’. ‘‘(27) that the State agency may, for pur- after the date of the enactment of the Food Page 259, line 3, add ‘‘and’’ at the end. poses of ensuring equitable treatment among and Nutrition Act of 2018, along with rec- Page 259, line 5, strike ‘‘and’’ at the end. all households (including those containing a ommendations as to any additional require- Page 259, strike lines 6 through 8. married couple), request earned income data ments or oversight that would be appro- Page 259, strike lines 9 and 10, and insert from the Internal Revenue Service relevant priate for such facilities and retailers, and the following: to determining eligibility to receive supple- whether these entities should continue to be

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00038 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY7.039 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4179 authorized to participate in the supple- milk, to ensure that the requirements of healthcare, commercial, and industrial pur- mental nutrition assistance program. such regulations— poses in rural areas. ‘‘(2) Nothing in this section shall authorize (1) are based on research based on school- (C) The cost to deploy and support such the Secretary to deny any application for age children; technologies in several rural geographies. continued authorization, any application for (2) do not add costs in addition to the reim- (D) The costs associated with online plat- authorization, or any request to withdraw bursements required to carry out the school forms, specifically the resulting constraints the authorization of any facility or entity lunch program authorized under the Richard on rural network bandwidth. referenced in subsections (o)(2) and (k)(3) of B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 (3) Identify and quantify the availability of section 3 based on a determination that resi- U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) or the school breakfast broadband service and ongoing broadband de- dents of any such facility or entity are resi- program established by section 4 of the Child ployment in rural areas, including ways to dents of an institution prior to— Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773); and do the following: ‘‘(A) the submission of the report described (3) maintain healthy meals for students. (A) Harmonize broadband notification and in paragraph (1)(D); or Page 327, line 4, strike ‘‘heath’’ and insert reporting requirements and develop common ‘‘(B) 3 years after the date of enactment of ‘‘health’’. verification procedures across all federally the Food and Nutrition Act of 2018; Page 327, line 11, add a period at the end. supported broadband programs. Page 343, line 12, strike ‘‘road mile’’ and in- whichever is earlier.’’. (B) Consolidate and utilize the existing sert ‘‘road-mile’’. Page 301, after line 2, insert the following: Page 344, line 4, strike ‘‘and’’ at the end. broadband service data. SEC. 4103. ELIGIBILITY FOR COMMODITY SUP- Page 361, after line 13, insert the following (C) Collect and share data on those PLEMENTAL FOOD PROGRAM. (and redesignate any succeeding section ac- projects in rural areas where Federal pro- Section 5(g) of the Agriculture and Con- cordingly): grams are currently supporting broadband sumer Protection Act of 1973 (7 U.S.C. 612c SEC. 6116. FEDERAL BROADBAND PROGRAM CO- deployment, including areas with respect to note) is amended— ORDINATION. which an entity is receiving— (1) by striking ‘‘Except’’ and inserting the (a) CONSULTATION BETWEEN USDA AND (i) support under a broadband loan or grant following: NTIA.—The Secretary shall consult with the program of the Department of Agriculture; ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except’’, and Assistant Secretary to assist in the or (2) by adding at the end the following: verification of eligibility of the broadband (ii) Connect America Fund or Mobility ‘‘(2) CERTIFICATION.— loan and grant programs of the Department Fund support under the Federal universal ‘‘(A) DEFINITION OF CERTIFICATION PERIOD.— of Agriculture. In providing assistance under service support mechanisms established In this paragraph, the term ‘certification pe- the preceding sentence, the Assistant Sec- under section 254 of the Communications Act riod’ means the period that a participant in retary shall make available the broadband of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254). the commodity supplemental food program assessment and mapping capabilities of the (D) Leverage support technologies and may continue to receive benefits under that National Telecommunications and Informa- services from online platforms for providers program without a formal review of the eli- tion Administration. of broadband service in rural areas. gibility of the participant. (b) CONSULTATION BETWEEN USDA AND (d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: ‘‘(B) MINIMUM CERTIFICATION PERIOD.—Sub- FCC.— (1) ASSISTANT SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘As- ject to subparagraph (C), a State shall estab- (1) BY USDA.—The Secretary shall consult sistant Secretary’’ means the Assistant Sec- lish a certification period of not less than 1 with the Commission before making a retary of Commerce for Communications and year. broadband loan or grant for a project to Information. serve an area with respect to which another ‘‘(C) EXTENSIONS.—On the request of a (2) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ State, the Secretary shall approve a State entity is receiving Connect America Fund or means the Federal Communications Com- certification period of more than 1 year on Mobility Fund support under the Federal mission. the condition that, on an annual basis, the universal service support mechanisms estab- (3) RURAL AREA.—The term ‘‘rural area’’ local agency in the State administering the lished under section 254 of the Communica- has the meaning given the term in section tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254). commodity supplemental food program— 601(b)(3) of the Rural Electrification Act of (2) BY FCC.—The Commission shall consult ‘‘(i) verifies the address and continued in- 1936. with the Secretary before offering or pro- terest of each participant in receiving pro- Page 364, line 14, strike ‘‘tribes’’ and insert viding Connect America Fund or Mobility gram benefits; and ‘‘Tribes’’. Fund support under the Federal universal ‘‘(ii) has sufficient reason to determine Page 374, line 1, strike ‘‘(U.S.C.’’ and insert service support mechanisms established that the participant still meets the income ‘‘U.S.C.’’. under section 254 of the Communications Act Page 379, line 24, strike ‘‘by striking’’ and eligibility standards, which may include a of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254) to serve an area with all that follows through ‘‘and inserting’’ on determination that the participant has a respect to which another entity has received line 25, and insert the following: ‘‘by striking fixed income.’’. an award under a broadband loan or grant ‘maintained under section 313(b)(2)(A)’ and Page 301, line 3, redesignate section 4103 as program of the Department of Agriculture. inserting’’. section 4104. (c) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 1 Page 390, line 16, strike ‘‘and inserting’’ At the end of subtitle C of title IV, add the year after the date of the enactment of this and all that follows through ‘‘; and’’ on line following: Act, the Secretary, the Commission, and the 17, and insert the following: ‘‘and inserting SEC. 4205. REVIEW AND REVISION OF CERTAIN Assistant Secretary shall submit to the ‘305 or’; and’’. NUTRITION REGULATIONS. Committee on Agriculture and the Com- Page 394, line 8, strike ‘‘tribes’’ and insert (a) REVIEW OF EXISTING REGULATIONS.—Not mittee on Energy and Commerce of the ‘‘Tribes’’. later than 90 days after the date of the enact- House of Representatives and the Committee Page 414, line 2, strike the extra space be- ment of this Act and for the purposes de- on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and fore the closed quotation mark. scribed in subsection (b), the Secretary shall the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Page 436, after line 11, insert the following: review— Transportation of the Senate a report on (b) PRIORITIES.—Section 412(h)(1) of the Ag- (1) the final regulations on ‘‘National how best to coordinate federally supported ricultural Research, Extension, and Edu- School Lunch Program and School Breakfast broadband programs and activities in order cation Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7632(h)(1)) Program: Nutrition Standards for All Foods to achieve the following objectives: is amended by striking ‘‘multi-institutional’’ Sold in School as Required by the Healthy, (1) Promote high-quality broadband service and inserting ‘‘or multi-institutional’’. Hunger- Free Kids Act of 2010’’ published by that meets the long-term needs of rural resi- Page 436, line 12, strike ‘‘(b)’’ and insert the Department of Agriculture in the Fed- dents and businesses, by evaluating the ‘‘(c)’’. eral Register on July 29, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. broadband service needs in rural areas for Page 436, line 20, strike ‘‘(c)’’ and insert 50123 et seq.); and each decade through 2050. ‘‘(d)’’. Page 455, line 20, insert ‘‘or ranchers’’ after (2) the final regulations on ‘‘Nutrition (2) Support the long-term viability, sus- ‘‘farmers’’. Standards in the National School Lunch and tainability, and utility of federally sup- Page 541, line 1, insert ‘‘address’’ before School Breakfast Programs’’ published by ported rural broadband infrastructure, by ‘‘other’’. the Department of Agriculture in the Fed- analyzing the technical capabilities of the Page 546, line 5, strike ‘‘in’’ and insert eral Register on January 26, 2012 (77 Fed. technologies currently available and reason- ‘‘on’’. Reg. 4088 et seq.). ably expected to be available by 2035 to meet Page 554, line 18, strike ‘‘The Adminis- (b) FINALIZING NEW REGULATIONS.—Not the broadband service needs of rural resi- trator;’’ and insert ‘‘The Administrator’’. later than 1 year after the date of the enact- dents identified under paragraph (1), includ- Page 575, line 2, strike ‘‘Department of Ag- ment of this Act, the Secretary, in consulta- ing by analyzing the following: riculture’’ and insert ‘‘Food and Drug Ad- tion with school nutrition personnel and (A) The real-world performance of such ministration’’. school leaders (including school administra- technologies, including data rates, latency, Page 598, line 3, strike ‘‘and subparagraph tors, school boards, and parents), shall final- data usage restrictions, and other aspects of (B) of paragraph (1)’’ and all that follows ize new regulations that revise the regula- service quality, as defined by the Commis- through ‘‘Secretary’’ on line 6, and insert the tions described in subsection (a) based on the sion. following: ‘‘of paragraph (1)’’. review of such regulations under such sub- (B) The suitability of each such technology Page 598, line 9, insert ‘‘, not more than 4 section, including any requirements for for residential, agricultural, educational, percent may be retained by the Secretary to

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00039 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY7.039 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4180 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 pay administrative costs incurred by the It is simply good policy to send unex- Most SNAP recipients are children, seniors Secretary’’ after ‘‘10409B’’. pended funds back to the Treasury. and people with disabilities. Among SNAP Page 598, line 10, insert ‘‘of such para- This amendment does that. recipients who can work, most already do— graph’’ after ‘‘(B)’’. Our colleagues on the other side said just not at wages that allow them to escape Page 598, line 12, strike ‘‘and (B)’’ and all poverty. To help these workers we need to that follows through ‘‘paragraph’’ on line 13. we did not count veteran-specific work- address the weaknesses in our economy and Page 598, line 13, strike ‘‘ten’’ and insert force development programs as a part our labor market that make it hard for them ‘‘10’’. of H.R. 2. Well, in addition to the provi- to get ahead. Page 599, line 3, insert before the period at sions of H.R. 2 that has permitted Instead, this farm bill largely ignores the the end the following: ‘‘to be made available State-based veteran workforce pro- complex challenges faced by low-wage work- for expenditure without further appropria- grams to count toward the work re- ers, imposing harsh new sanctions and re- tion’’. quirements that will take food away from quirement, this amendment expands to families who are willing but unable to find Page 621, line 23, strike ‘‘boys’’ and insert include programs for veterans run by ‘‘boys’ ’’. consistent work. the Department of Labor and the De- Hunger never helped anyone find a job. Page 622, line 8, strike ‘‘boys’’ and insert According to the CBO, the Chairman’s bill ‘‘boys’ ’’. partment of Veterans Affairs. Mr. Chairman, that would have been will move billions of dollars off the kitchen Page 635, after line 7, insert the following: table, largely to finance state bureaucracies SEC. 11608. ESTABLISHMENT OF FOOD ACCESS LI- a terrific amendment for my colleagues intended to assist recipients with employ- AISON. to have offered in committee or on this ment. Food will remain critical fuel for the (a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of the Depart- floor, and we would have accepted it. success of these families, yet this bill would ment of Agriculture Reorganization Act of They chose to stay on the sidelines. effectively starve Peter to employ Paul. 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.), as amended by sec- I have a great food bank in my dis- Losing SNAP will make it harder for these tions 11204 and 11607, is amended by adding at trict, West Texas Food Bank. Its chief families to make ends meet. We fully expect the end the following: executive related how important it was our food banks to experience the brunt of ‘‘SEC. 223. FOOD ACCESS LIAISON. this increased need. Across Texas, our food to provide a 1-year certification period banks already struggle to meet the demand ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall for the Commodity Supplemental Food establish the position of Food Access Liaison in their communities, and we will not be able to coordinate Department programs to re- Program for seniors, a program cur- to keep up. We are also very concerned that this bill duce barriers to food access and monitor and rently serving seniors. This makes will repeal state flexibility and put massive evaluate the progress of such programs in ac- sense and allows seniors easier access new responsibilities on states in pursuit of cordance with this section. to this important program. better employment outcomes for recipients. ‘‘(b) DUTIES.—The Food Access Liaison It is engagements like this that is These ideas ignore the evidence-based policy shall— what our process is all about, and we making that the Chairman has espoused by ‘‘(1) coordinate the efforts of the Depart- have amended our bill through this selling a promise on work, but not delivering ment, including regional offices, to experi- manager’s amendment to include on the necessary funding or details. ment and consider programs and policies those. We urge every member of the committee to aimed at reducing barriers to food access for Mr. Chair, we also have changes in reject this proposal, and return to a bipar- consumers, including but not limited to par- tisan process that will help more hard-work- ticipants in nutrition assistance programs; here that strengthen our framework ing Americans avoid hunger and achieve fi- ‘‘(2) provide outreach to entities engaged for coordinating between USDA on nancial security. in activities to reduce barriers to food access FCA, on important operations, Sincerely, in accordance with the statutory authoriza- broadband work that is going on across Celia Cole, CEO, Feeding Texas; Zack tion for each program; jurisdictions. We want those two agen- Wilson, Executive Director, High ‘‘(3) provide outreach to entities engaged cies to work together to better utilize Plains Food Bank; Theresa Mangapora, in activities to reduce barriers to food ac- the funding to make sure that rural Executive Director, Brazos Valley Food cess, including retailers, markets, producers, America gets that broadband support Bank; Bea Hanson, Executive Director, and others involved in food production and Coastal Bend Food Bank; Dennis distribution, with respect to the availability that we really need. That is included in Cullinane, CEO, East Texas Food Bank; of, and eligibility for, Department programs; here as well. Robin Cadle, President/CEO, Food ‘‘(4) raise awareness of food access issues in It also allows that communities will Bank of the Golden Crescent; Jody interactions with employees of the Depart- have a better opportunity to work for Houston, CEO, Food Bank of West Cen- ment; themselves rather than fighting the tral Texas; Brian Greene, President/ ‘‘(5) make recommendations to the Sec- current bureaucracy here in Wash- CEO Houston Food Bank. retary with respect to efforts to reduce bar- ington, D.C. Trisha Cunningham, President/CEO, riers to food access; and This amendment also includes a vari- North Texas Food Bank; Dan Maher, ‘‘(6) submit to Congress an annual report Executive Director, Southeast Texas with respect to the efforts of the Department ety of technical amendments, correc- Food Bank; Alma Boubel, Executive to reduce barriers to food access.’’. tions to the bill, that you would nor- Director, South Texas Food Bank; (b) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary mally have in a manager’s amendment, Libby Campbell, Executive Director, shall provide technical assistance to entities and I ask my colleagues to support the West Texas Food Bank; Derrick that are participants, or seek to participate, manager’s amendment. Chubbs, President/CEO, Central Texas in Department of Agriculture programs re- Mr. Chair, with that, I reserve the Food Bank; Gregory Duke, Executive lated to reduction of barriers to food access. balance of my time. Director, Concho Valley Regional Food Bank. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chair, I rise in Susan Goodell, CEO, El Pasoans Fighting House Resolution 900, the gentleman opposition to the amendment. Hunger Food Bank; DeAnne from Texas (Mr. CONAWAY) and a Mem- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman Economedes, Interim CEO, Food Bank ber opposed each will control 5 min- from Massachusetts is recognized for 5 of the Rio Grande Valley; Richard Nye, utes. minutes. Executive Director, Galveston County The Chair recognizes the gentleman Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chair, I just Food Bank; Allison Hulett, President/ from Texas. want to say for the record that both CEO, Montgomery County Food Bank; Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, H.R. 2 Feeding America and Feeding Texas Eric Cooper, President/CEO, San Anto- includes a substantive, enforceable oppose this farm bill because they be- nio Food Bank; David Weaver, CEO, lieve it will increase hunger in Amer- South Plains Food Bank; Bo supportive work requirement for work- Soderbergh, Executive Director, capable individuals 18 to 59. Waivers ica, and I include the letter from Feed- Tarrant Area Food Bank; Kara and exemptions were tightened to as- ing Texas in the RECORD. Nickens, Executive Director, Wichita sure little abuse in a system currently FEEDING TEXAS, Falls Area Food Bank. rife with loopholes and gimmicks. April 17, 2018. Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chair, I We have also heard from our conserv- HOUSE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, thought that this bill couldn’t get any ative stakeholders that workfare is an Washington, DC. worse, but I was wrong. This amend- DEAR CHAIRMAN CONAWAY AND COMMITTEE important tool for EP participants. ment is a sure sign that this under- MEMBERS: Regretfully and despite years of Based on their feedback and explicit hard work, we are writing to oppose the farm lying farm bill is a complete mess. This examples of where this has been imple- bill proposed by Chairman Conaway, as we manager’s amendment is longer than mented correctly, this amendment in- believe it will increase hunger and make it most bills that we consider in this cludes establishment of that. harder for struggling Texans to succeed. House.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY7.039 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4181 First, it puts a Band-Aid on the beat- such as rice, soybeans, and corn or the Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chair, I am ing the majority took during the mark- current sugar program. If we pick ready to close. up when they finally realized that dis- apart our commodity programs one by Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chair, may I in- abled people would be hurt by their one, we will create giant holes in our quire how much time I have remaining. zeal to sever LIHEAP from SNAP. But Nation’s food security system. This The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman to do that, to help disabled people, cost compromises our national security and has 13⁄4 minutes remaining. them money, so they had to find sav- hinders our ability to provide healthy, Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chair, let me ings somewhere. And they landed on nutritious food, not just to rural com- close by saying this manager’s amend- taking away more flexibility from munities that produce the food but to ment highlights how deeply flawed this States for waivers, the result of which urban areas and, in fact, the entire Na- bill is. I regret very much that a flawed is that 600,000 people—600,000 more tion and beyond. bill is being brought to the House floor able-bodied adults without depend- Mr. Chair, again, I want to thank the because of a flawed process. ents—will lose SNAP. chairman for his diligence and leader- I am the ranking Democrat in the Here is the best part of it: The 600,000 ship on this issue, and not only in re- Nutrition Subcommittee. I didn’t see will be kicked off right away, at least gard to the commodity title but cer- the nutrition title until it was made a year before the mandatory work tainly the nutrition title, to our vice public to the press. We had 23 hearings scheme—which is underfunded and will chairman and chairman of the Nutri- in the Agriculture Committee. This nu- be a mass of bureaucracy—is in effect. tion Subcommittee, G.T. Thompson, trition title does not reflect those So in spite of the rhetoric to provide for his diligence as well. And I appre- hearings. We should have had a hearing on-ramps, off-ramps, trampolines, or ciate the work on the part of our Agri- on this nutrition title to understand whatever to help people get good jobs, culture Committee. the impacts that it will have on some they do not deliver—not for SNAP, and Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chair, may I in- of the most vulnerable people in this not for farmers. quire how much time I have remaining. country. As I have said over and over and over The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman We live in the richest country in the 1 again, a farm bill should be a bipar- has 3 ⁄4 minutes remaining. history of the world. We have millions Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chair, I yield tisan product. It should be reflective of of people who are food insecure or hun- 11⁄2 minutes to the gentlewoman from bipartisan concerns. It should help gry. We have an obligation here in this Delaware (Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER). farmers, and it should help those strug- Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER. Mr. Chair, House of Representatives to make sure gling in need to put food on the table. I have the honor of not only sitting on that we don’t let them fall through the This bill doesn’t do enough to help the Committee on Agriculture but also cracks. And yet, we have this bill that farmers, and it certainly doesn’t do of sitting on the Committee on Edu- will make hunger worse in America. anything to help people struggling cation and the Workforce, so I know This manager’s amendment does noth- with hunger. In fact, this bill makes very well how important healthy, hun- ing to fix it. In fact, in some cases it hunger worse in America, and that is ger-free children are to a good edu- makes it worse. shameful. cation system. I urge my colleagues on both sides of Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of On top of already harmful policies, the aisle to reject it but, more impor- my time. the Conaway manager’s amendment tantly, reject this bill. Send it back to Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chair, may I in- compromises the current science-based committee. Let’s do it right. Let’s have quire how much time I have remaining. nutrition standards in Federal schools a bipartisan bill, one that we can all be The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman meals programs. By politicizing and proud of. has 3 minutes remaining. legislating nutrition standards, this Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 amendment, if adopted, will further my time. minutes to the gentleman from Arkan- threaten the school meals programs Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chair, the gen- sas (Mr. CRAWFORD), the subcommittee upon which millions of children rely. tlewoman just previously mentioned chairman. The USDA updated the current the increase in fruits and vegetables Mr. CRAWFORD. Mr. Chairman, I standards based on rigorous, evidence- being eaten by children in school. I rise today to support H.R. 2 and the ac- based processes, as required by the last would point out that our bill includes companying manager’s amendment. bipartisan Child Nutrition Reauthor- $1.2 billion in incentives to help moms I appreciate the chairman’s leader- ization. These standards rely on expert, and dads out there who are on SNAP to ship on this effort, not only in the un- nonpartisan recommendations. Re- buy fruits and vegetables and dairy to derlying bill but the amendment to im- search shows that children are now get a bigger bang for their buck and prove upon it. I thank the gentleman eating 16 percent more vegetables and thereby hopefully increasing those for including my food access liaison 23 percent more fruit at lunch. Fur- commodities. provision in the amendment. ther, according to a poll by the W.K. Mr. Chair, we have a good bill here, Just briefly: This individual will be Kellogg Foundation, 97 percent of the base bill. This simply makes it bet- tasked with coordinating USDA pro- Americans support the National School ter. With that, I urge adoption of the grams aimed at improving Americans’ Nutrition Standards and 86 percent say amendment, and I yield back the bal- access to quality food and providing the School Nutrition Standards should ance of my time. technical assistance to community stay or be strengthened. The Acting CHAIR. The question is leaders who are working to improve There is simply no reason to depart on the amendment offered by the gen- the lives of those living in food deserts. from science-based and evidence-based tleman from Texas (Mr. CONAWAY). This is a small measure of progress standards. We should not compromise The amendment was agreed to. that we can all be proud of and con- on what is best for our children. That AMENDMENT NO. 3 OFFERED BY MR. MCCLINTOCK tinue our work to ensure folks have ac- is why the American Academy of Pedi- The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order cess to healthy and nutritious foods. atrics, American Diabetes Association, to consider amendment No. 3 printed in However, I would be remiss if I didn’t American Heart Association, and oth- House Report 115–679. mention that access to healthy and nu- ers oppose rolling back the standards. I Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chair, I have tritious food relies on the food security urge my colleagues to oppose these ef- an amendment at the desk. system, the strong food security sys- forts that would further threaten the The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will tem provided by this farm bill. And I health of our Nation’s children and stu- designate the amendment. thank the chairman for his leadership dents. The text of the amendment is as fol- in that regard. Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to lows: As we will soon vote on amendments, vote ‘‘no.’’ I urge my colleagues to remember the Page 29, line 18, strike subsection (a) and Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chair, I reserve insert the following new subsection: importance of a strong food security the balance of my time. (a) DETERMINATION OF PAYMENT ACRES.— system for all of our commodities, Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chair, may I in- Subject to subsection (d), for the purpose of whether that be under the ARC pro- quire how many more speakers the price loss coverage and agriculture risk cov- gram or the PLC program for crops gentleman from Texas might have. erage, the payment acres for each covered

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(1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘and (7)’’ respect to base acres for the covered com- 7272(i)) is amended— and inserting ‘‘(7), (9), and (10)’’; and modity on the farm— (A) by striking ‘‘2018’’ and inserting ‘‘2029’’; (2) by adding at the end the following new (1) for crop years 2019 and 2020, 85 percent and paragraphs: of such base acres; (B) by adding at the end the following new ‘‘(9) PHASE OUT OF PREMIUMS.—Beginning (2) for crop year 2021, 76.5 percent of such sentence: ‘‘The authority to carry out this with reinsurance year 2021, in determining base acres; section shall terminate on September 30, the amount of premium to be paid under (3) for crop year 2022, 68 percent of such 2029.’’ paragraphs (2), (6), and (7), the Corporation base acres; (b) PHASE OUT OF FLEXIBLE MARKETING AL- shall multiply the amount specified in sub- (4) for crop year 2023, 59.5 percent of such LOTMENTS FOR SUGAR.— paragraphs (B)(i), (C)(i), (D)(i), (E)(i), (F)(i), base acres; (1) SUGAR ESTIMATES.—Section 359b(a)(1) of (G)(i), and (H)(i) of paragraph (2), subpara- (5) for crop year 2024, 51 percent of such the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 graphs (A)(i), (B)(i), (C)(i), and (D)(i) of para- base acres; U.S.C. 1359bb(a)(1)) is amended by striking graph (6), and subparagraphs (A)(i), (B)(i), (6) for crop year 2025, 42.5 percent of such ‘‘2018’’ and inserting ‘‘2029’’. and (C)(i) of paragraphs (7), by— base acres; (2) SUGAR ALLOTMENTS.—Section 359b(b)(1) ‘‘(A) in reinsurance year 2021, 0.9; (7) for crop year 2026, 34 percent of such of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 ‘‘(B) in reinsurance year 2022, 0.8; base acres; U.S.C. 1359bb(b)(1)) is amended— ‘‘(C) in reinsurance year 2023, 0.7; (8) for crop year 2027, 25.5 percent of such (A) by striking subparagraphs (A) and (B); ‘‘(D) in reinsurance year 2024, 0.6; base acres; (B) by striking ‘‘at a level that is’’ and in- ‘‘(E) in reinsurance year 2025, 0.5; (9) for crop year 2028, 17 percent of such serting the following: ‘‘at a level equal to— ‘‘(F) in reinsurance year 2026, 0.4; base acres; and ‘‘(A) for crop year 2021, 76.5 percent of the ‘‘(G) in reinsurance year 2027, 0.3; (10) for crop year 2029, 8.5 percent of such estimated quantity of sugar for domestic ‘‘(H) in reinsurance year 2028, 0.2; and base acres. human consumption for such crop year; ‘‘(I) in reinsurance year 2029, 0.1. Page 32, line 11, strike ‘‘2023’’ and insert ‘‘(B) for crop year 2022, 68 percent of the es- ‘‘(10) TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY.—The au- ‘‘2029’’. timated quantity of sugar for domestic thority to make payments under this sub- Page 32, line 25, strike ‘‘2023’’ and insert human consumption for such crop year; section shall terminate on the first day of re- ‘‘2029’’. ‘‘(C) for crop year 2023, 59.5 percent of the insurance year 2030.’’. Page 33, line 14, strike ‘‘2023’’ and insert estimated quantity of sugar for domestic (b) PHASE OUT OF ADMINISTRATION AND OP- ‘‘2029’’. human consumption for such crop year; ERATING COST REIMBURSEMENTS.—Section Page 34, line 9, strike ‘‘2023’’ and insert ‘‘(D) for crop year 2024, 51 percent of the es- 508(k)(4) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 ‘‘2029’’. timated quantity of sugar for domestic U.S.C. 1508(k)(4)) is amended— Page 35, after line 16, insert the following human consumption for such crop year; (1) by striking subparagraphs (B), (C), (E), new subsection: ‘‘(E) for crop year 2025, 42.5 percent of the and (F); and (h) TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY.—The Sec- estimated quantity of sugar for domestic (2) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the retary may not make payments under this human consumption for such crop year; following new subparagraphs: section after crop year 2029. ‘‘(F) for crop year 2026, 34 percent of the es- ‘‘(A) REDUCTIONS.— Page 35, line 23, strike ‘‘2023’’ and insert timated quantity of sugar for domestic ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Beginning with reinsur- ‘‘2029’’. human consumption for such crop year; ance year 2021, in calculating the rate estab- Page 38, line 10, strike ‘‘2023’’ and insert ‘‘(G) for crop year 2027, 25.5 percent of the lished by the Board to reimburse approved ‘‘2029’’. estimated quantity of sugar for domestic insurance providers and agents for the ad- Page 40, after line 3, insert the following human consumption for such crop year; ministrative and operating costs of the pro- new subsection: ‘‘(H) for crop year 2028, 17 percent of the es- viders and agents, the Secretary shall mul- (h) TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY.—The Sec- timated quantity of sugar for domestic tiply the percent specified in subparagraph retary may not make payments under this human consumption for such crop year; and (A)(ii) by— section after crop year 2029. ‘‘(I) for crop year 2029, 8.5 percent of the es- ‘‘(I) in reinsurance year 2021, 0.9; Strike section 1301 and insert the following timated quantity of sugar for domestic ‘‘(II) in reinsurance year 2022, 0.8; new section: human consumption for such crop year.’’. ‘‘(III) in reinsurance year 2023, 0.7; SEC. 1301. SUGAR POLICY. (3) TERMINATION OF EFFECTIVE PERIOD.— ‘‘(IV) in reinsurance year 2024, 0.6; (a) PHASE OUT OF CURRENT PROGRAM AND Section 359l(a) of the Agricultural Adjust- ‘‘(V) in reinsurance year 2025, 0.5; LOAN RATES.— ment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1359ll(a)) is amend- ‘‘(VI) in reinsurance year 2026, 0.4; (1) SUGARCANE.—Section 156(a) of the Fed- ed— ‘‘(VII) in reinsurance year 2027, 0.3; eral Agriculture Improvement and Reform (A) by striking ‘‘2018’’ and inserting ‘‘2029’’; ‘‘(VIII) in reinsurance year 2028, 0.2; and Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7272(a)) is amended— and ‘‘(IX) in reinsurance year 2029, 0.1. (A) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and’’ at (B) by adding at the end the following new ‘‘(ii) TERMINATION.—The authority to make the end; sentence: ‘‘The authority to carry out this reimbursements under this paragraph shall (B) in paragraph (4)— part shall terminate on September 30, 2029.’’ terminate on the first day of reinsurance (i) by striking ‘‘2018’’ and inserting ‘‘2020’’; Page 85, strike line 22 and all that follows year 2030. and through page 86, line 2, and insert the fol- ‘‘(B) REPORT.—Not later than December 31, (ii) by striking the period at the end and lowing: 2023, the Secretary shall submit a report to inserting a semicolon; (3) ELECTION OF PRODUCTION HISTORY COV- Congress that includes an assessment of (C) by adding at the end the following new ERAGE PERCENTAGE.—Section 1406(a)(2) of the whether reimbursements under this para- paragraphs: Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9056(a)(2)) graph for administrative and operating costs ‘‘(5) 16.88 cents per pound for raw cane is amended to read as follows: are effective.’’. sugar for the 2021 crop year; ‘‘(2) a percentage of coverage, in 5-percent SEC. 10007. REQUIREMENTS TO PROVIDE INSUR- ‘‘(6) 15.01 cents per pound for raw cane increments, not exceeding, with respect to ANCE. sugar for the 2022 crop year; the production history of the participating (a) STACKED INCOME PROTECTION PLAN.— ‘‘(7) 13.14 cents per pound for raw cane dairy operation— Section 508B(a) of the Agricultural Adjust- sugar for the 2023 crop year; ‘‘(A) for calendar year 2019 and 2020, 90 per- ment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1508b(a)) is amend- ‘‘(8) 11.27 cents per pound for raw cane cent; ed by striking ‘‘the Corporation shall’’ and sugar for the 2024 crop year; ‘‘(B) for calender year 2021, 81 percent; inserting ‘‘the Corporation may’’. (b) PEANUT REVENUE CROP INSURANCE.— ‘‘(9) 9.4 cents per pound for raw cane sugar ‘‘(C) for calender year 2022, 72 percent; Section 508C(a) of the Agricultural Adjust- for the 2025 crop year; ‘‘(D) for calendar year 2023, 63 percent; ment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1508c(a)) is amend- ‘‘(10) 7.53 cents per pound for raw cane ‘‘(E) for calendar year 2024, 54 percent; ed by striking ‘‘the Corporation shall’’ and sugar for the 2021 crop year; ‘‘(F) for calendar year 2025, 45 percent; inserting ‘‘the Corporation may’’. ‘‘(11) 5.66 cents per pound for raw cane ‘‘(G) for calendar year 2026, 36 percent; (c) UPDATE STANDARD REINSURANCE AGREE- sugar for the 2027 crop year; ‘‘(H) for calendar year 2027, 27 percent; MENT.—The Secretary shall update the 2019 ‘‘(12) 3.79 cents per pound for raw cane ‘‘(I) for calendar year 2028, 18 percent; and Standard Reinsurance Agreement to include sugar for the 2028 crop year; and ‘‘(J) for calendar year 2029, 10 percent.’’. that the Company may offer and market all ‘‘(13) 1.92 cents per pound for raw cane Page 90, line 25, strike ‘‘2023’’ and insert plans of insurance for all crops in any State sugar for the 2029 crop year.’’. ‘‘2029’’. where actuarial documents are available in (2) SUGAR BEETS.—Section 156(b)(2) of the Page 579, after 2, insert the following new which it writes an eligible crop insurance Federal Agriculture Improvement and Re- sections: contract and shall accept and approve appli- form Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7272(b)(2)) is SEC. 10006. PHASE OUT OF CROP INSURANCE cations from all eligible producers. amended by striking ‘‘2018’’ and inserting PREMIUMS. ‘‘2029’’. (a) PHASE OUT OF PREMIUMS.—Section The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to (3) TERMINATION OF EFFECTIVE PERIOD.— 508(e) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 House Resolution 900, the gentleman Section 156(i) of the Federal Agriculture Im- U.S.C. 1508(e)) is amended— from California (Mr. MCCLINTOCK) and

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY7.025 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4183 a Member opposed each will control 5 non-subsidized parts of the farm econ- number one. Number two, we support minutes. omy without subsidized insurance. our farmers at a fraction of what the The Chair recognizes the gentleman There are no good arguments for con- rest of the world does, and so we get from California. tinuing these subsidies. Most farmers much better value, much better return Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chair, farm don’t get them right now. Those who on investment. subsidies, essentially taking money do tend to be major corporations and I think the disposable income of an from taxpayers to inflate the price of not family farmers. average American is somewhere in the their own groceries, was never a good b 1600 12 percent range, what we spend on idea. They are the poster children of food; and if you think about and com- corporate welfare since the vast pro- Now, my amendment preserves sub- pare it to, say, in Europe where they portion of them go to large corpora- sidies for the next 2 years and then are upwards of 20 percent and Japan in tions, not to small family farms. And gradually phases them out over the the 25 percent range of their disposable 60 percent of American farms get no next 10 years, assuring that producers income, we get a much better return, subsidies at all, contradicting the who have grown dependent on these much, much better value to the tax- claim that somehow American agri- subsidies have plenty of time to adjust payer. culture couldn’t exist without them. their operations. But at the end of this Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 We spend about $20 billion a year sub- 12-year process, we have a much more minute to the gentleman from Okla- sidizing about 40 percent of our farms. efficiently functioning agricultural homa (Mr. LUCAS), the former chair- That is $160 a year out of the direct market that is accurately responding man of the committee. taxes of an average family in America, to the needs of consumers rather than Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Chairman, why do and that doesn’t include the cost to to the whims of government bureau- we invest in agriculture? Because the consumers from higher prices. As we crats. ability to eat, to feed ourselves is one just heard, the sugar program alone Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of of the most fundamentally important costs taxpayers $3.7 billion a year in my time. things that goes on in an economy. We higher sugar prices. That adds about Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I make those investments so that we $30 more to their grocery bills. claim time in opposition to the amend- will always have a sufficient supply of Subsidies hurt taxpayers, they hurt ment. the highest quality food and fiber at consumers, and they even hurt farmers The Acting CHAIR (Mr. SIMPSON). the most affordable prices. in the long run. The decline in farm The gentleman from Texas is recog- Empires, countries, republics, democ- economy since the last farm bill ought nized for 5 minutes. racies have been destroyed throughout to warn us we are doing something Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 history when they lost their ability to wrong. minute to the gentleman from Min- Prices are signals sent by consumers feed themselves. nesota (Mr. PETERSon). I will tell you a strong farm bill, the over what they want to buy and the Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Chair, I thank investment we make is one of the key amount that they are willing to pay. If the gentleman for yielding, and I op- left alone, they tell producers what foundations to protecting the Constitu- pose this amendment. tion, just like our responsibilities to consumers want more of and what they I was here in 1996 when we tried want less of. If consumers want less have a standing army to defend the something similar to this. It wasn’t as coast, to defend the airspace, to defend soybeans and sugar and more wheat extreme, but it was supposed to save us and cabbage, prices for soybeans and our folks. a little bit of money. sugar decline and prices for wheat and Maybe you don’t want to make that Does the gentleman remember? cabbage increase. Producers respond by investment, maybe you are willing to It ended up costing us five times planting less soybeans and sugarcane take a chance, but when we don’t have more than what we saved because it and more wheat and cabbage, unless— enough to eat, it will be too late to fix didn’t work. unless—the government distorts those the problem. This is a fantasy that is out there for price signals through subsidies. Pro- Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chairman, I some people. People have no clue how ducers end up planting more of what would remind the ranking member that much it costs to farm nowadays, what consumers don’t want and less of what the reason the 1996 Freedom to Farm kind of risks you take in farming. And they do. Thus, producers are artifi- bill ended up costing us more is be- if you want to make sure that we have cially induced to perform below their cause we ended up adding a whole new a few people farm this whole country, potential productivity. series of subsidies to it. Experience is Many of the subsidies today are in this is the way to do it, because, with- important to heed. the form of crop insurance. Farmers out crop insurance, without these New Zealand has four times more de- get heavily subsidized insurance to other backstops, young people and or- pendency on agriculture than the guarantee them profits for their prod- dinary people will not be able to farm. United States—they are four times ucts. Who pays those subsidies? Tax- The people who will farm are people more dependent—and it once main- payers. What is insurance? It is the with deep pockets, and that is not what tained an extensive subsidy program monetization of risk. It is the way we want in this country. just like ours. In 1984, New Zealand markets assign a dollar value to the I oppose this amendment. ended those subsidies. Well, what hap- risk that one undertakes in any human Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 pened? Farm productivity rose, farm enterprise. The higher the risk, the minute to the gentleman from Arkan- earnings rose, farm output all rose. more expensive the insurance. sas (Mr. CRAWFORD). What did New Zealand farmers who By subsidizing crop insurance, we Mr. CRAWFORD. Mr. Chairman, opposed the ending of subsidies say once again corrupt the price signals where do I begin? I guess it was JFK once those subsidies were removed and that farmers need to make rational de- who said the farmer is the only busi- the economy responded? The Federated cisions. If crop insurance for soybeans nessman who—I think he said it this Farmers of New Zealand says that it is expensive, the market is warning way—who buys retail, sells wholesale, ‘‘thoroughly debunked the myth that farmers not to rely on soybeans. If tax- and pays freight both ways. the farming sector cannot prosper payers subsidize the cost of that insur- So we are comparing apples and or- without government subsidies.’’ ance to lower its price, we are encour- anges here with a business that is, say, Mr. Chairman, it is long past time to aging very risky behavior by masking I don’t know, an accountant maybe—I debunk that same myth in our own the cost of that risk. don’t know, Mr. Chairman—and a country, restore to consumers the Once again, that produces bad out- farmer. Farming is inherently risky, so power to command what producers comes for taxpayers, for consumers, that is not even debatable. grow, and restore to producers the ac- and ultimately the farmers themselves The issue we have here, though, is is curate price signals they need to maxi- because they have been led toward it worth it to us as a nation to make an mize their productivity in a free and higher risk by distorted price signals. investment in our national security? undistorted market. Nor is subsidized insurance necessary Our ability to feed ourselves is abso- Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of for farm loans. Bankers loan to other lutely crucial to our national security, my time.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.084 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4184 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, we Vote ‘‘no’’ on McClintock. and to grow products that are shipped have got a clear-cut choice: you either Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of all over the world. From raising live- want American producers to produce my time. stock to growing crops such as soy- American food or you don’t. That is The Acting CHAIR. The question is beans and corn, they contribute to the what this is simply about. on the amendment offered by the gen- lifeblood of my State of Illinois and When I think about the farm bill, you tleman from California (Mr. MCCLIN- also our national economy. can love it or hate the safety net we TOCK). To fully support the agriculture com- have in place, but it works—as the The question was taken; and the Act- munity, we must maintain an efficient chairman said, the lowest cost price ing Chair announced that the noes ap- and effective program and programs food in the developed world. peared to have it. that allow our farmers to be globally Here is why that is important. Half Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chairman, I competitive. Given the tremendous im- of America works paycheck to pay- demand a recorded vote. pact of the agriculture industry on the check. Their food budget is where they The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to U.S. economy, we must work to ensure flex. Their rent doesn’t change. Their clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- that our farmers are able to operate house payment doesn’t change. Their ceedings on the amendment offered by without burdensome and time-con- car payment doesn’t change. But if the gentleman from California will be suming regulatory requirements. something comes up in the middle of postponed. My district in central and west-cen- the month, it is coming out of that AMENDMENT NO. 4 OFFERED BY MR. LAHOOD tral Illinois is the eighth largest dis- food budget. The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order I don’t want to make that mom’s job trict in terms of corn and soybean pro- to consider amendment No. 4 printed duction in the country, and I hear from any tougher than it already is by rais- House Report 115–679. ing the cost of food arbitrarily, capri- my farmers across my district and Mr. LAHOOD. Mr. Chairman, I have ciously, by ignoring the vast amount of from my own agriculture advisory an amendment at the desk. committee that the amount of time competition around this world that is The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will fundamentally unfair. spent filling out paperwork for these designate the amendment. programs, even when there is no If we could go to that utopia that my The text of the amendment is as fol- friend from California would like to get change to their farming operation, lows: us to, fantastic, but we can’t do that. takes up too much of their valuable They barely could do it in New Zea- At the end of subtitle F of title I, insert time which could be used on their the following new section: land, for goodness’ sake. We could not farms. SEC. 1612. ONE-TIME FILING FOR ARC AND PLC. do that against the rest of the world. Under the current rules, to file an an- (a) ONE-TIME FILING.—Except as provided I would argue that U.S. production is in subsection (b), during the first enrollment nual contract, farmers need to collect a bit more complicated than whatever period announced by the Farm Service Agen- signatures from landlords or other in- New Zealand might or might not be cy after the date of the enactment of this dividuals with an interest in the land. doing. We have got to compete in a Act, producers on a farm may file a one-time Many landlords reside out of the State world global market against foreign program contract with the Secretary to en- or out of the country, making this pa- treasuries that are spending stunningly roll in agricultural risk coverage or price perwork burdensome and very difficult more money than we are. loss coverage through crop year 2023. in many cases. (b) UPDATED PROGRAM CONTRACT RE- China spent $100 billion on three Under our amendment, farmers will products in 1 year to subsidize their QUIRED.—In the case of a change in a farming operation for which producers on a farm be able to and be eligible for a one-time products. Now, did that send the wrong have filed a one-time program contract pur- signup for ARC and PLC for the dura- signal to those folks? Yes, it did. We suant to subsection (a), such producers shall tion of the 5-year farm bill so long as farmers and our rice farmers and our file an updated program contract with the there are no changes to the current other producers have to compete Secretary not later than one year after such farming operation. If a farmer does against the prices that are depressed change in the farming operation occurs. make changes to their farming oper- (c) NOTICE OF OTHER ANNUAL REPORTING.— like that. ation, they must reflect those changes We can’t go against the rest of the The Secretary shall provide to each producer in a new signup, as is the current proc- world. If the rest of the world will go to that files a one-time program contract pur- ess. This simple fix will help our farm- a level playing field, I have got not one suant to subsection (a) a notice that includes the annual and other periodic reporting re- ers spend more time farming and less farmer out there who would say: No, quirements applicable to such producer, as time filling out paperwork. no, no, we want to keep it in place. determined by the Secretary. They want to compete in the cash mar- I want to thank Chairman CONAWAY (d) REGULATIONS REVISED.—The Secretary and his staff for working with me on ket. That is where they want to make shall— their money. This amendment would (1) issue such regulations as are necessary this amendment, and I appreciate all of strip them of the ability to do that. We to carry out this section; and his support for this commonsense re- would go to foreign-imported food com- (2) revise section 1412.41 of title 7, Code of form that is so important to our farm- ing at us with standards that are not Federal Regulations, in accordance with this ers. remotely close to ours, labor that is section. Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues not closely protected the way ours is. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to to vote in support of the amendment, Let’s defeat this McClintock amend- House Resolution 900, the gentleman and I yield back the balance of my ment, show the American farmer and from Illinois (Mr. LAHOOD) and a Mem- time. rancher out there, who works as hard ber opposed each will control 5 min- Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Chairman, I as anybody in this world, who thinks a utes. claim time in opposition to the amend- 20-hour workweek is something they do The Chair recognizes the gentleman ment, although I don’t oppose the in their second or third job in order to from Illinois. amendment. keep the farm going, let’s show them Mr. LAHOOD. Mr. Chairman, I yield The Acting CHAIR. Without objec- that we support them. Let’s show them myself such time as I may consume. tion, the gentleman from Minnesota is that we have got their back. Mr. Chairman, the amendment I have recognized for 5 minutes. A ‘‘yes’’ vote for McClintock says: introduced would streamline a burden- There was no objection. Never mind, we don’t care about you. A some regulatory requirement currently ‘‘no’’ vote on McClintock says exactly in place for two USDA programs. The Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Chair, this is the message we want to send, and I am first is the Agriculture Risk Coverage, common sense, and I support this hopeful this is a stunningly large vote or ARC, and the Price Loss Coverage, amendment. so that American producers out there, or PLC. My amendment changes the Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of who are some of the hardest working, signup process from an annual signup my time. best people on the face of the Earth, process to a one-and-done process for The Acting CHAIR. The question is can understand that this Congress un- the duration of the 5-year farm bill. on the amendment offered by the gen- derstands the unfair foreign competi- Our farmers work tirelessly to pro- tleman from Illinois (Mr. LAHOOD). tion that they are competing with. vide food for our families, our country, The amendment was agreed to.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.085 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4185 AMENDMENT NO. 5 OFFERED BY MR. ROGERS OF I thank him for bringing up this impor- ‘‘(b) SCOPE.—The project under this sub- ALABAMA tant issue. section may be carried out at national, re- The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order I agree with the gentleman from Ala- gional, and watershed scales, and may in- to consider amendment No. 5 printed in bama that our farmers and ranchers clude cropland, grazing lands, wetlands, for- House Report 115–679. ests, and such other lands as the Secretary should not be competing with the Fed- may determine appropriate. Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chair- eral Government for viable cropland. man, I have an amendment at the desk. ‘‘(c) ACTIVITIES.—The project under this H.R. 2 makes many changes to the CRP subsection may include research, literature The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will program, such as capping the rental reviews and bibliographies, modeling, assess- designate the amendment. rate payment to 80 percent of the coun- ment, monitoring and data collection, out- The text of the amendment is as fol- ty average and stepping this percent- reach, extension education, and such other lows: age down for subsequent reenrollments activities as the Secretary may determine Page 113, line 5, strike ‘‘inserting a semi- of the same tract. appropriate. colon’’ and insert ‘‘inserting ‘; and’ ’’. I understand, however, the gentle- ‘‘SEC. 9. GOALS AND ASSESSMENT PROCESS FOR Page 113, strike lines 7 through 16 and in- man’s concerns with the increase in en- CONSERVATION PROGRAMS. sert the following: rolled acres, and I commit to working ‘‘(a) NATURAL RESOURCE AND ENVIRON- ‘‘(F) each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023, MENTAL OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES.— no more than 24,000,000 acres.’’; with the gentleman and his staff on this issue during the coming con- ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In coordination with the The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to ference report, should we get there. appraisal of soil, water, and related re- House Resolution 900, the gentleman Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chair, sources, the soil and water conservation pro- from Alabama (Mr. ROGERS) and a I thank the chairman for his leadership gram, and the conservation effects assess- Member opposed each will control 5 ment project established by this Act, the and commitment. Secretary shall identify, and periodically re- minutes. Mr. Chair, I ask unanimous consent The Chair recognizes the gentleman vise, specific natural resource and environ- to withdraw the amendment. mental objectives and anticipated conserva- from Alabama. The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection tion outcomes and results, by resource con- Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chair- to the request of the gentleman from cern, for the conservation programs estab- man, though I plan to withdraw this Alabama? lished under subtitles D and H of title XII of amendment, I seek to enter into a col- There was no objection. the Food Security Act of 1985 and the land- loquy with my good friend, Chairman The Acting CHAIR. The amendment scape conservation initiatives developed by the Secretary. CONAWAY, regarding the Conservation is withdrawn. Reserve Program and to express con- ‘‘(2) ASSESSMENTS.—To help measure out- cern with the number of acres author- b 1615 comes and results, the Secretary shall, to ized in the CRP program in H.R. 2. the maximum extent practicable, make as- AMENDMENT NO. 6 OFFERED BY MR. FASO sessments of changes in the status and con- Chairman CONAWAY has been a strong The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order ditions of natural resources and the environ- chairman and a leader for America’s to consider amendment No. 6 printed in ment that result from the application of con- farmers, and for that I would like to House Report 115–679. servation activities supported directly by thank him. Mr. FASO. Mr. Chairman, I have an such conservation programs and initiatives. CRP is a well-intended program that amendment at the desk. ‘‘(3) MONITORING AND PROGRAM EVALUA- has a place in protecting sensitive The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will TION.—The Secretary shall establish a co- ordinated monitoring and evaluation process lands; however, the program should not designate the amendment. be expanded beyond levels currently for programs and initiatives to assess The text of the amendment is as fol- progress toward the identified objectives, to authorized in the Agriculture Act of lows: gather information to improve program and 2014. At the end of subtitle D of title II, add the initiative implementation in accordance The Agriculture Act of 2014 reduced following: with desired program and initiative out- the national CRP acreage cap from 32 SEC. 2407. SOIL AND WATER RESOURCES CON- comes and results, and to assess the need for million acres to 27.5 million acres in SERVATION. modifications to program or initiative rules 2014 and to 24 million acres in 2018. H.R. The Soil and Water Resources Conserva- or statutes. 2 would then increase this cap by 1 mil- tion Act of 1977 (16 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.) is ‘‘(b) MONITORING AND PROGRAM EVALUA- lion acres each year to a maximum en- amended— TION.— rollment of 29 million acres by 2023. (1) in section 5(e), by striking ‘‘and Decem- ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall es- ber 31, 2015’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, USDA’s Farm Service Agency’s CRP tablish a comprehensive monitoring and pro- 2015, and December 31, 2022’’; gram evaluation process to assess progress in enrollment data reveals that, for the (2) in section 6(d), by striking ‘‘, respec- reaching natural resource and environmental 2016 fiscal year, 23.9 million acres were tively’’ and inserting ‘‘, and a program up- objectives identified in accordance with sub- enrolled in CRP, representing approxi- date shall be completed by December 31, section (a) and the contribution of individual mately 7 percent of the U.S. cropland. 2023’’; programs and initiatives, as well as the pro- Rental rates and leases offered by the (3) in section 7— grams and initiatives collectively, to that Federal Government are often much (A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘and progress. more lucrative than farming would be. 2016’’ and inserting ‘‘, 2016, and 2022’’; and ‘‘(2) IMPLEMENTATION.—In implementing (B) in subsection (b), in the matter pre- While congressional directives and a the monitoring and program evaluation ceding paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and 2017’’ process under paragraph (1), the Secretary favorable farm economy in prior years and inserting ‘‘, 2017, and 2023’’; may consider and incorporate resource con- led to lower CRP enrollment, nearly (4) in section 10, by striking ‘‘2018’’ and in- cern inventories, quality criteria, conserva- one-quarter of all land enrolled in CRP serting ‘‘2023’’; tion practices and enhancements, and such has been enrolled for more than 20 (5) by redesignating sections 8 through 10 other information as the Secretary deter- years, including 2.7 million acres, or 12 as sections 9 though 11, respectively; and mines relevant for applying the monitoring percent, enrolled for more than three (6) by inserting after section 7 the fol- and program evaluation process across each decades since the inception of the pro- lowing: of the major land uses identified by the Sec- gram. During the 2016 fiscal year, pay- ‘‘SEC. 8. CONSERVATION PROGRAMS ASSESS- retary. MENT. ‘‘(3) MONITORING AND EVALUATION PROC- ments for CRP lands totaled $1.7 bil- ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—In coordination with the ESS.— lion. appraisal of soil, water, and related re- ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than two years As our Nation’s farmers and ranchers sources and with the national soil and water after the date of enactment of this section, face the challenge of meeting the in- conservation program established under this the Secretary shall issue a design for the creasing demand for food and fiber in Act, the Secretary may carry out a con- comprehensive monitoring and evaluation the U.S. and abroad, I ask the chair- servation effects assessment project to quan- process, a schedule for implementing the man: Should America’s producers be tify the environmental and economic effects process, and a plan for coordinating the proc- forced to continue competing with Fed- of conservation practices, develop the ess with the national soil and water con- science base for managing the agricultural servation program and conservation effects eral programs for access to farmland? landscape for environmental quality and sus- assessment project established under this I yield to the gentleman from Texas. tainable productive capacity, and improve Act. Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I the efficacy of conservation practices and ‘‘(B) METHODOLOGY.—The design for the thank the gentleman for yielding, and programs by evaluating conservation effects. monitoring and evaluation process shall—

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This information is necessary State level, national level, and any other under subtitles D and H of title XII of the to help define, evaluate, and justify level the Secretary determines necessary; Food Security Act of 1985, excluding the con- taxpayer return on conservation in- and servation reserve program. vestment programs. ‘‘(ii) take into account the cumulative na- ‘‘(c) REPORTING.— Right now, the USDA can provide in- ture of conservation over time, the inter- ‘‘(1) REPORT ON OBJECTIVES AND METHODS.— formation on the impact of our con- Beginning in the fiscal year that is 3 years actions and sequencing effects between con- servation programs in terms of con- servation activities, the differing times for after the date of enactment of this sub- conservation effects to be realized, and other section, and periodically thereafter, as deter- tracts and acres, but they lack the related measurement challenges. mined by the Secretary, the Secretary shall ability to provide the actual impact of ‘‘(C) PUBLIC RESEARCH.—Notwithstanding submit to Congress, and make publicly avail- these programs on important resource any other provision of law, in order to facili- able, a report that includes— concerns. By ensuring that the USDA tate implementation of the monitoring and ‘‘(A) a description of conservation outcome has all of the tools necessary to collect evaluation process, the Secretary shall make objectives that are, to the maximum extent this information, we can better protect available conservation activity and program practicable, quantitative, measurable, and and preserve these programs into the data to cooperators and researchers engaged time-bound for each program established in public research and evaluation activities under subtitle D or H of the Food Security future. to improve conservation outcomes under this Act of 1985 and the landscape conservation The USDA’s voluntary conservation subsection, provided that— initiatives developed by the Secretary; programs are consistently helping ‘‘(i) adequate assurances are provided to ‘‘(B) a description of the approaches, tools, farmers in initiatives that protect nat- the Secretary that any resulting research or and methods used to measure or model the ural resources while also increasing information will be made publicly available conservation outcomes and results and to es- farm productivity. This amendment and in a form that protects personally iden- timate the cost-effectiveness of each such would ensure that the USDA can con- tifiable information; and program; and tinue to improve existing conservation ‘‘(ii) the National Technical Committee ‘‘(C) guidance to the conservation project finds that any such research is likely to gen- partners working to implement conservation programs and practices while also sup- erate information that furthers the purpose programs within a landscape-level project porting our Nation’s farmers. of this section. that provides a description of the ap- Mr. Chairman, we will also seek, in ‘‘(4) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—The Sec- proaches, tools, and methods the partners response to concerns that have been retary may implement the monitoring eval- might consider using to measure and model raised by the Farm Bureau, to, in con- uation process in part through cooperative the conservation outcomes and results of ference, further refine the privacy pro- or contribution agreements with Federal, their projects. visions relating to the research activi- State, and local agencies, universities and ‘‘(2) REPORT ON OUTCOMES.—In conjunction ties that would take place under this colleges, nongovernmental organizations with each of the reports to Congress pursu- with requisite expertise, as determined by ant to section 7, the Secretary shall submit bill to ensure that any personally iden- the Secretary in consultation with the Na- to Congress, and make publicly available, a tifiable information that would be con- tional Technical Committee. report that includes— tained within the analysis of conserva- ‘‘(5) NATIONAL TECHNICAL COMMITTEE.— ‘‘(A) an assessment of progress made to- tion programs is further protected by ‘‘(A) COMPOSITION.—The monitoring and wards achieving conservation program objec- the United States Department of Agri- evaluation process shall be administered by tives and anticipated outcomes and results culture. the Natural Resources Conservation Service for each conservation program established with assistance from a national technical Mr. CONAWAY. Will the gentleman under subtitle D or H of title XII of the Food yield? committee appointed by the Secretary and Security Act of 1985, as well as for such pro- composed of individuals with relevant tech- grams collectively, and the landscape con- Mr. FASO. I yield to the gentleman nical and scientific expertise representing— servation initiatives developed by the Sec- from Texas. ‘‘(i) the Agricultural Research Service of retary; Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, Mr. the Department of Agriculture; ‘‘(B) an evaluation of the cost-effectiveness FASO has my commitment to work ‘‘(ii) the Economic Research Service of the of each such conservation program and ini- with him to address the Farm Bureau’s Department of Agriculture; tiative; and concerns to get them to the point that ‘‘(iii) the Farm Service Agency of the De- ‘‘(C) recommendations, in light of the as- partment of Agriculture; they are okay with this. I support the sessment and evaluation, to improve pro- gentleman’s amendment under those ‘‘(iv) the Forest Service; gram implementation and improve the sci- ‘‘(v) the National Institute for Food and entific and economic tools (including any terms. Agriculture; new or revised conservation practices, con- Mr. FASO. Mr. Chairman, I am en- ‘‘(vi) the United States Geological Survey; servation enhancements, or conservation couraged by the support for my amend- ‘‘(vii) State and tribal agencies; planning tools) used to achieve stated nat- ment. ‘‘(viii) land grant university natural re- ural resource conservation and environ- I yield back the balance of my time. source research programs; mental objectives. ‘‘(ix) nongovernmental organizations with The Acting CHAIR. The question is ‘‘(3) COORDINATION.—The Secretary may co- expertise in the full array of conservation on the amendment offered by the gen- ordinate the reports required under para- issues and measurement and evaluation of tleman from New York (Mr. FASO). graphs (1) and (2) with any reports developed conservation outcomes; and The amendment was agreed to. as part of the conservation effects assess- ‘‘(x) such other agencies, institutions, or ment project authorized by section 8, when- The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order organizations as the Secretary may deter- ever such coordination is feasible and war- to consider amendment No. 7 printed in mine appropriate. ranted, as determined by the Secretary.’’. House Report 115–679. ‘‘(B) FACA EXEMPTION.—The national tech- nical committee shall be exempt from the The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to AMENDMENT NO. 8 OFFERED BY MR. MCCLINTOCK Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. House Resolution 900, the gentleman The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order App.). from New York (Mr. FASO) and a Mem- to consider amendment No. 8 printed in ‘‘(C) TRANSPARENCY.—The Secretary shall ber opposed each will control 5 min- House Report 115–679. ensure the proceedings and recommenda- utes. Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chairman, I tions of the national technical committee The Chair recognizes the gentleman have an amendment at the desk. are available to the public. from New York. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will ‘‘(6) VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION.—In car- Mr. FASO. Mr. Chairman, I rise rying out this subsection, the Secretary designate the amendment. today to offer an amendment which The text of the amendment is as fol- shall ensure that any on-farm monitoring ac- would provide the USDA the tools it tivities that may be included as part of the lows: monitoring and program evaluation process needs to quantifiably measure con- Beginning on page 250, strike line 25 and are voluntary on the part of the producer, servation outcomes. all that follows through line 13 on page 253. and may include appropriate compensation, These provisions are substantively Page 253, line 14, strike ‘‘(G) 15-PERCENT’’ as determined by the Secretary. the same as a bipartisan bill I intro- and insert ‘‘(F) 5-PERCENT’’. ‘‘(7) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— duced earlier this year with Represent- Page 254, line 25, strike ‘‘15 percent’’ and There are authorized to be appropriated to ative MARCIA FUDGE. insert ‘‘5 percent’’.

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This H.R. 2 includes a substantive, en- Page 256, line 18, strike ‘‘(ii)’’ and insert ‘‘(iii)’’. amendment reduces the exemption to forceable, and supportive work require- Page 257, line 2, strike ‘‘or (G) a pregnant those with children under age 3 but ment for work-capable adults 18 to 59. woman.’’ and insert ‘‘(G) a married indi- with an important difference: H.R. 2’s That is 20 percent of the population, 6 vidual who is responsible for a dependent in- requirements extend the work require- million individuals. dividual and who resides in the household ments to both spouses of children Waivers and exemptions were modi- with a spouse who complies with the require- under the age of 6. This, in effect, is a fied and even tightened to ensure that ments of paragraph (1)(B); or (H) a pregnant marriage penalty that treats married only the most vulnerable work-capable woman.’’. couples as if they were single. adults were waived from the require- Page 257, line 9, strike ‘‘(iii)’’ and insert The amendment I offer applies to ment. Waivers take into consideration ‘‘(iv)’’. Page 257 line 25, strike the close quotation only one spouse in the family, allowing those areas with excessively high rates marks, the comma, and ‘‘and’’. the parents to share domestic and work of unemployment, while exemptions Page 257, after line 25, insert the following: responsibilities between themselves in assist those who need short-term re- ‘‘(iii) E-VERIFY.—An employment and any manner they feel is appropriate. prieve because of temporary hardship. training program designed by the State This recognizes, encourages, and re- Allowing for married couples to ful- agency may not be approved unless such pro- wards marriage as the stable and nur- fill one requirement disengages recipi- gram requires that each individual who par- turing environment that it is. ents from the workforce. Work is more ticipates in such program is permitted to en- H.R. 2 allows States to waive the than just a paycheck. It provides dig- gage in employment in the United States on work requirement in geographic areas nity, social impact, opportunity, and the basis of the status of such individual as determined under the employment defined by them with higher-than-nor- creates the only path to self-suffi- verification system in effect under section mal unemployment rates above 6 per- ciency. One spouse fulfilling a 20-hour- 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act cent. This amendment deletes the per-week requirement does not lead to (8 U.S.C. 1324a).’’, and waiver for an important reason: Where self-sufficiency. It does the exact oppo- Page 260, strike lines 24 and 25, and insert there is high unemployment, there is site; it creates a lifetime dependency the following: also more reason to encourage job trap. (1) in subsection (e)— training and job searching in order to H.R. 2 provides equitable treatment (A) in paragraph (5)— equip recipients to compete in tighter to all households when promoting (i) in subparagraph (A) by striking ‘‘age 6’’ job markets. Sidelining these individ- work, including those that house co- and inserting ‘‘age 3 or of an incapacitated habiting adults or married adults. person’’, and uals is self-defeating both for them and (ii) in subparagraph (B) by striking ‘‘of 5’’ for the local economies. Currently, 42 States choose not to and inserting ‘‘of 2’’, Also, the amendment removes the use education and training funds to in- (B) in paragraph (7) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the ability of States to define these geo- vest in childcare, which is an allowable end, graphic areas in a manner that would investment. Reducing the age of the (C) in paragraph (8) by striking the period defeat the work requirement in the child from 6 to 3 is an undeniable bar- at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’, and first place. rier that disincentivizes employment (D) and by adding at the end the following: H.R. 2 also allows States to exempt more so than the current program- ‘‘(9) is a married individual who is respon- 15 percent of the able-bodied popu- ming. sible for a dependent individual and who re- lation from this work requirement. Requiring education and training sides in the household with a spouse who complies with the requirements of sub- This amendment takes it to 5 percent. providers to use E-Verify on all partici- section (d)(1).’’, and Finally, this amendment requires pants who depend on them for services that SNAP recipients be screened by is just plain cruel. SNAP has eligibility The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to the E-Verify system to assure that standards in place, and illegal immi- House Resolution 900, the gentleman training is going only to those who are grants are not eligible for benefits. from California (Mr. MCCLINTOCK) and obeying our laws and are legally in this This is simply a means to shut out the a Member opposed each will control 5 country. This requirement is essential very organizations and entities that minutes. to the enforcement of our immigration The Chair recognizes the gentleman provide these necessary supports for in- laws. Otherwise, we are spending tax- from California. dividuals in need. payer money to train illegal immi- Mr. Chairman, I oppose this amend- Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chairman, grants whom Federal law prohibits ment and urge my colleagues to do the this amendment does two things: It in- from being employed. same. creases from 20 percent to 70 percent This amendment transforms the I reserve the balance of my time. the percentage of able-bodied adults in work requirement in H.R. 2 from an Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chairman, I SNAP that would be required to com- empty and symbolic gesture covering reserve the balance of my time. ply with the work requirements in the just one-fifth of the able-bodied popu- Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. bill, and it requires the use of the E- lation receiving food stamps to more Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to yield Verify system to assure that work than 70 percent. such time as he may consume to the training is available only to legal resi- It rewards, rather than penalizes, gentleman from New York (Mr. FASO). dents in this country who are legally married couples and recognizes that Mr. FASO. Mr. Chairman, I appre- entitled to work. the shared responsibilities of marriage ciate the impetus behind the gen- H.R. 2 provides for a requirement are one of the single greatest factors in tleman from California’s amendment, that work-capable, nonemployed adults reducing poverty. Children born into but I think this amendment, if it were look for work or train for work in homes with single parents are five adopted, would threaten to destroy the order to receive SNAP benefits. That is times more likely to live in poverty. It carefully constructed efforts that we important. When Maine implemented a is time our policies reflected the im- have endeavored to engage in in the work requirement for able-bodied wel- portance of marriage in protecting our committee to create something that fare recipients, they found that 84 per- children. was realistic and achievable. cent of this population left the welfare Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance Lowering the age from 6 to 3 will rolls and, within a year, had doubled of my time. make it much more difficult for many their effective pay. Alabama saw the Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. SNAP families to comply with the same results. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in op- work requirements, and reducing the Unfortunately, H.R. 2 would only en- position to the amendment. ability of a State to have a waiver of gage about 20 percent of this popu- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman up to 15 percent of the population will lation—20 percent. This amendment from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 also make it extremely difficult, by re- would boost the work participation minutes. ducing that number down to 5 percent. rate to 70 percent of able-bodied adults Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. So I think what the committee did in the program. It does so by imple- Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to was have a finely balanced effort to try

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Mr. Speaker, I ask constructed effort that we have made legally are not taking advantage of unanimous consent that during further to try to encourage work and responsi- taxpayer-funded programs. consideration of H.R. 2 in the Com- bility. mittee of the Whole pursuant to House Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chairman, I Resolution 900, amendment No. 7 print- continue to reserve the balance of my b 1630 ed in House Report 115–679 may be con- time. I really wish we had more informa- sidered out of sequence. Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as she tion on this topic, but, again, it is my belief that the average clerk in an av- objection to the request of the gen- may consume to the gentlewoman from tleman from Texas? erage convenience store knows a lot Delaware (Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER). There was no objection. more about the SNAP program than Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER. Mr. Chair- f man, 42, 23, 89, 200, and 3. These num- most Ph.D.s in sociology. AGRICULTURE AND NUTRITION bers stand out for me. Forty-two mil- Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chair, I yield lion people will be impacted by the back the balance of my time. ACT OF 2018 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- SNAP changes; 23 hearings; 89 wit- Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. nesses, who didn’t recommend the pro- ant to House Resolution 900 and rule Mr. Chairman, first of all, I ask sup- posals that we are seeing today; $200 XVIII, the Chair declares the House in port in opposing this amendment from million spent on 10 pilot programs, of the Committee of the Whole House on my friend and colleague from Cali- which we won’t get the results in time; the state of the Union for the further fornia. and 3 years old, the age that we are re- consideration of the bill, H.R. 2. ducing down from 6 for parents to go to To my friends across the aisle who Will the gentleman from Idaho (Mr. work. keep asking for bipartisan opportunity, SIMPSON) kindly resume the chair. These numbers just don’t add up. And you blew the first one. That was in sub- b 1632 one of my concerns is that great pro- committee, where we could have IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE posals might be put on the floor right amendments, and we are not seeing Accordingly, the House resolved now, but we had a process, and the amendments from Members here. So itself into the Committee of the Whole process has been flawed, and now we there has been plenty of opportunity House on the state of the Union for the have a flawed product. for bipartisan work. further consideration of the bill (H.R. So, again, I urge my colleagues I do appreciate the recommendations 2) to provide for the reform and con- across the aisle to come back together that my Democratic friends made in tinuation of agricultural and other pro- in the great tradition of the Agri- writing to both the ranking member grams of the Department of Agri- culture Committee and work on a bi- and the chairman. All of those points culture through fiscal year 2023, and partisan piece of legislation that for other purposes, with Mr. SIMPSON moves Americans into work—meaning- and all the titles, I believe, were—I (Acting Chair) in the chair. ful work. know in the nutrition title they were all incorporated into the base bill. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman The Acting CHAIR. When the Com- from Pennsylvania has the right to Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- mittee of the Whole rose earlier today, close. ance of my time. a request for a recorded vote on amend- Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chairman, I The Acting CHAIR. The question is ment No. 8 printed in House Report yield the remainder of my time to the on the amendment offered by the gen- 115–679 offered by the gentleman from gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. tleman from California (Mr. MCCLIN- California (Mr. MCCLINTOCK) had been GROTHMAN), my colleague on the House TOCK). postponed. Budget Committee. The question was taken; and the Act- AMENDMENT NO. 7 OFFERED BY MR. Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Chairman, I FORTENBERRY thank again the gentleman from Cali- ing Chair announced that the noes ap- The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order fornia for bringing forth this amend- peared to have it. to consider amendment No. 7 printed in ment and the gentleman from Texas Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr Chair, I de- House Report 115–679. for all of the work that he did on the mand a recorded vote. Mr. FORTENBERRY. Mr. Chairman, bill. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to I have an amendment at the desk. I think sometimes, rather than have The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- hearings, you find out a lot more about designate the amendment. these Federal programs and particu- ceedings on the amendment offered by The text of the amendment is as fol- larly the SNAP program if you talk to the gentleman from California will be lows: postponed. the local clerks at the convenience Page 187, after line 10, insert the following stores and the grocery stores and the Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chair, I move (and redesignate the subsequent subsections income maintenance workers in the that the Committee do now rise. accordingly): (a) STATEMENT OF POLICY.— counties or the people who manage the The motion was agreed to. low-income housing to find out what (1) IN GENERAL.—It is in the national inter- ests of the United States to advance food se- really is going on here. Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. curity in developing countries and open new I will bring to light one in particular markets for agricultural trade through pro- of the four provisions in the amend- HOLDING) having assumed the chair, grams that leverage the unique capabilities ment: the idea that participants in Mr. SIMPSON, Acting Chair of the Com- of Federal departments and agencies, and training programs have to go through mittee of the Whole House on the state improve coordination between donors, bene- E-Verify. of the Union, reported that that Com- ficiaries, and the private sector. It has been said that you have to be mittee, having had under consideration (2) ROLE OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.— a citizen to get SNAP anyway. I would the bill (H.R. 2) to provide for the re- The Department of Agriculture plays an im- suggest talking to some of the income form and continuation of agricultural portant role in establishing trade between the United States and other nations and maintenance workers or some of the and other programs of the Department should enhance its role in facilitating the people who talk to some of the people of Agriculture through fiscal year 2023, transfer of the knowledge, skills, and experi- who use the SNAP program, and I and for other purposes, had come to no ence of American farmers, land-grant univer- think they will tell you that, whatever resolution thereon. sities, and extension services through the

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ANCE.—Section 501(b)(1) of the Food for for 20 years and became involved with Third, the data generated through Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1737(b) is amended— a very important United States Gov- this new metric will be available pub- (1) in paragraph (1) by inserting ‘‘tech- ernment program called Farmer-to- licly. nical’’ before ‘‘assistance’’; and Farmer. It is important to note that the (2) in paragraph (2)(A)— One of Archie’s experiences was in amendment enhances outreach to iden- (A) by striking ‘‘; and’’ at the end of clause Bangladesh. Bangladesh has as many tify and prioritize new implementing (viii); and dairy cows as we do in the United partners, increases the diversity of pro- (B) by striking clause (ix) and inserting the gram participants, and serves to ex- following: States, and we have 12 times the pro- ‘‘(ix) agricultural education and extension; duction capacity as they do. pand recruitment of new volunteers ‘‘(x) selection of seed varieties and plant Through Archie’s work, through the from diverse agricultural knowledge stocks; techniques that he has provided them, and skill backgrounds. ‘‘(xi) knowledge of insecticide and sanita- particularly nutrition guidance, he has Mr. Chairman, I believe this amend- tion procedures to prevent crop destruction; helped solve one of those problems that ment will also better support our work ‘‘(xii) use and maintenance of agricultural exists around the world with structural in global food security programs that equipment and irrigation systems; and poverty and not enough to eat. already exist and have wide congres- ‘‘(xiii) selection of fertilizers and methods In fact, the Bangladeshis wanted to sional backing. We have an important of soils treatment; and’’. moment here to renew, innovate, and Page 189, after line 6, insert the following: name him ‘‘Father of modern dairy.’’ (g) CROP YIELDS AND INNOVATIVE PARTNER- He is a humble man, my constituent, modernize a very good program. SHIPS.—Section 501 of the Food for Peace Act and I am proud of his work. And, of Mr. Chair, I yield as much time as he (7 U.S.C. 1737) is amended by adding at the course, he refuses that title. may consume to the gentleman from end the following: Nonetheless, Mr. Chairman, the Texas (Mr. CONAWAY). ‘‘(f) ESTABLISHMENT OF A GEOGRAPHICALLY amendment before us today addresses Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I rise DEFIED CROP YIELD METRICS.—The Secretary this very important program. This pro- in support of the gentleman’s amend- of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Ad- gram has connected volunteer Amer- ment. ministrator of the Agency for International This actually is America at her best. Development, should— ican farmers, agriculture extension ex- perts, and others with deep knowledge It is taking American expertise, going ‘‘(1) establish a geographically defined crop people-to-people across this world, and yield metrics system to assess improvements of agriculture production with farmers in crop yields in countries and areas receiv- abroad as well as agricultural experts sharing the great techniques we are de- ing assistance under this title; and from American universities to other veloping here. And while that might ‘‘(2) store the data resulting from such geo- countries around the globe. make those host countries a little graphically defined crop yield metrics sys- The sharing of America’s agricul- more competitive with our production tem in a publicly available Internet database tural expertise dramatically enhances of agriculture here in America, it is the system. the capacity of people elsewhere to right thing to do. ‘‘(g) GRANT PROGRAM TO CREATE NEW PART- Mr. Chair, I support the amendment, NERS AND INNOVATION.— grow their own food. and I appreciate Mr. FORTENBERRY’s ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of the Really, Mr. Chairman, this initiative Agency for International Development shall is about three things. It is about the dedication not only to this specific develop a grant program for fiscal years 2019 richness of America’s farm experience. issue but his broader work across the through 2023 to facilitate new and innovative It is about an engine of economic re- international arena that he has shown partnerships and activities under this title. generation in the fight against struc- his expertise in. ‘‘(2) USE OF FUNDS.—Grant recipients under tural global poverty. And it also, I be- Mr. FORTENBERRY. Mr. Chair, I this subsection shall use such funds— lieve, will enhance our 21st century ar- thank the chairman for his comments, ‘‘(A) to prioritize new implementing part- chitecture of emerging diplomatic rela- and I yield back the balance of my ners; time. ‘‘(B) on innovative volunteer models; tions. This program was initially author- The Acting CHAIR. The question is ‘‘(C) on strategic partnerships with other on the amendment offered by the gen- United States development programs; and ized in 1985, and it has been in subse- ‘‘(D) on expanding the footprint and im- quent farm bills and, again, has pro- tleman from Nebraska (Mr. FORTEN- pact of the programs and activities under moted sustainable economic growth, BERRY). The amendment was agreed to. this title, and diversity among program par- food security, and agricultural develop- ticipants, including land grant colleges or ment worldwide. AMENDMENT NO. 9 OFFERED BY MR. MACARTHUR universities and extension services. All 50 States have been represented The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order ‘‘(h) APPROPRIATIONS.—None of the in volunteer trips overseas to assist to consider amendment No. 9 printed in amounts made available to carry out this House Report 115–679. title may be used to carry out subsections (f) farmers, and specialists from a variety Mr. MACARTHUR. Mr. Chairman, I and (g) of this section except to the extent of agricultural disciplines have taught have an amendment at the desk. that such subsections are carried out using host-country farmers in over 100 na- The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will authorities otherwise provided by this tions through coordination with 12,000 title.’’. designate the amendment. different local host organizations. The text of the amendment is as fol- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to The growth of the program has fos- lows: House Resolution 900, the gentleman tered community ecosystems of sus- Page 247, line 23, strike ‘‘(I)’’ and insert from Nebraska (Mr. FORTENBERRY) and tainable agriculture. It has enhanced ‘‘(J)’’. a Member opposed each will control 5 the ability to access new markets and Page 256, line 13, strike the close quotation minutes. conserved environmental and natural marks and the comma at the end. The Chair recognizes the gentleman resources. The work of our American Page 256, after line 13, insert the following: from Nebraska. farmers has borne great fruit overseas, ‘‘(I) HOUSEHOLD INELIGIBILTY.—If an indi- Mr. FORTENBERRY. Mr. Chairman, and, with some innovative rethinking, vidual becomes ineligible to participate in first, let me thank my good friend I think we can help fully realize this the supplemental nutrition assistance pro- gram as a household member due to failure Chairman CONAWAY for working with program’s potential. to meet the requirements under subpara- us on this very important amendment. This amendment serves three critical graph (B), the remaining household members Mr. Chair, I would like to share a objectives. (including children), shall not become ineli- story with you. I just got off the phone First, it elevates the role of the gible to apply to participate in the supple- with Archie Devoor from Lincoln, Ne- United States Department of Agri- mental nutrition assistance program due to braska. Archie grew up as a dairy farm- culture in coordinating sequencing and such individual’s ineligibility.’’. er. He started milking cows at 12 and, prioritizing farmer visits to host coun- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to up at 12 a.m., got slapped in the face tries. House Resolution 900, the gentleman

