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Vol. 164 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2018 No. 144 House of Representatives The House met at noon and was I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the III, United States Senator from the State of called to order by the Speaker pro tem- United States of America, and to the Repub- Arizona, S. Res. 619. pore (Mr. BANKS of Indiana). lic for which it stands, one nation under God, With best wishes, I am indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. f Sincerely, f ROBERT F. REEVES, DESIGNATION OF THE SPEAKER COMMUNICATION FROM THE Deputy Clerk. PRO TEMPORE CLERK OF THE HOUSE The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- f The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following commu- fore the House the following communication from the Speaker: nication from the Clerk of the House of PROVIDING FOR THE USE OF THE WASHINGTON, DC, Representatives: CATAFALQUE SITUATED IN THE August 28, 2018. EXHIBITION HALL OF THE CAP- OFFICE OF THE CLERK, I hereby appoint the Honorable JIM BANKS ITOL VISITOR CENTER IN CON- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, to act as Speaker pro tempore on this day. NECTION WITH MEMORIAL SERV- PAUL D. RYAN, Washington, DC, August 27, 2018. Speaker of the House of Representatives. Hon. PAUL D. RYAN, ICES TO BE CONDUCTED IN THE The Speaker, House of Representatives, ROTUNDA OF THE CAPITOL FOR f Washington, DC. THE HONORABLE JOHN SIDNEY PRAYER DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Pursuant to the per- MCCAIN, III, LATE A SENATOR mission granted in Clause 2(h) of Rule II of FROM THE STATE OF ARIZONA Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti, the Rules of the U.S. House of Representa- Catholic University of America, Wash- tives, the Clerk received the following mes- The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- ington, D.C., offered the following sage from the Secretary of the Senate on Au- fore the House a concurrent resolution prayer: gust 27, 2018, at 11:39 a.m.: (S. Con. Res. 43) providing for the use We are one Nation under God. And That the Senate passed S. 2511. of the catafalque situated in the Exhi- You, O God, call us to be united in each That the Senate passed S. 2896. That the Senate passed with an amend- bition Hall of the Capitol Visitor Cen- other and one in You. Hatred, violence, ment H.R. 6157. ter in connection with memorial serv- discord—these all break down the God- With best wishes, I am ices to be conducted in the rotunda of image in us and destroy our Nation. Sincerely, the Capitol for the Honorable John Sid- Help us to work together for unity; ROBERT F. REEVES, ney McCain, III, late a Senator from unite us as brothers and sisters. Let Deputy Clerk. the State of Arizona. Your peace reign in this place and flow f The Clerk read the title of the con- throughout this Nation until we are all COMMUNICATION FROM THE current resolution. truly and completely one Nation under CLERK OF THE HOUSE God. The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- The text of the concurrent resolution We make this prayer in Your holy fore the House the following commu- is as follows: name. nication from the Clerk of the House of S. CON. RES. 43 Amen. Representatives: f Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep- OFFICE OF THE CLERK, resentatives concurring), That the Architect of THE JOURNAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, the Capitol is authorized and directed to The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Washington, DC, August 28, 2018. transfer the catafalque which is situated in Hon. PAUL D. RYAN, the Exhibition Hall of the Capitol Visitor ant to section 2(a) of House Resolution The Speaker, House of Representatives, 1012, the Journal of the last day’s pro- Center to the rotunda of the Capitol so that Washington, DC. such catafalque may be used in connection ceedings is approved. DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Pursuant to the per- with services to be conducted there for the f mission granted in Clause 2(h) of Rule II of Honorable John Sidney McCain, III, late a the Rules of the U.S. House of Representa- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Senator from the State of Arizona and for- tives, the Clerk received the following mes- merly a Representative from that State. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The sage from the Secretary of the Senate on Au- Chair will lead the House in the Pledge gust 28, 2018, at 10:06 a.m.: The concurrent resolution was con- That the Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 43. curred in. of Allegiance. That the Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 44. The SPEAKER pro tempore led the That the Senate agreed to Relative to the A motion to reconsider was laid on Pledge of Allegiance as follows: Death of the Honorable John Sidney McCain, the table.

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VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:49 Aug 29, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A28AU7.000 H28AUPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with HOUSE H7774 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE August 28, 2018 AUTHORIZING THE USE OF THE 6009. A letter from the Director, Office of Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to ROTUNDA OF THE CAPITOL FOR Management and Budget, Executive Office of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. THE LYING IN STATE OF THE The President, transmitting notification of 6019. A letter from the Director, Regu- latory Management Division, Environmental REMAINS OF THE LATE HONOR- the President’s intent to exempt all military personnel accounts from any discretionary Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- ABLE JOHN SIDNEY MCCAIN, III cap sequestration in FY 2019, if a sequestra- cy’s final rule — Air Plan Approval; Cali- The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- tion is necessary, pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 905(f); fornia; San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pol- fore the House a concurrent resolution Public Law 99-177, Sec. 255(f) (as amended by lution Control District; Reasonably Avail- (S. Con. Res. 44) authorizing the use of Public Law 105-33, Sec. 10207(b)); (111 Stat. able Control Technology Demonstration 704); to the Committee on Appropriations. [EPA-R09-OAR-2018-0272; FRL-9981-09-Region the rotunda of the Capitol for the lying 6010. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- 9] received August 17, 2018, pursuant to 5 in state of the remains of the late Hon- ment of Defense, transmitting a letter on the U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. orable John Sidney McCain, III. approved retirement of Vice Admiral Joseph 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on En- The Clerk read the title of the con- E. Tofalo, United States Navy, and his ad- ergy and Commerce. current resolution. vancement to the grade of vice admiral on 6020. A letter from the Director, Regu- The text of the concurrent resolution the retired list, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. latory Management Division, Environmental is as follows: 1370(c)(1); Public Law 96-513, Sec. 112 (as Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- amended by Public Law 104-106, Sec. 502(b)); cy’s direct final rule — Significant New Use S. CON. RES. 44 (110 Stat. 293); to the Committee on Armed Rules on Certain Chemical Substances [EPA- Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep- Services. HQ-OPPT-2017-0414; FRL-9971-37] (RIN: 2070- resentatives concurring), That in recognition 6011. A letter from the Under Secretary, AB27) received August 17, 2018, pursuant to 5 of the long and distinguished service ren- Acquisition and Sustainment, Department of U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. dered to the Nation by John Sidney McCain, Defense, transmitting the FY 2019 Oper- 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on En- III, a Senator from the State of Arizona and ational Energy Budget Certification Report, ergy and Commerce. formerly a Representative from that State, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2926(c)(4); Public Law 6021. A letter from the Director, Regu- his remains be permitted to lie in state in 113-291, div. A, title IX, Sec. 901(g)(1); (128 latory Management Division, Environmental the rotunda of the Capitol on August 31 and Stat. 3465); to the Committee on Armed Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- September 1, 2018, and the Architect of the Services. cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation Capitol, under the direction of the President 6012. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Dela- pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker ment of Defense, transmitting a letter on the ware; Interstate Transport Requirements for of the House of Representatives, shall take approved retirement of General Glenn M. the 2012 Fine Particulate Matter Standard; all necessary steps for the accomplishment Walters, United States Marine Corps, and his Correction [EPA-R03-OAR-2017-0152; FRL- of that purpose. advancement to the grade of general on the 9981-05-Region 3] received August 17, 2018, The concurrent resolution was con- retired list, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 1370(c)(1); pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law curred in. Public Law 96-513, Sec. 112 (as amended by 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Com- mittee on Energy and Commerce. A motion to reconsider was laid on Public Law 104-106, Sec. 502(b)); (110 Stat. 293); to the Committee on Armed Services. 6022. A letter from the Director, Regu- the table. 6013. A letter from the Under Secretary, latory Management Division, Environmental f Acquisition and Sustainment, Department of Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- Defense, transmitting the Department’s Fis- cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation SENATE BILLS REFERRED cal Year 2017 Operational Energy Annual Re- of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Mary- Bills of the Senate of the following port, pursuant to Sec. 2925(b) of title 10, land; 2011 Base Year Inventory for the 2008 8- titles were taken from the Speaker’s U.S.C.; to the Committee on Armed Services. Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality table and, under the rule, referred as 6014. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Standard for the Baltimore, Maryland Non- Legislative Affairs, Department of Defense, follows: attainment Area [EPA-R03-OAR-2017-0396; transmitting an additional legislative pro- FRL-9981-96-Region 3] received August 17, S. 2511. An act to require the Under Sec- posal that the Department of Defense re- 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public retary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmos- quests be enacted during the second session Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the phere to carry out a program on coordi- of the 115th Congress; to the Committee on Committee on Energy and Commerce. nating the assessment and acquisition by the Armed Services. 6023. A letter from the Director, Regu- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- 6015. A letter from the Secretary, Securi- latory Management Division, Environmental tration of unmanned maritime systems, to ties and Exchange Commission, transmitting Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- make available to the public data collected the Commission’s final rule — Amendments cy’s final rule — National Oil and Hazardous by the Administration using such systems, to Investment Advisers Act Rules To Reflect Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; Na- and for other purposes; to the Committee on Changes Made by the FAST Act [Release tional Priorities List: Deletion of the Fron- Natural Resources; in addition, to the Com- No.: IA-4839; File No.: S7-05-17] (RIN: 3235- tier Hard Chrome, Inc. Superfund Site [EPA- mittee on Science, Space, and Technology; AM02) received August 17, 2018, pursuant to 5 HQ-SFUND-1983-0002; FRL-9980-82-Region 10] and to the Committee on Armed Services for U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. received August 17, 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. a period to be subsequently determined by 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Fi- 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 the Speaker, in each case for consideration nancial Services. Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- 6016. A letter from the Chief Counsel, Na- Commerce. tion of the committee concerned. tional Telecommunications and Information 6024. A letter from the Director, Regu- S. 2896. An act to require disclosure by lob- Administration, Department of Commerce, latory Management Division, Environmental byists of convictions for bribery, extortion, transmitting the Department’s final rule — Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- embezzlement, illegal kickbacks, tax eva- 911 Grant Program [Docket No.: 170420407- cy’s withdrawal of direct final rule — Ap- sion, fraud, conflicts of interest, making 8048-02] (RIN: 0660-AA33; 2127-AL86) August proval and Promulgation of Air Quality Im- false statements, perjury, or money laun- 17, 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); plementation Plans; Pennsylvania; Removal dering; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to of Department of Environmental Protection f the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Gasoline Volatility Requirements for the 6017. A letter from the Director, Regu- Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley Area [EPA-R03- ADJOURNMENT latory Management Division, Environmental OAR-2018-0277; FRL-9981-70-Region 3] re- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- ceived August, 17, 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. ant to section 2(b) of House Resolution cy’s final rule — Air Plan Approval; ID, 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Incorporations by Reference Updates and 1012, the House stands adjourned until Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Rule Revisions [EPA-R10-OAR-2018-0214; Commerce. 9:30 a.m. on Friday, August 31, 2018. FRL-9982-59-Region 10] received August 17, 6025. A letter from the Division Chief, Com- Thereupon (at 12 o’clock and 4 min- 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public petition Policy Division, Wireline Competi- utes p.m.), under its previous order, the Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the tion Bureau, Federal Communications Com- House adjourned until Friday, August Committee on Energy and Commerce. mission, transmitting the Commission’s 31, 2018, at 9:30 a.m. 6018. A letter from the Director, Regu- final rule — Nationwide Number Portability latory Management Division, Environmental [WC Docket No.: 17-244]; Numbering Policies f Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- for Modern Communications [WC Docket EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, cy’s final rule — Air Plan Approval; Vir- No.: 13-97] received August 18, 2018, pursuant ETC. ginia; Regional Haze Plan and Visibility for to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, the 2010 Sulfur Dioxide and 2012 Fine Partic- Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive ulate Matter Standards [EPA-R03-OAR-2017- Energy and Commerce. communications were taken from the 0601; FRL-9982-32-Region 3] received August 6026. A letter from the Program Analyst, Speaker’s table and referred as follows: 17, 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Office of the Managing Director, Federal

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:49 Aug 29, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K28AU7.005 H28AUPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with HOUSE August 28, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7775 Communications Commission, transmitting 6037. A letter from the Chairman, Council rule — Modification of Revenue Procedure the Commission’s final rule — Amendment of of the District of Columbia, transmitting DC 2017-41 to Extend Deadline to Submit Opin- the Schedule of Application Fees Set Forth Act 22-424, ‘‘Community Violence Interven- ion Letter Applications for Pre-approved De- In Sections 1.1102 through 1.1109 of the Com- tion Fund Temporary Amendment Act of fined Contribution Plans for the Third Six- mission’s Rules [GEN Docket No.: 86-285] re- 2018’’, pursuant to Public Law 93-198, Sec. year Remedial Amendment Cycle (Revenue ceived August 17, 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 602(c)(1); (87 Stat. 814); to the Committee on Procedure 2018-42) received August 17, 2018, 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Oversight and Government Reform. pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and 6038. A letter from the Chairman, Council 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Com- Commerce. of the District of Columbia, transmitting DC mittee on Ways and Means. 6027. A letter from the Assistant Secretary Act 22-413, ‘‘Golden Triangle Business Im- 6048. A letter from the Chief, Publications for Export Administration, Bureau of Indus- provement District Amendment Act of 2018’’, and Regulations Branch, Internal Revenue try and Security, Department of Commerce, pursuant to Public Law 93-198, Sec. 602(c)(1); Service, transmitting the Service’s IRB only transmitting the Department’s final rule — (87 Stat. 814); to the Committee on Oversight rule — Calculation of Unrelated Business U.S.-India Major Defense Partners: Imple- and Government Reform. Taxable Income under Sec. 512(a)(6) [Notice mentation Under the Export Administration 6039. A letter from the Associate General 2018-67] received August 22, 2018, pursuant to Regulations of India’s Membership in the Counsel, Department of Agriculture, trans- 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. Wassenaar Arrangement and Addition of mitting four notifications of a nomination, 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on India to Country Group A:5 [Docket No.: or action on nomination, pursuant to 5 Ways and Means. 180228229-8229-01] (RIN: 0694-AH49) August 17, U.S.C. 3349(a); Public Law 105-277, 151(b); (112 6049. A letter from the Assistant Secretary 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Stat. 2681-614); to the Committee on Over- for Legislation, Department of Health and Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the sight and Government Reform. Human Services, transmitting a report enti- Committee on Foreign Affairs. 6040. A letter from the Deputy White House tled, ‘‘Medicare National Coverage Deter- 6028. A letter from the Assistant Secretary Liaison, Department of Education, transmit- minations for Fiscal Year 2017’’, pursuant to for Export Administration, Bureau of Indus- ting notification of a discontinuation of 42 U.S.C. 1395ff(f)(7); Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, try and Security, Department of Commerce, service in acting role, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. title XVIII, Sec. 1869(f)(7) (as amended by transmitting the Department’s final rule — 3349(a); Public Law 105-277, 151(b); (112 Stat. Public Law 106-554, Sec. 1(a)(6)); (114 Stat. Addition of Certain Entities; and Modifica- 2681-614); to the Committee on Oversight and 2763A-546); jointly to the Committees on En- tion of Entry on the Entity List [Docket No.: Government Reform. ergy and Commerce and Ways and Means. 170714666-7666-01] (RIN: 0694-AH42) received 6041. A letter from the Deputy General 6050. A letter from the Assistant Secretary August 17, 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Counsel for Operations, Department of Hous- for Legislation, Department of Health and 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 ing and Urban Development, transmitting Stat. 868); to the Committee on Foreign Af- Human Services, transmitting a report enti- notifications of a nomination, pursuant to 5 tled, ‘‘Report to Congress on the Administra- fairs. U.S.C. 3349(a); Public Law 105-277, 151(b); (112 6029. A letter from the Director, Defense tion, Cost, and Impact of the Quality Im- Stat. 2681-614); to the Committee on Over- provement Organization Program for Medi- Security Cooperation Agency, Department of sight and Government Reform. Defense, transmitting the Army’s proposed care Beneficiaries for Fiscal Year 2017’’, pur- 6042. A letter from the Chief, Legal, Exter- suant to 42 U.S.C. 1320c-10; Aug. 14, 1935, ch. Letter of Offer and Acceptance to the Gov- nal Affairs and Performance Branch, Office ernment of Latvia, Transmittal No. 18-33, 531, title XI, Sec. 1161 (as amended by Public of Government Ethics, transmitting notifi- Law 97-248, Sec. 143); (96 Stat. 392); jointly to pursuant to Sec. 36(b)(1) of the Arms Export cations of an action on nomination, and dis- Control Act, as amended; to the Committee the Committees on Energy and Commerce continuation of service in acting role, pursu- and Ways and Means. on Foreign Affairs. ant to 5 U.S.C. 3349(a); Public Law 105-277, 6030. A letter from the Director, Defense 151(b); (112 Stat. 2681-614); to the Committee f Security Cooperation Agency, Department of on Oversight and Government Reform. Defense, transmitting the Navy’s proposed REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON 6043. A letter from the Executive Sec- Letter of Offer and Acceptance to the King- retary, U.S. Agency for International Devel- PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS dom of Denmark, Transmittal No. 18-30, pur- opment, transmitting a notification of a des- suant to Sec. 36(b)(1) of the Arms Export Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of ignation of acting officer, and nomination, Control Act, as amended; to the Committee committees were delivered to the Clerk pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3349(a); Public Law 105- on Foreign Affairs. for printing and reference to the proper 6031. A letter from the Director, Defense 277, 151(b); (112 Stat. 2681-614); to the Com- calendar, as follows: Security Cooperation Agency, Department of mittee on Oversight and Government Re- form. Mr. BRADY of Texas: Committee on Ways Defense, transmitting Transmittal No. 18-0E, and Means. H.R. 4616. A bill to amend the Pa- pursuant to the reporting requirements of 6044. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of tient Protection and Affordable Care Act to Section 36(b)(5)(C) of the Arms Export Con- provide for a temporary moratorium on the trol Act, as amended; to the Committee on Transportation, transmitting the Depart- ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- employer mandate and to provide for a delay Foreign Affairs. in the implementation of the excise tax on 6032. A letter from the Acting Assistant tives; Rolls-Royce plc Turbofan Engines high cost employer-sponsored health cov- Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Department [Docket No.: FAA-2017-1237; Product Identi- erage; with an amendment (Rept. 115–906). of State, transmitting Transmittal No. fier 2017-NE-43-AD; Amendment 39-19333; AD Referred to the Committee of the Whole DDTC 17-146, pursuant to the reporting re- 2018-15-01] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received August House on the state of the Union. quirements of Section 36(c) of the Arms Ex- 17, 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Mr. MCCAUL: Committee on Homeland Se- port Control Act; to the Committee on For- Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to curity. H.R. 6430. A bill to amend the Home- eign Affairs. the Committee on Transportation and Infra- 6033. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, structure. land Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Legislative Affairs, Department of State, 6045. A letter from the Management and Secretary of Homeland Security to imple- transmitting Transmittal No. DDTC 18-016, Program Analyst, FAA, Department of ment certain requirements for information pursuant to the reporting requirements of Transportation, transmitting the Depart- relating to supply chain risk, and for other Section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- purposes (Rept. 115–907). Referred to the Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. tives; Airbus SAS Airplanes [Docket No.: Committee of the Whole House on the state 6034. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, FAA-2018-0636; Product Identifier 2018-NM- of the Union. Legislative Affairs, Department of State, 097-AD; Amendment 39-19337; AD 2018-15-05] Mr. MCCAUL: Committee on Homeland Se- transmitting a certification pursuant to the (RIN: 2120-AA64) received August 17, 2018, curity. H.R. 6438. A bill to amend the Home- reporting requirements of Sec. 36(c) and (d) pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law land Security Act of 2002 to establish in the of the Arms Export Control Act (Transmittal 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Com- Department of Homeland Security an Un- No.: DDTC 17-110); to the Committee on For- mittee on Transportation and Infrastruc- manned Aircraft Systems Coordinator, and eign Affairs. ture. for other purposes (Rept. 115–908). Referred 6035. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, 6046. A letter from the Impact Analyst, Of- to the Committee of the Whole House on the Legislative Affairs, Department of State, fice of Regulation Policy and Management, state of the Union. transmitting Transmittal No. DDTC 17-111, Office of the Secretary (00REG), Department Mr. MCCAUL: Committee on Homeland Se- pursuant to the reporting requirements of of Veterans Affairs, transmitting the Depart- curity. H.R. 6439. A bill to amend the Home- Section 36(d) of the Arms Export Control ment’s final rule — Automatic Burial Bene- land Security Act of 2002 to establish in the Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. fits for Previously Unestablished Surviving Department of Homeland Security the Bio- 6036. A letter from the Chairman, Council Spouses (RIN: 2900-AQ10) received August 17, metric Identification Transnational Migra- of the District of Columbia, transmitting DC 2018, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public tion Alert Program, and for other purposes Act 22-436, ‘‘Initiative No. 77--Minimum Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the (Rept. 115–909). Referred to the Committee of Wage Amendment Act of 2018’’, pursuant to Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. the Whole House on the state of the Union. Public Law 93-198, Sec. 602(c)(1); (87 Stat. 6047. A letter from the Chief, Publications Mr. MCCAUL: Committee on Homeland Se- 814); to the Committee on Oversight and and Regulations Branch, Internal Revenue curity. H.R. 6443. A bill to amend the Home- Government Reform. Service, transmitting the Service’s IRB only land Security Act of 2002 to authorize the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:47 Aug 29, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\L28AU7.000 H28AUPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with HOUSE H7776 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE August 28, 2018 Secretary of Homeland Security to establish System with respect to covered drug prod- Necessary and Proper Clause (Art. 1, Sec. 8, a continuous diagnostics and mitigation pro- ucts, and for other purposes; to the Com- Cl. 18) gram at the Department of Homeland Secu- mittee on Energy and Commerce. By Mr. BROWN of Maryland: rity, and for other purposes; with an amend- By Mr. PETERSON (for himself, Mr. H.R. 6686. ment (Rept. 115–910). Referred to the Com- YOUNG of Iowa, Mr. YODER, Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- mittee of the Whole House on the state of MCGOVERN, and Mr. FASO): lation pursuant to the following: the Union. H.R. 6689. A bill to amend the Public Necessary and Proper Clause (Art. 1, Sec. 8, f Health Service Act, the Employee Retire- Cl. 18) ment Income Security Act of 1974, and the By Mr. HUFFMAN: PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that H.R. 6687. Under clause 2 of rule XII, public group and individual health insurance cov- Congress has the power to enact this legis- bills and resolutions of the following erage and group health plans provide cov- lation pursuant to the following: titles were introduced and severally re- erage for treatment of a congenital anomaly Article IV, Section 3, clause 2 or birth defect; to the Committee on Energy By Mr. MACARTHUR: ferred, as follows: and Commerce, and in addition to the Com- H.R. 6688. By Mr. TIPTON: mittees on Ways and Means, and Education Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 6682. A bill to amend the Federal Land and the Workforce, for a period to be subse- lation pursuant to the following: Policy and Management Act of 1976 to im- quently determined by the Speaker, in each Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 prove the transparency and oversight of land case for consideration of such provisions as By Mr. PETERSON: conveyances involving disposal or acquisi- fall within the jurisdiction of the committee H.R. 6689. tion of National Forest System lands or Bu- concerned. Congress has the power to enact this legis- reau of Land Management public lands, to By Mr. ROSKAM (for himself and Mr. lation pursuant to the following: provide protections and certainty for private BLUMENAUER): Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United landowners related to resurveying such pub- H.R. 6690. A bill to establish a smart card States Constitution. lic lands, and for other purposes; to the Com- pilot program to combat fraud, waste, and By Mr. ROSKAM: mittee on Natural Resources, and in addition abuse and to protect beneficiary identity H.R. 6690. to the Committee on Agriculture, for a pe- under the Medicare program; to the Com- Congress has the power to enact this legis- riod to be subsequently determined by the mittee on Ways and Means, and in addition lation pursuant to the following: Speaker, in each case for consideration of to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Article I, Section 1, to exercise the legisla- such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- for a period to be subsequently determined tive powers vested in Congress as granted in tion of the committee concerned. by the Speaker, in each case for consider- the Constitution; and By Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself ation of such provisions as fall within the ju- Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, which gives and Mr. SIRES): risdiction of the committee concerned. Congress the authority ‘‘To make all Laws H.R. 6683. A bill to impose sanctions with By Ms. HANABUSA (for herself and Ms. which shall be necessary and proper for car- respect to persons responsible for violence GABBARD): rying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and human rights abuses in Nicaragua, and H. Res. 1044. A resolution congratulating and all other Powers vested by this Constitu- for other purposes; to the Committee on For- the Honolulu Little League Baseball team of tion in the Government of the United States, eign Affairs, and in addition to the Com- Hawaii on winning the 2018 Little League or in any Department or Officer thereof’’ mittee on the Judiciary, for a period to be Baseball World Series Championship; to the subsequently determined by the Speaker, in Committee on Oversight and Government f each case for consideration of such provi- Reform. ADDITIONAL SPONSORS sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the By Ms. NORTON (for herself and Mrs. committee concerned. DINGELL): Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors By Mr. BROWN of Maryland (for him- H. Res. 1045. A resolution expressing sup- were added to public bills and resolu- self, Ms. CLARKE of New York, and port for the designation of September 2018 as tions, as follows: Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia): National Campus Sexual Assault Awareness H.R. 754: Mrs. WALORSKI. H.R. 6684. A bill to amend title 10, United Month; to the Committee on Oversight and States Code, to require the Secretary of De- H.R. 762: Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mrs. Government Reform. LOVE, and Mr. BILIRAKIS. fense to consider the existence of qualified By Ms. NORTON: training programs of contractors in the H.R. 1223: Mr. POSEY and Mr. MESSER. H. Res. 1046. A resolution expressing sup- H.R. 1322: Ms. BASS. award of certain contracts; to the Com- port for the designation of August 22, 2018, as mittee on Armed Services. H.R. 1437: Mrs. BEATTY. national ‘‘Chuck Brown Day’’ and honoring H.R. 1498: Mr. KILDEE. By Mr. BROWN of Maryland (for him- his contributions to music and to the Dis- self, Ms. CLARKE of New York, and H.R. 1635: Mr. SESSIONS. trict of Columbia; to the Committee on Over- H.R. 2077: Mr. YARMUTH and Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas): sight and Government Reform. H.R. 6685. A bill to provide grants to eligi- H.R. 3148: Mr. PALLONE. ble entities to establish, expand, or support f H.R. 3325: Mr. WENSTRUP, Mr. TURNER, Mr. dual or concurrent enrollment programs of- CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY JOYCE of Ohio, Mr. COSTELLO of Pennsyl- vania, Mr. YOUNG of Iowa, Mr. RUSH, Mr. fering career and technical education, and STATEMENT for other purposes; to the Committee on WILLIAMS, Mr. RICE of South Carolina, and Education and the Workforce. Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of Ms. WILSON of Florida. By Mr. BROWN of Maryland (for him- the Rules of the House of Representa- H.R. 3418: Mr. STIVERS. self, Ms. BONAMICI, and Ms. CLARKE of tives, the following statements are sub- H.R. 4107: Mr. KILDEE, Mr. HULTGREN, and New York): mitted regarding the specific powers Mr. MCEACHIN. H.R. 4115: Mr. FITZPATRICK and Mr. H.R. 6686. A bill to amend title 41, United granted to Congress in the Constitu- States Code, to require the head of each ex- AGUILAR. ecutive agency to consider the existence of tion to enact the accompanying bill or H.R. 4146: Mrs. BUSTOS. qualified training programs of contractors in joint resolution. H.R. 4256: Mr. WALBERG and Mr. RUPPERS- the award of certain contracts; to the Com- By Mr. TIPTON: BERGER. mittee on Oversight and Government Re- H.R. 6682. H.R. 4837: Ms. DEGETTE. form. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 4912: Mr. GRIJALVA. By Mr. HUFFMAN (for himself and Mr. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 5115: Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, Mr. BISHOP of Utah): Article IV, Clause 2 FITZPATRICK, and Mr. KHANNA. H.R. 6687. A bill to direct the Secretary of By Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN: H.R. 5141: Mr. MCCLINTOCK. the Interior to manage the Point Reyes Na- H.R. 6683. H.R. 5351: Ms. FRANKEL of Florida, Ms. tional Seashore in the State of California Congress has the power to enact this legis- PLASKETT, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. NOR- consistent with Congress’ longstanding in- lation pursuant to the following: TON, and Mr. CICILLINE. tent to maintain working dairies and Article I, Section 8 H.R. 5573: Mr. SCHIFF. ranches on agricultural property as part of By Mr. BROWN of Maryland: H.R. 5671: Mr. DEUTCH and Mr. CICILLINE. the seashore’s unique historic, cultural, sce- H.R. 6684. H.R. 5879: Ms. BARRAGA´ N, Mr. BYRNE, Mr. nic and natural values, and for other pur- Congress has the power to enact this legis- QUIGLEY, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. poses; to the Committee on Natural Re- lation pursuant to the following: PAULSEN, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. CONNOLLY, sources. Necessary and Proper Clause (Art. 1, Sec. 8, Ms. KUSTER of New Hampshire, Mr. HIGGINS By Mr. MACARTHUR (for himself, Ms. Cl. 18) of New York, Mr. RUTHERFORD, Mr. DEFAZIO, KUSTER of New Hampshire, and Mrs. By Mr. BROWN of Maryland: Mr. BARTON, Ms. FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. COMSTOCK): H.R. 6685. BUCHANAN, Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Penn- H.R. 6688. A bill to provide for the estab- Congress has the power to enact this legis- sylvania, Mr. COLE, Ms. WILSON of Florida, lishment of the Prescription Safety Alert lation pursuant to the following: Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ, Ms. PLASKETT, Mr. BRADY of