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY7.035 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4190 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 from New Jersey (Mr. MACARTHUR) and In other words, kids are off limits. Mr. MACARTHUR. Mr. Chairman, I a Member opposed each will control 5 Mr. Chair, I urge adoption of the yield myself such time as I may con- minutes. amendment, and I reserve the balance sume. The Chair recognizes the gentleman of my time. Mr. Chairman, I regret my friend’s from New Jersey. Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chair, I claim confusion over what it does, but, as he Mr. MACARTHUR. Mr. Chairman, I the time in opposition to the amend- well knows, we pass sometimes this want to thank the chairman of the Ag- ment even though I am not opposed to much law and those who implement riculture Committee for his help and it. that pass this much, in terms of how it support and for crafting a farm bill The Acting CHAIR. Without objec- actually gets played out. that I think will benefit a great many tion, the gentleman from Massachu- This amendment makes it explicitly Americans. setts is recognized for 5 minutes. clear to those who administer the Mr. Chair, this bill benefits both There was no objection. SNAP program that children must be farmers and consumers across the Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chair, I do held harmless, they must be protected. country. Even in a densely populated want to say a few words, and that is, I On top of that, the underlying bill State like mine, New Jersey, the most am trying to understand this amend- also stops family sanctioning. densely populated State in the Nation, ment, because I really don’t under- So you can call it a belt-and-sus- I have over 800 family farms that will stand the point of it. penders approach, but, when it comes benefit from this bill. Under current law, children can still to children, I think it is worth making I have cranberry and blueberry grow- get SNAP even if their parents fail to it as crystal-clear as possible that they ers that will benefit from specialty comply with work requirements. That cannot be harmed. crop grants. Our main State univer- is the current law. H.R. 2, the farm bill, Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the sity, Rutgers, will benefit from re- does nothing to change this, so I am gentleman from Illinois (Mr. RODNEY search grants. There are crop insurance unsure why this amendment has been DAVIS). provisions, conservation measures, offered. Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. things that will benefit all of us. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for But let’s face it: the most controver- I think I would classify this amend- yielding to me. sial part of this bill, or at least one of ment as a covering-your-rear-end Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the the most controversial parts, has been amendment, because the bottom line is that there is a lot in H.R. 2 that I think gentleman’s amendment. the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Much to the chagrin of many who Program, SNAP. does harm to children, because when just oppose any changes to actually Of the $867 billion of authorized their parents are thrown off of SNAP, help us get children out of poverty and spending over the next 10 years, $664 while they may not be thrown off of billion, or more than 75 percent, is for SNAP, the overall household allowance out of the cycle of poverty that per- this one program. for food gets decreased, and so there is petual SNAP benefits bring to families, This has been bipartisan, up until less food for the entire family. I would argue that it is language like now at least. It has always been that I would say that if the majority real- this that reasserts the fact that we the Federal Government would partner ly cared about the impact H.R. 2 would need to, as this goes through the legis- with States to help the most vulner- have on children, then they would ad- lative process—we are in the second able people in the Nation, and, at the dress the changes that have been made step of the legislative process. As this same time, we would help those people in broad-based categorical eligibility, goes through the process, this clearly towards self-sufficiency, help them pre- which will throw working parents off of shows all of us here in the House and in pare to enter the workforce so that SNAP. the Senate and on a conference com- they can have the dignity that comes According to CBO, the nonpartisan mittee the opportunity that we want to with a job. I think every American de- experts that we rely on to give us data, make sure that we protect those who serves this. over 265,000 students will lose access to need that protection. We have always balanced both com- free school meals. That is exactly why I am glad Mr. passion and individual responsibility, So there is nothing to be opposed to, MACARTHUR participated in this proc- and I think this bill goes a long way to I guess, because this is already current ess. The gentleman wanted to make continuing in that tradition. law. But I would say to the gentleman this bill better. The gentleman wanted My amendment is about children. It that broad-based categorical eligi- to strengthen it to ensure that our is imperative, as we continue this bal- bility, the changes in this bill, are children in the most vulnerable house- ance, that no child gets caught up, going to adversely impact a number of holds had the opportunity to get the even unintentionally, in something individuals in New Jersey. food that they need. harmful. No child can go to school on With that alone, 35,000 individuals Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman an empty stomach and learn, and no are going to lose their SNAP benefits. for doing that. I think this is a great child should have to come home from That is just on this one part of the bill. addition to the farm bill, and I appre- school and wonder where their next Many of them have kids, and the ciate the gentleman yielding me this meal is coming from. changes are going to affect these kids. opportunity to say so. There is a lot in this bill already that So, if you really care about these Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I protects children. I recognize that. I kids, I would urge you to reject this yield myself the balance of my time. recognize that the committee has been bill. Send it back to the Agriculture Mr. Chairman, I am at a loss. We very attentive to this. My amendment Committee. Let’s work in a bipartisan have no opposition to this amendment, goes a little farther and makes it ex- way and construct a nutrition title but let’s be honest with each other and plicitly clear to those who administer which everybody understands, which is let’s be honest with our constituents. the SNAP programs around the coun- clear, which has been vetted, and which H.R. 2 will hurt families, will hurt try that children cannot be harmed in we can come to the floor and say with working families, will hurt kids. any way. certainty that it will not adversely im- You know one thing that is also ex- I will read the relevant part of the pact kids. Because this underlying bill, plicit, Mr. Chairman? According to amendment. It says: ‘‘If an individual no matter how you want to slice and CBO, 265,000 kids will be thrown off of becomes ineligible to participate in the dice it, will have a negative impact on the free breakfast and lunch program. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance kids. That is according to CBO. Program as a household member due to The other thing that is clear is that failure to meet the requirements under b 1645 there are working families—there are subparagraph (B), the remaining house- And this amendment, you go home working families, Mr. Chairman, peo- hold members (including children), and maybe do a press release on it, but ple who work, who now get SNAP bene- shall not become ineligible to apply to it doesn’t change the impact of this fits, who, because we are eliminating participate in the Supplemental Nutri- bill. broad-based categorical eligibility, a tion Assistance Program due to such Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance number of them will lose their benefits. individual’s ineligibility.’’ of my time. And they still work. Their family

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You will vote This is a commonsense proposal that ‘‘don’t hurt kids.’’ That doesn’t change ‘‘no’’ on H.R. 2. says if you commit these atrocious the fact that this bill will hurt kids. You will make sure that this bill crimes that you are ineligible for this That is why so many of us on this goes back to committee, that we have government program. side of the aisle and, hopefully, a num- a bipartisan process, and we have a bill Mr. Chairman, I urge all of my col- ber of you on your side of the aisle are that comes to the floor that helps our leagues to vote for this commonsense going to stand strong and oppose this. farmers and that helps those in need in amendment and include it in the farm This is not right. There was a right this country. bill that we have under consideration. way to do this farm bill, and there was This is not it. This does not help I yield back the balance of my time. a wrong way to do this farm bill. This kids. This amendment does nothing. The Acting CHAIR. The question is was the wrong way. This is a covering-your-rear-end on the amendment offered by the gen- Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance amendment. tleman from North Carolina (Mr. HOLD- of my time. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- ING). Mr. MACARTHUR. Mr. Chairman, ance of my time. The amendment was agreed to. how much time do I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The question is AMENDMENT NO. 12 OFFERED BY MISS ´ ´ The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman on the amendment offered by the gen- GONZALEZ-COLON OF PUERTO RICO from New Jersey has 30 seconds re- tleman from New Jersey (Mr. MAC- The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order maining. ARTHUR). to consider amendment No. 12 printed Mr. MACARTHUR. Mr. Chairman, I The amendment was agreed to. in House Report 115–679. yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from The Acting Chair. The Chair under- Miss GONZALEZ-COLON of Puerto Pennsylvania (Mr. THOMPSON), my stands that amendment No. 10 will not Rico. Mr. Chairman, I have an amend- friend. be offered. ment to H.R. 2 at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. AMENDMENT NO. 11 OFFERED BY MR. HOLDING Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman designate the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order The text of the amendment is as fol- for yielding to me. to consider amendment No. 11 printed Mr. Chairman, we have heard about lows: in House Report 115–679. At the end of subtitle A of title IV, insert broad-based categorical eligibility. If Mr. HOLDING. Mr. Chairman, I have this was a SNAP brochure, Mr. Chair- the following: an amendment at the desk. SEC. ll. DETERMINATION OF AMOUNT OF man, and I hand this to you, regardless The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will BLOCK GRANT PAYABLE TO PUERTO of what your income is, if you accept designate the amendment. RICO. this SNAP brochure, you are now eligi- The text of the amendment is as fol- (a) STUDY.—With funds appropriated to ble for SNAP. That is broad-based cat- lows: carry out this subsection, the Secretary of egorical eligibility. Agriculture shall conduct a study to deter- At the end of subtitle A of title IV, insert mine the feasibility and impact of using a Mr. Chairman, if somebody offers you the following: an 800 number to call regarding SNAP, thrifty food plan developed exclusively to SEC. ll. DISQUALIFICATION OF CERTAIN CON- apply under section 19(a)(2)(A)(ii) of the Food which is a good thing, as is the bro- VICTED FELONS. and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. chure, and you use that number, under Section 6 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2028(a)(2)(A)) to calculate the amount of the broad-based categorical eligibility, you 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2015), as amended by section block grant payable to Puerto Rico. are now eligible for SNAP, no matter 4015, is amended in subsection (p)(1)— (b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— what your income is. (1) in subparagraph (A) by striking ‘‘: and’’ There are authorized to be appropriated such So, if it has been found that some at the end and inserting a period, and sums as may be necessary to carry out sub- families will come off, it is because it (2) by striking subparagraph (B). section (a). The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to (c) APPROPRIATION IN ADVANCE.—Only has been found that there are families funds appropriated under subsection (b) in who already exceed the income. House Resolution 900, the gentleman advance specifically to carry out subsection Now, here is the thing. If they just go from North Carolina (Mr. HOLDING) and (a) shall be available to carry out such sub- and fill out the application, they can a Member opposed each will control 5 section. be eligible for SNAP if they meet those minutes. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to financial and asset requirements. The Chair recognizes the gentleman House Resolution 900, the gentlewoman Mr. MACARTHUR. Mr. Chair, I yield from North Carolina. from Puerto Rico (Miss GONZA´ LEZ- back the balance of my time. Mr. HOLDING. Mr. Chairman, I rise COLO´ N) and a Member opposed each will Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, how today in support of my amendment, control 5 minutes. much time do I have left. and I urge all colleagues to support its The Chair recognizes the gentle- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman inclusion in the farm bill today. woman from Puerto Rico. from Massachusetts has 1 minute re- Mr. Chairman, the amendment is Miss GONZA´ LEZ-COLO´ N of Puerto maining. simple. It ends eligibility for the Sup- Rico. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, the plemental Nutrition Assistance Pro- such time as I may consume. CBO, the nonpartisan experts that we gram for convicted rapists, murderers, Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support all rely on, says that over 400,000 and those guilty of sexual exploitation. of my amendment to H.R. 2. households will lose their benefits be- The 2014 farm bill contained a prohi- Mr. Chairman, this amendment aims cause of the changes in H.R. 2 with re- bition for these individuals from being to take a deeper look into the Thrifty gard to categorical eligibility. We esti- eligible for SNAP, but the individual Food Plan and how it influences the mate that to be a million people. That also has to be considered a fleeing amount of funds currently calculated is undeniable. felon. This means that, in order to lose for Nutrition Assistance Block Grants So you can sit here all you want and eligibility, the person has to not only provided to Puerto Rico through the say this is going to hold everybody be a convicted murderer, rapist, et Nutrition Assistance Program, NAP. harmless and that kids won’t suffer. It cetera, but they also must be in viola- Puerto Rico is currently included in is just not true. I mean, read the CBO tion of the terms of their sentence. the Thrifty Food Plan of the 48 contig- score. Better yet, read the bill. Mr. Chairman, I believe we should uous States. However, the island im- Look, we have no objection to you not have to wait before a criminal who ports most food items that are sold in passing a restatement of current law, has already been convicted of these stores, which increases the cost fami- because current law says that, even if acts violates the terms of their sen- lies pay when purchasing foods in- parents don’t comply, their kids can’t tence before terminating the benefits. cluded in their diet.

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It is now in order MARSHALL, and GOODLATTE, who are the program on the island, to make an to consider amendment No. 13 printed supportive of this policy change. educated decision on how to move for- in House Report 115–679. I encourage my colleagues to vote in ward in terms of acquiring benefits and Mr. FASO. Mr. Chairman, I have an favor of this commonsense amendment addressing factors that reflect in- amendment at the desk made in order and provide the States with added creases in the cost of food items found by the rule. flexibility, and I reserve the balance of and purchased on the island. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will my time. My second amendment will request designate the amendment. Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chair, I rise in the Secretary of Agriculture to The text of the amendment is as fol- opposition to the amendment. produce an update on a 2010 report pre- lows: The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman viously generated by the Food and Nu- from Massachusetts is recognized for 5 At the end of subtitle A of title IV, insert minutes. trition Service Agency at the USDA. the following: Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chairman, I op- That report will indicate the percent- SEC. ll. ADMINISTRATIVE FLEXIBILITY FOR pose this amendment. This proposal age of households that will receive nu- STATES. Section 11(e)(6)(B) of the Food and Nutri- opens the door to sweeping changes in tritional assistance and what the aver- how States can operate SNAP. The age monthly benefit per household tion Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2020(e)(6)(B)) is amended to read as follows: amendment, which was never debated would be if Puerto Rico were treated ‘‘(B) personnel of the State agency or, at or discussed by the committee, could equally under the Supplemental Nutri- the option of the State agency and by con- result in tens of thousands of American tional Assistance Program, SNAP. tract with the State agency, personnel of an jobs being shipped overseas. I know As approved by the 2014 farm bill, entity that has no direct or indirect finan- Donald Trump wants to create more cial interest in an approved retail food store, Puerto Rico’s cash portion of benefits jobs in China, but I don’t think we do. obtained through NAP will gradually may undertake such certification or carry out any other function of the State agency This risks good-paying civil service be reduced by 5 percent each year until jobs and puts benefits and services to 2021—right now, that measure is under the supplemental nutrition assistance program and without restriction by the Sec- vulnerable households at risk. SNAP’s waived by this administration because retary on the State agency’s use of non- merit system ensures workers’ aim is of the hurricane—when all NAP bene- governmental employees to perform program to effectively implement program rules fits will be then available through the eligibility or any other administrative func- unhindered by private interests or prof- electronic benefit transfer system. tion to carry out such program;’’. it motives. Some SNAP operational In view of this and in preparation for The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to functions can be appropriately turned this, we must start considering if a House Resolution 900, the gentleman over to private contractors, such as transition to SNAP is feasible or not from New York (Mr. FASO) and a Mem- computer systems, custodial services, and, if so, what it would mean for my ber opposed each will control 5 min- or debit card issuance in order to lever- constituency in terms of benefits and utes. age businesses’ competitive advantage. requirements. An updated study will The Chair recognizes the gentleman Some, however, like eligibility deter- allow us to have recent data to prop- from New York. mination, must remain a government erly consider making this decision Mr. FASO. Mr. Chairman, I rise function. Some SNAP clients, includ- along with the government of Puerto today to offer my amendment, which ing many elderly, have very complex Rico and the Federal Government. would provide States additional flexi- cases that require trained professional Mr. Chairman, my amendments es- bility to administer the Supplemental civil service workers to dedicate sig- sentially seek better facts and better Nutrition Assistance Program, or nificant time to appropriately screen data on the nutritional benefits my SNAP. and verify their information, and en- constituents receive and depend on. If included in the farm bill, this sure they receive the correct benefit For many families on the island, this is amendment would provide States the levels, which is important. the main source of nutritional assist- option, not a mandate, to determine Good local jobs likely could be ex- ance. the appropriate mix of government ported out of the area or overseas. In As Puerto Rico’s sole Representative staff and service provider staff for all many areas, including rural regions, here in Congress, it is my responsi- administrative SNAP functions. civil service jobs offer some of the best bility to make sure that we have the It would build on existing SNAP ad- paying, most stable employment for tools and information we need at hand ministrator flexibility within employ- local workers. Privatizing core SNAP to collaborate with State officials and ment and training programs as well as functions would mean many of these make those decisions that will con- technology initiatives like electronic jobs would be moved to other locations, tinue to help families on the island benefits transfer. including overseas. Why do we want to maintain proper access to a quality This barrier, currently in the SNAP do that? diet and, therefore, a proper quality of law dating from the 1970s, prevents the Privatization could also compromise life. implementation of commonsense ad- the security of a participant’s data. Mr. Chairman, decisions that are this ministrative solutions that include in- SNAP collects detailed information important and delicate should not be tegrated call centers, leveraging in- about applicants and participants, in- subjected to guesswork but based on vestment to modernize programs, and cluding Social Security numbers, updated facts, and my two amendments incorporate best practices and the abil- household composition and income, will do that. ity to address periodic peaks in enroll- and employment information. Handing Mr. Chairman, I also want to share ment activity that accompany times of private data of millions of individuals that these amendments, as drafted, do economic distress. over to private companies raises seri- not increase mandatory spending. ous concerns about their ability to And, last, I would like to urge my b 1700 keep it secure, and their interest in colleagues to support these two amend- Mr. Chairman, I know that at least a using it for other purposes. ments, and I want to thank the chair- dozen Governors sent a letter to the I respect the gentleman’s intentions, man of the Agriculture Committee for leadership of the House and Senate I guess, but I think if we had spent helping me out in drafting my amend- today saying that States across the some time in the committee actually ments and helping the people of Puerto country have been calling for adminis- discussing this, some of these concerns Rico. trative flexibility to implement var- that I raise would be apparent. So this Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- ious government programs, and it is is a bad idea, a bad amendment, and I ance of my time. time that we provide each State the reserve the balance of my time.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.107 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4193 Mr. FASO. Mr. Chairman, in response going after vulnerable populations in a When these functions are turned over to for- to the distinguished gentleman from very, very harsh way, and I think this profit companies, they focus on the bottom Massachusetts’ comments, I would sim- would complicate things even worse. line rather than providing comprehensive sup- ply suggest that what this amendment Mr. Chairman, I yield the balance of port to the needy. is trying to do is: number one, give the my time to the gentlewoman from This is what we saw in Texas when the States the option to utilize modern Texas (Ms. JACKSON LEE). state experimented with privatization. management techniques in terms of Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Chairman, In the early 2000’s Texas transferred most the operation of the SNAP program. It let me thank the gentleman from Mas- of the operational aspects of its eligibility de- is an option. It is not a mandate. sachusetts for yielding. termination system to a private contractor with Number two, I would point out that Let me very quickly say that my disastrous results. various programs such as TANF, and first statement is my opposition to this Services deteriorated as backlogs and other such as the Children’s Health Insur- bill. I can’t imagine the cut of $23 bil- inefficiencies increased. ance Program also have the ability to lion out of our food nutrition program, The contractor’s monthly abandoned call do precisely what I am suggesting in nor can I understand the breaching of rate was four times higher than what was this amendment. This is not unusual. the relationship between our support called for in the contract; more than 127,000 This is not sending jobs overseas. That for farmers and our support for poor children were dropped from health insurance is an absurd notion, I believe. people. between December 2005 and April 2006; and The fact of the matter is, we are try- I appreciate my good friend, Mr. thousands of experienced state employees ing to make it possible for States to FASO, but I have to stand in strong op- were laid off or quit and replaced by poorly seamlessly run these programs, wheth- position to his amendment which trained, low-paid vendor employees. er it is TANF, whether it is housing as- would authorize States to privatize and Former Texas Comptroller, Carole Keeton sistance, whether it is the Children’s contract out program eligibility and Strayhorn, after conducting an audit of the Health Insurance Program, or whether other administrative functions. system, stated that the ‘‘project has failed the it is Medicaid. Those programs, States Mr. Chair, I come from Texas. We state and the citizens it was designed to already have the option and already tried it. It was an enormous drain on serve’’ and called the privatization effort a have the ability to use social service the budget. It didn’t work. It was cost- ‘‘perfect story of wasted tax dollars, reduced nonprofit organizations like Catholic ly. People lost their benefits. It is a access to services and profiteering at tax- Charities to assist them in eligibility terrible idea because removing SNAP’s payers’ expense.’’ determinations, to assist States in as- merit staffing requirement would Additionally, the Faso Amendment puts at sisting recipients in getting into em- prioritize profit, disrupt access to food risk good local jobs that likely could be ex- ployment and training programs. assistance, and export good jobs. ported out of the area or overseas. So what this amendment is seeking The SNAP merit system ensures that In many areas, including rural regions, civil to do is to eliminate the exclusion of an employee’s core mission objective is service jobs offer some of the best-paying, that ability that is now only in the to effectively implement program rules most stable employment for local workers. SNAP program. Mr. Chairman, it is unhindered by private interests or prof- Privatizing core SNAP functions would only in the SNAP program that we ex- it motives. Many SNAP clients, includ- mean many of these jobs would be moved to clude the opportunity for States to ing the elderly and disabled, have com- other locations, including overseas. have these kind of abilities, to have plex cases that require trained profes- Diminishing the pool of good jobs with these services performed by nonprofit sional civil service workers to dedicate steady hours and benefits could leave many organizations and by other providers significant time. out of work or with less stable options, hurting that can efficiently and seamlessly co- When these functions are turned over local economies. ordinate the benefits and eligibility to for-profit companies, there is a dif- An added danger of privatization is that it that exists for TANF, that exists for ferent priority, Mr. Chairman. They could compromise the security of participants’ children’s health insurance, that exists focus on the bottom line rather than data. for a whole panoply of social services providing comprehensive support. Your SNAP collects detailed information about programs. constituents of this program are the el- applicants and participants, including social Mr. Chairman, I regret the gen- derly and children and disabled. In the security numbers, household composition, and tleman from Massachusetts’ opposition early 2000s, Texas transferred most of income and employment information. to the amendment. I hope he would re- the operational aspects of its eligi- Handing private data of millions of individ- consider, given the fact that CHIP and bility determination system to a pri- uals over to private companies raises serious all of these other programs—which the vate contractor with disastrous re- concerns about their ability to keep it secure gentleman supports already—permit sults. Services deteriorated as backlogs and their interests in using it for other pur- doing precisely what I am suggesting and other inefficiencies increased. poses. here, and I reserve the balance of my There were 127,000 children who were Shifting core SNAP functions to private time. dropped from health insurance. I am workers could disrupt timely and accurate pro- Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chair, how opposed to this legislation. Let’s do vision of benefits. much time do I have remaining? what is right, Mr. Chairman, for the During the early 2000’s, Texas experi- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman children. mented with privatizing key pieces of the eligi- from Massachusetts has 21⁄2 minutes re- Mr. Chair, I rise in strong opposition to bility process, including accepting applications, maining. Amendment No. 13 offered by the gentleman advising clients on program requirements and Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chair, I am not from New York, Congressman FASO, which eligibility, and verifying eligibility. going to reconsider my opposition. I would authorize states to privatize and con- The results were disastrous. think this is a bad amendment, plain tract out program eligibility and other adminis- Thousands were unable to apply or were and simple. And I think the issues like trative functions. given misinformation and many received incor- determining eligibility for who can re- This is a terrible idea because removing rect benefit allotments. ceive SNAP should not be contracted SNAP’s merit staffing requirement would Individuals’ private information was re- out to some private company. I do prioritize profit, disrupt access to food assist- leased, compromising their security. worry about creating more jobs over- ance, and export good jobs. And taxpayer dollars were wasted—none of seas and losing very good jobs here at SNAP’s merit system ensures that an em- the promises of improved performance or home. ployee’s core mission objective is to effectively cost-savings were realized. So if you are concerned about keep- implement program rules unhindered by pri- I urge all Members to join me in voting no ing good jobs—and these are good jobs, vate interests or profit motives. to Amendment No. 13. civil service jobs—here in the United Many SNAP clients, including the elderly Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chair, I yield States, then you have got to oppose and disabled, have complex cases that require back the balance of my time. this amendment. trained, professional civil service workers to Mr. FASO. Mr. Chairman, to close on Shifting core SNAP functions to pri- dedicate significant time to appropriately the amendment, let me reiterate. This vate workers could disrupt timely and screen and verify their information and ensure amendment simply seeks to treat accurate benefits. In H.R. 2, we are they receive the correct benefit levels. States’ flexibility for SNAP the same

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These and I yield back the balance of my determinations, explicitly prohibit the foods are locally sourced and culturally time. outsourcing of these jobs to foreign significant. Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chair- countries, and many even prohibit the The cultural significance of tradi- man, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman outsourcing of any job out of State. So tional foods is especially important in from Minnesota (Mr. PETERSON), the the gentleman raises a red herring that long-term care and hospital settings, ranking member of the Agriculture is not appropriate in this context, and where individuals are likely to be away Committee. should not be considered. from their homes for extended periods Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Chairman, I This simply gives the States the and are unable to easily carry on their thank the gentleman for yielding. flexibility to seamlessly manage the traditions. It is likewise important for I have been to Alaska with Mr. SNAP program and coordinate the ben- Native youth to have access to tradi- YOUNG a number of times and know the efits as they might have for home heat- tional foods for proper nutrition and culture up there and what is going on. ing assistance, or they might have for cultural heritage. This is a good amendment. I think it CHIP, or they might have for TANF. May I say, Mr. Chairman, when you makes a lot of sense for Alaska, and I Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- are in a hospital you can recover faster support it. So I encourage my col- ance of my time. if you have a traditional food. This leagues to support this amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The question is amendment builds on a previous provi- Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chair, I on the amendment offered by the gen- sion of mine in the 2014 farm bill that thank the gentleman. Again, I under- tleman from New York (Mr. FASO). authorized donation and serving of tra- stand why the chairman is against this, The question was taken; and the Act- ditional foods which meet the safety but we have no cases where there has ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- standards and in facilities that serve been any food hazards, food abuses, or peared to have it. these indigenous populations. anything like that. And I have to de- Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Chair, I demand It applies to programs encompassing scribe one thing to my colleagues. a recorded vote. residential childcare, child nutrition I am 85 years old. I am an Alaska Na- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to programs, hospitals, long-term care fa- tive. I have lived in one of the villages clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- cilities, and others. There have been no up north. My diet has consisted of seal ceedings on the amendment offered by documented safety issues and the food meat, seal oil, whale meat, whale oil, the gentleman from New York will be handling and storage safety standards and berries. I am an older man. I am in postponed. incorporated in my previous amend- a hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, or I AMENDMENT NO. 14 OFFERED BY MR. YOUNG OF ment are stringent. The standards am in a long-term care facility to take ALASKA were, in part, based on successful care of me, and they serve me, of all The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order standards from Alaska which has long things, a chicken, or they will serve me to consider amendment No. 14 printed led the way for safety procedures for some salty Spam. in House Report 115–679. traditional foods. b 1715 Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. I have an For years, this provision has led the That is not too bad by the way. amendment at the desk. way to safely offer traditional foods to The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will the vulnerable populations that need it But things that will not make me well. designate the amendment. And in my mind I desire and my body craves The text of the amendment is as fol- the most. My amendment maintains what I have eaten during the history of my lows: these standards. life. And that keeps me weller. In fact, I This amendment tonight, like the At the end of subtitle A of title IV, insert might be able to go home and be able to har- the following: previous one, has no budgetary effects. vest those things that I love. SEC. ll. SERVICE OF TRADITIONAL FOODS IN That is for those who do not want to This is all I am trying to do in facili- PUBLIC FACILITIES. spend any more money. It simply ties. This is a good amendment. I know Section 4033 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 works to ensure that Native American there has been opposition from some of (128 STAT. 818) is amended— and Alaska Native youth and elders the Federal agencies: Oh, this is a safe- (1) in subsection (c)— can participate in nutrition programs ty issue. Keep in mind, this is an issue (A) by inserting ‘‘, a State, a country and access traditional foods, regardless that takes care of that person who is equivalent, or a local education agency,’’ of the facility in which the program is after ‘‘programs’’ the 1st place it appears, receiving that food. (B) by striking ‘‘ and facilities operated by implemented. Mr. Chairman, I would urge a ‘‘yes’’ tribal organizations, that primarily serve In- This is important, given that child vote on this legislation. It should hap- dians’’ and inserting ‘‘and federally funded nutrition and senior meal programs pen for those people, my Alaskan Na- child nutrition and senior meal programs,’’, that serve a significant number of na- tives. It is important. and tives are sometimes housed in facilities Mr. Chairman, I don’t have any other (2) in subsection (d)(1)— that are not specifically designated as speakers, and I yield back the balance (A) by striking ‘‘and’’ the 1st place it ap- Tribal, and the legislation is truly fo- of my time. pears, and cused on the importance of nutrition. The Acting CHAIR. The question is (B) by inserting ‘‘, a State, a county or This amendment should be heavily county equivalent, a local educational agen- on the amendment offered by the gen- cy, and an entity or person authorized to fa- and heartily accepted and passed. I tleman from Alaska (Mr. YOUNG). cilitate the donation, storage, preparation, strongly urge adoption of this amend- The amendment was agreed to. or serving of traditional food by the operator ment. It is about nutrition, and I re- AMENDMENT NO. 15 OFFERED BY MISS of a food service program’’ after ‘‘organiza- serve the balance of my time. GONZA´ LEZ-COLO´ N OF PUERTO RICO tion’’. Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I rise The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to in opposition to the amendment. to consider amendment No. 15 printed House Resolution 900, the gentleman The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman in House Report 115–679. from Alaska (Mr. YOUNG) and a Mem- from Texas is recognized for 5 minutes. Miss GONZA´ LEZ-COLO´ N of Puerto ber opposed each will control 5 min- Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chair, it is with Rico. Mr. Chairman, I have an amend- utes. great reluctance that I rise in opposi- ment at the desk. The Chair recognizes the gentleman tion to the gentleman’s amendment. If The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will from Alaska. it were limited to just to Alaska, then designate the amendment. Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chair- that might be one thing, but the under- The text of the amendment is as fol- man, my amendment is simple. It is to lying language is too broad. lows:

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FOR PUERTO RICO. you may know, this is the main source President Reagan said that there is (a) AMENDMENTS.—Section 4142 of the of nutritional assistance. nothing quite as everlasting as a Fed- Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 I am the only representative of the eral program, and I am hoping that we (Public Law 110–246; 122 STAT. 1881) is people of Puerto Rico here and in the can end some of these programs today. amended— Senate, and it is my responsibility to Needless to say, subsidies have no (1) in subsection (b) by striking ‘‘this Act’’ make sure we receive that kind of data. place in a free market. If biofuels are and inserting ‘‘Agriculture and Nutrition The last time was in 2010. We are in to succeed, it should be based on their Act of 2018’’, and (2) in subsection (d)(1) by striking ‘‘2008’’ 2018 without an update of that report. benefit to the Nation’s overall energy and inserting ‘‘2018’’. So we look forward to having the economy, not because they receive tax- (b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— tools and information we need at hand payer funds. There are authorized to be appropriated such to collaborate with State officials and Mr. Chairman, I urge all my col- sums as may be necessary to carry out sec- the Federal Government to enable leagues to end this Washington give- tion 4142 of the Food, Conservation, and En- those families to continue to receive away, and I reserve the balance of my ergy Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–246; 122 those kinds of services and the island time. STAT. 1881) as amended by subsection (a). to maintain a proper access to a qual- Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. (c) APPROPRIATION IN ADVANCE.—Only funds appropriated under subsection (b) in ity diet and, therefore, a proper quality Chairman, I claim the time in opposi- advance specifically to carry out section 4142 of life. Those decisions need to be made tion to the amendment. of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of by updated facts and not subjected to The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is 2008 (Public Law 110–246; 122 STAT. 1881) as guesswork by some officials. recognized for 5 minutes. amended by subsection (a) shall be available I do believe that this amendment, as Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. to carry out such section as so amended. drafted, does not increase mandatory Chairman, I thank the gentleman from The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to spending, so it will require just data. Arizona for his amendment; however, I House Resolution 900, the gentlewoman That is what we need. believe it is a little bit misguided. from Puerto Rico (Miss GONZA´ LEZ- Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues The programs that the amendment COLO´ N) and a Member opposed each will to vote in favor of this amendment, would eliminate are not energy sub- control 5 minutes. and I yield back the balance of my sidies. What these programs do is to The Chair recognizes the gentle- time. create infrastructure and market op- woman from Puerto Rico. The Acting CHAIR. The question is portunities for America’s farmers, Miss GONZA´ LEZ-COLO´ N of Puerto on the amendment offered by the gen- ranchers, and rural communities. Fur- Rico. Mr. Chairman, I spoke about the tlewoman from Puerto Rico (Miss thermore, these programs often lever- two amendments before, so I am going GONZA´ LEZ-COLO´ N). age private capital that actually works to be brief now in speaking about this The amendment was agreed to. toward revitalizing our communities. amendment, not without thanking AMENDMENT NO. 16 OFFERED BY MR. BIGGS Additionally, while I strongly sup- Chairman CONAWAY for helping us out The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order port the RFS and biofuels production, to get this amendment through. to consider amendment No. 16 printed these programs do not incentivize the Amendment No. 15 will just request in House Report 115–679. production of corn ethanol, do not fund an update on the survey in the request Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chairman, I have an ethanol blender pumps, and are not of data for the island. This second amendment at the desk. part of the renewable fuels mandate. amendment requests the Secretary of The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will The Biggs amendment strikes infra- Agriculture to produce an update on designate the amendment. structure-focused initiatives that help the 2010 report previously generated by The text of the amendment is as fol- farmers and ranchers improve energy the Food and Nutrition Service Agency lows: efficiency in their operations and in- at the USDA. That report will indicate Strike page 382, line 8, and all that follows crease commercial opportunities for the percentage of households that will through page 386, line 19, and insert the fol- agricultural products. receive nutritional assistance and what lowing: Mr. Chairman, I therefore urge my the average monthly benefit to their SEC. 6402. REPEAL OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRI- colleagues to join me in opposing this household will be if Puerto Rico were CULTURE BIOENERGY SUBSIDY PRO- GRAMS AND OTHER RELATED SUB- amendment, and I reserve the balance treated equally under the Supple- SIDY PROGRAMS. of my time. mental Nutrition Assistance Program, Title IX of the Farm Security and Rural Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chairman, I respect SNAP. We don’t receive that. Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8101 et seq.) my colleague’s reasoned opposition, al- As approved in the 2014 farm bill, is hereby repealed. though I disagree with him. Puerto Rico’s cash portion of the ben- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to I appreciate his passion on the issue, efit obtained through the NAP program House Resolution 900, the gentleman and I have no doubt that he and I will will gradually be reduced by 5 percent from Arizona (Mr. BIGGS) and a Mem- work together on many future projects. each year through 2021. Of course, that ber opposed each will control 5 min- But with this, Mr. Chairman, I con- situation, that 5 percent reduction has utes. tinue to hold my position and would been waived since last year by the ad- The Chair recognizes the gentleman urge the passage of my amendment. ministration because of the hurricane from Arizona. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance situation, but all NAP benefits would Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chairman, I yield of my time. then be available through the elec- myself such time as I may consume. Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. tronic benefit transfer system, the Mr. Chairman, my amendment is Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gen- EBT. straightforward. It merely eliminates tlewoman from South Dakota (Mrs. In view and in preparation for this, the bioenergy subsidy programs that NOEM), who is my good friend and col- we are beginning to consider the tran- were established way back in title IX league. sition to SNAP, if it is feasible or not, of the 2002 farm bill some 16 years ago. Mrs. NOEM. Mr. Chairman, I rise and I do think it is feasible. So we are Those programs are the Biobased Mar- today in opposition to the Biggs looking forward to having a report that kets Program; the Biorefinery, Renew- amendment as well. This amendment will allow us to know what kind of ben- able Chemical, and Biobased Product would repeal the bioenergy programs efits my constituents will be receiving. Manufacturing Assistance Program; established in the 2002 farm bill. These An updated study will allow us to the Repowering Assistance Program; programs encourage investment in have recent data to properly consider the Biodiesel Fuel Education Program; small towns. making this decision, along with the the Rural Energy for America Pro- Not only do they encourage renew- Government of Puerto Rico. My gram; the Biomass Research and Devel- able fuels—and to me, that is a na- amendment will essentially seek better opment Initiative; the Feedstock tional security issue—but they also

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Faso Long Ros-Lehtinen thorizes programs that reduce discre- The Clerk redesignated the amend- Ferguson Lowenthal Ross tionary funding levels. This amend- Fortenberry Lowey Rouzer ment. Frankel (FL) Lucas ment is not necessary because, instead Roybal-Allard RECORDED VOTE Fudge Luetkemeyer Ruiz of improving successful programs, it Gabbard Lujan Grisham, The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Rutherford repeals them, eliminating all their suc- Gaetz M. Ryan (OH) has been demanded. ´ cesses, while not saving any taxpayer Gallego Lujan, Ben Ray Sa´ nchez A recorded vote was ordered. Gianforte Lynch Sarbanes money. Gibbs MacArthur Scalise Mr. Chairman, I encourage my col- The vote was taken by electronic de- Gomez Maloney, vice, and there were—ayes 137, noes 278, Schakowsky leagues to vote against this amend- Gonzalez (TX) Carolyn B. Schrader not voting 12, as follows: Granger Maloney, Sean Scott (VA) ment. Graves (LA) Marchant Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chairman, I appre- [Roll No. 193] Scott, Austin Graves (MO) Marshall Scott, David ciate my colleague’s position, and I re- AYES—137 Green, Al Matsui Serrano Green, Gene McCarthy grettably must disagree with that posi- Amash Harris Reichert Sessions Grijalva McCaul Amodei Heck Renacci Sewell (AL) tion and continue to urge passage of Grothman McCollum Banks (IN) Hensarling Sherman the amendment. Roe (TN) Guthrie McEachin Barletta Hice, Jody B. Simpson Rohrabacher Hanabusa McGovern Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance Barr Himes Sires Rokita Harper McHenry of my time. Biggs Holding Smith (MO) Rooney, Francis Hartzler McKinley Black Hollingsworth Smith (NE) Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Rosen Hastings McMorris Blum Hultgren Smith (TX) Chairman, I thank my colleague, Mr. Roskam Herrera Beutler Rodgers Blumenauer Hunter Soto Rothfus Higgins (LA) McNerney BIGGS. It is great to have this oppor- Brat Issa Stefanik Royce (CA) Higgins (NY) McSally tunity to talk about what we believe Brooks (IN) Jenkins (KS) Suozzi Ruppersberger Hill Meng Bucshon Johnson (OH) the impact of this amendment will be Rush Hoyer Mitchell Takano Budd Johnson, Sam to many of the constituents that I Russell Hudson Moolenaar Taylor Chabot Jordan Sanford Huffman Mullin Tenney serve in rural America. I appreciate the Cicilline Joyce (OH) Schiff Huizenga Murphy (FL) Thompson (CA) Coffman Kelly (PA) opportunity to debate. That is what Schneider Hurd Nadler Thompson (MS) Collins (NY) Kilmer this House is about, and that is what Schweikert Jackson Lee Napolitano Thompson (PA) Comstock Kind Sensenbrenner Jayapal Neal Thornberry this process is about. Cooper King (NY) Shea-Porter Jeffries Newhouse Tonko I would like to thank my colleague Costello (PA) Kuster (NH) Shimkus Jenkins (WV) Noem Torres Curtis Kustoff (TN) for offering this amendment, although Johnson (GA) Nolan Trott Davidson Lance Shuster I do disagree and urge my colleagues to Johnson (LA) Norcross Turner Davis, Danny Langevin Sinema Johnson, E. B. Norman Valadao vote against. Delaney Latta Smith (NJ) Jones Nunes Vargas Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- DeSantis Lee Smith (WA) Kaptur O’Halleran Vela DesJarlais Lesko Smucker ance of my time. Katko O’Rourke Vela´ zquez Doggett Lipinski Speier Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chairman, I urge Keating Olson Walden Duncan (SC) LoBiondo Stewart Kelly (IL) Palazzo Walters, Mimi passage of my amendment, and I yield Duncan (TN) Loudermilk Stivers Kelly (MS) Palmer Wasserman back the balance of my time. Fitzpatrick Love Swalwell (CA) Kennedy Panetta Schultz Fleischmann Marino Tipton The Acting CHAIR. The question is Khanna Paulsen Waters, Maxine Flores Massie Titus on the amendment offered by the gen- Kihuen Payne Watson Coleman Foster Mast Tsongas Kildee Pearce Weber (TX) tleman from Arizona (Mr. BIGGS). Foxx McClintock Upton King (IA) Pelosi Webster (FL) The question was taken; and the Act- Frelinghuysen Meeks Veasey Kinzinger Perlmutter Westerman Gallagher Messer Visclosky ing Chair announced that the noes ap- Knight Peterson Wilson (FL) Garamendi Mooney (WV) Wagner peared to have it. Krishnamoorthi Pingree Wilson (SC) Garrett Moore Walberg Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chairman, I demand LaHood Pittenger Yarmuth Goodlatte Moulton Walker LaMalfa Pocan Yoder a recorded vote. Gosar Pallone Walorski Lamb Poe (TX) Yoho The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to Gottheimer Pascrell Welch Lamborn Poliquin Young (AK) Gowdy Perry Wenstrup clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- Larsen (WA) Posey Young (IA) Graves (GA) Peters Williams ceedings on the amendment offered by Larson (CT) Price (NC) Zeldin Griffith Quigley Wittman the gentleman from Arizona will be Gutie´rrez Raskin Womack NOT VOTING—12 postponed. Handel Ratcliffe Woodall Beyer Buck Polis ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR NOES—278 Blackburn Clay Rogers (KY) Boyle, Brendan Gohmert The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to Abraham Bustos Costa Walz F. Labrador clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings will Adams Butterfield Courtney Brown (MD) Meadows now resume on those amendments Aderholt Byrne Cramer printed in House Report 115–679 on Aguilar Calvert Crawford Allen Capuano Crist b 1753 which further proceedings were post- Arrington Carbajal Crowley poned, in the following order: Babin Ca´ rdenas Cuellar Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Ms. HER- Amendment No. 1 by Ms. FOXX of Bacon Carson (IN) Culberson RERA BEUTLER, Messrs. CAPUANO, North Carolina. Barraga´ n Carter (GA) Cummings Barton Carter (TX) Curbelo (FL) ADERHOLT, and LONG changed their Amendment No. 3 by Mr. MCCLINTOCK Bass Cartwright Davis (CA) vote from ‘‘aye’’ to ‘‘no.’’ of California. Beatty Castor (FL) Davis, Rodney Mr. SWALWELL of California, Ms. Amendment No. 8 by Mr. MCCLINTOCK Bera Castro (TX) DeFazio LEE, Messrs. PASCRELL and ISSA of California. Bergman Cheney DeGette Bilirakis Chu, Judy DeLauro changed their vote from ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ Amendment No. 13 by Mr. FASO of Bishop (GA) Clark (MA) DelBene So the amendment was rejected. New York. Bishop (MI) Clarke (NY) Demings Amendment No. 16 by Mr. BIGGS of Bishop (UT) Cleaver Denham The result of the vote was announced Arizona. Blunt Rochester Clyburn DeSaulnier as above recorded. The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes Bonamici Cohen Deutch AMENDMENT NO. 3 OFFERED BY MR. MCCLINTOCK Bost Cole Diaz-Balart the minimum time for any electronic Brady (PA) Collins (GA) Dingell The Acting CHAIR (Mr. COLLINS of vote after the first vote in this series. Brady (TX) Comer Donovan Georgia). The unfinished business is AMENDMENT NO. 1 OFFERED BY MS. FOXX Brooks (AL) Conaway Doyle, Michael the demand for a recorded vote on the Brownley (CA) Connolly F. The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Buchanan Cook Duffy amendment offered by the gentleman business is the demand for a recorded Burgess Correa Dunn from California (Mr. MCCLINTOCK) on

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00056 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.119 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4197 which further proceedings were post- Kind Newhouse Sherman RECORDED VOTE poned and on which the noes prevailed King (IA) Noem Shimkus King (NY) Nolan Shuster The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote by voice vote. Kinzinger Norcross Simpson has been demanded. The Clerk will redesignate the Knight Norman Sinema A recorded vote was ordered. amendment. Krishnamoorthi Nunes Sires Kuster (NH) O’Halleran Smith (MO) The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- The Clerk redesignated the amend- Kustoff (TN) O’Rourke Smith (NE) minute vote. ment. LaHood Olson Smith (NJ) The vote was taken by electronic de- LaMalfa Palazzo RECORDED VOTE Smith (TX) vice, and there were—ayes 83, noes 330, Lamb Pallone Smith (WA) The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Lamborn Palmer Smucker not voting 14, as follows: has been demanded. Langevin Panetta Soto [Roll No. 195] A recorded vote was ordered. Larsen (WA) Pascrell Speier Larson (CT) Paulsen Stefanik AYES—83 The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- Latta Payne Stewart Aderholt Fleischmann Messer Lawrence Pearce minute vote. Stivers Arrington Foxx Mooney (WV) Lawson (FL) Pelosi Suozzi Bacon Gaetz Norman The vote was taken by electronic de- Lee Perlmutter Swalwell (CA) Banks (IN) Gallagher vice, and there were—ayes 34, noes 380, Levin Peters Palazzo Takano Barr Garrett Lewis (GA) Peterson Palmer not voting 13, as follows: Taylor Biggs Gosar Lewis (MN) Pingree Perry Tenney Bishop (UT) Graves (GA) [Roll No. 194] Lieu, Ted Pittenger Pittenger Thompson (CA) Black Graves (LA) Lipinski Pocan Poe (TX) AYES—34 Thompson (MS) Blum Grothman Loebsack Poe (TX) Ratcliffe Amash Garrett Mooney (WV) Thompson (PA) Brat Guthrie Lofgren Poliquin Rice (SC) Banks (IN) Gosar Thornberry Budd Harris Perry Long Price (NC) Roby Biggs Hensarling Tipton Byrne Hensarling Posey Love Quigley Rohrabacher Budd Herrera Beutler Titus Calvert Hice, Jody B. Rohrabacher Lowenthal Raskin Rokita Chabot Issa Tonko Carter (GA) Holding Rooney, Francis Lowey Ratcliffe Rooney, Francis Coffman Johnson, Sam Torres Chabot Huizenga Rothfus Lucas Reed Rouzer Cook Lance Trott Cheney Hunter Royce (CA) Luetkemeyer Reichert DeSantis Lesko Tsongas Collins (GA) Issa Russell Sanford Lujan Grisham, Renacci Duncan (TN) LoBiondo Turner Comer Johnson (LA) Sanford Schweikert M. Rice (NY) Foxx Loudermilk Upton Cook Johnson, Sam Scalise Sensenbrenner Luja´ n, Ben Ray Rice (SC) Frelinghuysen McClintock Valadao Curtis Jordan Schweikert Lynch Richmond Gaetz Messer Davidson King (IA) Sensenbrenner MacArthur Roby Vargas DeSantis Kustoff (TN) Smucker Maloney, Roe (TN) Veasey NOES—380 DesJarlais LaHood Walker Carolyn B. Rogers (AL) Vela ´ Duffy Lamborn Westerman Abraham Comstock Gibbs Maloney, Sean Rokita Velazquez Duncan (SC) Lesko Williams Adams Conaway Gomez Marchant Rooney, Thomas Visclosky Duncan (TN) Loudermilk Wittman Aderholt Connolly Gonzalez (TX) Marino J. Wagner Estes (KS) Mast Woodall Aguilar Cooper Goodlatte Marshall Ros-Lehtinen Walberg Ferguson McClintock Zeldin Allen Correa Gottheimer Massie Rosen Walden Amodei Costa Gowdy Walker Mast Roskam NOES—330 Arrington Costello (PA) Granger Matsui Ross Walorski Babin Courtney Graves (GA) McCarthy Rouzer Walters, Mimi Abraham Costa Granger Bacon Cramer Graves (LA) McCaul Roybal-Allard Wasserman Adams Costello (PA) Graves (MO) Barletta Crawford Graves (MO) McCollum Ruiz Schultz Aguilar Courtney Green, Al Barr Crist Green, Al McEachin Ruppersberger Waters, Maxine Allen Cramer Green, Gene Barraga´ n Crowley Green, Gene McGovern Rush Watson Coleman Amash Crawford Griffith Barton Cuellar Griffith McHenry Russell Weber (TX) Amodei Crist Grijalva Bass Culberson Grijalva McKinley Rutherford Webster (FL) Babin Crowley Gutie´rrez Beatty Cummings Grothman McMorris Ryan (OH) Welch Barletta Cuellar Hanabusa Bera Curbelo (FL) Guthrie Rodgers Sa´ nchez Wenstrup Barraga´ n Culberson Handel Bergman Curtis Gutie´rrez McNerney Sarbanes Westerman Barton Cummings Harper Bilirakis Davidson Hanabusa McSally Scalise Williams Bass Curbelo (FL) Hartzler Bishop (GA) Davis (CA) Handel Meeks Schakowsky Wilson (FL) Beatty Davis (CA) Hastings Bishop (MI) Davis, Danny Harper Meng Schiff Wilson (SC) Bera Davis, Danny Heck Bishop (UT) Davis, Rodney Harris Mitchell Schneider Wittman Bergman Davis, Rodney Herrera Beutler Black DeFazio Hartzler Moolenaar Schrader Womack Bilirakis DeFazio Higgins (LA) Blum DeGette Hastings Moore Scott (VA) Woodall Bishop (GA) DeGette Higgins (NY) Blumenauer Delaney Heck Moulton Scott, Austin Yarmuth Bishop (MI) Delaney Hill Blunt Rochester DeLauro Hice, Jody B. Mullin Scott, David Yoder Blumenauer DeLauro Himes Bonamici DelBene Higgins (LA) Murphy (FL) Serrano Yoho Blunt Rochester DelBene Hollingsworth Bost Demings Higgins (NY) Nadler Sessions Young (AK) Bonamici Demings Hoyer Brady (PA) Denham Hill Napolitano Sewell (AL) Young (IA) Bost Denham Hudson Brady (TX) DeSaulnier Himes Neal Shea-Porter Zeldin Brady (PA) DeSaulnier Huffman Brat DesJarlais Holding Brady (TX) Deutch Hultgren Brooks (AL) Deutch Hollingsworth NOT VOTING—13 Brooks (AL) Diaz-Balart Hurd Brooks (IN) Diaz-Balart Hoyer Beyer Buck Meadows Brooks (IN) Dingell Jackson Lee Brownley (CA) Dingell Hudson Brownley (CA) Doggett Jayapal Blackburn Clay Polis Buchanan Doggett Huffman Buchanan Donovan Jeffries Boyle, Brendan Gallego Rogers (KY) Bucshon Donovan Huizenga Bucshon Doyle, Michael Jenkins (KS) F. Gohmert Walz Burgess Doyle, Michael Hultgren Brown (MD) Labrador Burgess F. Jenkins (WV) Bustos F. Hunter Bustos Dunn Johnson (GA) Butterfield Duffy Hurd b 1758 Butterfield Ellison Johnson (OH) Byrne Duncan (SC) Jackson Lee Capuano Emmer Johnson, E. B. Calvert Dunn Jayapal Mr. COFFMAN changed his vote from Carbajal Engel Jones Capuano Ellison Jeffries ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ Ca´ rdenas Espaillat Joyce (OH) Carbajal Emmer Jenkins (KS) Carson (IN) Esty (CT) Kaptur Ca´ rdenas Engel Jenkins (WV) So the amendment was rejected. Carter (TX) Evans Katko Carson (IN) Eshoo Johnson (GA) The result of the vote was announced Cartwright Faso Keating Carter (GA) Espaillat Johnson (LA) as above recorded. Castor (FL) Fitzpatrick Kelly (IL) Carter (TX) Estes (KS) Johnson (OH) Castro (TX) Flores Kelly (MS) Cartwright Esty (CT) Johnson, E. B. AMENDMENT NO. 8 OFFERED BY MR. MCCLINTOCK Chu, Judy Fortenberry Kelly (PA) Castor (FL) Evans Jones The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Cicilline Foster Kennedy Castro (TX) Faso Jordan business is the demand for a recorded Clark (MA) Frankel (FL) Khanna Cheney Ferguson Joyce (OH) Clarke (NY) Frelinghuysen Kihuen Chu, Judy Fitzpatrick Kaptur vote on the amendment offered by the Cleaver Fudge Kildee Cicilline Fleischmann Katko gentleman from California (Mr. Clyburn Gabbard Kilmer Clark (MA) Flores Keating MCCLINTOCK) on which further pro- Coffman Gallego Kind Clarke (NY) Fortenberry Kelly (IL) Cohen Garamendi King (NY) Cleaver Foster Kelly (MS) ceedings were postponed and on which Cole Gianforte Kinzinger Clyburn Frankel (FL) Kelly (PA) the noes prevailed by voice vote. Collins (NY) Gibbs Knight Cohen Fudge Kennedy The Clerk will redesignate the Comstock Gomez Krishnamoorthi Cole Gabbard Khanna amendment. Conaway Gonzalez (TX) Kuster (NH) Collins (GA) Gallagher Kihuen Connolly Goodlatte LaMalfa Collins (NY) Garamendi Kildee The Clerk redesignated the amend- Cooper Gottheimer Lamb Comer Gianforte Kilmer ment. Correa Gowdy Lance

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00057 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.122 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4198 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 Langevin Nolan Shimkus A recorded vote was ordered. Courtney Kildee Pingree Larsen (WA) Norcross Shuster Crist Kilmer Pocan Larson (CT) Nunes Simpson The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- Crowley Kind Price (NC) Latta O’Halleran Sinema minute vote. Cuellar Krishnamoorthi Quigley Lawrence O’Rourke Sires The vote was taken by electronic de- Cummings Kuster (NH) Raskin Lawson (FL) Olson Smith (MO) vice, and there were—ayes 222, noes 192, Davis (CA) Lamb Rice (NY) Lee Pallone Smith (NE) Davis, Danny Lance Richmond Levin Panetta Smith (NJ) not voting 13, as follows: DeFazio Langevin Rosen Lewis (GA) Pascrell Smith (TX) [Roll No. 196] DeGette Larsen (WA) Roybal-Allard Lewis (MN) Paulsen Smith (WA) Delaney Larson (CT) Ruiz Lieu, Ted Payne Soto DeLauro Lawrence AYES—222 Ruppersberger Lipinski Pearce Stefanik DelBene Lawson (FL) Abraham Gowdy Palazzo Rush LoBiondo Pelosi Stewart Demings Lee Aderholt Granger Palmer Ryan (OH) Loebsack Perlmutter Stivers DeSaulnier Levin Allen Graves (GA) Paulsen Sa´ nchez Lofgren Peters Suozzi Deutch Lewis (GA) Amash Graves (LA) Pearce Long Peterson Swalwell (CA) Dingell Lieu, Ted Sarbanes Amodei Graves (MO) Perry Love Pingree Takano Doggett Lipinski Schakowsky Arrington Griffith Pittenger Lowenthal Pocan Taylor Doyle, Michael LoBiondo Schiff Babin Grothman Poe (TX) Lowey Poliquin Tenney F. Loebsack Schneider Bacon Guthrie Poliquin Lucas Posey Thompson (CA) Ellison Lofgren Schrader Banks (IN) Handel Luetkemeyer Price (NC) Thompson (MS) Posey Engel Lowenthal Scott (VA) Barletta Harper Lujan Grisham, Quigley Thompson (PA) Ratcliffe Eshoo Lowey Scott, David Barr Harris M. Raskin Thornberry Reed Espaillat Lujan Grisham, Serrano Barton Hartzler Luja´ n, Ben Ray Reed Tipton Reichert Esty (CT) M. Sewell (AL) Bergman Hensarling Lynch Reichert Titus Renacci Evans Luja´ n, Ben Ray Shea-Porter Biggs Herrera Beutler MacArthur Renacci Tonko Rice (SC) Foster Lynch Bilirakis Hice, Jody B. Sherman Maloney, Rice (NY) Torres Roby Frankel (FL) Maloney, Bishop (MI) Higgins (LA) Sinema Carolyn B. Richmond Trott Roe (TN) Fudge Carolyn B. Bishop (UT) Hill Sires Maloney, Sean Roe (TN) Tsongas Rogers (AL) Gabbard Maloney, Sean Black Holding Smith (NJ) Marchant Rogers (AL) Turner Rohrabacher Gallego Matsui Blum Hollingsworth Smith (WA) Marino Rooney, Thomas Upton Rokita Garamendi McCollum Bost Hudson Soto Marshall J. Valadao Rooney, Francis Gomez McEachin Brady (TX) Huizenga Speier Massie Ros-Lehtinen Vargas Rooney, Thomas Gonzalez (TX) McGovern Brat Hultgren Suozzi Matsui Rosen Veasey J. Gottheimer McNerney Brooks (AL) Hunter Swalwell (CA) McCarthy Roskam Vela Ros-Lehtinen Green, Al Meeks Brooks (IN) Hurd Takano McCaul Ross Vela´ zquez Roskam Grijalva Meng Buchanan Issa Thompson (CA) McCollum Rothfus Visclosky Ross Gutie´rrez Moore Bucshon Jenkins (KS) Thompson (MS) McEachin Roybal-Allard Wagner Rothfus Hanabusa Moulton Budd Jenkins (WV) Titus McGovern Royce (CA) Walberg Rouzer Hastings Murphy (FL) Burgess Johnson (LA) McHenry Ruiz Walden Royce (CA) Heck Nadler Tonko Byrne Johnson (OH) McKinley Ruppersberger Walorski Russell Higgins (NY) Napolitano Torres Calvert Johnson, Sam McMorris Rush Walters, Mimi Rutherford Himes Neal Tsongas Carter (GA) Jones Rodgers Rutherford Wasserman Sanford Hoyer Newhouse Turner Carter (TX) Jordan McNerney Ryan (OH) Schultz Scalise Huffman Nolan Vargas Chabot Joyce (OH) McSally Sa´ nchez Waters, Maxine Schweikert Jackson Lee Norcross Veasey Cheney Katko Meeks Sarbanes Watson Coleman Scott, Austin Jayapal O’Halleran Vela Coffman Kelly (MS) Meng Schakowsky Weber (TX) Sensenbrenner Jeffries O’Rourke Vela´ zquez Cole Kelly (PA) Mitchell Schiff Webster (FL) Sessions Johnson (GA) Pallone Visclosky Collins (GA) King (IA) Moolenaar Schneider Welch Shimkus Johnson, E. B. Panetta Wasserman Collins (NY) King (NY) Moore Schrader Wenstrup Shuster Kaptur Pascrell Schultz Comer Kinzinger Moulton Scott (VA) Wilson (FL) Simpson Keating Payne Waters, Maxine Comstock Knight Mullin Scott, Austin Wilson (SC) Smith (MO) Kelly (IL) Pelosi Watson Coleman Conaway Kustoff (TN) Murphy (FL) Scott, David Womack Smith (NE) Kennedy Perlmutter Welch Cook LaHood Nadler Serrano Yarmuth Smith (TX) Khanna Peters Wilson (FL) Cramer LaMalfa Napolitano Sessions Yoder Kihuen Peterson Yarmuth Crawford Lamborn Smucker Neal Sewell (AL) Yoho Culberson Latta Stefanik Newhouse Shea-Porter Young (AK) NOT VOTING—13 Curbelo (FL) Lesko Stewart Noem Sherman Young (IA) Curtis Lewis (MN) Stivers Beyer Buck Meadows NOT VOTING—14 Davidson Long Taylor Blackburn Clay Polis Davis, Rodney Loudermilk Tenney Boyle, Brendan Gohmert Rogers (KY) Beyer Buck Meadows Denham Love Thompson (PA) F. Green, Gene Walz Blackburn Clay Polis DeSantis Lucas Thornberry Brown (MD) Labrador Boyle, Brendan Eshoo Rogers (KY) Tipton DesJarlais Luetkemeyer ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR F. Gohmert Speier Diaz-Balart MacArthur Trott Brown (MD) Labrador Walz Donovan Marchant Upton The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Valadao ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Duffy Marino There is 1 minute remaining. Duncan (SC) Marshall Wagner The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Duncan (TN) Massie Walberg There is 1 minute remaining. Dunn Mast Walden b 1806 Emmer McCarthy Walker Mr. COLLINS of Georgia changed his b 1802 Estes (KS) McCaul Walorski vote from ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ Mr. YOUNG of Iowa changed his vote Faso McClintock Walters, Mimi Ferguson McHenry Weber (TX) So the amendment was agreed to. from ‘‘aye’’ to ‘‘no.’’ Fitzpatrick McKinley Webster (FL) Mr. KUSTOFF of Tennessee changed The result of the vote was announced Fleischmann McMorris Wenstrup as above recorded. his vote from ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ Flores Rodgers Westerman So the amendment was rejected. Fortenberry McSally Williams AMENDMENT NO. 16 OFFERED BY MR. BIGGS The result of the vote was announced Foxx Messer Wilson (SC) The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Frelinghuysen Mitchell Wittman as above recorded. Gaetz Moolenaar Womack business is the demand for a recorded AMENDMENT NO. 13 OFFERED BY MR. FASO Gallagher Mooney (WV) Woodall vote on the amendment offered by the The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Garrett Mullin Yoder gentleman from Arizona (Mr. BIGGS) on Gianforte Noem Yoho business is the demand for a recorded Gibbs Norman Young (AK) which further proceedings were post- vote on the amendment offered by the Goodlatte Nunes Young (IA) poned and on which the noes prevailed gentleman from New York (Mr. FASO) Gosar Olson Zeldin by voice vote. on which further proceedings were NOES—192 The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. postponed and on which the ayes pre- Adams Brownley (CA) Cicilline vailed by voice vote. Aguilar Bustos Clark (MA) The Clerk redesignated the amend- The Clerk will redesignate the Barraga´ n Butterfield Clarke (NY) ment. Bass Capuano Cleaver amendment. RECORDED VOTE Beatty Carbajal Clyburn The Clerk redesignated the amend- Bera Ca´ rdenas Cohen The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote ment. Bishop (GA) Carson (IN) Connolly has been demanded. RECORDED VOTE Blumenauer Cartwright Cooper A recorded vote was ordered. Blunt Rochester Castor (FL) Correa The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Bonamici Castro (TX) Costa The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- has been demanded. Brady (PA) Chu, Judy Costello (PA) minute vote.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00058 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY7.042 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4199 The vote was taken by electronic de- Lujan Grisham, Peters Smith (TX) XVIII, the Chair declares the House in vice, and there were—ayes 75, noes 340, M. Peterson Smith (WA) the Committee of the Whole House on Luja´ n, Ben Ray Pingree Smucker not voting 12, as follows: Lynch Pittenger Soto the state of the Union for the further [Roll No. 197] MacArthur Pocan Speier consideration of the bill, H.R. 2. Maloney, Poliquin Stefanik Will the gentleman from Georgia AYES—75 Carolyn B. Price (NC) Stewart (Mr. COLLINS) kindly resume the chair. Amash Gallagher Norman Maloney, Sean Quigley Stivers Marchant Raskin Banks (IN) Garrett Palmer Suozzi b 1813 Biggs Gianforte Poe (TX) Marino Reed Swalwell (CA) Marshall Reichert Bilirakis Gosar Posey Takano IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE Bishop (UT) Graves (GA) Ratcliffe Mast Renacci Taylor Brat Grothman Roe (TN) Matsui Rice (NY) Tenney Accordingly, the House resolved Budd Harris Rohrabacher McCarthy Rice (SC) Thompson (CA) itself into the Committee of the Whole Burgess Hartzler Rokita McCaul Richmond Thompson (MS) McCollum Roby House on the state of the Union for the Carter (GA) Hensarling Rooney, Francis Thompson (PA) McEachin Rogers (AL) further consideration of the bill (H.R. Chabot Hice, Jody B. Rothfus Thornberry McGovern Rooney, Thomas Coffman Holding Royce (CA) Tipton 2) to provide for the reform and con- McKinley J. Collins (GA) Huizenga Russell Titus tinuation of agricultural and other pro- McMorris Ros-Lehtinen Comer Hunter Sanford Tonko Rodgers Rosen grams of the Department of Agri- Cooper Issa Scalise Torres Culberson Johnson, Sam Schweikert McNerney Roskam culture through fiscal year 2023, and Meeks Ross Trott Curtis Jordan Sensenbrenner Tsongas for other purposes, with Mr. COLLINS of Davidson Lamborn Sessions Meng Rouzer Messer Roybal-Allard Turner Georgia (Acting Chair) in the chair. DeSantis Lesko Wagner Upton The Clerk read the title of the bill. DesJarlais Loudermilk Walker Mitchell Ruiz Moolenaar Ruppersberger Valadao The Acting CHAIR. When the Com- Duncan (SC) Massie Walters, Mimi Vargas Duncan (TN) McClintock Webster (FL) Moore Rush mittee of the Whole rose earlier today, Moulton Rutherford Veasey Estes (KS) McHenry Williams Vela amendment No. 20 printed in part C of Fleischmann McSally Wittman Murphy (FL) Ryan (OH) Nadler Sa´ nchez Vela´ zquez House Report 115–677 offered by the Foxx Mooney (WV) Woodall Visclosky Frelinghuysen Mullin Zeldin Napolitano Sarbanes gentleman from Texas (Mr. THORN- Neal Schakowsky Walberg BERRY) had been disposed of. NOES—340 Newhouse Schiff Walden Noem Schneider Walorski ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Abraham Crowley Higgins (NY) Nolan Schrader Wasserman The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to Adams Cuellar Hill Norcross Scott (VA) Schultz Aderholt Cummings Himes Nunes Scott, Austin Waters, Maxine clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings will Aguilar Curbelo (FL) Hollingsworth O’Halleran Scott, David Watson Coleman now resume on those amendments Allen Davis (CA) Hoyer O’Rourke Serrano Weber (TX) printed in part C of House Report 115– Amodei Davis, Danny Hudson Olson Sewell (AL) Welch Arrington Davis, Rodney Huffman Palazzo Shea-Porter Wenstrup 677 on which further proceedings were Babin DeFazio Hultgren Pallone Sherman Westerman postponed, in the following order: Bacon DeGette Hurd Panetta Shimkus Wilson (FL) Amendment No. 13 by Mr. Barletta Delaney Wilson (SC) Jackson Lee Pascrell Shuster WESTERMAN of Arkansas. Barr DeLauro Jayapal Paulsen Simpson Womack Barraga´ n DelBene Jeffries Payne Sinema Yarmuth Amendment No. 14 by Mr. YOUNG of Barton Demings Jenkins (KS) Pearce Sires Yoder Alaska. Bass Denham Jenkins (WV) Pelosi Smith (MO) Yoho The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes Beatty DeSaulnier Johnson (GA) Perlmutter Smith (NE) Young (AK) Bera Deutch Johnson (LA) Perry Smith (NJ) Young (IA) the minimum time for any electronic Bergman Diaz-Balart Johnson (OH) vote in this series. Bishop (GA) Dingell NOT VOTING—12 Johnson, E. B. AMENDMENT NO. 13 OFFERED BY WESTERMAN Bishop (MI) Doggett Jones Beyer Buck Polis Black Donovan The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Joyce (OH) Blackburn Clay Rogers (KY) Blum Doyle, Michael Kaptur Boyle, Brendan Gohmert Walz business is the demand for a recorded Blumenauer F. Katko F. Labrador vote on the amendment offered by the Blunt Rochester Duffy Keating Brown (MD) Meadows Bonamici Dunn gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Kelly (IL) Bost Ellison Kelly (MS) ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR WESTERMAN) on which further pro- Brady (PA) Emmer Kelly (PA) ceedings were postponed and on which Brady (TX) Engel The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Kennedy Brooks (AL) Eshoo There is 1 minute remaining. the ayes prevailed by voice vote. Khanna Brooks (IN) Espaillat The Clerk will redesignate the Kihuen Brownley (CA) Esty (CT) b 1811 Kildee amendment. Buchanan Evans Kilmer Mr. COFFMAN changed his vote from Bucshon Faso The Clerk redesignated the amend- Kind Bustos Ferguson ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ ment. King (IA) Butterfield Fitzpatrick So the amendment was rejected. King (NY) RECORDED VOTE Byrne Flores The result of the vote was announced Calvert Fortenberry Kinzinger The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Capuano Foster Knight as above recorded. has been demanded. Carbajal Frankel (FL) Krishnamoorthi Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I A recorded vote was ordered. Ca´ rdenas Fudge Kuster (NH) Kustoff (TN) move that the Committee do now rise. The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- Carson (IN) Gabbard The motion was agreed to. Carter (TX) Gaetz LaHood minute vote. Cartwright Gallego LaMalfa Accordingly, the Committee rose; The vote was taken by electronic de- Castor (FL) Garamendi Lamb and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Lance vice, and there were—ayes 224, noes 191, Castro (TX) Gibbs HULTGREN) having assumed the chair, Cheney Gomez Langevin not voting 12, as follows: Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Acting Chair of the Chu, Judy Gonzalez (TX) Larsen (WA) [Roll No. 198] Cicilline Goodlatte Larson (CT) Committee of the Whole House on the AYES—224 Clark (MA) Gottheimer Latta state of the Union, reported that that Lawrence Clarke (NY) Gowdy Committee, having had under consider- Abraham Black Coffman Cleaver Granger Lawson (FL) Aderholt Blum Cole Clyburn Graves (LA) Lee ation the bill (H.R. 2) to provide for the Allen Bost Collins (GA) Cohen Graves (MO) Levin reform and continuation of agricul- Amash Brady (TX) Collins (NY) Cole Green, Al Lewis (GA) tural and other programs of the De- Amodei Brat Comer Collins (NY) Green, Gene Lewis (MN) Arrington Brooks (AL) Comstock Comstock Griffith Lieu, Ted partment of Agriculture through fiscal Babin Brooks (IN) Conaway Conaway Grijalva Lipinski year 2023, and for other purposes, had Bacon Buchanan Cook Connolly Guthrie LoBiondo come to no resolution thereon. Banks (IN) Bucshon Cramer Cook Gutie´rrez Loebsack Barletta Budd Crawford Correa Hanabusa Lofgren f Barr Burgess Culberson Costa Handel Long Barton Byrne Curtis Costello (PA) Harper Love AGRICULTURE AND NUTRITION Bergman Calvert Davidson Courtney Hastings Lowenthal ACT OF 2018 Biggs Carter (GA) Davis, Rodney Cramer Heck Lowey Bilirakis Carter (TX) Denham Crawford Herrera Beutler Lucas The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Bishop (MI) Chabot DeSantis Crist Higgins (LA) Luetkemeyer ant to House Resolution 891 and rule Bishop (UT) Cheney DesJarlais

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00059 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.128 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4200 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 Diaz-Balart King (NY) Rooney, Francis Lujan Grisham, Pelosi Sinema Gianforte Long Roskam Donovan Kinzinger Rooney, Thomas M. Perlmutter Sires Gibbs Loudermilk Ross Duffy Knight J. Luja´ n, Ben Ray Peters Smith (NJ) Goodlatte Love Rothfus Duncan (SC) Kustoff (TN) Roskam Lynch Pingree Smith (WA) Gosar Lucas Rouzer Duncan (TN) LaHood Ross Maloney, Pocan Soto Gowdy Luetkemeyer Royce (CA) Dunn LaMalfa Rothfus Carolyn B. Price (NC) Speier Granger MacArthur Russell Emmer Lamborn Rouzer Maloney, Sean Quigley Stefanik Graves (GA) Marchant Rutherford Estes (KS) Latta Royce (CA) Matsui Raskin Suozzi Graves (LA) Marino Scalise McCollum Rice (NY) Faso Lesko Russell Swalwell (CA) Graves (MO) Marshall Schweikert Ferguson Lewis (MN) McEachin Richmond Griffith Massie Scott, Austin Rutherford Takano Fleischmann Long Sanford McGovern Ros-Lehtinen Grothman Mast Sensenbrenner McNerney Rosen Thompson (CA) Flores Loudermilk Scalise Guthrie McCarthy Sessions Meeks Roybal-Allard Thompson (MS) Fortenberry Love Schrader Handel McCaul Shimkus Foxx Lucas Meng Ruiz Tonko Harper McClintock Shuster Schweikert Frelinghuysen Luetkemeyer Moore Ruppersberger Torres Harris McHenry Simpson Scott, Austin Gaetz MacArthur Moulton Rush Tsongas Hartzler McKinley Smith (MO) Sensenbrenner Gallagher Marchant Murphy (FL) Ryan (OH) Vargas Hensarling McMorris Smith (NE) Garrett Marino Sessions Nadler Sa´ nchez Veasey Herrera Beutler Rodgers Smith (TX) Gianforte Marshall Shimkus Napolitano Sarbanes Vela´ zquez Hice, Jody B. McSally Smucker Gibbs Massie Shuster Neal Schakowsky Visclosky Higgins (LA) Meadows Stewart Goodlatte Mast Simpson Nolan Schiff Wasserman Holding Messer Stivers Gosar McCarthy Smith (MO) Norcross Schneider Schultz Hollingsworth Mitchell Taylor Gowdy McCaul Smith (NE) O’Halleran Scott (VA) Waters, Maxine Hudson Moolenaar Tenney Granger McClintock Smith (TX) O’Rourke Scott, David Watson Coleman Huizenga Mooney (WV) Thompson (PA) Graves (GA) McHenry Smucker Pallone Serrano Welch Hultgren Mullin Thornberry Graves (LA) McKinley Stewart Panetta Sewell (AL) Wilson (FL) Hunter Newhouse Tipton Pascrell Graves (MO) McMorris Stivers Shea-Porter Yarmuth Hurd Noem Trott Griffith Rodgers Taylor Payne Sherman Issa Norman Turner Grothman McSally Tenney Jenkins (KS) Nunes Valadao Guthrie Messer Thompson (PA) NOT VOTING—12 Jenkins (WV) Olson Wagner Handel Mitchell Thornberry Beyer Buck Polis Johnson (OH) Palazzo Walberg Harper Moolenaar Tipton Blackburn Clay Rogers (KY) Johnson, Sam Palmer Walden Harris Mooney (WV) Titus Boyle, Brendan Gohmert Walz Jones Pearce Walker Hartzler Mullin Trott F. Labrador Jordan Perry Walorski Hensarling Newhouse Turner Brown (MD) Meadows Joyce (OH) Peterson Walters, Mimi Herrera Beutler Noem Upton Kaptur Pittenger Weber (TX) ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Hice, Jody B. Norman Valadao Katko Poe (TX) Webster (FL) Higgins (LA) Nunes Kelly (MS) Poliquin Vela The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). Wenstrup Hill Olson Kelly (PA) Posey Westerman Wagner There is 1 minute remaining. Holding Palazzo King (NY) Ratcliffe Williams Walberg Hollingsworth Palmer Kinzinger Reed Wilson (SC) Walden Hudson Paulsen Knight Renacci Wittman Walker b 1816 Huizenga Pearce Kustoff (TN) Rice (SC) Womack Walorski Hultgren Perry So the amendment was agreed to. LaHood Roby Woodall Walters, Mimi Hunter Peterson The result of the vote was announced LaMalfa Roe (TN) Yoder Hurd Pittenger Weber (TX) Lamborn Rohrabacher Yoho Issa Poe (TX) Webster (FL) as above recorded. Latta Rokita Young (AK) Jenkins (KS) Poliquin Wenstrup AMENDMENT NO. 14 OFFERED BY MR. YOUNG OF Lesko Rooney, Thomas Young (IA) Westerman Jenkins (WV) Posey ALASKA Lewis (MN) J. Zeldin Johnson (LA) Ratcliffe Williams Johnson (OH) Reed Wilson (SC) The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished NOES—207 Johnson, Sam Reichert Wittman business is the demand for a recorded Jones Renacci Womack vote on the amendment offered by the Adams DeLauro Khanna Jordan Rice (SC) Woodall Aguilar DelBene Kihuen gentleman from Alaska (Mr. YOUNG) on Joyce (OH) Roby Yoder Amash Demings Kildee ´ Katko Roe (TN) Yoho which further proceedings were post- Barragan DeSaulnier Kilmer Kelly (MS) Rogers (AL) Young (AK) poned and on which the ayes prevailed Barton Deutch Kind Bass Dingell King (IA) Kelly (PA) Rohrabacher Young (IA) by voice vote. King (IA) Rokita Zeldin Beatty Doggett Krishnamoorthi The Clerk will redesignate the Bera Doyle, Michael Kuster (NH) NOES—191 amendment. Bishop (GA) F. Lamb Blumenauer Ellison Lance Adams Curbelo (FL) Higgins (NY) The Clerk redesignated the amend- Blunt Rochester Engel Langevin Aguilar Davis (CA) Himes ment. Bonamici Eshoo Larsen (WA) Barraga´ n Davis, Danny Hoyer RECORDED VOTE Brady (PA) Espaillat Larson (CT) Bass DeFazio Huffman Brooks (AL) Esty (CT) Lawrence Beatty DeGette Jackson Lee The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Brownley (CA) Evans Lawson (FL) Bera Delaney Jayapal has been demanded. Budd Faso Lee Bishop (GA) DeLauro Jeffries A recorded vote was ordered. Bustos Fitzpatrick Levin Blumenauer DelBene Johnson (GA) The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2- Butterfield Foster Lewis (GA) Blunt Rochester Demings Johnson, E. B. Capuano Frankel (FL) Lieu, Ted Bonamici DeSaulnier Kaptur minute vote. Carbajal Fudge Lipinski Brady (PA) Deutch Keating The vote was taken by electronic de- Ca´ rdenas Gabbard LoBiondo Brownley (CA) Dingell Kelly (IL) vice, and there were—ayes 208, noes 207, Carson (IN) Gaetz Loebsack Bustos Doggett Cartwright Gallego Lofgren Kennedy not voting 12, as follows: Butterfield Doyle, Michael Khanna Castor (FL) Garamendi Lowenthal Capuano F. Kihuen [Roll No. 199] Castro (TX) Gomez Lowey Carbajal Ellison Chabot Kildee Gonzalez (TX) Lujan Grisham, Ca´ rdenas Engel AYES—208 Chu, Judy Gottheimer M. Kilmer Carson (IN) Eshoo Abraham Buchanan Davidson Cicilline Green, Al Luja´ n, Ben Ray Kind Cartwright Espaillat Aderholt Bucshon Davis, Rodney Clark (MA) Green, Gene Lynch Krishnamoorthi Castor (FL) Esty (CT) Allen Burgess Denham Clarke (NY) Grijalva Maloney, Kuster (NH) Castro (TX) Evans Amodei Byrne DeSantis Cleaver Gutie´rrez Carolyn B. Lamb Chu, Judy Fitzpatrick Arrington Calvert DesJarlais Clyburn Hanabusa Maloney, Sean Cicilline Foster Lance Babin Carter (GA) Diaz-Balart Cohen Hastings Matsui Clark (MA) Frankel (FL) Langevin Bacon Carter (TX) Donovan Connolly Heck McCollum Clarke (NY) Fudge Larsen (WA) Banks (IN) Cheney Duffy Cooper Higgins (NY) McEachin Cleaver Gabbard Larson (CT) Barletta Coffman Duncan (SC) Correa Hill McGovern Clyburn Gallego Lawrence Barr Cole Duncan (TN) Costa Himes McNerney Cohen Garamendi Lawson (FL) Bergman Collins (GA) Dunn Courtney Hoyer Meeks Connolly Gomez Lee Biggs Collins (NY) Emmer Crawford Huffman Meng Cooper Gonzalez (TX) Levin Bilirakis Comer Estes (KS) Crist Jackson Lee Moore Correa Gottheimer Lewis (GA) Bishop (MI) Comstock Ferguson Crowley Jayapal Moulton Costa Green, Al Lieu, Ted Bishop (UT) Conaway Fleischmann Cuellar Jeffries Murphy (FL) Costello (PA) Green, Gene Lipinski Black Cook Flores Cummings Johnson (GA) Nadler Courtney Grijalva LoBiondo Blum Costello (PA) Fortenberry Davis (CA) Johnson (LA) Neal Crist Gutie´rrez Loebsack Bost Cramer Foxx Davis, Danny Johnson, E. B. Nolan Crowley Hanabusa Lofgren Brady (TX) Culberson Frelinghuysen DeFazio Keating Norcross Cuellar Hastings Lowenthal Brat Curbelo (FL) Gallagher DeGette Kelly (IL) O’Halleran Cummings Heck Lowey Brooks (IN) Curtis Garrett Delaney Kennedy O’Rourke

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY7.057 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4201 Pallone Rush Swalwell (CA) amendment No. 16 printed in House Re- $8-million-a-year industry to lobby for Panetta Ryan (OH) Takano port 115–679 offered by the gentleman them, and it ends the duplicitous prac- Pascrell Sa´ nchez Thompson (CA) Paulsen Sanford Thompson (MS) from Arizona (Mr. BIGGS) had been dis- tice of the Government being both for Payne Sarbanes Titus posed of. and against something that costs the Pelosi Schakowsky Tonko AMENDMENT NO. 17 OFFERED BY MR. RUSSELL Nation nearly $250 billion in annual Perlmutter Schiff Torres The Acting CHAIR (Mr. GALLAGHER). economic loss. Peters Schneider Tsongas Pingree Schrader Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to Upton It is now in order to consider amend- Pocan Scott (VA) Vargas ment No. 17 printed in House Report support this amendment, and I reserve Price (NC) Scott, David Quigley Serrano Veasey 115–679. the balance of my time. Raskin Sewell (AL) Vela Mr. RUSSELL. Mr. Chairman, I have Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Chair, I claim Reichert Shea-Porter Vela´ zquez an amendment at the desk. time in opposition to the amendment. Visclosky Rice (NY) Sherman The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman Richmond Sinema Wasserman Rogers (AL) Sires Schultz designate the amendment. from Washington is recognized for 5 Rooney, Francis Smith (NJ) Waters, Maxine The text of the amendment is as fol- minutes. Ros-Lehtinen Smith (WA) Watson Coleman lows: Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Chair, I rise in Rosen Soto Welch Page 386, line 23, insert ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.— strong opposition to the Russell Roybal-Allard Speier Wilson (FL) Ruiz Stefanik Yarmuth ’’ before ‘‘Section’’. amendment, which, if enacted, would Ruppersberger Suozzi Page 387, after line 5, insert the following: have a detrimental impact on pro- (b) EXCLUSION OF ALCOHOL PRODUCTS FROM ducers across our Nation, including NOT VOTING—12 DEFINITION.—Section 231(a)(5) of such Act (7 many of my wine, grape, and hops pro- Beyer Buck Polis U.S.C. 1632a(a)(5)) is amended by adding Blackburn Clay Rogers (KY) below subparagraph (B) the following: ducers, as well as the beer and wine in- Boyle, Brendan Gohmert Walz ‘‘The term ‘value-added agricultural product’ dustry, not only in my State, but F. Labrador does not include beer, wine, distilled spirits, around the country. Brown (MD) Napolitano hard cider, or other alcohol product.’’. This amendment proposes to elimi- ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR (c) RESCISSION.—Of the funds made avail- nate wine, distilled spirits, beer, and The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). able under section 231(b)(7)(A) of the Agricul- other alcohol products from the Value There is 1 minute remaining. tural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (as in effect Added Producer Grant program admin- before the date of the enactment of this sec- b 1829 tion) to the Secretary of Agriculture to istered by the USDA. make value-added agricultural product mar- These industries, in my State and, Mr. COSTELLO of Pennsylvania ket development grants and unobligated as quite frankly, across the Nation, are a changed his vote from ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ of such date of enactment, $8,000,000 is here- growing segment of our farm economy, So the amendment was agreed to. by rescinded. providing thousands of jobs. The result of the vote was announced The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to It is also important to point out the as above recorded. House Resolution 900, the gentleman growing significance of wine and hops The Acting CHAIR. There being no from Oklahoma (Mr. RUSSELL) and a exports to their industries. Last year, further amendments under House Reso- Member opposed each will control 5 my State exported $28 million of wine, lution 891, the Committee will rise. minutes. representing about 5 percent of our Accordingly, the Committee rose; The Chair recognizes the gentleman total production. and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. POE from Oklahoma. In my home valley of the Yakima of Texas) having assumed the chair, Mr. RUSSELL. Mr. Chairman, this Valley in the State of Washington, we Mr. COLLINS of Georgia, Acting Chair of amendment addresses but redirects; it account for 75 percent of the U.S. pro- the Committee of the Whole House on does not eliminate any funds from the duction of hops. With the continued the state of the Union, reported that Value Added Producer Grants. boom of microbreweries and the de- that Committee, having had under con- These $18 million worth of grants are mand for hops, we must ensure we have sideration the bill (H.R. 2) to provide designed to generate new products, ex- available markets. for the reform and continuation of ag- pand market opportunities, and assist Our wine grape growers and the wine ricultural and other programs of the beginning and socially disadvantaged industry continue to face challenges in Department of Agriculture through fis- farmers, family farms, and even vet- export markets, such as the recent tar- cal year 2023, and for other purposes, erans entering farming. iffs placed on our products by China. had come to no resolution thereon. Unfortunately, millions of these We are in an environment with po- f funds go to fund alcohol products. tential changes in international trade, While there is nothing inherently AGRICULTURE AND NUTRITION and farmers are looking for more ex- wrong with alcohol products, of the ACT OF 2018 port markets. government funds that are used for Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- promotion of these products through oppose any efforts to limit our farmers’ ant to House Resolution 900 and rule the program, we also note that the al- ability to find markets for their prod- XVIII, the Chair declares the House in cohol industry spends $7.6 million a ucts. the Committee of the Whole House on year in lobbying costs. Mr. Chair, I include these letters of the state of the Union for the further Not only do these tax dollars used to support in the RECORD: one from the consideration of the bill, H.R. 2. fund the promotion of alcohol take Wine Institute, Wine America, Dis- Will the gentleman from Georgia away from non-alcohol-based farmers tilled Spirits Council, and the Brewers (Mr. COLLINS) kindly resume the chair. and ranchers, they also compete with Association; and one from the Spe- b 1832 the Government itself. cialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance. Every year, we spend millions of dol- MAY 17, 2018. IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE lars to curtail the use and abuse of al- Re Oppose Russell Amendment to the Farm Accordingly, the House resolved cohol. Bill. itself into the Committee of the Whole According to the Centers for Disease DEAR REPRESENTATIVE: We write on behalf House on the state of the Union for the Control, the impacts and loss of alco- of the nearly 9,000 small, family owned further consideration of the bill (H.R. hol abuse results in $249 billion a year wineries, 6,200 small and independent brew- 2) to provide for the reform and con- in economic, workplace absence, eries and approximately 1,700 distilleries tinuation of agricultural and other pro- healthcare loss, criminal justice ex- spread across rural America to urge you to grams of the Department of Agri- penses, and vehicle crash costs. vote against the Russell Amendment to the culture through fiscal year 2023, and Mr. Chairman, it makes no sense Farm Bill. This amendment would unfairly target a for other purposes, with Mr. COLLINS of that the Government should spend vibrant and growing segment of U.S. agri- Georgia (Acting Chair) in the chair. money to both promote and curtail an culture by seeking to block small wineries, The Clerk read the title of the bill. industry. breweries and distilleries from participating The Acting CHAIR. When the Com- This amendment preserves the Value in USDA’s value-added agriculture mar- mittee of the Whole rose earlier today, Added Grants for farmers that have no keting grants. Combined, the American

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These priorities are Florida Citrus Mutual; Florida Citrus Pack- direct economic impact of $287 billion on the consistent with our requests since last year ers; Florida Strawberry Growers Associa- United States economy and support more and in previous Farm Bills which include en- tion; Florida Sweet Corn Exchange; Florida than 5 million jobs nationwide. hancing nutrition programs, continuing to Watermelon Association; Fruit Growers Mar- Wineries, distilleries and breweries in support Specialty Crop Block Grant pro- keting Association; Georgia Watermelon As- America represent the very epitome of grams, combatting invasive pest and dis- sociation; Grower-Shipper Association of value-added agriculture, bringing quality eases, support trade programs, and research Central California; Idaho Grape Growers and jobs and generating much needed tourism to funding. Wine Producers Commission; Indian River farming communities across the country. We look forward to the Farm Bill being Citrus League; Indiana-Illinois Watermelon This amendment would make it harder for considered on the House floor this week and Association. these communities to benefit fully from this that you will strongly consider our views on Leafy Greens Council; Maine Potato Board; opportunity. the amendments mentioned above. Maryland-Delaware Watermelon Associa- We urge you to support these small busi- Thank you, tion; Maryland Wineries Association; Miami- nesses and their communities buy opposing JOHN KEELING, Dade County; Michigan Apple Committee; the Russell Amendment. Executive Vice Presi- Minnesota Area II Potato Growers Research Sincerely, dent & CEO, Na- and Promotion Council; Minnesota Grape ROBERT P. KOCH, tional Potato Coun- Growers Association; Missouri Wine & Grape President & CEO, cil, SCFBA Steering Board; National Berry Crop Initiative; Na- Wine Institute. Committee Co-Chair. tional Grape Cooperative Association; Na- JAMES TREZISE, MIKE STUART, tional Onion Association; National Peach President, President & CEO, Council; New England Vegetable and Berry WineAmerica. Florida Fruit and Growers. ROBERT D. PEASE, Vegetable Associa- New Mexico Wine Growers Association; President & CEO, tion, SCFBA Steer- New York Apple Association; New York Wine Brewers Association. ing Committee Co- & Grape Foundation; North American Blue- MARK GORMAN, Chair. berry Council; North American Bramble SVP Government Rela- TOM NASSIF, Growers Association; North American tions, Distilled Spir- President, Western Strawberry Growers Association; North its Council. Growers Association, Carolina Blueberry Council; North Carolina SCFBA Steering Grape & Wine Council; North Carolina Po- SCFBA, Committee Co-Chair. tato Association; North Carolina Strawberry Washington, DC, May 16, 2018. ROBERT GUENTHER, Association; North Carolina Watermelon As- DEAR MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REP- Sr. Vice President of sociation; Northern Kentucky Vintners & RESENTATIVES: The Specialty Crop Farm Bill Public Policy, Grape Growers Association; Northern Plains Alliance representing over 120 specialty crop United Fresh Potato Growers. organizations across the United States ap- Produce Association, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.; Ohio Wine preciate Chairman Conaway’s efforts on H.R. SCFBA Steering Producers Association; Oklahoma Grape 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act that Committee Secre- Growers & Wine Makers Association; Oregon initiates the formal 2018 Farm Bill process tariat. Potato Commission; Oregon Raspberry & and for his diligent efforts to complete Com- Attachment: List of Specialty Crop Coali- Blackberry Commission; Oregon Strawberry mittee action on the measure and get it to tion Members. Commission; Oregon Wine Advocacy Council; the floor of the House. After a thorough re- SPECIALTY CROP FARM BILL ALLIANCE Oregon Winegrowers Association; Peace view of the H.R. 2, the Alliance is also ORGANIZATION River Valley Citrus Growers Association; pleased to see that the Committee has re- Peerbolt Crop Management; Potato Growers tained many of the specialty crop provisions SPECIALTY CROP FARM BILL ALLIANCE of Idaho; Rocky Mountain Association of that were included in the 2014 Farm Bill. In- STEERING COMMITTEE Vintners & Viticulturists. cluded in the House version are provisions Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association, Co- South Carolina Watermelon Association; funding key specialty crop priorities such as: Chair; National Potato Council, Co-Chair; Tennessee Farm Winegrowers Association; Specialty Crop Block Grants ($85 million/ Western Growers Association, Co-Chair; Texas Citrus Mutual; Texas Vegetable Asso- year); United Fresh Produce Association, Executive ciation; Texas Wine & Grape Growers Asso- Specialty Crop Research Initiative ($80 Secretariat; American Mushroom Institute; ciation; Texas Watermelon Association; million/year); American Mushroom Institute; Tropical Fruit Growers of South Florida; Trade Programs including MAP ($200 mil- AmericanHort; America Pistachio Associa- United Fresh Potato Growers of Idaho; lion/year) and TASC ($9 Million/year); tion; Blue Diamond Growers; California As- United Potato Growers of America; Virginia Pest and Disease Programs ($75 million/ sociation of Winegrape Growers; California Apple Growers Association; Virginia year) and National Clean Plant Network ($5 Citrus Mutual; California Fresh Fruit Asso- Wineries Association; Washington Associa- million/year); ciation; California Table Grape Commission; tion of Wine Grape Growers; Washington Red Food Insecurity and Nutrition Incentive Florida Tomato Exchange; Georgia Fruit & Raspberry Commission. Program (FINI) (Increased to $285 million Vegetable Growers Association. Washington State Apple Commission; over five years). Idaho Grower Shippers Association; Idaho Welch’s; Western Pistachio Association; These funding commitments demonstrate Potato Commission; National Council of Western Watermelon Association; Wine In- that the House recognizes the value of these Farmer Cooperatives; National Watermelon stitute; Wine Producers Commission; programs and their tremendous importance Association; National Grape Research Alli- WineAmerica; Winegrape Growers of Amer- to the specialty crop industry and the Alli- ance; Northwest Horticultural Council; ica; Winegrowers Association of Georgia; ance is grateful for their inclusion in the Produce Marketing Association; Sunkist WineMichigan; Wyoming Grape & Wine Asso- House legislation. With debate over the next Growers; Sun-Maid Growers; Texas Inter- ciation; Yakima Valley Growers-Shippers several days on a series of amendments to national Produce Association; U.S. Apple As- Association. H.R. 2, we would like to draw your attention sociation; Washington State Potato Commis- Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Chair, we to several amendments we interested in. In sion; Wild Blueberry Commission of Maine. particular the Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alli- should not be singling out key agricul- SPECIALTY CROP FARM BILL ALLIANCE MEMBER ance opposes the following amendments: tural industries under programs like ORGANIZATIONS Amendment 50 by Rep. Russell prohibits this. We should not be picking winners USDA value-added grants for wine and other Alabama Watermelon Association; Arizona and losers among our farmers. products; Winegrowers Association; Buy California Marketing Agreement; California Associa- Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to Amendment 71 by Reps. Brat, Blumenauer, strongly oppose the Russell amend- and Titus on Checkoff Programs; tion of Nurseries & Garden Centers; Cali- Amendment 93 by Rep McClintock on Crop fornia Canning Peach Association; California ment. Insurance; Dried Plum Board; California Fig Institute; Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the Amendment 97 by Rep. Faso on Plant California Fresh Fig Growers Association; gentlewoman from Maine (Ms. PIN- Pests; California Strawberry Commission; Cali- GREE). Amendment 100 by Rep. Rogers on multi- fornia Walnut Commission; California-Ari- Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, I thank my vitamin purchases through SNAP. zona Watermelon Association; Cherry Mar- colleague from Washington State for Finally, we look forward to continuing to keting Institute; Colorado Potato Adminis- yielding me the time and for speaking work with Chairman Conaway and Members trative Committee; Colorado Wine Industry of the House Agriculture Committee on fur- Development Board. against this amendment. ther policy objectives that we believe will Connecticut Farm Wine Development Mr. Chair, I am sorry to say to my strengthen this bill and assist the specialty Council; Connecticut Vineyard & Winery As- colleague from the other side of the crop industry to compete in a domestic and sociation; Empire State Potato Growers; aisle, we oppose this amendment,

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Mr. Chair, I believe adding value when $250 billion of eco- The Value Added Producer Grant is I have the right to close, so I would re- nomic cost hits the United States; $27 one of the only grant programs that serve the balance of my time. billion comes from healthcare ex- goes directly to farmers. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman penses; $25 billion to criminal justice; At a time when the farm economy is from Oklahoma has the right to close. $12.5 billion to vehicle crashes. We all hurting, we should be helping farmers Mr. RUSSELL. Mr. Chair, it is my pay for this. find new markets, not taking away op- amendment, and I reserve the balance b 1845 portunities to do so. of my time. USDA’s Economic Research Service Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Chair, I have But why should we both promote and released a new report earlier this one speaker. I yield the balance of my curtail it? We spend millions of dollars month. Businesses that receive VAPG time to the gentleman from Oklahoma in the Federal Government to control support are less likely to fail than non- (Mr. LUCAS). and contain abuse and also rehabilita- recipient businesses, and businesses Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Chairman, how tion programs, which are good. that receive VAPG support also employ much time does the gentleman have re- So we need to choose, Mr. Chairman. more workers than nonrecipient busi- maining? Are we for something, or are we nesses. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman against something? We may be one, we This amendment would also exclude from Washington has 11⁄2 minutes re- may be the other, but we cannot be beer, wine, distilled spirits, and hard maining. both. cider projects from being eligible for Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Chairman, I want to Mr. Chairman, I know these are con- VAPG. It is completely arbitrary and thank the gentleman from Washington tentious issues, but it is interesting to foolish to restrict these products. State for the opportunity to yield to watch in the course of our politics over In my State of Maine, there has been me to discuss this important issue. time. This is not a partisan issue; this an explosion of craft breweries, distill- Mr. Chair, this amendment, some in is an American issue. eries, and cideries that are contrib- the room might think perhaps will tar- I say it is not partisan because if we uting to the local economy. get the Market Access Program, but, in were holding this debate 30 years ago Two years ago, Ricker Hill Orchards fact, it is the Value Added Producer you would have had a flip-flop, but as in Maine received VAPG money to in- Grant program. we have seen shift in parties in States crease production of hard cider and This is a program that supports and and regions of the country, we might fruit wine. This provided the farmers helps producers add value to the prod- politically have parties go one direc- with an opportunity to diversify rev- ucts that they raise. tion or the other, but it seems like the enue and reach new markets. I would tell you my chief concern at special interests remain in the middle. This may be a very small program, this point in time in the way this And if we are really talking about but it can make a big impact on farm- amendment has been offered is that promoting value-added crops and enter- ers and rural communities in States about $8 million of the rescissions of ing new farmers in the workplace, then like mine and across the country. this program would come out of cur- we don’t need to give 40 percent to the Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to rent programs that farmers have al- alcohol industry when we already see oppose this amendment. ready applied for. USDA has already nearly $8 million given to them by lob- Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Chair, I reserve scored the applications, it has com- byists. the balance of my time. piled proposals to make a decision and Mr. Chairman, I ask people to sup- Mr. RUSSELL. Mr. Chairman, ‘‘a bad announcement on grant awards; thus, port this amendment. It saves the tax- situation worse’’? You want to see a the amendment wouldn’t just adversely payer dollars. These crops can stand on bad situation? How about this: Just in affect the small producer-owned their own, and they can do it without the District of Columbia, $3.5 billion in wineries, but producers across the the taxpayer subsidization and then 2010 in direct economic costs; $179 bil- board, including those from Oklahoma our further spending to try to curtail lion of the total cost of alcohol con- who have and expect to receive grants. it. sumption comes from a loss in work- That is not fair. If you played by the Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- place productivity. rules, if you have gone through the ance of my time. Mr. Chairman, I don’t have anything grant process, if you have qualified, The Acting CHAIR. The question is for or against, or want to promote pro- suddenly to have $8 million taken out on the amendment offered by the gen- hibition or anything of the like. The to punish a particular industry means tleman from Oklahoma (Mr. RUSSELL). matter is that these crops can stand on that even though you might not be a The question was taken; and the Act- their own. They receive $8 million a part of that industry, you lose your op- ing Chair announced that the ayes ap- year nearly, $7.67 million from the al- portunity to add value. peared to have it. cohol industry in lobbying costs. They Maybe this is an issue that needs to Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I de- already have their promoters. These be discussed on a different day in a dif- mand a recorded vote. crops can stand on their own. However, ferent way, but I ask my colleagues to The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to of the $18 million in this Value Added reject this amendment. clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- fund, $8 million of that goes to the al- Mr. Chair, I have the greatest of re- ceedings on the amendment offered by cohol industry. spect for my fellow Oklahoman, but on the gentleman from Oklahoma will be So when we are talking about pick- this occasion, let’s turn this amend- postponed. ing winners and losers, I think we have ment back. AMENDMENT NO. 18 OFFERED BY MR. TURNER already seen who is being picked here, Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Chair, I yield The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order and it is the fleecing of the American back the balance of my time. to consider amendment No. 18 printed people. Mr. RUSSELL. Mr. Chairman, how in House Report 115–679. What about those that are new farm- much time do I have left? Mr. TURNER. Mr. Speaker, I have an ers, family farms, even veterans that The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- amendment at the desk. are trying to enter the farming indus- tleman from Oklahoma has 11⁄2 minutes The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will try but they don’t want to grow hops? remaining. designate the amendment. Maybe they want to grow something Mr. RUSSELL. Mr. Chairman, I cer- The text of the amendment is as fol- that we eat that doesn’t have a detri- tainly have the deepest respect for my lows: mental $250 billion a year of an impact. colleague from Oklahoma, and he and I Page 410, after line 13, insert the following:

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00063 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.136 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4204 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 SEC. 7113. RESEARCH AND EXTENSION FUNDING The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will At the end of part III of subtitle C of title EQUITY FOR RECENTLY DES- designate the amendment. VIII, add the following new section: IGNATED 1890 INSTITUTIONS. SEC. 8334. VACANT GRAZING ALLOTMENTS MADE (a) EXTENSION.—Section 1444(b) of the Na- The text of the amendment is as fol- lows: AVAILABLE TO CERTAIN GRAZING tional Agricultural Research, Extension, and PERMIT HOLDERS. Subtitle A of title VIII is amended by add- Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3221(b)) (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary concerned is amended, in the matter following para- ing at the end the following: shall, to the maximum extent practicable, graph (2)(B), by adding at the end the fol- SEC. 8109. INCLUSION OF INVASIVE VEGETATION make vacant grazing allotments available to lowing: ‘‘Beginning with fiscal year 2019, in IN DESIGNATED TREATMENT AREAS. a holder of a grazing permit or lease issued Section 602 of the Healthy Forests Restora- making the calculation under paragraph (1), by such Secretary if the lands covered by the tion Act of 2003 is amended— any recently designated 1890 Institution permit or lease are unusable because of a (1) in subsection (a)— shall be deemed to have been designated as natural disaster (including a drought or (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘, an eligible institution on or before Sep- wildfire), court-issued injunction, or conflict invasive vegetation,’’ after ‘‘insect’’; and tember 30, 1978. For purposes of the pre- with wildlife, as determined by the Sec- (B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘, ceding sentence, a ‘recently designated 1890 retary concerned. invasive vegetation,’’ after ‘‘insects’’; and Institution’ means an 1890 Institution des- (b) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The terms and (2) in subsection (b)(2), by inserting ‘‘, ignated as such on or after September 30, conditions contained in a permit or lease for invasive vegetation,’’ after ‘‘insect’’. 1999.’’. a vacant grazing allotment made available (b) RESEARCH.—Section 1445 of the Na- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to pursuant to this subsection (a) shall be the tional Agricultural Research, Extension, and House Resolution 900, the gentlewoman terms and conditions of the most recent per- Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3222) is from New York (Ms. STEFANIK) and a mit or lease that was applicable to such al- amended— by adding at the end the fol- Member opposed each will control 5 lotment. lowing new paragraph: (c) COURT-ISSUED INJUNCTIONS.—A court ‘‘(3) Beginning with fiscal year 2019, in minutes. The Chair recognizes the gentle- may not issue any order enjoining the use of making the calculation under paragraph any allotment for which a permit or lease (2)(A), any recently designated 1890 Institu- woman from New York. Ms. STEFANIK. Mr. Chairman, I has been issued by the Secretary concerned tion (as defined in section 1444(b)) shall be and continues in effect unless the Secretary deemed to have been designated as an eligi- yield myself such time as I may con- concerned can make a vacant grazing allot- ble institution on or before September 30, sume. ment available to the holder of such permit 1978.’’. Mr. Chairman, our national forests or lease. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to are among our greatest natural re- (d) ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT UNDER House Resolution 900, the gentleman sources. Unfortunately, these forests THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT.— from Ohio (Mr. TURNER) and a Member are under constant threat from Activities carried out by the Secretary con- opposed each will control 5 minutes. invasive species and disease. You do cerned pursuant to subsection (a) are a cat- The Chair recognizes the gentleman not have to search far to find a forest egory of actions hereby designated as being categorically excluded from the preparation from Ohio. battling invasive pests, disease, or Mr. TURNER. Mr. Chairman, I yield of an environmental assessment or an envi- invasive vegetation. ronmental impact statement under section myself such time as I may consume. The Healthy Forest Restoration Act 102 of the National Environmental Policy Mr. Chairman, I rise to speak in was created as a way to help respond to Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332). favor of my amendment to the farm these persistent threats. My amend- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to bill. ment before the House would simply House Resolution 900, the gentlewoman Mr. Chairman, I had a great con- add invasive vegetation to the Healthy versation today with Secretary of Agri- from Wyoming (Ms. CHENEY) and a Forest Restoration Act for the pur- Member opposed each will control 5 culture Perdue in which he spoke very poses of the designated treatment highly of the students, faculty, and the minutes. areas. The Chair recognizes the gentle- president of Central State University Invasive vegetation chokes out our during his visit to the university. Cen- woman from Wyoming. native trees by competing for mois- Ms. CHENEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield tral State University is in my congres- ture, sunlight, nutrients, and space. sional district, and I want to thank myself such time as I may consume. Species like kudzu climb our trees and Mr. Chairman, livestock producers in Secretary Perdue for his leadership. infrastructure and threaten the health Wyoming and across the West have I am committed to working with the and safety of the areas where it uncon- Secretary’s office and all of the His- been battling for years against a Fed- trollably spreads. eral Government that has attempted torically Black Colleges to find a solu- When native trees are threatened, it systematically to reduce grazing allot- tion during the appropriations process is not just the ecosystem that is dam- ments on public lands. to stop the disparate funding treat- aged. Local economies and sportsmen My amendment would simply make ment currently in place. All 1890 land- and those that use our land for other vacant grazing allotments available for grant institutions should be treated forms of recreation all suffer from de- our producers should their existing al- equally. graded forestland. lotments become unavailable due to My commonsense and revenue-neu- Adding this designation increases the unforeseen circumstances such as wild- tral amendment evens the playing field effectiveness of the Healthy Forest fire, drought, other natural disasters, of Federal funding qualifications for all Restoration Act by taking a more en- or litigation. 1890 land-grant Historically Black Col- compassing view of the threats facing Today, some of our ranch families leges, as it is currently written now. our forestland. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank the Mr. Chairman, I encourage my col- are facing extreme hardship. They are chairman for his support for my work leagues to support this amendment, at risk of losing their livelihood be- on this amendment. I specifically want and I yield back the balance of my cause of factors beyond their control. to thank JOYCE BEATTY, who supports time. Frivolous lawsuits have often resulted the amendment and who is the only The Acting CHAIR. The question is in a complete loss of grazing rights for alumnus from Central State Univer- on the amendment offered by the gen- some of our producers who have been sity. tlewoman from New York (Ms. grazing on public lands for generations. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- STEFANIK). Mr. Chairman, these circumstances ance of my time. The amendment was agreed to. can lead to situations where our ranch- The Acting CHAIR. The question is AMENDMENT NO. 20 OFFERED BY MS. CHENEY ers face two options. They either force on the amendment offered by the gen- The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order their livestock to graze in confined tleman from Ohio (Mr. TURNER). to consider amendment No. 20 printed conditions that are unsuitable and The amendment was agreed to. in House Report 115–679. can’t support the stock, or they have AMENDMENT NO. 19 OFFERED BY MS. STEFANIK Ms. CHENEY. Mr. Speaker, I have an to sell their livestock at fire-sale The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order amendment at the desk. prices. to consider amendment No. 19 printed The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will We have seen family ranches go out in House Report 115–679. designate the amendment. of business and others that are now Ms. STEFANIK. Mr. Chairman, I The text of the amendment is as fol- facing the prospect that their allot- have an amendment at the desk. lows: ments will be lost within the next

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Best management mittee, having had under consideration cluded that these Agreements are in practices would be maintained, Mr. the bill (H.R. 2) to provide for the re- the national interest of the United Chairman, by ensuring that the terms form and continuation of agricultural States. and the conditions of the original allot- and other programs of the Department I commend to the Congress the ments are honored on the new ones. of Agriculture through fiscal year 2023, Agreement on Social Security between Allowing our ranchers to move their and for other purposes, had come to no the United States of America and Ice- livestock to vacant allotments is plain resolution thereon. land and the Administrative Arrange- common sense, and it is the right thing f ment between the Competent Authori- to do, Mr. Chairman, for our livestock ties of the United States of America industry. AGREEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY and Iceland for the Implementation of Our hardworking ranch families BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES the Agreement on Social Security be- shouldn’t face the potential of eco- OF AMERICA AND ICELAND— tween the United States of America nomic ruin because of natural disaster MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT and Iceland. or frivolous lawsuits. My amendment OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. DONALD J. TRUMP. will help protect them while we keep NO. 115–127) THE WHITE HOUSE, May 17, 2018. them on landscapes they have grazed The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- f on for generations. fore the House the following message Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues b 1900 from the President of the United to support this amendment to provide States; which was read and, together HONORING INTERNATIONAL ASSO- stability and peace of mind for our with the accompanying papers, referred CIATION OF LIONS CLUB, MUL- ranchers across the West. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the to the Committee on Ways and Means TIPLE DISTRICT 14 gentleman from Washington (Mr. and ordered to be printed: (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania NEWHOUSE). To the Congress of the United States: asked and was given permission to ad- Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Chairman, I Pursuant to section 233(e)(1) of the dress the House for 1 minute and to re- would like to thank the gentlewoman Social Security Act, as amended by the vise and extend his remarks.) from Wyoming for yielding me time. Social Security Amendments of 1977 Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of (Public Law 95–216, 42 U.S.C. 433(e)(1)), Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of amendment No. 20 offered by my friend I transmit herewith a social security the International Association of Lions Ms. CHENEY, and I am a proud cospon- totalization agreement with Iceland, Club, Multiple District 14, in the Com- sor, as well, of this amendment. titled ‘‘Agreement on Social Security monwealth of Pennsylvania. This amendment would provide re- between the United States of America Lions Multiple District 14 will host sources for ranchers that are facing un- and Iceland’’ and the accompanying le- its 95th annual convention at the Penn foreseeable events, like natural disas- gally binding administrative arrange- Stater Conference Center today ters. ment, titled ‘‘Administrative Arrange- through Sunday. They will proudly In my district, particularly in the ment between the Competent Authori- welcome the Lions Club International northern counties of north-central ties of the United States of America president, Dr. Naresh Aggarwal, of Washington, where catastrophic and Iceland for the Implementation of Batala, Punjab, India. wildfires are becoming far too common the Agreement on Social Security be- Mr. Speaker, this group is near and an occurrence, ranchers can be forced tween the United States of America dear to my heart, as I am a member of off of their allotments due to wildfires and Iceland’’ (collectively the ‘‘Agree- my local Lions Club, having served also causing their land to be unsuitable for ments’’). The Agreements were signed as a Scoutmaster of that Lions Scout grazing. When these ranchers are at Reykjavik, Iceland, on September troop. forced off of these allotments due to 27, 2016. The Lions are the world’s largest these external factors, they have no- The Agreements are similar in objec- service club, with more than 18,900 where to take their livestock. tive and content to the social security Lions in Pennsylvania and nearly 1.45 This amendment will provide a solu- totalization agreements already in million Lions worldwide. tion to this problem by allowing these force with other leading economic The Lions focus on five areas of serv- ranchers to take their livestock to va- partners in Europe and elsewhere, in- ice: diabetes; environment; hunger re- cant allotments in the event they face cluding Australia, Canada, Chile, lief; pediatric cancer; and probably the one of these unfortunate but all too Japan, Norway, the Republic of Korea, most well-known area of service, vi- common occurrences. and Switzerland. Such bilateral agree- sion. Thanks to the 692 Lions Clubs in Mr. Chairman, I would like to urge ments provide for limited coordination Pennsylvania, residents benefit from my colleagues to support amendment between the United States and foreign services like chartering units of the No. 20, and I thank my colleague Ms. social security systems to eliminate Boy Scouts of America, operating a CHENEY for her leadership on this issue. year-round camp for people with vision Ms. CHENEY. Mr. Chairman, I would dual social security coverage and tax- challenges, supporting a camp for chil- like to thank my cosponsor, Mr. ation and to help prevent the loss of benefit protection that can occur when dren with health challenges, and offer- NEWHOUSE, and I would also like to workers divide their careers between ing scholarships for students. thank Chairman CONAWAY for his work Mr. Speaker, the Lions do so much on this important bill overall. two countries. I urge my colleagues to support this The Agreements contain all provi- for so many in need. I wish them the amendment that will just provide jus- sions mandated by section 233 of the best of luck as they host their 95th tice for our ranch families. Social Security Act and, pursuant to convention and live out their motto: Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- section 233(c)(4), other provisions which We serve. ance of my time. I deem appropriate to carry out the f The Acting CHAIR. The question is purposes of section 233. NATIONAL POLICE WEEK on the amendment offered by the gen- I also transmit for the information of tlewoman from Wyoming (Ms. CHENEY). the Congress a report required by sec- (Mr. PANETTA asked and was given The amendment was agreed to. tion 233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act permission to address the House for 1 Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I on the estimated number of individuals minute and to revise and extend his re- move that the Committee do now rise. who will be affected by the Agreements marks.)

VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K17MY7.143 H17MYPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE H4206 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2018 Mr. PANETTA. Mr. Speaker, I recog- THREAT ASSESSMENT AND something in common: every single one nize National Police Week; however, PROTECTIVE INTELLIGENCE of these attacks was carried out after every day I am aware that officers pro- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under someone close to the killer observed tect and serve, put their lives on the the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- and reported concerning behavior to line each day they serve, and some give uary 3, 2017, the gentleman from Texas the authorities. The good news is there is something their lives for that service. (Mr. BABIN) is recognized for 60 min- I also recognize what officers realize, utes as the designee of the majority that we can do to fix this. These killers that their sacrifice and service is for leader. were under law enforcement’s watch, everybody: people they know and don’t Mr. BABIN. Mr. Speaker, imagine if but a proactive threat management know, and people who love them and someone came up and introduced him- structure, in large part, does not exist people who hate them. self to you and said: ‘‘Hi, I am Nick. I in the culture and fabric of contem- That is a big part of why our officers am a school shooter.’’ According to porary law enforcement today. For starters, our local law enforce- should be recognized, because no mat- those who knew him, Nikolas Cruz, the ment is simply undertrained, under- ter who it is, no matter what the dan- deranged Marjory Stoneman Douglas staffed, underequipped, and have no in- ger is, police are trained to and police High School murderer, was known to tegrated system in place to effectively do what we naturally don’t do as civil- do just that. ians: they run towards the danger, not He attacked a neighbor’s car. He shot identify and address these types of away from it. their animals. He was known to van- threats. The lack of information-shar- As a former prosecutor, I worked dalize and steal property. He made ing capabilities between the local, with many law enforcement officers alarming social media posts and was State, and Federal law enforcement, school officials, mental health profes- that I will never forget. More impor- expelled from school. There were mul- sionals, social services, and other com- tantly, there are victims and victims’ tiple reports to local police and the munity-based organizations prevent family members who will never forget FBI, and many other egregious red these key players from implementing the service of police, including the flags waving long before 17 innocent an effective intervention strategy di- family of Azahel Cruz, a 6-year-old that lives were taken and another 17 wound- rected at those who are on the pathway was killed in a drive-by shooting. ed on February 14, 2018. In the 7 years to violence. The case went unsolved for 5 years; leading up to the shooting, police vis- however, due to the dogged determina- For decades, there has been an effec- ited Cruz’ home 39 times—incredibly. tive system in place, pioneered by the tion of Officer Tom Larkin and DA In- Mr. Speaker, the Parkland shooting Secret Service, that has successfully vestigator Peter Austin, witnesses should have never happened. Every were found, evidence was presented, I worked to protect our Presidents and warning sign was there. They were not other public figures. I believe that it is proved the case at trial, and a mur- missed. Officials just failed to connect time to take a page out of the Secret derer was convicted and removed from the dots. Service’s playbook and address this the streets for good. I wish that I could say that this fail- critical national security issue by im- Police work will never replace the ure is unique to Parkland, but, sadly, plementing their established and prov- life of Azahel, but that service and the it is not. Nearly 20 years ago, high en threat management process for service and sacrifice of our officers is school junior Brooks Brown came identifying, investigating, evaluating, exactly why we recognize our police of- across a website where a fellow class- and mitigating threats as a critical ficers this week. mate threatened to kill him and his means to protecting our communities. f family. Brown’s parents alerted the Currently, threat assessment and local police, who were already aware of HONORING THE LIFE OF MELISSA protective intelligence is used as a concerning behaviors from that RAMIREZ method for gathering and evaluating website’s author and another involved information about a person who may (Mr. KIHUEN asked and was given student. have the motive, intention, and capa- permission to address the House for 1 Within only a few months, these bility to mount an attack against pub- minute and to revise and extend his re- same students, Eric Harris and Dylan lic figures. The Secret Service will marks.) Klebold, would murder 13 and wound 24 gauge a potential threat, assess the Mr. KIHUEN. Mr. Speaker, today I Columbine High School students in vulnerability of the targeted individ- rise to remember the life of Melissa what has been called the first modern uals, and guide an intervention when Ramirez. Melissa attended the Route 91 mass shooting. Again, the red flags necessary. This proactive process festival in Las Vegas on October 1. were detected, but the appropriate leaves no stone unturned. Melissa loved her family more than steps were not taken. This approach is entirely different anything in the world. She always This is not a new phenomenon. In from what the FBI and local law en- made sure to take trips home over the 1966, Charles Whitman sought help forcement currently use because it weekends while she was studying at from a psychiatrist at the University compiles information from a variety of California State University to get her of Texas for ‘‘overwhelming periods of comprehensive sources to build out a bachelor’s degree in business adminis- hostility,’’ including wanting to, ‘‘go threat assessment, and it works. Since tration. up in the tower . . . and start shooting the 1981 attempted assassination of After she graduated from college in people.’’ Six months later, he would President Reagan, nobody has even 2014, Melissa began working as a mem- carry out his sick fantasy exactly as he come close. ber specialist for an auto insurer, described: 16 dead and 31 wounded. If this system works to protect the where she continued to work until her Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, this list life of the President, elected officials, life tragically ended at the Route 91 goes on and on: the Pulse nightclub, foreign dignitaries, and even celeb- festival. the First Baptist Church in Sutherland rities, why couldn’t this also work to Melissa loved country music, but Springs, the Boston Marathon, the protect our children and local commu- loved the Philadelphia Eagles more. Washington Navy Yard, the attack on nities? She enjoyed watching sporting events Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in Tuc- Whether it is a shooting, a stabbing, and supporting each of her favorite son, Sandy Hook Elementary School, a weaponized vehicle, or a bombing, teams. the Aurora theater, Virginia Tech, the mass casualty events are occurring Melissa was known for being a hard Norwegian summer camp, West Nickel more and more frequently at home and worker, deeply loving her family, and Mines Amish school, the Charleston abroad. It is more important now than making sure to always enjoy life. church massacre, the attack on Repub- ever that we act. Mr. Speaker, I would like to extend lican Members of Congress at baseball Incorporating threat assessment and my condolences to Melissa Ramirez’ practice, and even the YouTube and protective intelligence into all facets family and friends. Please note that Tennessee Waffle House shooting just a of law enforcement will save lives. If the city of Las Vegas, the State of Ne- few weeks ago. we can properly recognize the warnings vada, and the whole country grieve Mr. Speaker, all of these horrifying and act, we can prevent targeted vio- with you. events on this nonexhaustive list have lence. It is time that we put an end to

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One of the officers 509(a)(3)); (117 Stat. 1458); to the Committee the gentleman for yielding. donated his camera. on Armed Services. Mr. Speaker, I rise this evening in They contacted Queen B’s Cakery in 4880. A letter from the Under Secretary, support of National Police Week, an Johnston, who donated a birthday Personnel and Readiness, Department of De- cake. They even reached out to fense, transmitting a letter approving the important celebration of the men and sale of beer and wine in military com- women who serve our communities as Legoland, who put together a trip to missaries, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2484(c); Pub- members of law enforcement. replace Destiny’s stolen tickets, com- lic Law 99-661, Sec. 313(a) (as amended by This week, we also observed Peace plete with a limousine ride to the air- Public Law 108-375, Sec. 651(a)(5)); (118 Stat. Officers Memorial Day and remem- port. 1966); to the Committee on Armed Services. bered all of those members of the thin Destiny was ecstatic. She was al- 4881. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- blue line who have lost their lives so ready talking about returning the ges- ment of Commerce, transmitting a report ture. certifying that the export of the listed items the rest of us can be safe. to the People’s Republic of China is not det- Throughout my life, I have had the When asked why they went above and rimental to the U.S. space launch industry, opportunity to work with so many beyond, Sergeant Dolan said: We want- pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 2778 note; Public Law brave Rhode Island police officers, and ed to show her that there are more 105-261, Sec. 1512 (as amended by Public Law I am particularly proud that when I good people in the world than bad. 105-277, Sec. 146); (112 Stat. 2174); to the Com- was mayor of the city of Providence, as Mr. Speaker, this is just one example mittee on Foreign Affairs. a result of a citywide community polic- showing exactly why police officers do 4882. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, what they do. The men and women of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, ing model, we saw the lowest crime transmitting a determination and certifi- rate in the city in 40 years. That was our Nation’s law enforcement deserve cation that five countries are not cooper- because of the wonderful trust that had our utmost respect and our deepest ating fully with U.S. antiterrorism efforts, been developed between the commu- gratitude. pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 2781(b); Public Law 90- nity and the police department, and I look forward to working with my 629, Sec. 40A (as added Public Law 104-132, the police department being willing to colleagues here in Congress, members Sec. 330); (110 Stat. 1258); to the Committee fully engage in the life of the commu- of the Rhode Island State and local law on Foreign Affairs. enforcement agencies, and local com- 4883. A letter from the Federal Register Li- nity. Police officers served on housing aison Officer, U.S. Census Bureau, Depart- boards and community center boards munity leaders on the ways we can ment of Commerce, transmitting the Depart- and became part of the community, continue to support our great men and ment’s final rule — Foreign Trade Regula- and, of course, that work continues women in uniform. tions (FTR): Clarification on the Collection today. I want to thank Congressman KNIGHT and Confidentiality of Kimberley Process There are many, many stories about for organizing this Special Order hour Certificates [Docket Number: 140905758-8166- the extraordinary heroism and dedica- this evening. Our last evening had to 02] (RIN: 0607-AA54) received May 2, 2018, pur- get postponed, but I really appreciate, suant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104- tion and hard work of our men and 121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee women in uniform, but very often their Mr. Speaker, the opportunity to offer a on Foreign Affairs. really heroic work is in these untold few thoughts this evening during Na- 4884. A letter from the Assistant Secretary stories. tional Police Week to say thank you for Administration, Department of Transpor- One of those stories I would like to again to the men and women who serve tation, transmitting the Department’s sum- talk about tonight is a story that real- in our community to keep us safe, who mary and URL to the inventories of commer- ly exemplifies the important work that do incredibly dangerous work and with- cial and inherently governmental positions out whom we would not have safe com- for fiscal year 2016, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 501 police do in our communities that note; Public Law 105-270, Sec. 2(c)(1)(A); (112 makes a real difference in the lives of munities. Stat. 2382); to the Committee on Oversight those they serve. Mr. BABIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield back and Government Reform. Earlier this year, the Pawtucket Po- the balance of my time. 4885. A letter from the Deputy Inspector lice Department went above and be- f General for Audit Services, Office of Inspec- yond the call of duty to help a family tor General, Department of Health and SENATE BILL REFERRED in the city of Pawtucket. Hilary Human Services, transmitting the final re- port, entitled ‘‘U.S. Department of Health Bilbraut and her family were getting A bill of the Senate of the following title was taken from the Speaker’s and Human Services Met Many Require- ready to celebrate their daughter, Des- ments of the Improper Payment Information tiny’s, ninth birthday. Destiny, who table and, under the rule, referred as Act of 2002 but Did Not Fully Comply for Fis- suffers from a rare blood disorder that follows: cal Year 2017’’, pursuant to Public Law 107- causes high fevers, had been eagerly S. 2349. An act to the Director of the Office 300 as amended, and Public Law 111-204; to waiting for her birthday trip to of Management and Budget to establish an the Committee on Oversight and Govern- Legoland in Florida, where she could interagency working group to study Federal ment Reform. 4886. A letter from the Alternate OSD take pictures with her beloved camera. efforts to collect data on sexual violence and to make recommendations on the harmoni- FRLO, Office of the Secretary, Department Instead, Destiny and her family came zation of such efforts, and for other purposes; of Defense, transmitting the Department’s home to an apartment ransacked by to the Committee on the Judiciary. final rule — DoD Freedom of Information thieves. They took everything they Act (FOIA) Program [Docket ID: DOD-2017- f could get their hands on. They took OS-0028] (RIN: 0790-AI51) received April 30, the family television. They took Des- ADJOURNMENT 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public tiny’s camera. They took her tickets to Mr. BABIN. Mr. Speaker, I move that Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Oversight and Government Legoland. They even took her birthday the House do now adjourn. Reform. cake. The motion was agreed to; accord- 4887. A letter from the Alternate OSD In describing the aftermath to police, ingly (at 7 o’clock and 15 minutes FRLO, Office of the Secretary, Department Hilary said the thieves stole more than p.m.), the House adjourned until to- of Defense, transmitting the Department’s just that: they stole Destiny’s peace of morrow, Friday, May 18, 2018, at 9 a.m. final rule — Defense Investigative Service (DIS) Freedom of Information Act Program mind. Since the break-in, she had been f haunted by nightmares and constantly [Docket ID: DOD-2017-OS-0026] (RIN: 0790- crying. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, AJ67) received May 2, 2018, pursuant to 5 Pawtucket Police Officer Brian ETC. U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Beech was the first to respond to the Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive Oversight and Government Reform. break-in. Officer Beech was heart- communications were taken from the 4888. A letter from the Alternate OSD broken by Destiny’s story. He imme- Speaker’s table and referred as follows: FRLO, Office of the Secretary, Department

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A letter from the Management and tives; The Boeing Company Airplanes [Dock- 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Program Analyst, FAA, Department of et No.: FAA-2018-0299; Product Identifier Stat. 868); to the Committee on Oversight Transportation, transmitting the Depart- 2018-NM-060-AD; Amendment 39-19256; AD and Government Reform. ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- 2018-08-03] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received May 10, 4889. A letter from the Alternate OSD tives; The Boeing Company Airplanes [Dock- 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public FRLO, Office of the Secretary, Department et No.: FAA-2017-0711; Product Identifier Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the of Defense, transmitting the Department’s 2017-NM-003-AD; Amendment 39-19227; AD Committee on Transportation and Infra- final rule — National Imagery Mapping 2018-06-07] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received April 23, structure. Agency (NIMA) Freedom of Information Act 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public 4905. A letter from the Management and Program [Docket ID: DOD-2017-OS-0023] Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Program Analyst, FAA, Department of (RIN: 0790-AJ64) received May 2, 2018, pursu- Committee on Transportation and Infra- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104- structure. ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- 121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee 4898. A letter from the Management and tives; The Boeing Company Airplanes [Dock- on Oversight and Government Reform. Program Analyst, FAA, Department of et No.: FAA-2018-0304; Product Identifier 4890. A letter from the Alternate OSD Transportation, transmitting the Depart- 2018-NM-065-AD; Amendment 39-19261; AD FRLO, Office of the Secretary, Department ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- 2018-09-05] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received May 10, of Defense, transmitting the Department’s tives; CFM International S.A. Turbofan En- 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public final rule — National Security Agency/Cen- gines [Docket No.: FAA-2018-0380; Product Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the tral Security Service (NSA/CSS) Freedom of Identifier 2018-NE-14-AD; Amendment 39- Committee on Transportation and Infra- Information Act Program [Docket ID: DOD- 19267; AD 2018-09-10] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received structure. 2017-OS-0027] (RIN: 0790-AJ68) received May 2, May 10, 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 4906. A letter from the Management and 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transpor- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- Committee on Oversight and Government tation and Infrastructure. ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- Reform. 4899. A letter from the Management and tives; Rolls-Royce plc Turbofan Engines 4891. A letter from the Attorney-Advisor, Program Analyst, FAA, Department of [Docket No.: FAA-2018-0314; Product Identi- General Law and Research Division, OGC, Transportation, transmitting the Depart- fier 2018-NE-11-AD; Amendment 39-19255; AD Office of the Secretary, Department of Agri- ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- 2018-08-02] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received May 10, culture, transmitting the Department’s final tives; Safran Helicopters Engines, S.A., Tur- 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public rule — Civil Monetary Penalty Inflation Ad- boshaft Engines [Docket No.: FAA-2018-0184; Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the justment for 2018 (RIN: 0510-AA04) received Product Identifier 2018-NE-07-AD; Amend- Committee on Transportation and Infra- April 30, 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. ment 39-19248; AD 2018-07-17] (RIN: 2120-AA64) structure. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 received May 10, 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 4907. A letter from the Acting Adminis- Stat. 868); to the Committee on the Judici- 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 trator, Federal Highway Administration, De- ary. Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transpor- partment of Transportation, transmitting 4892. A letter from the Management and tation and Infrastructure. the 2017 Highway Freight Conditions and 4900. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Performance Report to Congress, pursuant Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Depart- to 23 U.S.C. 167(h); Public Law 112-141, Sec. Transportation, transmitting the Depart- ment’s final rule — Standard Instrument Ap- 1115(a) (as amended by Public Law 114-94, ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- proach Procedures, and Takeoff Minimums Sec. 1116(a)) (129 Stat. 1353); to the Com- tives; Fokker Services B.V. Airplanes [Dock- and Obstacle Departure Procedures; Mis- mittee on Transportation and Infrastruc- et No.: FAA-2017-0906; Product Identifier cellaneous Amendments [Docket No.: 31189; ture. 2017-NM-039-AD; Amendment 39-19252; AD Amdt. No.: 3796] received May 10, 2018, pursu- 4908. A letter from the Assistant General 2018-07-21] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received May 10, ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104- Counsel for Regulatory Affairs, Pension Ben- 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public 121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee efit Guaranty Corporation, transmitting the Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the on Transportation and Infrastructure. Corporation’s final rule — Benefits Payable 4893. A letter from the Management and Committee on Transportation and Infra- in Terminated Single-Employer Plans; Inter- Program Analyst, FAA, Department of structure. est Assumptions for Paying Benefits received Transportation, transmitting the Depart- 4901. A letter from the Management and April 24, 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. ment’s final rule — Standard Instrument Ap- Program Analyst, FAA, Department of 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 proach Procedures, and Takeoff Minimums Transportation, transmitting the Depart- Stat. 868); to the Committee on Education and Obstacle Departure Procedures; Mis- ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- and the Workforce. cellaneous Amendments [Docket No.: 31188; tives; Austro Engine GmbH Engines [Docket 4909. A letter from the Chief, Publications Amdt. No.: 3795] received May 10, 2018, pursu- No.: FAA-2018-0153; Product Identifier 2018- and Regulations Branch, Internal Revenue ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104- NE-03-AD; Amendment 39-19247; AD 2018-07- Service, transmitting the Service’s IRB only 121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee 16] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received May 10, 2018, rule — Determination of Housing Cost on Transportation and Infrastructure. pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law Amounts Eligible for Exclusion or Deduction 4894. A letter from the Management and 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Com- for 2018 [Notice 2018-44] received May 10, 2018, Program Analyst, FAA, Department of mittee on Transportation and Infrastruc- pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law Transportation, transmitting the Depart- ture. ment’s final rule — IFR Altitudes; Miscella- 4902. A letter from the Management and 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Com- neous Amendments [Docket No.: 31192; Program Analyst, FAA, Department of mittee on Ways and Means. Amdt. No.: 539] (received May 10, 2018, pursu- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- 4910. A letter from the Director, Office of ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104- ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- Financial Management, United States Cap- 121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee tives; The Boeing Company Airplanes [Dock- itol Police, transmitting the Statement of on Transportation and Infrastructure. et No.: FAA-2017-0553; Product Identifier Disbursements for the United States Capitol 4895. A letter from the Management and 2016-NM-208-AD; Amendment 39-19250; AD Police for the period of October 1, 2017, Program Analyst, FAA, Department of 2018-07-19] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received May 10, through March 31, 2018, pursuant to 2 U.S.C. Transportation, transmitting the Depart- 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public 1910(a); Public Law 109-55, Sec. 1005; (119 Stat. ment’s final rule — Amendment of Re- Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the 575) (H. Doc. No. 115—126); to the Committee stricted Area R-4403A; Stennis Space Center, Committee on Transportation and Infra- on House Administration and ordered to be MS [Docket No.: FAA-2017-1109; Airspace structure. printed. Docket No.: 17-ASO-22] (RIN: 2120-AA66) re- 4903. A letter from the Management and f ceived May 10, 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Program Analyst, FAA, Department of 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Transportation, transmitting the Depart- PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transpor- ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- Under clause 2 of rule XII, public tation and Infrastructure. tives; The Boeing Company Airplanes [Dock- bills and resolutions of the following 4896. A letter from the Management and et No.: FAA-2017-0770; Product Identifier Program Analyst, FAA, Department of 2017-NM-030-AD; Amendment 39-19251; AD titles were introduced and severally re- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- 2018-07-20] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received May 10, ferred, as follows: ment’s final rule — Revocation of Class E 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public By Mr. DEFAZIO (for himself, Ms. NOR- Airspace; Seven Springs, PA, and Amend- Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the TON, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of ment of Class E Airspace; Somerset, PA Committee on Transportation and Infra- Texas, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. LARSEN of [Docket No.: FAA-2017-0610; Airspace Docket structure. Washington, Mr. CAPUANO, Mrs.

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NAPOLITANO, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. H.R. 5864. A bill to direct the Secretary of ERN, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. RUSH, and Mr. COHEN, Mr. SIRES, Mr. GARAMENDI, Veterans Affairs to establish qualifications SHERMAN): Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. CARSON for the human resources positions within the H.R. 5873. A bill to disclose the use of Fed- of Indiana, Mr. NOLAN, Ms. TITUS, Mr. Veterans Health Administration of the De- eral funds with any privately held company SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York, partment of Veterans Affairs, and for other owned by the President, and for other pur- Ms. ESTY of Connecticut, Ms. purposes; to the Committee on Veterans’ Af- poses; to the Committee on Oversight and FRANKEL of Florida, Mrs. BUSTOS, Mr. fairs. Government Reform. HUFFMAN, Ms. BROWNLEY of Cali- By Mr. CARTWRIGHT: By Mr. JONES (for himself and Mr. fornia, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. H.R. 5865. A bill to establish programs re- CLEAVER): PAYNE, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mrs. LAW- lated to prevention of prescription opioid H. Res. 901. A resolution calling on and en- RENCE, Mr. DESAULNIER, and Ms. misuse, and for other purposes; to the Com- couraging the White House to issue a public PLASKETT): mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in ad- apology; to the Committee on Oversight and H.R. 5857. A bill to protect transportation dition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Government Reform. personnel and passengers from sexual assault Ways and Means, and Education and the By Mr. SCOTT of Virginia (for himself, and harassment, and for other purposes; to Workforce, for a period to be subsequently Mr. NADLER, Ms. PELOSI, Mr. HOYER, the Committee on Transportation and Infra- determined by the Speaker, in each case for Mr. CLYBURN, Ms. JUDY CHU of Cali- structure. consideration of such provisions as fall with- fornia, Mr. RICHMOND, Ms. MICHELLE By Mr. SCHNEIDER (for himself and in the jurisdiction of the committee con- LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico, Mr. Ms. STEFANIK): cerned. TAKANO, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illi- H.R. 5858. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- By Mr. DEFAZIO: nois, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. WIL- enue Code of 1986 to require coverage with- H.R. 5866. A bill to amend title 38, United SON of Florida, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Ms. out a deductible of certain primary care States Code, to authorize individuals who SEWELL of Alabama, Mr. GRIJALVA, services by high deductible health plans; to are pursuing programs of rehabilitation, edu- and Mr. SOTO): the Committee on Ways and Means. cation, or training under laws administered H. Res. 902. A resolution expressing the By Mr. TIPTON: by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to re- sense of the House of Representatives regard- H.R. 5859. A bill to amend the Mineral ceive work-study allowances for certain out- ing the obligation of the Office for Civil Leasing Act to require that a portion of rev- reach services provided through congres- Rights of the Department of Education and enues from new Federal mineral and geo- sional offices, and for other purposes; to the the Civil Rights Division of the Department thermal leases be paid to States for use to Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. of Justice to enforce title VI of the Civil supplement the education of students in kin- By Mr. DOGGETT (for himself and Ms. Rights Act of 1964 and its implementing reg- dergarten through grade 12 and public sup- PINGREE): ulations, and for other purposes; to the Com- port of institutions of higher education, and H.R. 5867. A bill to authorize a joint action mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to for other purposes; to the Committee on Nat- plan and report on drug waste; to the Com- the Committee on Education and the Work- ural Resources, and in addition to the Com- mittee on Energy and Commerce. force, for a period to be subsequently deter- mittee on Education and the Workforce, for By Mr. GIBBS (for himself, Mr. mined by the Speaker, in each case for con- a period to be subsequently determined by CHABOT, Mr. WENSTRUP, Mrs. BEATTY, sideration of such provisions as fall within the Speaker, in each case for consideration Mr. JORDAN, Mr. LATTA, Mr. DAVID- the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- SON, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. TURNER, Ms. By Mr. BRAT: tion of the committee concerned. FUDGE, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. JOYCE H. Res. 903. A resolution protecting 1st By Mr. NORMAN (for himself, Mr. of Ohio, Mr. STIVERS, Mr. RENACCI, Amendment Rights of Free Speech and Free POSEY, Mr. HUIZENGA, Mr. FLORES, and Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio): Exercise while condemning any form of Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. WEBER of H.R. 5868. A bill to designate the facility of criminal behavior, threats or violence; to the Texas, Mr. KIND, Mr. MEADOWS, Mr. the United States Postal Service located at Committee on the Judiciary. COOK, Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio, Mr. 530 Claremont Avenue in Ashland, Ohio, as f DESJARLAIS, Mr. LATTA, Mr. the ‘‘Bill Harris Post Office’’; to the Com- CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY FITZPATRICK, Mr. MOONEY of West mittee on Oversight and Government Re- STATEMENT Virginia, and Mr. ROGERS of Ala- form. bama): By Miss GONZA´ LEZ-COLO´ N of Puerto Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of H.R. 5860. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- Rico (for herself, Mr. KING of New the Rules of the House of Representa- enue Code of 1986 to allow first responders to York, Mr. DONOVAN, Mr. BACON, Mrs. tives, the following statements are sub- continue to exclude service-connected dis- MURPHY of Florida, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, mitted regarding the specific powers ability pension payments after reaching the and Mr. DUFFY): granted to Congress in the Constitu- age of retirement; to the Committee on Ways H.R. 5869. A bill to require the Secretary of tion to enact the accompanying bill or and Means. Homeland Security to conduct a maritime joint resolution. By Mr. SMITH of Nebraska (for him- border threat analysis, and for other pur- By Mr. DEFAZIO: self, Mr. BRADY of Texas, Mr. NUNES, poses; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- H.R. 5857. Ms. JENKINS of Kansas, Mr. REED, Mr. rity. Congress has the power to enact this legis- RENACCI, Mrs. WALORSKI, Mr. By Mr. GROTHMAN (for himself, Mr. lation pursuant to the following: LAHOOD, Mr. BISHOP of Michigan, Mr. GIANFORTE, and Mr. ROKITA): Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, Clause 3, and RICE of South Carolina, Mr. SMITH of H.R. 5870. A bill to amend the Occupational Clause 18 of the Constitution. Missouri, Mr. HOLDING, Mr. Safety and Health Act of 1970 to require im- By Mr. SCHNEIDER: BUCHANAN, Mr. MARCHANT, and Mr. mediate notification to an employer of the H.R. 5858. KELLY of Pennsylvania): issuance of a penalty, to prohibit any public Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 5861. A bill to amend part A of title IV notice of such citation for a period of 24 lation pursuant to the following: of the Social Security Act, and for other pur- hours after issuance of the citation, and to Article 1 of the Constitution poses; to the Committee on Ways and Means. require a public notice where an employer By Mr. TIPTON: By Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ: successfully contests any proposed penalty; H.R. 5859. H.R. 5862. A bill to amend chapter 11 of to the Committee on Education and the Congress has the power to enact this legis- title 35, United States Code, to require the Workforce. lation pursuant to the following: voluntary collection of demographic infor- By Mr. LAMB (for himself and Mr. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution. mation for patent applications, and for other JOYCE of Ohio): purposes; to the Committee on the Judici- H.R. 5871. A bill to provide grants to State, By Mr. NORMAN: ary. local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement H.R. 5860. By Mr. CICILLINE (for himself, Mr. agencies to purchase chemical screening de- Congress has the power to enact this legis- lation pursuant to the following: BILIRAKIS, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. YOHO, vices and train personnel to use chemical Article I, Section 7 Mr. PALLONE, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. screening devices in order to enhance law en- By Mr. SMITH of Nebraska: MCGOVERN, and Mr. POE of Texas): forcement efficiency and protect law en- H.R. 5861. H.R. 5863. A bill to limit the transfer of F- forcement officers; to the Committee on the 35 aircraft to Turkey; to the Committee on Congress has the power to enact this legis- Judiciary. lation pursuant to the following: Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Com- By Mr. ROHRABACHER: Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United mittee on Armed Services, for a period to be H.R. 5872. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- States Constitution, to ‘‘provide for the com- subsequently determined by the Speaker, in enue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation mon Defence and general Welfare of the each case for consideration of such provi- on the deduction for State and local taxes; to United States.’’ sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the the Committee on Ways and Means. By Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ: committee concerned. By Mr. SCHIFF (for himself, Ms. H.R. 5862. By Mr. BOST (for himself, Ms. SINEMA, CLARKE of New York, Mr. COHEN, Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Ms. STEFANIK, Mr. MEADOWS, and Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. GRIJALVA, lation pursuant to the following: RUTHERFORD): Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. MCGOV- Article I, Section 8, Clause 1

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The Congress shall have Power to . . . pro- 7, and as well as Article I, Section 8, Clause H.R. 5026: Miss GONZA´ LEZ-COLO´ N of Puerto vide for the . . . general Welfare of the 18, the Necessary and Proper Clause. Rico. United States, . . . H.R. 5085: Mr. SUOZZI. f By Mr. CICILLINE: H.R. 5158: Mr. RASKIN. H.R. 5863. ADDITIONAL SPONSORS H.R. 5199: Mrs. BLACK. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 5248: Mr. SERRANO. lation pursuant to the following: Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors H.R. 5282: Mr. LOEBSACK and Mr. YOUNG of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of were added to public bills and resolu- Iowa. the United States. tions, as follows: H.R. 5329: Mrs. BLACKBURN. By Mr. BOST: H.R. 5339: Mr. LIPINSKI. H.R. 99: Mrs. BEATTY. H.R. 5864. H.R. 5343: Mr. WESTERMAN. H.R. 110: Mr. TONKO, Ms. HANABUSA, Ms. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 5385: Mr. STIVERS and Mr. FOSTER. MCCOLLUM, and Mrs. NAPOLITANO. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 5414: Ms. WILSON of Florida. Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 H.R. 200: Mr. GROTHMAN. H.R. 5460: Mr. FITZPATRICK, Ms. By Mr. CARTWRIGHT: H.R. 210: Mr. CRAMER. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. WEBER of Texas, H.R. 5865. H.R. 299: Mr. SESSIONS. and Ms. ROSEN. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 333: Mr. CRIST, Mr. GONZALEZ of H.R. 5467: Mr. RUPPERSBERGER and Mr. lation pursuant to the following: Texas, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. DONOVAN, Mr. DOGGETT. Article I; Section 8; Clause 1 of the Con- LAWSON of Florida, Mr. CONNOLLY, and Ms. H.R. 5471: Mr. RASKIN. stitution states The Congress shall have NORTON. H.R. 5477: Mrs. BLACKBURN. Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Im- H.R. 389: Ms. SA´ NCHEZ. H.R. 5486: Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ. posts and Excises, to pay the Debts and pro- H.R. 489: Mr. LIPINSKI. H.R. 5497: Mr. WALZ and Mr. NOLAN. vide for the common Defence and general H.R. 754: Mr. LIPINSKI. H.R. 5510: Mr. SOTO. Welfare of the United States . . . H.R. 781: Mr. LATTA. H.R. 5533: Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SCHIFF, By Mr. DEFAZIO: H.R. 788: Mr. STIVERS. Mr. CONNOLLY, Ms. LEE, Ms. JACKSON LEE, H.R. 5866. H.R. 809: Ms. SINEMA. Mr. GUTIE´ RREZ, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 817: Mr. KHANNA. LOWENTHAL, Mr. PERLMUTTER, Mr. THOMPSON lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1046: Mr. HULTGREN. of California, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. WELCH, Mr. Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 (relating to H.R. 1130: Mr. KING of Iowa. LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. LOFGREN, and the power to make all laws necessary and H.R. 1150: Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina Mr. NOLAN. proper for carrying out the powers vested in and Mr. ROYCE of California. H.R. 5571: Mr. WELCH and Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Congress) H.R. 1201: Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. LIPINSKI, H.R. 5590: Mrs. BLACKBURN. By Mr. DOGGETT: and Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. H.R. 5602: Ms. CLARKE of New York and Mr. H.R. 5867. H.R. 1318: Ms. BASS. BEYER. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 1352: Mr. SMITH of Nebraska. H.R. 5621: Mr. POSEY, Mr. CORREA, Mr. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1447: Mr. COHEN, Mr. KEATING, Mr. HULTGREN, and Mr. PITTENGER. Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the NOLAN, Mr. MCEACHIN, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. H.R. 5626: Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. United States Constitution. SOTO, Ms. HANABUSA, and Mr. SHERMAN. H.R. 5658: Mr. TIPTON. By Mr. GIBBS: H.R. 1615: Mr. DEFAZIO. H.R. 5671: Mr. JONES and Ms. BORDALLO. H.R. 5868. H.R. 1683: Mr. FITZPATRICK and Mr. LANCE. H.R. 5682: Mr. SMUCKER and Mr. ROTHFUS. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 1697: Mr. RUTHERFORD and Mr. H.R. 5701: Mr. BUDD. lation pursuant to the following: ARRINGTON. H.R. 5717: Mr. FITZPATRICK. Article I, Section 8, Clause 7, of the Con- H.R. 1928: Mr. MULLIN. H.R. 5735: Mr. HULTGREN. H.R. 5736: Ms. STEFANIK. stitution empowers Congress ‘‘To establish H.R. 2101: Mr. DESJARLAIS. H.R. 5746: Ms. LOFGREN, Ms. NORTON, Mr. Post Offices and post Roads’’. H.R. 2106: Mrs. DAVIS of California and Mr. TAKANO, and Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM By Miss GONZA´ LEZ-COLO´ N of Puerto RUPPERSBERGER. of New Mexico. Rico: H.R. 2150: Mr. OLSON, Mr. JEFFRIES, Mr. H.R. 5747: Mr. SESSIONS. H.R. 5869. PASCRELL, and Ms. BONAMICI. H.R. 5754: Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 2259: Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. H.R. 5760: Mr. BERA. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 2261: Mr. GAETZ. H.R. 5761: Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mrs. Article I, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitu- H.R. 2315: Mr. WITTMAN and Mr. MURPHY of Florida, and Mr. SERRANO. tion DESJARLAIS. H.R. 5780: Mr. GAETZ, Ms. TITUS, Mr. DONO- ‘‘All legislative Powers herein granted H.R. 2472: Ms. WILSON of Florida. VAN, Ms. KAPTUR, and Mr. JONES. shall be vested in a Congress of the United H.R. 2486: Mr. SOTO. H.R. 5796: Mrs. BLACKBURN. States, which shall consist of a Senate and H.R. 2748: Mr. ROYCE of California. H.R. 5797: Mrs. BLACKBURN. House of Representatives.’’ H.R. 2787: Mr. KILMER. H.R. 5808: Mrs. BLACKBURN. Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the U.S. H.R. 2856: Mr. SMUCKER. H.R. 5812: Mrs. BLACKBURN. Constitution H.R. 2902: Ms. SPEIER. H.R. 5819: Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Congress shall have the power . . . ‘‘To H.R. 3030: Mr. WILSON of South Carolina Mr. MAST, and Mr. KEATING. make all Laws which shall be necessary and and Mr. ROYCE of California. H.R. 5836: Mr. SMITH of Nebraska. proper for carrying into Execution the fore- H.R. 3059: Mr. BUTTERFIELD. H.J. Res. 129: Mr. LAMB and Mr. RUIZ. going Powers, and all other Powers vested by H.R. 3712: Mr. TIPTON. H. Con. Res. 10: Mr. COSTA. this Constitution in the Government of the H.R. 4022: Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. TED H. Con. Res. 45: Mr. STEWART. United States, or in any Department or Offi- LIEU of California, and Mr. MAST. H. Con. Res. 119: Mr. WILLIAMS and Mr. cer thereof.’’ H.R. 4107: Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas, Ms. POSEY. By Mr. GROTHMAN: ADAMS, and Mr. WITTMAN. H. Res. 199: Ms. MATSUI. H.R. 5870. H.R. 4167: Mr. SMITH of Nebraska. H. Res. 763: Mr. MCCAUL and Mr. MEEKS. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 4238: Mr. WEBER of Texas. H. Res. 781: Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 4256: Mrs. HANDEL, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. H. Res. 785: Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana, Mr. Article 1, Section 8 FASO, and Ms. BONAMICI. SMUCKER, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mr. LOUDERMILK, By Mr. LAMB: H.R. 4271: Mr. MOULTON. Mr. MAST, Mr. BARTON, Mr. BRAT, Mr. TIP- H.R. 5871. H.R. 4319: Mrs. MURPHY of Florida. TON, Mr. LONG, Mr. BLUM, Ms. CHENEY, Mrs. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 4410: Ms. CLARKE of New York. MIMI WALTERS of California, Mr. HUIZENGA, lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 4411: Ms. CLARKE of New York. Mr. GIANFORTE, Mr. STIVERS, Mr. WENSTRUP, Article 1 Section 8 H.R. 4454: Mr. BERGMAN. and Mr. RUSSELL. By Mr. ROHRABACHER: H.R. 4472: Ms. MOORE. H. Res. 826: Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. BARR, Miss H.R. 5872. H.R. 4549: Mr. SUOZZI. GONZA´ LEZ-COLO´ N of Puerto Rico, Mr. WEBER Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 4556: Ms. JACKSON LEE. of Texas, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Mr. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 4684: Mrs. BLACKBURN. CICILLINE, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. FASO, Mr. HIMES, The Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. H.R. 4691: Mr. KILMER. Mr. BEYER, and Mr. ROKITA. Constitution H.R. 4693: Mr. KILMER. H. Res. 861: Mr. MAST. By Mr. SCHIFF: H.R. 4775: Mrs. BEATTY. H. Res. 868: Mr. BERGMAN, Mr. RUSH, Ms. H.R. 5873. H.R. 4843: Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana. TENNEY, Ms. STEFANIK, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 4944: Ms. PINGREE. GUTIE´ RREZ, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. LIPIN- lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 4953: Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS and Mr. SKI, and Mr. LATTA. Disclosing Official Spending at Presi- ISSA. H. Res. 869: Ms. LOFGREN. dential Businesses Act is constitutionally H.R. 4989: Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. SHERMAN, H. Res. 893: Mr. CONNOLLY and Mr. authorized under Article II, Section 1, Clause and Mr. CICILLINE. FITZPATRICK.