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Pennsylvania, Mr. CLAY, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. H.R. 6267: Ms. SPEIER, Mr. BLUMENAUER, H.R. 6562: Mr. VALADAO. TED LIEU of California, Mr. PITTENGER, Mr. Mr. DEFAZIO, and Mr. CRIST. H.R. 6635: Mr. VISCLOSKY and Mr. NORMAN. BLUMENAUER, Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. WELCH, Mr. H.R. 6277: Mr. BARR. H.R. 6655: Mr. TED LIEU of California, Mr. H.R. 6288: Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. SIRES, Mr. COSTA, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. HUFFMAN, and Ms. JUDY CHU of California. H.R. 6378: Mr. KILMER. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. VEASEY, Mr. H.R. 6681: Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. LYNCH, Ms. H.R. 6387: Ms. ROSEN. H.R. 6416: Mr. LANCE and Mr. LOBIONDO. MCEACHIN, and Mr. CICILLINE. HANABUSA, Mr. BEN RAY LUJA´ N of New Mex- H.R. 6450: Mrs. LESKO. H.J. Res. 25: Mr. MEADOWS. ico, Mr. HUNTER, Mr. COFFMAN, Mr. FRELING- H.R. 6504: Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. CUMMINGS, H. Con. Res. 72: Ms. SHEA-PORTER. HUYSEN, Mr. ROSKAM, Mr. RASKIN, and Ms. and Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. H. Res. 15: Mr. LAMB. ESHOO. H.R. 6510: Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mrs. H. Res. 274: Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of H.R. 5948: Mr. FASO. RADEWAGEN, Mr. FASO, and Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ. New York. H.R. 6005: Ms. MAXINE WATERS of Cali- H.R. 6517: Mr. JEFFRIES, Mr. ESPAILLAT, H. Res. 318: Mrs. LESKO. fornia. and Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. H. Res. 434: Mr. COFFMAN. H.R. 6048: Mr. PASCRELL. H.R. 6528: Mr. COURTNEY. H.R. 6060: Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. H.R. 6530: Ms. ROSEN. H. Res. 750: Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. H.R. 6108: Mr. ROSKAM. H.R. 6545: Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. SMITH of H. Res. 766: Mr. REED. H.R. 6231: Ms. SHEA-PORTER. Washington, Mr. O’ROURKE, Mr. WALZ, Mr. H. Res. 993: Mr. KILMER, Mr. KATKO, and H.R. 6249: Mr. KHANNA. GOMEZ, and Mr. YARMUTH. Ms. FRANKEL of Florida.

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Vol. 164 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2018 No. 144 Senate The Senate met at 10 a.m. and was day to Members’ heartfelt tributes to not a committee but a gang. So I am called to order by the President pro the memory of our friend Senator glad we are able to form this gang to tempore (Mr. HATCH). McCain. He meant so much to so many ensure that a suitable, lasting tribute f of us, both inside this Chamber and becomes a reality. I will have more de- out. tails regarding this group to share in PRAYER As I noted yesterday, the Senate is the coming days after our friend is laid The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- eager to work on concrete ways to con- to rest. fered the following prayer: tinue this momentum and provide a Let us pray. lasting tribute to this American hero f Our Father in Heaven, thank You for long after this week’s observances are Your guidance, protection, wisdom, complete. Following Senator Ken- AUGUST RECESS and love. We are grateful for Your com- nedy’s death in 2009, for example, we passion, for You are full of mercy and named the Kennedy Caucus Room to Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, eager to forgive. We find refuge in the honor his and his brothers’ public serv- August is usually a time for Senators shadow of Your wings. ice. Some have suggested we take a to spend more time in our home States, Lord, sustain our lawmakers. Teach similar step so that the Armed Serv- meeting with our constituents and re- them how to live and serve. May they ices Committee, on which our friend porting on the progress we have made honor You in their thoughts, words, played such a critical role, would meet here in Washington, but this August and deeds. Give them the wisdom to in a committee room named for Sen- had to be different. There was too live in complete dependence on You so ator McCain. much business left unfinished. So I that Your power can work through Back in 2000, the Senate approved made the decision to keep the Senate them. Help them to be attentive to recommendations to add two addi- in session this month to continue Your precepts and sensitive to the un- tional portraits to the Capitol Senate working on behalf of the American peo- folding of Your loving providence. Reception Room right off the Senate ple. I am proud to report that is just We pray in Your great Name. Amen. floor. Only seven Senators in the entire what we have done. history of this institution are honored f with portraits there. The Senate has now passed regular appropriations measures that account PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE I actually had the opportunity to serve in the bipartisan group that suc- for 87 percent of next fiscal year’s dis- The President pro tempore led the cessfully recommended that Senators cretionary spending, we finalized our Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: Arthur Vandenberg and Robert Wagner work on the National Defense Author- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the should appear there alongside Henry ization Act named for Senator McCain, United States of America, and to the Repub- Clay, Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, and in August alone, we have con- lic for which it stands, one nation under God, firmed eight more of the President’s indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Robert La Follette, Sr., and Robert Taft, who were selected by a special well-qualified nominees for the Federal f committee back in 1957. That com- courts. But, as I have stated, the continuing, historic obstruction from RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME mittee, interestingly enough, was appointed by Lyndon Johnson and Democrats on the President’s nominees The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. chaired by John F. Kennedy. I have continues to make our progress on that HYDE-SMITH). Under the previous order, also heard in recent days that perhaps front insufficient, so we will stay at it. leadership time is reserved. Senator McCain’s portrait should join Currently before us are nominees to f that distinguished group. So it is a fur- be Assistant Secretary to the Depart- RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY ther tribute to our colleague that there ment of Health and Human Services, a LEADER is no shortage of good ideas. Vice Chairman for the Federal Reserve, In order to make sure we realize important posts at the Departments of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- these intentions, I would like to put to- Justice and Treasury, and a slate of jority leader is recognized. gether an official group who can col- impressive nominees for the Federal f laborate and bring together ideas from judiciary. I hope we can continue to current Members, former colleagues, make progress. It remains my inten- REMEMBERING JOHN MCCAIN and friends. It will be bipartisan, as tion to confirm all 17 of the nominees Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, only befits John’s legacy. Come to currently before us before the Senate it was quite something to listen yester- think of it, we should probably call it concludes our business this week.

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Without volcanic temper but an embracing, lov- ‘‘Open jobs outnumber U.S. unem- objection, it is so ordered. ing approach when it came to friend- ployed for third straight month.’’ f ship. That was John. He was passionate But it is also important to look be- in his beliefs, but he was not a man to REMEMBERING JOHN MCCAIN yond the headlines and ask whether all hold grudges. He understood that two Americans are benefiting from this new Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, this people can disagree on issues today, prosperity. is a sad time for the Senate and our and still both love this country and For years, under the last administra- Nation. With the passing of John work together tomorrow. tion, much of the so-called recovery McCain, our country lost a legend, and Occasionally, he would invite you on only touched some communities and this Senate has lost a towering figure. a trip. Be careful. I said yes several some industries. Many vulnerable I have lost a friend. America owes John times. A John McCain trip over a Americans fell further and further be- McCain and his family our gratitude weekend was something you don’t soon hind. Today, things are different. A and respect for his courage and sac- forget. If there is anybody out there growing and vibrant economy has room rifice and for the trials he endured to who thinks that Senators with John for everyone. The unemployment rate serve the Nation he loved. McCain were sitting poolside drinking for young Americans age 16 to 24 is now John McCain entered this world with these mixed drinks with paper umbrel- the lowest it has been since July 1966. big shoes to fill. His father and grand- las, they have it all wrong. John Labor force participation among this father were four-star admirals in the McCain’s trips on the weekend were same group is at its highest level in U.S. Navy. John McCain met and ex- more like Bataan death marches. From nearly a decade. The unemployment ceeded his family legacy. the minute you got on that plane until rate for workers with less than a high I first met him 35 years ago, in 1982. you got back to Washington, it was a school diploma is now at its lowest We were brand-new freshmen Congress- nonstop schedule. Everything had to be level in recorded history. men elected to the U.S. House. I spot- done. We had to see three countries, As work opportunities have opened ted him on the other side of the floor in not two, and we had to get it done and back up, the number of Americans the Senate and, of course, I knew in- get back to Washington. You learned seeking Social Security disability ben- stantly who he was and worked up the so much. efits has plummeted. As one scholar courage to go over and introduce my- I went to Ukraine with John. I retold the New York Times, ‘‘When the self. Then, I asked him a favor. member walking the streets of Kiev in economy gets better, employers are I said: John, would you consider Ukraine. People were coming up to more willing to look to other labor doing a cable TV show that I could John—people who remembered that he pools and be more accommodating. . . . send back to my Central Illinois dis- showed up in the Maidan Square when People with disabilities also have a trict? sense there may be something out the revolution was underway and spoke He said: Sure, I would be glad to. for those who were defying Moscow— there that fits their needs.’’ I thought: That is amazing—a Demo- Remember, for much of the Obama and they still remembered John cratic Congressman asking a new Re- economy, opportunity creation was so McCain and couldn’t wait to come up publican Congressman to help him insufficient that many vulnerable and say hello and thank him. It was Americans were effectively put right back in his district, and John McCain that way in so many places of the on the sidelines. The job market was said yes. world. I was lucky to be there. I was too crowded. Openings were too few. It was the beginning of a friendship. lucky to be a part of it, lucky to see But this thriving economy, helped That cable show wasn’t shown beyond history unfold, and lucky to count along by Republican policies, is a dif- Central Illinois, but I still remember it John as a friend. ferent story. There are more and more and still thank John for his act of John and I had our disagreements. In opportunities for everyone. kindness. It was my first exposure to a fact, there was one solid year when we This reminds us that it is capitalism unique style of communication that barely spoke. At the end of that year, and free enterprise, not new govern- America would come to know as the I found an excuse to walk over to his ment programs, that best equip Ameri- ‘‘Straight Talk Express.’’ Sitting for office to see him on some issue. I re- cans to provide for their families and that interview is a typically generous member that he stood up and greeted pursue happiness. Free enterprise is John McCain act, for which I am still me. He shook my hand. He looked me what has led an aviation tech maker in grateful. in the eye and said: I am glad this is Colorado to lean on a high school-age There is an old joke about an Irish- over between us. technician, whose skills are ‘‘highly in- man who walked past a brawl and said: So was I. It was one of the happier tegral’’ to the company. Free enter- Is this a private fight or can anyone days I served in the Senate. prise is what has led a semitrailer man- get into it? His ability to see beyond party labels ufacturer in Wisconsin to hire inmates, I think that man’s name may have was one of the qualities that so many as they reenter the community after been McCain. Everyone who knew or of us loved and admired about him. It paying their debt, and help them reserved with John for any period of time was a lesson he learned from his fam- build upright lives. There is an old line got crosswise with him. I can remem- ily. It is a truth, I imagine, that he often attributed to Ronald Reagan: ber there, in the well of the Senate, came to see even more clearly during ‘‘The best social program is a job.’’ John McCain walking up to me, getting the 51⁄2 torturous years—two of them in While our Democratic friends keep within an inch of my face and chewing solitary confinement—that he spent as railing against tax reform and regu- me out about some article that he had a prisoner of war in that hellish place latory reform, keep insisting we should read in the Chicago Tribune. He was so known as the Hanoi Hilton. compile more money and power here in mad he was about to explode, and he We are stronger together than we are Washington, Republicans know better. wheeled around and walked away. divided. John McCain knew that. His We know that a real recovery is when I thought: What did I say? I can’t entire life was a testimony to that Americans of all ages, all abilities, and even remember the article. powerful truth. It is why, as a prisoner in all parts of the country have more I raced back to look up the Chicago of war, John McCain refused offers of opportunities to earn their own suc- Tribune article he referred to and still release. He knew what the rules were. cess, and we are proud that our policies couldn’t understand his anger, and I The rules were ‘‘first in, first out.’’ He are helping make that happen. thought: How am I going to make was not the first in. He just happened