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Vol. 164 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2018 No. 81 Senate The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was ator from the State of Nevada, to perform Risch, John Thune, Todd Young, Ron called to order by the Honorable DEAN the duties of the Chair. Johnson, Cory Gardner. HELLER, a Senator from the State of ORRIN G. HATCH, Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Nevada. President pro tempore. ask unanimous consent that the man- Mr. HELLER thereupon assumed the datory quorum call for the cloture mo- f Chair as Acting President pro tempore. tion be waived. PRAYER f The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- pore. Without objection, it is so or- The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY dered. fered the following prayer: LEADER Let us pray. f The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- King of Glory, robed with honor and LEGISLATIVE SESSION pore. The majority leader is recog- majesty, enter the hearts of our law- nized. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I makers today, and use them for Your move to proceed to legislative session. glory. Fortify them with the knowl- f The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- edge that You will never leave or for- EXECUTIVE SESSION pore. The question is on agreeing to sake them. the motion. Lord, show them Your ways and The motion was agreed to. teach them Your path. Leaning on EXECUTIVE CALENDAR f Your wisdom, may they make ethical Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I NOMINATION OF GINA HASPEL decisions that will receive Heaven’s ap- move to proceed to executive session to proval. Undergird them with Your consider Calendar No. 847, Gina Haspel. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, yes- might, enabling them to accomplish The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- terday, the Intelligence Committee with Your power what they could not pore. The question is on agreeing to took an important step toward con- do on their own. the motion. firming Gina Haspel to become the We pray in Your wonderful Name. The motion was agreed to. next Director of the CIA. A bipartisan Amen. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- majority voted to report her nomina- tion favorably to the Senate. I look f pore. The clerk will report the nomina- tion. forward to promptly moving to a con- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE The legislative clerk read the nomi- firmation vote. The committee’s confidence is indic- The Presiding Officer led the Pledge nation of Gina Haspel, of Kentucky, to ative of the strength of Ms. Haspel’s of Allegiance, as follows: be Director of the Central Intelligence testimony and her 30-plus-year record I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the Agency. of CIA service. Throughout the process, United States of America, and to the Repub- CLOTURE MOTION lic for which it stands, one nation under God, she demonstrated candor, integrity, Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. and a forthright approach to the com- send a cloture motion to the desk. mittee’s questions. She displayed the f The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- talent and expertise that make her APPOINTMENT OF ACTING pore. The cloture motion having been uniquely qualified to face America’s PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE presented under rule XXII, the Chair biggest national security challenges, directs the clerk to read the motion. whether in the area of counterterror- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The legislative clerk read as follows: clerk will please read a communication ism or renewed international competi- CLOTURE MOTION to the Senate from the President pro tion among great powers. We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- Out of the spotlight, whether at tempore (Mr. HATCH). ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Langley or deployed abroad, Ms. Haspel The legislative clerk read the fol- Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby has quietly earned the respect and ad- lowing letter: move to bring to a close debate on the nomi- miration of those who matter most— U.S. SENATE, nation of Gina Haspel, of Kentucky, to be Di- the men and women of the CIA and dis- PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, rector of the Central Intelligence Agency. Washington, DC, May 17, 2018. Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, James tinguished current and former intel- To the Senate: Lankford, John Cornyn, Mike Crapo, ligence community leaders. Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, Roy Blunt, John Hoeven, David Perdue, The safety and security of the Amer- of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby Lindsey Graham, Pat Roberts, Johnny ican people depend on capable intel- appoint the Honorable DEAN HELLER, a Sen- Isakson, John Boozman, James E. ligence leadership. Gina Haspel is the

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The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- cies shaking the regulatory rust off of These days, it is looking more and pore. Morning business is closed. the U.S. economy, American job cre- more like that is all it is—just talk. f ators, entrepreneurs, and working fam- Yet, while they occupy themselves ilies have been thinking big again. with partisan politics, Republicans will CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON For 8 years, Democrats pushed a one- keep on clearing the tracks and letting THE BUDGET, FISCAL YEAR size-fits-all agenda that heaped out- the American economy roll on ahead. 2019—MOTION TO PROCEED sized benefits on the largest cities and f Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, I move to left the rest of the country struggling proceed to the consideration of S. Con. TRIBUTE TO BRENDAN DUNN to catch up. Now Main Street busi- Res. 36. nesses across America feel the wind is Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- at their backs. So they are expanding now, speaking of tax reform, I have to pore. The clerk will report the motion. their operations, buying more equip- bid farewell to an outstanding member The legislative clerk read as follows: ment, and hiring new workers. of my staff. Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 384, S. For too long, taxpayers grappled Brendan Dunn has been a key mem- Con. Res. 36, a concurrent resolution setting with an outdated Federal Tax Code ber of my leadership office team for the forth the congressional budget for the United that seemed to keep more of their last 6 years. He has made an outsized States Government for fiscal year 2019 and hard-earned income every year. Now, impact as a trusted counselor and setting forth the appropriate budgetary lev- thanks to Republican tax reform, friend. els for fiscal years 2020 through 2028. working families are seeing paychecks I, actually, stole Brendan from the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- grow, special bonuses hit their bank Finance Committee in 2012. I am not pore. Under the previous order, there accounts, and will send thousands of sure if Chairman HATCH ever quite for- will be 45 minutes under the control of dollars less to the IRS next year. gave me for it. If you have ever had the Senator PAUL or his designee and 45 Now that Congress and the President pleasure of witnessing Brendan in ac- minutes under the control of the have put a stop to the last administra- tion, you will understand why he is a Democratic leader or his designee. tion’s rampant, top-down Federal rule- sought-after commodity, whether you The Senator from Kentucky. making, U.S. manufacturing is churn- need deep expertise on tax policy or the Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, this year ing back to life as well. The new eco- perfect movie quote for any occasion. there will be no budget presented by nomic climate that is taking hold Brendan has been my trusted adviser the Republicans or the Democrats. I across the country has producers feel- on issues including tax policy, banking, think that is a bad idea. I think the ing more confident about planting trade, and pensions. So I am just glad government should have a budget. deeper roots right here in the United that his last few months in the office There should be a document that says States—new capital investment, new could be a calm and laid-back period. what we are for, what we are against, factories, new American jobs. All he had to do was play a leading role and how we are going to spend our Novelis, a leading producer of rolled in crafting generational tax reform and money. I think it is particularly impor- and recycled aluminum, broke ground help steer it across the finish line. Oh, tant because we are incurring so much just this week on a new factory in then came Dodd-Frank reform, for Guthrie, KY. The company is choosing debt. good measure. We may remember when Republicans the Commonwealth in which to build This Maryland native holds degrees the 400,000-square-foot facility and cre- campaigned against enormous spending from Holy Cross, Fordham, George- by President Obama and $1 trillion an- ate at least 125 new jobs, and they are town, and Notre Dame, but you would not keeping any secrets about what is nual deficits. Now we are faced with not know that this unassuming leader enormous spending and $1 trillion an- helping them make this investment. and reliable source of comic relief Here is a quote: ‘‘A favorable economic nual deficits from Republicans. I think holds a J.D. and a Ph.D. in political it is important that we have a discus- environment,’’ including ‘‘the signifi- philosophy unless you needed to. That cant positive impact of tax reform in sion about this. is the kind of guy Brendan is. Do we have too much debt? Some will the U.S., reinforces Novelis’ decision to His many contributions to my team say: Well, I have debt for my house, expand at this time.’’ have benefited this body, the people of and that is not bad. The country has a This is not just a Kentucky phe- Kentucky, and the Nation. I know ev- lot of debt that they borrow against nomenon. According to new survey eryone who has gotten to work closely capital expenditures—things that don’t data from the National Association of with him is sad to see him depart the expire. I think there is some truth to Manufacturers, more than 93 percent of Senate. I certainly am. Yet I have a that. You can have a manageable U.S. manufacturing firms have a posi- hunch that his lovely wife, Lee, and his amount of debt, particularly if it is tive outlook. Already, 77 percent of children—Patrick, Audrey, and Mary— against something you are borrowing manufacturers are reporting hiring will not mind seeing a little bit more that doesn’t go away. But if you are new workers, and 86 percent say they of him. are investing in plants and equipment. So I offer Brendan my sincere thanks borrowing money for the grocery store Many American communities revolve for a job very well done and wish him or for your apartment, that might be a around these manufacturing facilities. Godspeed for what lies ahead. bad thing. It will not last very long. Sadly, during the Obama years, they I suggest the absence of a quorum. You will do it for a month or two, and were among the most likely to be left The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- pretty soon the bank will come calling. behind by the so-called ‘‘recovery,’’ but pore. The clerk will call the roll. So there is a point at which debt is too now that is changing. Today, manufac- The legislative clerk proceeded to cumbersome, and there is too much of turing wages are growing at their fast- call the roll. it. est pace in 17 years. These are just a Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, I ask unan- Carmen Reinhart of the University of few signs of our Nation’s economic imous consent that the order for the Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Har- comeback under Republicans’ pro- quorum call be rescinded. vard did a study linking debt to eco- growth, pro-opportunity agenda. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- nomic growth. They concluded that Remember, not one of our Demo- pore. Without objection, it is so or- when a country exceeds 90 percent of cratic colleagues voted with us to set dered. their GDP, when their debt is almost

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Just a is a problem. Currently, our debt is at stay stable, and they say that within month ago in the House, all the people 105 percent; our gross public debt is 105 about a decade, interest rates will ex- who voted to bust the budget caps, all percent of our GDP. ceed all other payments of the govern- the people who voted for the extra We now have a national debt of about ment. The estimate is that within 10 spending, all these Republicans then $21 trillion. Historically, Congress had years, interest payments alone will be voted for the balanced budget amend- sort of a cover on this. Congress would about $761 billion—greater than na- ment, which says you have to balance try to rein in the debt. There would be tional defense, greater than any other in 5 years. Typically, when they have a big debate every time we raised the area of the budget. Even now, the sec- brought forward a budget, they have debt ceiling. Congress would have to ond biggest item in the budget after de- tried to balance it in 10 years and lift it each time, and there was some fense is interest. struggled. So they vote for a balanced punishment out there for those who So some say: But we have to finance budget amendment that balances in 5 voted to raise the debt ceiling. the military, and the military needs years, and yet they struggle to come Now we don’t raise the debt ceiling more money. That is why you hear Re- up with a budget that is not fake to by a certain amount because that be- publicans now no longer caring about balance in 10 years. came embarrassing and limiting, mak- the debt. They got more money for the We passed a budget last year. It was ing them come back each time to try military, but they had to make an un- a Republican budget. I voted against it to raise the debt ceiling. Now what we holy alliance with Democrats and give because I think it had fake cuts in it, do is raise it for a period of time. them more for social welfare. So we and it had fake reporting, and they Currently, the debt ceiling has been have guns and butter. Everybody gets weren’t serious about it. I will give an raised, and you can spend as much as what they want—except for the tax- example. The budget last year that the you want for a little over a year. We payer and those of us who care about Republicans passed had about $4 tril- did it, I believe, back in December. For the debt. lion in entitlement savings over 10 about 11⁄2 years, the government can So the debt has exploded now under years. You say: Well, did they enact borrow as much as they can possibly Republican control. You say: Well, any of that? Zero. Do they have any borrow for that period of time. Basi- don’t we need it for the military? bills to do any entitlement reform? cally, there is no limit. The debt ceil- Well, I think there are some argu- Zero. Did we ever debate and vote on ing vote has become a meaningless ments we should probably engage in be- any bills that would have done any- vote because we just raise it for a pe- fore we decide that. We have doubled thing to entitlement spending? No. In riod of time. the amount in nominal terms that we fact, in the first year of the Republican Is the debt a problem? How much in- spend on the military since 9/11. In real budget last year, there was $96 billion— terest do we pay on the debt? We pay terms, there is about a 36-percent in- that is a significant savings—all in en- $300 billion in interest. You say: Well, crease in national defense. We spend titlements, and yet nobody had a bill is that a problem? Paying on the inter- more on the military than the next that even went to committee. There est crowds out other things that you eight countries combined. was never a committee vote. There was want from the government. So when There is an argument that it isn’t never a floor vote. No one lifted a fin- people come to my office and say ‘‘I necessarily that the budget has not ger to do anything about entitlement want this from my government,’’ I say grown enough, but it is that maybe the spending. ‘‘Well, part of the problem is we are military mission is too large. Maybe it So it is a canard for those who say: paying $300 billion in interest, and part is not that the budget is too small but Well, the real problem is not military; of the problem is we don’t have any- that our military mission is too large, the real problem is not nonmilitary thing to give you because we are bor- that we are at war in too many places discretionary; the real problem is enti- rowing about 25 percent of every dollar around the globe and that we should tlements. Sure, entitlements are grow- we spend.’’ reassess that. ing faster, but unless we are doing Every time the government spends a Many Republicans will say: Well, something about it, it is simply saying: dollar, 25 percent of that is borrowed. that is all good and well, but really the Oh, we have to keep spending over here This is on current accounts of things culprit is entitlements. because the real problem is over here, people want. For example, if I were to Entitlements are growing at 6 per- but we are not going to do anything ask you: Is it a good idea to borrow cent—Social Security, Medicare, food over here, which runs into really the money to give to your church? People stamps. There is truth to that, but hypocrisy that we face today. say: Well, my church is a good thing, watch closely the people who tell you I have often said that the Republican and I want to give money to my that the problem is entitlements and Party is an empty vessel unless we church. But is it a good idea and will it ask yourself if they are doing anything imbue it with value. We say we are last very long if you go to the bank to to fix entitlements. Ask them whether against big spending. We say we are borrow 25 percent of every dollar you they have put forward a bill on the against big government. We say we are spend and tithe 25 percent to your floor of the Senate to rein in spending for devolving power, structure, and church? You say: My church is a good and entitlements. Ask them whether money back to the States. Yet the gov- thing. But is it a good thing to borrow they have even cosponsored a bill or ernment grows under Democrats and it that money, and will the bank keep whether they are agitating for a bill to grows under Republicans. loaning you that money, and are there rein in entitlements. No. They are pet- Democrats are sometimes more hon- repercussions to having so much debt? rified of looking at entitlements. So est about wanting to grow government. We have a $300 billion interest pay- everybody complains about it, and no- They will go home and say they are ment at about a 2-percent interest body does anything about it. going to make government big enough rate. The interest rate is manipulated Everybody says they are for a bal- to put a ham on every table, a chicken by the Federal Reserve, and there are anced budget. Yet, when we have a vote in every pot. They are a little bit more those who report that the main reason in a few minutes on a budget that actu- honest about it. Republicans go home the interest rates are kept low by the ally balances in 5 years, consistent and say they believe in the free mar- Federal Reserve is not necessarily to with the balanced budget amendment, I ket. They go to the Rotary Club and stimulate economic growth; it is to fi- think we will get a handful—maybe a say: Well, I voted for the balanced nance this enormous burden of debt. dozen or maybe two dozen. But the ma- budget amendment. But the question What happens when interest rates jority of Republicans will say: Oh my is, Why won’t they vote for an actual normalize? Many are predicting they goodness, we could never cut spending. budget that balances? Why won’t they

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Admiral Mullen said he thought billion in waste. plan. It says that we would cut one the No. 1 threat to our national secu- Interest. It is $300 billion, going up to penny out of every dollar the Federal rity was actually our debt. So there are $760 billion. Government spends—1 percent. Could many realistic people, even high-rank- There are a lot of areas in our gov- we not get to a point where we could ing people in the military, who are say- ernment that we could actually look at actually cut one penny out of every ing: You know what, if we want to se- and actually adhere to the penny plan dollar? Isn’t there enough waste going cure our Nation, we have to make sure and balance our budget. I would like to on in government that we could actu- that we have a sound economy and that go through a few items. ally cut a penny out of every dollar? we have a sound government that is If there is anybody in America who Like everything else, people argue not borrowing so much money. believes their government is not wast- the numbers. There is a lot of fake How rapidly do we borrow money? We ing their money, I would like to show math that goes on around here. Those borrow $1 million every minute—$1 them a few areas where the govern- on the left will say, oh, but this will be million a minute. In fact, it is a little ment is wasting their money. cutting $13 trillion, when, in fact, it bit higher than that now. It is about My staff recently went to Afghani- might not cut any. For example, if we $1.5 million, and the curve over the stan. This is a picture of a luxury hotel were to freeze government spending for next 10 years gets to about $2 million a that your taxpayer dollars went to 10 years, the left would say: You have minute. Imagine how fast the money is build. Your first question might be why cut spending by $15 trillion because we flying out of here. How big is $1 mil- your taxpayer dollars would be going were going to increase spending by $15 lion? People have said that if you put to a luxury hotel in some Third World trillion. So it is sort of fake account- hundred-dollar bills in your hand, it is country. It is about 400 feet from our ing. If we spend $3.2 trillion and next about 4 inches high to get to $1 million. Embassy, and this is what it looks like. year we spend $32 billion less, that is a We are borrowing $1 million or more They have been building it for 11 years, 1-percent cut, but the left will say: Oh, every minute. and it is unfinished. Nothing was done no, we were going to increase spending How would we get to $30 billion? How to code, it is falling down, and at this by 6 percent, and so you are really cut- could we possibly cut $30 billion from point, the hotel is so dangerous that we ting spending by 7 percent. This enor- the budget? I will give examples of have to send our soldiers to patrol it to mous number comes up, but in reality, where some of the money is. make sure snipers aren’t using the we are taking last year’s spending—3.2 Foreign aid is about $30 billion. You hotel to shoot at our Embassy. So it is trillion—and we are going to cut it by say: Well, I want to help the poor peo- not only a waste of $90 million, never 1 percent, $30 billion. If we do that ple in the world. I am all for you. If having been completed, but it is now a every year for 5 years, the budget bal- you want to give out of your savings to danger to our troops. The talk now is ances. help poor people around the world, all on how they are going to fix the prob- You say: Well, some people might not the benefit and all the accolades for lem. get all their money. Yes, there would being generous, but if you want to bor- Does anybody in Washington think be some programs across government row money, you won’t be able to do it we should spend less in Afghanistan? that would get less. I challenge any for very long. Virtually no one. Both sides of the American to call up my office and Should the U.S. Government borrow? aisle, Republicans and Democrats, present proof that there is not 1 per- We are going to borrow $1 trillion this can’t spend money fast enough in Af- cent waste and fraud in any program year. Should we borrow money to send ghanistan. No one is making a stand going on. I will give an example. The it to poor countries, or should we bor- and saying: Enough is enough. It is earned-income tax credit and the child row money to send armaments to coun- time to announce that we won, and it tax credit are estimated to have 25 per- tries? I think it is a big mistake. That is time to come home. The money just cent fraud. For years, you could get is about $30 billion. So if you were to keeps going, good money after bad—$90 this credit without a Social Security cut 1 percent next year, you could ac- million for a hotel that will never be number. You could simply say: My kids tually cut 1 percent by simply elimi- built. and I don’t have one. The government nating foreign aid. To add insult to injury, do you know would generate a taxpayer ID number How much do we spend in Afghani- what they are going to do now? They for you and give you a refund. This is stan building their roads, building are talking about selling the unfin- to the tune of billions of dollars. It is their bridges, building their schools be- ished hotel. Do you know who they are about $100 billion in the EITC, the fore they blow them up again and then going to sell it to? Another branch of earned-income tax credit, and the addi- we rebuild them again? We have rebuilt government. So government built tional child credit—many of those some buildings in Afghanistan seven this—U.S. taxpayer dollars built this— going to people who were in our coun- times. That is nearly $50 billion, which and now they are going to sell it to the try illegally and had no Social Secu- is about a year, year and a half, of the State Department. Do you know what rity number. penny plan right there if we were to the State Department is going to do There is waste from top to bottom in say: Guess what. We won the Afghan with this luxury hotel in Kabul? They government. How would you ever find war, and we are not going to stay for- are going to tear it down. So that is $90 it? See, many people in this body on ever. We have some needs here at home million flushed down the toilet. both sides of the aisle will say: I am for that we are going to take care of and You can’t tell me this waste isn’t rooting out waste. Yet you never find not send all that money to Afghani- rotting in our government from top to waste if you keep giving them more stan. bottom, and it is never rooted out. money. If you reward government Corporate welfare. Rich corporations Why? Because we never give any agen- agencies with more money, you are in our country—I am all for them. If cy less money; everybody gets more never going to get less waste. they freely sell something to you and money. If you are running an agency or The penny plan budget I am pre- they make money because you like business and someone gives you more senting would cut 1 percent. Does any- their product and buy it, more power money, are you more likely to root out body in America think government to them, but if they want money from waste or less likely to root out waste? couldn’t do with 1 percent less? Many the Federal Government, that is ridicu- The only way they would ever root out American families have had a bad year lous. I don’t think private business waste is if they got a commandment— here and there and have to deal with should be getting any money from the thou shalt do this—from Congress, more than 1 percent less. One percent Federal Government. It is estimated from the Senate, to say: Enough is

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Milton Friedman had it right when he brandnew equipment that we send over You are not smart enough to know said: ‘‘Nobody spends somebody else’s there that is shredded. They have big, there is a lot of science in taking money as wisely as he spends his own.’’ huge industrial shredders. My staff saw selfies. We could learn something real- Why does nobody care about the them. They found boxes of new equip- ly important, and it is so important for $150,000? Because it wasn’t their money ment—electrical outlet boxes, all kinds the future of mankind to learn whether to spend. This is the problem with gov- of things—being shoved into the shred- selfies of people smiling will help the ernment at-large and why the govern- der. So we buy brandnew equipment, world in the end. ment is never good at anything they and it is shoved into the shredder. NIH. Everybody loves the NIH. They do. They are terribly ineffective be- There is $50 million of brandnew, can do no wrong. NIH did a $2 million cause they are spending somebody never-used equipment that has been de- study to see whether, if you are fol- else’s money. stroyed. This doesn’t even count the lowing somebody in the cafeteria line Government should be so small that old stuff we are destroying. There are and the guy or woman in front of you they have less room to make errors reports that $7 billion—7 with a ‘‘b,’’ sneezes on the food, you are more or like this. We should devolve most of billion dollars—of used equipment, less likely to take the food. Really? I the power of this place back to the such as tanks, humvees, et cetera, has think we could have polled the audi- States. That is what our Founding Fa- been destroyed. Why? Our allies are so ence on that. I mean, how ridiculous is thers intended, and we should try to unreliable, we are afraid that if we that? Money like that—particularly say we are not going to tolerate this leave a tank or a humvee there, it when there are things the government kind of stuff. might be taken by the opposition and needs to do. There is a trillion-dollar This $250,000 was spent to send 24 kids used against us. So we have destroyed deficit, and we spend $2 million study- from Pakistan to Space Camp and $7 billion of it because it is cheaper to ing what your reaction is to people Dollywood. My first question would be: destroy it than to load it on planes and sneezing on the food? Is there anybody in America who didn’t bring it over here. That is $7 billion. Then $356,000 of your money was get to go to Dollywood or Space Camp The Department of Defense loses $29 spent studying whether Japanese quail last year? I think when everybody in million of heavy equipment. What does are more sexually promiscuous on co- America has gone, we might consider that mean? They can’t find it. It can’t caine. These guys have some great sending some Pakistani kids. Frankly, be accounted for. They don’t know studies. This is, once again, I believe, there is nothing in the Constitution where the equipment is. There is $29 the National Science Foundation. that says we should be sending Paki- million unaccounted for in heavy Hurray for the National Science Foun- stani kids to Dollywood. There is noth- equipment. dation. I know I am going to get hate ing wrong if you want to send your They tried to establish an Afghan mail from them. They spent $356,000 to kids from Pakistan to Dollywood—by equivalent for the Army Corps of Engi- study whether Japanese quail are more all means. You should not take tax- neers and lost $20 million of heavy sexually promiscuous on cocaine. You payer money to do things like this. equipment in the process. can’t make this stuff up. May I ask the Presiding Officer how There is $28 million worth of uni- The reform I have proposed is that much time I have remaining of my 45 forms that are missing. Someone got we have a taxpayer advocate on the minutes? paid. We can’t find the uniforms. We committee to determine who gets these The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. can’t prove that anyone ever got the grants. Do you know what they say? HYDE-SMITH). There is 19 minutes. uniforms. We can’t have any nonscientists. They Mr. PAUL. Thank you. Even more troubling than that, there wouldn’t understand the science. I This is here in Washington, about a was $700,000 worth of ammunition miss- want the scientist who did this to come mile from here. We call it a ‘‘Streetcar ing. You would think we could at least forward and explain why we need this Named Waste.’’ Spending $1.6 million keep up with ammunition. Do you study. There is no point to us spending to study the expansion of the DC think that might be a danger and an this money. There could have been streetcar—and this is a streetcar that insult to our young men and women we something better. nobody is actually riding on. It is a send to Afghanistan, that we can’t ac- I offered one thing to try to fix it. ghost car. Nobody is riding on it. It count for where the ammunition is? I Put a taxpayer advocate on the com- goes nowhere. It goes about a mile, think if you can’t account for it, there mittee approving grants, and I think from nowhere to nowhere, and is much is a decent chance the enemy has your we should have a scientist who isn’t in slower than walking. I walked, and I ammunition or rogue elements in the that field. This is sort of behavioral can outwalk it. We thought about film- Afghan Government—which could be science for Japanese quail, I guess. We ing me in a race with the streetcar to anyone—have sold it on the black mar- need to have somebody who studies di- see who wins, me walking or it driving; ket to make money. abetes, heart disease, cancer, AIDS— once again, going back to some tech- Where does your money go? I want some of the diseases that affect more nology from hundreds of years ago that you to realize as Americans where your people. They need to be on the com- still requires wires to be running down money is going. They spent $500,000 to mittee because they need to be scratch- the street, and it is really not a useful study if selfies make you happier. You ing their heads saying: We can spend it expense of government money. DC gets take selfies of yourself smiling, then on Japanese quail and their sexual hab- a lot of Federal money. you look at them to see if that makes its or we can spend it on diabetes. The Where else do they spend your you happier. Now, you may want to do taxpayer advocate could say: We can money? This is one of my favorites. I this on your own time, but do you want spend it on Japanese quail or maybe we just can’t even imagine who spent this to spend $500,000 of taxpayer money can reduce the debt. Maybe both could money. When I tell you, you will say: when we are a trillion dollars short? happen. Maybe we could reduce the Certainly, that person was fired. No This stuff has been going on with the debt and try to do only better sci- way. He works for the Federal Govern- National Science Foundation since the entific projects. ment. Nobody is ever fired in the Fed- 1970s. William Proxmire was a Senator This one looks like something you eral Government. They spent $700,000 back in the 1970s—a conservative Dem- really want your government to spend to study what Neil Armstrong said ocrat or a Democrat of some stripe. He money on. They spent $150,000 to inves- when he landed on the Moon. Did he used to do the Golden Fleece Award. tigate supernatural events in Alaska. say, ‘‘One small step for man, one giant Many of them went to the National They can look at unexplained lights, leap for mankind,’’ or did he say, ‘‘One Science Foundation around 1972. He animals with transformative powers, small step for a man’’? They wanted to

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It sounds give them more money, they will do it. When the government pays or some- like a much more just study if it had As long as they are rewarded for doing body else pays, you don’t ask the price something to do with autism than the spending, we should study which of things, and the price rises. studying Neil Armstrong’s statement agencies do it. We should study which Competition is the fundamental as- on the Moon. agencies go to Las Vegas and have pect of capitalism, but you have to You can’t make this stuff up. This is their conference there for a million have freely fluctuating prices, which incredibly ridiculous, but it should be dollars, sipping champagne in a hot we don’t in Medicare, Medicaid, and ac- insulting. There should not be a tax- tub. That agency should get less tually mostly private insurance. We payer at home in America who says: money. I think those people actually have never really adjusted the funda- All right. Today they are going to vote did get fired—one of the few people mental problem of healthcare, which is on a budget to cut one penny out of ever fired. that we don’t have capitalism in every dollar. We spent $700,000 on what We could have a debate on another healthcare. Neil Armstrong did or did not say on occasion about climate change, but we What do we do? Because we don’t the Moon. You know what their con- probably agree that a $450,000 app for have enough capitalism, we take more clusion at the end was? They don’t your phone so you can play a climate capitalism away and add more govern- know. It is inconclusive. They listened change game that will, I guess, at- ment, and it is more broken since we to the tape over and over again. Some- tempt to convince you and ensure that have done Obamacare. One of the an- one should be fired. you are convinced that we are having swers—since many Republicans will It also should be a message to our climate change—$450,000 for an app on not vote to repeal ObamaCare—is let us body that we should cut some spend- a phone. Apps are everywhere. People try to start expanding the market- ing. Instead, we have done the oppo- are developing them all the time. Gov- place. site. Under Republican control of the ernment doesn’t need to be spending My budget today could pass if every Senate and the House, we busted the $450,000 for what somebody probably Republican voted for it. If it passes, we budget caps by $300 billion just 2 spends $1,000 in their garage to develop. could move on to doing something like months ago. Part of what my plan Remember ObamaCare, when they expanding the health savings accounts. would do would be to restore the caps. tried to set up the website with mil- This gets to an argument that is an in- They are put in place for a reason, to lions of dollars, and then it failed? Re- side baseball argument that happens in try to control our proclivity to spend member the IRS just 3 weeks ago fail- Washington. They will tell you: Young too much money. We put the budget ing? We need to be very careful about man, you must vote for our budget be- caps in place, then we cut 1 percent a giving government more money. cause the budget is simply a vehicle to year—about $30 billion every year for 5 The budget I am introducing is called do other good things. I look back at years, and then the government would the penny plan budget. It cuts one him and say: If it is a vehicle, and you begin to grow again at about 1 percent. penny out of every dollar. This is im- don’t care what is in it, why not put I know we could live within our portant for the country to see we are something good in it? We always put means. What would happen is this guy having this vote. They are not that ex- something crappy in it that never would be fired, and that kind of study cited to have this vote. We are only works, never balances, and does not would not happen when they have 1 having this vote because the Senate represent who we are as a party. They percent less. Maybe a program like the rules basically mandate it. It can’t be shove it down our throat and say: Vote National Science Foundation would get avoided because Republicans didn’t for it. You have to do it because that is 50 percent less or 75 percent less to create a budget. Democrats didn’t cre- the only way to get to a tax cut. That really put them on notice that we are ate a budget. So I decided, what the is the only way we get to repeal tired, after 30 years of crazy research, heck, I will create my own budget. ObamaCare, although they are not of them continuing without reform. The penny plan budget has come for- really for that anymore. But the thing This was also spent in Afghanistan. ward. If we were to pass this, there are is, they can do it by voting for some- This is your money. They used $850,000 many good things. Through a simple thing they actually are for. Everyone to set up a televised cricket league. majority, we could do many good in our caucus is for the balanced budg- The first problem is, most people don’t things that conservative Republicans et amendment. If we put it forward on have TVs in Afghanistan. Really, a have wanted, like make the tax cuts the floor, they will all vote for it, but televised cricket league? They don’t permanent, and get rid of more regula- there will not be enough votes for it to even have TVs to watch it on. This is tions. We could do the REINS Act, be law, so it is a free vote. This would $850,000 to make them feel better about which would say, new regulations that be the actual platform, the actual sym- their National Cricket League. Boon- are very expensive have to be voted on bol of what we run on and what we do doggle. It has nothing to do with na- by Congress. We should cut out more next year. Yet we will not have a tional defense. It makes us weaker by waste. There are all kinds of things we chance to do that unless they are will- putting us further into debt. could do. ing to do it. Will this get better if we continue to What we have chosen to do in our They want the budget to be meaning- increase money? No, it only gets worse. budget is actually give instructions to less. They want it to be a vehicle, but If you give them more money, they will expand health savings accounts. One of then they want it to be their meaning- spend it. In fact, we have studied the big problems we have in healthcare less symbol, and I can’t do that. I spending at the end of the year. When is rising costs. Costs are going up think there has to be someone left in you get to the end of the year, the gov- about 25 percent a year. The answer the Republican Party who says enough ernment spends money four to five around here has been, I think, lame, is enough. We are not going to not tol- times faster than any other month in uneducated, ill-informed, and counter- erate the waste, spending, and debt, the year. The last 30 days of the fiscal productive. Other than that, they are and we are going to say the same year spending increases every day. In right on target. What they are trying things we said to President Obama: Big fact, on the last day of the fiscal year, to say is: Oh, your individual rates are government spending and debt are you can watch spending accelerate as going up 25 percent a year. Here is wrong. the Sun sets in the West. As offices some money so you can pay for it. It I don’t think we should change this begin to close in the East, the spending does nothing to bring the curve down. because we are in power. When the Re- shifts to the Midwest. As the Sun sets It may accelerate the curve. If you sub- publican Party is out of power, they farther in the western sky and the of- sidize something, it will become more are the conservative party. But the

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It is another step closer of a hostile foreign power to interfere remainder of my time if I can get an to ensuring that large internet service in and influence the outcome of an update of what I have left. providers don’t get to hold all the American election. There is nothing— The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is cards, another step closer to protecting nothing—more serious to the integrity 9 minutes. equality of access to the internet. In of a democracy than the guarantee of Mr. PAUL. Perfect. Thank you. doing so, Senate Democrats stood with free and fair elections. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who the 86 percent of Americans who oppose The Founding Fathers warned about yields time? the repeal of net neutrality. foreign interference. When I used to Mr. PAUL. I will reserve the bulk of I am proud to say that Senator MAR- read that clause in high school, I said: my time that is remaining and suggest KEY’s Congressional Review Act resolu- What do they mean? That is not going the absence of a quorum. tion passed yesterday afternoon with to happen. Well, they were a lot smart- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the votes of every single Democrat, as er than we are—as always. They knew objection, it is so ordered. well as three of our Republican col- this danger. Here it is, 2018, and we see The clerk will call the roll. leagues. I thank Senators COLLINS, how real it is. It is the core of the spe- The senior assistant legislative clerk MURKOWSKI, and KENNEDY for sup- cial counsel’s investigation. proceeded to call the roll. Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I porting this fine legislation. The investigation has already yielded ask unanimous consent that the order Here is what my friend the Repub- multiple indictments and guilty pleas. for the quorum call be rescinded. lican Senator from Louisiana had to Yesterday the Senate Intelligence The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without say after the vote: Committee, in a bipartisan manner, objection, it is so ordered. If you trust your cable company, you won’t confirmed that Russia sought to inter- like my vote. If you don’t trust your cable fere with our elections, sow discord, RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY LEADER company, you will like my vote. and tip the scales toward Donald The Democratic leader is recognized. Trump and against Secretary Clinton. Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I He is right. It is that simple. So you The Trump administration itself has ask unanimous consent to use leader have to wonder why 47 Republicans even taken punitive action against time. voted no yesterday. Do they trust the Russia’s actors named in Mueller’s in- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without cable companies and the large ISPs to vestigation. objection, it is so ordered. do what is level best for the average Mr. SCHUMER. Thank you, Madam American family? Do they believe that I salute the chairman of the Intel- President. cable companies are really popular ligence Committee, the Republican Before I get into the substance of my with the American people? I don’t Senator from North Carolina, for being remarks, I always listen diligently to think so. straightforward about this. Not so my friend from Kentucky. There is a Now Republicans in the House have many on the other side of the aisle are. number that is missing in his charts; it to take up this bipartisan resolution. Yet, again this morning, President is 1.5 trillion. The reason we don’t like We hope they will. Trump called the investigation a ‘‘dis- government spending is—he thinks—a This isn’t some partisan stunt. Abso- gusting, illegal, and unwarranted witch lot of it is wasteful, but, ultimately, lutely not. It is a real, bipartisan effort hunt . . . the greatest witch hunt in the reason is also that there is a huge to right the FCC’s wrong and protect American history.’’ The rhetoric this deficit. the free and open internet. It is very man uses is amazing. Our side scratches our heads not only crucial to the future of the country. I say to the President: It is not a with our friend from Kentucky, but House Republicans don’t have to witch hunt when 17 Russians have been with everyone on the other side who choose the same path that the vast ma- indicted. It is not a witch hunt when rails about too much government jority of Republicans in the Senate de- some of the most senior members of spending and creation of the deficit cided to follow. Speaker RYAN should the Trump campaign have been in- when they created the deepest hole bring this up for a vote immediately. dicted. It is not a witch hunt when they could have with the tax break The American people have spoken. The Democrats and Republicans agree with that could have been paid for by clos- Senate has spoken. Speaker RYAN the intelligence community that Rus- ing loopholes. A group—a bipartisan should listen and bring the net neu- sia interfered in our election to aid group—had put something together trality CRA to the floor of the House. President Trump. that would have reduced the corporate RUSSIA INVESTIGATION Any fair-minded citizen, even the rate to 25 percent, brought the money Madam President, 1 year ago, former most ardent partisan, should be able to from overseas at 8, 9 percent, increased FBI Director Robert Mueller was ap- look at the facts and say that this in- the child tax credit, left the individual pointed to lead the FBI’s investigation vestigation is not a witch hunt. The side alone, and would have barely in- into Russia’s interference in the 2016 FBI Director, Christopher Wray, ap- creased the deficit. So our side, at election. Of course, the investigation pointed by President Trump, a Repub- least, rankles when we hear these began long before that. According to lican, said as much yesterday. budgets that relate to deficit spending the New York Times, it began in the Truly, we should all be aghast, on when, on the tax side, that doesn’t middle of 2016 as a result of informa- this 1-year anniversary of Mueller’s ap- seem to apply at all. tion we received from the Australian pointment, at the smear campaign by I say that with due respect to my Ambassador, who told the FBI that the President and his allies. We should good friend, who I know is sincere in Russian intelligence was working to all be aghast at the relentless parade of his beliefs. He will argue with me that share information with the Trump conspiracies manufactured by the most cutting taxes increases the economy. I campaign. extreme elements of the Republican would say that spending money on edu- At that time, we heard a lot about Party and conservative media to dis- cation and infrastructure also in- the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clin- tract from the special counsel’s inves- creases the economy. It is a slippery ton’s emails, but remarkably, we heard tigation. From ‘‘deep state’’ leaks to slope once you say: We can cut all the nothing about this other investigation. unmasking requests, phone taps at taxes we want; the deficit doesn’t mat- Now we know that one of those two in- Trump Tower, Uranium One, Nunes’s ter. It would be like our side saying: vestigations is much more serious than midnight run to the White House, and You can spend all the money you want; the other one was. We also know that if the Nunes memo—these are all at- the deficit doesn’t matter. We don’t it were a witch hunt—as the President tempts to derail a legitimate and im- quite say that. seems to think it is—if they were out portant investigation.

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We all see what it tilla of evidence to support that this is dent, I understand there is a bill at the actually does to society—whether it is a witch hunt, that this is unfair, or desk, and I ask for its first reading. happening in factories, in restaurants, that this is politically motivated. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The in Hollywood, in the Halls of Congress, The President and his allies don’t clerk will read the bill by title for the or right here in this building. But the quit with all these conspiracy theories, first time. difference is that while practically with all these ridiculous fomentations. The senior assistant legislative clerk every other industry in the country Frankly, it is because they are afraid read as follows: seems to be taking this issue far more of what Mueller’s investigation will re- A bill (S. 2872) to amend the Congressional seriously and at least trying to make veal. Accountability Act of 1995 to reform the pro- an effort to change their workplaces, Every American who looks at the cedures provided under such Act for the ini- Congress is dragging its feet. President’s actions says that he is tiation, investigation, and resolution of Once again, a problem is staring us afraid of what the Mueller investiga- claims alleging that employing offices of the right in the face, and we are looking tion will reveal. Yet the volume of legislative branch have violated the rights the other way. Enough is enough. We mistruth, the weight of all the distor- and protections provided to their employees should do better. We have waited 100 tion and fabrication is hurting our de- under such Act, including protections days, and we should not have to wait mocracy. against sexual harassment and discrimina- any longer. tion, and for other purposes. The double standard is enormous. So I urge my colleagues to do the The Times article shows no leaks when Mrs. GILLIBRAND. I now ask for a right thing now, to support this bill. Trump was under investigation during second reading and, in order to place Fix this system here in Congress that the campaign; obviously, it was made the bill on the calendar under the pro- is failing our staffers on this issue of public when Hillary Clinton was. visions of rule XIV, I object to my own sexual harassment. This one is as easy Again, if this were a witch hunt, why request. as it gets. So let’s have a vote and let’s didn’t the FBI, which the President The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- pass it. seems to feel is politically motivated tion having been heard, the bill will be I yield the floor. with no scintilla of proof—why read for the second time on the next The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- wouldn’t they leak it? legislative day. ator from South Carolina. One more point before I leave the Mrs. GILLIBRAND. Madam Presi- Mr. GRAHAM. Madam President, I floor—yesterday, the words of former dent, 100 days ago, the House of Rep- appreciate being recognized. I am going Secretary Tillerson were these: ‘‘If our resentatives voted unanimously to pass to talk about a budget proposal by my leaders seek to conceal the truth or we the Congressional Accountability Act colleague from Kentucky, Senator as a people become accepting of alter- of 1995 Reform Act, the bill that would PAUL. native realities that are no longer fix the way we deal with sexual harass- To those who want to balance our grounded in facts, then we as American ment and discrimination here in Con- budget and get us out of debt, count me citizens are on the pathway to relin- gress. in. How do we do that? I would like to quishing our freedom.’’ The current system is broken. It do it without destroying the military. I He is exactly right. When distortion, makes no sense that a staffer who is would like not to open up the wound lies, and intimidation come repeatedly sexually harassed or discriminated when it comes to the effects of seques- from the other side and some conserv- against has to possibly wait months for tration. ative news media, and that becomes mediation, for counseling, or for a Unfortunately, Senator PAUL’s ap- the accepted way, when it is just he cooling off before she or he is able to proach is devastating to the military. said, she said, where one side is bla- even file a claim. It creates unpredictability at a time tantly lying, and that becomes accept- This bill would also make sure that when we need predictability. It throws ed, our democracy is at risk. when a Member of Congress has sexu- us back into the old system where no- We are a beautiful thing here—found- ally harassed or discriminated against body knows what is going to happen. ed on facts, real facts. What we have someone on their staff, the taxpayers Let me tell you about how you bal- seen from the President and some of are not left holding the bag. That is ance the budget and get us out of debt. his allies, the way they are behaving, what the bill does. There is no reason- In 2008, this blue line represents dis- makes you worry about the future of able excuse for anyone to stand in the cretionary spending. This is about 30 this democracy. way. percent of overall Federal spending. Ultimately, I have a firm belief that Our constituents do not deserve to You can see that from 2008 to 2028 it they will not succeed. The Founding have their hard-earned dollars paying has been relatively flat. In the budget Fathers were geniuses—geniuses—when for these settlements. What they de- agreement we entered into just a few they set up a system of checks and bal- serve is a vote on this reform now. But weeks ago, we are spending less on non- ances that we read about in our classes what have we seen since the House defense discretionary spending by $2 and we study, but it is almost mys- acted? Nothing but politics as usual, billion than we did in 2010. This red tical. It always rises to the occasion. It despite having significant bipartisan line represents about the 65 to 70 per- will again, despite the efforts of the support on this issue. cent of Federal spending called entitle- President, despite the efforts of some I thank my colleagues—Minority ments, and it is going through the roof. of his allies who have gone way over- Leader CHUCK SCHUMER, Senator KLO- So if you want to balance the budget, board; I might mention Chairman BUCHAR, and Senator MURRAY—for you have to deal with the red line. You NUNES on the other side. I believe the their strong leadership on this issue can’t take it all out of the blue line. checks and balances of this country and all of their efforts to pass this bill Sequestration has taken about $1 will hold, and we will eventually find in the Senate. They have been great trillion out of the military. I com- out the truth, no matter where it leads. partners in trying to move this for- pliment President Trump for entering Today is a good day to remember ward. into a budget agreement that will re- that the special counsel’s investigation It is long since time that we should store funding to the military at a time is serious, it is nonpartisan, and it is be acting on this issue. We need to pass when we need it the most. critical to the integrity of our democ- this bill and send it to the President’s What did sequestration do to the racy. We must allow it to proceed with- desk so he can sign it into law, because military? According to Secretary out political interference, without in- what we have seen so clearly, after the Mattis, ‘‘no enemy in the field has done timidation, to follow all the facts in several months and years that we have more to harm the combat readiness of

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Yes, the sym- meant anything, because for the last 6 Under sequestration, we are at the bolism here is that we don’t care about or 7 years we have been cutting the smallest level for the Navy since 1915, predictability when it comes to defense military a lot because of a budget the smallest Army since 1940, and the spending, that we are undercutting the agreement that everybody thought smallest Air Force in modern history. agreement we achieved just a month would never happen. Nobody believed That is about to change with the budg- ago to give the military the funds they that sequestration would actually hit, et agreement—$700 billion for the mili- need to defend this Nation. that we would do $1 trillion over a dec- tary to retool, to buy new equipment, Now, if you live in a world where the ade. The sequestration clause was a to have more people so that our sol- military is small and we don’t have penalty clause to urge people to get it diers, sailors, airmen, and marines can any troops deployed anywhere, this right by putting the Defense Depart- spend a little bit of time with their might work. On September 10, 2001, we ment at risk, with 50 percent of seques- families instead of being deployed all didn’t have one soldier in Afghanistan. tration cuts coming out of defense. The the time. So I applaud Senator PAUL’s We didn’t have an embassy, and not reason they put it on the table is be- zeal to balance the budget. one dime in foreign aid went to Af- cause they thought Congress wouldn’t What I want to do is to expose what ghanistan. The next day, we got at- be dumb enough to actually get into this budget actually does. If you are a tacked, coming from Afghanistan, be- sequestration. Guess what. We were defense hawk, you should be against cause radical Islam will not leave you that dumb. According to General this approach because it does the one alone just because you want to leave Mattis, we have done more damage to thing we can’t afford to do. It creates them alone. the military than any enemy in the unpredictability when it comes to our President Trump is right to rebuild field since 9/11—what a title to claim as national defense strategy. the military. He campaigned on setting a Congress. At times like this, I miss Senator aside sequestration. It was dumb. It This budget throws us back into that MCCAIN because I know he would be hollowed out our force. It has been a situation on steroids. So, symbolically, here with me. nightmare for our military. Planes I stand for balancing the budget, doing Under this proposal, we are going to have been falling out of the sky. it in a responsible way that has entitle- cut $404.8 billion next year. How much What does this budget do? It puts us ment reform as the heart of the effort comes out of defense? Well, we will fig- back into a level of unpredictability. It in a bipartisan fashion. ure that out later. We know $6 billion requires $404 billion out of the 2019 Symbolically, I will not vote for a has to come out of it, but it effectively budget. It says that $6 billion has to budget that does not give the Depart- sets aside the budget agreement that come from defense. After that, we don’t ment of Defense the resources they plussed up defense. Over the next dec- know. need and the predictability they need ade, $13.358 trillion will be cut. Of that, Here is what I know. It is going to to protect this country. That is what how much comes out of defense? Well, undercut everything we have done to this budget does. we will figure that out later. provide predictability. At the end of So to those of us on the Armed Serv- Let me tell you what that means to the day, this budget puts everything ices Committee, you should know bet- the military: devastation. Here is what every defense person has been hoping ter. You should know that of the $13.5 Secretary Mattis said on April 26 about for in jeopardy. It takes the efforts of trillion being cut over the next decade, predictability: We need predictability President Trump to rebuild the mili- a lot of it is going to come out of de- fense if it actually was a reality. If you so that we can actually put a strategy tary and throws it in a ditch, because if take defense and Social Security off into effect. If you do not have a budget you take Social Security off the table, the table, it is a joke. Now is not the that reflects the strategy, it does not if you took defense off the table, then time to be funny. Now is the time to be work. you can’t get there from here. Do you serious. I am deadly serious about vot- Under the budget agreement, we have want to destroy the FBI, the CIA, the ing against any budget that doesn’t predictability for the next couple of Department of Justice, the NIH? give the military the predictability years. We are restoring the cuts, and This is a symbolic statement. These they need to defend this Nation. This we have to build on what we have done budgets usually don’t get many votes. I budget throws our military in a ditch, in the next 2 years through the next 10 am tired of symbolism at the expense and I am tired of doing that. years. of our fighting men and women. I am going to vote no. I urge every- Here is my message. I will engage in What does this budget proposal do? It one who cares about Defense Depart- entitlement reform. Senator PAUL had destroys predictability. It requires ment funding and predictability to an entitlement reform bill for Medi- $404.8 billion, and it doesn’t tell the De- vote no. Balance the budget, yes. partment of Defense how much they care. I joined with him. As for Social Throw the military to the wolves, no. are going to have to pay. We know $6 Security, to my friends on the other I yield the floor. billion. side, let’s do something like Simpson- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Here is what I would suggest. If the Bowles. Let’s go ahead and find a way ator from Oregon. past is any indication of the future, our to do entitlement reform and deal with CONGRESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND friends on the other side are not going the discretionary budget, not in a hap- HARASSMENT REFORM BILL to let us exempt defense. Sequestration hazard guessing kind of way. Mr. MERKLEY. Madam President, I was half out of defense, half out of non- Count me in for wanting to balance am pleased to be here on the floor in defense, and left entitlements pretty the budget, but you have to go where support of my colleague Senator GILLI- much alone. the money is. You have to do what BRAND’s bill, the Congressional Ac- Senator PAUL says we are not going Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill did. We countability and Harassment Reform to deal with Social Security. Social Se- have to do things for Medicare like the Act. I am pleased that so many Mem- curity is going broke. Somebody needs Gang of Six, Simpson-Bowles. What I bers of the Senate have supported the to deal with it. Ronald Reagan and Tip will not symbolically lend my vote to earlier version of the bill and are sign- O’Neill dealt with it by adjusting the is an approach to balance the budget ing up to support this version as well. age of retirement to save Social Secu- that doesn’t give you a clue about how It has been 100 days since the House rity benefits. So when you take Social much money we are going to spend on acted on a significant and substantive Security off the table—and let’s say, the military for the next decade. That, reform of the process here in Congress magically, that everybody agreed with by its very nature, undercuts all of the on how we address sexual harassment. me that we should not undercut the de- gains we have achieved to rebuild the There have been plenty of stories about fense budget, that we should actually military, to throw the military budget how unacceptable the current system add to it and give predictability—how to the wolves. is.

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Mr. President, I am Director of the CIA should be able to is changing quickly, and movements here to express my strong opposition to state clearly that torture is wrong, but like the ‘‘me too.’’ campaign are fi- President Trump’s nomination of Gina when repeatedly asked a yes-or-no nally giving women the voice they need Haspel to be the next Director of the question by my colleague Senator to stand up and say no more. Central Intelligence Agency. There are KAMALA HARRIS: Were the CIA’s ac- Yet, in spite of this tide of change, two reasons I oppose this nomination: tions immoral, Ms. Haspel danced the Senate refuses to act on our unac- Ms. Haspel’s support for torture and around the answer. These are not the ceptably obscure, complex, and dif- her willingness to destroy evidence of answers of a person who can be trusted ficult system for staff members to ad- the CIA’s use of torture. to administer the powerful CIA. dress sexual harassment and discrimi- For years, apologists for the CIA’s That question of trust goes to my nation—a system that is difficult to program have tried to redescribe this second objection: The Director of the navigate and void of transparency. It inhumane practice to make it seem CIA will make many decisions that will needs to change. It must change. One less appalling to the American people. be held in secret and never reviewed by hundred days ago, the House said abso- They have even renamed it. Torture the American people. It is critical we lutely it must change, and we have has been rebranded as ‘‘enhanced inter- trust her judgment and that we have seen no bill allowed to come to the rogation.’’ complete confidence in her honesty and floor to address it in the Senate. There is no way to hide the basic willingness to submit to congressional The House did its duty. They put for- facts. The techniques used by the CIA oversight. I do not have that con- ward a vision of updating and strength- were torture: waterboarding so the per- fidence in Ms. Haspel, and here is why. ening procedures to protect women son had the repeated sensation of As we now know from the public re- from sexual harassment and to address drowning, confining people to small ports, between October and December it, should it occur. Now it is time for boxes for hours on end, depriving peo- of 2002, Ms. Haspel oversaw a CIA pris- the Senate to act, to hold ourselves to ple of sleep for days, forcing people to on in Thailand. Under her leadership, a much higher standard, to lead by ex- hold painful stress positions. at least one detainee was waterboarded ample on Capitol Hill and for the rest The CIA did not invent these tactics. and subjected to other torture meth- of the Nation, to give those who work Listen to an American war hero de- ods. As far as we know, Ms. Haspel on our team who have been victimized scribe what he endured as a prisoner of raised no objections. by sexual harassment or discrimina- war in Vietnam. According to news reports, in 2005, tion a fair and transparent process to I was being forced to stand up continu- Ms. Haspel recommended that the CIA tell their stories, to pursue justice, to ously—sometimes they’d make you stand up destroy 92 videotapes of interrogations be free from the fear of professional or or sit on a stool for a long period of time. I’d of detainees. CIA officials remember, political retribution. That is exactly stood up for a couple of days, with a respite at the time, Ms. Haspel was one of ‘‘the what the Congressional Accountability only because one of the guards—the only real staunchest advocates inside the build- and Harassment Reform Act does. It human being that I ever met over there—let ing for destroying the tapes’’—‘‘the me lie down for a couple of hours while he requires sexual harassment awareness was on watch in the middle of one night. staunchest advocates inside the build- training. It simplifies a process for ing for destroying the tapes.’’ She went staffers to file complaints. It elimi- Speaking about his captors, this so far as to draft the order for her boss, nates a mandatory, laborious process former American POW said: the Director of the National Clandes- of required counseling and mediation. They bounced me from pillar to post, kick- tine Service, to sign, urging them to ing and laughing and scratching. After a few It protects a victim’s option to pub- hours of that, ropes were put on me and I sat use ‘‘an industrial strength shredder,’’ licly discuss their claims. It prohibits that night bound with ropes. just to make sure they were com- members found responsible for such be- They beat me around a little bit. I was in pletely destroyed. havior from using government funds— such bad shape that when they hit me it Ms. Haspel destroyed these tapes de- their office funds—to settle the claims, would knock me unconscious. They kept say- spite Federal court orders requiring and it requires all settlements to be ing, ‘‘You will not receive any medical treat- the preservation of the CIA’s records, disclosed publicly unless the victim ment until you talk.’’ despite the objections of Members of prefers otherwise. No longer would we I was getting about three or four spoonfuls Congress, and against the order of the of food twice a day. Sometimes I’d go for a be able to silence the victims or hide day or so without eating. Director of National Intelligence, the the misdeeds of the perpetrators from I had learned what we all learned over CIA Director, two White House Coun- the American people. there: Every man has his breaking point. I sels, and senior Department of Justice I understand Members on the floor of had reached mine. . . . I had been reduced to officials. In a convenient coincidence the Senate may say: I want to hide an animal during this period of beating and for Ms. Haspel, the tapes she ordered from my actions; I want to pay off any torture. destroyed reportedly documented the settlement with my government funds, These are the words of Senator JOHN interrogation of detainees at the very but being able to hide from your ac- MCCAIN—our distinguished colleague, same CIA prison in Thailand that Ms. tions is unacceptable, and using gov- the senior Senator from Arizona, a Haspel previously supervised. Even ernment funds to pay off the situation decorated Naval aviator who was beat- more conveniently, some of the tapes is completely unacceptable. en, broken, and tortured for 2 years reportedly documented the interroga- Action is way past due. I am glad to after being captured in North Vietnam. tion of the very detainee who was join with my colleagues Senator GILLI- No matter how you dress it up, tor- waterboarded under Ms. Haspel’s lead- BRAND, Senator WARREN, Senator HAR- ture is torture, and it is wrong. It is in- ership. RIS, and Senator MURRAY—so many humane, it is infective, and it is un- When Senator ANGUS KING asked who have come into this battle of American. about her destruction of the tapes, Ms. equality, fairness, and fighting for That was the conclusion of the 2014 Haspel could come up with no credible those who have been victimized. That Senate Intelligence Committee report explanation. How can we trust her to is what this act is about, and it is not on the CIA’s Detention and Interroga- be fully forthright with Congress in the acceptable that for 100 days the leader- tion Program during the Bush adminis- future if she cannot acknowledge ship of this body has sat on this bill, tration. The committee drew a defini- missteps of the past? blocking it from being considered. tive conclusion: Torture did not work. Ms. Haspel had numerous opportuni- Let us recognize that we have a re- In fact, not only does torture not work, ties to question the directives she was sponsibility to our team members for it makes it more difficult for other given during this era. According to the

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It was happening right before Gannon loved working with police icaid, Social Security, and education, her eyes, and she did nothing to stop it. dogs, and he was the first full-time while paving the way for even more tax While her colleagues questioned the le- K–9 narcotics officer at the Yarmouth breaks to the top 1 percent and large, gitimacy of the CIA’s program, accord- PD. His loyal patrol dog, Near-Oh, was profitable corporations. ing to public reports, Ms. Haspel vigor- seriously injured in the incident that Make no mistake about it: Senator ously defended it. According to those claimed Sergeant Gannon’s life, but he PAUL’s budget is an immoral budget. It same reports, the Trump White House is expected to recover and return to the is bad economic policy. While I am con- reviewed CIA message logs that ‘‘made Gannon family. fident that this resolution will be de- it clear just how accepting she had Sergeant Gannon had a huge heart feated in the Senate, let me be very been of since disavowed interrogation and spent his free time volunteering clear. Senator PAUL’s vision of America— techniques.’’ with Big Brothers, Big Sisters, trav- balancing the budget on the backs of The fact is, so far as the record indi- eling, enjoying the outdoors, and work- working families, the elderly, the sick, cates, the only action Ms. Haspel has ing with his hands. the children, and the poor in order to taken with regard to U.S. torture prac- Thousands of mourners, including make the richest people in America tices has been to do her best to cover it law enforcement officials from across even richer—is the exact same vision of the country, gathered to pay their re- up. the Republican Party in the House and Why relitigate the choices that were spects at Sergeant Gannon’s wake—a the Republican Party in Washington, made during those dark days after 9/11? testament to the high esteem with DC. Because this matters, especially with a which his community held him and to So let me commend Senator PAUL for President like Donald Trump. As a can- the power of his sacrifice. being honest with the American people didate, Donald Trump said he would Yarmouth police chief Frank in terms of what he believes and for ‘‘bring back a hell of a lot worse than Frederickson calls Sergeant Gannon putting down on paper what a majority waterboarding’’ because even ‘‘if it the ‘‘Tom Brady of our department’’ of Republicans in the House and bil- doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway.’’ and posthumously promoted him to the lionaire campaign contributors like As President, Donald Trump pulled rank of sergeant. the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson back from his plan to reinstate the use Last month, I spoke with Sergeant believe. of secret CIA prisons overseas only Gannon’s wife, Dara, and his parents, And this is what they want. after overwhelming bipartisan outrage. Patrick and Denise, to offer my condo- At a time of massive wealth and in- The stakes are high. The use of tor- lences, my thoughts, and my prayers, come inequality, Senator PAUL and the ture is one of the darkest chapters in and I continue to hold them in my Republicans in the House do not be- our Nation’s modern history. We can- heart. lieve that it was good enough to pro- not give this President any reason to Next year, Sergeant Gannon’s name vide over $1 trillion in tax breaks to drag this country back. We cannot will be added to the National Law En- the wealthiest people and most profit- allow any room for that mistake to forcement Officers Memorial, recog- able corporations. The budget that we occur again. nizing law enforcement officers who are debating today would give the Gina Haspel has spent 33 years at the have made the ultimate sacrifice in wealthy and the powerful an even big- CIA. She has a decorated career and service to their communities. We owe ger tax break. has sacrificed for this country in many Sergeant Gannon and all of them a Last year, the congressional leader- ways Americans will never know. I deep debt of gratitude. They died as he- ship came up with a bill to throw 32 have no doubt her current and former roes. million Americans off of health insur- colleagues who praise her as a patriot I would also like to recognize the five ance. Senator PAUL and many Repub- are sincere, but patriotism and judg- Massachusetts officers whose names licans in the House do not believe that ment are not the same thing. Someone were added to the memorial this year. bill went far enough. The budget we are who puts protecting the Agency above Patrolman Seth A. Noyes, of the Bos- debating today would throw up to 45 following the law cannot be trusted. ton Police Department, died on Octo- million Americans off of Medicaid. When announcing his opposition to ber 18, 1870, from injuries sustained in A few months ago, President Trump Gina Haspel’s nomination, Senator the line of duty. He was 41 years old. proposed a budget calling for Medicare MCCAIN recently said that ‘‘the meth- Sergeant John J. Shanahan, of the Re- to be cut by nearly $500 billion. Sen- ods we employ to keep our nation safe vere Police Department, died on No- ator PAUL and a majority of Repub- must be as right and just as the values vember 19, 1928, when he was hit by a licans do not believe those cuts went far enough. The budget we are debating we aspire to live up to and promote in truck while directing traffic around today would cut Medicare by up to $3.3 the world.’’ I agree with Senator the scene of a car accident. He was 54 trillion over the next decade. MCCAIN, and I urge my colleagues to years old. Patrolman Jeremiah J. At a time when 10,000 people die each reject her nomination. O’Connor, of the Lawrence Police De- and every year waiting for their Social NATIONAL POLICE WEEK partment, died on November 14, 1950, Security disability benefits to be proc- Mr. President, I rise to honor the when he had a heart attack after pur- essed, Donald Trump’s budget proposed lives of six Massachusetts police offi- suing a subject. He was 61 years old. making a bad situation even worse by cers who lost their lives in the line of Patrolman Frederick A. Bell, of the cutting the Social Security Disability duty. On April 12, our Commonwealth Newton Police Department, died on Insurance Program. suffered a terrible loss when Sergeant September 5, 1954, 4 months after he Senator PAUL and a majority of Re- Sean Gannon of the Yarmouth Police suffered severe injuries in a car crash. publicans do not believe that those Department was killed while serving He was 39 years old. Sergeant Raymond cuts went far enough. The Paul budget an arrest warrant. He was only 32 years P. Cimino, of the Chelsea Police De- would not only cut Social Security for old. partment, died on February 28, 1985, the disabled, his budget would cut the A native of New Bedford, MA, Ser- after suffering a heart attack. He was entire Social Security program by $442 geant Gannon graduated from Bishop 44 years old. billion over the next decade compared Stang High School in North Dartmouth We honor their service, we honor to current law. and then earned a bachelor’s degree in their sacrifice, and most importantly, Overall, Senator PAUL’s resolution criminal justice from Westfield State we honor the lives they led and the leg- calls for slashing the budget by more University and a master’s in emer- acies they leave behind. than 51 percent by the end of the dec- gency management from the Massa- Mr. President, I yield the floor. ade. chusetts Maritime Academy. Mr. SANDERS. Mr. President, this Not too long ago, if someone pro- After college, Sergeant Gannon morning we will be voting on a budget posed ending Social Security, Medi- jumped headfirst into public service, resolution written by my Republican care, and Medicaid as we know it so

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Could it be precipitated by a Washington have never believed in So- up the oligarchy that is destroying the foreign nation no longer buying our cial Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Fed- social fabric of our society. debt? Yes. eral assistance in education, or pro- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- If interest rates were to go to 5 per- viding any direct government assist- ator from Kentucky. cent currently, I don’t know that we ance to those in need. They have al- Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, shortly, we would be able to manage our debt. That ways believed that tax breaks for the will be voting on the penny plan budg- would probably be a doubling of our in- wealthy and the powerful would some- et. This is a budget that cuts one penny terest payment, or more—$600 billion. how miraculously trickle down to out of every dollar. If we do nothing and the Federal Re- every American, despite all history and As we have gone through time and serve is able to keep our interest rates evidence to the contrary. again, we have seen that there is so in the 2 percent range, interest rates Needless to say, and I am only speak- much waste in government, from will still be about the same as the De- ing for myself, I have a very different $700,000 spent studying Neil Arm- partment of Defense within 10 years. vision of America. strong’s statement on the Moon—did The Department of Defense is about In my view, we need to create a gov- he say ‘‘one small step for man and one $700 billion, and it will grow probably ernment and an economy that works giant leap for mankind,’’ or did he say to $800-and-some-odd billion, but inter- for all of us, not just a handful of bil- ‘‘one small step for a man’’? We spent est rates will be $761 billion within a lionaires. $700,000 trying to discover whether Neil decade. If that is not a threat to our What does that mean? Armstrong said ‘‘a man’’ or just national security, I don’t know what is. It means that instead of giving over ‘‘man.’’ It is a complete boondoggle, a Really what we have is a threat to a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the complete waste of money. But does it our honor as public servants who make top 1 percent and large profitable cor- promises to voters. We came to power porations, we must demand that Wall get better? No, because we keep giving people more money. in Washington because we said Presi- Street, the billionaire class and large, dent Obama spent too much and bor- profitable corporations start paying Some have come to the floor and said: Well, this is just an end-around rowed too much. We said it over and their fair share in taxes. over and over again until voters chose Instead of trying to abolish the es- attempt to cut military spending. We can’t cut any military spending. us. But what if, when we come into tate tax, which impacts less than two- power, we forget who we are? When Re- tenths of 1 percent, we must substan- That is simply not true. The penny plan budget says nothing about cutting publicans are in the minority, they are tially increase the inheritance tax not the conservative party. The problem is only to bring in needed revenue, but to military spending. The penny plan budget says this: We cut 1 percent of that when the Republicans become the dismantle the oligarchs that now con- majority, there is no conservative trol so much of our economic and polit- the budgetary spending. Where it is cut in the budget is left up to the appro- party. ical lives. What I am arguing for today is to cut priations committees. It could be cut Instead of making it easier for cor- one penny out of every dollar. There is equally, or it could be cut more in porations to avoid paying U.S. taxes by waste from top to bottom in every de- some areas and less in other areas. We stashing their cash in the Cayman Is- partment of government, including the could cut some from military; we could lands, we need to crack down on off- military. shore tax haven abuse and use this rev- cut zero from military. It is left up to Defense Logistics—they build stuff. enue to create 15 million good-paying the appropriators. They have $800 million they say is American jobs rebuilding our crum- Some would argue: Well, it doesn’t missing. bling infrastructure. define where it would come from. Defense spending or military spend- Instead of cutting Social Security, Well, that is the job of the appropri- ing in Afghanistan—$700 million of am- we need to expand Social Security so ators and the job of the Senate to vote munition missing. Do we think that that every American can retire with up or down on it. might be a little bit worrisome given the dignity and the respect they de- To those who argue that unlimited all the different characters in the Af- serve. We pay for that by making sure spending for the military is good for ghan civil war? There is $700 million in everyone who makes over $250,000 a our national security, they might want ammunition that cannot be accounted year pays the same percentage of their to think about whether there is a pos- for and $28 million in uniforms that income into Social Security as the sible problem in that China has $1 tril- cannot be accounted for. middle class. lion worth of our debt. They built a $45 million gas station Instead of cutting Medicare, we need Let’s say for some reason there was a in Afghanistan, but it is for natural to guarantee healthcare as a right to conflict in the South China Sea and we gas. The first problem is that they every man, woman, and child in Amer- were somehow involved militarily don’t have cars in Afghanistan. The ica through a Medicare for all, single- there. What if China were to say: We second problem is that none of them payer healthcare program. are going to dump your dollars. We are run on natural gas. So how did we fix Instead of slashing Federal aid to going to dump your Treasury bills. that problem? We bought them cars. education, we must make every public Could they wreak havoc, dumping $1 We bought them cars that run on nat- college and university in America tui- trillion? Yes. Would it hurt their as- ural gas, and they still couldn’t afford tion free, and we pay for that by impos- sets? Yes, but it could be used as a the gas, so we gave them credit cards. ing a tax on Wall Street speculation. If weapon against the United States. How moronic are we as a people to we could bail out Wall Street 10 years Our insecurity is our enormous keep flushing money down a rat hole in ago, we can tax Wall Street so that debt—$21 trillion. Afghanistan—nearly $50 billion. every American who has the desire and In some ways, the budget vote is What I am asking is that we cut 1 the ability can get a higher education symbolism, but the question is whether percent—1 penny out of every dollar. regardless of their income. that symbolism will be who we are as a Could we save some in the military? Instead of listening to the Koch Republican Party or whether that sym- Absolutely. Is this done to punish the brothers, Sheldon Adelson, and other bolism will be that we are simply the military? No. It is to make us stronger multibillionaire campaign contribu- same as the Democrats, that we simply as a country. Could the military suffer tors, it is time to start listening to the don’t care about the debt, we don’t a 1-percent cut and actually become overwhelming majority of Americans care that interest on the debt is the more efficient? Absolutely. It is not a who want a government and an econ- second biggest item. question of whether our military budg- omy that works for the many, not just After the Defense Department—about et is too big or too small; it is a ques- the few. $700 billion—the next biggest item is tion of whether our military mission is

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This is the about. It is about spending in every de- of the economic foundation of our opportunity to at least let people know partment of government. It is about country, and I think without question that there is a legitimate vote for con- whether one penny out of every dollar it is. servatives to vote for a strong national is being wasted. This vote is a litmus test for conserv- defense. People say: I am against the waste. I atives. Are you a conservative? Do you I don’t want to send a signal to our am against all the waste. I am against think we could cut one penny out of kids overseas—our kids in battles and the study on Japanese quail to see if every dollar? I think it is a conserv- in harm’s way—that we are not going they are more sexually promiscuous on ative notion that we have long said we to take care of their needs, as we just cocaine. I am against the Neal Arm- are for. Now it is time to step up to the started just a year ago to do. We have strong study on whether he said one plate and actually vote what you say to continue that. man on the Moon or just man on the you stand for. For the sake of our national security, Moon. With that, I yield back my time and I suggest that we vote against the Paul The thing is, we can’t get rid of ask for the yeas and nays. proposal. waste unless we actually reduce top- Mr. INHOFE. Will the Senator yield The PRESIDING OFFICER. The line spending because nobody has any for a moment for a unanimous consent question is on agreeing to the motion incentive to do it. request? to proceed to S. Con. Res. 36. When the sequester first came into The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a The yeas and nays were previously place, even though people didn’t like sufficient second? ordered. it, people throughout government The PRESIDING OFFICER. There The clerk will call the roll. began finding savings. You cannot get does not appear to be a sufficient sec- The bill clerk called the roll. rid of waste in government if you keep ond at this time. Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator giving people more money. Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I ask to is necessarily absent: the Senator from The National Science Foundation has propound a unanimous consent request. Arizona (Mr. MCCAIN). wasted millions and millions of dollars The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the over a 30-year history. William Prox- ator from Oklahoma. Senator from New Jersey (Mr. BOOKER), mire first reported in the early 1970s, Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I ask and the Senator from Illinois (Ms. and he said that one of the first studies that I be recognized for 1 minute. No, I DUCKWORTH) are necessarily absent. was $50,000—back then, that was more don’t. I ask that I be recognized at the The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. money than it is now—to study why conclusion of this vote to explain why FISCHER). Are there any other Senators men like women. Really? That is a the Paul amendment would be dam- in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced—yeas 21, good use of taxpayer funds? aging to our national security. That is This year, we will spend $1 trillion we my unanimous consent request. nays 76, as follows: don’t have. There will be nearly a $1 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there [Rollcall Vote No. 99 Leg.] trillion deficit this year. That is what objection? YEAS—21 Without objection, it is so ordered. we complained about under President Barrasso Fischer Moran Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask for Obama, was big, annual $1 trillion defi- Cornyn Flake Paul the yeas and nays. Crapo Grassley Risch cits. Are we going to be the party that The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a Cruz Johnson Rubio is actually true to what we say we are sufficient second? Daines Kennedy Sasse for, that we are fiscally conservative? Enzi Lankford Scott There appears to be a sufficient ques- Ernst Lee Toomey Can we not cut one penny out of every tion. NAYS—76 dollar? The yeas and nays were ordered. So I implore my colleagues to think The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Alexander Hassan Peters long and hard about this vote. Think Baldwin Hatch Portman ator from Oklahoma. Bennet about how the people at home would Heinrich Reed Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, would it Blumenthal Heitkamp Roberts want you to vote. You have gone home be appropriate at this time for me to Blunt Heller Rounds and said you were for a balanced budg- ask for 1 minute prior to the vote? Boozman Hirono Sanders Brown et amendment to the Constitution. The The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there Hoeven Schatz Burr Hyde-Smith Schumer balanced budget amendment to the objection? Cantwell Inhofe Shaheen Capito Isakson Constitution, which virtually all of my Without objection, the Senator from Shelby Republican colleagues voted for, says Oklahoma is recognized for 1 minute. Cardin Jones Carper Kaine Smith we will balance the budget in 5 years. Mr. INHOFE. Thank you very much. Casey King Stabenow Well, we are either honest and serious I know the intentions are good; we Cassidy Klobuchar Sullivan or we are not. So if you can vote for a have voted on the same thing for the Collins Leahy Tester Thune balanced budget amendment that bal- last 5 years. I can tell you right now Coons Manchin Corker Markey Tillis ances the budget, why would you not what the vote result is going to be be- Cortez Masto McCaskill Udall vote for a budget that balances in 5 cause it has been the same for the last Cotton McConnell Van Hollen years? 5 years. Donnelly Menendez Warner Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, will the No one has had a more consistently Durbin Merkley Warren Feinstein Murkowski Whitehouse Senator yield for a unanimous consent conservative record than I have, but I Gardner Murphy Wicker request? would have to say that this would undo Gillibrand Murray Wyden Mr. PAUL. I will finish in a few min- a lot of what we have accomplished Graham Nelson Young Harris Perdue utes. with the last vote to allow us to start It is a canard to say that the cut is rebuilding our systems. We got in a po- NOT VOTING—3 coming from the military. The cut is a sition where we didn’t have brigade Booker Duckworth McCain 1-percent cut. It is $3.2 trillion spent, combat teams that were adequately The motion was rejected. and it is $32 billion that would be cut. prepared to go to battle. Sixty percent Mr. WARNER addressed the Chair. Every year, we send $30 billion to for- of our F–18s were not flying. We are The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- eign countries that hate us. We spend trying to recover from all of these ator from Virginia. nearly $50 billion in Afghanistan every things. We have now started that re- Mr. INHOFE. Madam President, will year. If we were simply looking at the covery. the Senator yield?

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She about the standards that we, as a na- about the vote that just took place. I has served with the Agency for 33 tion, can and should apply to the treat- tried to communicate this, and there years, including tours as a Case Officer, ment of detainees regardless of who wasn’t time before the vote. Right now, four times as a Station Chief, the Dep- they might be. That is why I was one of we have more threats than we have uty Chief of National Resources Divi- the 17 cosponsors in the Senate of the ever had in the history of this country. sion, the Deputy Director of the Na- McCain-Feinstein amendment to pro- I think we all realize that. tional Clandestine Service, and cur- hibit torture and to prohibit any inter- General Dunford said that we are los- rently as the Deputy Director of the rogation techniques not authorized by ing our qualitative and quantitative Agency. In many ways, her story is the U.S. Army Field Manual. That is advantage over our adversaries. He was representative of the thousands of peo- why I voted to both approve and to de- talking about Russia and China, in this ple at the Agency and throughout the classify the Senate Intelligence Com- case. We have adversaries out there intelligence community who serve mittee’s extensive study of the RDI that are actually ahead of us in terms quietly, without recognition, and often program. of their capabilities in artillery and at great personal risk in order to keep I strongly believe that we, as Ameri- other areas. our Nation safe from those who wish to cans, have a duty to look squarely at Here we are, and, quite frankly, we do us harm. our mistakes and not to sweep them knew how this vote was going to come In addition, while she has not empha- under the rug but to learn from them out. I have a list of the same vote that sized this, we should not overlook the and, in the future, to do better. Nor do has taken place for the last 5 years, historic nature of Ms. Haspel’s nomina- I believe that we can excuse torture or and it came out the same way it did be- tion as the first woman to be nomi- the way in which detainees—no matter fore. The point here is that even nated as Director of the CIA. Seeing who they were or what crimes they though it wasn’t going to pass, the her portrait in the halls of the Agency were guilty of—were treated. We are problem is, it is sending a message to next to the long line of former Direc- better than that, and we need a CIA Di- our kids who are out there in harm’s tors will be a long overdue but impor- rector who will ensure in an ironclad way. tant breakthrough for the intelligence way that we will never return to those We look and we see that we have community. days, that we will follow the law as en- started our road to recovery, and it has I would also note that as a Senator acted by Congress. This is why I pushed Ms. Haspel, both been an exciting thing because we from Virginia, the home to thousands in our hearings and in our private came so close to being in a position of CIA personnel and the vice chairman meetings, on this very point: What is where one-third of our brigade combat of the Intelligence Committee, I have her view now of the RDI program? And teams didn’t work. The F–35s in the heard from many Agency officers—and for that matter, members of the rank how will she react if she were asked, as field—the Marines could use less than Director, to undertake something simi- half of them. All of these things were and file of other intelligence commu- nity agencies—and almost to a person, lar in the future? In both our one-on- going on because of what has happened one meetings and in classified sessions to our military. the rank and file have supported her nomination. before the committee, I found Acting Finally, we turned the corner. We Director Haspel to be forthcoming re- turned the corner on the last vote—not Let me be clear. This has not been an easy decision for me. Over the past sev- garding her views on that program. the one we took today but the one we However, I thought it was important took a few months ago—and we now eral weeks, I have held multiple meet- ings and calls with Ms. Haspel and that she say this in public, not just pri- are rebuilding our military. vately, which is why I asked her to me- I had breakfast this morning with many others about her record and her character. In our open hearing, I raised morialize those comments in writing. the Secretary of the Army and with Gina Haspel wrote: ‘‘With the benefit questions about her involvement with the Chief of the Army, and really good of hindsight and my experience as a the rendition, detention, and interroga- things are happening. I can’t think of senior Agency leader, the enhanced in- tion program and, if she were to be anything worse than to send a message terrogation program is not one the CIA confirmed, her willingness to push to our kids in the field that we are should have undertaken.’’ going to go back and undo the positive back if President Trump asked her to I believe this is a clear statement of things that have pulled us up into a undertake any immoral or legally growth as a leader and learning from competitive position. questionable activity. I questioned her mistakes of the past. While I also wish For the sake of our military, for the willingness to declassify, to the extent that she would have been more force- sake of defending America, the vote possible, more information about her ful, I also understand her reluctance to there was to vote against sending the background at the Agency. I still wish condemn the many men and women at wrong message to our kids in harm’s more could be done to discuss her back- the Agency who thought they were way. ground in an open setting. The Agency doing the right thing at that time. I thank Senator WARNER for yielding. just recently has declassified more in- I first met Gina at one of her over- formation about her service with the f seas postings, but I didn’t really get to counterterrorism center. I thank them work with her until this last year, EXECUTIVE SESSION for that but still believe it would have when the former Director appointed been preferable if we could have found her to be Deputy Director of the Agen- a way to be even more transparent. If EXECUTIVE CALENDAR—Continued cy. Over the last year, I have found her she is confirmed as Director, I would to be professional and forthright with Mr. WARNER. Madam President, I encourage Ms. Haspel to keep this in our Intelligence Committee. ask unanimous consent that the Sen- mind. I have had the ability to have candid, ate resume executive session and con- To those here who have concluded unfiltered discussions with her. Wheth- sideration of the Haspel nomination. that Ms. Haspel’s background with the er the challenge we confront is North The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without RDI program should preclude her from Korea, ISIS terrorists, or the long-term objection, it is so ordered. leading the CIA, well, I respect their challenges of countries like China and Mr. WARNER. Madam President, I arguments, and I know the passion Russia, I will feel safer knowing that thank our friend, the chairman of the with which they put forward their posi- the CIA has Ms. Haspel at the helm. committee, the Senator from North tion. I myself struggled with this Most importantly, I believe she is Carolina. point. someone who can and will stand up to

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It requires a leader describes to Gina the credibility of a it in front of the committee under with unwavering integrity who will en- newly recruited asset and the chal- oath; I believe it, as well, because I sure that the organization operates lenges of dodging check points to get have heard it from people who have lawfully, ethically, and morally. to a meeting with a source, she knows worked with her for years, people who Gina was born in Kentucky. She was all the right questions to ask because know and trust her—John Brennan, the oldest of five children. Her father she has been there and she has done Jim Clapper, Leon Panetta, Jim was in the Air Force. She traveled from that. Mattis, and many, many others who place to place. She told her dad one day For all these reasons, I support Gina have served Presidents of both parties. that she wanted to go to West Point, Haspel to be the next Director of the Every one of them has said that they only to hear her dad very gently re- Central Intelligence Agency. I am also trust her to push back on actions that mind her that West Point did not in- mindful of the historic nature of Gina might be inappropriate coming from vite women. That did not delude her Haspel’s nomination and what it means this President. sense of service. After graduating from for those first-tour case officers and I furthermore believe that she is the University of Kentucky, Gina went junior analysts who will join the Agen- someone who will push back—and push on to work as a contractor with the cy this year and in the years to come. back strongly—against any attempts 10th Special Forces Group. It was at As I said at Ms. Haspel’s nomination by this President to undercut, deni- Fort Devens that Gina learned about hearing, outside the Agency workforce, grate, or ignore the professional men the CIA, a place where she could serve not many Americans get an oppor- and women of the CIA and their re- her country along with other women tunity to walk the halls of the old sponsibility, again—first and fore- doing clandestine work around the headquarters building. Those who do, most—to speak truth to power, what- world. This excited her. after entering, encounter a series of ever the political implications may be. In 1985 Gina swore an oath to defend portraits depicting former Directors of It is for these reasons that I am sup- the Constitution and began a 30-plus the OSS, Central Intelligence, and the porting Gina Haspel’s nomination to be year career of service at the Agency. Central Intelligence Agency, as its the Director of the CIA. I respect my Since that day, Gina Haspel has devel- name has morphed. Some of these Di- colleagues who made a different deci- oped extensive overseas experience and rectors were loved. Some were con- sion. This is not an easy choice. I, too, served as Chief of Station in several lo- troversial. Some little understood the have spent weeks working through it, cations around the world that we can’t Agency they were asked to lead. Some but at the end of the day and as we mention. But I can tell my colleagues made disastrous decisions out of hubris vote, hopefully, later this afternoon, I that every time I traveled abroad to a or inexperience or both. But one thing believe Gina Haspel should be con- location where Gina was the Chief of is common: All the portraits are of firmed. I look forward to supporting Station, I received the most thorough men. her. I look forward to her being a good brief from the most organized station Many want to make Gina’s nomina- Director of the CIA. I look forward to that I have had the opportunity to see. tion about one small piece of the Agen- her performance, convincing those who In Washington she has consistently cy’s past. If that were the standard could not support her today that her proven herself a strong leader, rising to that this institution applies, John long-term value to our country will the role of Deputy Director of the Na- Brennan would never have been con- make our Nation safer and that she tional Clandestine Service and then firmed as the Director of the Central will act in accordance with the prin- Deputy Director of the entire Central Intelligence Agency because when he ciples and values of our country. Intelligence Agency. Those who saw was at the Agency, he was fourth in I yield the floor and 30 seconds to my her approach to that role say she command, versus Gina Haspel, who was colleague, the chairman of the com- a GS–15. Most of us, though, are look- mittee. served as a peacemaker, a general, a ing toward the Agency’s future. I want to thank him, as well, for con- tough advocate for people, and a clear, Avril Haines, Meroe Park, and many tinuing to push not only Ms. Haspel steady guide for an Agency dealing others who have served or are cur- but the Agency, the Department of with a complex web of world crisis. rently serving have cracked the glass Justice, and others to make sure that I believe Ms. Haspel’s experience, her ceiling at the Agency. Gina is poised to members of the committee and, to an- dedication to service, and her judgment break it. It may be impossible to meas- other extent, Members of the Senate make her a natural fit to lead the CIA ure the importance of that break- had as much access to information as as it enters a period of profound change through, but I do know that it will ever before with any CIA Director. I and uncertainty. She is, by many ac- send a signal to the current workforce value our working relationship with counts, the most qualified person the and to the workforce of the future that the committee. Sometimes the chair- President could have chosen to lead the man and I don’t always agree, but we CIA and the most prepared individual a lifetime of commitment to the Agen- always deal with things in a straight- in the 70-year history of this Agency. cy and its mission can and will be re- forward manner. She is intimately familiar with the warded. To those walking for hours to I yield the floor to my dear friend, threats facing our Nation. Where oth- get to a source meeting, to those offi- the chairman. ers can discuss world events, Gina cers who stay up all night preparing for The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Haspel has lived those events. She has the Presidential daily brief, to those ator from North Carolina. no learning curve. making tough calls about putting their Mr. BURR. Madam President, I She has acted morally, ethically, and people in harm’s way to secure the in- thank the vice chairman of the Intel- legally over a distinguished 30-year ca- telligence we need to keep our country ligence Committee, and I would also reer. She has earned the respect of the safe, to those who find a needle in a reiterate what he said. This is one of Agency workforce, of her peers, of Re- haystack, catch the bad guys, find the the last bipartisan committees on the publicans and Democrats, of military weapon shipments, and come home and Hill. It should be. It is because we are officers, and of civilian security lead- walk past a wall of stars at the Agen- entrusted with seeing things and hear- ers, evidenced by the number of letters cy, know that we support you and we ing things that nobody else can and received in support of her nomination— support the job you do. You deserve a verifying that we live within the letter too numerous to read. Director who understands who you are, of the law and the Presidential direc- Gina has also the courage to speak what you do, what you can do, and tives for the rest of the 85 Members of truth to power, and she has dem- what you should do. You deserve a Di- the Senate and the American people. onstrated that courage time and again. rector who understands your sacrifice We take that very seriously. She has a clear-eyed vision for the and has a clear vision for the future of

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There are the Ayatollahs of noon confirm Gina Haspel as Director cance because it sends an unmistakable Iran who swear ‘‘death to Israel and of the Central Intelligence Agency message to our friends and to our en- death to America,’’ indeed who refer to without further delay. emies that the United States stands Israel as the ‘‘Little Satan’’ and Amer- I thank the Presiding Officer. with our friends and unshakably stands ica as the ‘‘Great Satan’’ and who fi- I suggest the absence of a quorum. alongside the nation of Israel. nance terrorism at Israel’s doorstep The PRESIDING OFFICER. The There was considerable debate within and across the world. clerk will call the roll. the administration about whether and There are the terrorists of Hamas The bill clerk proceeded to call the when to move the Embassy. That has who seized control of the Gaza Strip roll. been true in prior administrations as over a decade ago, after Israel had al- Mr. CRUZ. Madam President, I ask well—considerable debate. The prin- ready fully withdrawn from the terri- unanimous consent that the order for cipal argument against moving the tory. For the last several months, the quorum call be rescinded. Embassy has always been that the en- Hamas has been organizing civilian The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without emies of Israel will not like it. I believe objection, it is so ordered. mobs with terrorist cells embedded that is yet another reason this was the throughout to attack Israel’s border AMERICA EMBASSY IN JERUSALEM right thing to do. and the soldiers stationed there. They Mr. CRUZ. Madam President, I rise There were some who made the case today to give thanks and celebration call the riots the march of return in that moving the Embassy would dimin- reference to what they call their right for the United States’ Embassy estab- ish the chances of peace in the Middle lished in the city of Jerusalem and for of return, which is a euphemism for East. I will confess, I am skeptical that having millions of descendents of Pal- the continued safety and security of peace will be attained anytime soon. I the Jewish people in Israel and across estinians flood into Israel and destroy don’t believe the impediment to peace the modern State of Israel and its ex- the world. in the Middle East is the nation of Almost exactly 70 years ago, Israel’s istence as a Jewish state. Israel. Israel wants peace. It is Israeli Hamas timed their weeks of riots to founding father, David Ben-Gurion, babies who are being murdered by the brought together members of the Jew- culminate this week during what they terrorists. call Nakba Day. ‘‘Nakba’’ means ‘‘ca- ish People’s Council in a Tel Aviv mu- I don’t believe we will see peace in tastrophe.’’ It is the word they use to seum to declare the founding of the the Middle East unless and until, No. 1, reference the creation of Israel. We modern State of Israel. Eleven minutes the Palestinian leadership acknowl- should understand that. Every year, later, President Harry S. Truman cou- edges Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish they denounce what Israel celebrates— rageously recognized the State of state, and No. 2, they renounce terror- the creation of the modern State of Israel over the objection of many of his ists. As long as the Palestinian leaders Israel. Hamas mourns the catas- advisers and the State Department, are engaging in a unity government and the fates of our two countries have with Hamas—an avowed terrorist orga- trophe—to use their word—that Israel been intertwined ever since, until this nization seeking to destroy the nation even exists. But inevitably, in these week, when the U.S. Embassy was fi- of Israel and murder innocent Israelis— battles for survival that Israel faces nally moved to Jerusalem, recognizing peace will not be had. daily, we can count on global media that it is the eternal capital of the But what I urge President Trump and elite acting as little more than propa- Jewish people and the undivided cap- the administration is that moving the ganda arms for Hamas and other ter- ital of Israel. Embassy increases, I believe, the rorists, and no week has that been I was proud to have traveled to Jeru- chance for peace. Why is that? Because more evident than this week. salem along with my fellow Senators it demonstrates that America stands I direct you to the front page of the for the official opening of the new Em- strong, stands by our friends, and is New York Times from this week. The bassy. It was an incredible honor to not shaken, is not buffeted by global New York Times’s headline is ‘‘Israel witness history unfolding. It was a joy- media opinion. I suggested to the ad- Kills Dozens at Gaza Border as U.S. ous moment for Israelis, for Ameri- ministration that our Arab allies in Embassy Opens in Jerusalem.’’ Anyone cans, and a moment of history. the region would publicly denounce the reading this headline would say: Good- I had the opportunity to visit with move. They would have to for domestic ness gracious. Why are the Israelis Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu political concerns. However, I believe murdering people? That is what the about the incredible significance of that privately, those allies—the Egyp- New York Times says. One takes from ending the 70 years of discrimination tians, the Jordanians, the Saudis— the coverage, apparently, that poor, in- that Israel had faced. In no other coun- would be relieved that America moved nocent, unarmed people are being shot try on Earth did America have our Em- our Embassy. Why is that? Because an for no reason by Israel. That is cer- bassy in a city other than its capital American President and an administra- tainly what the global media elite are city. It was only Israel where our Em- tion strong enough to move the Em- portraying. bassy was not in the capital. bassy and stand up to the nattering na- What are the actual facts? You re- I would note that for many years bobs and the press might well also be a member facts—the things that used to Presidents of both parties, Democrats President and an administration strong be reported when journalists were actu- and Republicans, have campaigned enough to stand up to Iran to end the ally being journalists and not propa- promising that they would move the catastrophic Obama Iranian nuclear gandists. Let’s talk about the facts. Embassy to Jerusalem, which is the deal and to do whatever is necessary to For several weeks, we have seen riots capital of the nation. Yet Presidents of prevent the Ayatollah Khamenei from and violent attacks at Israel’s border, both parties have failed to do so. I com- getting nuclear weapons. Indeed, we terrorist attacks that culminated in mend President Trump for honoring saw that assessment was true. the attacks that led to these shootings that campaign commitment and for de- I think it is quite fitting that the in self-defense. The rioters used mas- livering on that campaign commit- opening of the new Embassy occurred sive tire fires to create smoke to cover ment. just days apart from the President their attacks. They used guns. They Moving our Embassy to Jerusalem is making the historic decision to pull used pipe bombs. They used Molotov an acknowledgement of undeniable out of the disastrous Obama Iran nu- cocktails. They used grenades. They truth that Jerusalem is, in fact, the clear deal. used mechanical catapults to attack capital of the nation of Israel. It is We are seeing the difference between the border and to attack Israeli troops. where we find the supreme court. It is strength and weakness. If history They tie petrol bombs to kites, and where we find the Prime Minister, and teaches anything, it is that weakness they launched them to set fire to it is where we find the President of and appeasement do not work. Instead, Israeli fields and livestock. Israel. I think America is far better when we Let’s take a look at the kites. The It is the capital city, and now our pursue policies of peace through kites that they used are painted with Embassy reflects that fact. But moving strength. swastikas. Just so you are not confused

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If the moniker ‘‘fake news.’’ don’t hide their motives or intentions. you get across the border, your target The Hamas talking points, which are It is not that the New York Times is wherever you can find Jews to kill. printed by our media, are aimed at can’t figure it out; it is that they don’t These are the terrorists the New whitewashing the terrorists’ genocidal care. York Times celebrates—‘‘Kills Doz- hatred of Israel. In fact, these attacks One 23-year-old rioter said: ‘‘We are ens.’’ Why is it that the New York are waged because Hamas refuses to ac- excited to storm and get inside’’ and Times doesn’t mention the maps that cept the existence of Israel. Mind you, that if he got across the border, he they have to Israeli homes to murder Gaza, they control. Israel doesn’t gov- would do ‘‘whatever is possible, to kill, innocent women and children, to kill ern Gaza; Hamas governs Gaza. This is throw stones.’’ as many Jews as possible? an attack on the border of Israel seek- I would note that a violent terrorist Here is a partial list of what hap- ing to murder innocent civilians. attacking the border, seeking to mur- pened on the border over just a few The New York Times has been der people, is not a peaceful protester, hours on Monday: unremitted in its dishonesty. They told as the useful idiots in the media falsely At 12:53 p.m., there were five pipe- their tens of thousands of Facebook portrayed it. bomb detonations. followers that Israel ‘‘used tear gas and Another Hamas terrorist, who was At 12:58, another explosive device was gunfire to keep Palestinian protesters flying a swastika kite, told NPR: detonated. from crossing the border fence with This is a kite that’s going to go to the At 1:15, a terror cell opened fire at Gaza, killing at least 52, according to Jews. . . . The Jews go crazy for Hitler when Israeli soldiers who caught them trying Palestinian officials. Forty miles they see it. . . . This is actually what we to plant bombs. away, officials celebrated the U.S. Em- want them to know, that we want to burn At 1:30, there was another shooting bassy’s relocation to Jerusalem.’’ them. attack on Israeli soldiers. Once again, this is the New York Let me remind you again of the New At 1:45, there was yet another shoot- Times pretending to report: Israel York Times headline. The New York ing attack, this time by a terrorist cell ‘‘used tear gas and gunfire to keep Pal- Times headline says ‘‘Israel Kills Doz- of eight using the rioters as cover, as estinian protesters from crossing the ens at Gaza Border.’’ Kills dozens of human shields. border fence with Gaza, killing at least what, of whom? Do they say terrorists? At 2:09, there were three more bomb 52.’’ These are not protesters; these are Do they say Hamas terrorists who are detonations. terrorists seeking to murder people. flying swastika kites filled with gaso- At 2:13, there was a Molotov cocktail When you call a terrorist a peaceful line, seeking to murder Israelis, and attack. and unarmed protester, directly con- who say: ‘‘This is actually what we At 2:49, another one. trary to the facts, you are not engaged want them to know, that we want to At 3:10, there was yet another bomb in journalism; you are pursuing a polit- burn them’’? attack, and so on and so on and so on. ical agenda on the pages of the ‘‘Old When hearing about brave soldiers That is just 2 hours. Where in the Gray Lady.’’ Their website’s headline on Monday protecting innocent civilians from ter- New York Times headline—and, sadly, blared: ‘‘Israel kills 58 and Injures Over rorists seeking to murder them, a ra- this is emblematic of much of the glob- 1,300 by Gunfire at Gaza border. . . . A tional person would say that it is a al media elite who are unified in their mass attempt by Palestinians to cross good thing when terrorists are stopped antagonism to the State of Israel— the border fence quickly turned vio- before they can carry out their acts of where is any acknowledgment of pipe lent, as Israeli soldiers responded with terror. But the New York Times can’t bombs, Molotov cocktails, shootings? rifle fire.’’ be bothered to include those facts. How would this headline read dif- Gosh, where in their headlines, where There is a message to be conveyed. For ferently if it read: ‘‘Violent Hamas Ter- in their coverage is there any mention anyone lacking nuance or subtly, their rorists Opened Fire on Israelis Who De- that these are terrorists with bombs message is simple: Israel, bad. Israel, fend Innocent Civilians Taking the and guns and Molotov cocktails and bad. That is their whole subtly. Mind Lives of the Terrorists?’’ That would kites carrying gasoline? Oh, no, these you, the bodies of those poor, helpless, actually be news. That would actually were just protesters who, for no reason little terrorists—well, you know, when be factual. That would actually be de- whatsoever, those bad, bad Israelis de- a terrorist seeks to commit murder, we scribing what happened, instead of be- cided to shoot. They just got up and do everything possible to prevent them coming a propagandist for the terror- said: Let’s just shoot a bunch of people. from doing so. ists. That is what the New York Times tells So when you read the headline, un- The strategy for these riots, for these us. For no reason whatsoever, they just derstand that this is who the New York terror attacks is a win-win for Hamas. began firing into the crowd. Times is celebrating. If they breach Israel’s fence, then their By the way, if you go into the fever I ask you, why wasn’t the swastika terrorists can rush into Israeli towns swamps of social media and you see the on the cover of the New York Times? and try to kidnap and kill Israeli civil- left—the New York Times knows what Might people understand it differently ians. If they fail to reach the fence; if its propaganda does. It is not hard to if they actually showed photographs of they attack the fence and Israeli sol- find people on Twitter suggesting that what was happening? diers defend Israel and if they are shot, for no reason, Israel just began shoot- One of Hamas’s Facebook pages post- then they know the media—the useful ing people because it is fun. Remember, ed maps with directions to nearby idiots—will provide endless photo- their message is not complicated: Israeli communities where thousands graphs and stories denouncing Israel: Israel, bad. So if Israel is bad, then you of Israelis live within 2 miles of the How dare you kill terrorists before just start shooting people because that border. If you look at this map—this they are able to murder innocent civil- is how you approach a Monday morn- map is posted. So you need to under- ians. ing. That is the message, and it is stand that these protesters are not just The media has been more than happy heard by social media. It is heard by there saying: Make love, man, not war. to oblige Hamas’s propaganda needs. anti-Semites across the globe. It plays The New York Times wants to paint Reporters, celebrity talking heads, and into vicious blood libels that go back a them as some happy little hippies with members of our political establishment millennium. It just happens to be a lie. daisies in their ears. Just give peace a have faithfully and enthusiastically It is not an accidental misstatement; it chance. You know, John and Yoko were parroted the Hamas line. They say the is a deliberate, calculated, repeated lie. among them. Well, why is Hamas post- riots are the fault of the United States Undoubtedly, tragically, some of ing this map saying: If you cross the for moving our Embassy and that the those killed have been Palestinian ci- border, here is where the Israeli com- rioters are peaceful and unarmed pro- vilian human shields. This is by design.

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Any impli- terrorist campaign against Israel, has turned out that the great many of cation otherwise is nothing less than there can never be hope for peace or the deaths are of the actual Hamas ter- shameful support for genocidal ter- prosperity. rorists picked off while planting bombs rorism. Israel has the right to defend itself, and attacking Israeli soldiers. If the In 2014, I introduced in this body bi- and Israel is defending itself. American military had been able to partisan legislation, along with New I only wish that our global media had shoot the terrorists on 9/11—the terror- York Senator KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND, a some tiny passing qualm of guilt to at ists who flew airplanes into the World Democrat, supporting Israel’s right to least pretend to report the news, to at Trade Center and who flew an airplane self-defense and condemning Hamas’s least pretend to tell the truth, to not into the Pentagon—if the military had barbaric tactics, specifically con- function as Hamas’s propaganda been able to stop those terrorists and demning the use of human shields as a agents, but instead to tell the truth shoot those terrorists, the New York war crime. That resolution passed the when Hamas terrorists say, with their Times headline would read: ‘‘American U.S. Senate unanimously, and it passed Nazi swastika kite bombs: We want the Military Shoots Peaceful Flying Pas- the House of Representatives unani- Israelis to know we want them to burn. sengers.’’ mously. Yet we see the tactic yet These are the facts they need to report, When you stop a terrorist seeking to again, these terrorists using human even if it happens to disagree with commit murder, it is not shooting a shields, using innocent Palestinians as their political agenda of undermining peaceful protester. During past riots, human shields, precisely because they the State of Israel. Hamas has acknowledged that up to 80 want them to die, because they can Fortunately, regardless of the par- percent of those killed were terrorists. trust the global media to carry their tisan bias, regardless of the propaganda This time around, already, between message. that the New York Times and other one-third and one-half of those killed A few years back, when Israel faced global media outlets put out, Amer- have been identified as terrorists. rocket attacks from Hamas, one after ica—the American people—stand and Look, this is Hamas telling us this. the other after the other, Hamas had will continue to stand unshakably— The people being shot are avowed ter- its headquarters in the basement of a unshakably—alongside our friends and rorists. There is no dispute that Hamas hospital. Indeed, some years ago, I allies, the people of Israel, and we have is a terrorist organization. There is no wrote an op-ed entitled ‘‘A Tale of Two reason to celebrate. dispute. This photograph depicts their Hospitals.’’ It says that you can tell a When I was in Jerusalem just a cou- wall of martyrs. These are the terror- lot about a society about how they ple of days ago, I visited with person ists we have sent who were killed. treat their most vulnerable, and it after person—Israeli and American— Where was the word ‘‘terrorist’’ in the compared two hospitals, one, the Ziv who were reduced to tears. Some were coverage? Hospital in northern Israel, which I Holocaust survivors. The phrase I We saw on TV images of violence on visited. At the time, the Ziv Hospital heard more often than anything else the border juxtaposed with the image had provided over $8 million in free was this: ‘‘I thought I would never live of the embassy unveiling, no doubt in- medical care to Syrians badly wounded to see the day.’’ Well, we did live to see tended to put the blame for the at- in the horrific civil war playing out in the day. tempted terrorism on the United Syria, freely caring for their neighbors America’s Embassy should have been States: How dare the United States of being murdered by their own head of in Jerusalem 70 years ago. It should America actually stand with Israel. government. The op-ed contrasted that have been there 60 years ago. It should How dare America open an embassy in hospital to the hospital in Gaza in have been there 50 years ago, 20 years the capital of Israel. whose basement Hamas had their head- ago, 10 years ago, 1 year ago. But, for- The blame for the violence lies with quarters. tunately, America’s Embassy is where the terrorists, not America for stand- Now, for Hamas, it was a win-win sce- it belongs today—in Jerusalem, the ing with our friend. nario. Option A is that Israel refrains once and eternal undivided capital of These terrorists hated Israel, they from hitting the headquarters because Israel. hated Jews, and they hated America it is in the basement of a hospital. Jerusalem was the capital of Israel before we moved our Embassy, and That is obviously a win because then 3,000 years ago. Jerusalem is the cap- their compatriots hate America, hate the terrorist headquarters doesn’t get ital of Israel today, and the United Israel, and hate Jews after we have targeted in a military conflict. That States Government recognizes that, moved our Embassy. Their hatred— ultimately is what happened, and the and just as Harry Truman did 70 years their murderous, religious zealotry—is Israeli forces did not hit Hamas’s head- ago, is leading the rest of the world to the cause of the murder and of the vio- quarters. follow suit. lence. Option 2, from Hamas’s perspective, I yield the floor. A Hamas spokesman went further on is also a win. If Israel did strike at I suggest the absence of a quorum. TV and said that in the last round of their headquarters—a military target The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. confrontations, if 62 people were mar- that was launching military attacks PERDUE). Will the Senator withhold the tyred, 50 of them were Hamas, but the trying to murder Israelis—then the re- request? New York Times just said a bunch of sult would be pictures of dead bodies on Mr. CRUZ. I will. unarmed protesters were standing CNN and in the New York Times, pic- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- there when, for no reason, Israeli sol- tures of patients at that hospital being ator from Ohio. diers began shooting them. What com- used as human shields. It is Hamas de- Mr. BROWN. Mr. President, I thank plete mendacity. Hamas admits these siring the death of little Palestinian the journalists of this country, who are are Hamas terrorists. Yet the media babies—newborns in the maternity not enemies of the people and who do does all they can to hide that. ward—because they knew if Israel ac- their jobs every day, explaining com- Imagine the outrage if, when the tually took out Hamas’s headquarters, plicated issues and fighting every day American Embassy in Benghazi was at- they could take those babies, whom to do things as straightforwardly and tacked by Ansar al-Sharia in 2012, a Hamas had used as human shields, and honestly as they can. So I start with newspaper had printed: Americans kill they could count on the New York that. dozens of Libyans. By the way, that is Times. NATIONAL POLICE WEEK the exact same headline the New York Can you imagine the headline in the Mr. President, each year, during Na- Times used. Yes, protesters coming to New York Times? ‘‘Israel Bombs Ba- tional Police Week, we honor our law commit murder; soldiers fight back to bies.’’ It is not markedly different from enforcement officials and the families

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She police officers, police chiefs, or FBI screening devices to enhance their abil- was then sent to Libya, where she agents, they share the anxiety and ity to investigate drug crimes, while spent weeks in another prison, with a fears and the anxiety and concerns for protecting themselves and the Ohioans crib in the room, as though she was their loved ones, who are so important. they serve. They serve us. They protect being mocked for being with child. Her We always honor them too. us. We should do all we can in this baby was born just after her release. This year, we will add the names of body to serve them and to protect Last week, the highest levels of the 360 officers to the National Law En- them, making a very dangerous job— British Government formally apolo- forcement Officers Memorial, including jobs that police officers do every day— gized for its role in the detention and the names of 10 Ohioans. We lost six of a little safer. treatment of her and her husband. No those Ohioans years or decades ago, Some Ohio cities use these devices such apology has been forthcoming and their sacrifice will now be recog- already. One officer at the demonstra- from the United States. nized on the memorial. tion, from the Twinsburg Police De- To understand the full dimensions of We pause to honor Franklin Stone, partment, said his office could use this the CIA’s so-called enhanced interroga- Frank Morrison, Donald Orville equipment right now. Our law enforce- tion techniques is a difficult task. I McLaughlin, Martin Arnold Stanton, ment officers put their lives on the line commend Senator FEINSTEIN and her Bradley Thomas Scott, and Samuel to protect us every single day. staff for an exhaustive report, years in John Mautz. This National Police Week, we owe the making, that explains this torture We also honor four Ohioans who laid them more than gratitude. Let’s do all program in great detail. The stress po- down their lives last year: Officer we can to support the selfless men and sitions, the sleep deprivation, the David Fahey, of the Cleveland Police women who serve our communities and ‘‘walling,’’ the slapping, and the Department, the city in which I live; our country every single day. waterboarding, it is all in there, un- Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, in De- Chief Steven DiSario, of the classified, for the public to see. cember 2012, the legendary Senator Kirkersville Police Department; Pa- Simply informing the public about from Hawaii, Daniel Inouye, passed trolman Marvin Moyer, of the Lan- what happened is not sufficient. These away. He was the longtime chairman caster Police Department; and Patrol- sad chapters in American history can- and vice chairman of the Defense Ap- man Justin Leo, of the Girard Police not be closed until there is account- propriations Subcommittee. Department. Each of these losses is a By a twist of fate, I succeeded him in ability. tragedy for a family, for a community, that role, and one of the most notable The nominee for the next Director of and for fellow police officers. surprises to me was how much of the the Central Intelligence Agency, Gina Sadly, we know already two names funding for the intelligence community Haspel, exercised a series of leadership that will be added to the Memorial came with that responsibility. positions that involved the CIA’s use of next year from Ohio: Officer Eric Together with my earlier service on these torture techniques. She was in a Joering and Officer Anthony Morelli, the Senate Intelligence Committee, I position to do something about it, had both of the Westerville Division of Po- have learned that oversight of the se- she believed this torture was wrong. lice, a Columbus suburb. They laid cret agencies of our government is one I note that many of her current and down their lives in service to their of the most challenging and important former colleagues have endorsed her communities and their country just a roles of Congress. nomination. They have spoken about few months ago, in February. It is a difficult task. Many of the her capabilities and effectiveness in We cannot begin to repay the debt we issues involved in overseeing the CIA positive terms. I do not know how owe them and we owe their families, and other agencies are highly tech- many of them have a detailed under- but we can work to support their fami- nical. Some issues present extraor- standing of her role in the CIA’s tor- lies and their fellow officers, as they dinary challenges, where the security ture program. work to keep our communities safe. of our Nation must be balanced with I met with Ms. Haspel at length and This year, as part of the bipartisan the best interests of the American peo- read documents that detailed her role spending package, we passed into law ple. All of these matters are blanketed in the torture program. She stated to the Children of Fallen Heroes Scholar- by the highest degree of secrecy. me that, as a CIA officer, she had been ship Act to increase access to edu- Despite all of these oversight chal- advised by all the appropriate legal au- cational scholarships for the children lenges, there are issues that are simply thorities that she could carry out her of public service officers killed in the black and white. The starkest of these assigned duties and remain within the line of duty. Helping their children get issues in the last two decades was the law. a quality education is the least we can CIA’s program to torture detainees at That may be the case, but that does do for these families. black sites throughout the world after not explain how a person can see an in- This spring I led a bipartisan group 9/11. dividual be subjected to waterboarding, of Senators in calling for full funding After 9/11, many Americans thought and the excruciating feeling that they of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership. long and hard about whether to torture are going to drown, and not question Last year we were able to secure $21 terrorists to gain information to stop whether that legal guidance is just. million for the partnership, which gets the next catastrophic attack. Implicit Simply labelling conduct ‘‘legal’’ officers the safety equipment they in that moral question is the assump- doesn’t make it right. need. Bulletproof vests save lives. tion that we would capture the right In fact, we now know that the Bush I hope we can soon pass the bipar- people who might have essential intel- administration twisted the law in its tisan POWER Act. I am working with ligence to save American lives. infamous torture report to justify the my colleagues Senators PORTMAN, Last week, the New York Times pub- use of torture. The Justice Depart- SCHUMER, RUBIO, MARKEY, and CAPITO. lished an article by a Libyan woman ment’s legal analysis was informed by Deadly, illegal fentanyl has become who says she was detained at a black false information from the CIA that too common, especially in my State. site in Thailand. techniques like waterboarding helped Our local law enforcement must deal Her story details how she and her obtain lifesaving information that was with it on a nearly daily basis. That is husband were taken by masked men to otherwise unavailable. why we worked on together and the a windowless room in Thailand. When But the decisive issue as to this President signed the bipartisan INTER- moved, she was bound to a stretcher. nominee is much simpler. DICT Act. It is why we need to build on She was deprived of sleep. She was The destruction of videotapes of that and give our local and State law struck in the abdomen. those interrogation sessions remains

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Further- ignore. hibited in America—no exceptions. more, she said that she supported the The CIA has provided documents for That amendment passed this body on 2015 law changes and made clear that the review of all Senators that attempt an overwhelming 90–9 vote, despite a she does not believe that the CIA to exonerate Ms. Haspel in the destruc- veto threat from the Bush administra- should be in the ‘‘interrogation busi- tion of those tapes. tion. ness.’’ She testified that, under her On December 7, 2007, the day after Now, in the twilight of a great Amer- leadership, the CIA would follow the the destruction of these tapes was first ican life, Senator MCCAIN has again law and would not resume enhanced in- reported, I asked then-Attorney Gen- spoken out against an administration terrogations and that she would not eral Michael Mukasey to open a crimi- of his own political party, urging us to seek to repeal the law. nal investigation into the destruction oppose this nomination because of the Moreover, in a letter to the vice of the tapes. This led to the so-called nominee’s complicity in torture. For chairman of the Senate Select Com- Durham investigation, led by Federal that principled stand, Senator MCCAIN mittee on Intelligence, Senator MARK prosecutor John Durham. has been subjected to crass insults by WARNER, Ms. Haspel said that she Approximately 2 weeks ago, the De- an administration that doesn’t have would ‘‘refuse to undertake any pro- partment of Justice for the first time the decency to properly and publicly posed activity’’ that is contrary to her provided only certain Members of the apologize to the McCain family. moral and ethical values, CIA’s mission Senate with the results of that inves- Ultimately, America’s strength and and expertise, or the law. ‘‘The United tigation, called the Durham Report. influence abroad rests not just with its States,’’ she said, ‘‘must be an example Few Senators even know that this re- military might, but also with the to the rest of the world’’ and ‘‘the en- port exists. power of its ideas and values, of which hanced interrogation program is not I am the vice chairman of the De- torture is the ultimate betrayal. one the CIA should have undertaken.’’ fense Appropriations Subcommittee, For these reasons, I oppose the nomi- Another issue I closely examined was which funds the CIA, and a senior nation of Gina Haspel. Ms. Haspel’s role in the Agency’s deci- member of the Judiciary Committee, Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I rise sion to destroy tapes involving one de- which has jurisdiction over the Justice today to express my support for the tainee who was subjected to enhanced Department. I have asked to review the nomination of Gina Haspel to become interrogation. The accountability re- Durham Report, but the Trump admin- the next Director of the Central Intel- view from then-Acting Director Morell istration has refused. ligence Agency. Ms. Haspel is an ac- exonerated Ms. Haspel and stated con- What does this report conclude? Does complished intelligence professional clusively that it was the CIA’s then-Di- it have information that was not avail- who will bring 33 years of experience to rector of the National Clandestine able during other reviews? The vast her new role. She has dedicated her en- Service who ordered the destruction of majority of Senators and the American tire life to the service of our country the tapes. As Mr. Morell, an Obama ad- public will never know before the vote and has performed extraordinarily well ministration appointee, stated: ‘‘Ms. is called on this nomination. in a number of challenging positions— Haspel did not destroy the tapes, she We have seen the CIA, which is often, in some of the most dangerous did not oversee the destruction of the tasked with providing intelligence, places in the world. tapes, and she did not order the de- take a strong stand in favor of this Ms. Haspel has widespread support struction of the tapes.’’ nomination. I do not question the right among the national security commu- I will conclude by saying that it of the administration to push for their nity. More than 50 leaders signed a bi- speaks very well of Ms. Haspel’s nomi- appointees. But I do question whether partisan letter endorsing her nomina- nation that she was reported favorably our intelligence community is compro- tion. The list includes eight former CIA by a bipartisan majority of members mising its objectivity in lobbying the Directors and Acting CIA Directors on the Senate Select Committee on In- public in favor of the nomination. who were appointed by both Repub- telligence, earning the support of both Given the secrecy over the Durham Re- lican and Democratic Presidents, rang- the chairman and vice chairman. I port, I can only wonder if we are being ing from Ronald Reagan to Barack hope that Ms. Haspel will be confirmed told just one side of the story. Obama. Michael Morell, a former CIA quickly to be the next Director of the I continue to believe that the best in- Acting Director under President CIA, and I look forward to working terest of our Nation, our Government, Obama, describes her as a person of with her in this new capacity to and the CIA is to make a clean break ‘‘deep integrity,’’ and John Brennan, counter the wide range of national se- from the odious history of torture. another former CIA Director under curity challenges facing our country. In my time overseeing the CIA, I President Obama, said she will provide Mr. BROWN. I suggest the absence of know that there are many experienced ‘‘unvarnished, apolitical, objective in- a quorum. professionals, both inside the intel- telligence input to Donald Trump and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ligence community and outside of it, others.’’ clerk will call the roll. that are able to lead this agency with At Ms. Haspel’s hearing before the The legislative clerk proceeded to great skill and without the history of Senate Select Committee on Intel- call the roll. association with waterboarding. ligence, I questioned Ms. Haspel re- Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I ask It is impossible to consider this nom- garding the enhanced interrogation unanimous consent that the order for ination without thinking of our friend program that was started after the the quorum call be rescinded. and colleague Senator JOHN MCCAIN. September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. I The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Senator MCCAIN is an American hero. have long believed and have consist- objection, it is so ordered. He survived horrific torture as a POW ently stated that this program was Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, as the in Vietnam and since then has spent al- completely unacceptable and that Senate moves to vote on the nomina- most five decades in honorable public waterboarding is tantamount to tor- tion to head the CIA, here is the bot- service to the country he loves dearly. ture. In fact, in 2015, I cosponsored the tom line. While the American people While Gina Haspel was accommo- McCain-Feinstein amendment to the have been told that Gina Haspel likes dating and covering up the torture pro- defense authorization bill to ensure Johnny Cash and talked to Mother Te- gram, Senator MCCAIN was the first that techniques such as waterboarding resa, Ms. Haspel has been exercising prominent Republican to speak out are never used again and that the the unprecedented power to personally against this program, which was cre- Army Field Manual governs interroga- censor any facts about her that might ated by an administration of his own tions of detainees. get in the way of her nomination. political party. In response to my questions, Ms. When the Senate votes on a nomina- I was proud to work closely with Sen- Haspel, who was not a high-ranking tion when all the relevant information ator MCCAIN on what has rightly be- CIA official at the time, indicated that is, by design, kept secret, how is this come known as the McCain torture she played no role in the creation of any different than a coverup? I regret amendment, which made it clear that the interrogation program and that she to have to say that the surrender of the torture and cruel, inhuman, and de- wasn’t even aware of its existence until Senate’s responsibility to conduct real

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Gina Haspel and the CIA for this ex- if she had any connection to it. How The Washington Post newspaper re- traordinary and self-serving abuse of can this possibly be classified? Three ported that unnamed officials were power. years ago, the Senate Intelligence pushing back against accusations that With respect to other issues, it is im- Committee released a 500-page execu- she has supported torture. portant to note that the Agency— tive summary of the torture report. Now, Ms. Haspel said she learned again, under the direction of Ms. The CIA released a long and detailed about the program in 2002. I believe it Haspel—has also conducted an unprece- response. What the CIA did to all those is especially important to know what dented influence campaign to promote detainees is now officially declassified. her views were later, between 2005 and her confirmation. This, too, is wrong. Former CIA officers have written 2007, when the CIA itself was winding The CIA, like every government agen- whole books about it. How in the world the program down. At that time, did cy, works for the American people. It is can you say Ms. Haspel’s reported in- Ms. Haspel call for the program to be not supposed to use its enormous power volvement in the program is classified? continued or expanded? I asked her to serve the personal interests of who- You can do it because she says so, and that in an open intelligence meeting. ever is running it. The classification she is the boss. She did not come close to answering rules are there for national security. At one point, I asked Ms. Haspel that crucial question. They are not there for the political se- whether opinions about the CIA tor- No. 2, what was her role in the de- curity of an individual. They are there ture program expressed by CIA officers struction of the torture tapes? The to protect the dedicated women and were classified. I wasn’t even asking nominee’s story here is riddled with men who undertake dangerous mis- then about anyone’s involvement in holes, and key facts have been covered sions undercover. They are not there to the program, just what people might up. shield a nominee for a Senate-con- have thought about it. Ms. Haspel One matter that we know about is firmed job from scrutiny. wouldn’t answer that question either. that her boss at the time, Mr. Jose I and a number of my colleagues have She said that even the matter of Rodriguez, has publicly contradicted looked at the classified information whether those opinions are classified is her account of the handling of the de- about Ms. Haspel and have concluded it itself classified—downright Orwellian, struction of the torture tapes to a Pul- can be released to the public without in my view. itzer Prize-winning journalist. compromising sources and methods. We In a democracy, there have to be No. 3, how can the Senate possibly asked how she could justify keeping it some basic rules about what is and take seriously Ms. Haspel’s confirma- secret. Her answer almost always is, what isn’t classified. We are seeing a tion conversion on torture that was that is how ‘‘we always protect our of- replacement of those rules with essen- submitted on the eve of a crucial vote? ficers.’’ tially the whims of leaders who aren’t There has been a lot of reporting in I want people to understand what is accountable. Secret law—the classi- the press saying that she personally wrong with that statement. Of course, fication of legal interpretations rather played a role in the CIA torture pro- the CIA must protect undercover CIA than sources and methods—is a serious gram. The American people deserve to officers. I don’t take a backseat to any- problem, including at Ms. Haspel’s CIA. know whether those reports are true. body in this Chamber for protecting Information that doesn’t need to be Every single material question to her those people who are undercover. In classified to protect national security about them has been met with fact, I wrote a law, along with Senator is being covered up for political pur- stonewalling and evasion. Instead of Bond, our former colleague, increasing poses. real responses, Ms. Haspel offered pos- the penalty for outing people who are Speaking of Orwell, the classification sibly the latest confirmation conver- undercover. Gina Haspel is not under- rules themselves are going to be classi- sion in history, 16 years after she first cover. She is asking the U.S. Senate to fied. I have been concerned about this learned about the torture program and be vested with a position that would tendency for years. I want to empha- only just before a vote on her con- make her one of the most public and size, I have made this clear to political firmation. visible intelligence leaders in the leaders of both political parties, and I Over and over again, I and other Sen- world. continue to believe that. But if the CIA ators have insisted that Ms. Haspel de- This is not an undercover job. It is and Ms. Haspel can get away with all classify information about her back- one of the most visible national secu- this, the worst is yet to come. ground that would not in any way com- rity positions, not just in our country As I have been saying since she was promise the safety of the American but in the world. It ought to be accom- nominated, I have a host of concerns people. This is information that is di- panied by accountability, and hiding about all of these issues. I hope Sen- rectly relevant to her nomination. In behind the protections that are rightly ators will exercise independent judg- the language of the Intelligence Com- given undercover officers to advance ment. There is a classified Intelligence munity—I have read it—the over- her career I find absurd. Committee minority memo about Ms. whelming bulk of this information can I wish to also note that her classi- Haspel, and I hope every Senator will be declassified without compromising fication decisions are in violation of read it and ask themselves publicly, ‘‘If sources and methods. Yet every single Executive Order No. 13526. For decades, the American people actually knew time a Senator pushed for declassifica- the intelligence community has been about all this, how would I vote?’’ tion, Gina Haspel said no. Despite our barred from keeping information clas- What I can say is, her classified com- repeated requests, she decided she sified to prevent embarrassment or ments about her background have been would not allow the American people conceal violations of law or adminis- as troubling as her public testimony. to know who she is and what she has trative error. It is pretty clear those What I can say is, when I did get un- done. rules are not high up on Ms. Haspel’s classified responses to my questions, This has been—and, again, it is pain- priority list. they certainly were not assuring. Pub- ful to have to say this—a stark failure What I am especially worried about— lic discussions about the CIA have gen- of Senate oversight, and it is about as I am going to go into this—is that if erally been about overseas operations flagrant an example as I have ever you can violate the classification rules affecting foreigners. It has been dec- seen. The Senate should have stood up to get confirmed, the Senate says: Oh, ades since the public really focused on to this self-serving abuse of power, but no big deal, it is going to get done the danger that the CIA could violate it did not. again and again. the privacy of Americans, but the dan- For me, it is democracy 101 that con- Last time I looked, most Americans ger is there, and hard questions ought firmations are not supposed to take believed this country needs more ac- to be asked.

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The CIA can con- he chaired, and I will talk a little that the CIA attributed to torture duct these backdoor searches of Ameri- about that, but he sure sums it up came from other sources. When the cans without a warrant. That creates a right on torture. He says: It is wrong. committee looked at the CIA’s own danger of reverse targeting, which is It harms America because of the state- records, it found that key intelligence when the government, in this case the ment it makes about American values was provided by detainees before the CIA, targets a foreigner to find out around the world. Then he points out it CIA engaged in the torture. It is these what an American is saying. is not effective. kinds of documented facts that have One way to help prevent reverse tar- Since the program has been largely made Ms. Haspel’s statements so trou- geting is to recognize that when the declassified, it can be discussed openly. bling. government is conducting lots of back- The CIA captured innocent people. It Why are her equivocations about the door searches on Americans and then tortured dozens of detainees. It didn’t effectiveness of torture so important? I sending around reports on those Ameri- just waterboard people. The CIA placed think we all remember the campaign in cans, maybe it is the Americans whom detainees in ice water. It kept them the fall of 2016, when then-Candidate the government is really interested in. awake for a week. It stuffed detainees Trump said: ‘‘Torture works.’’ It seems By the way, the privacy board agrees in small boxes. The list goes on and on. to me that it is not in America’s inter- with it, and so does the current Assist- They were always worse than how they est to have a CIA Director who re- ant Attorney General for National Se- were described to Congress or the De- sponds with: Well, there are a lot of as- curity. partment of Justice. pects to the issue, and I am not happy Given all that—the prospect of what Through it all, it seemed that the about how the Agency was perceived in it would mean for Americans—I asked CIA and the government had not really terms of what it did. Ms. Haspel about it. Again, what I got held anybody accountable. The CIA With regard to JOHN MCCAIN, like a back were plenty of words but nothing also provided numerous false claims to lot of Senators, I am thinking now that provided any assurance that the the Department of Justice, to Con- about some of the big battles and CIA has any system at all for guarding gress, and to everybody else about tor- tough fights that we had a chance to against reverse targeting of Americans ture. work on together. I became Oregon’s under the Foreign Intelligence Surveil- Now, I have never been a big believer first new Senator in almost 30 years. lance Act. in confirmation conversions. My gen- Oregon has always been about wood Also, the Agency collects a lot of in- eral take is that nominees will say products, and it always will be. I said I about anything to get confirmed, but telligence under an Executive Order would go to the Senate and fight like Ms. Haspel’s statement with respect to known as 12333. I wanted to know if the crazy to get more jobs to those rural torture has to be the most delayed and Agency was conducting backdoor areas and try to get Oregon and our the most grudging confirmation con- searches on Americans through that country into some new fields. version in history. She said she learned data. The current Director of the Na- It is not generally known, but in about the torture program in 2002. It tional Security Agency told me that those days, JOHN MCCAIN had just be- took 16 years before she was willing to when the NSA conducts searches of come the chairman of the Commerce Americans, those searches have to be say anything critical about it. I mentioned asking her about her Committee. approved on a case-by-case basis, with I went to him, and I asked: Mr. views when the program was winding probable cause, by the Attorney Gen- Chairman, why don’t you and Chair- down. That was not something that eral. The NSA doesn’t actually have to EAHY was a debatable proposition, as it was man L , who has been a stalwart on go to court, which is a concern. But in public source materials. The CIA these issues, lead an effort to try to those requirements create meaningful was winding down the program. It was write the rules of the road for the hurdles to abuse. I thought it was im- capturing fewer people and no longer internet? portant to ask about the CIA: When using the waterboarding. By and large, there were not any. can the CIA conduct backdoor searches So what were her views on the pro- He kind of smiled at me—that quin- of Americans? gram? I asked her specifically because tessential JOHN MCCAIN smile—and ba- The response I got from Ms. Haspel is it was in public sources. When the sically said: Why don’t you go out and that the searches are authorized if they Agency was winding down the program, figure out how to do it, and we will are designed to get information related was she for continuing it or even ex- have a hell of a good time in making to the CIA’s activities. That means panding it? I asked her twice—in the the case. there is no standard at all on backdoor hearing and in a written question. Her Under JOHN MCCAIN’s leadership, searches of Americans. quote was that she was ‘‘committed.’’ what we did was to, in fact, write the I have mentioned these two unclassi- Figure out what that means. To me, rules of the road for 10,000 taxing juris- fied examples because they show how that is about as clear an evasion of a dictions in America. As a result of vague the rules are and how easily the very important issue as I can find. those early days, you can’t discrimi- CIA could violate the privacy of Ameri- Apropos of the present, usually nomi- nate against electronic commerce, cans. That is why it is important to nees offer their confirmation conver- which would have clobbered the inter- have leaders at the Agency who believe sions before the eve of the key vote. I net with thousands of discriminatory in the privacy of the American people had mentioned that this was awfully decisions. There were digital signa- and who are committed to protecting grudging. The Agency shouldn’t have tures. We wrote the regulatory rules it, protecting Americans—protecting undertaken a torture program, she for social media that are often cited as Americans even if sometimes a lawyer said, because it did damage our officers creating $1 trillion worth of wealth in says something might be technically and our standing in the world. the private economy. legal. I don’t believe Gina Haspel will That is true, but at no time did she To a great extent, JOHN MCCAIN be that kind of leader. ever express regret or anything that re- brought his typical passion to those Before I wrap up, there are a couple flected that this was just plain wrong. new areas that he would be the first to of other matters with respect to the She offered up the classic Washington, say he didn’t know everything about, torture program. I mentioned that almost nonapology. She was not sorry but he said: Hey, look, we ought to do since the torture program has been for what the Agency did. She was just something that is in America’s inter- largely declassified, it can be discussed not happy with how it was perceived. est. openly. Senator MCCAIN, whom we ad- Worse still are some of the justifica- We didn’t care about Democrats, and mire so much, said last week that Ms. tions for the torture program that she we didn’t care about Republicans.

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JOHN MCCAIN has urged with Mr. Rodriguez. serve to know more than that Gina the Senate to reject her nomination. So what did she do? She knew that Haspel likes Johnny Cash while she is JOHN MCCAIN has been a towering au- the destruction of evidence had been simultaneously exercising the power to thority on this issue and has been a ordered over everyone’s objections. Did censor the facts about her background. guiding light for the Senate on na- she intervene to stop the destruction I urge colleagues to reject this nomina- tional security policy. I also just men- before it happened? Did she tell the tion. tioned something I don’t think any- lawyers in time for them to intervene? Mr. President, I yield the floor. body knew, which is about writing the Did she tell the White House? Did she The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- rules of the road for the internet. tell the head of national intelligence? ator from Arkansas. It is my hope that JOHN MCCAIN’s Did she just let it happen? Mr. COTTON. Mr. President, the Di- powerful and unimpeachable views on These are central questions because rector of the Central Intelligence the issue of torture and this nominee they tell us what kind of leader Ms. Agency is not as old an office as some will continue to be heard today and Haspel is. In order to get confirmed, others in the President’s Cabinet, but well into the future. There is no great- she has made all kinds of promises it is no less important. The Director’s about standing up for what is right and er voice on this subject than JOHN job is to provide the critical informa- rejecting inappropriate orders. But MCCAIN’s. tion on which the President’s national I want him to know how grateful I what did she do when she knew an security decisions are based. For this am for his leadership on this and how, order had been sent to destroy evidence reason, Presidents of both parties have in the days ahead, I look forward to, over the objections of lawyers and ev- chosen seasoned statesmen to serve hopefully, being able to tell my grand- erybody else? There is no record of her this post, men like Allen Dulles, doing anything to stop it. children what a man of stature and George H.W. Bush, Bob Gates, and I offer this small window into her Mike Pompeo. Out of respect for the public service really brought to the background because, I think, we all Senate. I hope Senators will reflect on CIA’s integrity and professionalism, ought to be asking how might she react they often kept in office Directors who that before they vote. when confronted with an illegal, im- Throughout this nomination process, had been appointed by their prede- moral, or inappropriate direction. cessors. That is because partisanship there were not a whole lot of topics I mentioned what the President said that were declassified. So I am just has no place at the CIA. earlier in the campaign—that he would The national interest must be upper- going to share a story about Ms. Haspel bring back a hell of a lot worse than most in our minds, which is why I will and the destruction of the videotapes. waterboarding. He has praised Ms. There is important information in be voting to confirm Gina Haspel as Haspel for being tough on terror. You our next CIA Director. Secretary the report by U.S. Attorney John Dur- don’t have to be Picasso to connect the ham that most Senators were not al- Pompeo left the Agency in good shape, dots about what the dangers are here. and Ms. Haspel was his very capable lowed to see. Like everything else Other than a few belated promises that Deputy. Moreover, few people have con- about her career, the information that were made to get confirmed, what evi- tributed as much to the CIA’s recent reflects poorly on Ms. Haspel gets cov- dence is there, actually, to suggest successes as Ms. Haspel. She has 33 ered up, but we did learn some things that Ms. Haspel would really push years of experience working for the about Ms. Haspel and the destruction back? Agency, serving first on the frontlines of the torture videotapes. For one, she I close, simply, with this. I have an of the Cold War and later on the wrote the cable that authorized the de- enormous amount of respect for the frontlines of the War on Terror. If con- struction. Second, she was an advocate good work being done by those at the firmed, she would also be the first for destroying the tapes and was in- CIA. The nature of the secret, risk-tak- woman to lead the Agency. volved in what former Acting Director ing work that they do is an extraor- Given her many accomplishments, Mike Morell called ‘‘efforts to press for dinary service to the American people. her diligence, dedication, and her fierce and facilitate a resolution of the mat- My concern is that when something love of country, I am astonished and ter.’’ That is a lot more than drafting goes off the rails, it is going to be be- disappointed at the controversy over a cable. cause of a variety of scenarios that will the nomination of this great American. Especially problematic for Ms. not have a lot to do with their good After all, Ms. Haspel is a career profes- Haspel and her boss, Jose Rodriguez, is work. For example, it could be because sional whose record of achievement that there were reservations or there there is a CIA Director who sees every speaks for itself. was even outright opposition from the lawyer’s approval as a green light and She joined the Agency in 1985, work- White House, the head of national in- every lawyer’s warning as an annoy- ing as a case officer for several years in telligence, the CIA, and the Congress ance. It could be because CIA leader- both Africa and Europe. Over time, she to the destruction of the tapes. So Mr. ship decides to hide from public scru- rose up the ranks, serving first as Chief Rodriguez decided to go it alone and tiny information that need not be clas- of Staff and then as Deputy Director of sent the cable Ms. Haspel had drafted sified. the Directorate of Operations. She without telling the lawyers, the CIA My concerns about Ms. Haspel are served as Chief of Station—the officer Director, or anyone else. not a matter of history. I have con- responsible for overseeing all of the Here is where Ms. Haspel’s story cerns about what she is saying today, CIA’s work in a foreign country—four about the destruction of the tapes real- both about her background and about different times. ly runs into trouble. Jose Rodriguez, current programs. I am concerned that Having served under six different her boss, gave an interview in which he after we have heard from JOHN MCCAIN Presidents from both parties, Ms. told Ms. Haspel in advance that he was and each of us has reflected, as I have Haspel has never been a partisan. She planning on sending the cable without briefly, on our extraordinary experi- is a professional whose many years of seeking authorization. So I asked her ences with this unique public servant, work command respect throughout the about that story. She denied it. I don’t we will still have to make a judgment CIA. She has never avoided controversy know who is telling the truth. Yet here here. I hope that colleagues, when they to protect her own career. we are, voting on this nominee without vote in a little bit, will recognize that Time and again, Ms. Haspel sought our having this direct contradiction in there is much more that the full Sen- out danger. She raised her right hand any way resolved. ate and the American people have a and volunteered for some of the Agen- Then there is the question of what right to know. I believe that if they cy’s most dangerous assignments. happened after the cable was sent but did, they would join Senator MCCAIN It was on September 11, 2001, after before the tapes were actually de- and me in opposing this nomination. seeing the first plane hit the World

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That is the kind of of the CIA if we don’t confirm her or, already knew: She believes that U.S. woman Gina Haspel is. for that matter, what message the Government actions must be held to a It is true that because of her willing- overwhelming Democratic opposition strict moral standard. If confirmed, she ness to take on a tough job, she was to her nomination sends them. Does would not obey an order she believed to present for some of the most difficult anyone doubt that if President Obama be unlawful, and in her new role, she decisions about how to protect Amer- or a President Hillary Clinton had pledged not to restart the interroga- ica in the days after 9/11. Yes, she was nominated Ms. Haspel, she would easily tion programs inside the CIA. Of around when the Agency was respon- have received 80 or 90 votes? course, that could not happen without sible for the detention and interroga- The message, I would submit, is this: consultation and approval of Congress tion of notorious terrorists, but there Be careful. If you participate in a pro- because the standard has literally has been so much misinformation gram that the Commander in Chief has changed since the immediate post-9/11 spread about what she did that I want approved, that the Congress has been era. to set the record straight. fully briefed on, that the Attorney Based on her testimony, her record of Ms. Haspel didn’t start this program. General has legally authorized, and service, and her exemplary character, She didn’t even know it existed until a that the CIA Director supports, you it is clear that the only real option for year after it began. In fact, NANCY still may land in the dock when a new the Intelligence Committee was to re- PELOSI learned about this program be- President comes along with new law- port her out favorably. fore Gina Haspel did. yers. So maybe it is better to hide out Our colleagues on the other side who She did not ‘‘cheerlead’’ the program, at the Swiss desk. have objected to this nomination have as some Senators have wrongly That is a recipe for a timid, hesitant an opportunity to join a couple of their claimed based on a book—the author of intelligence community, and that is a Members who have already come on which later issued a correction on this risk to us all. over and acknowledged that she is the very point. I can tell you, Gina Haspel’s skill and best qualified nominee in the Agency’s Other Senators claim they are wor- expertise are widely known and re- history. ried about the message that would be spected on both sides of the aisle. Our colleague, the senior Senator sent by confirming Ms. Haspel. I con- President Obama’s former CIA Direc- from Virginia and vice chairman of the fess, I am amazed that these Demo- tor, Leon Panetta, said that he was Intelligence Committee, Mr. WARNER, crats say they can’t in good conscience glad the President nominated Ms. voted yesterday on Ms. Haspel’s behalf. vote on the confirmation of Ms. Haspel, Haspel because she ‘‘knows the CIA in- He praised her as an independent voice who was a midlevel employee when the side-out.’’ Another one of President and found it noteworthy that she would program was active, yet they voted in be the first operations officer in more 2013 to confirm John Brennan, who was Obama’s CIA Directors, John Brennan, than five decades to lead the Agency. the No. 4 ranking official at that time. said that Ms. Haspel ‘‘has the experi- While I am at it, let me also say that ence—the breadth and depth—on intel- Generally speaking, you have ana- she did not destroy any tapes of those ligence issues.’’ And former CIA Direc- lysts and you have the case officers interrogations; she simply wrote the tor Michael Hayden, who served under who actually handle the cases and do draft cable for her boss, the Director of both Presidents Bill Clinton and the important intelligence-gathering Operations, which authorized their de- George W. Bush, has called Gina Haspel work from a human intelligence per- struction. He released the cable, he has a ‘‘great choice’’ and ‘‘highly re- spective at the Agency, and that is the acknowledged, without her advance garded.’’ These are just three of more work she has been involved in for more knowledge. In fact, the former Acting than 50 former national security offi- than 30 years. She would be the first of- Director of the CIA, Mike Morrell, cials who signed a letter to the Senate ficer in more than five decades to have later conducted an investigation and Intelligence Committee supporting her that sort of experience and the credi- cleared Ms. Haspel of any wrongdoing, nomination. bility that goes along with it. and the special counsel who reviewed As a member of that committee, I The senior Senator from Virginia, the matter closed the case without fil- worked with Gina Haspel during her Mr. WARNER, is joined by the senior ing any charges. time overseas and as Deputy CIA Di- Senator from West Virginia, Mr. Would holding her responsible for rector, and I can attest to her profes- MANCHIN, who also sits on the Senate drafting a cable at her boss’s direction sionalism, her work ethic and, most Select Committee on Intelligence, as make any more sense than holding important, her character. This is a well as the junior Senator from North Senate staffers responsible for the bor- skilled, brave, patriotic woman who Dakota and others. In other words, ing speeches their bosses give on the will serve our country with distinction there are a number of Democrats now Senate floor? in this most critical post. Her dedica- who have decided that it is not in the Yes, I know there are political offi- tion to our country throughout her life Nation’s best interest to oppose Presi- cials in the government who had ex- is complete, and that is why I will be dent Trump’s nominees just because pressed reservations about destroying proud to cast my vote for the confirma- they happen to be President Trump’s those tapes, but no lawyer at any time, tion of Gina Haspel, and I urge all Sen- nominees. anywhere in the government, said ators to do the same. Now I want to talk about some of the there was a legal prohibition against Thank you, Mr. President. stated objections and why I don’t be- their destruction. Moreover, there is a I suggest the absence of a quorum. lieve they hold any water, but I am clear, written record of those very The PRESIDING OFFICER. The glad for this movement in the right di- events. clerk will call the roll. rection, which will allow us to confirm On these matters, it is not enough to The senior assistant legislative clerk her today. express reservations. CIA officers in proceeded to call the roll. I appreciate all of our colleagues the field deserve a clear answer, yes or Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask carefully examining Ms. Haspel’s no. unanimous consent that the order for records. A number of people I have If anyone was to blame, it wasn’t Ms. the quorum call be rescinded. talked to about the nomination said Haspel or her boss; it was politicians The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without they wanted to do their due diligence. who didn’t want to take the heat for a objection, it is so ordered. Well, that is our job, and I don’t be- controversial decision either way. Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, yester- lieve any nominee should be So what is really at issue here? What day the Senate Intelligence Committee rubberstamped. I know they have re- message will we send if we reject her voted Gina Haspel’s nomination out fa- viewed her record, and they have met

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To begin with—and I have the full story of the tapes’ destruction to the President and other policy- listened to Senators on both sides—I do before we are asked to vote on Ms. makers in the Federal Government. not question Ms. Haspel’s commitment Haspel’s nomination today. Her loyalty, of course, is not to a po- to our country or to our national secu- This is just what we know through litical party, after all, because she is rity that, I think, she has established. public reports. There is much more the nonpartisan, but she owes her loyalty But what I question is her judgment American people don’t know about Ms. to the American people, whose safety and her fidelity to a core value of our Haspel’s actions because it remains and security she has made her life’s Nation: that all people have certain in- classified. The American people have work. alienable rights. Underlying these in- been kept in the dark in part because Comparisons have rightfully been alienable rights is our belief in the Ms. Haspel herself has been responsible drawn between the upcoming confirma- basic dignity of human beings, a dig- for what information about her record tion vote for Ms. Haspel and the 2013 nity that is incompatible with inhu- is declassified. It is a brazen conflict of confirmation vote of John Brennan, mane practices like torture. Torture interest that Ms. Haspel can decide former Director of the CIA under Presi- should never be part of America’s way what to release and what to conceal dent Obama. The vast majority of of leading the world. about her past. The CIA has declas- Democrats had no problem voting for During the height of the CIA’s tor- sified glowing facts about Ms. Haspel’s Mr. Brennan, and so I believe they ture program, Ms. Haspel ran one of work with Mother Teresa, but refuses should have no problem voting for Ms. the Agency’s most notorious ‘‘black to disclose basic information that Haspel because, first of all, Mr. Bren- sites’’ in Thailand. There, under her would shed light on her past actions nan supports her. Of course, he was the leadership, brutal torture techniques and what values would guide her as No. 4 person at the CIA during this pe- were employed. From available ac- CIA director. This process has been re- riod post-9/11 when the rendition, de- counts, according to that which has duced to a farce. tention, and interrogation programs been made public, this included I have reviewed classified materials were carried out in full compliance waterboarding detainees, slamming on Ms. Haspel’s long career at the CIA, with then-stated law from the highest them against walls, and confining them and I find these materials to be deeply legal authority available, the Office of in coffin-shaped boxes for extended pe- disturbing. I am not able to discuss any Legal Counsel. We have also seen oth- riods of time. of the details revealed in these mate- ers in the Obama administration sup- At the time, there was a benign eu- rials, again, because Ms. Haspel has de- port Ms. Haspel as well. phemism for this treatment. It was cided to keep them cloaked by classi- I have said it before, and I will say it called ‘‘enhanced interrogation tech- fication. Candidly, I do not believe a again: Those people who know Ms. niques.’’ But we know better. This Senator can provide his or her in- Haspel best, who have worked along- wasn’t ‘‘enhanced interrogation tech- formed consent to this nominee with- side of her on a daily basis in undis- niques.’’ This was government-sanc- out first reviewing these materials. closed locations around the world, tioned torture, pure and simple. Tor- Now, I recognize, and I must say I ap- doing the Nation’s important work, ture is immoral. Torture is inhumane. preciate, that Ms. Haspel has com- like this woman, admire her, respect Frankly, torture is un-American. I mitted to not allowing the CIA to res- her, and think she is the best of the agree with our colleague Senator JOHN urrect the use of torture if she is con- best. MCCAIN—he is one who speaks with a firmed. I also recognize that that com- I speak for many when I say that we distinct moral clarity on this issue— mitment, while commendable, is not appreciate Ms. Haspel’s willingness and that Ms. Haspel’s refusal to condemn optional. Torture is illegal; that is sim- desire to serve in this new and never- torture as immoral is disqualifying. ply what the law demands. easy capacity. I hope we can confirm For that reason alone, I cannot, in But what about the next immoral ac- her in short order so she can get back good conscience, support her nomina- tion that this President might ask her to work and continue to do the work tion. to commit? Should we trust that she that she loves and that our Nation But it is worse than that. Ms. Haspel will have the moral compass to stand needs. also reportedly advocated for destroy- up and say ‘‘no’’? Based on what we I yield the floor. ing the videotapes of these torture ses- have seen, I do not. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- sions—now, that was against the ad- The world is watching closely today. ator from Vermont. vice of the CIA’s own lawyers. More Our allies and our enemies—and our Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, the Sen- than that, it was in contravention of a own future generations—will view this ate has often been called the world’s Federal judicial order requiring that vote as nothing less than a referendum greatest deliberative body, where we they be preserved. The CIA’s former on torture. If the Senate—this body can thoroughly and respectfully debate general counsel said Ms. Haspel was that I cherish—gives its blessing to a weighty matters, regardless of pres- one of the ‘‘staunchest advocates . . . nominee who is synonymous with the sures imposed by any given moment. for destroying the tapes.’’ Notwith- CIA’s interrogation program, then the While we do not always live up to this standing the advice of the CIA’s law- demons of our past—from Abu Ghraib ideal, it is one for which we should al- yer, notwithstanding the federal judi- to the CIA’s black sites—may haunt us ways strive. The Constitution entrusts cial order, she claimed that destroying anew. us with the task of serving as a check the tapes was necessary to protect the I do not believe that this blight on against the executive branch, providing security of CIA officers conducting our history represents who we are or our advice and—if appropriate—our these interrogations. what we stand for. I really do not be- consent to the Executive’s nominees to But that explanation withers under lieve that this is the soul of America. lead our government’s most critical even the slightest scrutiny. If that But it is a terrible mistake. I believe agencies. During my time here, at its were really the concern, then the CIA we must clearly demonstrate that we best, the Senate can be and actually could easily have copied the tapes with are capable of learning from and mov- should be the conscience of the Nation. the officers’ faces blacked out and only ing beyond our darker chapters as a na- So as we move to vote on the nomi- then destroyed the originals. All of us tion. If we make a mistake, we should nation of Gina Haspel, with very little are used to seeing news items with the admit it and take steps not to have it debate and gaping holes in her record, faces of certain witnesses and others happen again. For that reason, I will I fear the Senate is failing to fulfill its blacked out. Nor do we have access to vote no on Ms. Haspel’s nomination. basic duty to provide advice and in- the only independent account of Ms. Mr. President, I do not see another formed consent to her nomination. Re- Haspel’s role in the destruction of the Senator seeking recognition.