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John returned the favor by cam- ment came when he could leave with the Senate. It was why I ran for the paigning for Jim Durkin against me. his head up. Senate. It was what John McCain told You might wonder, in this world of pol- John didn’t want to be defined as a us over and over was to be our mission itics, how you react to a person who is professional prisoner of war. I love the in life as Senators: To solve the prob- trying to take your job away, which story about a party that was given for lems facing America and not to be wor- John was doing. I understood it. I ex- John and his fellow captives after they ried about taking some heat. pected it. Jim Durkin was loyal to got home. One young man was telling He took a lot of heat as a Republican John McCain, and John McCain was the story of his confinement in some who stepped up and offered a real solu- loyal to him and came in and cam- detail when he happened to look over tion to our comprehensive immigration paigned for him. and see John McCain. He suddenly felt challenge. We put together a bill over After the election was over, the peo- conspicuous and said to John: I the course of a year. I think it was an ple of Illinois decided I should be the shouldn’t be going on about my time as extraordinary effort. We all had to Senator. It didn’t deter John McCain a prisoner of war. I was there for 6 compromise. John compromised and I one bit from working with me from weeks, and you were there for 51⁄2 compromised, but we ended up with a that point forward. years. bipartisan bill that passed overwhelm- There is an empty space in this With typical John McCain humor and ingly on the floor of the Senate. Chamber without John McCain. There wit, John replied: Oh, no, go right There hasn’t been another moment is an empty space in America without ahead. The first 6 weeks were the like that in the time I have been here, his spirit. He will be missed, but he cer- toughest. and John led the way. He took a lot of tainly will never be forgotten. I en- Like Abraham Lincoln, John McCain grief for it. His poll numbers were not dorse the proposal to rename the Rus- knew that laughter helped to make the that good, particularly among the sell Senate Office Building in honor of unbearable bearable, and like Presi- most conservative Republicans, but Lieutenant Commander and Senator dent Lincoln, he was secure enough in John knew we had a problem to solve, John McCain. Like Senator Schumer, I his own reputation and in his own and he stepped out and did it. I was hope that decades from now, children achievements to be modest. honored to be a part of the small group who are visitors to the Capitol grounds John endured the hell of the Hanoi that worked night after night, week will ask: Who was this McCain they Hilton more than many. He served in after week to put that effort together. named the building after? They will the Senate longer than many. He Of course, what I remember now discover he was a man worthy of our leaves his mark on this body and our more than anything is that middle-of- respect, a man who in his heart was a Nation. the-night vote a little over a year ago. public servant, a man who was an When the issue of torture and deten- He walked through that door, just hav- American hero. tion was front and center before the ing spoken on the telephone with I yield the floor. American people, when we were trying President Trump, and he came to the I suggest the absence of a quorum. to decide what were the boundaries for well of the Senate and stood right next The PRESIDING OFFICER. The this democracy, faced with the threat to that table. Because he had limited clerk will call the roll. of terrorism, there was one voice in the motion in his arm because of that The senior assistant legislative clerk Senate who was credible. It was John plane crash and torture in Vietnam, he proceeded to call the roll. McCain. barely lifted his right arm and pushed Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I I made speech after speech on the his thumb down and said no. With that ask unanimous consent that the order subject, but when John McCain got up ‘‘no’’ vote, he preserved health insur- for the quorum call be rescinded. and spoke about the issue of torture, ance for millions of Americans, and he The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without there was silence on the floor of the invoked the ire of conservative Repub- objection, it is so ordered. Senate as we listened carefully. He pro- licans, who will never forgive him for f posed a resolution establishing humane that moment. It was one of the proud- standards of treatment, realizing the est, most courageous votes and mo- RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY humanity we showed toward our pris- ments in the history of the Senate. I LEADER oners is the same humanity we ex- was honored to be here and had a The PRESIDING OFFICER. The pected if Americans were taken pris- chance to thank him personally that Democratic leader is recognized. oner. His effort was enacted by the night. f Senate with over 90 votes, a strong bi- I also remember when he came to the partisan rollcall. floor and spoke at that desk, which is REMEMBERING JOHN MCCAIN John McCain, more than anything, now bearing the vase of roses, a tribute Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, as was a champion of the U.S. military— to John McCain, and reminded all of us the Senate continues to mourn the loss the men and women who serve in our why we run for this office. Sure, it is a of our friend and fellow Senator John Armed Forces. They never had a better great title and a lot of Americans McCain, let us dwell on how best to re- friend. Our Nation’s veterans and their never get close to a title like U.S. Sen- member this great man; his friendship, families never had a stronger ally. He ator, but to John McCain and to many his service, his integrity, his career in was a leader in the fight to curb the in- of us, it is much more. It is not only a the Senate. fluence of special interests in politics great honor. It is a great challenge for One of the ways to carry on his mem- and to make our government truly a us to do something with this title to ory is for us to try to live up to the ex- government of, by, and for the people. solve the problems that face this coun- pectations he had for the Senate, ex- Russ Feingold and John McCain try. pectations he shared with us even in moved us toward what America is long- I didn’t always agree with John, but his waning days: to act with more hu- ing for—putting the special interests I always respected the fact that he mility, to ignore the critics, to put behind us, putting the people first, end- wanted the Senate to be an institution aside our differences when necessary, ing soft money. that was serving the people in this and learn to trust each other more. He treasured our heritage as a nation country and solving the problems we In Senator McCain’s memory, we can of immigrants. I have such profound re- face. try to live by those principles and spect for John McCain’s efforts to John was principled and courageous make this Senate a place where, de- reach across the aisle and try to find time and again. There were times when spite the noisy din of politics, progress solutions for America’s broken immi- we had our differences. I can recall can still be made.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:26 Aug 29, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G28AU6.004 S28AUPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with SENATE S5964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE August 28, 2018 That is a sentiment I hope will long public and which 96 percent is being Certainly, there is an offer to allow outlast the memorials, the tributes, withheld. Obviously, one might think Senators to view these documents, but and the observances this week. the lawyer, who is clearly totally they ought to be released to the public. I also propose that we recognize Sen- hooked into the Republican appoint- We don’t have secret proceedings when ator McCain’s legacy by renaming the ment of Kavanaugh mechanism, would we choose a Supreme Court Justice. It Russell Senate Office Building in his not allow things that might be con- is not the Senate going into the Old honor. For three decades, Senator troversial, that might put Kavanaugh Chamber and debating among them- McCain was a fixture in those marble in not such a good light. Yet there is selves. These documents should be halls, an institution of the Senate. It is not even a standard as to which docu- made public. The Senate should not be only fitting that his name should adorn ments are made public and which are in the practice of shrouding the eyes of a physical institution of the Senate, kept confidential. the public from the crucial business of particularly one that housed the Does that sound fair to the Senate? learning what a Supreme Court nomi- Armed Services Committee. What bet- Does that sound fair to the American nee will be like. ter way to encourage future Senators, people who have a right to read and un- I yield the floor. their staffs, reporters, and average derstand who this potential future Su- f Americans to study his noble but im- preme Court Justice may be? perfect example. The burden of proof should not be on CONCLUSION OF MORNING Today I will be circulating a letter disclosure of documents. We believe in BUSINESS with Senator FLAKE, asking all of our disclosure. We are an open place. Sen- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Morning colleagues if they will be willing to ator GRASSLEY has made disclosure of business is closed. join us in a resolution to officially re- things throughout the executive name the Russell Building the McCain branch a hallmark of his career. Yet f Building. I hope that many, if not most now they make the burden of proof on EXECUTIVE SESSION or all, will join because Senator those who want to disclose, and the McCain was a dear friend to all of us presumption is documents will not be and a great American, a great Senator, disclosed. It is so wrong. EXECUTIVE CALENDAR a great man. Let his name be an exam- Any fairminded observer would be The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under ple to future generations, as his service hard pressed to say that the review of the previous order, the Senate will pro- and character were to every one of us. Judge Kavanaugh’s record has been ceed to executive session to resume f transparent, open, and fair. It has not been. consideration of the following nomina- NOMINATION OF BRETT The Supreme Court Justice, the next tion, which the clerk will report. KAVANAUGH one, will have immense influence over The senior assistant legislative clerk Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, on the lives of Americans for generations read the nomination of Lynn A. John- another matter, next week the Senate on issues ranging from women’s repro- son, of Colorado, to be Assistant Sec- Judiciary Committee will begin hear- ductive rights to healthcare, protec- retary for Family Support, Department ings on President Trump’s nomination tions for preexisting conditions, civil of Health and Human Services. to the Supreme Court, Judge Brett rights, labor rights, environmental The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Kavanaugh. For Senators both on and rights, LGBTQ rights, and so much the previous order, all time has ex- off the committee to do their constitu- more. The next Supreme Court Justice pired. tional duty, to advise and consent on may very well make crucial decisions The question is, Will the Senate ad- his nomination, they must have time about the limits of Executive power vise and consent to the Johnson nomi- to review the nominee’s record. and accountability, something that nation? Unfortunately, Chairman GRASSLEY hangs in the balance right now with all Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Madam Presi- has so far frustrated our effort to get of President Trump’s actions. dent, I ask for the yeas and nays. full access to the judge’s records. We know already that Judge The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a First, he requested only 10 to 15 per- Kavanaugh has some deeply troubling sufficient second? cent of Kavanaugh’s White House views on these issues, both because of There appears to be a sufficient sec- record, unilaterally declaring the bulk his writings and because he was se- ond. of his time in the White House irrele- lected by a President who explicitly The PRESIDING OFFICER. The vant. promised to pick pro-life judges and clerk will call the roll. As the National Archives works judges hostile to our Nation’s The senior assistant legislative clerk through that request, the Judiciary healthcare law. called the roll. Committee has been accepting docu- So, in order to get a complete picture The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. ments from a lawyer hired by the Bush of Judge Kavanaugh’s views on these YOUNG). Are there any other Senators Library to prescreen documents. That crucial issues, his record should be in the Chamber desiring to vote? lawyer, Mr. Burck, who counts Steve made public. There may be some high- The result was announced—yeas 67, Bannon, Reince Priebus, and White ly relevant information on issues like nays 28, as follows: House Counsel Don McGahn among his Roe v. Wade, campaign finance, affirm- Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators clients, has provided only 6 percent—6 ative action, and more, contained with- are necessarily absent: the Senator percent—of Kavanaugh’s White House in the documents Chairman GRASSLEY from Texas (Mr. CRUZ), the Senator record to the Judiciary Committee, re- has labeled ‘‘committee confidential.’’ from South Carolina (Mr. GRAHAM), cently declaring some documents per- Again, there is very relevant and sig- and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. MUR- sonal rather than Presidential records, nificant information, even in the com- KOWSKI). a determination we have been given no mittee confidential documents, about Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the basis for. Roe, campaign finance, affirmative ac- Senator from Vermont (Mr. LEAHY) is Judiciary Republicans went even fur- tion, and more. They should be made necessarily absent. ther in their efforts to conceal Judge public, and Senator GRASSLEY can do it [Rollcall Vote No. 195 Ex.] Kavanaugh’s record by labeling an- with a flick of his pen. I would appeal YEAS—67 other small portion of those documents to him as a man, again, who has stood Alexander Collins Gardner committee confidential. So of the 6 for disclosure and openness, who has Baldwin Corker Grassley percent, close to one-third cannot be probed and gotten angry at executive Barrasso Cornyn Hassan Bennet Cotton Hatch seen by anyone but members of the Ju- branch members of both parties for Blunt Crapo Heitkamp diciary Committee, and they can’t talk withholding information. Now, of Boozman Daines Heller about it to others. That is 4 percent of course, we have this 180-degree turn. It Burr Donnelly Hirono Kavanaugh’s record being made public, is not like the best of Chairman GRASS- Cantwell Enzi Hoeven Capito Ernst Hyde-Smith and there are no guidelines, no rules, LEY, and I hope he will change his Casey Fischer Inhofe as to which 4 percent is being made mind. Cassidy Flake Isakson

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We should be McConnell Sasse Young [Rollcall Vote No. 196 Ex.] grateful for his tenacity and resolve as Moran Schumer Murphy Scott YEAS—69 a prisoner of war in Vietnam—a prisoner subject to unbelievable cruelty NAYS—28 Alexander Flake Nelson Barrasso Gardner Perdue and torture but one who endured all of Blumenthal Gillibrand Schatz Bennet Grassley Peters these unspeakable torments and one Booker Harris Smith Blumenthal Hassan Portman who was quick to remind us of what Brown Heinrich Stabenow Blunt Hatch Reed Cardin Klobuchar Udall Boozman Heitkamp Risch that was endured for; that is, our free- Carper Markey Van Hollen Burr Heller Roberts dom. I think he was one of liberty’s Coons Menendez Warner Capito Hoeven Rounds best ambassadors. Cortez Masto Merkley Warren Cardin Hyde-Smith Rubio We should remain grateful for our Duckworth Peters Whitehouse Carper Inhofe Sasse Durbin Reed Casey Isakson Scott friend John McCain’s willingness and Feinstein Sanders Cassidy Johnson Shaheen ability to serve his State of Arizona for Collins Jones Shelby so many years and to serve our great NOT VOTING—4 Coons Kaine Smith Cruz Leahy Corker Kennedy Sullivan country, by running for public office, Graham Murkowski Cornyn Klobuchar Tester for radiating such a sense of purpose, Cotton Lankford Thune such a sense of moral seriousness each The nomination was confirmed. Crapo Lee Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- Daines Manchin Toomey time, even during tough, grueling po- jority whip. Donnelly McCaskill Van Hollen litical races. And they didn’t always Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask Enzi McConnell Warner turn out the way he would have liked. Ernst Moran Wicker We should learn from the dignity and unanimous consent that the motion to Fischer Murphy Young reconsider be considered made and laid honor that he displayed even in defeat NAYS—26 upon the table and that the President after his Presidential campaigns did be immediately notified of the Senate’s Baldwin Harris Sanders not work out in his favor. Booker Heinrich Schatz action with respect to the Johnson Like all of us, he was an imperfect Brown Hirono Schumer man. Let’s just say he was a work in nomination. I further ask consent that Cantwell King Stabenow the mandatory quorum call be waived. Cortez Masto Markey Udall progress, as we all are. He won many Duckworth Menendez Warren political battles, and he lost a few The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there Durbin Merkley objection? Whitehouse along the way, but he always responded Feinstein Murray Wyden Without objection, it is so ordered. Gillibrand Paul admirably. After slipping with some run-in with adversity, he got back up, f NOT VOTING—4 dusted himself off, and tried harder the CLOTURE MOTION Cruz Leahy next time. Graham Murkowski The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant We should also be grateful for Sen- to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas ator McCain’s dedication to our Na- Senate the pending cloture motion, are 69, the nays are 26. tion’s Armed Forces throughout his po- which the clerk will state. The motion is agreed to. litical career, including as chairman of The senior assistant legislative clerk f the Armed Services Committee, where read as follows: EXECUTIVE CALENDAR I served with him for a number of CLOTURE MOTION years. We should cherish his friendship. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The We should remember that at the end of We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- clerk will report the nomination. ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the the day, the Senator many called a The legislative clerk read the nomi- maverick had a gruff, sometimes in- Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby nation of Richard Clarida, of Con- move to bring to a close debate on the nomi- timidating exterior, but he also was a nation of Richard Clarida, of Connecticut, to necticut, to be Vice Chairman of the compassionate man and one who dis- be Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors Board of Governors of the Federal Re- played not only tremendous loyalty to of the Federal Reserve System for a term of serve System for a term of four years. friends but a tremendous love for his four years. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- family, who are now grieving. Mitch McConnell, Richard C. Shelby, jority whip. As our Nation mourns the loss of Cory Gardner, John Boozman, Johnny REMEMBERING JOHN MCCAIN Isakson, John Thune, John Cornyn, John McCain and as my colleagues and Pat Roberts, Ron Johnson, James M. Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, we have I are all too aware of his absence here Inhofe, Chuck Grassley, Lamar Alex- been hit with some hard news in recent today, we are all challenged to be ander, Richard Burr, Lisa Murkowski, days. The toughest of all, perhaps, was stronger patriots and better citizens. Michael B. Enzi, Roy Blunt, Bob losing our friend and colleague John That is what he would want from us. Corker. McCain this past weekend. He was a As Senator McCain told cadets dur- The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- man who loved his country and was being a 1993 commencement address at imous consent, the mandatory quorum loved in return. the U.S. Naval Academy, ‘‘My time is call has been waived. One of the things I appreciate the slipping by. Yours is fast approaching. The question is, Is it the sense of the most about our friend Senator McCain You will know where your duty lies.’’ Senate that debate on the nomination is he truly believed in all his heart, in Our duty now lies in continuing the of Richard Clarida, of Connecticut, to all his being, in all his soul, in Amer- difficult, courageous work Senator be Vice Chairman of the Board of Gov- ican exceptionalism and that America McCain devoted his life to, and it is not ernors of the Federal Reserve System, had to lead in the world because in the a burden that we take lightly. We do so shall be brought to a close? absence of American leadership, that gladly, and we mourn for those for The yeas and nays are mandatory void would be destabilizing and even whom the last few days have been most under the rule. dangerous. difficult. The clerk will call the roll. We know that John cast a long shad- As we express our condolences to The legislative clerk called the roll. ow in Congress over the last four dec- Senator McCain’s mother, his seven Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators ades of American politics, and we will children and five grandchildren, and, of are necessarily absent: the Senator continue to honor and remember him course, his wife Cindy and the entire from Texas (Mr. CRUZ), the Senator this week and into the future. But McCain family, we want them to know from South Carolina (Mr. GRAHAM), tears and sentimentality are not what that we continue to think of them. We

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Mr. President, when teammates, but I know the legacy judges’’ he has ‘‘ever encountered,’’ and you walk by Senator McCain’s desk John McCain leaves here in the Senate we expect that kind of seriousness and and see the black drape and the bowl of will long remain. sobriety when it comes to people who white roses, it really underscores the I want to echo a few comments made wear the black robe and sit in judg- loss. We lost a colleague. We lost a by the majority leader earlier today. ment of cases. Attorneys who have friend. The country lost a true public John McCain was a lion in the Senate practiced before Judge Kavanaugh de- servant. and in American politics. That is why scribe him as an ‘‘extremely well-pre- We have heard the stories. After I believe we should put together a bi- pared, careful, and thorough’’ judge. being shot down, spending all those partisan group who can bring together As I said, Judge Kavanaugh served on years in the Hanoi Hilton, beaten near- the best ideas on how we can memori- the DC Circuit, where he has authored ly to death when he was fished out of alize his service to his country and his 307 opinions and has attracted praise the lake in downtown Hanoi, he contin- legacy here in the Senate. We should across the ideological spectrum for the ued to serve his country—in the Navy, do this carefully and consider all op- clarity of his thought and expression in Congress, in this Senate, and, of tions about what the best form that and the precision of his legal rea- course, as the party’s nominee for tribute should take. Doing this in a soning. President. collaborative and a deliberate way I He respects the roles and responsibil- His call to serve and his sense of duty hope is how Senator McCain would ities that are assigned to the different and honor is the legacy of John have wanted it. I can’t tell you how branches of government—three coequal McCain. He is an example for all of us. many times he always advocated for branches—by the Constitution, and he He was a fighter, and he was funny regular order. He didn’t want ideas sees the proper role of the judiciary as too. Maybe it was the years in prison cooked up in some back room and then a limited, albeit important, one—not or the long line of military service or sprung on the Nation and the Senate; to make policy but to interpret the law the sometimes tense humor of fighter he wanted the committees to do their and apply it to individual cases impar- pilots. Maybe it was that legacy of his work because he knew that by doing tially, as written, with no eye cast to- family in the military, but he knew in so—by thinking about them, by testing ward the politics of the outcome or a his soul how special the United States ideas in a committee process—we im- desire to put a thumb on the scales of was and what the United States could prove the chances of a better product. justice in favor or against one of the do for its people and for the world. Despite our heavy loss, we can’t lose litigants. Sometimes we forget the stories of sight of our other work, either. I think Judge Kavanaugh has shown through the excruciating pain that Senator Senator McCain would want us to keep his opinions that he adheres to prece- McCain went through as a POW. In 2000 pushing the ball forward and achieving dent—something careful, thoughtful David Foster Wallace, in Rolling Stone more on behalf of the American people. magazine, wrote an article. I want to We all remember him as a fighter judges do—paying a keen eye to legal history and tradition and putting an give you some of the graphic details until the very end, and staying in the after he had been nearly beaten to fight and making progress for the emphasis on the text of the relevant statutes when interpreting them. How death and his weight had gone down to American people is what he would ex- 100 pounds. When they found out that pect of us as well. better to effectuate Congress’s intent than to read and apply the statutes his father was a four-star admiral and NOMINATION OF BRETT KAVANAUGH that are signed into law. his grandfather was a four-star admi- Mr. President, turning to that work ral, they decided they were going to before us, one of the most important This is in the nominee’s own words: [The] text may be pro-business or pro- offer him early release. This is what constitutional duties the Senate per- the author writes: forms is to provide advice and consent labor, pro-development or pro-environment, pro-bank or pro-consumer. Regardless, McCain, 100 pounds and barely able to to the President on nominations to his judges should follow clear text where it stand, refused [release]. The U.S. military’s Cabinet, to the Federal judiciary, and leads. Code of Conduct for Prisoners of War said for other Senate-confirmable positions. that POWs had to be released in the order Judge Kavanaugh also approaches his We have the responsibility to do that they were captured, and there were others with a judge whom he has now nomi- job with humility. When describing his who’d been in [that prison] Hoa Lo a long nated to succeed Anthony Kennedy as mindset, he said that a good judge has time, and McCain refused to violate the Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme to ‘‘keep learning,’’ that they should Code. The commandant, not pleased, right Court. The hearing on his confirmation constantly challenge themselves to there in the office had guards break his ribs, rebreak his arm, knock his teeth out. will occur next week, and I hope we study legal problems in greater depth, even when doing so forces them to re- McCain still refused to leave without the will move forward quickly thereafter other POWs. And so then he spent four more to vote on his confirmation. consider their ‘‘instincts and prior in- clinations.’’ years in Hoa Lo [prison] like this, much of Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation the time in solitary, in the dark, in a closet- process includes the largest production That is exactly the kind of Justice sized box called a ‘‘punishment cell.’’ Maybe of documents ever in the Senate’s con- the Supreme Court needs—one that is you’ve heard all this before . . . [there have sideration of a Supreme Court nomi- never content to rest on his laurels, certainly been] profiles of John McCain. But nee. Well over 400,000 pages of docu- one that is constantly educating and try to imagine the moment between getting ments have been produced on the improving himself when it comes to offered early release and turning it down. judge’s career. I appreciate Senator the history of our country or the nu- Try to imagine it was you. Imagine how loudly your most basic, primal self-interest GRASSLEY’s spearheading this effort in ances and difficult or technical aspects of the law. would have cried out to you in that moment, such a transparent, efficient, and thor- and all the ways you could rationalize ac- ough manner. The truth is that since his nomina- cepting the [commandant’s] offer. Can you Of course, I think logic would tell us tion Judge Kavanaugh has dem- hear it? If so, would you refuse to go? You that the best way for us to judge onstrated that he is imminently quali- simply can’t know for sure. None of us can. Kavanaugh is how he ruled in real, con- fied and well respected by all who know It’s hard to even imagine the pain and the crete cases that came before him while him and those familiar with his work. fear in that moment, much less how you’d serving on the DC Circuit Court of Ap- So as a member of the Senate Judici- react. peals for 12 years. That is the best evi- ary Committee, I look forward next That was written 18 years ago about dence of how he would perform if ele- Tuesday to participating in the con- John. In that moment, you could sum- vated and confirmed to the Supreme firmation hearings, and soon thereafter marize his courage, his strength, and Court. I look forward to voting to confirm his will to overcome. But here in the In Judge Kavanaugh’s case, what him as the next Justice on the Su- Senate we saw a leader who thought those rulings show is that he is a dili- preme Court of the United States. that public service was a noble calling,

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I spotted former Senator Joe John McCain. For this Senator and for world, not the example of our power Lieberman of Connecticut at dinner at Grace, as well, it was certainly a privi- but the power of our example; that the David Citadel Hotel, and he waved lege to know the McCains and to look only when we fight for those values, me over. He and McCain had just fin- up to him as a role model, not only for when we fight for the values that de- ished a long dinner, and Lieberman this Senator but for the entire country. fine us apart from other powerful na- asked me to sit down and talk about I yield the floor. tions—for human rights, for freedom of our trip, our experiences, and recent I suggest the absence of a quorum. speech and religious expression, for a developments in Pakistan and Afghani- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. LEE). free press, an independent judiciary, stan. The clerk will call the roll. open and fair elections, for the very McCain barely acknowledged my The bill clerk proceeded to call the foundations of democracy as guaran- presence with a gruff grunt and seemed roll. tors of human liberty—only then do we genuinely distracted and even annoyed Mr. COONS. Mr. President, I ask best use our power to act in the world. as I was answering Joe Lieberman’s unanimous consent that the order for What impact did John McCain have questions, McCain looking around the the quorum call be rescinded. on those of us in the Senate and on our room and barely paying any attention. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without country? John commanded this Cham- After 10 minutes, John snapped to and objection, it is so ordered. ber when he spoke like few others I asked me three pointed and chal- REMEMBERING JOHN MCCAIN have ever known, and he commanded it lenging questions, testing my observa- Mr. COONS. Mr. President, I come to precisely because he called us to our tions and my conclusions. Rattled and the floor to speak in honor, in memory, better selves, to put down the tools of intimidated, I defended as best I could of our colleague Senator John Sidney petty partisanship so often on display my insights before his withering ques- McCain III. I asked myself a series of here and to work together to fashion tioning. McCain grunted and stormed questions as I was trying to prepare for better solutions to the problems of our off, and in the silence of his wake he today’s comments. day. left behind him, Joe Lieberman leaned First, who was he? Who was John It was a great honor to be his cospon- over and said: I think he really likes McCain? John was a man deeply in love sor on his last immigration reform bill you. with his country and its promise, a earlier this year—a bill which offered I said: How can you tell? man optimistic that tomorrow would not partisan promises but a way for- To which Lieberman responded: He be better than today, and a man grate- ward to fix our immigration system, wouldn’t have bothered asking you ful for the chance to serve a cause which has, for far too long, been badly those questions or waiting for your an- greater than himself. His humor was broken. swers if he didn’t think you had some- rooted in that hopefulness, the some- Indeed, from immigration to thing to say. times sharp sting of his words in de- healthcare, national security to foreign There followed invitations to travel, bate rooted in his passion for his cause relations, John challenged us, pushed which I accepted less often than I and his love of the fight, and his rest- us to act in ways more worthy of this should have, but three trips were espe- lessness rooted in impatience to get on place and its history as the greatest de- cially memorable. While visiting a ref- with it, to get busy defending liberty liberative body on Earth, as a full ugee camp in Jordan where hundreds of or making a difference in the world to equal to the Executive, our President, Syrians had literally just arrived, flee- help soften the burdens of millions not as a group elected and empowered over ing the butchery of Assad’s troops, yet free. John was both a romantic and longer terms to know each other, to re- John wept with compassion for women a cynic, as some of have said, in love spect each other, and engage with each who recounted their husbands being with and passionate about the causes other in the real and hard and good murdered before them and their chil- he fought for, yet clear-eyed about the work of advancing America’s values at dren being taken from them. John long odds he often faced in a world hos- home and abroad. promised to fight for them and their tile to our ideals. What impact did John McCain have cause relentlessly, and he did. In trying to summarize John, just re- on me, the junior Senator from Dela- Just after inauguration last year at viewing a few of his titles barely cap- ware? First, my predecessor, former the North Atlantic Regional Security tures the sweep and complexity of this Senator and Vice President Joe Biden, Conference in Halifax, Canada, I got to man—naval aviator, POW, captain, let me know, from my first day here, see John command respect across the Congressman, Senator, chairman of the that John was a treasure and a chal- board from political and military lead- Commerce Committee, chairman of the lenge and that I would, in serving ers from a dozen countries, and I heard Armed Services Committee, Presi- alongside him, have a unique oppor- as leaders from allies and partners dential nominee of his party, states- tunity to learn from someone whose across Europe—from the Baltics to the man, hero. scope of experience was, in many ways, Balkins—pressed him for reassurance John also treasured, deeply, two ti- unmatched among our current Senate that we would keep our commitments, tles rarely mentioned here—husband colleagues. defend our values, and stand by their and father. He clearly loved his family I had the honor of traveling with young democracies in the face of Rus- and was every bit as privately pas- John, of seeing him at his absolute sian aggression. sionate about them as he was publicly best, of seeing him show compassion During that trip, too, Senator passionate about the causes he fought for Syrian refugees at a camp in Jor- McCain, once again, reiterated his for here and around the world. dan, hearing him confront corrupt for- principled, unequivocal stand against To Cindy and to all of John’s family, eign leaders and encourage our men the use of torture. His unwavering thank you so much for sharing him and women in harm’s way, and, most commitment on that issue at that crit- with us, for sustaining him in his serv- memorably, visiting Vietnam to see ical time was just one of the many ice over 60 years of his remarkable the genuine warmth with which the Vi- ways John nudged us ever closer to our service to our Nation. etnamese people and their leaders re- ideals. I was so honored to get to know John garded him. Finally, on an unforgettable trip to first as a colleague and then as a trav- I first encountered John overseas on Vietnam just last June, I got to visit eling companion and mentor and, in re- my first codel, or congressional delega- the Hanoi Hilton with John to hear his cent years, to be able to count him as tion trip, just a few months into my indescribable description of the deep a friend. We didn’t always agree, or first term, early in 2011. I was traveling deprivations of his long captivity and even often agree, on a very wide range with Senators MANCHIN, CORKER, and torture and then got to see in person

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Instead, he con- for them to learn skills, commit them- traveling with him, many of us got to tinued his cause of serving our Nation selves to our community and country, know him as not just a war hero and and, while here, worked tirelessly to and earn tuition funds for college statesman but a colleague, even a champion those unjustly imprisoned through service. friend. John’s temper was quick and around the world. Dissidents and activ- We must stay engaged internation- fierce. On more than one occasion, I ists who spoke up for freedom and ally and lead by the power of our exam- swear he peeled the paint off the wall against dictators knew no more dedi- ple. John would say this requires us to behind me with a fiery stream of pro- cated friend than Senator McCain, and advance not just America’s cherished fanity-laced invective, but he also, we on the Senate Human Rights Cau- values, but our interests—to stand more often than not, later apologized, cus intend to carry forward that work. against authoritarian leaders from came around, listened, even considered. After 9/11, when our own country was Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran, He was that breed of Senator—too rare engaged in enhanced interrogation and to stand with our democratic part- today—who knew how to fight passion- techniques that could only be called ners and allies like those in NATO. ately, yet not make it personal; whom torture, Senator McCain was irate and Last, we have to continue in John’s I could respect, even when I thought he insisted we end a practice he knew was spirit of working across the aisle. I was was deeply wrong; who pushed me re- both of limited value and that demeans struck, while hearing his remarkable lentlessly to defend and explain my both tortured and torturer. speech in Philadelphia at the National own positions and votes. John’s passion on this point wasn’t Constitution Center, where my prede- He showed unusual kindness to my just the pain of one who had experi- cessor, Vice President Biden, spoke children, my father and stepmother enced it himself, it was the pain of movingly in introducing him, and Sen- when they visited, and I was struck by someone who loved his country and felt ator McCain’s acceptance of that the delight John took in visiting with deeply the shame of episodes like Abu award. It should be mandatory viewing schoolchildren and seniors, with people Ghraib and then worked to address at every high school in America. It was of all kinds of backgrounds when they them. clear these two men, who served dec- visited this Capitol he loved. What will it mean to have Senator ades alongside each other, genuinely He also took wicked delight in teas- McCain no longer here with us? My knew each other, knew each other’s ing, and testing and working with jour- fear and concern is, we will not soon families, knew each other’s values, re- nalists, always letting them in on the see another Member of John’s stature spected each other, even though they joke or giving them a heads-up when join us, a stature John earned over dec- rarely, if ever, agreed. We must do that good trouble was brewing. ades of service and a demonstrated too. Most importantly, Senator John willingness to put country over party We have to demonstrate that we can McCain was genuinely humble, not the and cause over self. work together and, like John, be cheer- false modesty of a popular politician Senator McCain earned his ‘‘Mav- ful and grateful in our service. who knows he should feign indifference erick’’ title. It would serve all of us I caught my breath as I walked into to the cheers of a crowd. No, John’s hu- well to remember that even as his prin- this Chamber yesterday, seeing John’s mility was real, a demonstrated humil- cipled stands cost him the support of desk draped in black velvet and with ity of one who knows he is a flawed and many in his party and even home white flowers rather than seeing his re- fallen human, as are we all, and then State, he won the accolades of many markable stature, hearing his punc- sets about being open and accountable more here and millions abroad who tuated speech and his dramatic call to for his shortcomings. were delighted to see someone willing action that so often rang through this John, remarkably, for a modern poli- to risk reaching across the aisle and space. tician, wrote and spoke about and around the world from those hoping we John, I will not soon meet another acted on the ways in which he fell will continue to fight for the values man like you, and I only hope to some- short. In an excellent recent HBO biog- that best define America. day deserve the friendship you ex- raphy of him, ‘‘For Whom the Bell What should we do? What should we tended to a young and inexperienced Tolls,’’ McCain subjected himself to ac- do to honor the memory and legacy of Senator and to follow your example of countability for chapters in his life I Senator McCain? First, fight the dread- genuine humility, dedication, and pas- am certain he would have rather left ed disease that took him from us, as it sion in tirelessly serving the greatest forgotten in history. did my dear friend Beau Biden, beloved Nation on Earth and the best hope for In talking about the 2000 Presidential son of my predecessor Joe—Beau was freedom in our world. primaries, rather than simply blaming taken too young—and Senator Ted Rest well, dear friend. May God Him- his opponents and their dirty tricks for Kennedy, another great lion of this self hold you in the palm of His hand his loss, John took responsibility for Senate who was lost at a time he was and give peace to you and your family. his failure to stand up in South Caro- needed most. Brain cancer has robbed I yield the floor. lina against the practice of flying the us of our best and brightest, and we The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Confederate flag over their State cap- must work harder to cure and end this ator from Utah. itol. disease. Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I ask John, even more strikingly, directly As has been proposed, I believe we unanimous consent that I be able to addressed his association with the should rename the great Senate build- complete my remarks here today. Keating Five scandal. John McCain ing in which John served for decades, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without was cleared, but he viewed that scandal that we might keep his memory alive objection, it is so ordered. as part of the larger and growing prob- for future generations. Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I rise to lem of campaign finance that has I also think we should strengthen and pay tribute to an American hero, a threatened the ethics of all who serve invest in national service, an expecta- powerful leader, and a dear friend, Sen- here. Rather than moving past it, he tion that all young Americans will ator John McCain. After decades of owned it and acted on it, angering lead- serve their country in some way, mili- dedicated service to this Nation, John ers in both parties by working relent- tary or civilian, which will take effort was taken from us over the weekend. lessly with Senator Feingold until they and investment, but service as a young The good Senator from Arizona fought passed the McCain-Feingold campaign man helped John fall in love with our his battle with brain cancer as he did finance reform bill. Nation. At a time of great division, I every battle in his life, with toughness John also used his hardest personal can think of nothing greater to remind and tenacity, with grit, and with grace. experience to make some of his most us of the spirit of service in which John This week, I join millions in mourning important contributions. Having him- lived his life than to make it possible the passing of a beloved patriot. Over a

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The Sen- highest standard, never hesitating to but we never had any acrimony be- ate—indeed, I should say, the Nation— call out bureaucratic complacency and tween us. He was always open. He will miss the steady, guiding presence runaway spending in military ranks. would come across and help me when I of a singular statesman. Our men and women in uniform were needed the help here in the Senate, as By now, the biographical details of stronger and our Nation more safe be- I would do for him. It was a privilege to Senator McCain’s life have been cov- cause of his efforts. No one commanded serve with him. I feel very deeply about ered at length. The son of a four-star more respect than John McCain as the John McCain, and I am very pleased that I can stand here as one of his Navy admiral, John knew great expec- chairman of the Senate Armed Serv- friends who knew him well and praise tations from an early age. He was to ices Committee. forgo the comforts of civilian life and John constantly put others before him—maybe not as good as I really feel but good enough. fight for freedom, which he did. himself as a prisoner of war, and he did What is exceptional about John the same as a Senator. He was the kind NOMINATION OF BRETT KAVANAUGH McCain is that he not only met the of a friend you could count on for help Mr. President, on another matter, I heavy expectations placed upon him, when you needed it most. would like to take a moment to discuss he far exceeded them. Few have ever Nearly 20 years ago, Governor Mitt the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to risen to the positions of influence that Romney—who at the time had been be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Su- John McCain did. Fewer still have done tasked with salvaging the Salt Lake preme Court. Next Tuesday, the Judiciary Com- so and kept their character intact, but Winter Olympic Games—came to me mittee will convene a hearing to con- Senator John McCain did. Indeed, he with a pressing problem: With only sider Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination. never parted from it. As a prisoner of months to go before the opening cere- The hearing will run 4 days. The Amer- war in Vietnam, John was offered re- mony, Utah lacked the Federal funding ican people will have an opportunity to lease on multiple occasions. Yet he re- it desperately needed to pull off the hear from Judge Kavanaugh at length. fused each offer until the POWs incar- Olympic Games. They will also hear from a number of cerated before him were also released. In our moment of need, we turned to lawyers, former colleagues, and clerks Greater love hath no man than this, Senator McCain. I took Mitt over to who know Judge Kavanaugh well and that a man lay down his life for his see him. The two of us marched up to can attest to his legal abilities and per- country, for his friends. John possessed Senator McCain’s office in the Russell sonal character. such love, proving time and again his Building. Even though we came unan- Ever since the President nominated willingness to lay down his life for his nounced, Senator McCain gladly re- Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme brothers in uniform. As a captive, John ceived us. Together, Mitt and I made Court, my Democratic colleagues have McCain personified selfless sacrifice, the case for emergency funding. Within hurled all sorts of wild acquisitions offering himself as a bargaining chip to days, we had secured the resources we against him. They have called him a secure the freedom of his fellow coun- needed to move forward with the reactionary. That is terrible. They trymen. games, all thanks to Senator John have said his nomination threatens the Each day, for more than 2,000 days, McCain. Were it not for John’s quick destruction of the Constitution—even he endured horrors that few of us could action, I can honestly say the 2002 Win- more terrible. They have said that ever imagine: solitary confinement, ter Olympics would not have been a those who support his nomination are forced starvation, repeated beatings, success. In fact, it would have been an complicit in evil—even more terrible. and the constant threat of death. Yet embarrassment. He was not excited Well, next week the American people he stayed the course, finding strength about putting up Federal funds either, will have an opportunity to see Judge in the love he felt for his fellow serv- but all I had to do was ask, and he said Kavanaugh. They will find that he is icemen—and most of all, the love he fine. not a reactionary. They will find that felt for his beloved country. So esteemed was John by his Repub- he doesn’t, in fact, intend to destroy When John was eventually released lican colleagues that we didn’t hesitate the Constitution. They will also find in the spring of 1973, he came home a to throw our support behind him in the that those who, like me, support his living scar of Vietnam. The cartilage 2008 Presidential election. Senator nomination are not complicit in evil. in his knees was all but gone, the bones McCain mounted an admirable cam- Rather, the American people will see a in his body broken by endless beatings. paign, refusing to stoop to the political whip-smart, incredibly accomplished, He was a walking testament to the bru- mudslinging that all too often defines humble man. They will see a jurist who talities of torture and the depths of Presidential contests. I agree with the has authored more than 300 opinions human depravity, but the hell of war assessment of the late Charles and whose reasoning has won the day was not enough to stop John McCain Krauthammer: at the Supreme Court over a dozen from being a happy warrior. Upon his McCain ran a valiant race against impos- times where the Court has copied his return, he continued the same mission sible odds. He will be—he should be—remem- opinions. They will see a devoted hus- he started in Vietnam: looking out for bered as the most worthy Presidential nomi- band and father who puts his family the safety and welfare of his fellow nee ever to be denied the prize. and community first. They will see a sailors. That was a wonderful quote. man who spends his spare time coach- Few remember that the time before We will remember John for many ing youth basketball and feeding the John was elected to Congress, he was things—for his courage as a sailor, for homeless. They will see a beloved the Navy’s Senate liaison. It was in his dedication as a Senator, and for his teacher who wins sterling reviews from this capacity that he and I first became principle as a statesman. We will also students for his fairminded approach to friends. Even then, John impressed me remember how he embodied the best in teaching constitutional law. In other with his sense of mission, going to in- us. John McCain was a man for all sea- words, the American people will see credible lengths to ensure that our sons—a voice of temperance in intem- what those of us who know Judge service men and women had the re- perate times and a model of civility Kavanaugh see in him. It is those sources they needed to keep us safe. He and reason. The tragedy of his passing qualities that make me proud of the would carry that same commitment is that we need men like John McCain role I played in his confirmation as a with him when he was elected to the now more than ever before. circuit court judge in 2006 after years House of Representatives in 1982 and 5 I consider myself incredibly lucky to of partisan obstruction. years later when he joined us in the have known John and even luckier to I have been on the Judiciary Com- Senate. have called him friend. Here in the mittee for the last 14 Supreme Court

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He is about Judge Kavanaugh will finally Mr. President, now I would like to speaking before three judges and a cease. Let’s make this confirmation turn to another sad topic. It is a floor prosecutor who sits up at the dais with about Judge Kavanaugh. Let’s make it speech that I have had to give over the the judges. They assume you are guilty about his judiciary record and his expe- past few months and sadly may have to unless you prove to them you are inno- rience. Let’s stop trying to gin up the give over the next several months. It cent. He testified for almost 6 hours base by pretending his nomination is a has to do with someone who has been that day. We heard from secret wit- threat to the Republic. in detention now for 690 days in the nesses whose voices were scrambled— Brett Kavanaugh is an excellent country of Turkey. some of them are in prison—putting judge and a good man. He will make an In October 2016, this man was de- forth some of the most absurd charges outstanding Justice. Next week, the tained. He was held in a Turkish prison or allegations you can imagine, but American people will see that for for almost 19 months, in a cell that was they are enough to keep him in prison. themselves. I think it will be an eye- designed for 8 people—it had 21 people About a month ago, the Turkish Gov- opener for some people who have been in it. This man’s name is Andrew ernment did agree—or I should say listening to some of the rhetoric Brunson. He is from Black Mountain, their judiciary did agree to release him thrown his way. I know him well. He is NC. He is a Presbyterian minister, and on house arrest. So for about the last a bright man. He is an honest man. He he spent the better part of 20 years in month, he has been confined to an tells the truth. He writes very well. He Turkey in a Christian ministry. He apartment he has near Izmir. He has a will make an excellent addition to the opened a church just outside of Izmir tracking bracelet on his ankle. As far U.S. Supreme Court. He is honest. He is several years ago. It is a very small as I am concerned, he is still in prison. faithful. He is a good family man. He is church. They had an open-door policy. For the past several months, I have everything you would want in a Justice Anyone could come in. He had been liv- been trying to do everything I could to on the greatest court in the world. I ing there peacefully for 20 years. show respect to the Turkish Govern- know him. I support him—not just be- In 2016, there was a coup attempt ment but make it clear that America cause he is a Republican or because he that I still maintain was illegal. It was will not stand for this kind of treat- gives the Republicans somewhat of an not the proper way to change government of an American citizen, particu- advantage on the Court but because he ment, whether in the United States or larly from a country that is a NATO is one heck of a good person, one heck in Turkey. The people responsible for ally, a country that we have a treaty of a good judge, and one heck of a good that coup should be held accountable obligation to go and defend in a time of student of the law. He is a wonderful to the law. Unfortunately, Pastor any sort of adversarial act. Let’s say man, and I hope my colleagues on both Brunson got swept up in the emergency Russia or some other nation chooses to sides of the aisle will see it through in actions that President Erdogan took do something hostile to Turkey. We are a way that will be an honor to this after the coup attempt, and he was put obligated to send men and women onto body, not a desecration. in prison. He actually thought he was Turkish soil to fight side by side for Mr. President, I yield the floor. going down to finally get his perma- their freedom. Yet I have an American The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- nent residency documents in Turkey, who has been charged with bogus ator from North Carolina. which he had been working on for a charges in prison in a NATO ally coun- Mr. TILLIS. Mr. President, I ask while, when he and his wife were ar- try. This is the first time that has ever unanimous consent that I be able to rested. His wife was held in prison for happened in the history of the alliance. complete my brief remarks. about 12 days. Pastor Brunson has been When we talk to the people—the For- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without in prison and now detained under house eign Minister, President Erdogan, and objection, it is so ordered. arrest for what will be 2 years in Octo- others—about this, they say: Well, we REMEMBERING JOHN MCCAIN ber. just have to have our judicial process Mr. TILLIS. Mr. President, before I The issue actually came to me as follow its course. I don’t believe that is speak on another topic I sadly have to constituent work about a year and a true. As a matter of fact, I believe we come to the floor every week and speak half ago. We were doing everything we have a President who is inclined to try on, I want to offer my heartfelt condo- could to go through diplomatic chan- and do a hostage swap. The reason I be- lences to the McCain family and all of nels to try to get Pastor Brunson re- lieve that is that after they said we his friends and supporters. leased. Earlier this year, they finally— have to let the judicial process follow I had the privilege of serving on the after about 19 months in prison with- its course, President Erdogan made Senate Armed Services Committee out charges, they issued an indictment this statement publicly—that they with Senator McCain for 3 years. I and read the indictment. It was absurd. have someone here who they believe learned a lot from him. During his en- I am not an attorney, but I couldn’t was involved in the coup attempt. We tire time in Congress, he did a wonder- even understand how—the charges they said to them, if they are and can prove ful job of standing up for the men and had levied against Pastor Brunson and it and if we have an extradition treaty, women in uniform and standing up for the evidence they used to substantiate we will extradite that person. They veterans. the charges I don’t believe would keep haven’t proven it. What they have said I also wanted to share this one story. you in jail in the United States over- to the press is, If you give us our pas- I had a reporter ask me yesterday: night. Yet this man had already been tor, we will give you your pastor. What kinds of experiences have you held in prison for 19 months. I also Maybe it was just an offhanded com- had with him that were most memo- heard that he was really concerned. His ment that he regrets. Maybe he didn’t rable? It was a day I spent with him in mental state was down. He lost 50 really mean that he is willing to trade North Carolina back in 2014. I think pounds over about a year and a half. I someone on U.S. soil for somebody on you can really judge a politician by also heard through diplomatic channels Turkish soil. Then why, just a few how they behave when they are not in that he was afraid that the American weeks ago, did the administration or front of the camera or here at one of people would read these indictments, administration officials say, ‘‘Well, the desks in the Senate. When you saw believe them, and then turn their OK, if we can’t trade a pastor for a pas- him interacting with men and women backs on him. That is when I requested tor, then if you agree to drop a lawsuit in uniform and with veterans, you saw a trip to Turkey to visit him in a pris- that is against a major banking insti- a man with a heart of gold and a com- on and look at him eye-to-eye and let tution in Turkey, we will give you Pas- mitment to those men and women in him know that as long as I am a U.S. tor Brunson’’? If, after two different uniform. Senator, he will not be forgotten. examples, they haven’t proven that

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He said: LINDSEY, aren’t you a law- a Russian-made missile defense system Let’s start off with the tie. To any- yer? that would never be allowed to inter- body who may be watching on tele- Yes, I am, John. operate with the NATO missile defense vision, this is a Naval Academy tie. Do you know the difference between system. We have also told them that I wore this today, John, to honor you a lawyer and a catfish? we may have to reconsider whether we and to annoy you all at the same time. No, I don’t. would actually transfer Joint Strike He would constantly tell me: One is a bottom-dwelling, scum-suck- Fighter F–35 planes to Turkey and the LINDSEY, I wish you were in my Naval ing creature, and the other is a fish. timeline they are supposed to go there, Academy class. No wonder we did so poorly with law- which would be at the end of 2020. I would say: Well, that is very nice, yers, John. I hope we get past all of this. I hope John. He said: Do you know why I didn’t that measure in the National Defense Do you know why, LINDSEY? join the Marines, LINDSEY? Authorization Act is the last one I No, John. No. have to pursue here. Yet, as long as If you would have been in my class, I My parents were married. Pastor Brunson is imprisoned in Tur- would have been sixth from the bot- I am going to miss these dumb jokes. key, I will do everything I can to get tom, not fifth. What else did I learn? I learned how the 72 Senators who signed the letter Thank you very much, John. to fight a lot, everything and every- that expressed concern for Pastor Humiliation and affection were con- body. I learned how to forgive. And Brunson—it is extraordinary to get stant companions. The more he humili- from him, I saw how to heal. that many Senators to agree on some- ated you, the more he liked you, and in On the fighting side, I learned that thing in this body—to take it up an- that regard, I was well-served. the captured warrior who was tortured other notch unless Pastor Brunson is To my colleagues, thank you again became the statesman who forgave and set free. so much for what you have done. The healed a relationship between his I hope, next week, I will come to this only way I know to put this in words former adversary and our Nation. floor and thank Turkey for doing the that maybe John can relate to is that I went to the Hanoi Hilton with right thing in releasing Pastor Brunson after a military operation is over, after John. That is one of the highlights of and in allowing his wife, Norine, to a mission is complete, the pilot comes my life. It is now a museum, and we travel out of the country. I hope, next back and debriefs. If there is a military are the bad guys because they get to year or next week, I will be talking operation, you do an after-action rewrite how the museum reads. I remem- about the positive things we can do port. I thought to myself, what would ber being in front of his cell, and you with the NATO allies to secure their it say? What would the after-action re- could see the wheels turning and the homeland, to improve our trade agree- port for John McCain say? The purpose memories coming back. As we walked ments, and to actually have the rela- of these reports is for lessons learned forward, surrounded by a bunch of han- tionship with that NATO ally that I so that we will benefit and make sure dlers—and John McCain was like Elvis want so badly to have. Until Pastor that we remember—remember the in Vietnam. It was the most amazing Brunson is released, there is no way on things that went well and the things thing in the world how people adored this Earth that I will do anything to that did not so that we will be better him in Vietnam. I saw a bunch of make our relationship better. off as a unit and as a nation. photos on the wall of the prisoners It is within President Erdogan’s The title of the operation was pretty playing volleyball and sitting in the power to take this off the table today. easy—you can say a lot of things about Sun with sunglasses on. I hope that President Erdogan and the me but ‘‘clever’’ is not one of them— I said: John, it must not have been Turkish officials hear our pleas. Show ‘‘Operation Maverick.’’ It began in the that bad after all. us, a NATO ally, the respect we de- fall of 1954 at the Naval Academy—the With a wide smile, he said: I don’t reserve, and free Pastor Brunson. year before I was born—and it ended member it this way—which allowed us I yield the floor. August 25, 2018. And what can we learn? to get out of Vietnam. The source of the report is me, his po- I remember him embracing a war f litical wingman, code named ‘‘Little that nobody wanted to talk about be- RECESS Jerk’’—you all have your names, and cause he understood what it would cost you earned them like I did—who was to lose it. I remember him supporting The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under lucky enough to walk in his shadow the surge when everybody was willing the previous order, the Senate stands and to witness history up close, to be to get out of Iraq because they were so in recess until 2:15 p.m. in the presence of a giant at a time ev- tired of it and saw no way forward. I re- Thereupon, the Senate, at 12:48 p.m., erything around us was so small. member the fighter. I remember the recessed until 2:15 p.m. and reassem- What did I learn? I learned that a few 2008 campaign when, in 2007, John bled when called to order by the Pre- dumb jokes told over and over again McCain was fifth in a four-person race; siding Officer (Mr. PORTMAN). actually become funny and can take written off as politically dead; no f you a long way in politics, MARCO. I am money. The ‘‘Straight Talk Express’’ EXECUTIVE CALENDAR—Continued going to give them to you because had no wheels. John liked you. After a visit to Iraq in July, where The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- He said: LINDSEY, how hot is it in Ar- General Petraeus allowed him to talk ator from South Carolina. izona? to 600 people who were going to reenlist REMEMBERING JOHN MCCAIN John, I don’t know. in a war that they did not have to con- Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I have It is so hot that the trees chase the tinue to fight, and about an equal num- been thinking about this, I have been dogs. ber were becoming citizens because dreading this, and now I am going to do Well, isn’t that funny, John. they were fighting for their country this. He said: What is unique about Ari- and had expedited citizenship—there To all of my colleagues who have zona? were two empty chairs in the front come before me, you have done right I said: I don’t know, John. I would with boots, and John asked: What is by our friend Senator McCain. The imagine a lot of things. that all about? Two didn’t make it to family appreciates all the good words, Barry Goldwater ran for President the ceremony, but they were given the kindnesses, and the antidotes that and lost. Mo Udall ran for President their citizenship that day. I remember