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Roy Blunt, John Hoeven, David Perdue, unanimous consent that the order for First the President tweeted that the Lindsey Graham, Pat Roberts, Johnny the quorum call be rescinded. restrictions needed to be eased because Isakson, John Boozman, James E. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without they would cost China too many jobs. Risch, John Thune, Todd Young, Ron objection, it is so ordered. It now appears that this concession is Johnson, Cory Gardner. Mr. FLAKE. Mr. President, I rise part of a deal that, if reached, would The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- today— have the Chinese Government agree to imous consent, the mandatory quorum (Disturbance in the Visitors’ Gal- remove tariffs on U.S. agricultural call has been waived. leries.) products. It must be noted that these The question is, Is it the sense of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. There are the same tariffs that China levied Senate that debate on the nomination will be order in the Chamber. in retaliation for the steel and alu- of Gina Haspel, of Kentucky, to be Di- The Sergeant at Arms will restore minum tariffs announced, and now rector of the Central Intelligence order in the Chamber. being haphazardly applied, by this ad- Agency, shall be brought to a close? (Disturbance in the Visitors’ Gal- ministration. The yeas and nays are mandatory leries.) Make no mistake, what we are wit- under the rule. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Ser- nessing here is a nascent trade war— The clerk will call the roll. geant at Arms will restore order in the tariffs leading to tariffs leading to ill- The assistant bill clerk called the Chamber. advised concessions, haphazard exemp- roll. The Senator from Arizona. tions, and so on and so on. Meanwhile, Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators ZTE businesses suffer from increased uncer- are necessarily absent: the Senator Mr. FLAKE. Mr. President, I rise tainty, our national security is threat- from Arizona (Mr. MCCAIN) and the today disturbed by the President’s re- ened, and international allies find Senator from Indiana (Mr. YOUNG). cent decision to consider easing pen- themselves dealing with an American Further, if present and voting, the alties placed on the Chinese tele- foreign policy characterized only by Senator from Indiana (Mr. YOUNG) communications company ZTE. chaos and unpredictability. would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ Looking at ZTE’s history of decep- Punitive measures like sanctions The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. CAS- tion and dishonest business practices, work only when they are consistently SIDY). Are there any other Senators in it is deeply troubling to see these pen- executed. How is any other nation the Chamber desiring to vote? alties cast aside so carelessly in pur- meant to take threats of U.S. sanctions The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 54, suit of what appears to be a type of seriously when we enforce them some nays 44, as follows: chaotic diplomatic improvisation that of the time and toss them aside other [Rollcall Vote No. 100 Ex.] has become standard operating proce- times when we feel like it? What does YEAS—54 dure with the administration. such unpredictability say to our allies Alexander Flake Murkowski Let me briefly outline ZTE’s past ac- about our ability to lead on global Barrasso Gardner Nelson tions in order to refresh everyone’s issues and our reliability as a partner Blunt Graham Perdue memory on how the company came to in the future? Boozman Grassley Portman face such serious punitive measures. We are making a mockery of the Burr Hatch Risch Capito Heitkamp Roberts In 2016, the U.S. Department of Com- rules-based international order that we Cassidy Heller Rounds merce concluded an exhaustive inves- helped establish. Our foreign policy, Collins Hoeven Rubio tigation, finding that ZTE had know- whether it relates to trade or security, Corker Hyde-Smith Sasse Cornyn Inhofe Scott ingly sold products made with Amer- must be characterized by stability and Cotton Isakson Shaheen ican technology to Iran, North Korea, predictability, not confusion and Crapo Johnson Shelby and other countries banned from re- chaos. Cruz Kennedy Sullivan ceiving such technologies. ZTE vio- We are at our best when our allies Daines Lankford Thune Donnelly Lee Tillis lated these sanctions and engaged in a and our adversaries know where we Enzi Manchin Toomey deliberate attempt to cover it up. stand. Let us return to that standard. Ernst McConnell Warner Once ZTE’s deception was uncovered, I yield the floor. Fischer Moran Wicker the Obama administration announced The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- NAYS—44 imminent implementation of export re- jority whip. Baldwin Harris Paul strictions that would deprive ZTE of Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask Bennet Hassan Peters American technology crucial to the unanimous consent that notwith- Blumenthal Heinrich Reed standing rule XXII, the cloture vote on Booker Hirono Sanders manufacturing of its products. Brown Jones The threat of sanctions brought ZTE the Haspel nomination occur at this Schatz Cantwell Kaine Schumer to agree to settle the matter, and one time; further, that if cloture is in- Cardin King Smith year later, ZTE signed a settlement, voked, all postcloture time be yielded Carper Klobuchar Stabenow Casey Leahy Tester which included more than $1 billion in back and the Senate immediately vote Coons Markey Udall fines, the creation of audit and compli- on the nomination; and that if con- Cortez Masto McCaskill Van Hollen firmed, the motion to reconsider be Duckworth Menendez ance requirements to avoid future vio- Warren lations, and a promise to punish those considered made and laid upon the Durbin Merkley Feinstein Murphy Whitehouse individuals involved in past violations. table and the President be immediately Gillibrand Murray Wyden Last month, after ZTE was found to notified of the Senate’s action. have violated the terms of the settle- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there NOT VOTING—2 ment and to have then sought to de- objection? McCain Young ceive the U.S. Government about those Without objection, it is so ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this violations, the Commerce Department CLOTURE MOTION vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 44. announced a 7-year ban on the export Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays The motion is agreed to. of U.S. components to ZTE. before the Senate the pending cloture Under the previous order, all In essence, ZTE has repeatedly en- motion, which the clerk will state. postcloture time is expired. gaged in malign activity by delib- The senior assistant legislative clerk The question is, Will the Senate ad- erately misleading the government for read as follows: vise and consent to the Haspel nomina- years, all while attempting to deliver CLOTURE MOTION tion? American technologies into the hands We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- Mr. ROUNDS. I ask for the yeas and of State sponsors of terrorism. The in- ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the nays.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G17MY6.039 S17MYPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S2761 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a CLOTURE MOTION CLOTURE MOTION sufficient second? Mr. MCCONNELL. I send a cloture We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- There appears to be a sufficient sec- motion to the desk. ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the ond. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby The clerk will call the roll. ture motion having been presented move to bring to a close debate on the mo- The legislative clerk called the roll. under rule XXII, the Chair directs the tion to concur in the House amendment to S. Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator 2372, a bill to amend title 38, United States clerk to read the motion. Code, to provide outer burial receptacles for is necessarily absent: the Senator from The legislative clerk read as follows: remains buried in National Parks, and for Arizona (Mr. MCCAIN). CLOTURE MOTION other purposes. The result was announced—yeas 54, We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- Johnny Isakson, Roger F. Wicker, John nays 45, as follows: ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Thune, John Cornyn, Richard Burr, [Rollcall Vote No. 101 Ex.] Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby Mike Crapo, Tom Cotton, John Booz- YEAS—54 move to bring to a close debate on the nomi- man, Thom Tillis, Jerry Moran, Joni nation of Dana Baiocco, of Ohio, to be a Ernst, David Perdue, Roy Blunt, John Alexander Gardner Nelson Hoeven, Bill Cassidy, Dan Sullivan. Barrasso Graham Perdue Commissioner of the Consumer Product Blunt Grassley Portman Safety Commission for a term of seven years MOTION TO CONCUR WITH AMENDMENT NO. 2246 Boozman Hatch Risch from October 27, 2017. Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, Burr Heitkamp Roberts Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, Pat Rob- I move to concur in the House amend- Capito Heller Rounds erts, John Cornyn, Mike Crapo, Roy ment to S. 2372, with a further amend- Cassidy Hoeven Rubio Blunt, Ron Johnson, Mike Rounds, Collins Hyde-Smith Sasse ment. Lindsey Graham, Johnny Isakson, Corker Inhofe Scott The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Cornyn Isakson Shaheen John Boozman, James E. Risch, John Cotton Johnson Shelby Thune, Todd Young, John Hoeven, Cory clerk will report the motion. Crapo Kennedy Sullivan Gardner, David Perdue. The senior assistant legislative clerk Cruz Lankford Thune read as follows: Daines Lee Tillis f The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MCCON- Donnelly Manchin Toomey LEGISLATIVE SESSION Enzi McConnell Warner NELL] moves to concur in the House amend- Ernst Moran Wicker Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I ment to S. 2372 with an amendment num- Fischer Murkowski Young move to proceed to legislative session. bered 2246. NAYS—45 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous Baldwin Gillibrand Murray question is on agreeing to the motion. consent that the reading of the amend- Bennet Harris Paul The motion was agreed to. ment be dispensed with. Blumenthal Hassan Peters The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without f Booker Heinrich Reed objection, it is so ordered. Brown Hirono Sanders Cantwell Jones Schatz VETERANS CEMETERY BENEFIT The amendment is as follows: Cardin Kaine Schumer CORRECTION ACT At the end add the following. Carper King Smith Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I ‘‘This Act shall take effect 1 day after the Casey Klobuchar Stabenow date of enactment.’’ Coons Leahy Tester understand the Senate has received a Cortez Masto Markey Udall message from the House to accompany Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask for the yeas Duckworth McCaskill Van Hollen S. 2372. and nays on my amendment. Durbin Menendez Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a Feinstein Merkley Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. The lead- Flake Murphy Wyden er is correct. sufficient second? Mr. MCCONNELL. I move that the There appears to be a sufficient sec- NOT VOTING—1 ond. McCain Chair lay before the Senate the mes- sage to accompany S. 2372. The yeas and nays were ordered. The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The AMENDMENT NO. 2247 TO AMENDMENT NO. 2246 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under question is on agreeing to the motion. Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, the previous order, the motion to re- The motion was agreed to. I have a second-degree amendment at consider is considered made and laid The Presiding Officer laid before the the desk. upon the table and the President will Senate the following message from the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The be immediately notified of the Senate’s House of Representatives: clerk will report. action. Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. The senior assistant legislative clerk The majority leader. 2372) entitled ‘‘An Act to amend title 38, read as follows: f United States Code, to provide outer burial The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MCCON- LEGISLATIVE SESSION receptacles for remains buried in National NELL] proposes an amendment numbered 2247 Parks, and for other purposes.’’, do pass with to amendment No. 2246. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I an amendment. Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous move to proceed to legislative session. MOTION TO CONCUR consent that the reading of the amend- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, ment be dispensed with. question is on agreeing to the motion. I move to concur in the House amend- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The motion was agreed to. ment. objection, it is so ordered. f The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. The amendment is as follows: EXECUTIVE SESSION CAPITO). The clerk will report the mo- Strike ‘‘1 day’’ and insert ‘‘2 days’’ tion. MOTION TO REFER WITH AMENDMENT NO. 2248 The senior assistant legislative clerk Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, EXECUTIVE CALENDAR read as follows: I move to refer the House message on Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MCCON- S. 2372 to the Committee on Veterans’ move to proceed to executive session to NELL] moves to concur in the House amend- Affairs to report back forthwith with consider Calendar No. 608. ment to S. 2372. instructions. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The CLOTURE MOTION The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion. Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, clerk will report the motion. The motion was agreed to. I send a cloture motion to the desk on The senior assistant legislative clerk The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the motion to concur. read as follows: clerk will report the nomination. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MCCON- The legislative clerk read the nomi- ture motion having been presented NELL] moves to refer the House message to nation of Dana Baiocco, of Ohio, to be under rule XXII, the Chair directs the accompany S. 2372 to the Committee on Vet- a Commissioner of the Consumer Prod- clerk to read the motion. erans’ Affairs to report back forthwith with uct Safety Commission for a term of The senior assistant legislative clerk an amendment numbered 2248. seven years from October 27, 2017. read as follows: The amendment is as follows:

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:48 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G17MY6.048 S17MYPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE S2762 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 17, 2018 At the end add the following. CLOTURE MOTION The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ‘‘This Act shall take effect 3 days after the Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I question is on agreeing to the motion. date of enactment.’’ send a cloture motion to the desk. The motion was agreed to. Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- f I ask for the yeas and nays on my mo- ture motion having been presented tion. under rule XXII, the Chair directs the EXECUTIVE SESSION The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a clerk to read the motion. sufficient second? The legislative clerk read as follows: There appears to be a sufficient sec- CLOTURE MOTION EXECUTIVE CALENDAR ond. We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, The yeas and nays were ordered. ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the I move to proceed to executive session AMENDMENT NO. 2249 Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby to consider Calendar No. 618. Mr. MCCONNELL. I have an amend- move to bring to a close debate on the nomi- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The nation of Jelena McWilliams, of Ohio, to be ment to the instructions. question is on agreeing to the motion. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for a The motion was agreed to. clerk will report. term of five years. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The senior assistant legislative clerk Mike Crapo, John Thune, Pat Roberts, clerk will report the nomination. read as follows: David Perdue, Michael B. Enzi, Lamar The legislative clerk read the nomi- The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MCCON- Alexander, John Boozman, Thom nation of James Randolph Evans, of NELL] proposes an amendment numbered 2249 Tillis, John Hoeven, James M. Inhofe, Georgia, to be Ambassador Extraor- to the instructions of the motion to refer. Mike Rounds, Richard Burr, John Cor- dinary and Plenipotentiary of the Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous nyn, Tim Scott, John Barrasso, Jerry Moran. United States of America to Luxem- consent that the reading of the amend- bourg. ment be dispensed with. f CLOTURE MOTION The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without LEGISLATIVE SESSION Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, objection, it is so ordered. Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, The amendment is as follows: I send a cloture motion to the desk. I move to proceed to legislative ses- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- Strike ‘‘3 days’’ and insert ‘‘4 days’’ sion. ture motion having been presented Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The under rule XXII, the Chair directs the I ask for the yeas and nays on my question is on agreeing to the motion. clerk to read the motion. amendment. The motion was agreed to. The legislative clerk read as follows: The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a f CLOTURE MOTION sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient sec- EXECUTIVE SESSION We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the ond. Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby The yeas and nays were ordered. EXECUTIVE CALENDAR move to bring to a close debate on the nomi- AMENDMENT NO. 2250 TO AMENDMENT NO. 2249 nation of James Randolph Evans, of Georgia, Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni- I move to proceed to executive session I have a second-degree amendment at potentiary of the United States of America to consider Calendar No. 672. to Luxembourg. the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Thom Tillis, John Cornyn, Mike Crapo, question is on agreeing to the motion. John Thune, Roy Blunt, Ron Johnson, clerk will report. The motion was agreed to. Cory Gardner, Lindsey Graham, Pat The senior assistant legislative clerk The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Roberts, Johnny Isakson, John Booz- read as follows: clerk will report the nomination. man, James E. Risch, Todd Young, The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MCCON- The legislative clerk read the nomi- John Hoeven, Mike Rounds, David NELL] proposes an amendment numbered 2250 nation of Jelena McWilliams, of Ohio, Perdue. to amendment No. 2249. to be a Member of the Board of Direc- f Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous tors of the Federal Deposit Insurance LEGISLATIVE SESSION consent that the reading of the amend- Corporation for a term of six years. ment be dispensed with. CLOTURE MOTION Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, I move to proceed to legislative ses- objection, it is so ordered. I send a cloture motion to the desk. sion. The amendment is as follows: The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Strike ‘‘4’’ and insert ‘‘5’’ ture motion having been presented question is on agreeing to the motion. Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask that the under rule XXII, the Chair directs the The motion was agreed to. mandatory quorum call be waived. clerk to read the motion. f The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The legislative clerk read as follows: VETERANS CEMETERY BENEFIT objection, it is so ordered. CLOTURE MOTION CORRECTION ACT—Continued f We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- EXECUTIVE SESSION ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the ORDER OF PROCEDURE Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, move to bring to a close debate on the nomi- I ask unanimous consent that the man- nation of Jelena McWilliams, of Ohio, to be datory quorum calls with respect to EXECUTIVE CALENDAR a Member of the Board of Directors of the Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for a the cloture motions filed in executive I move to proceed to executive session term of six years. session today be waived. to consider Calendar No. 670. Mike Crapo, John Thune, Pat Roberts, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there The PRESIDING OFFICER. The David Perdue, Michael B. Enzi, Lamar objection? question is on agreeing to the motion. Alexander, John Boozman, Thom Without objection, it is so ordered. Tillis, Tim Scott, James M. Inhofe, The Senator from Indiana. The motion was agreed to. John Hoeven, Richard Burr, Mike NATIONAL POLICE WEEK The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Rounds, John Cornyn, John Barrasso, clerk will report the nomination. Jerry Moran. Mr. DONNELLY. Madam President, The legislative clerk read the nomi- f as we observe National Police Week, I nation of Jelena McWilliams, of Ohio, rise today to honor our fallen law en- to be Chairperson of the Board of Di- LEGISLATIVE SESSION forcement officers and to discuss some rectors of the Federal Deposit Insur- Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, of the ways we are working to make it ance Corporation for a term of five I move to proceed to legislative ses- safer for officers to do their jobs and years. sion. protect our communities.

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These families ly sit on his porch and watch his Schultz was only 24 years old and had and children endure grief and trauma grandkids play in the front yard or to been on the Merrillville police force for that we can’t even begin to imagine. ensure that working families can go to 13 months. We must do all we can to help the fami- and from their jobs in peace. They are In March of 2016, we lost Howard lies of our fallen officers and first re- on the frontlines battling the dev- County sheriff’s deputy Carl Koontz, sponders, and this includes ensuring astating opioid epidemic that has who was shot and killed while serving that their children get a good edu- plagued our State. Our police are the arrest and search warrants in cation. That is why I helped to intro- ones who work with our communities Russiaville in connection with a nar- duce the bipartisan Children of Fallen and local leaders to help stem violence cotics case. Deputy Koontz was just 26 Heroes Scholarship Act. This allows and to help fight crime in our neigh- years old. He had served more than 2 the children of fallen first responders borhoods. They are the ones putting years with the Howard County Sheriff’s who pursue a college education to have themselves in harm’s way every single Department. access to the maximum level of Fed- day. In July of 2017, Lieutenant Aaron eral Pell grants authorized by law. These officers are heroes. To their Allen of the Southport Police Depart- I was pleased to support the govern- families, they are even more. They are ment was shot while responding to a ment funding bill that passed in March, moms and dads, sisters and brothers, crash involving an overturned vehicle. which included a provision based on wives and husbands, and their families Hours before he was killed—and there the Children of Fallen Heroes Scholar- pray that they come home safely at the is a picture of this which tears your ship Act. end of every shift. Sadly, as we know, heart out—he walked his 5-year-old son Another critically important area we that doesn’t happen every time. to the bus for his first day of kinder- must continue to focus on is helping to When we lose an officer, that loss is garten. He was a 6-year veteran with equip officers with lifesaving equip- felt deeply, particularly by their fam- the Southport Police Department and ment. It is no secret that our officers ily and those who know them and love had previously been named the Officer may face dangerous situations at any them. It is a grief that is also shared of the Year for saving two Hoosiers’ moment as they respond to calls and do throughout the entire law enforcement lives. He also previously served in the their job. That is why I supported the community and throughout our State. U.S. Air Force. bipartisan Bulletproof Vest Partner- Since I began serving in the U.S. Sen- Tragically, this year we have lost ship Grant Program Reauthorization ate in 2013, the Hoosier State has lost two Hoosier police officers in the line Act. It was signed into law in May of nine officers in the line of duty. I want of duty. Boone County deputy sheriff 2016. It helps law enforcement agencies to take a moment to pay tribute to Jacob Pickett was shot and killed in purchase bulletproof vests. Having these fallen heroes. March during a vehicle pursuit in Leb- those vests can prevent injuries for our In September of 2013, Indianapolis anon, IN. As the suspect fled on foot, law enforcement officers and can save Metropolitan Police Department offi- Deputy Pickett and Brick, his K–9 lives. cer Rod Bradway was shot and killed We experienced this firsthand in 2014, while responding to a domestic dispute partner, followed in pursuit. Deputy when IMPD officer Greg Milburn was call in a northwest Indianapolis apart- Pickett was shot as he rounded the cor- shot in the line of duty. He credits his ment complex. A veteran officer, he ner of a building. He served with the vest with his survival. In the past 3 had served with the Wayne Township Boone County Sheriff’s Office for 3 years, police departments across Indi- Fire Department for 10 years before years and previously with the Tipton ana have received a total of more than working for 5 years on the IMPD force. County Sheriff’s Office and the Marion $1 million to help purchase bulletproof Officer Bradway is credited with saving County Sheriff’s Office. the life of a domestic dispute victim Earlier this month, just a few weeks vests for officers so they can all go and her baby before losing his life pro- ago, Terra Haute police officer Rob home at the end of their shift every tecting them. Pitts was shot and killed while inves- day. In June 2014, Tipton County deputy tigating a homicide. As Officer Pitts Another essential role law enforce- sheriff Jacob Calvin was killed in a car and other detectives approached the ment officers play is working with our crash while responding to an accident. suspect’s apartment, the suspect community leaders, elected leaders, Deputy Calvin served his community opened fire, fatally injuring Officer and law enforcement agencies to tackle and our country in more ways than Pitts. Officer Pitts had served with the persistent crime and to improve neigh- one. He was with the department for department for 16 years and with the borhood safety. I, along with many of my colleagues, have long supported ro- 21⁄2 years and had previously served his Sullivan Police Department for 6 years country in Iraq in the U.S. Air Force prior to that. bust funding for the Byrne Memorial and volunteered at the Kempton Fire These nine brave officers embodied JAG Program. This supports State and Department as a firefighter and EMT. values that should make their loved local law enforcement agencies in their In July 2014, Indianapolis Metropoli- ones, their fellow officers, and every efforts to address the specific public tan Police Department officer Perry Hoosier incredibly proud. We remember safety and criminal justice challenges Renn was responding to reports of gun- their sacrifice and their courageous facing our communities. This program fire when he was shot and killed. Offi- service, and we are thinking of their also supports information sharing on cer Renn served more than two decades families, not only today, not only this terror and criminal threats, drug and in the force. He was a two-time recipi- week, but year round. human trafficking organizations, and ent of the IMPD’s Medal of Bravery As we pay our respects to those we sexual predators. Award, and he was awarded the Medal have lost, we also have a solemn duty Lastly, as officers go to work every of Honor and Purple Heart post- to support the family members of those day, they can encounter horrific scenes humously. Officer Renn was also a U.S. officers who never had the chance to and experience traumatic situations Army veteran. return home. We also must work to en- that are just impossible to leave behind Also, in July of 2014, Patrolman Jef- sure that our officers and law enforce- once the day is done. Last year, I au- frey Westerfield of the Gary Police De- ment agencies have the resources need- thored and introduced the bipartisan partment was found fatally shot while ed to do their jobs and keep our com- Law Enforcement Mental Health and on duty in his patrol car. He was killed munities safe. Over the last few years, Wellness Act with my friend and col- on his 47th birthday. Patrolman I have been honored to introduce and league from Indiana, Senator TODD Westerfield had served the Gary Police to get signed into law bipartisan legis- YOUNG. Our bill was signed into law by Department for 19 years and, prior to lation to help support law enforcement President Trump in January. It helps that, in the U.S. Army. agencies and officers and to help with law enforcement agencies enhance or

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G17MY6.066 S17MYPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE S2764 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 17, 2018 establish mental health services for of- The solution to the problems exhib- months ago. That bill was passed by ficers. It provides tools to help officers ited in other places across the coun- our committee on a vote of 14 to 1. I deal with mental health challenges and try—which included false waiting lists, was the one opponent. I say that for to combat the stigma associated with in which the VA had determined a list my colleagues today—some of whom addressing those issues. This legisla- that was not real but demonstrated have asked my view, some of whom I tion also includes funding that the De- that veterans who had no idea they had hope were interested in my view, and partment of Justice can use to initiate an appointment to see someone at the even those who may not care. I want peer-mentoring pilot program grants VA had an appointment, to camouflage them to know that the bill now in for local law enforcement agencies. the failures and the slowness of the De- front of the Senate—and the majority Our law enforcement officers deserve partment of Veterans Affairs—resulted leader just filed the proceedings for us our support. They deserve it to ensure in a unanimous decision by the Senate to have a cloture vote next week on they can do their job safely and effec- to create a program called Choice. this legislation—is legislation I sup- tively. I will continue to work on bi- Choice creates the opportunity for a port. It does do something more than partisan efforts to help our officers and veteran, under certain circumstances, just extend Choice. It creates opportu- their families. to access healthcare in their home nities for that program to work much In the meantime, this National Po- community at the veteran’s discretion. better. Most importantly to me was lice Week—this special week we have This program, in my view, has signifi- the issue of who decides whether or not here every year—let’s take a moment cant potential to alter the opportuni- a veteran has the option of choosing to pray for those fallen heroes, for ties that a veteran has to be cared for. community care. their families, and for their fellow offi- Those who served our country de- The legislation that we will consider cers. They own our hearts for all they serve the very best, and we want to next week allows for the Department of do for us. They protect our families, make certain that happens both inside Veterans Affairs—in a sense, the Sec- our children, and our communities, and the VA and with a program that allows retary of the Department of Veterans they put their lives on the line every veterans to choose healthcare outside Affairs—to remain the gatekeeper. The day for us, not knowing if they are the Department of Veterans Affairs. VA has the opportunity to make the going to come home safely or not. But The Veterans Choice Program has ex- decision about who gets to have com- still they go forward. Still they go out. pired since 2014. We have reauthorized munity care, but different than today, Still our officers who are our friends it in a number of instances. I think when the only criteria is 40 miles or 30 and who protect us keep us safe every three, perhaps four times. It needed days. We create access standards in day. funding, and we reauthorized the fund- this legislation that the VA must abide They earned and have always kept all ing. Choice was a limited program in by in determining whether or not a of our respect and of everyone in our which for the veteran to qualify to re- veteran can have care in the commu- communities. They have our love. They ceive Choice care in the community at nity, and that is a significant dif- have our devotion and our deepest ap- their discretion and at their option was ference. preciation for everything they do every determined by whether or not that vet- We had all kinds of challenges with day. eran lived within 40 miles of a VA facil- the 40 miles and 30 days. We changed May God bless all of these officers. ity or whether the VA could provide the definition of what a facility was in May God bless Indiana, and may God the services within 30 days of the time order to get the VA to allow individ- bless the United States of America. the veteran needed that care. uals to have access to care at home. I yield the floor. The committee here in the Senate People may recall that the VA wanted The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- has worked for a long time trying to to count the 40 miles as the crow flies. ator from Kansas. reauthorize the Veterans Choice Pro- In addition to other challenges that MCCAIN MISSION ACT gram. It has been my position, with the VA put in front of veterans, we Mr. MORAN. Madam President, Senator MCCAIN, that just to reauthor- have eliminated those and created a many of us this afternoon had the op- ize Choice would be a significant error standard by which the VA must abide. portunity to see a screening of the HBO on our part and that in the authoriza- So while the gatekeeper remains the documentary ‘‘For Whom the Bell tion process, we should make commu- Department of Veterans Affairs, it is Tolls,’’ a tribute to Senator MCCAIN. It nity care work better for veterans. not in the total discretion of the De- is clearly a tribute, but it is also the I judge whether or not the VA is pro- partment of Veterans Affairs. They story of his life and an expose of his viding the care and services that our must abide by criteria, and if the vet- sacrifice for his country. It is a moving veterans need by what you would call eran believes he or she is denied care in story of Senator MCCAIN’s life and an casework—what we do on behalf of our the community, that veteran has the inspiration to me and, I assume, to my constituents who have a challenge or a opportunity to appeal based upon a colleagues for the commitment that he problem with a Federal agency or de- number of standards, including best has made to always try to do right— partment. Our casework regarding vet- medical interest of the veteran. putting his country above self. erans who are attempting to access We are changing a program in which I have had the honor of working with care in the community has been expo- the VA made decisions that often de- Senator MCCAIN for the last several nential. nied veterans the access to care in years in regard to legislation trying to I checked the other day. At the mo- their community that veteran asked improve the circumstances that our ment, we have 80 cases for veterans in for, and we are saying: You now asked Nation’s veterans face as they access Kansas—not all related to this par- the VA for permission. The VA has to healthcare within the Department of ticular program but 80 veterans who make a decision to grant or deny that Veterans Affairs. contacted me and my staff and said: I permission, but they can’t do it solely Senator MCCAIN and I introduced leg- need your help. Since I have been a at the discretion of the Secretary of islation to accomplish a number of Senator, that number is 2,650 veterans Veterans Affairs. They must abide by things related to this, particularly the who have contacted me or my staff criteria. That is a significant improve- Veterans Choice Program. Choice was saying: I need your help. So when it ment. passed back about 2014, at a time in came time for the Senate Veterans’ Af- Secondly, if you feel like you have which the VA was in a crisis and a time fairs Committee to begin the legisla- received the wrong decision, you can in which the veterans they were cre- tive process of determining how to appeal that decision. ated to serve were harmed by decisions alter the program, how to reform it, Today—and we have plenty of exam- made at the Department of Veterans and, particularly, how to extend the ples of this in Kansas—when a veteran Affairs. The problems were highlighted program, I wanted to make certain is denied community care by the De- in Senator MCCAIN’s home city of that my input was based upon what partment of Veterans Affairs, their Phoenix at the Phoenix VA, in which a veterans were telling me about how the only appeal is to their Senator or their number of veterans may have died as a program did and didn’t work. Member of Congress, in which we then result of the inability to access Our committee passed a bill out of have a new case to once again try to healthcare in a timely fashion. the Veterans’ Affairs Committee work our way through the Department

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G17MY6.067 S17MYPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S2765 of Veterans Affairs: Why did you deny portant to veterans—traumatic brain from Kansas for his passion for our vet- this veteran his or her choice to have injury, amputation, things that may erans and for his hard work on legisla- community care? not ever be as available or as desirable tion that is really going to help in Ohio This bill is a significant improve- in the community. and around the country to ensure they ment. It satisfies the concerns I had; This legislation is supported by every have the care they deserve and also for my view that early on, we were mostly veterans service organization I know his mention of Senator MCCAIN, who is just trying to extend Choice as it was— of. We have come to the point in which a true national hero. He now has a doc- as it is, and now this replaces it with it is time for us to pass this legislation. umentary about him on HBO, as some really a circumstance in which vet- Memorial Day is approaching. The of us saw earlier today. It will soon be erans have rights, have standards the President has asked this legislation be available for everyone to see. It is very Department of Veterans Affairs must approved prior to Memorial Day. We powerful. comply with. think it is appropriate to honor those STOP ACT In addition to the issues of who can who served our country at this point in Madam President, we heard earlier access care, who is the gatekeeper, and May, where Memorial Day is around from one of my colleagues from Indi- determining the standards, this bill the corner, to provide the care they are ana who talked about the fact that this merges and modernizes all community asking for. is National Police Week. A number of care programs and puts them all in one The other aspect of why it is impor- us have come to the floor to talk about category at the Department of Vet- tant for us to move on the legislation our incredible men and women in uni- erans Affairs instead of multiple pro- now is that the funding for Choice and form back home who protect us every grams. It simplifies it. community care has diminished. I day through their dedication, their We have had too many instances in serve on the Appropriations Committee public service, and it is appropriate to which, if you didn’t access care under that funds the Department of Veterans commend them. one program, you might be able to Affairs, and it is necessary for us to get I will say, as I have talked to police apply for another. This changes the cir- the money in place. The VA is already officers from Ohio this week, one issue cumstances that so many of my vet- rationing care for those veterans who came up again and again that doesn’t erans have complained to me about, in use Choice today, and this legislation get the attention it deserves; that is, which they get an authorization from puts the necessary dollars in place for the influx of synthetic opioids, like the Department of Veterans Affairs, Choice to continue in its new reformed fentanyl, and the effect it is having on and they are allowed to see a physician and improved status. our law enforcement community, our in their home community, but then It would be a shame for us to miss first responders, in general, and, for when they need lab work or an x ray— this opportunity. It would be wrong for that matter, all of our citizens. What something that should be related to our veterans. It would diminish the they told me is, this is the issue that is that visit—they have to go back to the number of people who access care at creating so much crime in our commu- Department of Veterans Affairs to get the Department of Veterans Affairs nities. This is the issue that is filling additional consent. This is more in the and do so at a time in which the needs our courtrooms and our jails. One police officer I met with this line of necessary procedures that are great for those who have served our week is a corrections officer at a jail in should follow: one authorization that Nation. one of our urban areas in Ohio. I asked includes the things that are medically Again, referring to my colleague him to just give me an estimate. What necessary for that appointment with from Arizona, Senator MCCAIN, we percentage of the inmates in this jail the physician or that admission to a would honor him if we answer this call are there because of the drug crisis and hospital. It just makes sense that these to do our duty to see that our veterans specifically the opioid issue? other things would be necessary if that are cared for, that promises are kept. He thought for a minute, and he said: physician whom the VA referred you to I appreciate the response that was Probably 90 percent—90 percent. Some believes them to be necessary. It estab- given when the bill was suggested to be are there because of selling drugs, some lishes a framework for the VA to build named in honor of Senator MCCAIN. of them are there, though, because a high-performing healthcare network, Both the House chairman and the they have committed a crime while and it implements new coordination so House committee, along with Senator they were trying to get the money to the veteran and the VA work together ISAKSON, the chairman here, and Sen- be able to pay for their habit—so it is to determine what is in the best inter- ator TESTER, the ranking member, shoplifting; it is fraud; it is burglary. est of that veteran. have agreed to do that. This legislation This issue is now everywhere. It is something I have cared about a is now known as the McCain Mission The last year for which we have good lot. We required that in the original Act. Our colleague, for whom there are information would be 2016. We have a Choice Act; that the healthcare pro- so many reasons to pay honor and trib- lot of information nationally on that, vider be paid Medicare rates. Those of ute to, would receive another honor for and 2016 was the worst year on record us who come from rural States recog- his service to our Nation but of equal in terms of overdose deaths attrib- nize there are various rates under importance, his service to other vet- utable to these synthetic drugs coming Medicare, and for our smallest hos- erans. into our country. Guess what. Almost pitals, they are entitled to cost-based For so many reasons, it is time for us certainly, 2017 is worse. reimbursement. That is not happening to act, to pass the McCain Mission Act, As one example, the coroner for under the current legislation, the law and do so with the promptness that has Franklin County, OH—that is the Co- today. This legislation corrects the followed long deliberations to try to lumbus area in Ohio, our fastest grow- problem, keeping the circumstance get it right. ing city—recently released their 2017 more likely in which our hospitals and In my view, too often the U.S. Sen- overdose report for the county. Frank- doctors would be financially able to see ate, the Congress, politics, and govern- lin County had 520 overdose deaths in a veteran and provide that care. ment, in general, just put a bandaid on 2017. That is a 47-percent increase from This is not privatizing the VA. The to get by. This legislation is signifi- 2016. So 2016 was the worst year on VA serves a valuable and useful role. cantly different than doing something record; 2017, almost a 50-percent in- Many veterans choose to have care at to get by. It would improve the quality crease in overdose deaths. By the way, the Department of Veterans Affairs, at of life for those who serve our Nation. sadly, those overdose deaths are on their hospitals, and at their clinics. We should honor them, as we honor track again this year to reach a record. Again, it is the veterans’ choice where Senator MCCAIN, prior to Memorial Two-thirds of those overdose deaths he or she wants to go. Day, at the end of next week. in Columbus, OH, Franklin County, in- For those of us who come from rural I thank you for the opportunity to volve fentanyl, which is this synthetic places, the distances in which a vet- address the Senate. opioid that is overtaking our commu- eran must travel, in many instances, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- nities in Ohio. Think about that. Two- have eliminated the ability for that ator from Ohio. thirds of those overdose deaths last veteran to ever access care from the Mr. PORTMAN. Madam President, I year in Columbus, OH, were due to VA. The VA has programs that are im- want to first commend my colleague fentanyl.

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It is a clear example of where fentanyl, resulting in a 23-year-old’s wanted to look into how fentanyl is Congress ought to come together on a death. being shipped into the United States bipartisan basis and enact Federal poli- This drug and the opioid crisis knows and what can be done at the Federal cies to fix this flaw. no bounds. It is in every age group. It level to stop it. The investigation re- Shortly after the tragic events of 9/ is in every ZIP Code. It is everywhere. vealed just how easy it is to purchase 11—September 11, 2001—Congress did Unbelievably, this fentanyl drug—a fentanyl online and have it shipped to pass a law in this regard, and the law synthetic form of heroin, a synthetic the United States. It is so easy, in fact, did require all private carriers to ob- form of opioids—we are told by the ex- we found that most of the overseas pro- tain advance electronic data on all perts is coming into our country viders essentially guaranteed delivery international packages entering the through the U.S. mail system. This is if you use the U.S. mail system. United States and did require them to shocking to me, and it should be some- Through a simple Google search, our share that data with law enforcement. thing we can do something about. This staff found hundreds of websites, many The concern was not just contraband is a Federal agency, after all. affiliated with Chinese labs openly ad- or opioids; it was also explosives. They Unlike other drugs—let’s say heroin vertising fentanyl for sale. passed that legislation here in Con- or even crystal meth, which tend to We went undercover, using an inves- gress because they knew it was impor- come over land, mostly from Mexico— tigator from the Department of Home- tant to have law enforcement get that this drug primarily is coming through land Security to help us find some of information. the U.S. mail system from one country these websites. We found that in sev- With regard to the post office, they primarily—China. It is coming from eral cases—seven different cases—indi- made it optional. Congress required the laboratories in China, where some evil viduals who receive fentanyl through Postmaster General and the Secretary scientist is mixing this deadly brew some of these websites had died from of the Treasury to determine whether and then sending it through the U.S. an overdose shortly after receiving the post office should also collect such mail into our communities. It is being their fentanyl. We were able to find data. This was 17 years ago. That deter- shipped directly into your community that the sellers would tell you to ship mination was never made. They did not in small packages. These are the dead- the drugs through the Postal Service, follow the law. From one administra- liest drugs we have ever experienced, not a private carrier like FedEx or tion to the next, to the next, to the and they are being shipped directly DHL or UPS or any other private car- next, there was no determination, through a Federal agency. rier. As we have learned in our inves- which, of course, has resulted in no What is fentanyl? It is 50 times more tigation, this is because the Postal data requirements for the Postal Serv- powerful than heroin. It is inexpensive. Service, unlike these private carriers, ice. Again, that was in 2002. It is readily available now in many is not required to have what is called For about 14 years, the Postal Serv- communities. It is the new scourge, advanced electronic data as part of the ice sat by and did nothing on this issue, killing more people in my State of package. In other words, law enforce- knowing that this was a loophole, that Ohio last year than any other drug. We ment is not given information on these this was an opening in the law for traf- need to do all we can to stop more of packages. fickers and others to be able to send these poisons from entering our com- The data that is in this advance elec- things into our country. To me, that is munities. At the very least, if we can’t tronic information is the name and ad- unacceptable. stop it all, let’s raise the price because dress of the sender, the name and ad- In the last couple of years, after pres- the cost of this drug, being so inexpen- dress of the person who is receiving the sure from Congress and, frankly, our sive and it being so powerful, is one of package, and what the contents of the investigation that I talked about ear- the things that is driving these package are. How does this help? Well, lier and the hearings we held talking overdoses and these deaths. this gives law enforcement the ability about this issue in the Permanent Sub- It is not just overdoses. It is people to use big data to find out what region committee on Investigations, the Post- whose lives are getting off track, fami- it is coming from—again, if there is a al Service did actually start to do lies breaking apart, community dys- region in China that is sending a lot of what, in my view, they should have function, people leaving work. It is the this poison, they will know that; where done starting 16 years ago, but unfortu- babies who are being born with this it is going; if it is going to a particular nately what they are doing is not near- neonatal absence syndrome, so they post office box where they have reason ly enough. They have begun getting have to go through withdrawal as little to believe that it might be suspect, or some data on some international pack- babies whom you can hold in your two perhaps it is going to an abandoned ages, but the efforts are inadequate. hands. It is affecting our communities warehouse. One hundred percent of private car- in so many ways. The information about what is in the riers’ packages have to have it, and do, There is a new study out showing package obviously is very interesting and they provide it to law enforcement. that of the men who are out of the to Customs and Border Protection. The U.S. Postal Service last year workforce altogether—probably 81⁄2 They need this help. Why? Because began an effort to get more of this ad- million men—roughly half of them are they can’t otherwise identify sus- vance electronic data, but they re- taking pain medication on a daily picious packages. There are 900 million ceived it, based on testimony they pro- basis. When pushed, two-thirds say it is packages a year now coming into the vided to us, on only about 36 percent of prescriptions. What does that mean? United States through the mail sys- the international packages. This means This means it is affecting one of the tem—900 million packages. It is like that the United States received more big issues we are all hearing about finding a needle in a haystack. than 318 million packages last year back home, which is lack of a work- Yes, we need better detection equip- that had no screening on them, no in- force. Well, here you have millions of ment, and we have actually passed leg- formation for law enforcement to be Americans who are off track because of islation recently do to that. We have able to identify the package. this issue. So, yes, it is tragic and un- additional legislation to be able to hire We also found that the quality of the believable that over 60,000 Americans a more individuals to help detect wheth- data that was provided by the Postal year are dying from overdoses, but it is er these packages have opioids con- Service was inadequate in many cases even worse than that. That is the tip of tained within them. But this advance and therefore not helpful to law en- the iceberg, in a way. There are so information that you can have on the forcement. That is again based on tes- many other aspects of this that are af- package is so incredibly important, and timony before our committee. fecting the communities we represent it is the reason the traffickers are say- Even when the Postal Service con- in the Chamber. ing: Don’t send it through a private ducted a pilot program to screen for

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And until very want that package’’—again, using big Thirty-three of my Senate col- recently, just the last couple of years, data in figuring out what might be a leagues—20 Republicans, 12 Democrats, the Postal Service did nothing to pro- suspicious package—only 80 percent of and 1 Independent—have signed on as vide that crucial information. them were even delivered to law en- cosponsors of this legislation. The Pre- Unfortunately, the weaker alter- forcement out of the 36 percent that siding Officer today, who is from West native approved by the committee yes- had electronic data. So the other 20 Virginia—her State has been getting terday would eliminate the real, en- percent of those suspicious packages hit really hard like Ohio. She has a forceable, and immediate requirement were allowed to go into circulation, passion for this issue. She knows that that the Postal Service provide law en- into our communities, without having we need to do all we can do to stop this forcement with the information they any screening. poison from coming in. need to identify and stop the shipment Frankly, it has been a challenge to The legislation has the support of a of deadly synthetic drugs into our com- get the post office to address this prob- broad cross-section of this body. It has munities. lem on their own. We are talking about also been endorsed by President In particular, the STOP Act requires 900 million packages a year. And they Trump’s opioid commission. This is a that within 1 year, the Postal Service have funding problems. I get that. But, commission that he formed to look at secure advance electronic data on 100 folks, this is a crisis. It is a true epi- answers, and this is one of their spe- percent of packages here in the United demic. It is the No. 1 killer in my cific recommendations: The STOP States and transmit that data to law State. Act—pass it. enforcement, to Customs and Border It is time for Congress to act. People Just this week, the Secretary of Protection. The version reported out are dying every day because of these Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, yesterday gives the Postal Service 4 synthetic drugs. How many more of our reaffirmed her support for this meas- years—4 years. Remember the No. 1 people have to die before our own Post- ure. killer in my State and in many States. The House companion bill has 271 co- al Service takes the measures that we Last year, there was an increase from sponsors—more than half of the U.S. know can be taken to stop these poi- the year before, and this year looks House of Representatives. worse again. We can’t wait 4 years. We sons? By the way, asking every country for The STOP Act is a bipartisan bill I don’t have to. this kind of information, this advance The version they reported out also introduced with Senator AMY KLO- electronic data, is not just common requires only 95 percent of the pack- BUCHAR, a Democrat from Minnesota, sense, it is also reasonable. The United that will close this loophole and there- ages to have that data. States provides that data on nearly all In addition, this alternative to the fore help stop these deadly drugs from of our packages that go into China, as STOP Act that was reported out yes- entering our communities. Senator an example, so why shouldn’t China do terday actually gives the Federal Gov- KLOBUCHAR was on the floor earlier that for us? At least one country—Swe- ernment the authority to waive the re- this afternoon and wanted to speak at den—recently returned packages from quirements in the STOP Act that this time about the legislation. She China that did not comply with Swed- would get advance electronic data if it had to catch a plane to get back to her ish postal rules on providing this infor- is in the ‘‘national security interest of home State of Minnesota, but I appre- mation. So the Postal Service’s argu- the United States.’’ They can waive it ciate her partnership on this issue and ment that they have to accept and de- altogether. I am struggling to think of her promotion of our dealing with this liver packages from foreign posts under a time when knowing less about what issue here on the floor of the U.S. Sen- treaty obligations is simply not the is coming into our country is in our na- ate. case. If a country doesn’t play by our tional security interest. The STOP Act is very simple, and it rules, we can simply choose to return As the permanent subcommittee in- is common sense. It is going to hold their packages. By the way, threat- vestigation’s report from January the U.S. Postal Service to the same ening to do so is all we need to do be- makes clear, there are hundreds of mil- standard as these private mail carriers cause these countries then will comply. lions of packages coming into this that we talked about and require that We have the largest market in the country through the Postal Service they get advance electronic data not world. We are the biggest economy in every year with little or no screening on 36 percent but on 100 percent of the world. We just have to insist on it. at all. That is frightening. This loop- packages entering the United States— China is already starting to recognize hole is allowing drug traffickers to ex- and good data—and then present that the importance of providing this data ploit our own Federal Government, and to law enforcement. for access to U.S. markets. For exam- we can’t allow this status quo to con- We are not punishing the Postal ple, as of early this year, when we pub- tinue. Service or forcing them to jump lished our report from the Permanent The organization Americans for Se- through unnecessary hoops. We are Subcommittee on Investigations, we curing All Packages—ASAP—issued a simply saying that, given the crisis we had information that China had al- statement last week urging the Ways face, the U.S. Postal Service, a Federal ready provided electronic data on and Means Committee to ‘‘reject this agency, should require the same types roughly 50 percent of the packages weakened alternative, and pass the of advance electronic data from foreign headed to the United States. So this STOP Act, a bill with 271 bipartisan co- countries that private mail carriers do, notion that somehow China can’t do sponsors.’’ and we give the Postal Service a year it—of course they can. Just yesterday, Shatterproof—an- to do it. Yesterday, instead of marking up other addiction advocacy group fight- By the way, when I talked to mail this bipartisan STOP Act I talked ing against the opioid addiction issue— carriers about this issue, when I talked about, the STOP Act legislation, the issued a similar statement calling on to postal inspectors about this issue, House Ways and Means Committee con- Congress to pass the STOP Act, not the certainly when I talked to Customs and sidered a weaker alternative to our watered-down version. Border Protection individuals about bill. Apparently, they were hearing I want to say today on the floor that this issue, they all agreed. Who from some at the Postal Service who I very much appreciate the fact that wouldn’t? They have families too. They don’t want Congress to require them to Ways and Means Committee Chairman understand. This issue needs to be ad- get this electronic data within 1 year, KEVIN BRADY has acknowledged these dressed, and it needs to be addressed which we think is not just doable but concerns and has committed to work- urgently. reasonable. They don’t want Congress ing with us to resolve these differences The United States of America pro- to put in place penalties if they don’t during the legislative process. I know vides this advance electronic data on 90 get that data, and our legislation, yes, him. I know he is a passionate advo- percent of our packages that we send has penalties. cate of addressing this issue. He wants

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I talked to Mr. BISHOP the country who are increasingly fa- the office of the Foreign Relations today, and I know his passion to deal tally overdosing or being unknowingly Committee, room SD–423. with this issue as well. exposed to these deadly drugs. There being no objection, the mate- The coalition of support for the Of course, this is only one part of rial was ordered to be printed in the STOP Act, by the way, also includes combating the opioid epidemic. We un- RECORD, as follows: derstand that. We passed legislation the Fraternal Order of Police. I talked DEFENSE SECURITY about the fact that police officers un- here, which I coauthored, that in- COOPERATION AGENCY, derstand the dangers of this. By the creases treatment options, does more Arlington, VA. way, to give an example of how dan- in terms of prevention, provides longer Hon. BOB CORKER, gerous this is to them, it is not just the term recovery, and helps to provide our Chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations, overcrowding of our prison system and police officers and other first respond- U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. ers with the Narcan that is needed to DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Pursuant to the re- the courts and the crime that is being porting requirements of Section 36(b)(1) of committed, it is a personal danger to reverse the effects of overdoses. But, to my colleagues, this one is the Arms Export Control Act, as amended, them as law enforcement officers. we are forwarding herewith Transmittal No. In East Liverpool, OH, a police offi- common sense. Stopping more of these 17–37, concerning the Air Force’s proposed cer pulled over two men for a traffic deadly drugs from ever entering the Letter(s) of Offer and Acceptance to the Gov- violation, and he noticed there was a country in the first place and raising ernment of Bahrain for defense articles and powdery substance in the car. Being the price of these drugs will make a services estimated to cost $45 million. After alert, he put on his mask and his difference and will save lives. this letter is delivered to your office, we plan gloves and arrested those two gentle- Let’s pass this legislation. Let’s work to issue a news release to notify the public of this proposed sale. men because the powdery substance with the House to be sure it is legisla- tion that will be effective immediately Sincerely, was fentanyl. They had stupidly tried GREGORY M. KAUSNER to spread it around the car. He took to be able to stop the increasing danger (for Charles W. Hooper, Lieutenant them down to the station and booked these opioids are causing in our com- General, USA, Director). them. munities all around the country. Enclosures. After he booked them, he was talking I yield the floor. TRANSMITTAL NO. 17–37 The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. to his fellow officers, and he looked Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter of down on his shirt and noticed a few BLUNT). The majority leader. Offer Pursuant to Section 36(b)(1) of the white flecks. So, as anyone would do, UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENT—EXECUTIVE Arms Export Control Act, as amended CALENDAR he took his hand and flicked the pieces (i) Prospective Purchaser: Government of Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, as of something white off of his shoulder. Bahrain in executive session, I ask unanimous It was fentanyl. That exposure to his (ii) Total Estimated Value: consent that at a time to be deter- Major Defense Equipment * $38 million. fingers caused him to drop, uncon- mined by the majority leader, in con- Other $7 million. scious, on the floor. This is a big guy, sultation with the Democratic leader, Total $45 million. 6 feet 2 inches, over 200 pounds, and in the Senate proceed to executive session (iii) Description and Quantity or Quan- good shape. He overdosed and nearly tities of Articles or Services under Consider- for consideration of the following nom- died. ation for Purchase: As his police chief said, if we had not ination: Executive Calendar No. 593. I Major Defense Equipment (MDE): been there to apply Narcan—not once, ask consent that there be 4 hours of de- One thousand five hundred (1,500) MK–82 twice, or three times but five and six bate, equally divided in the usual form, (500lbs) General Purpose (GP) Bomb Bodies. and that following the use or yielding Six hundred (600) MK–83 (1,000lbs) GP Bomb times, having taken him to the emer- Bodies. gency room—if we hadn’t been there, back of time, the Senate vote on the nomination with no intervening action Six hundred (600) MK–84 (2,000lbs) GP Bomb he didn’t think he would have made it. Bodies. Think if he would have gone home to or debate; that if confirmed, the mo- Five hundred (500) BLU–109 (2,000lbs) Pene- hug his kid without brushing those tion to reconsider be considered made trator Warhead Bomb Bodies. flecks off his shoulder. and laid upon the table; that the Presi- Non-MDE includes: Also included are Our police officers are subject to this dent be immediately notified of the spares, and repair parts, support equipment, Senate’s action; that no further mo- personnel training and training equipment, all the time, as are other first respond- shipping and logistics services, publications ers. It is appropriate that police orga- tions be in order; and that any state- ments relating to the nomination be and technical documentation, U.S. Govern- nizations around the country are ment and contractor technical support serv- strongly in support of the STOP Act. printed in the RECORD. ices, containers, munitions components, test So are the National Association of The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without equipment, and other related elements of lo- State EMS Officials, the U.S. Chamber objection, it is so ordered. gistics and program support. of Commerce, and anti-opioid groups f (iv) Military Department: Air Force (X7–D– like Shatterproof, which I talked AAN). MORNING BUSINESS (v) Prior Related Cases, if any: None. about, but also groups like SAFE, or (vi) Sales Commission, Fee, etc., Paid, Of- Stop Addiction Fatality Epidemic, and fered, or Agreed to be Paid: None. other groups which have said: This is ARMS SALES NOTIFICATION (vii) Sensitivity of Technology Contained crazy; we have to stop this stuff from Mr. CORKER. Mr. President, section in the Defense Article or Defense Services coming into our communities and, 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act Proposed to be Sold: None. again, at a minimum, get the price up, requires that Congress receive prior no- (viii) Date Report Delivered to Congress: because part of the reason it is spread- tification of certain proposed arms May 17, 2018. * As defined in Section 47(6) of the Arms ing so much is that it is not just deadly sales as defined by that statute. Upon Export Control Act. and powerful, but it is inexpensive. such notification, the Congress has 30 POLICY JUSTIFICATION There is a strong bipartisan con- calendar days during which the sale Government of Bahrain—Munitions sensus that this bill, the Senate STOP may be reviewed. The provision stipu- Act, is absolutely needed to help com- lates that, in the Senate, the notifica- The Government of Bahrain has requested bat the wave of opioid addiction and three thousand two hundred (3,200) General tion of proposed sales shall be sent to Purpose (GP) and Penetrator Warhead bomb overdose deaths on the front end, by the chairman of the Senate Foreign bodies to include: one thousand five hundred keeping some of these more deadly Relations Committee. (1,500) MK–82 (500lbs) GP bomb bodies, six drugs from ever entering our commu- In keeping with the committee’s in- hundred (600) MK–83 (1,000lbs) GP bomb bod- nities in the first place. tention to see that relevant informa- ies, six hundred (600) MK–84 (2,000lbs) GP

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:33 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G17MY6.072 S17MYPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S2769 bomb bodies, and five hundred (500) BLU–109 would slash vital economic invest- Mrs. FISCHER. Mr. President, today (2,000lbs) Penetrator Warhead bomb bodies. ments in infrastructure, education, and I wish to honor the men and women Also included are spares and repair parts, scientific research. who keep our communities and our support equipment, personnel training and At the same time, this budget does country safe as we celebrate National training equipment, shipping and logistics not achieve even one penny of deficit Police Week. This week, we recognize services, publications and technical docu- mentation, U.S. Government and contractor reduction from reducing the tax cuts the sacrifices of those who have taken technical support services, containers, muni- that Republicans just provided to those a pledge to continually serve and pro- tions components, test equipment, and other at the top. I will not support a budget tect families in Nebraska and across related elements of logistics and program that is balanced on the backs of work- this Nation. Every year, thousands of support. The estimated total cost is $45 mil- ing families and the middle class. families, friends, and comrades of fall- lion. We need a budget that invests in our en officers gather in our Nation’s Cap- This proposed sale will enhance the foreign future, supports a basic standard of liv- ital to offer a solemn tribute to law en- policy and national security objectives of ing for all Americans, and safeguards forcement officers. the United States by helping to improve the our health and safety. This budget pro- Today I wish to pay special tribute to security of a major non-NATO ally which is posal fails to do so, which is why I an important security partner in the region. the men and women who protect my The purchase of these munitions will bolster voted against the motion to proceed to home State of Nebraska. These officers the Royal Bahraini Air Force’s ability to its consideration. risk their own safety for the safety of conduct and sustain air operations with its f others. In times of crisis, they run to- F–16 combat aircraft. Our mutual defense in- ward danger, not away from it. We are NATIONAL POLICE WEEK terests anchor our relationship and the forever indebted to them and so fortu- Royal Bahraini Air Force plays a significant Ms. WARREN. Mr. President, I would nate to have them. role in Bahrain’s defense. like to take the opportunity to honor I also would like to express a pro- The proposed sale will improve Bahrain’s the life and memory of Sergeant Sean found sense of gratitude for those who capability to meet current and future secu- Gannon of the Yarmouth Police De- have fallen in the line of duty. rity threats. Bahrain will use these muni- partment, who was killed in the line of In 2017, we lost one of our own offi- tions as a deterrent to regional threats, strengthen its homeland defense, and exe- duty on April 12, 2018. cers in Nebraska. Omaha Tribal Police cute counter-terrorism operations. The GP This week is National Police Week, a Sergeant Curtis Blackbird was respond- bomb bodies would also better equip Bahrain time to honor the brave law enforce- ing to a call when his car fatally to operate with U.S.-led and U.S.-supported ment officers who lost their lives in the struck construction equipment while coalition operations. Bahrain will have no line of duty. Last month, the Common- driving through dense fog in the area. difficulty absorbing these munitions into its wealth of Massachusetts suffered a ter- Sadly, traffic-related accidents are a armed forces. rible loss when Sergeant Sean Gannon leading cause of on-duty law enforce- The proposed sale of this equipment and was killed while serving an arrest war- ment deaths. Sergeant Blackbird support will not alter the basic military bal- rant in Barnstable. He was only 32 served the Tribal communities in ance in the region. years old. Macy, NE, for over 17 years as a law en- There is no prime contractor planned for A native of New Bedford, MA, Ser- this effort; the munitions will be provided by forcement officer and earlier as an the U.S. Government out of stock. There are geant Gannon graduated from Bishop EMT. His comrades described him as no offset agreements proposed in connection Stang High School in North Dartmouth someone special to the law enforce- with this potential sale. and then earned a bachelor’s degree in ment community and the Tribe’s own Implementation of this proposed sale will criminal justice from Westfield State ‘‘personal warrior.’’ not require the assignment of any additional University and a master’s in emer- This month will also mark the 3-year U.S. or contractor representatives to Bah- gency management from the Massa- anniversary of Officer Kerrie Orozco’s rain. chusetts Maritime Academy. death. On May 20, 2015, Officer Orozco There will be no adverse impact on U.S. de- After college, Sergeant Gannon was preparing to serve an arrest war- fense readiness as a result of this proposed jumped head first into public service, sale. rant as a member of the department’s first serving as a public safety officer metro area fugitive task force. When f and later becoming a police officer her team arrived, the suspect opened VOTE EXPLANATION with the Yarmouth Police Department, fire and 29-year-old Kerrie was hit. where he served for 8 years. Sergeant Tragically, she was on her last day of Mr. BOOKER. Mr. President, I was Gannon loved working with police dogs necessarily absent for the votes on S. duty before starting maternity leave to and was the first full-time K–9 nar- care for her newborn daughter, who Con. Res. 36, 5-year balanced budget. cotics officer at Yarmouth PD. His Had I been present, I would have voted had spent months in neonatal intensive loyal patrol dog, Nero, was seriously care. Kerrie’s legacy lives on through nay on S. Con. Res. 36, 5-year balanced injured in the incident that claimed budget. her husband, Hector, her daughter Sergeant Gannon’s life, but is expected Olivia and her two stepchildren. f to recover and return to the Gannon On National Police Week, we honor S. CON. RES. 36 family. fallen officers across our Nation who Sergeant Gannon had a huge heart share a similar story. Our police offi- Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. President, as and spent his free time volunteering cers and first responders are a constant a member of the Senate Budget Com- with Big Brothers, Big Sisters, trav- reminder of bravery and sacrifice in mittee, I am disappointed that Repub- eling, enjoying the outdoors, and work- the face of peril. As we remember lican leaders have not even begun the ing with his hands. them, we also pray for the families of process of debating a budget for the up- Thousands of mourners, including fallen officers who are faced with their coming year in our committee. The law enforcement officers from across own heroic burden. United States needs a budget that ad- the country, gathered to pay their re- I am proud to cosponsor the senior dresses our national debt, which is in- spects at Sergeant Gannon’s wake, a Senator from Iowa’s Senate resolution creasing significantly faster due to a testament to the high esteem with commemorating National Police Week. Republican tax plan that delivers huge which his community held him and to This bipartisan resolution acknowl- windfalls to millionaires, billionaires, the power of his sacrifice. Yarmouth edges the selfless acts of bravery un- and multinational corporations. Police Chief Frank Frederickson called dertaken by law enforcement officers Unfortunately, the budget proposal Sergeant Gannon the ‘‘Tom Brady of and recognizes the need to ensure our we considered today would take health our department’’ and posthumously law enforcement officers have the ade- coverage from tens of millions of promoted him to the rank of sergeant. quate equipment, training, and re- Americans because its massive spend- Our hearts are broken by the loss of sources required to safeguard our de- ing cuts would almost certainly mean Sergeant Gannon. mocracy. huge reductions in Medicare and Med- Today, we honor Sergeant Gannon’s Our men and women in blue serve icaid. This budget would also make it service, we honor his sacrifice, and with valor, dignity, and integrity. For harder for struggling families to afford most importantly, we honor the life he all of our officers who keep our com- food, housing, and childcare, and it led and the legacy he leaves behind. munities safe: Thank you. We are

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Stadelman. during National Police Week, I wish to their sacrifice and support the families After the news that Chris lost his recognize and honor the men and of those we have lost in the line of hard-fought, 4-year battle with colon women who serve as New Jersey’s po- duty. cancer on Friday, May 11, 2018, loved lice officers and law enforcement offi- f ones and friends from across West Vir- cials. We owe a great debt of gratitude ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS ginia joined in a chorus of sadness for to the professionals working in law en- the loss of such a remarkable person, forcement who risk their lives each and but also thankfulness for the inspiring every day for the safety of all New TRIBUTE TO DR. AROL life he lived. Jerseyans. These American heroes an- AUGSBURGER Chris dedicated his life to serving the swer the call when we need them the ∑ Ms. DUCKWORTH. Mr. President, I people of West Virginia as a journalist most, and we stand together as a grate- rise today to honor Dr. Arol and editor at the Charleston Daily ful nation in saying thank you. Augsburger who will be retiring from Mail, as the co-owner and operator of Established by a joint resolution of his position as the president of the Illi- the Parsons Advocate with his incred- Congress, National Police Week de- nois College of Optometry, ICO, on ible wife, Kelly, and as communica- votes special appreciation to those June 30, 2018. During his 16-year tenure tions director and chief of staff for members of law enforcement who have at the ICO, which is located on the Governor Earl Ray Tomblin. Chris said lost their lives in the line of duty for near southside of Chicago, the perform- these were his ‘‘dream jobs’’, and he the safety and protection of the people ance of the student body exceeded na- certainly made an enduring impact they serve. In a proclamation issued 56 tional averages. This achievement through each one of them. years ago, President John F. Kennedy showcases Dr. Augsburger’s positive Chris and Kelly called two places recognized the national importance of impact on the college. In addition, ICO honoring our law enforcement profes- home: Charleston and Thomas, WV. He doubled its investable assets, and its is a member of the Marshall University sionals by designating the 15th of May on-campus clinic was able to grow to as Peace Officers Memorial Day and Journalism Hall of Fame and was accommodate over 110,000 visits annu- named a Distinguished West Virginian the week in which that date falls as ally. This on-campus clinic, the Illinois National Police Week. by Governor Tomblin and an Honorary Eye Institute, is the largest safety net Mountaineer Brigadier by MG James Today I want to pay special homage provider of eye and vision care in Illi- to New Jersey’s fallen police officers. Hoyer of the West Virginia National nois, and it offers ICO students a Guard. These heroes made the ultimate sac- unique opportunity for robust clinical rifice in service to our State. Though He loved the news and seemed to al- training—something that is not avail- ways know the latest news well before they are no longer with us, we stand able at other institutions. proud and united knowing that they it broke. He loved debating politics and Prior to Dr. Augsburger’s appoint- policy. He loved baseball, especially continue to be commemorated by their ment at ICO in 2002, he served for 30 fellow New Jerseyans and by their fel- the Pittsburgh Pirates. He loved his years in a variety of leadership posi- dogs. Above all, he loved Kelly. low brothers and sisters in blue. Their tions in higher education. He served as When they ran the Parsons Advocate courage, spirit of service, and commit- the interim provost of the University together, Chris would often go to the ment has allowed the people of New of Alabama at Birmingham, UAB, dean scene of news and report back to Kelly Jersey to be safe and secure. For their and professor of the UAB School of Op- in the newsroom. For 18 years, they service and their sacrifice, we are eter- tometry, and professor of clinical op- were partners in every sense, and she nally grateful. tometry at the Ohio State University was his rock as he fought colon cancer Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. President, as College of Optometry. Dr. Augsburger with fearless resolve. we observe National Police Week, I rise has also served as president of Associa- today to recognize Sean Matthew tion of Schools and Colleges of Optom- During his 4-year battle, on most Suiter and Sander Benjamin Cohen, etry, the National Board of Examiners days, you wouldn’t have known Chris two Maryland law enforcement officers in Optometry and the Rotary Club of was sick. In the Governor’s office, he who lost their lives in the line of duty Chicago, Rotary 1, the world’s first Ro- was often the first to arrive in the in 2017. It is important that we give tary Club and as the immediate-past mornings and the last to leave. After thanks to all the men and women who chairman of the ROTARY/One Founda- the tragic flooding that took 23 lives in put themselves at risk every day to tion. Additionally, Dr. Augsburger West Virginia in 2016, Chris was tire- protect our communities. served as the 2014–2015 chairman of the less in finding ways to help West Vir- Sean Suiter was an 18-year veteran board of the Federation of Independent ginians recover, even leading the who was shot in west Baltimore while Illinois Colleges and Universities, on charge to establish a program that has investigating a triple homicide. Rel- the Near South Planning Board of Chi- helped people rebuild their homes. atives describe him as an anchor in his cago, and the Jackson Park Hospital It is because of all of this and so family, devoted to his wife and three Foundation Board. He was also on the much more that Chris has been sur- children who ‘‘. . . was focused on try- Special Medical Advisory Group of the rounded with a family of friends and ing to [. . .] raise them to be strong U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. supporters who proudly proclaim the and good citizens.’’ In addition to being named Optom- name Team Stadelman. Sander Cohen, who served as deputy etrist of the Year in three States, Dr. I have always been moved by Chris’s chief in the Maryland Office of the Augsburger was named National Doc- inspiring life, and my abiding thoughts State Fire Marshal was killed in De- tor of Optometry of the Year and a Dis- and prayers are with Kelly; his mom, cember while assisting a disabled mo- tinguished Service Award recipient by Nancy; his stepmom, Helen; his sib- torist. His friends and family describe the American Optometric Association. lings, Matt, Jonathan, Philip, and Ra- him as funny with an infectious smile In June of 2014, he was inducted into chel; and all of Team Stadelman. and as ‘‘an example of the good in peo- the National Optometry Hall of Fame. Last year, Chris’s father, Paul, lost ple.’’ I applaud Dr. Augsburger’s commend- his own battle with cancer. When re- As a member of the Appropriations able work as the president of ICO and flecting on his son’s illness, Paul Committee, I will continue to support in the field of optometry. Students, pa- wrote, ‘‘So much has been shared. So programs that provide our law enforce- tients, and Illinois constituents have much has been given. So much has ment officers with the funding and greatly benefited from his lifetime of been accomplished.’’ training they need to protect them- commitment to education and optom- And for that, West Virginia is so selves and our communities. etry.∑ much better.∑

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:48 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY6.048 S17MYPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S2771 TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM ‘‘PAT’’ excellence will leave a lasting legacy I offer my best wishes to Joy and I PATTON GETTY III with the countless lives he has look forward to learning of her contin- ∑ Mr. MANCHIN. Mr. President, today touched. Again, I congratulate Pat for ued success in the years ahead.∑ I wish to honor William Patton Getty his remarkable years of service, and I f am honored to wish good health and III for his decades of service to the peo- TRIBUTE TO ES SWIHART ple of my home State of West Virginia much happiness to him and his family ∑ and the surrounding region. in the days and years ahead.∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Pat has f am pleased to honor Es Swihart, the always showcased a passion for giving Sarasota County Teacher of the Year TRIBUTE TO KEILAN MCWHORTER back to the communities and the peo- from Riverview High School in Sara- ple of this special region, and my wife, ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I sota, FL. Gayle, and I are so very proud to call am pleased to recognize Keilan After Es was presented with the him a dear friend. He has been a part of McWhorter, the Franklin County Teacher of the Year award, she was the Claude Worthington Benedum Teacher of the Year from Franklin asked what inspires her. She stated it Foundation for more than 24 years, County School in Eastpoint, FL. was her fellow teachers that offer in- serving as president since 1998 and a Keilan grew up in a small agricul- spiration, through the long hours and trustee since 1994. The foundation tural community in Albany, KY. After their desire to teach lessons in new serves the people of West Virginia, graduating from Clinton County High ways, plus the creative veracity with southwestern Pennsylvania, and the School in 1987, he started college at which educators make space for stu- multistate economic region centered Gulf Coast Community College, later dents as they learn to navigate the on Pittsburgh. transferring to Florida State Univer- world and allow students to value their In addition to his role with the foun- sity, graduating in 1992. When at FSU, own voice serves as inspiration. dation, he serves on numerous boards he completed his teacher training re- Es notes the desire for students to and committees that range from efforts quirements while working on his plant come to class each day while shoul- in economic and community develop- physiology research. Shortly after, dering the weight of what they carry, ment, to policy research, to attracting Keilan moved to Rickards High School sometimes gracefully and sometimes and retaining diverse talent, to the in Tallahassee and completed his stu- with awkward honesty, inspires her the statewide economic development ini- dent teaching requirements. most. Their optimistic view of the tiative in West Virginia, called Vision Keilan began his first full-time world and wanting others to see them Shared. He was a founding member and teaching opportunity teaching biology for who they truly are serve as her mo- past chair of the Fund for the Advance- and chemistry at Shanks High School tivation as their teacher. ment of Minorities through Education, in Quincy. He also served as depart- As an English teacher, Es teaches her a past board member of the Boys and ment chair for 3 years and coached students to analyze everything, wheth- Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania, a baseball for the Shanks Tigers. er it be books or movies that are recent past member of the West Virginia Jobs Keilan then moved to Panama City or decades old. She knows her students Cabinet, and served on the advisory and began a job at Rutherford High are understanding and experiencing board for the West Virginia Teacher School, teaching higher level biology educational growth when they realize Quality Initiative. He also serves on for the International Baccalaureate books from the 1500s through 1600s can the implementation committee of the Program, where he later served as de- still be relevant today. Her colleagues Tri-State Shale Coalition, which is a partment chair. He taught within the note she opens up pathways to lan- collaborative effort by the Governors IB program for 16 years before coming guage with her content and is focused of West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsyl- to the Franklin County School, where on the learning process for all of her vania seeking to optimize downstream he has been a valued faculty member students. economic development pertaining to for nearly 4 years. I am thankful to learn of Es’s com- shale gas and especially modern manu- I extend my best wishes to Keilan for mitment to teaching. I extend my best facturing. Since 2006, he has been a his dedication to teaching students. I wishes to her on receiving this impor- leader of Power of 32, a 32–county, four- look forward to hearing of his contin- tant award and look forward to hearing State economic development project in ued success in his future endeavors.∑ of her continued success in her future the Pittsburgh region. f endeavors.∑ Prior to beginning his role as presi- TRIBUTE TO JOY PRESCOTT f dent of the foundation in 1999, Pat had 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE practiced law with Pittsburgh’s firm, ∑ Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I EMBASSY THEATRE Meyer, Unkovic, and Scott for nearly recognize Joy Prescott, the Glades 30 years. In addition to his work at the County Teacher of the Year from ∑ Mr. YOUNG. Mr. President, I wish to foundation, Pat has had an unparal- Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School in rise today to formally recognize the leled commitment to advancing edu- Okeechobee, FL. 90th anniversary of the Embassy The- cational opportunities for young people Joy employs a simple teaching phi- atre in Fort Wayne, IN. Since its and enhancing the quality of life in the losophy that creates a fun learning en- founding on May 14 1928, the Embassy region. Countless families have felt the vironment that is welcoming and, most has remained Indiana’s leading self- impact of his outstanding efforts and importantly, safe. In her classroom, sustaining historic theatre, welcoming leadership, and he has had a hand in her students know it is okay to make more than 130,000 patrons each year. preparing the future leaders of our re- mistakes. Originally built as a movie palace and gion to be well-prepared, inspired, and Joy indeed has a record of excellence vaudeville house, the theatre featured unafraid of creativity, no matter their as demonstrated in 2005 when her stu- regal entertainment with a complete circumstances. dents made the most writing gains in Page theatre pipe organ. At the height The people of the region Pat and I Florida and in 2006 when she was of its popularity, the Embassy fre- share have an exceptional can-do spir- named New Endeavor High School’s quently hosted decorated artists, in- it, a neighborly love that is unrelent- Teacher of the Year. cluding musician Tony Bennett and co- ing, and are grounded by the same core Joy is a lifelong resident of Okee- median Victor Borge. It wasn’t until principle: to help others be the best chobee County and spent the first 13 the evolution of television that the they can be. That is Pat’s legacy as a years of her teaching career giving theater’s popularity began to fade. public servant and as a leader, and back to the students in her hometown. In 1972, the Embassy was threatened there is no greater achievement than She has been with Pemayetv Emahakv to be demolished, but several Hoosiers to be in a position to give back to the Charter School for the past 4 years, in the Fort Wayne community formed communities you love. where she and her colleagues work to the Embassy Theatre Foundation to While he is retiring and everyone is help preserve the Seminole Tribe of preserve its historical significance. certain to miss his strong leadership, Florida’s cultures and traditions. She Now in its 90th year, the Embassy The- Pat’s dedication and commitment to currently teaches fourth-grade math. atre continues to feature national

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Such bilateral agree- between the United States of America torical sites.∑ ments provide for limited coordination and the Republic of Slovenia’’ and the f between the United States and foreign accompanying legally binding adminis- social security systems to eliminate trative arrangement, titled ‘‘Adminis- MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT dual social security coverage and tax- trative Arrangement between the Messages from the President of the ation and to help prevent the loss of United States of America and the Re- United States were communicated to benefit protection that can occur when public of Slovenia for the Implementa- the Senate by Ms. Cuccia, one of his workers divide their careers between tion of the Agreement on Social Secu- secretaries. two countries. rity between the United States of America and the Republic of Slovenia’’ f The Agreements contain all provi- sions mandated by section 233 of the (collectively the ‘‘Agreements’’). The EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED Social Security Act and, pursuant to Agreements were signed in Ljubljana, As in executive session the Presiding section 233(c)(4), other provisions which Slovenia, on January 17, 2017. Officer laid before the Senate messages I deem appropriate to carry out the The Agreements are similar in objec- from the President of the United purposes of section 233. tive and content to the social security totalization agreements already in States submitting sundry nominations I also transmit for the information of force with other leading economic which were referred to the appropriate the Congress a report required by sec- partners in Europe and elsewhere, in- committees. tion 233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act cluding Australia, Canada, Chile, (The messages received today are on the estimated number of individuals Japan, Norway, the Republic of Korea, printed at the end of the Senate who will be affected by the Agreements and Switzerland. Such bilateral agree- proceedings.) and the Agreements’ estimated cost ef- fect. Also included are a summary of ments provide for limited coordination f the main provisions of the Agreements between the United States and foreign PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGES and an annotated version of the Agree- social security systems to eliminate ments with descriptions of each article. dual social security coverage and tax- The Department of State and the So- ation and to help prevent the loss of SOCIAL SECURITY TOTALIZATION cial Security Administration con- benefit protection that can occur when AGREEMENT WITH ICELAND, TI- cluded that these Agreements are in workers divide their careers between TLED ‘‘AGREEMENT ON SOCIAL the national interest of the United two countries. The Agreements contain all provi- SECURITY BETWEEN THE States. sions mandated by section 233 of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA I commend to the Congress the Social Security Act and, pursuant to AND ICELAND’’ AND THE ACCOM- Agreement on Social Security between PANYING LEGALLY BINDING AD- section 233(c)(4), other provisions which the United States of America and Ice- I deem appropriate to carry out the MINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENT land and the Administrative Arrange- TITLED ‘‘ADMINISTRATIVE AR- purposes of section 233. ment between the Competent Authori- I also transmit for the information of RANGEMENT BETWEEN THE ties of the United States of America the Congress a report required by sec- COMPETENT AUTHORITIES OF and Iceland for the Implementation of tion 233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act THE UNITED STATES OF AMER- the Agreement on Social Security be- on the estimated number of individuals ICA AND ICELAND FOR THE IM- tween the United States of America who will be affected by the Agreements PLEMENTATION OF THE AGREE- and Iceland. and the Agreements’ estimated cost ef- MENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY BE- DONALD J. TRUMP. fect. Also included are a summary of TWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF THE WHITE HOUSE, May 17, 2018. the main provisions of the Agreements AMERICA AND ICELAND’’—PM 38 f and an annotated version of the Agree- The PRESIDING OFFICER laid be- ments with descriptions of each article. SOCIAL SECURITY TOTALIZATION fore the Senate the following message The Department of State and the So- AGREEMENT WITH SLOVENIA, TI- from the President of the United cial Security Administration con- TLED ‘‘AGREEMENT ON SOCIAL States, together with an accompanying cluded that these Agreements are in SECURITY BETWEEN THE report, which was referred to the Com- the national interest of the United UNITED STATES OF AMERICA mittee on Finance: States. AND THE REPUBLIC OF SLO- To the Congress of the United States: I commend to the Congress the VENIA’’ AND THE ACCOM- Agreement on Social Security between Pursuant to section 233(e)(1) of the PANYING LEGALLY BINDING AD- Social Security Act, as amended by the the United States of America and the MINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENT Republic of Slovenia and the Adminis- Social Security Amendments of 1977 TITLED ‘‘ADMINISTRATIVE AR- (Public Law 95–216, 42 U.S.C. 433(e)(1)), trative Arrangement between the RANGEMENT BETWEEN THE United States of America and the Re- I transmit herewith a social security UNITED STATES OF AMERICA totalization agreement with Iceland, public of Slovenia for the Implementa- AND THE REPUBLIC OF SLO- tion of the Agreement on Social Secu- titled ‘‘Agreement on Social Security VENIA FOR THE IMPLEMENTA- between the United States of America rity between the United States of TION OF THE AGREEMENT ON America and the Republic of Slovenia. and Iceland’’ and the accompanying le- SOCIAL SECURITY BETWEEN THE gally binding administrative arrange- DONALD J. TRUMP. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THE WHITE HOUSE, May 17, 2018. ment, titled ‘‘Administrative Arrange- AND THE REPUBLIC SLO- f ment between the Competent Authori- VENIA’’—PM 39 ties of the United States of America MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE and Iceland for the Implementation of The PRESIDING OFFICER laid be- fore the Senate the following message At 9:32 a.m., a message from the the Agreement on Social Security be- House of Representatives, delivered by tween the United States of America from the President of the United States, together with an accompanying Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, an- and Iceland’’ (collectively the ‘‘Agree- nounced that the House has passed the ments’’). The Agreements were signed report, which was referred to the Com- mittee on Finance: following bill, without amendment: at Reykjavik, Iceland, on September S. 35. An act to transfer administrative ju- 27, 2016. To the Congress of the United States: risdiction over certain Bureau of Land Man- The Agreements are similar in objec- Pursuant to section 233(e)(1) of the agement land from the Secretary of the Inte- tive and content to the social security Social Security Act, as amended by the rior to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for