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It means there wanted to be President, he was pre- soldiers adore him. will be generations of politicians com- pared to be President, but it was not To those who have traveled with ing along who will be influenced by his to have. I remember above all else John, you seldom had two meals in the him. The McCain Institute is alive and the speech he made that night. John same country. You met more people well, and its goal is to attract young taught us how to lose. than you could remember. But you leaders throughout the developing When you go throughout the world, were struck by one thing: We are going world, expose them to democracy, and people remember his concession speech to really bad places a lot. And those in teach them the art of compromise and as much as anything else. There are so the military adore this man. the rule of law. What a legacy that is. many countries where you can’t afford He taught me that boldness and prac- John will inspire courage. He will re- ticality must be practiced in equal to lose because they would kill you. inforce the idea that nothing is inevi- measure. table as long as a few people are willing John said that night: President Obama I say to the Senator from Rhode Is- is now my President. So he healed the to fight for what they believe is right. land, he believes in climate change, It is going to be a lonely journey for Nation at a time he was hurt. and so do I. But there is a practical I learned that serving a cause greater me for a while. I am going to need your streak about John that I think made help. The void to be filled by John’s than yourself hurts. Anybody in the him very successful. He told me time military can tell you the risk you take. passing is more than I can do. Don’t and again: You have to let people catch look to me to replace this man. Look He couldn’t put his jacket on and he up with you. You have to have a couldn’t comb his hair because he got to me to remember what he was all rhythm and a pace. There are 100 peo- about and try to follow in his foot- hurt serving a cause greater than him- ple in this body from different walks of self. steps. If you want to help me, join the life. You may think you are right, and march. If you want to help the country, I remember how easy it is to say and if you are, it will be proven over time, how hard it is to do, how hard it is to be more like John McCain. I believe but give your colleagues the time and there is a little of John McCain in all tell your base ‘‘I think you are wrong’’ the understanding to catch up with and how hard it is to solve problems of us, and the little of John McCain you. practiced by a lot of people can make that nobody else wants to talk about. He taught me that honor and imper- I learned that failure and success are this a really great nation. fection are always in competition. I do So, my friend, you did good. You different sides of the same coin. John not cry for a perfect man; I cry for a lived in the shadow of a four-star fa- told me: I have become better from my man who had honor and who was al- ther and a four-star grandfather. You failures because it teaches me, and I ways willing to admit his imperfection. always worried if you disappointed. have been tempted by my success, and If you are thinking about getting in You did not. without my failures, I would have politics, the one thing I would ask you To Cindy and the children, thank you to look at when it comes to the life of never been successful. for making me a part of the clan. To John McCain is that it is OK to tell So to those who are striving as a Team McCain, you taught me what people: I screwed up. I got this wrong. young person, remember John McCain. loyalty is all about. To my colleagues, He failed a lot, but he never quit. And I want to make it right. In my view, honor is doing the right thank you for your kindness. the reason we are talking about him I yield the floor. today and the reason I am crying is be- thing at your own expense, and he did The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- cause he was successful in spite of his that time and again. ator from Louisiana. failures. He taught me that life without pas- Mr. CASSIDY. Mr. President, I rise For family and friends, the after-ac- sion and love is a sad life. He had a to speak about John McCain. tion report would say: A relationship happy life. He had 10 lives. He was in- As one of those rising to pay tribute, with ‘‘Maverick’’ brought joy and dif- volved in five aviation accidents. If we I am perhaps one of the least qualified ficulty. Both were your constant com- sent John a bill for all the planes he to do so. I say that because although panions. He was a difficult man. He crashed, he could never pay it off. He John McCain and I served together, it could be tough. But the joy you re- lived life to its fullest. He was often was only for the last 4 years of his sto- disappointed, but he was never deterred ceived from being with him will sus- ried Senate career, and we were not on from getting back up and going at it tain you for a lifetime. And I am so any common committees. lucky to have been in his presence. again. But let me say why I am qualified. In ‘‘Love’’—not a word often associated He taught me that principle and com- that brief period, I saw firsthand that with Senator MCCAIN, but it should be promise are not mutually exclusive and of which others with many more years because if you were loved by him, you are the foundation of a great person, as knew it. You were loved with all of of acquaintance rise and speak. I speak well as a great nation. He taught me your faults. And I was lucky to have of 2014, when I was running for Senate that immigration—as hard as it is to been loved by him. for the first time, and John McCain solve, somebody has to do it. He said to So how would I characterize ‘‘Oper- came to Louisiana to campaign on my me, along with Ted Kennedy: You are ation Maverick’’? Wildly successful. It behalf. It was remarkable to see how going to learn, LINDSEY, that the other made the world a better place. It gave veterans responded to him. We would side has to get something too. I have the Nation something to talk about at go—oh, my gosh, it was the sort of learned that lesson. a time when we can’t agree on any- schedule that is legendary for John To my friends on the other side, as thing. It is not universal acceptance of McCain. We started off in Covington, long as I am here, I am going to re- a life of John McCain, but it is pretty LA, then went to New Orleans, then member that you have to get some- damn close. It is the only time that went to Baton Rouge, to Lafayette, thing too. MSNBC, CNN, and FOX are saying the drove up the length of the State to He taught me that when good ignores same thing. Shreveport, and then came back to evil, it may be convenient, but it sel- The only way that happened is be- New Orleans—all in 1 day. Others dom works. cause those of us who had the pleasure would have been tired. He was ener- He talked about what would happen of being in his presence and those who gized. in Iraq if we left. He was right. He covered him in the media business He taught me about social media. talked about what would happen in want to tell the story. Folks would come up to him and wish Syria if we didn’t get involved. He was I have been approached since his to have their picture taken. He would right. Why? Because warriors are the death by cab drivers, waiters, and cops, take a selfie, and say: Post it on best, I believe, at making peace, and and they all said: Sorry for your loss. 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His indomi- substantively reformed the Depart- We had an incredibly intense sched- table spirit carried him through his ment of Defense, improved care for ule in which we were meeting one per- years of imprisonment, but his willing- servicemembers, and increased the ca- son after another. In Shreveport, as we ness to sacrifice for his fellow service- pacity of our military to meet the myr- were walking out, a fellow handed John members should be a testament to all iad national security challenges we McCain a note. He said: Senator, this is of his courage and sacrifice. face. a fellow who is a fellow Vietnam vet, As everyone knows well, John en- Throughout his life, Senator McCain and he is in the hospital now and can- dured grueling hardship throughout his was a steadying force through turbu- not come. He would love to hear from captivity. On courage, he so eloquently lent times in global affairs. The threats you. Here is his phone number. explained: ‘‘Courage is not the absence to our national security and the sta- So we get in the car, and John picks of fear, but the capacity to act despite bility of the global order are more nu- up his phone and he calls. He says: our fears.’’ merous and diverse now than at any Hello, my friend, this is John McCain. At one point during his captivity, point in our recent history. As we grap- I am sorry you are under the weather. John made what I can only imagine to ple with these challenges, we should re- Tell me about it. be one of the most difficult decisions of member John’s guidance: ‘‘We live in a He spoke to the man as one Vietnam his life. He was offered special treat- land made of ideals, not blood and soil. veteran to another, reaching through ment and release due to his family’s We are the custodians of those ideals at the wire, letting that man know he was military prominence, but he refused. home, and their champion abroad.’’ deeply cared for and honored for his He stated that he would not accept re- He believed in an America that is service to our country and his sacrifice lease until all the prisoners of war united by values, not divided by manu- for our country. taken before him were also released. To factured distrust and animus. Most im- That tells me a measure of John put his comrades and his country be- portantly, he emphasized the moral ob- McCain—in this incredibly intense fore his own welfare, especially when ligation that we, as Americans, carry schedule, finding that moment to reach confronted with a future of uncertainty to provide leadership in the world and out to an individual to let him know and abuse, is the most profound exam- serve as a beacon of hope, opportunity, how much he was valued as an Amer- ple of his willingness to sacrifice his and justice, both here and across the ican. life for others. globe. So I rise to speak briefly. I started by John spent more than 5 years in cap- As a further reflection, I was always saying that I am probably among the tivity at the Hanoi Hilton, but rather impressed by John’s respect for col- least qualified, but, perhaps, because of than allowing the horrors of the experi- leagues who were committed to prin- my brief interaction and the quality of ence to continue to color his life, he in- ciple but who sought principled com- the interaction and the intensity of stead returned to the Navy for several promise. This respect animated our re- how John McCain presented himself, years before beginning a career in busi- lationship and made it possible to find not just to me, not just to his fellow ness. Not long after, he again heeded common ground. Americans, but to all of the voters of the call to service and won a seat in Finally, what ultimately motivated Louisiana, I might be the best quali- the House of Representatives rep- John McCain, I believe, was the knowl- fied—the best qualified because, even resenting Arizona. edge that thousands and thousands of in that glimpse, you see that which The first indication that Senator Americans in uniform were protecting made John McCain a great American: McCain would be an outspoken leader this Nation. He understood that we bringing it all, all the time, for every- and staunch defender of servicemem- owed these men and women and their body who lives in this country, to rep- bers came when, as a freshman member families more than we could ever real- resent this country as best as possible of the House, he opposed legislation ly pay. He always kept faith with these to the rest of the world, and in so doing supported by President Reagan to keep valiant Americans and inspired all of serving not just our country but the marines in Lebanon. He refused to fur- us here to keep that faith. As our sail- rest of the world. ther endanger servicemembers for an ors, soldiers, marines, and airmen I yield the floor. objective that he viewed as unattain- guarded our country and Constitution, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- able. It took political courage and con- he guarded them with a special and ator from Rhode Island. viction for John to stand up to a man profound love. Mr. REED. Mr. President, I rise he has called one of his heroes and op- I will miss Senator McCain’s partner- today to honor our late colleague and pose him on principle. ship and friendship, and this Chamber friend, Senator John McCain. This willingness to stand by his con- will be hard pressed to find a more re- I want to begin by offering my deep- victions and speak his mind, no matter spected voice of reason and bipartisan- est sympathies to John’s loving wife, the perception, would become a hall- ship. It is my hope that we can follow Cindy; to his children, Sidney, Meghan, mark of Senator John McCain. First in in the footsteps of the virtues that Jack, Jimmy, Bridget, Doug, and the House, then in the Senate, and on Senator John McCain exemplified: Andy; and to that most remarkable the Presidential campaign trail with courage, sacrifice, compassion, deter- woman who shaped his life, his mother, the aptly named ‘‘Straight Talk Ex- mination, and, above all else, an Roberta. press,’’ John was renowned for the can- unyielding patriotism that motivated a Those who knew him knew that, did expression of his thoughts and lifetime of service. We can best honor above all else, John was a loving fa- steadfast defense of his principles. Senator McCain by living our lives by ther, devoted husband, and a dedicated While John and I served for many the example he set. family man. Today we mourn with the years together in the Senate, I was for- I yield the floor. entire McCain family. tunate to work most closely with him The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- I would like at this time to take a during the past 4 years when he was ator from South Dakota. few moments to reflect on his heroic chairman of the Armed Services Com- Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, in the legacy. mittee and I was the ranking member. wake of Senator John McCain’s pass- When I think of John McCain, two Our pairing could be rocky at times, ing, I was particularly moved by the words come to mind: courage and sac- not because he was a Republican and I announcement that, in accordance rifice. As the son and grandson of deco- was a Democrat but because he went to with his wishes, he will be buried in the rated naval officers, the desire to serve the Naval Academy and I went to West cemetery at the U.S. Naval Academy. his country ran deep in John. Fol- Point. As John often joked, I did OK It is a fitting resting place for someone

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He than ADM John McCain—our John Patelunas to be Assistant Secretary for ejected, breaking several bones in the McCain’s grandfather. Intelligence and Analysis—because of process, and was taken into captivity. When I shared this with John, and the Department’s refusal to turn over During World War II, ADM Chester every time I would see him, he would documents related to follow-the-money W. Nimitz, describing the actions of say: ‘‘We’ve got to call your dad,’’ and issues and other key investigative the Marines in the battle of Iwo Jima, that is exactly what we did one day. I questions. Since then, colleagues, noted that ‘‘uncommon valor was a cherish that special connection with a Treasury’s stonewalling has not common virtue.’’ The same thing can family who has meant so much to our changed. In fact, in light of all that has be said about the American soldiers, country and to freedom. been revealed in the last year, their sailors, airmen, and marines in the It was an honor to serve with John stonewalling is even more prison camps of North Vietnam. John McCain. I will miss his sense of humor unpardonable. McCain joined their number in October and the passion he brought to every The Treasury Department is partici- of 1967. battle. I admired him greatly. He re- pating in the coverup of criminal activ- During the years of his confinement, minded me and all of us every day that ity. The least the Congress can do—the he was regularly beaten and tortured. life is not about advancing ourselves very least—is hold nominees until the He survived thanks, in part, to the but about serving a greater cause and administration changes its behavior. It friendship of his fellow prisoners of that, paradoxically, it is in service that ought to happen on a bipartisan basis. war. In 1968, his captors offered the we find freedom. Republicans ought to stand up with In his farewell message to his coun- malnourished and ill McCain the Democrats and say, ‘‘This is dangerous. trymen, John said, ‘‘To be connected to chance to be returned home early, This is corrosive to our democracy. America’s causes—liberty, equal jus- ahead of prisoners who were next in This is wrong.’’ tice, respect for the dignity of all peo- line. John McCain said no. He spent an- Leader MCCONNELL has gone ahead, ple—brings happiness more sublime other almost 5 years in captivity before filed cloture, and called votes on the than life’s fleeting pleasures. Our iden- Patelunas nomination without doing being released on March 14, 1973. It tities and sense of worth are not cir- scarcely needs to be said that he re- any of that. cumscribed but enlarged by serving For me, this started a year ago, when mained a thorn in his captors’ side the good causes that are bigger than our- entire time. I asked the Treasury to provide the Fi- selves.’’ nance Committee with key documents Living in perhaps the most privileged Already, the new class of midshipmen related to follow-the-money and Rus- country in the world, it is hard for has overrun the grounds of the U.S. sia. I am the ranking Democrat on the most of us to imagine going without Naval Academy. In the days and years committee, which has jurisdiction over the internet for a few months, let alone and decades to come, midshipmen will the Treasury Department. We have a something more fundamental like elec- walk past John McCain’s grave and the team of skilled investigators who are tricity or indoor plumbing. The cour- graves of other marines and sailors highly adept at digging into the kinds age and character and sheer determina- who have served our country. The of questions that had been raised about tion required to undergo regular tor- graves will fade into the background of ture, malnourishment, and deplorable everyday life, but they will still whis- Russian oligarchs like Alexander living conditions is almost impossible per always of the courage and sacrifice Torshin and about shell companies and to fathom. Yet hundreds of U.S. sol- of those who have gone before. other forms of money laundering and diers, sailors, airmen, and marines— Later, at that time of their testing, illicit finance. That is why I requested John McCain among them—endured some of those midshipmen may remem- these documents from the Treasury, these torments and persevered. ber the graves of those heroes and re- but the Treasury essentially blew us Amazingly, it was in the prison solve to be like them, to be like John off. camps of North Vietnam that John McCain. Russia’s interference in our democ- McCain discovered the fierce love of When discussing how he would like to racy has been thoroughly covered in country that would animate the rest of be remembered, John McCain said, ‘‘I news reports, and many of those re- his life. Years later, he noted: want, when I leave, that the ceremony ports get right to the heart of why I I fell in love with my country when I was is at the Naval Academy, and we just have called for investigators to follow a prisoner in someone else’s. I loved it for its have a couple of people that stand up the money. I will quote from an article decency, for its faith in the wisdom, justice, and say, ‘This guy, he served our coun- in Buzzfeed about Alexander Torshin, and goodness of its people. I loved it because try.’ ’’ the accused Russian spy Maria Butina, it was not just a place but an idea, a cause ‘‘This guy, he served his country.’’ I and her American associate Paul worth fighting for. I was never the same think he can be assured there will be Erickson. again; I wasn’t my own man anymore; I was more than a few people saying that on ‘‘[Butina’s] indictment said that she my country’s. Sunday. There can be few finer epi- was communicating with Russian in- John McCain was his country’s man. thets. telligence while here and was ‘acting at Throughout a congressional career I yield the floor. the direction of a high-level official in that spanned 35 years, he served her Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, the the Russian government.’ faithfully. He inspired those who Trump administration is engulfed in ‘‘That person, federal authorities served with him, on both sides of the scandal. The President has been impli- told BuzzFeed News, is Alexander aisle. He always called on all of us to cated in at least one felony. His former Torshin—Butina’s former boss, once a live up to all that is best and greatest campaign chief, former deputy cam- member of Russia’s upper house of par- about the United States of America. paign chief, longtime personal lawyer, liament, and a close confidant of Presi- He was a fierce crusader for the and former national security adviser dent Vladimir Putin. causes close to his heart, from sup- are all confessed or convicted felons. ‘‘In 2015, Torshin was appointed dep- porting our Nation’s veterans to equip- With every passing week comes a uty governor of the Central Bank of ping our military with the tools it shocking new revelation about Russian the Russian Federation and Butina was needs, to advancing liberty around the interference in the 2016 election, an- hired as his special assistant. Torshin world. other bombshell report detailing their is believed to have close ties to gun He was also a wonderful colleague infiltration of conservative circles, or rights activists in the US, and and friend. Shortly after I got to the another story about how woefully McClatchy reported that the FBI is in- Senate, I read his book, ‘‘Faith of My underprepared the United States is to vestigating whether Torshin illegally Fathers.’’ As I am reading this book, I defend against another attack. funneled money to the NRA.

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The same Senators that the administration needs time anyone from this administration month, Spanish authorities reported to be forced to comply with oversight has uttered such a promise, it has been that Torshin had been laundering requests from the Congress—just that broken faster than it takes a wildfire money for [a] Moscow-based . . . crime one report—and that is far from the to spread in the arid West. syndicate. only bombshell that has dropped in the Regardless of the promises made, the ‘‘This year, Torshin was among the last year since I announced a hold on very next day, Leader MCCONNELL went Russian oligarchs sanctioned by the US the Patelunas nomination. Still, Treas- ahead and filed cloture on a nomina- Treasury Department for playing a key ury is stonewalling. They are blocking tion I have been holding due to the role in ‘advancing Russia’s malign ac- our oversight and our investigations at Treasury’s stonewalling over those tivities.’ Law enforcement sources told every turn. exact issues. BuzzFeed News that tens of millions of It is an outrage that Senate Repub- Colleagues, the President is routinely dollars in his suspicious financial licans are apparently A-OK with this attacking the rule of law in this coun- transactions were flagged by Treasury stonewalling. try. He is attacking the Justice De- officials working on the FBI’s counter- So colleagues, here is what I want to partment, which is run by people he ap- intelligence investigation into Russian know: When does it become too much? pointed. He has mused about pardoning influence. How many reports detailing election people who are unquestionably guilty ‘‘These transactions included large, interference does the Senate need to of committing crimes. He said that per- round-number wire transfers—a hall- stand up and take action? How many haps it should be illegal for individuals mark of money laundering—from stories about shell companies and shad- to cooperate with law enforcement by Istanbul and Dubai, the sources said.’’ owy payments from oligarchs need to providing information that can bring Elsewhere in the report, Buzzfeed come out into the open? Maria Butina criminals and coconspirators to jus- outlined how anti-fraud investigators is sitting in a jail cell in northern Vir- tice. at a major bank flagged transactions ginia—how many other spies need to be When is enough enough? by Erickson and Butina as suspicious. arrested before Senate Republicans In my view, nobody in this body, in Again, I will quote from the article. stand up to an administration that is their heart of hearts, could possibly be- ‘‘The two also appeared to use a com- hiding the facts? lieve that the ties between the Presi- pany, Bridges LLC, to conduct sus- A year ago, the President’s son con- dent, his associates, the Trump organi- picious transactions. Bank officials firmed meeting with Russians in zation, and Russia do not warrant thor- said they couldn’t determine the pur- Trump Tower during the campaign, at ough investigation. You could not pos- pose of the company, which was incor- least one of them connected to Russian sibly have kept up with the news over porated in South Dakota in February intelligence. Senate Republicans did the last 18 months and come to any 2016. Butina was listed as the ‘sole not try to get answers. other conclusion. Everybody can smell signer’ on its checking account, but On the morning of Monday, July 16, the smoke, but you would have to blind Erickson wrote and signed checks from Maria Butina was charged with being a yourself not to see the fire. it. He told McClatchy that Bridges was Russian spy. It was revealed she had By stonewalling our investigations, formed to help Butina obtain financial infiltrated a ‘‘gun rights organization’’ the Treasury is complicit in the cover- assistance for her graduate studies . . . and woven herself into prominent con- up. They are hiding the facts from the ‘‘About $89,000 passed between servative circles to manipulate our pol- Congress and the American people. The Erickson’s US accounts and one held itics. That same day, the Trump ad- Senate’s powers of oversight and inves- by Butina at Russia’s Alfa Bank. In ministration announced a pro-dark tigation are derived from the Constitu- 2014, Erickson received $8,000 from money rule that would make it easier tion of the United States, and the Butina’s Alfa account. Between June to get away with this kind of Trump administration is trampling all 2016 and March 2017, Erickson sent a lawbreaking the next time. Repub- over it. Every member of this body, dozen wires to her Alfa account total- licans did nothing about it. Democrat and Republican, ought to be ing $27,000. Last Tuesday afternoon, Paul outraged. About $93,000 was sent or received Manafort was found guilty on five That is why it is wrong to proceed during a single four-month period— counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank with the Patelunas nomination. I drew from May to August 2017 . . . Bank offi- fraud, and one count of failure to dis- the line here, with this nominee, but cials discovered wires, checks, trans- close a foreign bank account. Michael Leader MCCONNELL filed cloture fers, and cash deposits totaling that Cohen pleaded guilty to charges of tax against my known wishes, scheduling amount, including checks made out to evasion, bank fraud, and two felony the vote to collide with Members’ plans cash, between the duo’s accounts last campaign finance violations he said he to attend Senator McCain’s memorial. year. committed at the President’s direction. Furthermore, what the Treasury De- ‘‘In June and July 2017, Erickson Again, Donald Trump has been impli- partment is doing to keep this informa- wired $45,000 to an unidentified law cated in a felony campaign finance vio- tion about follow-the-money hidden in firm in Washington on Butina’s behalf. lation. Manafort and Cohen, who are the shadows is wrong. The Senate It is not known why Butina retained an convicted and confessed felons, are should not stand for it. attorney at that point, and her current both deeply enmeshed in the broader Mr. CRAPO. Mr. President, I rise in lawyer, Robert Driscoll, told BuzzFeed investigation into Russia’s interference support of the nomination of the Hon- News that his firm was not the recipi- in our election and potential collusion orable Richard Clarida to be a member ent of the money. with the Trump campaign. and Vice Chairman of the Board of ‘‘. . . Investigators from Wells Fargo The very same day, Senator WARNER, Governors of the Federal Reserve Sys- flagged dozens of other suspicious as part of his questioning on the U.S. tem. transactions involving Butina and Senate Banking Committee, had to re- Dr. Clarida has a breadth of private Erickson for FBI agents and the Treas- peatedly press Sigal Mandelker, the sector, government, and academic ex- ury Department’s financial crimes di- Treasury Department’s Under Sec- perience involving both monetary pol- vision. Bank investigators told Treas- retary for Terrorism and Financial icy and financial markets. ury officials they were suspicious Crimes, during a hearing on the effec- At his nomination hearing in the about where the money came from and tiveness of Russian sanctions, to be Banking Committee, he demonstrated that they could find no ‘apparent eco- more responsive to bipartisan requests his expertise and provided members in- nomic, business, or lawful purpose’ for from the Intelligence Committee. sight of how his background, knowl- the transactions.’’ Treasury is 8 months behind in their edge, and experience will aid the Fed- I am not going to comment on any responses to some requests. eral Reserve Board and the country. classified material, and I am not con- To her credit, Ms. Mandelker said she This was evidenced when he received firming these reports, but these arti- would respond in a timely manner, bipartisan support from members of

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He would read nomic Policy from 2002 to 2003 and as a ed: Executive Calendar Nos. 693, 731, books about World War II. He would senior staff economist with the Council 778, 779, 782, 838, 839, and 893; that if read books about anything in history of Economic Advisers from 1986 to 1987. confirmed, the motions to reconsider that he thought was relevant to today. In his academic career, he was an as- be considered made and laid upon the He loved it for the sake of history, but sistant professor at Yale University table and the President be immediately he also loved it because he believed his- from 1983 to 1988 and has served as a notified of the Senate’s action. tory teaches us something; that you professor of economics at Columbia The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there can’t ignore history; that you take the University in various capacities since objection? lessons of history and bring them with 1988. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Minnesota. you forward. If confirmed, Dr. Clarida will play an John’s own history was incredible—a important role in monetary policy nor- REMEMBERING JOHN MCCAIN Ms. KLOBUCHAR. Mr. President, last Navy pilot during Vietnam. After being malization. shot down, he was held and tortured as Dr. Clarida has written extensively week, we lost an incredible patriot, Senator, and American—our friend and a prisoner of war for over 5 years in about monetary policy and, along with that infamous Hanoi Hilton. others, developed a framework for colleague Senator John McCain. My On the trip to Asia, we went to that monetary policy analysis that has been heart goes out to his wife Cindy, his prison, and I saw the cell where John widely cited and used by policymakers mom, his daughters, and family. had been held for those 5 years—the around the world. In the Navy, John exemplified her- Such expertise will be especially im- oism and bravery, and in the Senate, cell in which he made the decision to portant as the Fed continues to wind he was a mentor to so many of us. He allow other prisoners to be released be- down its balance sheet and raise inter- taught us how to work with leaders on fore him because he didn’t want to look est rates after years at the zero lower the world stage, but then he taught us like he got special treatment. That was bound. something just as important; that is, a moment I will never forget. Then, we The Fed has also begun the impor- how to work with each other when we went on a tour of the rest of the prison. tant work of implementing S. 2155, the are here and back home. Again, with that signature wry humor This past month, my husband and I Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and resilience, as the guide was show- got to visit John and Cindy at their and Consumer Protection Act, which ing us a new exhibit, which included ranch in Arizona one last time. Even was signed into law on May 24 of this happy pictures of prisoners of war sit- while battling brain cancer, he contin- year. ting around a Christmas tree or play- ued to be engaged in the issues of our If confirmed as a member and Vice ing table tennis, and she proudly time. He continued to have that signa- Chairman of the Board of Governors, I showed us those pictures, he nodded his ture McCain humor and that grit. head with all the media behind him and look forward to working with Dr. My last memory of John was, I had Clarida on these important issues. then whispered to me: I don’t remem- brought a few of his books to him, and ber any of this. The Board of Governors currently he was getting tired and pointed to one has vacancies, with only three sitting We then went to an exhibit that was sentence in one of the books and said brand-new of his flight suit, and it was members to carry out its vital work. to me: That, that is what matters. I strongly support this nomination a pristine flight suit with his name em- The sentence was this: ‘‘Nothing in broidered on it. Next to it was a pic- today and urge my colleagues to do the life is more liberating than to fight for ture of him and the plane being shot same. a cause larger than yourself.’’ No one down, and the flight suit was all torn The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. proved that more than John McCain. up. They would show us the flight suit, HOEVEN). The majority leader. LINDSEY GRAHAM just gave beautiful and he took pictures and smiled. Then, UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENT—EXECUTIVE remarks about his best friend—his best CALENDAR friend who had taught him so much, as we were walking away, he said to Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I who taught him how to pick yourself me: That was not my flight suit. ask unanimous consent that notwith- up and be resilient when things go That was John McCain. When he standing the provisions of rule XXII, wrong, who taught him how to always walked around the streets of Vietnam, the pending cloture motions on Execu- put your country first. a place where he had been held prisoner tive Calendar Nos. 911, 783, and 720 be I saw that resilience firsthand when for 5 years, he was like a rock star. Do withdrawn, and that at 3:45 p.m. today, John invited me to go with him and you know why? Because he had come the Senate vote on the following nomi- LINDSEY on a trip to Asia. It was an in- back there so many times, bringing dif- nations in the order listed with no incredible moment in his own life. It was ferent Americans with him, working on tervening action or debate: Executive right after he had lost that Presi- issues that mattered to them, working Calendar Nos. 910, 911, 783, and 720; that dential election—something he had on trade issues, normalizing relations. if confirmed, the motions to reconsider dreamed of attaining for so long, and it They loved him there. That was him; be considered made and laid upon the didn’t work out. Did he just go home that was John McCain. table and the President be immediately and not do his work? No. He dove right The other thing about him was there notified of the Senate’s action. in and took a young Senator with him were so many Senators that he I further ask unanimous consent that to Asia, along with his best friend mentored, but I always loved how he the pending cloture motions on Execu- LINDSEY, and some of his most beloved would take some of the new women tive Calendar Nos. 633, 635, 636, 674, 676, staff. Senators under his wing and make sure 692, 693, 731, 779, 782, 838, and 893 be What I saw on that trip I will never they went on these trips. In many of withdrawn; and that following disposi- forget. He was literally a few months the rooms where we met with foreign tion of the Patelunas nomination, the out of losing a Presidential election, leaders, it would be, again, John and Senate vote on the following nomina- but he was still excited about the world LINDSEY and I. Of course, Senator tions in the order listed with no inter- around him. He was excited when the McCain went first as the leader of the vening action or debate: Executive Cal- Defense Secretary called him with delegation, and then all of these male endar Nos. 633, 635, 636, 674, 676, 692, and something he wanted him to work on foreign leaders would next look at 837; that if confirmed, the motions to with him. LINDSEY GRAHAM because they figured reconsider be considered made and laid He had great humor when he read he was the next senior, which was cor- upon the table and the President be im- about President Obama’s latest pur- rect. But John McCain would stop

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I trip. important message in his own words was in the private sector then. I took Part of being a mentor to someone is from a few years before, in 2013, when time off to spend about 6 weeks with also urging them on, and many of us he spoke to that pro-democracy crowd him, traveling around the country. I here know what it was like to get one of protestors in Ukraine, telling them: was on the campaign trail with a group of those backhanded McCain com- America is with you. And they roared of his loyal friends, including the first pliments, which didn’t always seem ‘‘thank you’’ back at him. He said: friend, LINDSEY GRAHAM. like a compliment but truly was. ‘‘The United States has a special re- I had known John for many years, My favorite was when I would do sponsibility to champion human but you really get to know somebody some kind of Sunday show or some- rights—in all places, for all peoples, in a different way during the intensity thing like that, and he would have and at all times.’’ and the pressure of a national cam- liked what I said, I would have guessed, So he would send this message to our paign. I played the role of his oppo- but he would call and leave a message: allies. He would look for those hot nent, then-Senator Barack Obama, to Well, you did a pretty good job on that spots. He would look for those mo- prepare him for his debates, and I took show, talking about immigration— ments when it was necessary to show that role very seriously—maybe too se- well, pretty good for a Communist. our allies and friends and those strug- riously on occasion. It was my job to I know some of my Republican col- gling for human rights and democracy get under his skin and prepare him well leagues were never called a Com- that they had a friend in the United for the debates, and I did it. munist, but that was his word of affec- States. Many of my colleagues will tell you tion for many of us on the Democratic He knew that supporting our allies is he was a fighter and a tough compet- side. also about supporting ourselves—and I itor and did not mince words. I was on I think part of this work that he did will use John’s words here—in sup- the other end of that. After some spir- in mentoring women Members and staff porting ‘‘their hope . . . their faith . . . ited debates, I was very glad that in had to do with the incredibly strong and their friendship.’’ That was John the real world I was actually on his women in his own life—his wife, Cindy; McCain. side. his mother; his daughter, Meghan; and So when I think about protecting the Needless to say, he wasn’t happy with his family. That was a part of John future of our country and the work me during those debate sessions. I McCain that I think people don’t know. that must be done in this Chamber and think Cindy McCain still hasn’t for- The last thing I will mention—and his devotion to making friends on both given me, by the way, for some of the LINDSEY talked about this—is that his sides of the aisle, I think about the de- things I said during the debate prepara- legacy must live on; that is, what he cency that he brought to politics, not tion, playing the role of then-Senator taught us about working with the rest always—not always happy every mo- Obama. Even 2 years later, after I was of the world. ment of his life in politics, but always first elected and joined him here in the The last trip I took with John decent. That was best reflected at a U.S. Senate, he would introduce me to McCain was to Lithuania and Latvia, rally that happened in my State in the reporters here in the hall by saying: Estonia, Ukraine, and Georgia. He waning days of his Presidential cam- That’s the jerk who played Obama. planned that trip right after the last paign when a woman stood up, when he The John McCain I got to know Presidential election. The President- could have just embraced what she through the intensity of that Presi- elect had been talking negatively said, but he didn’t. The woman said of dential campaign was principled. He about NATO, and there had been dis- then-candidate Obama: ‘‘I have read was patriotic, he was passionate, and cussions about our dealings with Eu- about him. . . . He’s . . . an Arab.’’ rope. I think he felt it was very impor- Without missing a beat, John shook his heart was in the right place. tant to show the world that there were his head and very politely said: ‘‘No, He also had a sense of humor that people in the Senate, leaders in the ma’am. He’s a decent family man . . . was intact. I remember when a bad poll Senate, who stood by those Baltic na- [whom] I just happen to have disagree- would come out, he would gather us tions that had declared their independ- ments with.’’ around and say: Don’t worry. It’s al- ence, and that is why we went on that That is not something you plan for; ways darkest before it’s pitch black. trip. that is not an arc of your career where One of the memories I will never for- Somehow we found ourselves on New you have a moment and a strategy. get was during one of those debate Year’s Eve in a blizzard in the middle That was his reaction in the moment preparations in a theater at the Mor- of the night on live Ukrainian TV with when he knew that his dream was slip- gan Library in New York City. At the President Poroshenko. The President ping away from him, and he could have start of the debate practice, I was of Ukraine wanted to show American said just anything about his opponent backstage behind a curtain because I support for their democracy and their because he was mad that he wasn’t wanted it to be realistic; I would be quest to stay independent despite the winning. But he didn’t. He took the coming out from behind the curtain foreign invasion by Russia. So as we high road. That was John McCain. and going to the podium, just as you stood there, the President gave Sen- As we move forward in this Chamber, would do in a Presidential debate. It ator McCain a machine gun, a Ukrain- I hope we will remember his words, was in late September 2008—I think it ian-made machine gun. They are very that the most liberating thing in life is was September 24—just as the financial proud of their armaments there. ‘‘to fight for a cause larger than [our- crisis was hitting and hitting hard. It McCain was holding it, and then he selves].’’ He did that every single day, is difficult to go back to that moment went to Senator GRAHAM, and he gave and we must now carry on that torch. today, but the mindset at the time was Senator GRAHAM a pistol. I was stand- I yield the floor. that we were in a true crisis. The stock ing there, and McCain said to me: I The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- market had crashed, and the country wonder what you’re going to get. It ator from Ohio. was mired in financial turmoil. looks like you’re getting a flat box. Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, today As I stood there behind the curtain, I opened up the box, and it had two I want to join my colleague from Min- getting ready to come out, John daggers in it. Senator McCain decided nesota and other Senators in talking McCain and two of his top campaign that I was deserving of a pistol and about our colleague, an American icon, advisers were on the stage, getting into somehow arranged to have one brought who played an outsized role in our Na- their own debate, and their debate was to me. tion’s great story. about whether to suspend the cam- But then what happened was the Navy captain, Congressman, and U.S. paign, postpone the first debate that Navy confiscated every single weapon, Senator, John McCain was first and was scheduled to occur just a few days

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They just couldn’t do it. represent them and try to spread them two positions at the Federal Reserve By the way, that was a point of view around the globe. Board of Governors—Vice Chair for a that was shared by pretty much every He joined the U.S. Navy to protect term of 4 years and a member of the political pundit and probably would be our country, spent more than 5 years Board for an unexpired term of 14 today. as a prisoner of war, was stubbornly pa- years. That is the way the Fed works. I remember John McCain pushing triotic to his own detriment, and A person is on the Board and then back. He said: It is the right thing to served in the House of Representatives serves in some special—supervision or do, to suspend this campaign. If we and in the U.S. Senate, representing Vice Chair. Generally, those titles go don’t fix this, there won’t be a country not just his Arizona constituents, along with the appointment. left to govern. which he did well, but as he viewed it, The Federal Reserve hasn’t had a full It is the right thing to do. If we don’t the entire country. Country first. Board since August 2013. Why is that? fix this, there won’t be a country left Now, as a gesture of our Nation’s President Obama nominated Allan to govern. gratitude for the patriotic path he He suspended his campaign and he re- Landon—a small community bank blazed, Senator McCain will lie in state owner, I believe, from Hawaii—and turned to Washington to jump into the in the U.S. Capitol, draped in the flag arena—like his hero, Teddy Roo- Professor Kathryn Dominquez, who that he spent his life serving. both stepped up to serve their country. sevelt—and to try to fix things. John John McCain was a hero in the flesh They put a number of their life activi- McCain was less worried about the po- right here in this century, and I feel ties on hold in order to serve on the litical fallout than he was about what blessed for having known him. Federal Reserve. Yet the chairman of was at stake for our great country. The last conversation I remember the Banking Committee—not the Country first. having with John was right out here in present chairman, Senator CRAPO—the He didn’t win that campaign, but I the anteroom off the Senate floor. It former chairman of the Banking Com- think he taught all of us a lesson about was during his very last days here. He mittee simply refused to give a hearing how to lose. He gave a generous conces- was in a wheelchair. He had a brace on on either of them. sion speech that put country first. He his leg, necessary because of the chem- was someone a lot of us looked to for otherapy, and his voice was faltering. We have seen that on the Export-Im- counsel and worked with on many We sat and we talked, first about the port Bank. We saw that on a number of issues, often national security issues, SESTA legislation and Cindy’s role. Transportation nominations. We saw it in my case. He was an expert. I worked John always had a funny line. In this on the Federal Reserve. Time after on some issues like Ukraine, but also case he joked, saying: Passing that leg- time, if Obama nominated someone, on other matters. islation will save my marriage. the Senate Banking Committee and the Just in the last year, he played a key Then he started talking about his Senate floor refused to confirm. role in helping us enact reforms here in kids. He went into detail about what Trump, as President now for only 18, the U.S. Senate that are making a real they were doing, especially his sons in 19 months, will have the ability to difference right now in combating on- the military and what they were ac- nominate six of the seven Fed Gov- line sex trafficking. This was through complishing and his daughter Meghan ernors to 14-year terms. Think about legislation that I had introduced called and her work in the media world, how that. Board members do vital work on the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, proud he was of them. His voice monetary policy, and their work af- or SESTA. This SESTA legislation was strengthened, and his eyes shown with fects the financial situation of Ohio something he was very involved with. pride as he talked about each of them. families. They set rules for the Na- Cindy McCain has a long history in I muttered something about that being tion’s largest banks—the banks that this area. She is a real expert on it, and another part of his legacy, and he gave caused the financial crisis. she was instrumental in the legislation me that crooked smile. You can’t underestimate the collec- and these reforms, as was the McCain Family and country first. tive amnesia of this body when it Institute. My wife Jane and I send our condo- comes to financial deregulation and John had a passion for it. He was the lences to John’s amazing wife Cindy, to the financial amnesia of the Banking first Republican cosponsor of the bill his seven proud sons and daughters, Committee, which continues to give and a passionate advocate. He believed and to the entire McCain family. Wall Street anything it asks for—more in his heart that the sale of women and Godspeed, John McCain. profits, more deregulation, and more children online was just wrong, and it The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- tax cuts. should never happen, certainly not in ator from Ohio. As I said, the Board sets rules for the this country in this century. Mr. BROWN. Mr. President, I appre- Nation’s largest banks—the banks that About 6 months ago, this legislation, ciate what my colleague from Ohio caused the largest financial crises and the SESTA bill, was about to be voted said. I appreciate his comments about cost millions of jobs and so many fami- on. After getting permission from my Senator McCain and Cindy McCain. I lies their homes. Democratic coauthor, Senator RICHARD made remarks on the floor earlier As I have said a number of times, my BLUMENTHAL, who agreed with me, I about Senator McCain in my tribute to wife and I live in the Cleveland ZIP approached John McCain, and I asked him, as my colleagues are all doing, as Code 44105. In 2007, that ZIP Code had him if we could name this anti-sex- we should, and as people have done so more foreclosures than any ZIP Code in trafficking legislation ‘‘the McCain well. the United States of America. You still bill,’’ after him and after Cindy and all I appreciate particularly Senator see the residue of that and the results the work he had done—his passion for PORTMAN’s comments about the sex of those foreclosures. We know the pain it. His response was immediate and trafficking issue that Senator McCain that inflicted on millions of families classic McCain. He said: No, that was so interested in, and Cindy really across the country and thousands of wouldn’t be right. I strongly support led the way. I saw Cindy at a con- families within 2 or 3 miles or 4 miles the legislation, but you all did the ference in Cincinnati, Senator of my house. Yet we barely recognize work. It isn’t about me; it’s about get- PORTMAN’s hometown. I live at the anymore in this body what happened ting this done for those women and other end of the State. Her passion because this body didn’t do its job, those children. Country first. about that issue clearly infected John Federal regulators in the Bush admin- For me, this Chamber is never going and his passion about that issue espe- istration didn’t do their jobs, and Wall to be the same place without him. It is cially. North of Cincinnati, along the Street was so greedy.

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They should be giving tion hearing, he failed to provide the FDIC, or the Treasury Department— raises to workers who power these committee with meaningful insight are willing to weaken rules across the companies. Instead, the Fed under- into his views on the important issues board that are there to protect the sta- mines the lessons from the last crisis that will be considered by the Fed. I bility of our financial system. Yet it is and lets the banks drain away their know that a number of us on both sides as if we forgot what happened 10 years rainy-day funds. asked questions, but I couldn’t get ago. Three banks—Goldman Sachs, Mor- clear answers during the hearings on If adopted, the plan that the Fed is gan Stanley, and State Street—all had leverage, on the Community Reinvest- considering right now will allow the capital below the amount required ment Act, on taxpayer protections for eight largest banks in the country to under the stress tests, but do you know the biggest banks, and on diversity and pour $121 billion into stock buybacks what happened? The Fed gave them so many other issues that impact the and dividends. That is giving execu- passing grades anyway. What are the people we serve. tives who already make millions of dol- stress tests for? They are called tests. I asked him to respond to these ques- lars in compensation—it is giving them If you fail a test, you should do some- tions in writing. Putting it mildly, we more. Those are funds that could be thing to correct it. They patted them were disappointed. He is a distin- used to pay workers, cut fees for con- on the back: It is OK. You tried. You guished professor. We asked him spe- sumers, and protect taxpayers from may have not have gotten a passing cific questions, but the answers we got bailouts. It is never enough for Wall grade, but we will let you go anyway. were pretty much identical to the responses from another Federal Reserve Street. Big tax cuts are never enough. What is the Fed’s response, in addi- nominee, Michelle Bowman. So instead More deregulation is never enough. tion to giving these three banks a pass? of writing the answers themselves, it is Biggest profits ever are never enough. The Fed wants to make next year’s clear that the Fed’s staff wrote them Huge compensation is never enough. stress test even easier to pass. Vice Members of the Fed Board will also Chair Quarles has suggested that he and gave them to the two of them, so vote on a Fed proposal to weaken lim- wants to give bankers more leeway to they gave identical answers. That its on speculative trading. These re- comment on the tests before they take doesn’t tell us anything about what he actually thinks. strictions, devised by a former Fed them. So they are going to make them When banks are making record prof- Chair more than 25 years ago, protect easier. They are going to talk to the its, the Fed should be preparing the fi- banks and say: How do we write it so it taxpayers by preventing big banks nancial system for the next crisis. from taking risks—big risks—with will be easier for you to pass it? Maybe They should ensure that banks are re- hard-working families’ savings ac- we will show you ahead of time what silient, focus on increasing employ- counts. If there is any better example the tests are. ment and wages, and combat asset bub- I don’t remember that in eighth of the collective amnesia of politicians bles. But over the last 6 months, I have grade, junior high, or college, where and regulators in Washington, DC, it is seen the Fed only moving in the wrong this. And that is compounded by—if the professor or teacher would say: direction—weakening rules and bowing you look up the street at 1600 Pennsyl- Sherrod, come up to my desk. I will to special interests. Remember I said vania Avenue, the White House looks tell you what this test will be, and I that the White House looks like a re- like a retreat for Wall Street execu- will give you advice on how to pass it. treat for Wall Street executives? They tives. One Wall Street executive after The Fed is considering dropping the are bowing to those interests and mak- another is hired by the White House. qualitative portion of the stress test ing it easier for big banks to cut cor- Governors on the Fed Board will also altogether, even though Deutsche ners. I have only become more worried have a say on the Fed’s stress test—the Bank, Santander, HSBC, RBS, and about whether the Fed can protect tax- yearly exercise designed to prevent a Citigroup failed on qualitative grounds payers and homeowners from the next big bank from being able to bring down before. crisis. our entire economy. Most of those banks I mentioned are We need strong financial watchdogs, Why would we want to do this? Why foreign banks. Some had real problems not lapdogs. We need individuals who would we weaken these rules as banks internationally in the strength and the have their own ideas on the causes and are making bigger profits, bank execu- viability of those banks. impacts of the financial crisis and who tives are getting greater compensation, That doesn’t even include changes take seriously their role to protect tax- and when banks got such a huge tax the Fed is working on after Congress payers and homeowners from Wall cut? Why would we weaken rules so passed S. 2155 to weaken Dodd-Frank Street abuse. I am not confident that is they can have more at the possible ex- more, making company-run stress tests the case with this nominee. pense of the stability and strength of for the largest banks periodic. They The Ohioans I represent need to the financial system? used to be annual, but now they are know how the people nominated serve We have already seen the damage periodic. Guess who gets to decide how them think about these important this administration’s Wall Street- often periodic is. It happens to be the issues. We haven’t gotten that from friendly appointees can do. In July, the same Wall Street people the President this nominee. That is why I cannot Fed allowed the seven largest banks to appointed to the Fed to decide how support and why I plan to vote no on plow $96 billion—any way you calculate often these tests will be. Dr. Clarida. it, that is about $14 billion each; some So we are making them weaker. We The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- a little more, some a little less—al- let you pass even if you don’t. We are ator from Missouri. lowed them to plow $96 billion into going to make them weaker, and then REMEMBERING JOHN MCCAIN dividends and buybacks so CEOs can we are going to let the people being Mr. BLUNT. Mr. President, I know make more money. They didn’t put it tested know more about them before we have a series of votes coming up, in workers’ paychecks. the tests run. Then we will make them and I won’t stand in the way of those Mr. President, do you know what the periodic, so they won’t take them as votes once we get over the next couple average teller in this country makes? often. This is really a way to make of minutes, but I didn’t want to let the Go into a local branch bank. The aver- sure these banks aren’t strong enough week go by without talking a little bit age teller makes $12.50 an hour. At my to make sure they can weather a about John McCain here on the floor. 45th high school reunion in Mansfield, storm. A number of people have asked me OH, I sat across the table from a Vice Chair Quarles also made it clear this week—particularly members of the woman who was working for one of the that massive foreign banks can expect media have asked: Who is going to re- largest banks. She worked there for 30 goodies too. The Fed may also weaken place John McCain? I think the point