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A bill to amend the Congressional HELLER, and Mr. RUBIO): Accountability Act of 1995 to reform the pro- following bill, with an amendment, in S. 2884. A bill to require the Secretary of cedures provided under such Act for the ini- which it requests the concurrence of Veterans Affairs to develop a standard letter tiation, investigation, and resolution of the Senate: format to be provided to individuals who are claims alleging that employing offices of the indebted to the United States by virtue of S. 2372. An act to amend title 38, United legislative branch have violated the rights their participation in benefits programs ad- States Code, to provide outer burial recep- and protections provided to their employees ministered by the Secretary, to provide no- tacles for remains buried in National Parks, under such Act, including protections tice of debt by electronic means to such indi- and for other purposes. against sexual harassment and discrimina- viduals when so elected, and for other pur- The message further announced that tion, and for other purposes; read the first poses; to the Committee on Veterans’ Af- time . the House has passed the following bill, fairs. By Mr. HATCH (for himself and Mr. in which it requests the concurrence of By Ms. SMITH: RUBIO): the Senate: S. 2885. A bill to amend the Securities Ex- S. 2873. A bill to support businesses in change Act of 1934 to require additional dis- H.R. 5698. An act to amend title 18, United Puerto Rico, extend child tax credits for closure for pharmaceutical companies; to the States Code, to punish criminal offenses tar- families in Puerto Rico, and for other pur- Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban geting law enforcement officers, and for poses; to the Committee on Finance. Affairs. other purposes. By Ms. SMITH: The message also announced that the S. 2874. A bill to amend the Food Security f House has agreed to the following con- Act of 1985 with respect to land stewardship, current resolution, in which it requests and for other purposes; to the Committee on SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND the concurrence of the Senate: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. SENATE RESOLUTIONS By Mr. CASSIDY (for himself, Mr. NEL- H. Con. Res. 121. Concurrent resolution di- The following concurrent resolutions SON, and Mr. CARDIN): recting the Secretary of the Senate to make S. 2875. A bill to amend title XVIII of the and Senate resolutions were read, and a correction in the enrollment of the bill S. Social Security Act to provide for Medicare referred (or acted upon), as indicated: 2372. coverage of certain services furnished by By Mr. COTTON: f opioid treatment programs, and for other S. Res. 515. A resolution honoring the 70th anniversary of the reactivation in 1948 of the MEASURES REFERRED purposes; to the Committee on Finance. By Mr. BENNET (for himself and Mr. 3d Infantry Regiment of the United States The following bill was read the first GARDNER): Army; considered and agreed to. and the second times by unanimous S. 2876. A bill to amend the National Trails By Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and consent, and referred as indicated: System Act to provide for the study of the Mr. THUNE): Pike National Historic Trail; to the Com- S. Res. 516. A resolution designating the H.R. 5698. An act to amend title 18, United mittee on Energy and Natural Resources. week of May 1 through May 7 , 2018, as ‘‘Na- States Code, to punish criminal offenses tar- By Mr. LEE: tional Physical Education and Sport Week’’; geting law enforcement officers, and for S. 2877. A bill to amend the Wilderness Act considered and agreed to. other purposes; to the Committee on the Ju- to allow local Federal officials to determine f diciary. the manner in which nonmotorized uses may f be permitted in wilderness areas, and for ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. S. 266 The following bill was read the first By Mr. GRAHAM (for himself, Mr. At the request of Mr. HATCH, the time: WHITEHOUSE, and Mr. COONS): name of the Senator from South Caro- S. 2872. A bill to amend the Congressional S. 2878. A bill to improve the tracking of lina (Mr. GRAHAM) was added as a co- Accountability Act of 1995 to reform the pro- data on, and benefits paid to, public safety sponsor of S. 266, a bill to award the officers who are killed or disabled in the line cedures provided under such Act for the ini- Congressional Gold Medal to Anwar tiation, investigation, and resolution of of duty; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mrs. MCCASKILL: Sadat in recognition of his heroic claims alleging that employing offices of the achievements and courageous contribu- legislative branch have violated the rights S. 2879. A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime and protections provided to their employees Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to pro- tions to peace in the Middle East. under such Act, including protections mote behavioral health crisis response train- S. 428 ing among law enforcement officers; to the against sexual harassment and discrimina- At the request of Mr. GRASSLEY, the tion, and for other purposes. Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. NELSON (for himself, Mr. name of the Senator from Maine (Mr. f BLUMENTHAL, Ms. WARREN, Mr. MAR- KING) was added as a cosponsor of S. EXECUTIVE REPORT OF KEY, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, and Ms. HAR- 428, a bill to amend titles XIX and XXI COMMITTEE RIS): of the Social Security Act to authorize S. 2880. A bill to establish a pilot program States to provide coordinated care to The following executive report of a for long-term rental assistance for families children with complex medical condi- nomination was submitted: affected by major disasters in 2017; to the tions through enhanced pediatric By Ms. MURKOWSKI for the Committee on Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- health homes, and for other purposes. Energy and Natural Resources. ernmental Affairs. S. 479 *Aimee Kathryn Jorjani, of Wisconsin, to By Mrs. FEINSTEIN: be Chairman of the Advisory Council on His- S. 2881. A bill to direct the Secretary of At the request of Mr. BROWN, the toric Preservation for a term expiring Janu- Veterans Affairs to seek to enter into an name of the Senator from Alabama ary 19, 2021. agreement with the city of Vallejo, Cali- (Mr. JONES) was added as a cosponsor fornia, for the transfer of Mare Island Naval *Nomination was reported with rec- of S. 479, a bill to amend title XVIII of Cemetery in Vallejo, California, and for the Social Security Act to waive coin- ommendation that it be confirmed sub- other purposes; to the Committee on Vet- ject to the nominee’s commitment to erans’ Affairs. surance under Medicare for colorectal respond to requests to appear and tes- By Ms. CORTEZ MASTO: cancer screening tests, regardless of tify before any duly constituted com- S. 2882. A bill to require a report on the whether therapeutic intervention is re- mittee of the Senate. United States strategy in Syria, and for quired during the screening. other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign S. 540 f Relations. At the request of Mr. THUNE, the By Ms. WARREN (for herself and Mrs. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND name of the Senator from Mississippi JOINT RESOLUTIONS ERNST): S. 2883. A bill to require the Secretary of (Mrs. HYDE-SMITH) was added as a co- The following bills and joint resolu- Defense to submit a plan to improve research sponsor of S. 540, a bill to limit the au- tions were introduced, read the first and development on therapies for traumatic thority of States to tax certain income

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New Hampshire (Mrs. SHAHEEN), the name of the Senator from Connecticut S. 1328 Senator from New Jersey (Mr. BOOKER), (Mr. BLUMENTHAL) was added as a co- At the request of Mr. KAINE, the the Senator from Florida (Mr. NELSON), sponsor of S. 783, a bill to amend the name of the Senator from Colorado the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Public Health Service Act to distribute (Mr. BENNET) was added as a cosponsor MANCHIN), the Senator from New York maternity care health professionals to of S. 1328, a bill to extend the protec- (Mr. SCHUMER), the Senator from Mas- health professional shortage areas tions of the Fair Housing Act to per- sachusetts (Mr. MARKEY) and the Sen- identified as in need of maternity care sons suffering discrimination on the ator from Hawaii (Mr. SCHATZ) were health services. basis of sexual orientation or gender added as cosponsors of S. 2101, a bill to S. 808 identity, and for other purposes. award a Congressional Gold Medal, col- At the request of Ms. KLOBUCHAR, the S. 1333 lectively, to the crew of the USS Indi- name of the Senator from Massachu- At the request of Mr. TESTER, the anapolis, in recognition of their perse- setts (Ms. WARREN) was added as a co- name of the Senator from Montana verance, bravery, and service to the sponsor of S. 808, a bill to provide pro- (Mr. DAINES) was added as a cosponsor United States. tections for certain sports medicine of S. 1333, a bill to provide for rental S. 2208 professionals who provide certain med- assistance for homeless or at-risk In- At the request of Mr. MARKEY, the ical services in a secondary State. dian veterans. name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. NELSON) was added as a cosponsor of S. S. 966 S. 1524 ETERS 2208, a bill to provide for the issuance At the request of Mr. P , the At the request of Mr. BOOKER, the of an Alzheimer’s Disease Research name of the Senator from Michigan name of the Senator from New York TABENOW Semipostal Stamp. (Ms. S ) was added as a cospon- (Mrs. GILLIBRAND) was added as a co- sor of S. 966, a bill to establish a pro- sponsor of S. 1524, a bill to improve the S. 2272 gram to accurately document vehicles treatment of Federal prisoners who are At the request of Ms. HARRIS, the that were significant in the history of primary caretaker parents, and for name of the Senator from New Hamp- the United States, and for other pur- other purposes. shire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) was added as a co- poses. sponsor of S. 2272, a bill to amend the S. 1688 S. 980 Revised Statutes to grant State attor- At the request of Ms. KLOBUCHAR, the At the request of Mrs. CAPITO, the neys general the ability to issue sub- name of the Senator from Minnesota name of the Senator from Alabama poenas to investigate suspected viola- (Ms. SMITH) was added as a cosponsor (Mr. JONES) was added as a cosponsor tions of State laws that are applicable of S. 1688, a bill to amend title XVIII of of S. 980, a bill to amend title XVIII of to national banks. the Social Security Act to allow the the Social Security Act to provide for S. 2317 Secretary of Health and Human Serv- payments for certain rural health clin- At the request of Mr. MARKEY, the ices to negotiate fair prescription drug ic and Federally qualified health cen- name of the Senator from New Hamp- prices under part D of the Medicare ter services furnished to hospice pa- shire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) was added as a co- program. tients under the Medicare program. sponsor of S. 2317, a bill to amend the S. 1879 S. 1072 Controlled Substances Act to provide ARRASSO At the request of Mr. BURR, the name At the request of Mr. B , the for additional flexibility with respect of the Senator from Delaware (Mr. name of the Senator from Alabama to medication-assisted treatment for ONES COONS) was added as a cosponsor of S. (Mr. J ) was added as a cosponsor opioid use disorders, and for other pur- 1072, a bill to amend title 38, United of S. 1879, a bill to amend title XVIII of poses. the Social Security Act to provide for States Code, to improve the provision S. 2361 the coverage of marriage and family of services for homeless veterans, and At the request of Ms. DUCKWORTH, for other purposes. therapist services and mental health the name of the Senator from Michigan counselor services under part B of the S. 1084 (Mr. PETERS) was added as a cosponsor Medicare program, and for other pur- At the request of Mr. TOOMEY, the of S. 2361, a bill to amend the Federal name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. poses. Home Loan Bank Act to allow a cap- ROBERTS) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2074 tive insurance company that was a S. 1084, a bill to amend title 18, United At the request of Mr. HOEVEN, the member of a Federal Home Loan Bank States Code, to require that the Direc- name of the Senator from North Da- before January 19, 2016, to continue or tor of the Bureau of Prisons ensure kota (Ms. HEITKAMP) was added as a co- restore the membership of the captive that each chief executive officer of a sponsor of S. 2074, a bill to establish a insurance company in the Federal Federal penal or correctional institu- procedure for the conveyance of certain Home Loan Bank, and for other pur- tion provides a secure storage area lo- Federal property around the James- poses. cated outside of the secure perimeter town Reservoir in the State of North S. 2416 of the Federal penal or correctional in- Dakota, and for other purposes. At the request of Mr. WICKER, the stitution for firearms carried by cer- S. 2076 names of the Senator from New Hamp- tain employees of the Bureau of Pris- At the request of Ms. COLLINS, the shire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) and the Senator ons, and for other purposes. name of the Senator from North Caro- from New Hampshire (Ms. HASSAN) S. 1086 lina (Mr. TILLIS) was added as a co- were added as cosponsors of S. 2416, a At the request of Mr. HATCH, the sponsor of S. 2076, a bill to amend the bill to amend titles 5, 10, and 37, United name of the Senator from New Hamp- Public Health Service Act to authorize States Code, to ensure that an order to shire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) was added as a co- the expansion of activities related to serve on active duty under section sponsor of S. 1086, a bill to amend title Alzheimer’s disease, cognitive decline, 12304b of title 10, United States Code, is 10, United States Code, to remove the and brain health under the Alzheimer’s treated the same as other orders to prohibition on eligibility for TRICARE Disease and Healthy Aging Program, serve on active duty for determining Reserve Select of members of the re- and for other purposes. the eligibility of members of the uni- serve components of the Armed Forces At the request of Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, formed services for certain benefits. who are eligible to enroll in a health the name of the Senator from New S. 2492 benefits plan under chapter 89 of title Hampshire (Ms. HASSAN) was added as At the request of Mr. TOOMEY, the 5, United States Code. a cosponsor of S. 2076, supra. names of the Senator from Georgia S. 1278 S. 2101 (Mr. PERDUE) and the Senator from At the request of Mr. CARPER, the At the request of Mr. DONNELLY, the Delaware (Mr. CARPER) were added as name of the Senator from New Mexico names of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. cosponsors of S. 2492, a bill to provide

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SENATE RESOLUTION 515—HON- to Congress on prosecutions secured 2823, a bill to modernize copyright law, ORING THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY against prohibited persons who at- and for other purposes. OF THE REACTIVATION IN 1948 tempt to acquire a firearm. S. 2841 OF THE 3D INFANTRY REGIMENT S. 2497 At the request of Ms. WARREN, the OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY At the request of Mr. RUBIO, the name of the Senator from Delaware name of the Senator from Colorado Mr. COTTON submitted the following (Mr. CARPER) was added as a cosponsor resolution; which was considered and (Mr. BENNET) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2841, a bill to require policies and agreed to: of S. 2497, a bill to amend the Foreign programs to research, prevent, and ad- Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms dress the harmful consequences of gam- S. RES. 515 Export Control Act to make improve- bling disorder among members of the Whereas, the 3d Infantry Regiment of the ments to certain defense and security Armed Forces and their dependents, United States Army (commonly known as assistance provisions and to authorize the ‘‘Old Guard’’) (referred to in this pre- and for other purposes. amble as the ‘‘3d Infantry Regiment’’)— the appropriations of funds to Israel, S. RES. 154 (1) is the oldest active-duty infantry unit and for other purposes. At the request of Mr. JOHNSON, the of the United States Army; and S. 2509 name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. (2) has served the United States since 1784; At the request of Mr. ALEXANDER, the CRAPO) was added as a cosponsor of S. Whereas the 3d Infantry Regiment— name of the Senator from Missouri Res. 154, a resolution promoting aware- (1) is the escort to the President and offi- cial ceremonial unit of the United States (Mr. BLUNT) was added as a cosponsor ness of motorcycle profiling and en- Army; and of S. 2509, a bill to establish the Na- couraging collaboration and commu- (2) provides security for Washington, Dis- tional Park Restoration Fund, and for nication with the motorcycle commu- trict of Columbia, in times of national emer- other purposes. nity and law enforcement officials to gency and civil disturbance; S. 2597 prevent instances of profiling. Whereas, in 1847, following the valorous At the request of Mr. CASEY, the S. RES. 346 performance of the 3d Infantry Regiment in name of the Senator from Minnesota the Mexican War, General Winfield Scott At the request of Ms. HEITKAMP, the gave the unit the moniker of the ‘‘Old (Ms. SMITH) was added as a cosponsor names of the Senator from Washington Guard’’ during a victory parade in Mexico of S. 2597, a bill to amend the Public (Mrs. MURRAY) and the Senator from City; Health Service Act to reauthorize the California (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) were added Whereas the 3d Infantry Regiment has a program of payments to children’s hos- as cosponsors of S. Res. 346, a resolu- long history of service, which spans from the pitals that operate graduate medical tion recognizing the importance and ef- Battle of Fallen Timbers to World War II and education programs, and for other pur- fectiveness of trauma-informed care. the Global War on Terrorism; poses. Whereas, in its capacity as the official cer- S. RES. 460 emonial unit of the United States Army, the S. 2633 At the request of Ms. BALDWIN, the 3d Infantry Regiment is responsible for con- At the request of Ms. HARRIS, the name of the Senator from California ducting military ceremonies at the White name of the Senator from New Mexico (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) was added as a co- House, the Pentagon, and national memo- (Mr. UDALL) was added as a cosponsor sponsor of S. Res. 460, a resolution con- rials, as well as elsewhere in the capital of of S. 2633, a bill to amend title 18, demning Boko Haram and calling on the United States; United States Code, with respect to the Governments of the United States Whereas a battalion of the 3d Infantry civil forfeitures relating to certain Regiment is stationed at Joint Base Lewis- of America and Nigeria to swiftly im- McChord in Tacoma, Washington, and has seized animals, and for other purposes. plement measures to defeat the ter- been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan mul- S. 2652 rorist organization. tiple times during the Global War on Ter- At the request of Mr. CASSIDY, the S. RES. 502 rorism; and names of the Senator from Iowa (Mrs. At the request of Mr. HATCH, the Whereas soldiers of 3d Infantry Regiment— ERNST), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. (1) maintain a 24-hour vigil at the Tomb of the Unknowns; PERDUE), the Senator from Wyoming ISAKSON) was added as a cosponsor of S. (2) provide military funeral escorts at Ar- (Mr. BARRASSO), the Senator from Mon- Res. 502, a resolution supporting robust lington National Cemetery; tana (Mr. DAINES) and the Senator relations with the State of Israel bilat- (3) participate in parades at Fort Myer and from North Dakota (Mr. HOEVEN) were erally and in multilateral fora upon Fort Lesley J. McNair; and added as cosponsors of S. 2652, a bill to seventy years of statehood, and for (4) train and are deployed for missions of award a Congressional Gold Medal to other purposes. the United States Army around the world: Now, therefore, be it Stephen Michael Gleason. S. RES. 506 Resolved, That the Senate honors the 70th S. 2667 At the request of Ms. COLLINS, the anniversary of the reactivation in 1948 of the At the request of Mr. MCCONNELL, name of the Senator from South Caro- 3d Infantry Regiment of the United States. the names of the Senator from Wis- lina (Mr. SCOTT) was added as a cospon- f consin (Mr. JOHNSON) and the Senator sor of S. Res. 506, a resolution sup- from Connecticut (Mr. MURPHY) were porting the designation of May 15, 2018, SENATE RESOLUTION 516—DESIG- added as cosponsors of S. 2667, a bill to as ‘‘National Senior Fraud Awareness NATING THE WEEK OF MAY 1 amend the Agricultural Marketing Act Day’’ to raise awareness about the in- THROUGH MAY 7, 2018, AS ‘‘NA- of 1946 to provide for State and Tribal creasing number of fraudulent schemes TIONAL PHYSICAL EDUCATION regulation of hemp production, and for targeted at older people of the United AND SPORT WEEK’’ other purposes. States, to encourage the implementa- Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Mr. S. 2801 tion of policies to prevent these scams THUNE) submitted the following resolu- At the request of Ms. WARREN, the from happening, and to improve protec- tion; which was considered and agreed name of the Senator from Wisconsin tions from these scams for seniors. to: (Ms. BALDWIN) was added as a cospon- S. RES. 508 S. RES. 516 sor of S. 2801, a bill to amend title 10, At the request of Mr. MARKEY, the Whereas according to the President’s United States Code, to clarify the ef- name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition, over- fective date of the promotion of com- BROWN) was added as a cosponsor of S. weight adolescents have a 70 percent chance

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Mr. MCCONNELL proposed RESOURCES and Human Services recommend that chil- an amendment to amendment SA 2246 dren and adolescents engage in at least 60 The Committee on Energy and Nat- proposed by Mr. MCCONNELL to the bill ural Resources is authorized to meet minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical S. 2372, to amend title 38, United States activity each day; during the session of the Senate on Code, to provide outer burial recep- Whereas according to the Centers for Dis- Thursday, May 17, 2018, at 10 a.m. to ease Control and Prevention— tacles for remains buried in National conduct a hearing. (1) only 27 percent of high school students Parks, and for other purposes; as fol- COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC engage in 60 minutes a day of moderate-to- lows: WORKS vigorous physical activity; and Strike ‘‘1 day’’ and insert ‘‘2 days’’ (2) 14 percent of high school students do The Committee on Environment and not engage in 60 or more minutes of any kind Public Works is authorized to meet SA 2248. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed of physical activity; during the session of the Senate on an amendment to the bill S. 2372, to Whereas the people of the United States Thursday, May 17, 2018, at 10:15 a.m. to amend title 38, United States Code, to can work together to provide a supportive conduct a hearing. and active learning environment to prepare provide outer burial receptacles for re- COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY children and adolescents to lead healthy and mains buried in National Parks, and The Committee on the Judiciary is physically active lives; and for other purposes; as follows: Whereas Congress strongly supports efforts authorized to meet during the session At the end add the following. of the Senate on Wednesday, May 16, to increase physical activity among youth ‘‘This Act shall take effect 3 days after the and increase participation of youth in sports: date of enactment.’’ 2018, at 10 a.m. to conduct a hearing on Now, therefore, be it pending legislation and the following Resolved, That the Senate— Mr. MCCONNELL proposed nominations: Andrew S. Oldham, of (1) designates the week of May 1 through SA 2249. an amendment to amendment SA 2248 Texas, to be United States Circuit May 7, 2018, as ‘‘National Physical Education Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Alan D. and Sport Week’’; proposed by Mr. MCCONNELL to the bill (2) recognizes the central role of physical S. 2372, to amend title 38, United States Albright, to be United States District education and sports in creating a healthy Code, to provide outer burial recep- Judge for the Western District of lifestyle for children and adolescents; and tacles for remains buried in National Texas, Thomas S. Kleeh, to be United (3) encourages school districts— Parks, and for other purposes; as fol- States District Judge for the Northern (A) to implement physical education pro- lows: District of West Virginia, Peter J. grams and classes; Strike ‘‘3 days’’ and insert ‘‘4 days’’ Phipps, to be United States District (B) to provide professional development to Judge for the Western District of Penn- educators relating to physical health and sylvania, Michael J. Truncale, to be wellness; SA 2250. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed (C) to work with community partners to an amendment to amendment SA 2249 United States District Judge for the provide opportunities to children and adoles- proposed by Mr. MCCONNELL to the Eastern District of Texas, Wendy Vit- cents for physical activities before and after amendment SA 2248 proposed by Mr. ter, to be United States District Judge school, and during the summer months; and MCCONNELL to the bill S. 2372, to for the Eastern District of Louisiana, (D) to promote district-wide mental and amend title 38, United States Code, to and Erica H. MacDonald, to be United physical health and wellness. provide outer burial receptacles for re- States Attorney for the District of f mains buried in National Parks, and Minnesota, Department of Justice. AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND for other purposes; as follows: SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE PROPOSED Strike ‘‘4’’ and insert ‘‘5’’ The Select Committee on Intel- ligence is authorized to meet during SA 2246. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed an amendment to the bill S. 2372, to amend title SA 2251. Mrs. CAPITO submitted an the session of the Senate on Thursday, 38, United States Code, to provide outer bur- amendment intended to be proposed by May 17, 2018, at 2:00 p.m. to conduct a ial receptacles for remains buried in Na- her to the bill S. 2842, to prohibit the closed hearing. tional Parks, and for other purposes. marketing of bogus opioid treatment JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE ON SOLVENCY AND SA 2247. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed an programs or products; which was re- MULTI-EMPLOYER PENSION PLANS amendment to amendment SA 2246 proposed ferred to the Committee on Commerce, The Joint Select Committee on Sol- by Mr. MCCONNELL to the bill S. 2372, supra. Science, and Transportation; as fol- vency and Multi-employer Pension SA 2248. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed an amendment to the bill S. 2372 , supra. lows: Plans is authorized to meet during the SA 2249. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed an In section 2(3), in the heading, strike session of the Senate on Thursday, amendment to amendment SA 2248 proposed ‘‘TREATMENT’’ and insert ‘‘USE’’. May 17, 2018, at 10 a.m., to conduct a by Mr. MCCONNELL to the bill S. 2372, supra. hearing entitled ‘‘The Structure and SA 2250. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed an SA 2252. Mr. MCCONNELL (for Ms. Financial Outlook of the Pension Out- amendment to amendment SA 2249 proposed MURKOWSKI) proposed an amendment look of the Pension Benefit Guaranty by Mr. MCCONNELL to the amendment SA to the bill S. 346, to provide for the es- 2248 proposed by Mr. MCCONNELL to the bill Corporation.’’ S. 2372, supra. tablishment of the National Volcano f SA 2251. Mrs. CAPITO submitted an Early Warning and Monitoring System; amendment intended to be proposed by her as follows: NATIONAL VOLCANO EARLY WARNING AND MONITORING SYS- to the bill S. 2842, to prohibit the marketing On page 8, strike lines 18 through 21 and in- of bogus opioid treatment programs or prod- sert the following: TEM ACT ucts; which was referred to the Committee (a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. There is authorized to be appropriated to ask unanimous consent that the Sen- SA 2252. Mr. MCCONNELL (for Ms. MUR- carry out this Act $55,000,000 for the period of ate proceed to the immediate consider- KOWSKI) proposed an amendment to the bill fiscal years 2019 through 2023. S. 346, to provide for the establishment of ation of Calendar No. 150, S. 346. the National Volcano Early Warning and f The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Monitoring System. clerk will report the bill by title. AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO The bill clerk read as follows: f MEET A bill (S. 346) to provide for the establish- TEXT OF AMENDMENTS Mr. CRUZ. Mr President, I have 5 re- ment of the National Volcano Early Warning SA 2246. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed quests for committees to meet during and Monitoring System. an amendment to the bill S. 2372, to today’s session of the Senate. They There being no objection, the Senate amend title 38, United States Code, to have the approval of the Majority and proceeded to consider the bill, which provide outer burial receptacles for re- Minority leaders. had been reported from the Committee mains buried in National Parks, and Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph on Energy and Natural Resources, with for other purposes; as follows: 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Sen- amendments, as follows:

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:48 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY6.024 S17MYPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S2777 (The parts of the bill intended to be (1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ higher education and State agencies as vol- stricken are shown in boldface brack- means the Secretary of the Interior, acting cano observatory partners for the System. ets and the parts of the bill intended to through the Director of the United States (4) COORDINATION.—The Secretary shall co- be inserted are shown in italic.) Geological Survey. ordinate the activities under this Act with (2) SYSTEM.—The term ‘‘System’’ means the heads of relevant Federal agencies, in- S. 346 the National Volcano Early Warning and cluding— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- Monitoring System established under sec- (A) the Secretary of Transportation; resentatives of the United States of America in tion 4 3(a)(1). (B) the Administrator of the Federal Avia- Congress assembled, SEC. ø4¿3. NATIONAL VOLCANO EARLY WARNING tion Administration; SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. AND MONITORING SYSTEM. (C) the Administrator of the National Oce- This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National (a) ESTABLISHMENT.— anic and Atmospheric Administration; and Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring Sys- (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall estab- (D) the Director of the Federal Emergency tem Act’’. lish within the United States Geological Sur- Management Administration. øSEC. 2. FINDINGS. vey a system, to be known as the ‘‘National (d) ANNUAL REPORT.—Annually, the Sec- øCongress finds that— Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring Sys- retary shall submit to Congress a report that ø(1) the United States and the territories tem’’, to monitor, warn, and protect citizens describes the activities carried out under of the United States contain 169 hazardous of the United States from undue and avoid- this Act. volcanoes; able harm from volcanic activity. SEC. ø5¿4. FUNDING. ø(2) since 1980, eruptions have claimed (2) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the System (a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— many lives and cost billions of dollars in are— There are authorized to be appropriated such property damage in the United States; (A) to organize, modernize, standardize, sums as are necessary to carry out this Act ø(3) ash eruptions pose a hazard to high- and stabilize the monitoring systems of the for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2027. flying jet aircraft, including the more than volcano observatories in the United States, (b) EFFECT ON OTHER SOURCES OF FEDERAL 50,000 passengers who travel on jets over which includes the Alaska Volcano Observ- FUNDING.—Amounts made available under Alaska and the North Pacific every day; atory, California Volcano Observatory, Cas- this section shall supplement, and not sup- ø(4) in 1989, an eruption of Redoubt Vol- cades Volcano Observatory, Hawaiian Vol- plant, Federal funds made available for other cano, Alaska, caused in-flight failure of all 4 cano Observatory, and Yellowstone Volcano United States Geological Survey hazards ac- engines of a passenger Boeing 747 aircraft; Observatory; and tivities and programs. ø(5) international flights over the Com- (B) to unify the monitoring systems of vol- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands cano observatories in the United States into ask unanimous consent that the com- and the intense domestic air traffic of the a single interoperative system. mittee-reported amendments be agreed Pacific Northwest also face potential engine (3) OBJECTIVE.—The objective of the Sys- to, the Murkowski amendment at the failure in the event of an eruption; tem is to monitor all the volcanoes in the desk be agreed to, and the bill, as ø(6) mudflows from ice-clad Cascade volca- United States at a level commensurate with noes of the States of Washington, Oregon, the threat posed by the volcanoes by— amended, be read a third time. and California pose a serious hazard to cities (A) upgrading existing networks on mon- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without and transportation arteries in the Pacific itored volcanoes; objection, it is so ordered. Northwest; (B) installing new networks on The committee-reported amendments ø(7) lava flows, toxic gas emissions, and ex- unmonitored volcanoes; and were agreed to. plosions impact residents and visitors to the (C) employing geodetic and other compo- The amendment (No. 2252) was agreed State of Hawaii and have the potential to nents when applicable. to, as follows: cause catastrophic property damage; (b) SYSTEM COMPONENTS.— (Purpose: To modify the authorization of ø (8) frequent seismic unrest requires care- (1) IN GENERAL.—The System shall in- appropriations) ful monitoring in the Mammoth Lakes area clude— On page 8, strike lines 18 through 21 and in- of the State of California and Yellowstone (A) a national volcano watch office that is sert the following: National Park in the States of Wyoming, operational 24 hours a day and 7 days a week; (a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— Montana, and Idaho; (B) a national volcano data center; and There is authorized to be appropriated to ø (9) modern technology, in the form of geo- (C) an external grants program to support carry out this Act $55,000,000 for the period of physical monitoring networks on the ground research in volcano monitoring science and fiscal years 2019 through 2023. and the use of near real-time satellite data, technology. The bill was ordered to be engrossed makes possible early warnings typically (2) MODERNIZATION ACTIVITIES.—Moderniza- weeks or months before eruptions, giving tion activities under the System shall in- for a third reading and was read the emergency response agencies and the public clude the comprehensive application of third time. time to prepare, which minimizes potential emerging technologies, including digital Mr. MCCONNELL. I know of no fur- damage to property and loss of life; broadband seismometers, real-time contin- ther debate on the bill. ø(10) the efficacy of monitoring is being uous Global Positioning System receivers, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill demonstrated by— satellite and airborne radar interferometry, having been read the third time, the ø (A) the successful forecasts and warnings acoustic pressure sensors, and spectrometry question is, Shall the bill pass? of Augustine Volcano in 1986 and 2006, Re- to measure gas emissions. The bill (S. 346), as amended, was doubt Volcano in 1989 through 1990 and 2009, (c) MANAGEMENT.— passed, as follows: and Mt. Spurr in 1992; and (1) MANAGEMENT PLAN.— ø(B) warnings and forecasts of lava flow ad- (A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days S. 346 vancement in Hawaii during the ongoing after the date of enactment of this Act, the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- eruption of Kilauea; Secretary shall submit to Congress a 5-year resentatives of the United States of America in ø(11) the United States Geological Survey management plan for establishing and oper- Congress assembled, and university and State partners of the ating the System. SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. United States Geological Survey operate— (B) INCLUSIONS.—The management plan This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National ø(A) the Alaska Volcano Observatory lo- submitted under subparagraph (A) shall in- Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring Sys- cated in Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska; clude— tem Act’’. ø(B) the Cascades Volcano Observatory lo- (i) annual cost estimates for modernization SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. cated in Vancouver, Washington; activities and operation of the System; In this Act: ø(C) the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory lo- (ii) annual milestones, standards, and per- (1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ cated in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, formance goals; and means the Secretary of the Interior, acting Hawaii; (iii) recommendations for, and progress to- through the Director of the United States ø(D) the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory wards, establishing new, or enhancing exist- Geological Survey. located in Yellowstone National Park in the ing, partnerships to leverage resources. (2) SYSTEM.—The term ‘‘System’’ means States of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho; and (2) ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—The Secretary the National Volcano Early Warning and ø(E) the California Volcano Observatory, shall establish an advisory committee to as- Monitoring System established under sec- located in Menlo Park, California; and sist the Secretary in implementing the Sys- tion 3(a)(1). ø(12) a detailed survey of the volcanoes in tem, to be comprised of representatives of SEC. 3. NATIONAL VOLCANO EARLY WARNING the United States and the monitoring status relevant agencies and members of the sci- AND MONITORING SYSTEM. of those volcanoes has revealed numerous se- entific community, to be appointed by the (a) ESTABLISHMENT.— rious monitoring gaps, leaving the United Secretary. (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall estab- States exposed to preventable damage from (3) PARTNERSHIPS.—The Secretary may lish within the United States Geological Sur- large volcanic eruptions.¿ enter into cooperative agreements with in- vey a system, to be known as the ‘‘National SEC. ø3¿2. DEFINITIONS. stitutions of higher education and State Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring Sys- In this Act: agencies designating the institutions of tem’’, to monitor, warn, and protect citizens

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:48 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G17MY6.074 S17MYPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE S2778 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 17, 2018 of the United States from undue and avoid- SEC. 4. FUNDING. The bill clerk read as follows: (a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— able harm from volcanic activity. A resolution (S. Res. 515) honoring the 70th There is authorized to be appropriated to (2) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the System anniversary of the reactivation in 1948 of the carry out this Act $55,000,000 for the period of are— 3d Infantry Regiment of the United States fiscal years 2019 through 2023. (A) to organize, modernize, standardize, Army. and stabilize the monitoring systems of the (b) EFFECT ON OTHER SOURCES OF FEDERAL volcano observatories in the United States, FUNDING.—Amounts made available under There being no objection, the Senate which includes the Alaska Volcano Observ- this section shall supplement, and not sup- proceeded to consider the resolution. atory, California Volcano Observatory, Cas- plant, Federal funds made available for other Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous cades Volcano Observatory, Hawaiian Vol- United States Geological Survey hazards ac- consent that the resolution be agreed tivities and programs. cano Observatory, and Yellowstone Volcano to, the preamble be agreed to, and the Observatory; and Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous motions to reconsider be considered (B) to unify the monitoring systems of vol- consent that the motion to reconsider made and laid upon the table with no cano observatories in the United States into be considered made and laid upon the a single interoperative system. intervening action or debate. table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without (3) OBJECTIVE.—The objective of the Sys- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tem is to monitor all the volcanoes in the objection, it is so ordered. objection, it is so ordered. United States at a level commensurate with The resolution (S. Res. 515) was the threat posed by the volcanoes by— f agreed to. (A) upgrading existing networks on mon- The preamble was agreed to. itored volcanoes; PROVIDING FOR THE REAPPOINT- (B) installing new networks on MENT OF BARBARA M. BARRETT (The resolution, with its preamble, is unmonitored volcanoes; and AS A CITIZEN REGENT OF THE printed in today’s RECORD under ‘‘Sub- (C) employing geodetic and other compo- BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE mitted Resolutions.’’) nents when applicable. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION f (b) SYSTEM COMPONENTS.— C (1) IN GENERAL.—The System shall in- Mr. M CONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Com- NATIONAL PHYSICAL EDUCATION clude— AND SPORT WEEK (A) a national volcano watch office that is mittee on Rules and Administration be operational 24 hours a day and 7 days a week; discharged from further consideration Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I (B) a national volcano data center; and of and the Senate now proceed to the ask unanimous consent that the Sen- (C) an external grants program to support consideration of S.J. Res. 60. ate proceed to the immediate consider- research in volcano monitoring science and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ation of S. Res. 516, submitted earlier technology. objection, it is so ordered. today. (2) MODERNIZATION ACTIVITIES.—Moderniza- The clerk will report the joint resolu- tion activities under the System shall in- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The tion by title. clerk will report the resolution by clude the comprehensive application of The bill clerk read as follows: emerging technologies, including digital title. broadband seismometers, real-time contin- A joint resolution (S.J. Res. 60) providing The bill clerk read as follows: for the reappointment of Barbara M. Barrett uous Global Positioning System receivers, A resolution (S. Res. 516) designating the satellite and airborne radar interferometry, as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. week of May 1 through May 7, 2018, as ‘‘Na- acoustic pressure sensors, and spectrometry tional Physical Education and Sport Week.’’ to measure gas emissions. There being no objection, the Senate (c) MANAGEMENT.— proceeded to consider the joint resolu- There being no objection, the Senate (1) MANAGEMENT PLAN.— tion. proceeded to consider the resolution. (A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous Mr. MCCONNELL. I further ask after the date of enactment of this Act, the consent that the joint resolution be unanimous consent that the resolution Secretary shall submit to Congress a 5-year considered read a third time and passed be agreed to, the preamble be agreed management plan for establishing and oper- and the motion to reconsider be consid- to, and the motions to reconsider be ating the System. considered made and laid upon the (B) INCLUSIONS.—The management plan ered made and laid upon the table. submitted under subparagraph (A) shall in- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without table with no intervening action or de- clude— objection, it is so ordered. bate. (i) annual cost estimates for modernization The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 60) The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without activities and operation of the System; was ordered to be engrossed for a third objection, it is so ordered. (ii) annual milestones, standards, and per- reading, was read the third time, and The resolution (S. Res. 516) was formance goals; and passed, as follows: agreed to. (iii) recommendations for, and progress to- S.J. RES. 60 The preamble was agreed to. wards, establishing new, or enhancing exist- Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep- (The resolution, with its preamble, is ing, partnerships to leverage resources. resentatives of the United States of America in printed in today’s RECORD under ‘‘Sub- (2) ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—The Secretary Congress assembled, That, in accordance with shall establish an advisory committee to as- mitted Resolutions.’’) section 5581 of the Revised Statutes (20 sist the Secretary in implementing the Sys- U.S.C. 43), the vacancy on the Board of Re- f tem, to be comprised of representatives of gents of the Smithsonian Institution, in the relevant agencies and members of the sci- ORDERS FOR MONDAY, MAY 21, class other than Members of Congress, occur- entific community, to be appointed by the ring by reason of the expiration of the term 2018 Secretary. of Barbara M. Barrett of Arizona on January Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I (3) PARTNERSHIPS.—The Secretary may 10, 2019, is filled by the reappointment of the ask unanimous consent that when the enter into cooperative agreements with in- incumbent. The reappointment is for a term stitutions of higher education and State Senate completes its business today, it of 6 years, beginning on the later of January adjourn until 3 p.m., Monday, May 21; agencies designating the institutions of 11, 2019, or the date of the enactment of this higher education and State agencies as vol- joint resolution. further, that following the prayer and cano observatory partners for the System. pledge, the morning hour be deemed f (4) COORDINATION.—The Secretary shall co- expired, the Journal of proceedings be ordinate the activities under this Act with HONORING THE 70TH ANNIVER- approved to date, the time for the two the heads of relevant Federal agencies, in- SARY OF THE REACTIVATION IN leaders be reserved for their use later cluding— 1948 OF THE 3D INFANTRY REGI- (A) the Secretary of Transportation; in the day, and morning business be (B) the Administrator of the Federal Avia- MENT OF THE UNITED STATES closed. I further ask that following tion Administration; ARMY leader remarks, the Senate proceed to (C) the Administrator of the National Oce- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I executive session and resume consider- anic and Atmospheric Administration; and ask unanimous consent that the Sen- ation of the Baiocco nomination; fur- (D) the Director of the Federal Emergency ate proceed to the consideration of S. ther, that notwithstanding the provi- Management Administration. sions of rule XXII, the cloture motions (d) ANNUAL REPORT.—Annually, the Sec- Res. 515, submitted earlier today. retary shall submit to Congress a report that The PRESIDING OFFICER. The filed during today’s session of the Sen- describes the activities carried out under clerk will report the resolution by ate ripen at 5:30 p.m., Monday; finally, this Act. title. that the filing deadline for first-degree

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:42 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY6.055 S17MYPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S2779 amendments to the House message to COL. SHARON D. MOORE THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT COL. MICHAEL J. OSTER TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE accompany S. 2372 be at 5 p.m., Mon- COL. GREGORY C. PARKER ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: day. COL. SCOTT T. PETRIK COL. JERRY F. PROCHASKA To be colonel The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without COL. JAVIER A. REINA CHRISTOPHER A. BASSETT objection, it is so ordered. COL. YESENIA R. ROQUE LAWRENCE T. BLEBOO COL. LEO A. RYAN TIMOTHY A. BOHR f COL. MICHAEL J. SCHLORHOLTZ SCOTT E. BOYD COL. SCOTT M. SHERMAN THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR REGULAR AP- COL. TYLER B. SMITH ADJOURNMENT UNTIL MONDAY, POINTMENT IN THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED COL. WALTER B. STUREK, JR. STATES ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 531: MAY 21, 2018, AT 3 P.M. COL. JOHN F. TAYLOR, JR. COL. THOMAS E. VERN, JR. To be lieutenant colonel Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, if COL. DAMIAN K. WADDELL there is no further business to come be- COL. ROBERT F. WEIR JULIE A. CRAIG COL. KATHERINE E. WHITE THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT fore the Senate, I ask unanimous con- COL. JAMES C. WILKINS TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY sent that it stand adjourned under the COL. TIMOTHY J. WINSLOW MEDICAL SPECIALIST CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., previous order. IN THE NAVY SECTIONS 624 AND 3064: To be lieutenant colonel There being no objection, the Senate, THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED CHARLES G. BLAKE at 5:10 p.m., adjourned until Monday, UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 156: THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT May 21, 2018, at 3 p.m. To be rear admiral (lower half) TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: f CAPT. CHRISTOPHER C. FRENCH To be colonel NOMINATIONS IN THE MARINE CORPS THOMAS A. URQUHART THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT Executive nominations received by IN THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS TO THE GRADE IN THE NAVY INDICATED WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPOR- the Senate: THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT TANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY IN THE ARMY SECTION 601: UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: THE FOLLOWING NAMED ARMY NATIONAL GUARD OF To be lieutenant general THE UNITED STATES OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT IN To be captain MAJ. GEN. CARL E. MUNDY III THE RESERVE OF THE ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED ROBERT L. ANDERSON II UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 12203 AND 12211: THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT KATHLEEN K. COOPERMAN IN THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS TO THE GRADE To be brigadier general DARRYL E. GREEN INDICATED WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPOR- RONA D. GREEN COL. NARCISO CRUZ TANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., JAMES R. HAGEN COL. MARK K. MIERA SECTION 601: BRIAN C. HATCH MARC D. HERWITZ THE FOLLOWING NAMED ARMY NATIONAL GUARD OF To be lieutenant general MATTHEW J. HOLCOMB THE UNITED STATES OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT IN MAJ. GEN. LORETTA E. REYNOLDS WILLIAM R. HOWARD THE RESERVE OF THE ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED FRANCA R. JONES UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 12203 AND 12211: IN THE COAST GUARD LESLIE A. KINDLING To be major general THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT WILLIAM J. PLUMMER III IN THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD TO THE GRADE IN- DONNA POULIN BRIG. GEN. JOSEPH F. JARRARD DICATED UNDER TITLE 14, U.S.C., SECTION 271(D): JAMES C. QUICK III BRIG. GEN. TRACY R. NORRIS MARGARET M. READ THE FOLLOWING NAMED ARMY NATIONAL GUARD OF To be rear admiral JEFFREY J. REPASS ARLENE R. SAITZYK THE UNITED STATES OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT IN REAR ADM. (LH) MATTHEW T. BELL, JR. RONALD L. SCHOONOVER THE RESERVE OF THE ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED REAR ADM. (LH) MELISSA BERT THAD J. SHARP UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 12203 AND 12211: REAR ADM. (LH) DAVID M. DERMANELIAN DANIELLE M. WOOTEN To be major general REAR ADM. (LH) ROBERT P. HAYES REAR ADM. (LH) ANDREW J. TIONGSON THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUAL FOR APPOINT- BRIG. GEN. LAUREL J. HUMMEL REAR ADM. (LH) ANTHONY J. VOGT MENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE REGULAR NAVY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 531: THE FOLLOWING NAMED ARMY NATIONAL GUARD OF THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT THE UNITED STATES OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT IN IN THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD RESERVE TO THE To be lieutenant commander THE RESERVE OF THE ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED GRADE INDICATED UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 12203 AND 12211: 12203(A): HAROLD C. BARNES To be rear admiral THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT To be major general TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY BRIG. GEN. TOMMY H. BAKER REAR ADM. (LH) ANDREW S. MCKINLEY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: BRIG. GEN. GREGORY S. BOWEN IN THE AIR FORCE To be captain BRIG. GEN. SCOTT A. CAMPBELL BRIG. GEN. JAMES D. CRAIG THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT PAUL R. ALLEN BRIG. GEN. GORDON L. ELLIS IN THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE REGULAR AIR FORCE JESSICA S. BAIN BRIG. GEN. JOHN M. EPPERLY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 531: LAURIE E. BASABE BRIG. GEN. TIMOTHY E. GOWEN WILLIAM S. BYERS BRIG. GEN. PAUL F. GRIFFIN To be major LANA R. CLOUSER BRIG. GEN. KENNETH S. HARA KOURTNI L. STARKEY DARREN J. COUTURE BRIG. GEN. CHRISTOPHER F. LAWSON JULIE A. DARLING BRIG. GEN. JAMES E. PORTER, JR. THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUAL FOR APPOINT- RONALD A. FANCHER BRIG. GEN. RAFAEL A. RIBAS MENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE REGULAR AIR PATRICK J. FITZPATRICK BRIG. GEN. TIMOTHY J. SHERIFF FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 531: TRACEY R. GILES BRIG. GEN. THOMAS F. SPENCER To be major STEPHEN L. GUIDRY BRIG. GEN. MICHAEL D. TURELLO RHONDA O. HINDS BRIG. GEN. SUZANNE P. VARES–LUM HERMANN F. HINZE SHARON L. HOUSE BRIG. GEN. WILLIAM J. WALKER IN THE ARMY TRACY R. ISAAC BRIG. GEN. RONALD A. WESTFALL SHAWN B. KASE THE FOLLOWING NAMED ARMY NATIONAL GUARD OF THE FOLLOWING NAMED ARMY NATIONAL GUARD OF RICHARD B. LAWRENCE THE UNITED STATES OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT TO JEANNE M. LEWANDOWSKI THE RESERVE OF THE ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE ARMY LAURA L. MCMULLEN UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 12203 AND 12211: UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 12203 AND 12211: THOMAS OLIVERO KIM P. SHAUGHNESSY To be brigadier general To be colonel DARRYL B. SOL ANDREW D. TARRANT DIANE M. ARMBRUSTER COL. MIGUEL AGUILAR CRAIG T. VASS LELAND D. BLANCHARD II COL. EUGENE S. ALKIRE MICHELE A. WAARA BRADLEY K. BURNS COL. MARK J. BERGLUND WILLIAM W. WIEGMANN JOSEPH A. DINONNO COL. RONALD W. BURKETT II FRANCISCO I. WONPAT CARLOS L. HOPKINS COL. ROBERT F. CHARLESWORTH STEVEN T. YADEN RICHARD M. MARCINKO COL. NICK DUCICH KIM T. ZABLAN COL. ROBERT D. FERGUSON DONALD S. MITCHELL COL. ADAM R. FLASCH LELAND T. SHEPHERD THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY COL. KEVIN W. GALLAGHER THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: COL. JOHN T. GENTRY, JR. TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE COL. BRYAN J. GRENON ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: To be captain COL. JOHN D. HAAS COL. EDWARD H. HALLENBECK To be colonel JASON W. ADAMS COL. JOE D. HARGETT ARCANGELO P. DELLANNO DONALD C. BREWER III COL. ROBERT F. HEPNER, JR. PAUL W. DEMEYER STEVE A. FOSTER COL. CHARLES G. KEMPER IV JOHN H. HAMILTON IV CREGG M. PUCKETT COL. STEVEN T. KING ALBERT L. HORNYAK ALEJANDRO J. SANCHEZMUNOZ COL. MICHAEL J. LEENEY WESLEY P. JOHNSON CHARLES F. WALLACE COL. ROY J. MACARAEG ANDREW J. LEWIS COL. JOANNE E. MACGREGOR THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT RYAN D. LOOKABILL COL. MARIE M. MAHONEY TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE ERIK R. NALEY COL. SHAWN P. MANKE ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: ERNAN S. OBELLOS COL. JAMES G. MCCORMACK To be colonel CORY D. SCHEMM COL. MIGUEL A. MENDEZ JOHNETTA C. THOMAS COL. NEAL S. MITSUYOSHI JAMES D. SPENCER II SHAWN M. TRIGGS

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JASON C. WARNER THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT LEAH K. SOLEY LAGENA K. G. YARBROUGH TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY DAVID M. STEVENS THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: SEAN P. STROUP TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY To be captain DANIELLE A. TAYSOM UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: JOHN P. TRAFELI ZACHARY M. ALEXANDER TRICIA E. VANWAGNER To be captain JAY E. ALLARD ROBERT N. WALTER RUSTIN C. WALTERS PAUL C. CHAN ALEX L. AUBIN NATALIE Y. WELLS GARY W. DOSS FRANK O. AXELSEN TIMOTHY M. WILKS LANCE M. FLOOD DAVID A. BARROWS ANA I. FRANCO RANDY S. BELL MARK L. WOODBRIDGE LUKE B. GREENE JOHN C. BIERY THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JOSEPH D. HARDER III ANTHONY C. BOGANEY TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY RANDALL E. HARMEYER CHAD BRADFORD UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: CHAD O. LORENZANA JORGE L. BRITO THOMAS B. MCLEMORE LEO A. CARNEY To be captain ROBERT J. CARPENTER III EDWARD B. MILLER IV RENE J. ALOVA JOHN B. CASON NATHANIEL R. STRAUB PETER R. BARNDT SUSAN C. CLARK THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT RAUL L. BARRIENTOS JANINE R. DANKO TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY THOMAS E. BERCHTOLD GRAY N. DAWSON UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: JOHN E. BISSELL JOHN J. DEVLIN PRESTON C. BRIGGS To be captain ANDREW P. DOAN TROY W. BROOKS HARLAN F. DOREY PHILIP B. BAGROW VINH D. DOAN JILL E. EMERICK DAVID L. CLINE MARTIN E. EVERS THOMAS Q. GALLAGHER MICHAEL E. FOSKETT KELLY M. GOODIN TODD A. GARDNER WAYNE M. HADDAD CHRISTOPHER M. HAMLIN TODD D. GLEESON ROY E. HOFFMAN JOHN B. HOYOS ELIZABETH A. GRASMUCK HENRY F. HOLCOMBE, JR. BRADLEY E. JONES JOY A. GREER PHILIP D. KING CHRISTOPHER J. KANE CATHERINE E. HAGAN HAGAN R. MCCLELLAN, JR. NIMA A. KHORASSANI DANIEL B. HAWLEY RYAN R. RUPE THU N. LUU EWELL M. HOLLIS RICHARD H. RYAN, JR. MATTHEW B. B. MILLER CHADLEY R. HUEBNER BETH A. STALLINGA MICHAEL T. MOONEY DANIEL R. JUBA CLIFFORD A. STUART JOHVIN PERRY ANTHONY W. KELLER DAVID B. THAMES MICHAEL E. RUDMANN CORRY J. KUCIK DAVID M. TODD RODNEY V. SCOTT FERNANDO F. LEYVA PAUL S. TREMBLAY ZHENGSHI SONG ANDREW H. LIN CHARLES E. VARSOGEA JAMES M. THOMPSON, JR. ROBERT A. LIOTTA BRIAN D. WEIGELT JOYCE Y. TURNER MICHELLE F. LIU TEDDY L. WILLIAMS, JR. HOWARD K. VANNESS NAM T. LY DAVID S. YANG SABINA S. YUN WILLIAM MANN STEPHEN S. YUNE THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT DEBRA A. MANNING TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY JOEL T. MCFARLAND UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: PETER C. MCGOWAN f To be captain EDMUND A. MILDER JOE MILLER HUGH BURKE JOHN R. MINARCIK CONFIRMATION TANYA CRUZ EMORI A. MOORE KATHLEEN A. ELKINS CHRISTOPHER J. NEAL Executive nomination confirmed by ARTHUR L. GASTON III KRISTIE A. ROBSON JOAN M. MALIK CORBY D. ROPP the Senate May 17, 2018: WAYNE A. MIANI, JR. KRISTIAN E. SANCHACK CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY MEGAN K. SMITH BETTINA M. SAUTER EDWARD K. WESTBROOK II JOEL M. SCHOFER GINA HASPEL, OF KENTUCKY, TO BE DIRECTOR OF THE CHRISTOPHER M. WILLIAMS ANDREA N. SNITCHLER CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.

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COMMEMORATING THE LIFE OF The dedication demonstrated by Kyana would have voted: Roll Call No. 181—Yes; JEB PARR, UNITED STATES NAVY Aidukaitis is exemplary of the type of achieve- Roll Call No. 182—Yes; and Roll Call No. ment that can be attained with hard work and 183—Yes. HON. DEREK KILMER perseverance. It is essential students at all f levels strive to make the most of their edu- OF WASHINGTON SAYDA JASMIN MERAZ APODACA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cation and develop a work ethic which will Thursday, May 17, 2018 guide them for the rest of their lives. I extend my deepest congratulations to HON. ED PERLMUTTER Mr. KILMER. Mr. Speaker, I would like to Kyana Aidukaitis for winning the Adams Coun- OF COLORADO take a moment to commemorate the life of my ty Mayors and Commissioners Youth Award. I IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES former constituent, Jeb Parr, who passed have no doubt she will exhibit the same dedi- Thursday, May 17, 2018 away on April 19. Jeb was a fervent advocate cation and character in all of her future ac- for our nation’s public shipyards. His sudden complishments. Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and applaud Sayda Jasmin passing is a huge loss to the submarine and f ship maintenance community. Meraz Apodaca for receiving the Adams Jeb dedicated his professional life to the HONORING LOUIS C. THARP County Mayors and Commissioners Youth U.S. Navy. He began his active service career Award. in 1975. At that time, he enrolled in and com- HON. NITA M. LOWEY Sayda Jasmin Meraz Apodaca received this award because her determination and hard pleted the yearlong nuclear engineering train- OF NEW YORK work have allowed her to overcome adversi- ing at the fast-paced and prestigious Naval IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Nuclear Power School, which was founded by ties. Thursday, May 17, 2018 the father of the America’s Nuclear Navy, Ad- The dedication demonstrated by Sayda miral Hyman G. Rickover. It was here where Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Jasmin Meraz Apodaca is exemplary of the the motto ‘‘Knowledge, Integrity, Excellence’’ my constituent, Louis C. Tharp of Upper type of achievement that can be attained with was forever ingrained in Jeb. He would carry Nyack, New York. Mr. Tharp recently finished hard work and perseverance. It is essential this standard with him for the rest of his life. a six-year term on the Army Education Advi- students at all levels strive to make the most Following eight years of active military serv- sory Committee, a committee governed by the of their education and develop a work ethic ice, Jeb came to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Federal Advisory Committee Act. which will guide them for the rest of their lives. and Intermediate Maintenance Facility During his tenure on the Army Education I extend my deepest congratulations to Sayda (PSNS&IMF) to work as a nuclear engineer. Advisory Committee, Mr. Tharp worked on a Jasmin Meraz Apodaca for winning the Adams Over his thirty years of dedicated service at number of important issues including women County Mayors and Commissioners Youth the shipyard, Jeb nurtured a passion for in combat, sexual assault and harassment, a Award. I have no doubt she will exhibit the teaching others and served an integral role in facilitated soldier teaching plan, soldier talent same dedication and character in all of her fu- developing nuclear training and qualification management, Soldier 2020, an assessment of ture accomplishments. programs at the shipyard. He possessed an drill sergeant responsibilities, and second-and f third-order effects of transgender integration. innate ability to recognize and acknowledge CONGRATULATING MAYOR RICH- the person behind the trainee or worker. He He was recommended for this Senior Exec- utive Service position by former Pennsylvania ARD WARD OF HURST, TEXAS ON was often sent by managers to facilitate dis- HIS RETIREMENT cussions between parties with opposing views, Congressman Patrick Murphy and the Victory as he had a talent for finding common ground Institute’s Presidential Appointments Initiative. and identifying a solution to challenging prob- During his tenure at West Point, Mr. Tharp HON. KENNY MARCHANT lems. These abilities, coupled with his prior served as the first out gay coach and authored OF TEXAS experience, brought him to work in the Indus- ‘‘Overachiever’s Diary, How the Army Triathlon IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES trial Operations Directorate at Naval Sea Sys- Team Became National Contenders.’’ The pro- Thursday, May 17, 2018 tems Command in Washington, D.C. in 2016 ceeds from its sale benefited the team. Mr. Tharp served honorably in the Indiana Mr. MARCHANT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to oversee training and personnel policy at all to recognize an outstanding public servant four public shipyards. National Guard. In addition, he has contributed to several organizations, including Knights from my district, Mayor Richard Ward of Hurst, Jeb leaves behind his loving husband of Texas, who is retiring after 22 years of service two-and-a-half years, Jose´ Isidoro Lemus. He Out, the West Point LGBT alumni association, and the Rockland County Anti-Bias Commis- to his community. will be remembered for his willingness to take Richard Ward has served as Mayor of the sion, which he chaired. He currently serves as time for others, his kindness, and his commit- City of Hurst for the last 14 years, but his Executive Director and Co-Founder of the ment to mission. On behalf of myself and the commitment to his nation and community Global Healthy Living Foundation, a nonprofit U.S. House of Representatives, we send our began well before then. Just after graduating organization dedicated to improving the lives thoughts and prayers to Jose´ and the rest of from Polytechnic High School in Fort Worth, of people with chronic illness. Mr. Tharp and Jeb’s family during this challenging time. he served in the Army from 1954 to 1957 as his husband, Jim Bumgardner, will celebrate f an X-ray technician stationed in Frankfurt, 34 years together this fall. KYANA AIDUKAITIS Mr. Speaker, I urge my fellow Members of Germany. Upon his return to Texas, Richard Congress to join me in expressing thanks to began a career as a medical instruments HON. ED PERLMUTTER Mr. Tharp for his service. salesman and later in Human Resource Man- agement, after receiving a bachelor of General OF COLORADO f Studies Degree from Texas Christian Univer- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PERSONAL EXPLANATION sity in 1982. His work has taken him to sev- Thursday, May 17, 2018 eral prestigious institutes including Medical Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise HON. MICHAEL E. CAPUANO Plaza Hospital in Fort Worth, Parkland Hos- today to recognize and applaud Kyana OF MASSACHUSETTS pital in Dallas, and Cornerstone Health Man- Aidukaitis for receiving the Adams County IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES agement in Dallas. Mayors and Commissioners Youth Award. In 1962, Richard became a resident of Hurst Kyana Aidukaitis received this award be- Thursday, May 17, 2018 and began volunteering in youth sports and cause her determination and hard work have Mr. CAPUANO. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday, I civil groups. He served on the Board of Direc- allowed her to overcome adversities. missed three votes. Had I been present, I tors for Pee Wee Football Association, as a

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Many of my friends and other stu- OF TEXAS Richard was elected mayor, a position that he dents feared the worst; that we were next, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has honorably held for the last 14 years, work- because these tragedies have sadly become ing tirelessly to improve the Hurst community. too routine. Why have no laws been passed to Thursday, May 17, 2018 Under Mayor Ward’s leadership, Hurst has make us safer? Why is it easier to get a gun Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the Army seen incredible growth. As a part of the Trans- than it is to get a driver’s license? Too many Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps forming Hurst Initiative, the city has completed of us are silent. (JROTC) of Humble High School in Humble, a series of ambitious projects including the It is time for us to stand up. It is time for Texas have gone above and beyond, and our Hurst Conference Center, the Hurst Senior us to speak out. If we want a change in laws, community is proud of their outstanding Center, Fire Station 2, the Hurst Justice Cen- we need to change our actions. Write letters achievements. ter, and the Hurst Chisholm and Central to Members of Congress. Participate in The Humble High School JROTC has a his- Aquatic Centers. The city has also expanded school walkouts and . . . walk in marches! Run for Congress or local office. If you are tory of success and are known for their com- parks and recreation programs and cham- too young to run, volunteer for a candidate mitment to giving back to our community. pioned customer service and staff develop- who is running. Register 18-year-olds to vote, Under the direction of Sergeant Major Wat- ment initiatives. Through this process, Mayor and encourage registered voters to show up kins, the cadets do much more than drill com- Ward has earned a reputation for balancing on Election Day. petitions and marching in parades. They serve fiscal responsibility and economic develop- The youngest generation of eligible voters their school and community, performing var- ment. In collaboration with Hurst has the lowest voter turnout. We live in a de- ious service projects and duties throughout the Councilmembers, he has been able to estab- mocracy. Our senators and representatives year. lish partnerships with local developers and should be responsive to our opinions. If they During National Police Week in May, the ca- community leaders to revitalize and transform are not, it’s our job to elect candidates who dets show honor to police officers who were the community. are. If they do not listen, vote them out! killed in the line of duty, by holding 10 foot av- At the heart of these projects is a commit- Our generation’s voter turnout must in- enue flag poles at my annual Police Memorial ment to public safety and high quality of life crease if we want leaders who will take ac- Ceremony. The cadets are always dressed in for Hurst’s nearly 40,000 residents. In recogni- tion to reduce gun violence and gun deaths. their best as they proudly display Old Glory. tion of his efforts and those of And if you are like me, not yet old enough to Survivors, police officers, and community lead- councilmembers, the Texas City Manager’s vote but want to impact change, have faith. Just because we’re in high school doesn’t ers walk through this sea of red, white, and Association (TCMA) recognized the Hurst City mean we can’t make a difference. blue as they enter the Police Memorial Cere- Council as ‘‘Council of the Year’’ in both 2013 mony. The cadets do an admirable job rep- Two weeks ago, on the day of the walkout, and 2014. resenting Humble High School. For more than two decades, Richard Ward my history class was learning about the Civil Rights movements of the 1960’s. Many Every Veterans Day, the JROTC cadets pay has demonstrated unreserved dedication to of those events were organized by high tribute to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier public service and community involvement. Mr. school and college students. If they could do through a reenactment. The ceremony is well Speaker, on behalf of the 24th Congressional it, why can’t we? It is our job as the upcom- known in the community and is appropriately District of Texas, I ask all of my distinguished ing generation of voters, leaders, and activ- called the Wildcat Salute to Veterans. As the colleagues to join me in honoring Mayor Rich- ists to make clear that when we believe sun peaks over the horizon, members of the ard Ward for his extraordinary service and something needs to be changed, we will not Humble community, veterans, and students ar- be silent. wishing him and his family the best in his re- rive at the high school, but instead of hallways tirement. We will not stand down. We will stand up, adorned with Wildcat posters and traditional f stand together, and we will not stop speak- school spirit signs, the Tomb of the Unknown ing out until our voices are heard. SHARING STUDENTS’ ‘MARCH FOR Soldier display sits in front of visitors. The trib- ute begins with the traditional laying of a OUR LIVES’ REMARKS f wreath and the Changing of the Guard ritual. MADILYNN HAINES The cadets are trained as Sentinels and guard HON. STENY H. HOYER the Tomb all day. Their service and patriotism OF MARYLAND to our nation sets them apart as role models IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. ED PERLMUTTER to other students. The reenactment serves as Thursday, May 17, 2018 a memorial to service members who have ad- Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, on May 9, I came OF COLORADO mirably fought and died for our country yet re- to the Floor and spoke about the March For IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES main unknown. The tomb declares—‘‘Here Our Lives on March 24 and the nine extraordi- rests in honored glory an American soldier narily poised students in Morristown, New Jer- Thursday, May 17, 2018 known but to God.’’ sey, who spoke at the rally there, which I at- There are countless other service projects Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise tended. I include in the RECORD remarks by they participate in throughout the year. They today to recognize and applaud Madilynn Mia Paone. I hope my colleagues will read do not go unnoticed. I know that the residents Haines for receiving the Adams County May- them and internalize the sense of fear in of Humble are proud of Humble High School ors and Commissioners Youth Award. which our nation’s students are living every JROTC accomplishments. I applaud them for day—and our responsibility as Members of Madilynn Haines received this award be- their tremendous achievements and commend Congress to do something to address this cri- cause her determination and hard work have them for giving back to our community. They sis of gun violence. allowed her to overcome adversities. make a difference and represent all that is MARCH FOR OUR LIVES’ REMARKS BY MIA The dedication demonstrated by Madilynn right and good in America. PAONE Haines is exemplary of the type of achieve- And that’s just the way it is. Hello marchers! My name is Mia Paone, ment that can be attained with hard work and f and I am a sophomore at Chatham High perseverance. It is essential students at all PERSONAL EXPLANATION School. I am not old enough to vote yet, but levels strive to make the most of their edu- I am old enough to speak out against gun vi- olence. I will not be silent. cation and develop a work ethic which will HON. DANIEL WEBSTER I am taking a stand to change our gun guide them for the rest of their lives. OF FLORIDA laws, and I need all of you to join me. Si- I extend my deepest congratulations to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lence is not neutrality. Silence will lead to Madilynn Haines for winning the Adams Coun- more deaths from school shootings and other Thursday, May 17, 2018 gun violence. I am here to speak for those si- ty Mayors and Commissioners Youth Award. I lenced too soon. have no doubt she will exhibit the same dedi- Mr. WEBSTER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I For the young kids at Sandy Hook. For the cation and character in all of her future ac- was unable to travel back to Washington due concert goers in Las Vegas. For the students complishments. to illness. Had I been present, I would have

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ED PERLMUTTER resentatives, and openly debate the best solu- Khamov for winning the Adams County May- OF COLORADO tions to the many and diverse problems that ors and Commissioners Youth Award. I have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES confront our country. It is thanks to their sac- no doubt he will exhibit the same dedication Thursday, May 17, 2018 rifices that the United States of America re- and character in all of his future accomplish- mains a beacon of hope and freedom in a ments. Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise fractious world. f today to recognize and applaud Nimo Jama Mr. Speaker, their decision to serve our for receiving the Adams County Mayors and country will not go unrecognized. I want to PERSONAL EXPLANATION Commissioners Youth Award. personally thank these forty-six graduating Nimo Jama received this award because seniors for the selflessness and courage that HON. EVAN H. JENKINS her determination and hard work have allowed they have shown by volunteering to risk their OF WEST VIRGINIA her to overcome adversities. lives in defense of others. We owe them, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The dedication demonstrated by Nimo Jama along with all those who serve our country, a Thursday, May 17, 2018 is exemplary of the type of achievement that deep debt of gratitude. Mr. JENKINS of West Virginia. Mr. Speaker, can be attained with hard work and persever- f ance. It is essential students at all levels strive I joined the U.S. Surgeon General during his to make the most of their education and de- CONGRATULATING JOANNA DYE visit to my congressional district in Huntington, velop a work ethic which will guide them for ON HER RETIREMENT West Virginia, to speak at the Cabell Hun- the rest of their lives. I extend my deepest tington Hospital Regional Health Summit. Had congratulations to Nimo Jama for winning the HON. CHERI BUSTOS I been present, I would have voted NAY on Adams County Mayors and Commissioners Roll Call No. 178; YEA on Roll Call No. 179; OF ILLINOIS and YEA on Roll Call No. 180. Youth Award. I have no doubt she will exhibit IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the same dedication and character in all of her f Thursday, May 17, 2018 future accomplishments. TRIBUTE TO DAVID W. THOMPSON f Mrs. BUSTOS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Ms. JoAnna Dye, who is retiring COMMUNITY SALUTES HON. DONALD S. BEYER, JR. from Black Hawk College. Ms. Dye has be- OF VIRGINIA come a pillar of the Black Hawk community, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. DONALD NORCROSS and she will be greatly missed. Thursday, May 17, 2018 OF NEW JERSEY Ms. Dye has worked at Black Hawk College IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for 34 years, serving as the Financial Aid Di- Mr. BEYER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and pay tribute to David W. Thomp- Thursday, May 17, 2018 rector for the last 12 years. She has always gone above and beyond, and received the son, the President and CEO of Orbital ATK, Mr. NORCROSS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today 2010 Sustained Service Award from the Illinois Incorporated and the Co-founder, Chairman to honor forty-six high school seniors in Cam- Association of Student Financial Aid Adminis- and CEO of Orbital Sciences Corporation, for den County for their commendable decision to trators (ILASFAA) in recognition of her notable his extraordinary and ongoing contributions to enlist in the United Sates Armed Forces. Of contributions to Black Hawk College. Addition- the nation. Mr. Thompson has contributed these forty-six, eight have joined the Navy: ally, Ms. Dye has worked to deliver profes- nearly four decades of leadership in the ad- Joshua Fitzgerald, Samuel Keppel, Niemai sional development, leadership and edu- vancement of space technology and national Smith, Ryan Hutchinson, Preston Solla, Nich- cational opportunities to colleagues and stu- defense. History will note that he conceived olas Yourkonis, Noah Berrios, and Nasir dents throughout Illinois by serving as the Ex- and built Orbital Sciences Corporation as a Crews. Nineteen have joined the Marine ecutive Vice President and later the President pioneering venture that was among the first to Corps: Giovanni Pasquarelli, Jesse Harryman, of the ILASFAA. Her dedication to ensuring all demonstrate a new model of commercial fund- William Jamieson, Ethan Moncrief, William our children have the opportunity to succeed ing, development and manufacture of space Sayers, Jack Percak, Brian has undoubtedly enriched our community and systems. Romerogranadeno, Anthony Vitkunas, the lives of those she has touched. Both companies have flourished in Virginia. Trshaun Kelly, Delious Bullock, Luke Hurey, It is because of dedicated and selfless lead- Orbital ATK, headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, Jeserica Santos, Marvin Sewell, Remy Mar- ers such as Ms. JoAnna Dye that I am espe- is the largest new space and defense tech- tinez, Andre Castro, Adrian Vargas, Cristian cially proud to serve Illinois’ 17th Congres- nology company to emerge in the post-Sputnik Reyes-Nunez, Kenneth Cortez, and Jeffery sional District. Mr. Speaker, I would like to era. Orbital grew from three employees and Nolasco. Two have joined the Air Force: Alex- again formally congratulate Ms. JoAnna Dye zero revenue in 1982 to become Orbital ATK is Tapia, and Dominique Perez. Eight have on her well-earned retirement and thank her with 14,000 employees and a $9 billion enter- joined the New Jersey Army National Guard: for all of her contributions and service to our prise value. Orbital ATK is one of the world’s Kianna Smith, Savannah Janiszewski, Chris- community. top 10 aerospace and defense manufacturers. topher Berrios, Chanese Gibson, Kiaziah f It is among the top five suppliers to NASA and Walker, Alesi Villeda-Gomes, Breinna it is a critical partner with the US Department Edwards, and Aleksey Kilvington. And nine MATTHEW KHAMOV of Defense. Orbital ATK’s services to the na- have joined the New Jersey Air National tion include resupplying the International Guard: Jose Sanchez, Jamilette Cotts-Mar- HON. ED PERLMUTTER Space Station using its Antares launch vehicle tinez, Nyree Scott, Paul Brown, Alex Frazier, OF COLORADO and Cygnus spacecraft and providing essential Angel Burgos, Emma Super, Mason Nicini, Mi- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES national defense capabilities that include the chael Rinehart. All forty-six were recognized company’s key role in protecting America from Thursday, May 17, 2018 on May 15th at ‘‘Our Community Salutes of ballistic missile attack. South Jersey.’’ Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise For over 36 years, Mr. Thompson has in- Later this month, these young men and today to recognize and applaud Matthew spired new generations of engineers and sci- women will join their classmates in celebration Khamov for receiving the Adams County May- entists to conceive innovative space and na- of graduation. At a time when many of their ors and Commissioners Youth Award. tional defense solutions through his excep- peers are looking forward to pursuing voca- Matthew Khamov received this award be- tional vision, creativity, perseverance and tional training or college degrees, they instead cause his determination and hard work have dedication. Mr. Thompson’s many awards in- have chosen to dedicate themselves to mili- allowed him to overcome adversities. clude the National Medal of Technology, Vir- tary service in defense of our country. They The dedication demonstrated by Matthew ginia’s Industrialist of the Year, High-Tech- should rest assured that the full support and Khamov is exemplary of the type of achieve- nology Entrepreneur of the year, the National