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Hunt, up in a house where visiting Members Alexander Gardner Nelson of Maryland, to be Assistant Attorney of the House and visiting Members of Barrasso Graham Perdue General. the Senate was not unusual. I think Bennet Grassley Peters The PRESIDING OFFICER. The that gave him a real capacity to have Blumenthal Hassan Portman question is, Will the Senate advise and Blunt Hatch Reed a comfort level to speak forcefully and Boozman Heitkamp Risch consent to the Hunt nomination? truthfully with people at all levels. Burr Heller Roberts Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I Clearly, his time as a prisoner of war Capito Hoeven Rounds ask for the yeas and nays. had a great impact not only on who he Cardin Hyde-Smith Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a Carper Inhofe Sasse was but also on what he was able to do Casey Isakson Scott sufficient second? and what he was able to say and how he Cassidy Johnson Shaheen There appears to be a sufficient sec- was able to say it. He was a man of in- Collins Jones Shelby ond. Coons Kaine Smith The clerk will call the roll. tense energy. Corker Kennedy Sullivan There is a picture in this building of Cornyn Klobuchar Tester The assistant bill clerk called the Theodore Roosevelt seated in a chair, Cotton Lankford Thune roll. and his left hand is made into a fist. I Crapo Lee Tillis Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators Daines Manchin Toomey are necessarily absent: the Senator never saw that picture thinking it was Donnelly McCaskill Van Hollen a fist about to hit somebody but a fist Enzi McConnell Warner from Texas (Mr. CRUZ), the Senator trying to contain his own energy. Ernst Moran Wicker from Arizona (Mr. FLAKE), and the Sen- There was a reason Theodore Roo- Fischer Murphy Young ator from Alaska (Ms. MURKOWSKI). sevelt was John McCain’s hero. H.W. NAYS—26 Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the EAHY Brands wrote a book about Theodore Baldwin Harris Sanders Senator from Vermont (Mr. L ) is Roosevelt, which was called ‘‘T.R.: The Booker Heinrich Schatz necessarily absent. Last Romantic.’’ The truth is, if there Brown Hirono Schumer The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there Cantwell King were a last romantic, it was John Stabenow any other Senators in the Chamber de- Cortez Masto Markey Udall McCain, not Theodore Roosevelt. Theo- Duckworth Menendez siring to vote? Warren The result was announced—yeas 72, dore Roosevelt was who he was, but Durbin Merkley Whitehouse Feinstein Murray Wyden nays 23, as follows: John McCain brought an intensity to Gillibrand Paul what we do, an immediate willingness [Rollcall Vote No. 198 Ex.] to engage. Certainly, I think every NOT VOTING—4 YEAS—72 Member of the Senate experienced at Cruz Leahy Alexander Graham Murray Flake Murkowski Baldwin Grassley Nelson least once when that immediate en- Barrasso Hassan Paul gagement, with no doubt in his mind, The nomination was confirmed. Bennet Hatch Perdue was there. Members of the media also The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Blunt Heitkamp Peters saw that. He was a man of intensity. the previous order, the motion to re- Boozman Heller Portman Burr Hirono Risch He was a man who believed in his coun- consider is considered made and laid Cantwell Hoeven Roberts try. He was a man who believed this upon the table, and the President will Capito Hyde-Smith Rounds country deserved to be represented well be immediately notified of the Senate’s Cardin Inhofe Rubio action. Cassidy Isakson Sasse all over the world and that freedom Collins Johnson Scott should be defended. The Senator from South Dakota. Coons Jones Shaheen Somebody observed to me earlier Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask Corker Kaine Shelby today that when traveling with John unanimous consent that the remaining Cornyn Kennedy Smith Cotton King Sullivan McCain, he was unbelievably patient votes in this series be 10 minutes in Crapo Klobuchar Tester with the troops and unbelievably tough length. Daines Lankford Thune with the generals. I saw that, and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there Donnelly Lee Tillis many of us saw that. He will be missed, objection? Enzi Manchin Toomey Ernst McCaskill Warner but his work was well done. His place Without objection, it is so ordered. Feinstein McConnell Whitehouse was clearly filled. He made a difference Fischer Moran Wicker in the history of the country, and he f Gardner Murphy Young made a difference for all of those of us NAYS—23 who got to know him. EXECUTIVE CALENDAR Blumenthal Gillibrand Schatz I yield the floor. Booker Harris Schumer The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Brown Heinrich Stabenow the previous order, the question is, Will the previous order, the question occurs Carper Markey Udall Casey Menendez Van Hollen the Senate advise and consent to the on the following nomination, which the Cortez Masto Merkley clerk will report. Warren Clarida nomination? Duckworth Reed Wyden Mr. BLUNT. Mr. President, I ask for The bill clerk read the nomination of Durbin Sanders the yeas and nays. Richard Clarida, of Connecticut, to be NOT VOTING—4 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a a Member of the Board of Governors of Cruz Leahy sufficient second? the Federal Reserve System for the un- Flake Murkowski There appears to be a sufficient sec- expired term of fourteen years from The nomination was confirmed. ond. February 1, 2008. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under The clerk will call the roll. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the previous order, the motion to re- The bill clerk called the roll. question is, Will the Senate advise and consider is considered made and laid Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators consent to the Clarida nomination? upon the table, and the President will are necessarily absent: the Senator The nomination was confirmed. be immediately notified of the Senate’s from Texas (Mr. CRUZ), the Senator The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under action. from Arizona (Mr. FLAKE), and the Sen- the previous order, the motion to re- f ator from Alaska (Ms. MURKOWSKI). consider is considered made and laid Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the upon the table, and the President will EXECUTIVE CALENDAR Senator from Vermont (Mr. LEAHY) is be immediately notified of the Senate’s The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under necessarily absent. action. the previous order, the question occurs

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:06 Aug 29, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G28AU6.031 S28AUPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with SENATE August 28, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5981 on the following nomination, which the The assistant bill clerk read the [Rollcall Vote No. 200 Ex.] clerk will report. nomination of Terry Fitzgerald YEAS—52 The assistant bill clerk read the Moorer, of Alabama, to be United Alexander Graham Portman nomination of Isabel Marie Keenan States District Judge for the Southern Barrasso Grassley Risch Patelunas, of Pennsylvania, to be As- District of Alabama. Blunt Hassan Roberts Boozman Hatch sistant Secretary for Intelligence and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Rounds Burr Heller Rubio Analysis, Department of the Treasury. question is, Will the Senate advise and Capito Hoeven Sasse The PRESIDING OFFICER. The consent to the Moorer nomination? Cassidy Hyde-Smith Scott question is, Will the Senate advise and Collins Inhofe Shelby The nomination was confirmed. Corker Isakson Smith consent to the Patelunas nomination? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Cornyn Johnson Sullivan Mr. COTTON. Mr. President, I ask for Cotton Kennedy the previous order, the motion to re- Tester Crapo Klobuchar the yeas and nays. consider is considered made and laid Thune The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a Daines Lankford upon the table, and the President will Donnelly Lee Tillis sufficient second? be immediately notified of the Senate’s Enzi McCaskill Toomey There appears to be a sufficient sec- action. Ernst McConnell Wicker ond. Fischer Moran Young The clerk will call the roll. Gardner Perdue f The assistant bill clerk called the NAYS—42 roll. Baldwin Gillibrand Nelson Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators EXECUTIVE CALENDAR Bennet Harris Peters are necessarily absent: the Senator The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Blumenthal Heinrich Reed Booker Heitkamp Sanders from Texas (Mr. CRUZ), the Senator the previous order, the question occurs Brown Hirono Schatz from Arizona (Mr. FLAKE), and the Sen- on the following nomination, which the Cantwell Jones Schumer ator from Alaska (Ms. MURKOWSKI). clerk will report. Cardin Kaine Shaheen Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Carper King Stabenow The assistant bill clerk read the Casey Manchin Udall Senator from Vermont (Mr. LEAHY), is nomination of R. Stan Baker, of Geor- Coons Markey Van Hollen necessarily absent. gia, to be United States District Judge Cortez Masto Menendez Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there for the Southern District of Georgia. Duckworth Merkley Warren any other Senators in the Chamber de- Durbin Murphy Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Feinstein Murray Wyden siring to vote? question is, Will the Senate advise and NOT VOTING—5 The result was announced—yeas 75, consent to the Baker nomination? nays 20, as follows: Cruz Leahy Paul The nomination was confirmed. Flake Murkowski [Rollcall Vote No. 199 Ex.] The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under YEAS—75 the previous order, the motion to re- The nomination was confirmed. Alexander Harris Perdue consider is considered made and laid The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Baldwin Hassan Peters upon the table, and the President will the previous order, the motion to re- Barrasso Hatch Portman consider is considered made and laid Blunt Heinrich Reed be immediately notified of the Senate’s Boozman Heitkamp Risch action. upon the table and the President will Burr Heller Roberts be immediately notified of the Senate’s Capito Hoeven Rounds action. Casey Hyde-Smith Rubio f Cassidy Inhofe Sasse f Collins Isakson Schumer Corker Johnson Scott EXECUTIVE CALENDAR EXECUTIVE CALENDAR Cornyn Jones Shaheen The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Cortez Masto Kaine Shelby Cotton Kennedy Smith the previous order, the question occurs the previous order, the question occurs Crapo King Stabenow on the following nomination, which the on the following nomination, which the Daines Klobuchar Sullivan clerk will report. clerk will report. Donnelly Lankford Tester The assistant bill read the nomina- Duckworth Lee Thune The senior assistant legislative clerk Enzi Manchin Tillis tion of Charles Barnes Goodwin, of read the nomination of Barry W. Ashe, Ernst McCaskill Toomey Oklahoma, to be United States District of Louisiana, to be United States Dis- Feinstein McConnell Van Hollen Judge for the Western District of Okla- trict Judge for the Eastern District of Fischer Moran Warner Gardner Murray Whitehouse homa. Louisiana. Graham Nelson Wicker The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Grassley Paul Young question is, Will the Senate advise and question is, Will the Senate advise and NAYS—20 consent to the Goodwin nomination? consent to the Ashe nomination? Bennet Coons Murphy Mr. BLUMENTHAL. I ask for the The nomination was confirmed. Blumenthal Durbin Sanders yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Booker Gillibrand Schatz The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a the previous order, the motion to re- Brown Hirono Udall sufficient second? consider is considered made and laid Cantwell Markey Warren Cardin Menendez Wyden There appears to be a sufficient sec- upon the table and the President will Carper Merkley ond. immediately be notified of the Senate’s NOT VOTING—4 The clerk will call the roll. action. Cruz Leahy The senior assistant legislative clerk f Flake Murkowski called the roll. EXECUTIVE CALENDAR The nomination was confirmed. Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under are necessarily absent: the Senator The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to re- from Texas (Mr. CRUZ), the Senator the previous order, the question occurs consider is considered made and laid from Arizona (Mr. FLAKE), the Senator on the following nomination, which the upon the table, and the President will from Alaska (Ms. MURKOWSKI), and the clerk will report. be immediately notified of the Senate’s Senator from Kentucky (Mr. PAUL). The senior assistant legislative clerk action. Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the read the nomination of James R. f Senator from Vermont (Mr. LEAHY) is Sweeney II, of Indiana, to be United necessarily absent. States District Judge for the Southern EXECUTIVE CALENDAR The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. District of Indiana. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under YOUNG). Are there any other Senators The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the previous order, the question occurs in the Chamber desiring to vote? question is, Will the Senate advise and on the following nomination, which the The result was announced—yeas 52, consent to the Sweeney nomination? clerk will report. nays 42, as follows: The nomination was confirmed.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:06 Aug 29, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G28AU6.034 S28AUPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with SENATE S5982 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE August 28, 2018 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under leagues, but long enough to take the As the son and grandson of admirals, the previous order, the motion to re- measure of the man and to appreciate John was born and bred in military consider is considered made and laid his dedication to his family, to the U.S. tradition and the ideals of public serv- upon the table and the President will military, to the Senate, to Arizona, ice. He worried that he wouldn’t live up be immediately notified of the Senate’s and to the Nation. to his family’s traditions or expecta- action. He was a statesman and a global cit- tions. John often joked about how bad f izen, and our loss is all the deeper be- of a student he was at Annapolis, but cause we are living in a time where even though his father was an admiral EXECUTIVE CALENDAR people like John are in short supply. and he could have used the help, John The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Like many others, I had my disagree- never sought nor accepted special the previous order, the question occurs ments with John and found myself on treatment. on the following nomination, which the the wrong end of his temper, but more John was brutalized. Although both clerk will report. often, I saw him as a man of ideals and arms and a leg were broken in a plane The senior assistant legislative clerk a man who stood up for what he be- crash in Vietnam, he received no med- read the nomination of Susan Paradise lieved in. ical treatment. His torturers regularly Baxter, of Pennsylvania, to be United For me, nowhere was this as strong beat him, rebreaking one arm and States District Judge for the Western and clear as on the issue of torture, cracking his ribs. He was held in soli- District of Pennsylvania. and I wanted to talk a little bit about tary confinement for years, in un- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The that today and really to share my ap- imaginable conditions. When the North Vietnamese offered question is, Will the Senate advise and preciation for him. to release John early, he refused. Other consent to the Paradise Baxter nomi- It was June 2013, and John McCain servicemen had been in custody longer, and I were visiting Guantanamo Bay, nation? and he wasn’t going to allow his father Cuba, to see the detention facilities The nomination was confirmed. and his grandfather’s position to bring that had been hastily put together The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under him special favor. the previous order, the motion to re- after the invasion of Afghanistan in But John was able to emerge from consider is considered made and laid September 2001. It was a hot, sunny, that hell with a sense of humor and upon the table and the President will sultry day. We had toured the base, re- such an amazing strength of purpose. be immediately notified of the Senate’s ceived briefings and boxed lunches How he did so is simply remarkable. action. from the commander, and looked at I knew John for decades, but it was f three separate detention facilities. just in the last 5 years that I worked It was clear that the officers and en- particularly close with him on the EXECUTIVE CALENDAR listed personnel were working under issue of torture. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under difficult conditions, dealing with He was already recognized in the the previous order, the question occurs enemy combatants with little contact Senate as the leader on torture issues, on the following nomination, which the with the outside world and no sense of having recently authored the Detainee clerk will report. what would happen to them. Treatment Act and important amend- The senior assistant legislative clerk John McCain, as always, praised the ments to the Military Commissions read the nomination of Nancy E. troops for their service and took what- Act to ban cruel, inhuman, and degrad- Brasel, of Minnesota, to be United ever time was required to take pictures ing treatment or punishment during States District Judge for the District with them, but he, like me and like the Bush administration. of Minnesota. Presidents Bush and Obama, had called Starting in 2009, the Intelligence The PRESIDING OFFICER. The for Guantanamo to shut down. Committee began work on what ended question is, Will the Senate advise and I remember we were flying home on up being a 7,000-page report on the CIA consent to the Brasel nomination? the last flight of the day—after two detention and interrogation program The nomination was confirmed. boat rides, after seeing the facility after 9/11. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under where forced intubations were done to By the time we were finishing the re- the previous order, the motion to re- feed hunger-striking detainees, and port, John was chairman of the Armed consider is considered made and laid after hearing about the daily infrac- Services Committee. As an ex officio member of the Intel- upon the table and the President will tions committed by the detainees ligence Committee, he was aware of be immediately notified of the Senate’s against the guards. The conversation turned to the con- what our investigation had found, and action. he knew how controversial our findings The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ditions of detention we had just seen and the detainees being held at Naval would be. Nonetheless, he approached ator from Wyoming. me and said he wanted to help. To say Station Guantanamo Bay. f I was grateful would be an understate- John opened up about his years in LEGISLATIVE SESSION ment. the Navy and his time as a prisoner of John had an innate and immutable war. sense of what was right. More to the I learned for the first time the depth MORNING BUSINESS point, he knew from personal experi- and breadth of his suffering, but also ence what torture can do, and he knew Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I ask his perseverance and his intensity. that torture doesn’t work to elicit ac- unanimous consent that the Senate John told us about his years as a cap- curate information. It is wrong, and we proceed to legislative session for a pe- tive in Hanoi and how one of the things shouldn’t practice it. riod of morning business, with Sen- he and his fellow prisoners did was I remember the day we released the ators permitted to speak therein for up work out a tap code, similar to Morse report. I spoke on the floor about the to 10 minutes each. code. report and everything we found, but no The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without They tapped on walls, day after day, one could match the eloquence of John, objection, it is so ordered. year after year. They tapped out mes- who spoke immediately after me. I was f sages. I read earlier this week of an ac- so grateful to have a friend and a part- count of tapping out poems that other ner, literally standing across the aisle REMEMBERING JOHN MCCAIN POWs had learned in school. on that day. Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I So there we were on that airplane, Here is what he said about the use of have been watching as Senators have flying to Washington from Guanta- torture: ‘‘I know from personal experi- come to the floor over the past couple namo Bay, and John starts tapping, ence that the abuse of prisoners will days to pay tribute to John McCain, to speaking using his code. After all those produce more bad than good intel- share their stories, and to reflect on a years, he could still use the tap code ligence. full life of service to his country. like second nature. ‘‘I know victims of torture will offer I have known John McCain for 25 John was unusual, but in a very good intentionally misleading information if years, not as long as some of my col- way. they think their captors will believe it.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:11 Aug 29, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G28AU6.036 S28AUPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with SENATE August 28, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5983 ‘‘I know they will say whatever they as cruel, inhuman, and degrading treat- ligence Committee’s summarized unclassi- think their torturers want them to say ment and punishment. fied review of the so-called enhanced interro- if they believe it will stop their suf- Nonetheless, the CIA had developed— gation techniques that were employed by the fering. through the use of two contractors, so- previous administration to extract information from captured terrorists. It is a thor- ‘‘Most of all, I know the use of tor- called enhanced interrogation tech- ough and thoughtful study of practices that ture compromises that which most dis- niques, and the Department of Justice I believe not only failed their purpose to se- tinguishes us from our enemies—our had said they were acceptable. cure actionable intelligence to prevent fur- belief that all people, even captured en- John believed, as did I, that if law- ther attacks on the United States and our al- emies, possess basic human rights yers could find legal loopholes to allow lies, but actually damaged our security in- which are protected by international the CIA to waterboard people in its terests as well as our reputation as a force conventions the United States not only custody, then the laws needed to be for good in the world. tightened. I believe the American people have a joined but for the most part authored.’’ right—indeed a responsibility—to know what There was no better spokesman We came up with a simple fix to was done in their name, how these practices against torture or for the report. When make the law explicit and crystal did or did not serve our interests, and how John McCain spoke on this floor in clear. In an amendment that John they comported with our most important support of this report, people took no- sponsored to the defense authorization values. tice and paid attention. bill, we applied the restrictions of the I commend Chairwoman Feinstein and her It wasn’t just John’s experience that Army Field Manual across the govern- staff for their diligence in seeking a truthful made him so powerful on this subject. ment, including to the CIA. accounting of policies I hope we will never This manual not only bans specific resort to again. I thank them for persevering You could tell that he wholeheartedly against persistent opposition from many believed what he was saying. interrogation techniques; it lays out members of the intelligence community, Here is how John wrapped up his re- those techniques that are authorized from officials in two administrations, and marks that day: ‘‘We have made our for use. Never again could a DOJ law- from some of our colleagues. way in this often dangerous and cruel yer or a CIA interrogator mistake what The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swal- world not by just strictly pursuing our was lawful from what was not. low. It sometimes causes us difficulties at geopolitical interests, but by exem- The amendment also mandated that home and abroad. It is sometimes used by plifying our political values and influ- the International Committee of the our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it nonethe- encing other nations to embrace them. Red Cross be allowed access to all de- less. They must know when the values that ‘‘When we fight to defend our secu- tainees in U.S. custody, thereby ending define our Nation are intentionally dis- rity, we fight also for an idea—not for the possibility of secret, undisclosed regarded by our security policies, even those a tribe or a twisted interpretation of detention. policies that are conducted in secret. They an ancient religion or for a King—but With his leadership, the amendment must be able to make informed judgments for an idea that all men are endowed by passed by a strong 78–21 vote, so that about whether those policies and the per- the Creator with inalienable rights. torture and cruel and degrading treat- sonnel who supported them were justified in ‘‘How much safer the world would be ment will never be allowed. compromising our values, whether they Of course, John was prolific during served a greater good, or whether, as I be- if all nations believed the same. How lieve, they stained our national honor much much more dangerous it can become his years in the Senate, and many Sen- harm, and little practical good. when we forget it ourselves, even mo- ators have spoken about other aspects What were the policies? What was their mentarily.’’ of his work. purpose? Did they achieve it? Did they make I ask unanimous consent that Sen- He traveled the world as a champion us safer, less safe, or did they make no dif- ator McCain’s remarks from December for democracy, visiting countries like ference? What did they gain us? What did 9, 2014, be printed in the Record imme- Syria and Ukraine and doing all he they cost us? What did they gain us? What did they cost diately following my remarks. could to improve the lives of millions. He was a critical player in the proc- us? The American people need the answers to Of course, John also didn’t just talk these questions. Yes, some things must be about those issues that he cared deeply ess to restart diplomatic relations with kept from public disclosure to protect clan- about; he also acted. Vietnam. destine operations, sources, and methods, We knew the report would shine a John was never afraid to reach across but not the answers to these questions. By light on what the CIA had done, but it the aisle, most notably when he joined providing them, the committee has empow- didn’t do anything concrete to make with Russ Feingold on campaign fi- ered the American people to come to their sure this would never happen again. nance reform legislation. own decisions about whether we should have John knew how the prior White John had a firm sense of right and employed such practices in the past and wrong, and you saw that every day in whether we should consider permitting them House and Department of Justice had in the future. concocted twisted legal analyses that the issues he worked on. This report strengthens self-government said techniques like stress positions, John McCain’s life was one of and ultimately, I believe, American security sleep deprivation, and waterboarding strength and of commitment. He was a and stature in the world. I thank the com- did not violate existing law. He had al- great patriot and a fine, fine U.S. Sen- mittee for that valuable public service. ready passed legislation to prevent ator. He worked for this country to I have long believed some of these prac- abuses by the Department of Defense, better it for 60 years. That is a pretty tices amounted to torture as a reasonable good record, and I am thankful for the person would define it, especially but not going back to the Detainee Treatment only the practice of waterboarding, which is Act of 2005. opportunity to have known him and a mock execution and an exquisite form of The Office of Legal Counsel in 2002 worked with him. torture. Its use was shameful and unneces- had given the legal approval to the To Cindy and the rest of John’s fam- sary, and, contrary to assertions made by CIA, even though laws were already on ily, my heart goes out to you, but rest some of its defenders and as the committee’s the books that clearly prohibited these well knowing that you had a great man report makes clear, it produced little useful acts. in your lives. intelligence to help us track down the per- U.S. domestic law already banned the There being no objection, the mate- petrators of 9/11 or prevent new attacks and rial was ordered to be printed in the atrocities. use of torture, which it defined as ‘‘an I know from personal experience that the act committed by a person acting RECORD, as follows: abuse of prisoners will produce more bad under the color of law specifically in- SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN FLOOR REMARKS— than good intelligence. I know victims of tended to inflict severe physical or DECEMBER 9, 2014 torture will offer intentionally misleading mental pain or suffering (other than Madam President, I wish to begin by ex- information if they think their captors will pain or suffering incidental to lawful pressing my appreciation and admiration to believe it. I know they will say whatever sanctions) upon another person within the personnel who serve in our intelligence they think their torturers want them to say his custody or physical control.’’ agencies, including the CIA, who are out if they believe it will stop their suffering. there every day defending our Nation. Most of all, I know the use of torture com- The United States was and remains a I have read the executive summary and I promises that which most distinguishes us signatory to the Geneva Conventions also have been briefed on the entirety of this from our enemies—our belief that all people, and the Convention Against Torture, report. I rise in support of the release—the even captured enemies, possess basic human which similarly banned torture, as well long-delayed releasea—of the Senate Intel- rights which are protected by international