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Paul, his wife, and their four chil- to become a member of the Marines. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. dren lived in Santa Maria, CA; Rapid City, SD; Mr. Speaker, Joey Daniel has more than America and Virginia have been abundantly Laredo, TX; and abroad in Turkey, England proven that he is an extraordinary student ath- blessed by the patriotism, dedication and and Israel. lete with no limits to his potential. I am beyond achievement of David Thompson. David has By the 1950’s, Paul finally had the chance proud to honor Joey Daniel. enjoyed the loving support of his wife Cath- to fly. He knew each part of the aircrafts he f erine and daughter Maggie. I wish them God- worked on, but was never given the oppor- KENNEDI LAUBERT speed and continued success as David pio- tunity to go up in the air. In Laredo, Paul and neers a new chapter. a group of his friends bought a plane together f and named themselves ‘‘The Flying 20.’’ HON. ED PERLMUTTER In addition to his work within the Army and OF COLORADO KATHRYN KLEMPEL Air Force, Paul is also a servant of his com- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES munity. While living in Santa Maria, the Jewish Thursday, May 17, 2018 HON. ED PERLMUTTER community was holding services in basement of a Methodist church. Unsettled by this ar- Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise OF COLORADO today to recognize and applaud Kennedi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rangement, Paul sought out a California Poly- technic Institute architecture student to design Laubert for receiving the Adams County May- Thursday, May 17, 2018 blueprints for a synagogue and launched a ors and Commissioners Youth Award. Kennedi Laubert received this award be- Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise fundraising campaign. By 1969, Temple Beth cause her determination and hard work have today to recognize and applaud Kathryn El was constructed. Klempel for receiving the Adams County May- Paul finished his career at his dream job allowed her to overcome adversities. The dedication demonstrated by Kennedi ors and Commissioners Youth Award. working at the American embassy in Tel Aviv Laubert is exemplary of the type of achieve- Kathryn Klempel received this award be- and retired in Haifa, Israel with Millie. After 63 ment that can be attained with hard work and cause her determination and hard work have years of marriage, Millie passed away and two perseverance. It is essential students at all allowed her to overcome adversities. years later, Paul moved to Mobile, Alabama levels strive to make the most of their edu- The dedication demonstrated by Kathryn following a visit with his daughter, Shoshana, cation and develop a work ethic which will Klempel is exemplary of the type of achieve- and her husband, Jake. guide them for the rest of their lives. ment that can be attained with hard work and In the past three years, Paul has embraced I extend my deepest congratulations to perseverance. It is essential students at all the Mobile culture. Paul rode on the World Kennedi Laubert for winning the Adams Coun- levels strive to make the most of their edu- War II float in a Mardi Gras parade, attended ty Mayors and Commissioners Youth Award. I cation and develop a work ethic which will every showing at the Mobile Jewish Film Fes- have no doubt she will exhibit the same dedi- guide them for the rest of their lives. I extend tival, and held season tickets to the Mobile cation and character in all of her future ac- my deepest congratulations to Kathryn Symphony. complishments. Klempel for winning the Adams County May- For his 95th birthday, Paul celebrated ac- ors and Commissioners Youth Award. I have cordingly by taking a trip to the air in a f no doubt she will exhibit the same dedication Stearman biplane, the same model he worked NEVER TOO LATE—TEXAS SPIRIT and character in all of her future accomplish- on as the mechanic’s assistant before World ments. War II. Family and friends gathered at the air- HON. TED POE f way to celebrate this momentous occasion. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of Alabama’s First OF TEXAS PAYING TRIBUTE TO WORLD WAR Congressional District, I want to commend IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES II VETERAN PAUL ROSENBLATT Paul Rosenblatt for his service to our country Thursday, May 17, 2018 ON HIS 95TH BIRTHDAY and community. America is a better place be- Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, it is with cause of Paul Rosenblatt, and we will be for- great pride to give special recognition to the HON. BRADLEY BYRNE ever grateful for his service. accomplishments and sacrifices made by an OF ALABAMA f extraordinary woman from Houston—Ieshia IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HONORING JOEY DANIEL Champs. After facing incredible challenges in her life, Ms. Champs has risen to not only em- Thursday, May 17, 2018 power herself, but other women facing similar Mr. BYRNE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay trib- HON. J. LUIS CORREA difficulties. At the age of 33, this single mother OF CALIFORNIA ute to World War II veteran Paul Rosenblatt in of 5 just graduated from Thurgood Marshall IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES honor of his 95th birthday. School of Law. Despite dropping out of high ‘‘Mr. Paul,’’ as he prefers to be called, is a Thursday, May 17, 2018 school, getting laid off, being homeless, losing Purple Heart recipient and the last remaining Mr. CORREA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to her children’s father to cancer, losing her mom member of his unit, the 9th Armored Division. honor Joey Daniel for his spectacular perform- to cancer, and losing her home to a fire Ms. His unit successfully held the Ludendorff ance in the California Interscholastic Federa- Champs did not quit. In 2009, she earned her Bridge at Remagen, releasing Allied forces tion (CIF) State wrestling championship this GED and began to turn her life around. She into Germany that ultimately led to Germany’s year where he earned a CIF state title at 220 gives all the credit to her children and her faith defeat. pounds. in God. Paul was born in Michigan in 1923 but Currently a senior at Santa Ana High Last month, Ms. Champs found herself in raised in The Bronx, New York. After the School, Mr. Daniel has already proven his ex- the dead center of the media’s attention. She death of his father, Paul began working at the cellence in wrestling by winning the Golden posted a photo with her five children, wearing age of 15. By 1942, Paul was living and work- West League championship four times, the a cap and gown, while holding a chalk board ing in Dayton, Ohio for the U.S. Army engi- CIF championship three times, the Masters sign that said, ‘‘I did it!’’ neering unit as an aircraft mechanic’s assist- Meet championship once, and the Orange Her children held chalkboard signs stating ant. As a vital member of the engineering Country championship five times during his ‘‘We did it!’’ and ‘‘I helped’’. The photo went team, his personnel officer urged him to resist wrestling career between 2014 to 2018. This viral, giving others hope. joining the Army and remain in his current po- year in March, he reached new heights and Ms. Champs grew up in the foster care sys- sition. Despite the opposition, Paul answered became the first winner of the CIF state wres- tem and struggled with thoughts of killing her- the call to serve and enlisted in the Army, tling championship in the history of Santa Ana self. She found hope in God and strength in where he was sent overseas as a mechanic High School, took second place nationally, her children. Some people would say that she for the 9th Armored Division. and was promptly named Orange County’s beat the odds, but I believe her passion, de- After serving three years, Paul was dis- boys wrestler of the year. termination, and resilient attitude along with charged from the Army and returned to his po- After graduation from high school, Mr. Dan- her faith in God ensured her the talent to fin- sition in Dayton. Here he met his wife, the late iel plans to enlist in the Marine Corps imme- ish law school. It wasn’t easy. Her kids helped

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Israel has the understanding that each person is respon- have no doubt she will exhibit the same dedi- proven itself to be a key ally politically, mili- sible for their actions and their own pursuit of cation and character in all of her future ac- tarily, and economically. the American dream is the best building complishments. Ultimately, I have had the opportunity to blocks we can give to our children. f personally visit Israel many times and can sin- On behalf of the Second Congressional Dis- cerely say that its greatest asset is its people. trict of Texas, I want to congratulate Ms. CONGRATULATING THE My sincerest well wishes on this special oc- Champs for setting an example to her children KEESEVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE casion. DEPARTMENT ON THE GRAND and giving hope to other women who are fac- f ing similar challenges. OPENING OF ITS NEW FIRE STA- And that’s just the way it is. TION YOSSELIN SILVA f HON. ELISE M. STEFANIK HON. ED PERLMUTTER IN HONOR OF CEDAR FALLS HIGH OF NEW YORK OF COLORADO SCHOOL ROCKET CLUB IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. ROD BLUM Thursday, May 17, 2018 Thursday, May 17, 2018 OF IOWA Ms. STEFANIK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES congratulate the Keeseville Volunteer Fire De- today to recognize and applaud Yosselin Silva partment on the grand opening of its new fire for receiving the Adams County Mayors and Thursday, May 17, 2018 station. Commissioners Youth Award. Mr. BLUM. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to The Keeseville Volunteer Fire Department Yosselin Silva received this award because honor an accomplished group of students from has been providing firefighting and EMS serv- her determination and hard work have allowed Cedar Falls, Iowa. The Cedar Falls High ices for the Towns of Chesterfield and AuSa- her to overcome adversities. School Rocket Club has a six-member team, ble since it was first established in 1878. For The dedication demonstrated by Yosselin consisting of Ryan Ritter, Will Burken, Erik the past 140 years, the Fire Department has Silva is exemplary of the type of achievement Walther, Andre Bryan, Randev Gooneseker, fought to protect and serve the people of that can be attained with hard work and perse- and Duncan Myer. these communities. Most recently, Keeseville’s verance. It is essential students at all levels As a result of their performance in a 2017 volunteer firefighters provided excellent first- strive to make the most of their education and national student rocket competition, the Cedar response services to hundreds of families who develop a work ethic which will guide them for Falls High School team was one of only 15 lost power from a windstorm. As a member of the rest of their lives. high school teams chosen to participate in a the Clinton County and Essex County Mutual I extend my deepest congratulations to NASA-hosted student launch this past April. Aid Systems, the Fire Department also assists Yosselin Silva for winning the Adams County With the guidance of University of Northern with emergencies throughout both counties. Mayors and Commissioners Youth Award. I Iowa student Ryan Holzaphel, mentor Tyler In late 2015, the public voted in a ref- have no doubt she will exhibit the same dedi- Sorenson, and High School teacher and advi- erendum to renovate and expand the Fire De- cation and character in all of her future ac- sor Zeb Nicholson, the team spent many partment’s outdated fire station. The project complishments. hours preparing to launch their 8-foot-tall, added four new bays, creating enough room f high-powered fiberglass rocket from NASA’s to fit all the Fire Department’s vehicles inside Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, the station. Additionally, the structural founda- PROTECTING OUR ANGELS Alabama. In addition to the student rocket tion was reinforced and the parking lot ex- ABROAD launch, these students heard from a number panded and repaved. With these improve- of speakers, toured the Marshall Space Flight ments, our dedicated firefighters will be better HON. TED POE Center, and underwent a series of rocketry re- suited to continue to serve their community. OF TEXAS views to ensure their rocket was ready for On behalf on New York’s 21st District, I IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES would like to congratulate the Keeseville Vol- flight. Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Cedar Falls High School Rocket Club unteer Fire Department as it opens its new fire team consists of intelligent and motivated stu- station. We are grateful for the firefighters’ Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Represent- dents who deserve recognition for their efforts, service, and hope that this new station will ative KENNEDY and I introduced the Sam Farr ingenuity, and interest in science. This group serve as a suitable home for many years to Peace Corps Enhancement Act to protect our of young men exemplifies the incredible talent come. Peace Corps volunteers, our angels abroad. and innovation that students in Iowa’s First f This bill builds on and extends protections District have to offer. for volunteers that became law as the result of SUPPORTING ROBUST RELATIONS f the Kate Puzey Act which I introduced and fi- WITH THE STATE OF ISRAEL BI- nally became law in 2011. H.R. 2259 protects KULANI MARTIN LATERALLY AND IN MULTILAT- volunteers at every stage of their service with ERAL FORA UPON SEVENTY the Peace Corps: the onboarding process, HON. ED PERLMUTTER YEARS OF STATEHOOD their time in country, and when they return OF COLORADO home. SPEECH OF IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Before they make a decision regarding where to serve, many potential volunteers are Thursday, May 17, 2018 HON. CHRIS STEWART OF UTAH not fully aware of critical information like Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES health risks and crime rates in various coun- today to recognize and applaud Kulani Martin tries. This bill requires the Peace Corps to for receiving the Adams County Mayors and Thursday, May 10, 2018 provide this information to volunteers upfront Commissioners Youth Award. Mr. STEWART. Mr. Speaker, it is my pleas- so that they can make an informed decision Kulani Martin received this award because ure to add my voice along with my colleagues’ regarding where to serve. her determination and hard work have allowed to congratulate the state of Israel on its 70th While they are deployed in country, the bill her to overcome adversities. anniversary. From its humble beginnings, requires that the Peace Corps ensures volun- The dedication demonstrated by Kulani Mar- Israel has faced insurmountable odds but has teers have access to qualified medical doc- tin is exemplary of the type of achievement prevailed. tors. These doctors must consult with outside that can be attained with hard work and perse- Israel is a light in the region and an exam- experts and the Center for Disease Control verance. It is essential students at all levels ple of democracy and opportunity. From its (CDC) on best practices, particularly on men- strive to make the most of their education and technological advances to its cultural wonders, tal health and malaria medications that can

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The wide-rang- service with debilitating injuries and illnesses, rights for all people—regardless of race. On ing scope of the Enquirer’s story—encom- they should not have to spend months dealing October 21, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. passing addiction, arrests, overdose, even with bureaucratic red tape at the Department spoke to Chicago and the world from the pregnancy and birth—demonstrates just how of Labor before receiving care. This bill will sanctuary at Temple Sholom, which drew pervasive and troubling the consequences of ensure they immediately receive the care they crowds from people of all denominations and the opioid crisis are for millions of Americans. need and deserve. backgrounds. Temple Sholom actively sup- A call to attention can often be a first step These common sense changes will make a ports the same ideals of inclusion, diversity, toward solving a problem like the opioid epi- big difference in ensuring the safety and secu- and opportunity for all to this day. demic. In fact, resources for law enforcement, rity of our volunteers. But this bill is just a first The success of this congregation and its health care professionals, and mental health step in protecting our volunteers. positive impact on the community is the direct counselors to fight this epidemic have become I fought long and hard for a provision that result of the commitment and passion of its more readily available than ever. unfortunately did not make it into the legisla- clergy, staff, and members. For 150 years, Mr. Speaker, I hope you’ll join me in con- tion that passed out of the House Foreign Af- Temple Sholom has provided a place of com- gratulating the Cincinnati Enquirer. fairs Committee today: to increase the dis- fort during painful times, a place of celebration f ability payment provided to disabled returned during momentous occasions, and always, a volunteers so they can make ends meet. This safe, hospitable place for reflection and pray- CELEBRATING LUNDBERG FAMILY important provision enjoyed broad support er. This institution continues to advance the vi- FARMS 80TH ANNIVERSARY from Peace Corps volunteer groups, including brancy of the 5th Congressional District’s di- Health Justice for Peace Corps and the Na- verse community. HON. JOHN GARAMENDI tional Peace Corps Association. I hope that Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me OF CALIFORNIA this provision will one day become law. How- in celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Temple IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ever, until then, the improvements in this bill Sholom. I offer my sincere congratulations to Thursday, May 17, 2018 are essential and valuable for our angels Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, Rabbi Scott Gellman, abroad. Associate Rabbi Shoshanah Conover, Cantor Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today A crucial provision that did make it in here Sheera Ben-David, and Board President Marc to honor Lundberg Family Farms on the cele- was the extension of the authorization of the Kaufman, the congregation’s past and present bration of its 80th anniversary. Sexual Assault Advisory Council for an addi- staff, and the congregates who are celebrating Since its founding in 1937 by Albert and tional 5 years. The Council was initially author- this important milestone. I wish all the best in Frances Lundberg, the rice-growing company ized by the Kate Puzey Act and serves to ad- the years ahead and hope for another 150 has expanded substantially, now producing 18 vise the Peace Corps on agency wide sexual years of important work for Temple Sholom. different varieties of rice and many other rice assault policy. Without this important bill, the f products. Lundberg has become a national council’s authority would lapse this year. leader in the marketplace, and is growing Peace Corps volunteers selflessly sacrifice RACHELLE KARDISCO quickly internationally. years of their lives to help people they have This third-generation family business has never even met. Often in some of the most HON. ED PERLMUTTER strengthened our region’s vibrant agricultural desolate, even dangerous, places of the world. OF COLORADO sector and created jobs throughout the Sac- They are the face of our country in places IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ramento Valley. Even through substantial where America’s shining beacon of hope and growth, Lundberg has continued using sustain- Thursday, May 17, 2018 liberty may not always shine so bright. Their able practices, ensuring that generations to service to our country should not turn into a Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise come can further its rich farming tradition. nightmare that ruins, or even ends their lives. today to recognize and applaud Rachelle On behalf of the people of California’s Third As a former judge, I can tell you that it is Kardisco for receiving the Adams County May- District, I congratulate Lundberg Family Farms our duty to do everything within our power to ors and Commissioners Youth Award. on its 80th anniversary, and I know that our protect our angels abroad. It’s time to stand Rachelle Kardisco received this award be- entire region joins me in wishing them contin- up and take action for our volunteers. They cause her determination and hard work have ued success in the years ahead. are some of the very best we have. allowed her to overcome adversities. f And that’s just the way it is. The dedication demonstrated by Rachelle HONORING SPC. MICHAEL LIMA ON f Kardisco is exemplary of the type of achieve- ment that can be attained with hard work and BEING NAMED 10TH MOUNTAIN HONORING TEMPLE SHOLOM perseverance. It is essential students at all DIVISION SOLDIER OF THE YEAR levels strive to make the most of their edu- HON. MIKE QUIGLEY cation and develop a work ethic which will HON. ELISE M. STEFANIK OF ILLINOIS guide them for the rest of their lives. OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I extend my deepest congratulations to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Rachelle Kardisco for winning the Adams Thursday, May 17, 2018 Thursday, May 17, 2018 County Mayors and Commissioners Youth Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Award. I have no doubt she will exhibit the Ms. STEFANIK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and celebrate the 150th Anniversary same dedication and character in all of her fu- congratulate Spc. Michael Lima on being of Temple Sholom in the Lakeview neighbor- ture accomplishments. named the 10th Mountain Division Soldier of hood of Chicago, IL. Temple Sholom plays a f the Year at Fort Drum, New York. critical role in the Reform movement in my Each year, Fort Drum holds a competition home city of Chicago and throughout the HONORING THE CINCINNATI for the prestigious title of Soldier of the Year. world. ENQUIRER’S 2018 PULITZER PRIZE The competition features an Army Physical Founded in 1867, Temple Sholom is one of Fitness Test, land navigation, marksmanship the oldest synagogues in the city. At the time, HON. BRAD R. WENSTRUP competition, an obstacle course, a six-mile most Jewish institutions were located on the OF OHIO road march and other strategy and endurance south side of Chicago, and Temple Sholom IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tests. This year, the title goes to Spc. Michael filled that neighborhood void by establishing a Lima, an infantryman for the 3rd Squadron, new community on the North Side. Having Thursday, May 17, 2018 71st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat faced the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and en- Mr. WENSTRUP. Mr. Speaker, I would like Team in the 10th Mountain Division. dured moves to several other locations over to commend the staff of the Cincinnati On behalf of the 21st District of New York, the years, the beautiful lakeside plot that is Enquirer for their coverage of the opioid epi- I would like to congratulate Spc. Michael Lima

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The foundation provided us, as it does with all patients, a critical community of med- Speaker, on Tuesday, May 15, 2018, I was ´ ical specialists and survivors and their families absent for the evening vote series. Had I been HON. NYDIA M. VELAZQUEZ to ensure that all three were given the best present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call OF NEW YORK treatment and could recover as quickly as No. 181; YEA on Roll Call No. 182; and YEA on Roll Call No. 183. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES possible. f Thursday, May 17, 2018 Tonight, Estelle is being honored by The Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ. Mr. Speaker, today I rise National Organization for Rare Disorders IN RECOGNITION OF THE 100TH to recognize and extend my sincerest wishes (NORD) with the Abbey S. Meyers Leadership BIRTHDAY OF WILBERT LANNON to a remarkable woman, Ms. Florence Bass. Award on behalf of the Foundation for their Florence was born in the heart of Brooklyn, continued dedication to supporting patients HON. WILLIAM R. KEATING New York and throughout her life, broke down with GBS, CIDP and related conditions. I call OF MASSACHUSETTS gender barriers in education and military serv- on my colleagues to join me in congratulating IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ice. Estelle Benson and recognizing the work of Thursday, May 17, 2018 Growing up in the early 20th century, Flor- the GBS/CIDP Foundation International on be- ence remembers a life in Brooklyn filled with half of patients and their families. Mr. KEATING. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in horse-drawn fire trucks, unpaved roads and recognition of Wilbert Lannon of Cotuit, Mas- time helping at her family’s neighborhood f sachusetts; who turns 100 years young on Fri- candy store. Raised in a family that valued day, May 25th. education, Florence was fortunate to attend U.S. SUGAR IS UNDER ATTACK Wilbert has been devoted to taking care of many great schools, including New York Uni- others from an early age. After growing up in versity. Roslindale, he displayed his devotion to family Later moving to New Orleans to attend HON. TED POE when—following his father’s passing—he Tulane University, Florence earned a Masters chose to stay home and help instead of at- Degree in Social Work. At the start of World OF TEXAS tending the United States Military Academy at War II, she returned to New York City serving IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES West Point. as a social worker to the Auxiliary Military In 1950, Wilbert served his country in the Hospital Services. As one point, she was sta- Thursday, May 17, 2018 United States Army Air Corps for four years. tioned at the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard, a He returned home to Roslindale and married pivotal site that’s importance to the American’s Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, American his wife Mary. They would go on to raise two efforts earned it the nickname ‘‘the Can-Do sugar is under attack on its home turf. Despite children, Elizabeth and Ferne, and spend 55 Yard.’’ costing taxpayers absolutely nothing for 14 of blissful years of marriage together. The After the war, Florence worked for the Jew- the past 15 years, some want to dismantle this Lannon Family settled in Medfield and Wilbert, ish Family and Children’s Resettlement pro- program, a program—I might add—that sup- a dedicated and caring father, supported his gram to help refugees. Now at 104, Florence ports 140,000 jobs in 22 states. family by working in the insurance business is a beloved community member living in Countries like Mexico flood and dump into until his retirement in 2010. Brooklyn Heights. I ask my colleagues to join our country cheap, low quality sugar, under- Wilbert’s daughter Elizabeth speaks incred- me in recognizing Florence Bass for her life- cutting American producers. Meanwhile, Big ibly highly of her father, noting his compassion time of hard work and service. Candy Corporations takes advantage of these and dedication to taking care of others. He f low prices then argue that their foreign com- truly understands the value of lending a hand. petitors pay less than they do, even though In 1960, he drove his family to the New York RECOGNIZING MAY AS GBS/CIDP World Fair just to see his children smile. He AWARENESS MONTH the data says otherwise. The reality is that sugar prices have stagnated over the last 30 has dedicated his life to caring for his family years, stumbling behind the rate of inflation and loved ones, including spending every mo- HON. JOHN GARAMENDI and forcing producers to work on razor-thin ment taking care of his daughter, Ferne and OF CALIFORNIA wife, Mary when they fell ill. margins. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Today, he lives in Cotuit, near his loving But Big Candy wants you to think they’re Thursday, May 17, 2018 daughter Elizabeth, where he continues to being treated unfairly. In the 80’s—back when lend a hand to the residents of his retirement Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today my hair was blonde and my right hand held a home. Wilbert, always ready to help, is truly to recognize the month of May as GBS/CIDP gavel—your average candy bar cost about 35- beloved by everyone who has the opportunity Awareness Month. Guillain-Barre´ Syndrome cents and contained a mere 2-cents worth of to cross his path. (GBS) is an inflammatory disorder of the pe- sugar. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to honor Wilbert ripheral nerves outside the brain and spinal In 2018, the average candy bar costs about Lannon on his 100th birthday. I ask that my cord and is characterized by the rapid onset of colleagues join me in wishing him many more numbness, weakness, and often paralysis of a buck-fifty and still contains only 2-cents worth of sugar in. Big Candy’s profits rise and years of good health and happiness. the legs, arms, breathing muscles, and face. f Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating they keep the little guy’s cut. Polyneuropathy (CIDP) is a rare disorder of That’s why we need U.S. sugar policy, Mr. CONGRATULATING NORTH COUN- the peripheral nerves characterized by gradu- Speaker. In the last thirty years, half of the TRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ON ally increasing sensory loss and weakness as- U.S.’s sugar operations have shut down. If Big ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY sociated with loss of reflexes. The number of Candy gets its way, the other half will soon new cases per year of CIDP is about 1–2 per follow. HON. ELISE M. STEFANIK 100,000 people, but can be as high as 9 per I appreciate fellow Texan, Chairman CON- OF NEW YORK 100,000 in some areas. AWAY’s tireless efforts in crafting this vital leg- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Founded by Estelle Benson, the GBS/CIDP Foundation International is the preeminent islation and preserving America’s Ag industry Thursday, May 17, 2018 global non-profit organization supporting indi- for another five years. I oppose any action to Ms. STEFANIK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to viduals and their families affected by Guillain- put American sugar growers out of business. honor and recognize North Country Commu- Barre´ syndrome (GBS), chronic inflammatory And that’s just the way it is. nity College on its 50th anniversary.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A17MY8.019 E17MYPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with REMARKS E676 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks May 17, 2018 North Country Community College opened bachelor’s degree in English from U.C. Berke- with a degree in accounting. Upon graduation, its doors to students and faculty for its first ley in 1976 and began his career in local jour- he joined the Army, spent three years in classes in September of 1968. The College’s nalism that same year. France, earned the rank of First Lieutenant, first graduating class had only 17 people, with For the next three years, Brad Breithaupt and was honorably discharged. When he re- certificates in practical nursing and secretarial served a variety of roles at The Ark news- turned to Houston in the 1960s, Lupe be- studies. Since then, North Country Community paper in Tiburon, ranging from reporter, to edi- friended the office supply representative at his College has taught over 50,000 students from tor, to publisher. By 1979, he started working new job and at age 26 he decided to take him all over the world and offers more than 25 for the Marin Suburban Newspaper, now up on an offer to buy the office supply com- academic disciplines. The College also has an known as Marinscope, and would go on to pany. Tejas Office Products was born. Sup- exceptional athletic history with multiple cham- serve as a reporter there for the next 4 years. plier diversity and Houston’s inclusiveness pionship winning hockey and basketball He became the managing editor for the helped Tejas grow. In the 1970’s Lupe was teams, as well as over 130 outstanding ath- Ross Valley Reporter, San Rafael News Point- given one account with Shell Oil Company. letes in the North Country Community College er, and Ignacio News. Never to pass on an extraordinary opportunity, Athletic Hall of Fame. After seven years of quality local reporting Lupe grew to all nine Houston Shell locations North Country Community College’s impact in a variety of newspaper roles, Brad and set the course for Tejas to become the on the North Country over the past 50 years Breithaupt was recruited by the Marin Inde- largest independent office products company cannot go unrecognized. As the only public pendent Journal in 1983. For the next 35 in the Houston area. college in the Adirondack Park, North Country years, Mr. Breithaupt remained at the Marin Lupe never lets anyone forget that Tejas Of- Community College prioritizes extending op- Independent Journal, where he served as a fice Products is a family-run business. His portunities to students in the area and pro- reporter, columnist, city editor, editorial writer, three children have roles in the company. viding them with skills to foster prosperity in and editorial editor, among other roles. Lupe’s son Stephen describes him as not only the local communities. During his time at the Marin Independent a loving father, but a trusted mentor who loves On behalf of New York’s 21st District, I Journal, Brad Breithaupt stayed committed to people and believes in giving back. He never would like to congratulate North Country Com- balanced reporting and shining a light on forgot his east end roots. ‘‘Dad always told us munity College on its 50th anniversary and causes in need of the public’s attention. His the community raises the child, he inspired me commend the College on its commitment to work put a spotlight on local and regional top- and my siblings to serve, he wanted all of us education in the North Country. ics including crime, community politics, and in- to help the community.’’ f frastructure hazards, driving the region’s agen- Lupe took people under his wing and made da and helping set priorities for the public and sure to offer them opportunities like he had. CONGRATULATING DR. PAUL decision-makers. He gladly introduced people into the commu- OLSEN ON RETIREMENT Mr. Speaker, Brad Breithaupt’s career rep- nity and helped them make connections. Be- resents more than a collection of articles, but cause he believed so strongly in education, he HON. CHERI BUSTOS rather a laudable example of the role that local took pride in helping Father T.J. Martinez OF ILLINOIS journalism can play in informing and sup- make the connections he needed to start IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES porting our communities. Given the adverse Cristo Rey Jesuit School. A quiet leader, Lupe conditions that local news sources increasingly would say, ‘‘My mother always taught me, be Thursday, May 17, 2018 face across the country, it seems fitting and nice to people, not expecting anything in re- Mrs. BUSTOS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to appropriate to celebrate the culmination of this turn. Just be a good person and do it for the recognize Dr. Paul Olsen, who is retiring from momentous career. Therefore, please join me right reasons.’’ Augustana College. Dr. Olsen has become a in congratulating him on his retirement and ex- Mr. Speaker, Stephen also told me, ‘‘Dad pillar in the Rock Island community, and he pressing our deep appreciation for his long taught me about relationships. He liked to get will be greatly missed. and exceptional career in local journalism. to know people and be good to people. He Dr. Olsen has spent 50 plus years coaching f knew about the value of relationships and cli- cross country and track and field at Augustana ent satisfaction before there were any books College. He has coached a total of 234 NCAA LUPE FRAGA: A HOUSTON LEGEND on the subject.’’ He was a pioneer in customer Division III All-American runners and, 26 relationship building and believed that even times, these athletes have been crowned na- HON. TED POE with technology, people want to buy from peo- tional champions. Dr. Olsen was inducted into OF TEXAS ple. Even with the emergence of big box retail- the Illinois Track and Field Coaches Associa- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ers, Lupe found a way to innovate but stay tion ‘‘Hall of Fame’’ in 2004 and went into the independent, creating a partnership with a na- Thursday, May 17, 2018 Augustana ‘‘Tribe of Vikings Hall of Fame’’ in tional office supply retailer to serve Fortune 50 2006. Dr. Olsen is a professor in the English Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Lupe and Fortune 500 clients. Department at Augustana, and is one of the Fraga is a living Houston legend. Lupe and his Lupe has earned many accolades and most popular teachers in the entire school. family are well-known in Houston. Lupe is the achievements in his life including serving on It is because of dedicated and selfless lead- owner of one of the most successful busi- the Texas A&M Board of Regents, Chairman ers such as Dr. Paul Olsen that I am espe- nesses in Texas, Tejas Office Products lo- of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank cially proud to serve Illinois’ 17th Congres- cated in the Houston Heights. When reflecting Houston, Director and Executive Committee sional District. Mr. Speaker, I would like to on his incredible career, Lupe says he was Member at the Greater Houston Partnership, again formally congratulate Dr. Paul Olsen on simply in the right place at the right time, but and Chairman Emeritus of the Houston His- his well-earned retirement and thank him for had the guiding hand of God. Mr. Speaker, he panic Chamber of Commerce. He has been all of his contributions and service to our com- always made the most of his incredible God- honored with many awards including Distin- munity. given opportunities. guished Alumnus of Texas A&M, 2015 Texas f Lupe was born in Second Ward on the east A&M Athletics Hall of Fame Lifetime Achieve- side of Houston, the youngest of six. As a ment Award, Mays Business School Out- HONORING BRAD BREITHAUPT child, another Houston legend, ‘‘Mama’’ Ninfa standing Alumnus, Fathers of the Year award Rodriguez Laurenzo, the namesake of the presented by Community Partners in Greater HON. JARED HUFFMAN world famous Ninfa’s Restaurant, was like a Houston, and the 2012 State of Texas Small OF CALIFORNIA second mother to him. This immigrant commu- Business Award. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nity with a warm family atmosphere, deep Lupe and his wife Irene have three children rooted values, and cherished relationships, and five grandchildren. He loves his Aggies Thursday, May 17, 2018 shaped Lupe’s life and career. and his Astros and spending time with his Mr. HUFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to He says when he was a kid, he was a ‘‘little grandkids. Looking back on his success, Lupe recognize Brad Breithaupt of Marin County, athletic’’ so he got a chance to play baseball has said, ‘‘It’s been an experience of people, California, on the occasion of his retirement, at St. Thomas High School. Lupe took that it’s not me, I’ve got to say that. It’s about the for 42 years of dedication to local journalism. chance and turned it into a baseball scholar- people that have helped, the people who have Brad Breithaupt was raised in Marin County, ship to Texas A&M University where he was encouraged, the people that have been there where he attended Redwood High School and a member of A Athletics and the Corps of Ca- for you. That’s what’s done it. I take no cred- College of Marin. He then graduated with a dets. He excelled at school and graduated it.’’

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A17MY8.024 E17MYPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with REMARKS May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E677 Well, today I rise in the House of Rep- viewed at the Illinois Holocaust Museum’s for the 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, resentatives to give Lupe the credit. Credit for ‘‘Take a Stand’’ Center. He was one of fifteen 2nd Brigade Combat Team in the 10th Moun- his impact on business, his impact on Texas survivors selected worldwide, a tremendous tain Division. A&M, his impact on his community and his honor, of which he was incredibly—and justifi- On behalf of the 21st District of New York, family. ably—very proud. I would like to congratulate Staff Sgt. Cain And that’s just the way it is. Mr. Elster is survived by his wife, Jac- Pavlak on winning this esteemed title. We are f queline, two sons, and three grandchildren. thankful to Staff Sgt. Pavlak for his dedicated Today, I ask my fellow colleagues to join me service to the United States. HONORING MR. AARON ELSTER in honoring and celebrating the rich life and f many accomplishments of Mr. Aaron Elster. 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF CYPRESS HON. MIKE QUIGLEY f OF ILLINOIS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN RECOGNITION OF MARYBETH CORPORATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SHEA Thursday, May 17, 2018 HON. NYDIA M. VELA´ ZQUEZ Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to HON. WILLIAM R. KEATING OF NEW YORK honor the life and legacy of an integral mem- OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ber of the Chicago community. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES On April 11th, we lost a dedicated leader of Thursday, May 17, 2018 the Jewish faith. Mr. Aaron Elster, Vice Presi- Thursday, May 17, 2018 Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today dent of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and a Mr. KEATING. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in to congratulate the leadership and staff of Cy- Holocaust Survivor passed away at the age of recognition of Marybeth Shea as she is named press Hills Local Development Corporation 86 on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom the 2018 Citizen of the Year by the Norwell (CHLDC) on their 35th anniversary. This non- HaShoah. Chamber of Commerce. profit organization located in the Cypress Hills Mr. Elster worked tirelessly to ensure that Marybeth is a pillar of the community, serv- and East New York community was created in the history of the Holocaust was not forgotten. ing on seventeen boards and committees and 1983 at the height of a nationwide grassroots He sought to provide all those he met with a being a staple in town politics and events. For movement to preserve and improve urban greater understanding of what this tragedy thirty years, she has put the people of Norwell communities. meant for the victims, the survivors, their de- first, always trying to figure out how to better Today, after thirty-five years of dedication scendants, and the entire world—both then her community. and commitment, CHLDC has helped trans- and now. After first moving to Norwell, Marybeth im- form Cypress Hills into a robust and thriving He was open about his personal experi- mediately become involved in the Parent- community. CHLDC works to provide crucial ences, recollections, and lessons learned—de- Teacher Organization. Marybeth has stepped services such as: economic development; ciding to share these dark times with others in up at every point to improve our school and homeownership and housing development; en- order to inspire a deeper sense of compassion our community. trepreneurship; education services; public and civility, while illustrating the dangers of in- Marybeth spent eight years as president of safety; and open space. CHLDC has cham- tolerance. the Norwell High School Boosters Committee, pioned many projects from helping to create During the holocaust, Aaron lived in the where she planned fundraisers and headed the first dual language school to developing Sokolow Ghetto with his two sisters, mother, countless initiatives, including the creation of more than 400 affordable housing units across and father until the closing of the ghetto in the Norwell High School Athletic Hall of Fame. the neighborhood. Thanks to their help, nu- September of 1942. He was able to escape She made every opportunity to advocate for merous hardworking local families have been the liquidation by hiding in surrounding farms the students of Norwell and worked to ensure able to realize the American Dream of home- until eventually seeking refuge in the attic of a their incredible athletic accomplishments ownership. Polish family’s home, where he hid for two would long be remembered. On this 35th anniversary, I would like to years until the end of the war. Only Aaron and Outside of school, Marybeth has become a take the opportunity to commend Michelle his older sister, Irene, survived before eventu- familiar face in local politics and does not miss Neugebauer, Executive Director, Mr. Harold ally being smuggled out of Poland to DP an opportunity to advocate and inform others Green, Board President, staff and members Camps in Western Germany. about issues that have a direct impact on the for their tireless and unconditional commitment Aaron and his sister arrived in the United town of Norwell. to our community. States in June of 1947. He was educated in Mr. Speaker, I am proud to honor Marybeth f Chicago and then went on to serve in the U.S. Shea for her dedication to her community. I Armed Forces in Korea. He was the co-author ask that my colleagues join me in thanking her KINGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL WORLD of ‘‘I Still See Her Haunting Eyes,’’ which for her work and wishing her all the best as DEBATERS chronicled the unfathomable atrocities and she continues her efforts. heartbreak he endured throughout one of the f HON. TED POE darkest times in our entire world history. Aaron OF TEXAS HONORING STAFF SGT. CAIN spoke regularly to student groups and was es- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pecially dedicated to the Holocaust Museum’s PAVLAK FOR BEING NAMED Brill Law Enforcement Action in Democracy NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER OF Thursday, May 17, 2018 Training, where he shared his childhood expe- THE YEAR Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, it is always riences with Chicago Law Enforcement Offi- a privilege to be able to recognize the cers, helping them to understand their respon- HON. ELISE M. STEFANIK achievements and hard work of outstanding sibilities while working to protect and serve our OF NEW YORK students in my community. As the 2017–2018 diverse community. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES school year is winding down, two students I echo the sentiments made by the CEO of from Kingwood High School are just getting the Holocaust Museum, Susan Abrams, when Thursday, May 17, 2018 warmed up. she wrote the following in Mr. Elster’s Obit- Ms. STEFANIK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Emily Grantham and Leila Saklou, uary: ‘‘Aaron was an incredible communicator, congratulate Staff Sgt. Cain Pavlak on being Kingwood High School eleventh graders, have able to empathize with all walks of life—stu- named the 10th Mountain Division Non- earned two of the five spots on Team USA at dents, police officers, any group who visited commissioned Officer of the Year. the World Schools Debate Championships. the museum. Aarron spoke about his experi- Each year, Fort Drum holds a competition Competing in debate tournaments at Cornell ence in the Holocaust with such emotion that for the prestigious title of Noncommissioned University, Harvard University, Los Angeles, you could not help but be moved and have a Officer of the Year. The competition features Germany, Croatia, and Taiwan, Emily and desire to act and make the world a better an Army Physical Fitness Test, land naviga- Leila have traveled the world. place.’’ tion, marksmanship competition, an obstacle Debate creates leaders. I also commend Luckily, future generations will have the course, a six-mile road march and other strat- Emily and Leila’s debate team and their privilege of hearing Aaron Elster’s story egy and endurance tests. This year, the title coaches at Kingwood High School. Young through his interactive hologram, which can be goes to Staff Sgt. Cain Pavlak, a cavalry scout men and women of all backgrounds have

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A17MY8.027 E17MYPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with REMARKS E678 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks May 17, 2018 come together, working as a team, to accom- IN RECOGNITION OF GENERAL H.R. Farm Bill as bipartisan, when in fact, this is an plish a single goal. This teamwork serves as MCMASTER assault on the working poor, the disadvan- an example for all of us. Congress should take taged, seniors, and veterans. notice of this squad. HON. BRETT GUTHRIE Mr. Speaker, in Pennsylvania that would The World Schools Debate Championships OF KENTUCKY translate to an additional 199,000 individuals will be held this summer in Croatia from July IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES between the ages of 50 to 59 who would face cuts to their SNAP benefits. It is more difficult 17 to July 27. More than 50 countries compete Thursday, May 17, 2018 at this 10 day global competition for high for older individuals to find work when unem- school debate teams each year, discussing 13 Mr. GUTHRIE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ployed and many people want to work more diverse topics such as politics, philosophy, recognize the retirement of Lieutenant General than 25 hours, but simply cannot due to lack technology, and law. This global event pro- H.R. McMaster. General McMaster has served of available hours, children, or age. motes excellence, creativity, and critical think- in our military honorably for 34 years, and our Almost 2 million Pennsylvanians benefit ing. Emily and Leila’s success in the world country is better for it. from the SNAP, with over 215,000 in my Dis- class event is inspiring. I first met General McMaster during our time trict alone, and with the majority of benefits at the United States Military Academy. Gen- As a past patron of the World Schools De- going to those in great need. This bill before eral McMaster was my squad leader for Cadet us is unworkable for Philadelphia. It fails them, bate Championships, Nelson Mandela, said, Basic Training, known as ‘‘Beast Barracks.’’ ‘‘A winner is a dreamer who never gives up’’. the process fails them, and for that I give this General McMaster, being from Pennsylvania, bill an F. Emily and Leila are already winners in my was amused by my then-Alabama accent. He book, and have demonstrated an exceptionally gave me the nickname Huckleberry, which is f high standard of excellence and talent. These how I am still referred to by my West Point girls have earned the distinction of rep- classmates. HONORING LLOYD KNIGHT resenting not only Texas, but the United General McMaster was an excellent leader States. I know they will represent us with pride as a senior cadet, and he went on to be a HON. DOUG COLLINS and dignity. Congratulations to Emily and Leila highly decorated soldier as a junior officer in OF GEORGIA for their outstanding achievements. My best the first Gulf War. As he moved up the ranks wishes are with them this summer. in the my, he continued to be an outstanding IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Go Team USA, and Kingwood Strong. leader, commanding troops overseas in Iraq. I Thursday, May 17, 2018 And that’s just the way it is. was pleased when President Trump nomi- nated General McMaster to be National Secu- Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Lloyd Knight. Lloyd f rity Advisor and think he did a fantastic job in that role. was recently awarded the Jim Casey Commu- nity Service Award—one of the highest HONORING PAM ROMANO I wholeheartedly agree with those who have called General McMaster the ‘‘greatest solider awards given to United Parcel Service em- of his generation.’’ It was an honor to serve ployees. HON. DOUG COLLINS under his leadership at West Point and I wish Lloyd has been a part of the UPS team for him all the best in his retirement. I hope it in- over 10 years, joining the company after OF GEORGIA cludes a lot of time spent reading and enjoy- spending 20 years in the United States Air IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing the comfort of his famous Hawaiian shirts. Force. Over his time at UPS, he rose to the f position of Global Forwarding Freight Director Thursday, May 17, 2018 and founded the UPS Veterans Business Re- AGRICULTURE AND NUTRITION source Group. Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I ACT OF 2018 rise today to recognize my friend from Jeffer- A veteran himself, Lloyd helped found VETLANTA, an organization committed to son, Pam Romano—a tireless advocate for SPEECH OF adoptive families and children around the bringing together the business community, world. HON. DWIGHT EVANS non-profits, and government to help make the OF PENNSYLVANIA Atlanta region the best destination in the coun- In 2012, Pam and her husband Mark began try for veterans. Additionally, Lloyd dedicates IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the process of adopting two Russian brothers, his spare time to veterans through his involve- Bogdon and Yura. In the same year, though, Wednesday, May 16, 2018 ment in Hire Heroes USA and American Cor- Russia enforced a ban on adoptions to the The House in Committee of the Whole porate Partners. United States, separating the Romanos from House on the state of the Union had under Lloyd has served both his country and their sons. consideration the bill (H.R. 2) to provide for neighbors in Georgia through his tireless serv- Since then, Pam and her husband Mark the reform and continuation of agricultural ice, leaving a lasting impact on local veterans have assisted children caught in the cross- and other programs of the Department of Ag- riculture through fiscal year 2023, and for and his community. hairs of this ban—like their two sons—by rais- other purposes: Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Lloyd for the ing awareness on the issues dividing adoptive compassion he has shown others and con- Mr. EVANS. Mr. Chair, I rise in strong oppo- families. By meeting with lawmakers and shar- gratulate him on this well-deserved honor. ing her family’s story with others, Pam hopes sition to H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018. When Ranking Member PETER- to one day reunite with Bogdon and Yura. f SON, who has done four Farm Bills and is one Last year, the Congressional Coalition on of the most moderate in our Caucus, is upset PERSONAL EXPLANATION Adoption Institute honored Pam as an Angel in with the process and the result, it tells you that Adoption, a title given to leaders who have the well has been poisoned. But let me tell made extraordinary strides in helping children you a little about me and why I chose to be HON. ROSA L. DeLAURO in need of a family. Moreover, her efforts in- on the Agriculture Committee. OF CONNECTICUT spired me to recently introduce the Inter- I came from the Commonwealth of Pennsyl- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES country Adoption Information Act—a bill de- vania where I was proud to serve as Chair- Thursday, May 17, 2018 signed to bring transparency to the inter- man of the state legislature’s Appropriations national adoption landscape, where families Committee for twenty years. Ms. DELAURO. Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, often struggle to access up-to-date, accurate There, I was able to secure billions of dol- May 10th 2018, I experienced a family emer- information they need. to navigate the adop- lars for state programs that addressed urban gency and so I missed Roll Call vote number tion process. and rural needs, roads and bridges, schools, 178 regarding the ‘‘Titus Amendment’’ (A003). Pam’s efforts to bring her children home re- the first Healthy Food Financing Initiative, and Had I been present, I would have voted ‘‘Yes.’’ minds us of the unwavering power of a moth- most importantly, many, many Agriculture pro- I also missed Roll Call vote number 179 re- er’s love. I’m grateful for her dedication to grams around the entire state of Pennsylvania. garding the ‘‘Nuclear Waste Policy Amend- bridging the bureaucratic gaps between fami- We should be in the business of first doing ments Act of 2018’’ (H.R. 3053). Had I been lies and their adopted children. no harm, but here we are trying to pass off the present, I would have voted ‘‘No.’’

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:21 May 18, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17MY8.032 E17MYPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with REMARKS May 17, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E679 RECOGNIZING THE LIFE AND LEG- Later on, in 1979, Doris was elected to the compassion to fight for those that could not ACY OF MRS. DORIS MARGARET San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Eleven fight for themselves. I ask all my colleagues to WARD short years later, she became the San Fran- join me in celebrating her life and in honoring cisco Board of Supervisors’ first African Amer- the outstanding legacy she has left for all of HON. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON ican President. us to remember her by. OF TEXAS In 1996, Doris was first appointed to, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES then elected as the San Francisco County As- f sessor Recorder. She retired in 2006 with a Thursday, May 17, 2018 remarkable, long-term record of political activ- CONGRATULATING THE JOHNSON Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. ism. Doris is a Founding Member of the San HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER TEAM Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of Francisco Chapter of 100 Black Women Incor- a passionate civil rights activist, committed porated, and Black Women Stirring the HON. DOUG COLLINS community servant, and my dear friend—Doris Waters. She led the African-American Action OF GEORGIA Margaret Ward. She embodied the ideal of Network and served as Board Vice President what it means to be a true public servant and of the Black Coalition on AIDS, which later be- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to selflessly give of her time and talents for came the Rafiki Coalition for Health and Thursday, May 17, 2018 the betterment of others. Wellness. Of Mrs. Ward’s numerous accom- Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I The Honorable Doris Ward graduated from plishments and accolades, what brought her rise today to congratulate the Johnson High Froebel High School, of Gary, Indiana, where the most joy was her sponsorship and co- School boys’ soccer team on winning the state she mastered the art of debating, helping her sponsorship of legislation governing minority title. This honor marks the first state cham- debate team win a championship while serving businesses, rent control mandates for San pionship in the program’s history. as team leader. She, later, earned both her Francisco apartment vacancies, and the dives- Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Education titure in South Africa’ s apartheid. A few years ago, the Knights suffered a from the University of Indiana. She continued Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire tough defeat in the 2014 championship game, her education by earning a Master’s Degree in Ward family, Mrs. Ward’s friends, and her ad- and, in 2016, a loss in the first round of the Counseling from the San Francisco State Uni- mirers. There are many whose lives were playoffs prevented the team from advancing to versity of California. It was there that her pas- greatly enhanced by the endless service, the the title match up. sion for social activism blossomed as she profound graciousness, and the pure love that Seeking redemption, the Knights powered joined other students during sit-in protests. she carried in her heart and soul. It is my through the playoffs and earned a rematch This experience led her to become the Presi- hope that the outpouring of love that sur- against McIntosh High School, a team that dent of the Indianapolis National Association rounds her loved ones gives you all the bested the Knights during the regular season. for the Advancement of Colored People’s strength to embrace each coming day with a This victory testifies to the team’s deter- (NAACP) Metropolitan Council. spirit of strength and peace. mination and the support they’ve received Doris also taught in the Indianapolis School Mr. Speaker, I would like to again formally from Gainesville residents. District before marrying a law student by the recognize Mrs. Doris Ward’s 86 years of life Mr. Speaker, I am honored to congratulate name of John Ward. After moving to San and the tremendous impact she has had the Knights on their hard-earned success, and Francisco in 1968, she became a Trustee of throughout. Her record of political and social I look forward to seeing what next season has the San Francisco Community College District. activism is only superseded by her incredible in store for this team.

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HIGHLIGHTS Senate confirmed the nomination of Gina Haspel, of Kentucky, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Senate United States Government for fiscal year 2019 and Chamber Action setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fis- Routine Proceedings, pages S2735–S2780 cal years 2020 through 2028. Pages S2736–48 Measures Introduced: Fourteen bills and two reso- Prior to the consideration of this measure, Senate lutions were introduced, as follows: S. 2872–2885, took the following action: and S. Res. 515–516. Page S2773 Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Legisla- tive Session. Page S2735 Measures Passed: House Messages: National Volcano Early Warning and Moni- Veterans Cemetery Benefit Correction Act— toring System Act: Senate passed S. 346, to provide Agreement: Senate began consideration of the for the establishment of the National Volcano Early amendment of the House to S. 2372, to amend title Warning and Monitoring System, after agreeing to 38, United States Code, to provide outer burial re- the committee amendments, and the following ceptacles for remains buried in National Parks, after amendment proposed thereto: Pages S2776–78 agreeing to the motion to proceed, and taking action McConnell (for Murkowski) Amendment No. on the following motions and amendments proposed 2252, to modify the authorization of appropriations. thereto: Pages S2761–62, S2762–68 Pages S2777–78 Pending: Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu- McConnell motion to concur in the amendment of tion: Committee on Rules and Administration was the House to the bill. Page S2761 discharged from further consideration of S.J. Res. 60, McConnell motion to concur in the amendment of providing for the reappointment of Barbara M. Bar- the House to the bill, with McConnell Amendment rett as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of No. 2246 (to the House Amendment to the bill), to the Smithsonian Institution, and the resolution was change the enactment date. Page S2761 then passed. Page S2778 McConnell Amendment No. 2247 (to Amend- 70th Anniversary of the Reactivation in 1948 of ment No. 2246), of a perfecting nature. Page S2761 the 3d Infantry Regiment: Senate agreed to S. Res. McConnell motion to refer the message of the 515, honoring the 70th anniversary of the reactiva- House on the bill to the Committee on Veterans’ tion in 1948 of the 3d Infantry Regiment of the Affairs, with instructions, McConnell Amendment United States Army. Page S2778 No. 2248, to change the enactment date. Pages S2761–62 National Physical Education and Sport Week: McConnell Amendment No. 2249 (to (the in- Senate agreed to S. Res. 516, designating the week structions) Amendment No. 2248), of a perfecting of May 1 through May 7, 2018, as ‘‘National Phys- nature. Page S2762 ical Education and Sport Week’’. Page S2778 McConnell Amendment No. 2250 (to Amend- Measures Considered: ment No. 2249), of a perfecting nature. Page S2762 Budget Resolution: By 21 yeas to 76 nays (Vote A motion was entered to close further debate on No. 99), Senate rejected Paul motion to proceed to McConnell motion to concur in the amendment of consideration of S. Con. Res. 36, a concurrent resolu- the House to the bill, and, in accordance with the tion setting forth the congressional budget for the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of D540

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Page S2761 May 17, 2018 ripen at 5:30 p.m., on Monday, May A unanimous-consent agreement was reached pro- 21, 2018. Pages S2778–79 viding that the filing deadline for first-degree McWilliams Nomination—Cloture: Senate began amendments to the House message to accompany the consideration of the nomination of Jelena bill be at 5 p.m., on Monday, May 21, 2018. McWilliams, of Ohio, to be Chairperson of the Pages S2778–79 Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Messages from the President: Senate received the Corporation. Page S2762 following messages from the President of the United A motion was entered to close further debate on States: the nomination, and, in accordance with the provi- sions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Transmitting, pursuant to law, a social security Senate, a vote on cloture will occur upon disposition totalization agreement with Iceland, titled ‘‘Agree- of the House message to accompany S. 2372, to ment on Social Security between the United States amend title 38, United States Code, to provide outer of America and Iceland’’ and the accompanying le- burial receptacles for remains buried in National gally binding administrative arrangement titled Parks. Page S2762 ‘‘Administrative Arrangement between the Com- Prior to the consideration of this nomination, Sen- petent Authorities of the United States of America ate took the following action: and Iceland for the Implementation of the Agree- Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Legisla- ment on Social Security between the United States tive Session. Page S2762 of America and Iceland’’; which was referred to the Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Execu- Committee on Finance. (PM–38) Page S2772 tive Session to consider the nomination. Page S2762 Transmitting, pursuant to law, a social security totalization agreement with Slovenia, titled ‘‘Agree- McWilliams Nomination—Cloture: Senate began ment on Social Security between the United States consideration of the nomination of Jelena of America and the Republic of Slovenia’’ and the McWilliams, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Board accompanying legally binding administrative ar- of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor- poration. Page S2762 rangement titled ‘‘Administrative Arrangement be- A motion was entered to close further debate on tween the United States of America and the Repub- the nomination, and, in accordance with the provi- lic of Slovenia for the Implementation of the Agree- sions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the ment on Social Security between the United States Senate, a vote on cloture will occur upon disposition of America and the Republic Slovenia’’; which was of the nomination of Jelena McWilliams, of Ohio, to referred to the Committee on Finance. (PM–39) be Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Fed- Page S2772 eral Deposit Insurance Corporation. Page S2762 Baiocco Nomination—Cloture: Senate began con- Prior to the consideration of this nomination, Sen- sideration of the nomination of Dana Baiocco, of ate took the following action: Ohio, to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Prod- Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Legisla- uct Safety Commission. Page S2761 tive Session. Page S2762 A motion was entered to close further debate on Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Execu- the nomination, and, in accordance with the provi- tive Session to consider the nomination. Page S2762 sions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Evans Nomination—Cloture: Senate began consid- Senate, and pursuant to the unanimous-consent eration of the nomination of James Randolph Evans, agreement of Thursday, May 17, 2018, a vote on of Georgia, to be Ambassador to Luxembourg, De- cloture will occur at 5:30 p.m., on Monday, May 21, partment of State. Page S2762 2018. Page S2761 A motion was entered to close further debate on Prior to the consideration of this nomination, Sen- the nomination, and, in accordance with the provi- ate took the following action: sions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Legisla- Senate, a vote on cloture will occur upon disposition tive Session. 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be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Fed- Amendments Submitted: Page S2776 Page S2762 eral Deposit Insurance Corporation. Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S2776 Prior to the consideration of this nomination, Sen- ate took the following action: Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Legisla- (Total—101) Pages S2747, S2760–61 tive Session. Page S2762 Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Execu- adjourned at 5:10 p.m., until 3 p.m. on Monday, tive Session to consider the nomination. Page S2762 May 21, 2018. (For Senate’s program, see the re- Montgomery Nomination—Agreement: A unani- marks of the Majority Leader in today’s Record on mous-consent-time agreement was reached providing pages S2778–79.) that at a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, in consultation with the Democratic Leader, Committee Meetings Senate begin consideration of the nomination of Brian D. Montgomery, of Texas, to be an Assistant (Committees not listed did not meet) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and APPROPRIATIONS: AIR FORCE that there be four hours of debate, equally divided in the usual form, and that following the use or Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Depart- yielding back of time, Senate vote on confirmation ment of Defense concluded a hearing to examine of the nomination, with no intervening action or de- proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal bate. year 2019 for the Department of the Air Force, after receiving testimony from Heather Wilson, Secretary Nomination Confirmed: Senate confirmed the fol- of the Air Force, and General David L. Goldfein, lowing nomination: Chief of Staff of the Air Force, both of the Depart- By 54 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. EX. 101), Gina ment of Defense. Haspel, of Kentucky, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Pages S2735, S2748–61 APPROPRIATIONS: NATIONAL INSTITUTES During consideration of this nomination today, OF HEALTH Senate also took the following action: Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Depart- By 54 yeas to 44 nays (Vote No. 100), Senate ments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and agreed to the motion to close further debate on the Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hear- nomination. Pages S2735, S2748–60 ing to examine proposed budget estimates and jus- Prior to the consideration of this nomination, Sen- tification for fiscal year 2019 for the National Insti- ate took the following action: tutes of Health, after receiving testimony from Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Execu- Francis S. Collins, Director, Norman Sharpless, Di- tive Session to consider the nomination. rector, National Cancer Institute, Walter Koroshetz, Pages S2735, S2748 Director, National Institute of Neurological Dis- Nominations Received: Senate received the fol- orders and Stroke, Anthony Fauci, Director, National lowing nominations: Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Richard 67 Army nominations in the rank of general. Hodes, Director, National Institute on Aging, and 7 Coast Guard nominations in the rank of admi- Nora Volkow, Director, National Institute on Drug ral. Abuse, all of the National Institutes of Health. 2 Marine Corps nominations in the rank of gen- APPROPRIATIONS: FCC AND FTC eral. 1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral. Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Finan- Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, and Navy. cial Services and General Government concluded a Pages S2779–80 hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2019 for the Federal Messages from the House: Pages S2772–73 Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Measures Referred: Page S2773 Commission, after receiving testimony from Ajit Pai, Measures Read the First Time: Pages S2742, S2773 Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; and Joseph Simons, Chairman, Federal Trade Com- Executive Reports of Committees: Page S2773 mission. Additional Cosponsors: Pages S2773–75 BUSINESS MEETING Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee Pages S2775–76 ordered favorably reported the following business Additional Statements: Pages S2770–72 items:

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S. 436, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior S. 2857, to designate the Nordic Museum in Se- to retire coal preference right lease applications for attle, Washington, as the ‘‘National Nordic Mu- which the Secretary has made an affirmative com- seum’’; mercial quantities determination, to substitute cer- H.R. 497, to direct the Secretary of the Interior tain land selections of the Navajo Nation, to des- to convey certain Federal lands in San Bernardino ignate certain wilderness areas, with an amendment; County, California, to the San Bernardino Valley S. 440, to establish a procedure for the conveyance Water Conservation District, and to accept in return of certain Federal property around the Dickinson certain non-Federal lands; Reservoir in the State of North Dakota, with an H.R. 965, to redesignate the Saint-Gaudens Na- amendment in the nature of a substitute; tional Historic Site as the ‘‘Saint-Gaudens National S. 612, and H.R. 1547, bills to provide for the unencumbering of title to non-Federal land owned Historical Park’’; by the city of Tucson, Arizona, for purposes of eco- H.R. 995, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture nomic development by conveyance of the Federal re- and the Secretary of the Interior to modernize terms versionary interest to the City; in certain regulations, with amendments; S. 930, to require the Administrator of the West- H.R. 1900, to designate the Veterans Memorial ern Area Power Administration to establish a pilot and Museum in Columbus, Ohio, as the National project to provide increased transparency for cus- Veterans Memorial and Museum; tomers, with an amendment in the nature of a sub- H.R. 2582, to authorize the State of Utah to se- stitute; lect certain lands that are available for disposal under S. 1030, to require the Federal Energy Regulatory the Pony Express Resource Management Plan to be Commission to submit to Congress a report on cer- used for the support and benefit of State institutions; tain hydropower projects, with an amendment in the H.R. 2768, to designate certain mountain peaks nature of a substitute; in the State of Colorado as ‘‘Fowler Peak’’ and S. 1142, to extend the deadline for commence- ‘‘Boskoff Peak’’; ment of construction of certain hydroelectric H.R. 2786, to amend the Federal Power Act with projects, with an amendment in the nature of a sub- respect to the criteria and process to qualify as a stitute; qualifying conduit hydropower facility, with an S. 1459, to establish Fort Sumter and Fort amendment; Moultrie National Park in the State of South Caro- H.R. 2897, to authorize the Mayor of the District lina, with an amendment in the nature of a sub- stitute; of Columbia and the Director of the National Park S. 1573, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior Service to enter into cooperative management agree- and the Secretary of Agriculture to place signage on ments for the operation, maintenance, and manage- Federal land along the trail known as the ‘‘American ment of units of the National Park System in the Discovery Trail’’, with an amendment; District of Columbia, with an amendment in the na- S. 1645, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior ture of a substitute; and to conduct a special resource study of P.S. 103 in The nomination of Aimee Kathryn Jorjani, of West Baltimore, Maryland; Wisconsin, to be Chairman of the Advisory Council S. 1646, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior on Historic Preservation. to conduct a special resource study of President Sta- tion in Baltimore, Maryland, with an amendment; AMERICA’S WATER INFRASTRUCTURE ACT S. 2074, to establish a procedure for the convey- Committee on Environment and Public Works: Com- ance of certain Federal property around the James- mittee concluded a hearing to examine S. 2800, to town Reservoir in the State of North Dakota, with provide for the conservation and development of an amendment in the nature of a substitute; S. 2102, to clarify the boundary of Acadia Na- water and related resources, to authorize the Sec- tional Park, with an amendment in the nature of a retary of the Army to construct various projects for substitute; improvements to rivers and harbors of the United H.R. 4609, to provide for the conveyance of a States, after receiving testimony from R.D. James, Forest Service site in Dolores County, Colorado, to Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), De- be used for a fire station; partment of Defense.

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Rept. nutrition assistance program as a household member 115–679) that directs the USFS and DOI to make due to failure to meet the requirements under sub- vacant allotments available to grazing permit or lease paragraph (B), the remaining household members holders in the event of a natural disaster, conflict (including children), shall not become ineligible to with wildlife, or court-issued injunction; to prevent apply to participate in the supplemental nutrition a court injunction in the event that the federal agen- assistance program due to such individuals ineligi- cy is unable to make a vacant allotment available. bility; Pages H4189–91 Pages H4204–05 Holding amendment (No. 11 printed in H. Rept. Rejected: 115–679) that ends eligibility for the Supplemental Foxx amendment (No. 1 printed in H. Rept. Nutrition Assistance Program for convicted violent 115–679) that sought to modernize and reform the rapists, pedophiles and murderers after enactment sugar program by removing barriers to domestic pro- into law; Page H4191 duction and implementing market reforms (by a re- Gonza´lez-Colo´n amendment (No. 12 printed in corded vote of 137 ayes to 278 noes, Roll No. 193); H. Rept. 115–679) that requires the Secretary of Pages H4174–77, H4196 Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study on devel- McClintock amendment (No. 3 printed in H. oping a Thrifty Food Plan to calculate the amount Rept. 115–679) that sought to phase out agricul- of the Nutritional Assistance Program for Puerto tural subsidies (by a recorded vote of 34 ayes to 380 Rico; Pages H4191–92 noes, Roll No. 194); Pages H4181–84, H4196–97 Young (AK) amendment (No. 14 printed in H. McClintock amendment (No. 8 printed in H. Rept. 115–679) that expands access to traditional Rept. 115–679) that sought to amend SNAP work foods for native populations first created in Sec. requirements to repeal geographic area waivers to 4033 of PL 113–79; Page H4194 allow states to exempt only 5% of SNAP recipients, Gonz´lez-Colo´n amendment (No. 15 printed in H. set the same hour per week work requirement for Rept. 115–679) that requires the Secretary of Agri- married parents as for single parents, exempt parents culture to provide an extension of study on com- of children under 3 instead of children under 6, and parable access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance require participants in training programs to go for Puerto Rico; Pages H4194–95 through E Verify (by a recorded vote of 83 ayes to Faso amendment (No. 13 printed in H. Rept. 330 noes, Roll No. 195); and 115–679) that provides states the flexibility to con- Pages H4186–88, H4197–98 tract out administrative functions of SNAP (by a re- Biggs amendment (No. 16 printed in H. Rept. corded vote of 222 ayes to 192 noes, Roll No. 196); 115–679) that sought to repeal the bioenergy sub- Pages H4192–94, H4198 sidy programs established in title IX of the 2002 Westerman amendment (No. 13 printed in part C farm bill (by a recorded vote of 75 ayes to 340 noes, of H. Rept. 115–677) that requires the Forest Serv- Roll No. 197). Pages H4195–96, H4198–99 ice to consider long-term health of our nations for- Withdrawn: ests when developing collaborative management Rogers (AL) amendment (No. 5 printed in H. plans, and shields agency decision making from cer- Rept. 115–679) that amends the Conservation Title tain injunctions on sustainable forest management to cap the number of CRP acres at 24 million a (by a recorded vote of 224 ayes to 191 noes, Roll year. Page H4185 No. 198); Pages H4167–68, H4199–H4200 Proceedings Postponed: Young (AK) amendment (No. 14 printed in part Russell amendment (No. 17 printed in H. Rept. C of H. Rept. 115–677) that exempts all National 115–679) that seeks to amends the Agricultural Forests in Alaska from the U.S. Forest Service Risk Protection act of 2000 to prohibit the Depart- Roadless Rule (by a recorded vote of 208 ayes to ment of Agriculture (USDA) from awarding value- 207 noes, Roll No. 199); Pages H4168–70, H4200–01 added agricultural product market development Turner amendment (No. 18 printed in H. Rept. grants to support the marketing of beer, wine, dis- 115–679) that ensures that newly designated 1890 tilled spirits, hard cider, or other alcohol products; Institution’s base funding is calculated by using the the amendment also rescinds $8 million of the unob- same formula as already established 1890 Institu- ligated funds that were previously provided to tions; Pages H4203–04 USDA for grants. 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Committee on Education and the Workforce: Full Com- Pages H4150–63 mittee held a hearing entitled ‘‘Protecting Privacy, Unanimous Consent Agreement: Agreed by unan- Promoting Data Security: Exploring How Schools imous consent that during further consideration of and States Keep Data Safe’’. Testimony was heard H.R. 2 in the Committee of the Whole, pursuant to from David Couch, K–12 CIO and Associate Com- House Resolution 900, amendment numbered 7 missioner, Kentucky Office of Education Tech- printed in House Report 115–679 may be consid- nology; Gary Lilly, Superintendent, Bristol Ten- ered out of sequence. Page H4188 nessee City Schools; and public witnesses. Discharge Petition: Representative Doyle presented MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES to the clerk a motion to discharge the Committee on Committee on Energy and Commerce: Full Committee Rules from the consideration of H. Res. 873, pro- held a markup on H.R. 4684, the ‘‘Ensuring Access viding for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. to Quality Sober Living Act of 2018’’; H.R. 5329, Res. 129) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the ‘‘Poison Center Network Enhancement Act of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications 2018’’; H.R. 5580, the ‘‘STOP Fentanyl Deaths Act Commission relating to ‘‘Restoring Internet Free- of 2018’’; H.R. 5587, the ‘‘Peer Support Commu- dom’’ (Discharge Petition No. 11). nities of Recovery Act’’; H.R. 5795, the ‘‘Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act’’; H.R. 5812, the Presidential Messages: Read a message from the ‘‘Creating Opportunities that Necessitate New and President wherein he transmitted an Agreement on Enhanced Connections That Improve Opioid Naviga- Social Security between the United States of America tion Strategies Act’’; H.R. 5590, the ‘‘Opioid Addic- and the Republic of Slovenia—referred to the Com- tion Action Plan Act’’; H.R. 5603, the ‘‘Access to mittee on Ways and Means and ordered to be print- Telehealth Services for Opioid Use Disorder’’; H.R. ed (H. Doc. 115–125). Page H4150 5605, the ‘‘Advancing High Quality Treatment for Read a message from the President wherein he Opioid Use Disorders in Medicare Act’’; H.R. 5798, transmitted an Agreement on Social Security be- the ‘‘Opioid Screening and Chronic Pain Manage- tween the United States of America and Iceland— ment Alternatives for Seniors Act’’; H.R. 5804, the referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ‘‘Post-Surgical Injections as an Opioid Alternative ordered to be printed (H. Doc. 115–127). Page H4205 Act’’; H.R. 5809, the ‘‘Postoperative Opioid Preven- Senate Referral: S. 2349 was referred to the Com- tion Act of 2018’’; H.R. 5715, the ‘‘Strengthening mittee on the Judiciary. Page H4207 Partnerships to Prevent Opioid Abuse Act’’; H.R. Senate Message: Message received from the Senate 5716, the ‘‘Commit to Opioid Medical Prescriber today appears on page H4164. Accountability and Safety for Seniors Act’’; H.R. 5796, the ‘‘Responsible Education Achieves Care and Quorum Calls—Votes: Two yea-and-nay votes and Healthy Outcomes for Users’ Treatment Act of eight recorded votes developed during the pro- 2018’’; H.R. 1925, the ‘‘At-Risk Youth Medicaid ceedings of today and appear on pages H4162, Protection Act of 2017’’; H.R. 3192, the ‘‘CHIP H4162–63, H4163–64, H4196, H4197, H4197–98, Mental Health Parity Act’’; H.R. 4005, the ‘‘Med- H4198, H4199, H4199–H4200, and H4200–01. icaid Reentry Act’’; H.R. 4998, the ‘‘Health Insur- There were no quorum calls. ance for Former Foster Youth Act’’; H.R. 5477, the Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and ad- ‘‘Rural Development of Opioid Capacity Services journed at 7:15 p.m. Act’’; H.R. 5583, the ‘‘Requiring Medicaid Pro- grams to Report on All Core Behavioral Health Committee Meetings Measures’’; H.R. 5789, to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicaid coverage MISCELLANEOUS MEASURE protections for pregnant and postpartum women Committee on Appropriations: Full Committee held a while receiving inpatient treatment for a substance markup on the FY 2019 Commerce, Justice, Science, use disorder; H.R. 5797, the ‘‘IMD CARE Act’’; and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. 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Act’’; H.R. 5800, the ‘‘Medicaid IMD ADDI- ities Prevention Act of 2017’’. H.R. 4989 was or- TIONAL INFO Act’’; H.R. 5801, the ‘‘Medicaid dered reported, without amendment. H.R. 1911, PARTNERSHIP Act’’; H.R. 5808, the ‘‘Medicaid H.R. 2259, H.R. 3030, H.R. 5626, H.R. 5754, and Pharmaceutical Home Act of 2018’’; H.R. 5810, the H.R. 5819 were ordered reported, as amended. ‘‘Medicaid Health HOME Act’’; H.R. 5228, the ‘‘Stop Counterfeit Drugs by Regulating and Enhanc- GLOBAL HEALTH SUPPLY CHAIN ing Enforcement Now Act’’; H.R. 5752, the ‘‘Stop MANAGEMENT: LESSONS LEARNED AND Illicit Drug Importation Act of 2018’’; H.R. 5806, WAYS FORWARD the ‘‘21st Century Tools for Pain and Addiction Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Africa, Treatments’’; and H.R. 5811, to amend the Federal Global Health, Global Human Rights, and Inter- Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to post- national Organizations held a hearing entitled approval study requirements for certain controlled ‘‘Global Health Supply Chain Management: Lessons substances, and for other purposes. H.R. 5228, H.R. Learned and Ways Forward’’. Testimony was heard 5752, H.R. 5811, H.R. 3192, H.R. 4005, H.R. from Irene Koek, Senior Deputy Assistant Adminis- 4998, H.R. 5477, H.R. 5789, H.R. 5797, H.R. trator, Global Health Bureau, U.S. Agency for Inter- 5799, H.R. 5801, H.R. 5810, H.R. 5715, H.R. national Development; and Deborah L. Birx, M.D., 5590, H.R. 5603, H.R. 5605, H.R. 5329, H.R. U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Special Rep- 5587, and H.R. 5795 were ordered reported, as resentative for Global Health Diplomacy, Depart- amended. H.R. 5806, H.R. 1925, H.R. 5583, H.R. ment of State. 5800, H.R. 5808, H.R. 5716, H.R. 5796, H.R. ASSESSING THE TSA CHECKPOINT: THE 5798, H.R. 4684, H.R. 5580, H.R. 5804, H.R. PRECHECK PROGRAM AND AIRPORT WAIT 5809, and H.R. 5812 were ordered reported, with- TIMES out amendment. Committee on Homeland Security: Subcommittee on COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK Transportation and Protective Security held a hear- GRANT-DISASTER RECOVERY PROGRAM— ing entitled ‘‘Assessing the TSA Checkpoint: The STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVES PreCheck Program and Airport Wait Times’’. Testi- Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on mony was heard from Darby LaJoye, Assistant Ad- Oversight and Investigations held a hearing entitled ministrator, Office of Security Operations, Transpor- ‘‘Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Re- tation Security Administration, Department of covery Program—Stakeholder Perspectives’’. Testi- Homeland Security; William Russell, Acting Direc- mony was heard from Stephen Costello, Chief Resil- tor, Homeland Security and Justice Team, Govern- ience Officer, Office of the Mayor, Houston, Texas; ment Accountability Office; and public witnesses. Rodney Ellis, Commissioner, Harris County, Texas; MISCELLANEOUS MEASURE Heather Lagrone, Deputy Director, Texas General Land Office; and public witnesses. Committee on the Judiciary: Full Committee held a markup on H.R. 2561, the ‘‘POLICE Act of 2017’’. AN OVERVIEW OF HOMELESSNESS IN H.R. 2561 was ordered reported, as amended. AMERICA Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on FEDERAL IMPEDIMENTS TO COMMERCE Housing and Insurance held a hearing entitled ‘‘An AND INNOVATIVE INJURIOUS SPECIES Overview of Homelessness in America’’. Testimony MANAGEMENT was heard from Peter Lynn, Executive Director, Los Committee on Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Angeles Homeless Services Authority, California; and Water, Power and Oceans held a hearing entitled public witnesses. ‘‘Federal Impediments to Commerce and Innovative MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES Injurious Species Management’’. Testimony was heard from public witnesses. Committee on Foreign Affairs: Full Committee held a markup on H.R. 5626, the ‘‘Intercountry Adoption LEGISLATIVE MEASURES Information Act of 2018’’; H.R. 5754, the ‘‘Cam- Committee on Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Fed- bodia Democracy Act’’; H.R. 5819, the ‘‘BURMA eral Lands held a hearing on H.R. 2365, the ‘‘Desert Act of 2018’’; H.R. 1911, the ‘‘Special Envoy to Community Lands Act’’; H.R. 3777, the ‘‘Juab Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act of 2017’’; County Conveyance Act of 2017’’; H.R. 4824, the H.R. 2259, the ‘‘Sam Farr Peace Corps Enhancement ‘‘Rural Broadband Permitting Efficiency Act of Act’’; H.R. 4989, the ‘‘Protecting Diplomats from 2018’’; and H.R. 5023, the ‘‘Civil War Defenses of Surveillance Through Consumer Devices Act’’; and Washington National Historical Park Act’’. Testi- H.R. 3030, the ‘‘Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atroc- mony was heard from Representatives Cook, Love,

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 3 p.m., Monday, May 21 9 a.m., Friday, May 18

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Monday: Senate will resume consideration Program for Friday: Complete consideration of H.R. of the nomination of Dana Baiocco, of Ohio, to be a 2—Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018. Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commis- sion, and vote on the motion to invoke cloture thereon at 5:30 p.m. (The filing deadline for first-degree amendments to the House Message to accompany S. 2372, Veterans Cemetery Benefit Correction Act, is at 5 p.m.)

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE Garamendi, John, Calif., E674, E675 Perlmutter, Ed, Colo., E669, E669, E670, E671, E671, Guthrie, Brett, Ky., E678 E672, E672, E673, E673, E674 Beyer, Donald S., Jr., Va., E671 Hoyer, Steny H., Md., E670 Poe, Ted, Tex., E670, E672, E673, E675, E676, E677 Blum, Rod, Iowa, E673 Huffman, Jared, Calif., E676 Quigley, Mike, Ill., E674, E677 Bustos, Cheri, Ill., E671, E676 Jenkins, Evan H., W.Va., E671 Stefanik, Elise M., N.Y., E673, E674, E675, E677 Byrne, Bradley, Ala., E672 Johnson, Eddie Bernice, Tex., E679 Stewart, Chris, Utah, E673 Capuano, Michael E., Mass., E669 Keating, William R., Mass., E675, E677 Collins, Doug, Ga., E678, E678, E679 Kilmer, Derek, Wash., E669 Thompson, Glenn, Pa., E675 Correa, J. Luis, Calif., E672 Lowey, Nita M., N.Y., E669 Vela´ zquez, Nydia M., N.Y., E675, E677 DeLauro, Rosa L., Conn., E678 Marchant, Kenny, Tex., E669 Webster, Daniel, Fla., E670 Evans, Dwigt, Pa., E678 Norcross, Donald, N.J., E671 Wenstrup, Brad R., Ohio, E674

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