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I The most important lead we got in the were bedrock strong and served to understand the reasons that governed the de- search for bin Laden came from using con- guide him in his long career of public cision to resort to these interrogation meth- ventional interrogation methods. I think it service. ods, and I know that those who approved is an insult to the many intelligence officers He rightfully earned his Maverick them and those who used them were dedi- who have acquired good intelligence without moniker during his long public career cated to securing justice for victims of ter- hurting or degrading prisoners to assert that with his iron strength of will to stand rorist attacks and to protecting Americans we can’t win these wars without such meth- up and fight for what he believed was from further harm. I know their responsibil- ods. Yes, we can and we will. right, no matter the political con- ities were grave and urgent and the strain of But in the end torture’s failure to serve its sequences. He was renowned for his intended purpose isn’t the main reason to op- their duty was onerous. I respect their dedi- support of the military. John showed cation, and I appreciate their dilemma. But pose its use. I have often said and I will al- I dispute wholeheartedly that it was right ways maintain that this question isn’t about unwavering support to freedom, democ- for them to use these methods which this re- our enemies; it is about us. It is about who racy, and the country he loved. He port makes clear were neither in the best in- we were, who are, and who we aspire to be. It found it in himself to push to reopen terests of justice, nor our security, nor the is about how we represent ourselves to the ties to Vietnam, believing that was ideals we have sacrificed so much blood and world. how we could begin to heal the wounds treasure to defend. We have made our way in this often dan- of war. He was a lively speaker, a The knowledge of torture’s dubious effi- gerous and cruel world not by just strictly straight talker, and a prodigious lead- cacy and my moral objection to the abuse of pursuing our geopolitical interests but by ex- er, but more than that, he was a good emplifying our political values and influ- prisoners motivated my sponsorship of the man. 1 had the opportunity to work Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, which pro- encing other nations to embrace them. When hibits ‘‘cruel, inhuman or degrading treat- we fight to defend our security, we fight also with John on several pieces of legisla- ment’’ of captured combatants, whether they for an idea—not for a tribe or a twisted in- tion over time, and every time, I was wear a nation’s uniform or not, and which terpretation of an ancient religion or for a impressed with his ability to cut right passed the Senate by a vote of 90 to 9. King but for an idea that all men are en- to the heart of an issue. He always put Subsequently, I successfully offered dowed by the Creator with inalienable what he thought would be best for his amendments to the Military Commissions rights. How much safer the world would be if constituents and America above any Act of 2006, which, among other things, pre- all nations believed the same. How much political concerns or niceties. He was vented the attempt to weaken Common Arti- more dangerous it can become when we for- passionate throughout his long years of cle 3 of the Geneva Conventions and broad- get it ourselves, even momentarily. ened definitions in the War Crimes Act to Our enemies act without conscience. We service to the people of Arizona. make the future use of waterboarding and must not. This executive summary of the John was a man of faith. He had a other ‘‘enhanced interrogation techniques’’ committee’s report makes clear that acting quiet faith, one that was beyond simple punishable as war crimes. without conscience isn’t necessary. It isn’t expression. It meant, when he did There was considerable misinformation even helpful in winning this strange and long speak of his faith, it made it that much disseminated then about what was and war we are fighting. We should be grateful to more impactful. He once recounted how wasn’t achieved using these methods in an have that truth affirmed. it was his faith in God, faith in his fel- effort to discourage support for the legisla- Now, let us reassert the contrary propo- low prisoners, and faith in his country tion. There was a good amount of misin- sition: that is it essential to our success in that helped him make it through his formation used in 2011 to credit the use of this war that we ask those who fight it for us these methods with the death of Osama bin to remember at all times that they are de- time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Laden. And there is, I fear, misinformation fending a sacred ideal of how nations should In an interview John gave in 2008, he being used today to prevent the release of be governed and conduct their relations with shared what it meant to him to be a this report, disputing its findings and warn- others—even our enemies. Christian, ‘‘It means I’m saved and for- ing about the security consequences of their Those of us who give them this duty are given.’’ During that same interview, he public disclosure. obliged by history, by our Nation’s highest mentioned a guard at that prisoner of Will the report’s release cause outrage that ideals and the many terrible sacrifices made war camp in Vietnam who shared his leads to violence in some parts of the Muslim to protect them, by our respect for human faith one Christmas. ‘‘He stood there world? Yes, I suppose that is possible and dignity, to make clear we need not risk our perhaps likely. Sadly, violence needs little national honor to prevail in this or any war. for a minute, and with his sandal on incentive in some quarters of the world We need only remember in the worst of the dirt in the courtyard, he drew a today. But that doesn’t mean we will be tell- times, through the chaos and terror of war, cross and he stood there, and a minute ing the world something it will be shocked to when facing cruelty, suffering, and loss, that later, he rubbed it out, and walked learn. The entire world already knows we we are always Americans and different, away. For a minute there, there were waterboarded prisoners. It knows we sub- stronger, and better than those who would just two Christians worshipping to- jected prisoners to various other types of de- destroy us. gether.’’ His moral compass was guided grading treatment. It knows we used black Madam President, I yield the floor. strongly by his faith in God, and it sites, secret prisons. Those practices haven’t Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, today I meant that he always did what he been a secret for a decade. Terrorists might would like to honor the late Senator use the report’s reidentification of the prac- thought was right, rather than doing John McCain. I appreciate having this what was easy. I know that his quiet tices as an excuse to attack Americans, but opportunity to celebrate the life and they hardly need an excuse for that. That devotion and many of his other quali- has been their life’s calling for a while now. accomplishments of John McCain and ties earned him respect from Members What might come as a surprise not just to to mourn him as he has lost his battle on both sides of the aisle. our enemies but to many Americans is how with cancer. His loss will be deeply felt While America is remembering a war little these practices did aid our efforts to by all of us here in the Senate, not hero, veteran, Senator, and Presi- bring 9/11 culprits to justice and to find and only by those of us who served with dential candidate, his family is remem- prevent terrorist attacks today and tomor- him, but also by the many staff and in- bering a husband, a father, a brother row. That could be a real surprise since it dividuals he has worked with over contradicts the many assurances provided by and experiencing a world that seems intelligence officials on the record and in time. incomplete without him in it. My wife private that enhanced interrogation tech- Senator McCain was a true patriot Diana and I send our thoughts and niques were indispensable in the war against who dedicated his life to serving oth- deepest prayers to his wife Cindy and terrorism. And I suspect the objection of ers. His dedication to his country and the entire McCain family, as we mourn those same officials to the release of this re- its defense was unmatched. After grad- the passing of an American hero. port is really focused on that disclosure— uating from the Naval Academy, he How can I adequately praise the life torture’s ineffectiveness—because we gave served for two decades in the Navy. He of a man who has had such a long and up much in the expectation that torture was tested as only few men ever are storied career, one with so many ac- would make us safer—too much. Obviously, we need intelligence to defeat after his plane crashed in Vietnam. He complishments? In an interview, John our enemies, but we need reliable intel- showed incredible resilience and moral talked about how he would want to be ligence. Torture produces more misleading fortitude during his time as a prisoner remembered. He wanted people to re- information than actionable intelligence. of war. After leaving the Navy, he rep- member him as a guy who ‘‘served his

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Mr. President, I rights, and freedom on the global Some have accused Senator McCain come to the floor to today to pay trib- stage. of abandoning his conservatism when- ute to an American hero, a beloved col- Yes, he was a relentless advocate for ever he sought common ground. Those league, and a friend, a man who lived a the American military, but he ulti- accusations are foolish. Take it from life that embodied service, sacrifice, mately believed that our Nation’s me as a Member of the bipartisan Gang and statesmanship, a patriot whose strength came not just from the might of 8 who worked on historic immigra- presence here in the U.S. Senate will be of our military but the power of our tion reforms back in 2013. When I en- sorely missed for years to come but ideals. I saw Senator McCain’s commit- tered those negotiations, I did so with whose legacy will last for generations. ment to those ideals up close back a healthy dose of skepticism towards As so many of my colleagues have when I served as chairman of the Sen- Senator McCain, and I imagine he did said in recent days, you never forget ate Foreign Relations Committee, dur- so with me same way. After all, I was your first time meeting Senator John ing which he was a member. the Hispanic Democrat from New Jer- McCain. For me, it was early 2006, Russia, which had opposed Ukranian sey who never hesitated to voice my when I was appointed to the U.S. Sen- independence from the moment it was problems with the McCain-Kennedy ate and in the midst of my campaign declared in 1991, had invaded the sov- immigration negotiations of 2007 loud- for a full term that November. Natu- ereign nation of Ukraine and illegally ly and clearly. rally, I wanted to establish a record annexed Crimea. John and I both un- It is easy to demonize the other side that could show I was an effective Sen- derstood then that Putin’s annexation from afar, but when you sit in a room ator. I had submitted an amendment to of Crimea wasn’t about a territorial with someone for probably 100 hours of the budget aimed at reducing the bur- dispute. It was a about exerting Rus- negotiations, as I did with Senator McCain, you begin to lift, ever slowly, den on New Jersey taxpayers, and sia’s geopolitical power and under- the veil of distrust between you. You while the Republican majority wasn’t mining the liberal international order soon realize there is far more that thrilled I was the one putting it for- the United States helped build in the unites you as Americans than divides ward at the time, it had strong bipar- aftermath of World War II and worked to strengthen throughout the chal- you as partisans. tisan support. It could have easily John never relented in his commit- passed with a voice vote but I wanted lenges of the Cold War. John was instrumental in crafting ment to border security, just as I never to get my colleagues on the record. I relented in my commitment to bring- and passing the package of sanctions wanted a rollcall vote, so that is what ing the undocumented out of the shad- we put forward to counter Russian ag- I requested. ows and towards a path to citizenship. gression and promote the interests of Shortly thereafter, Senator John We disagreed pretty much constantly; the Ukrainian people in their ongoing McCain came barreling towards me on yet we built trust. We engaged in the struggle for sovereignty and freedom. the floor, calling me out. ‘‘Bob, you are give-and-take of compromise, and we He understood better than anyone that a jerk!’’ he said. emerged from the Gang of 8 negotia- we had to stand on the side of the I was taken aback. We weren’t on a tions with a compassionate and com- Ukrainian people, not just because of first-name basis back then. ‘‘Senator,’’ prehensive immigration reform bill Russia’s hostile takeover of Crimea, I said, ‘‘what is the problem?’’ that ultimately passed the Senate with ‘‘This didn’t need a roll call vote. but for the Kremlin’s years of inter- a bipartisan supermajority. That makes you a jerk!’’ ference in Ukraine, from its That historic legislation never re- Well, at that point, the Hudson Coun- cyberattacks on Ukrainian infrastruc- ceived a vote in the House of Rep- ty in me kicked in, and I fired back ture to its deliberate efforts to manipu- resentatives, but I remain as com- with some language I think is best left late and corrupt its democratic proc- mitted as ever to the cause of com- out of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. ess. prehensive immigration reform; reform Senator McCain stormed off, leaving I will never forget his support and built on mutual trust and good-faith me bewildered. Wasn’t this supposed to counsel as we worked to pass the compromise, on both pragmatism and be the world’s greatest deliberative Ukraine Freedom Support Act in the idealism, and on a shared commitment body? months that followed, a piece of legis- to solving the greatest challenges of I walked over to minority leader lation that made crystal clear Amer- our time. Harry Reid to ask what that was all ica’s unwavering support for the people John McCain wasn’t perfect. No one about. ‘‘Welcome to the Senate, that’s of Ukraine and their right to sovereign is. John McCain made mistakes. We all John McCain,’’ he said. self-determination, democracy, terri- do. But what made him a giant of the Apparently, John had a foreign trip torial integrity, and freedom. Senate, in my opinion, was his willing- scheduled, and he was anxious to leave Senator McCain believed that, as ness to put country over party and pa- Washington, so my rollcall vote was a Americans, we have a responsibility to triotism over partisanship. kink in his schedule. support all people in their struggle In recent days, there has been a lot of Later, when I retold the story to my against tyranny, to stand up for human discussion about what would be a fit- friend Senator LINDSEY GRAHAM, he dignity against those who deny it, and ting tribute to Senator John McCain. I said, ‘‘Good for you for standing up to to share American ideals like freedom, would certainly name a building in his him, Bob. You earned his respect.’’ democracy, and human rights around honor and hope we do, but I don’t think I share this story today not as an ex- the world, bringing hope to the hope- we should stop there. I believe it would ample of John McCain’s temper—which less and light to the darkest corners of be a great tribute to Senator John he was well known for, along with his the Earth. Perhaps that is because McCain if all of us here in this body biting wit, of course—I share it for two John himself spent so many years in strived to look at each other through reasons. First, it is a reminder that one of the Earth’s darkest corners, as a his lens. We are humble servants for John admired people willing to stand prisoner of war in Vietnam. His com- something far greater and bigger than their ground, not out of stubbornness mitment to country was tested in ways ourselves. We are bestowed by the or rigid partisanship but out of prin- that few of us can imagine—the pain he American people an opportunity to ciple. He respected people for the suffered, the torture he endured, the make an imperfect nation even better, strength of their convictions. faith he kept. There is no question in and we are far more likely to succeed The second reason I tell this story is my mind that John’s time spent as a at that mission when we can rise above because it is a reminder that, to John prisoner of war shaped him as a legis- the politics of division, look beyond McCain, being a U.S. Senator was lator and not just with respect to for- the news cycle, and work relentlessly about more than passing laws. It was eign policy. He may have been a toward common cause.

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At a time sity spoke to the very essence of who of emptiness his passing has left be- when character and integrity are under he was as a man. He was a consummate hind, but we also share a profound siege, the entire Nation mourns the statesman, who spent a career in public sense of gratitude for the life John loss of a public servant who lived his service working to foster consensus on lived and the legacy of service and un- life with courage and conviction. the most intractable and important wavering commitment he has left us to John ran the Armed Services Com- problems facing our Nation. He was a cherish. mittee with an iron fist, but also with gentleman of the highest caliber, who Many Americans felt a personal con- a respect for the importance of biparti- understood that, although we may dis- nection to John McCain. Our men and sanship and a basic sense of fairness no cuss, argue, and disagree, our common women in uniform always knew he was one could ever ignore. If you came to bond as Americans is stronger than the on their side; he was one of them. John the table, ready, prepared to work, passing tempest of political debate. understood better than anyone what it John made sure you were heard. There The measure of a man like Senator meant to send people into combat. So were so many occasions where John McCain can be seen in the outpouring much of his work in the Senate was de- would jump in while I was questioning of sympathy from friends and col- voted to making sure our troops got a witness because he was listening and leagues across the political spectrum. the training, equipment, and pay that hear how my questions were being He spoke his mind, and more impor- they deserved. dodged and disregarded. His admonish- tantly, he spoke his conscience. He was Last year, I had the honor of trav- ment to the witness was like a whip: never afraid to tell those in power they eling with John on one of his final trips ‘‘If you can’t come up with better an- were wrong and those suffering injus- to the Middle East. I had the chance to swers what are you here for?’’ tice that the United States of America see how deeply revered he was by ev- I count it a blessing to have had the would not abandon them. His commit- eryone in uniform. They all knew the honor to serve with Senator John ment to doing what was right tran- story—how John McCain, the war hero, McCain in the U.S. Senate. If there scended political ideology, and I am spent nearly 6 years as a prisoner of ever was a true American patriot, John confident that future generations will war in North Vietnam; how, when of- McCain was that patriot. I will miss study his legacy as we have studied the fered abrupt release less than a year his strength, I will miss his maverick great leaders of the past. after his Navy jet was shot out of the spirit, but most of all, I will miss his It is not difficult to find examples of air, John McCain refused to be released kindness. Senator McCain’s integrity in a career while his brothers were still in cap- Mrs. FISCHER. Mr. President, today marked by such moments. I know that tivity; how he was isolated, tortured, I wish to join my colleagues in saying I particularly admired his steadfast and beaten so badly that he carried the goodbye to our friend and mentor, courage in opposing and working to physical consequences of his loyalty to John McCain. eliminate torture by the United States our country with him for the rest of his As our country and the world grieves of America. He, more so than most, life; how he could have avoided it all for his loss, we remember him as he knew what that legacy would mean to but endured out of love and loyalty to was: a father, husband, grandfather, a our country. He knew that, if we were his fellow servicemembers. war hero, and a dedicated public serv- torturing, our servicemen and women Yeah, they knew the story and every ant who loved this country. would be tortured. He was willing to single servicemember we saw treated We remember his extraordinary story stand up for what was right and en- John like a celebrity rockstar, and and how the tragic and painful experi- sured that we would live up to our that is because he was. ences he endured gave him the uncom- promise as a nation. His unwavering John was a deeply principled man. I mon strength we all knew so well. voice on the issue served, as it has so had the honor of working with John Most of all, I remember John for his many times, as our national con- closely in the fight to reinstate Glass passion. He was a fearless advocate for science, and we are all better for it. Steagall, and boy, was it a fight. American values and a champion of We had our brawls every once in a Throughout the entire battle, John democratic ideals. while, but it usually ended with a joke would always tease me about pulling When I was elected to serve the peo- and a laugh and a commitment to work my weight in ‘‘getting this thing ple of Nebraska in this Chamber, I be- together on the next problem that our done,’’ as he would say. ‘‘Show some came a member of the Senate Armed country faced. I will cherish the memo- fight, girl,’’ ‘‘Don’t tell me you’re Services Committee. Serving on this ries I have of working with Senator afraid. Get in there—throw some committee has been an honor, but one McCain on issues related to elimi- punches.’’ That was John’s approach in of the greatest privileges it offered was nating earmarks, protecting children life: If you’re going to be in a fight, you the opportunity to work with John from human-trafficking, and providing had better give it your all. McCain. the necessary resources to the men and Don’t get me wrong: John and I dis- As a senior member and chairman, women of the Armed Forces whom he agreed on many things and sometimes Senator McCain set the tone for the loved and respected dearly. quite forcefully, but even when we dis- committee. We all benefited from his His wit, intellect, and humor were agreed, I always respected that his good instincts, his unfailing energy, his the hallmark of a man who cannot be heart was focused on doing what he unwavering values, and, of course, his replaced; however, it is my hope that thought was best for the American peo- sense of humor. we might use this sad occasion to unite ple. I remember expressing to John my His leadership fostered an environ- together around the principles that he views on the most effective strategy in ment that led to bold reforms. He em- stood for. I join my voice to the thou- Iraq and Afghanistan, that there are braced and encouraged the heated de- sands that have spoken to his char- simply some problems that cannot be bates. But John knew how to unite the acter as a colleague and as a friend and solved through military action alone, committee, how to compromise, and extend my most heartfelt sympathies we can’t simply fight our way to peace how to refocus members on our funda- to his family. I will miss him terribly, and we need to bring our troops home. mental responsibility: providing for the the Senate will miss him terribly, and Respectfully, John would disagree and defense of the Nation he loved so dear- our country will miss him terribly. proceed to energetically walk me ly. Ms. WARREN. Mr. President, today I through why he believed in the benefits As much as John was an inspiration wish to pay tribute to a true American of staying longer. to us, he was truly a global figure who hero, my friend and colleague Senator Democrat or Republican, foreign took his message of liberty to some of John McCain. leader or President of the United the darkest regions of the globe. All

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Mr. President, today Last fall, Senator McCain addressed Goodwin for many years and know him the Senate confirmed the nomination the brigade of midshipmen at the U.S. best. I think these colleagues and legal of Lynn Johnson to lead the Adminis- Naval Academy. He said: ‘‘My apprecia- contemporaries speak better to the tration for Children and Families. In tion for those lessons and for the type of man and judge he is, and I less chaotic times, she would be run- friendships I made here bring me back would like to share some of their ning an office that few people outside often. So does my gratitude for the life thoughts with you. of Washington would hear much about. of adventure the Naval Academy pre- Kevin Donelson, current president of In the coming months, however, she pared me for, and for the privilege of the Oklahoma Bar Association, wrote, will be responsible for undoing a lot of being a bit player in the story of Amer- ‘‘I have personally appeared before the damage this administration has ica that the Navy made possible.’’ Magistrate Judge Goodwin on a num- done with respect to separating immi- John was not just a bit player in our ber of matters. He has been judicious grant children from their parents. Nation’s story. He was a man who and courteous in all of the matters There are a few key matters I want served our country in war and peace that I have appeared before him. The to discuss today as this debate closes. with courage and honor. United States of America and the As the ranking Democrat on the Fi- This weekend, John will return to Western District of Oklahoma would nance Committee, I voted against send- Annapolis for a final time, but genera- [be] lucky to have Magistrate Judge ing Ms. Johnson’s nomination to the tions from now, Americans will still be Goodwin be a United States District Senate floor. There were far too many inspired by his story, that of a hero Judge.’’ unanswered questions and misleading committed to his nation and willing to Seventeen former past presidents of statements from the administration re- live a life of service. the Oklahoma Bar Association wrote, garding its family separation policy. He has carried our Nation’s highest ‘‘Each of us knows Charles in person or In the last week, I spoke with Ms. ideals through the darkest of times, by reputation and believes that he is Johnson at length about what she and he remains an enduring example of highly qualified for this position. As a needs to accomplish if she is con- selfless dedication to country. lawyer and a judge, Charles has always firmed. She committed to me that she I know I join so many of my col- exhibited a high degree of ethical con- would change how the Administration leagues here in the Senate in sending duct, professionalism, competence, for Children and Families, and particu- our love and prayers to Cindy and the hard work, and, as a judge, exceptional larly the Office of Refugee Resettle- rest of John’s family, who supported judicial temperament. We are con- ment, handle several key policies. I him every step of the way. fident he would make an outstanding want to guarantee that those commit- John McCain will certainly be missed District Judge . . .’’ Mr. Harry Wood, a ments are laid out on the record. here in the U.S. Senate. supervisor and then colleague of Judge First, Ms. Johnson made several Though he is no longer with us, his Goodwin’s at Crowe & Dunlevy, wrote, commitments to improve the treat- steadfast commitment to the ideals of ‘‘In all my dealings with him, I found ment of the kids in the custody of the our Nation will not be forgotten here, him to be extremely capable, highly Office of Refugee Resettlement or in across the country, or around the dependable, very hard-working, and facilities that receive grants from globe. well organized.’’ He went on to say, ‘‘I ORR. Those changes include prohib- Thank you. found him given to decency, honesty, iting solitary confinement as a punish- f integrity, even temper and good humor ment or an attempt to change behav- . . . I cannot think of anyone that has ior; prohibiting arbitrary restraint CONFIRMATION OF CHARLES a higher level of character, integrity, policies; prohibiting the distribution of BARNES GOODWIN and judicial temperament.’’ Mr. Daniel psychotropic medications or sedatives Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I would Webber, a former Assistant U.S. Attor- outside of emergency situations; unless like to congratulate Judge Charles ney and U.S. Attorney for the Western the agency or facility has the in- Goodwin of Oklahoma City on his con- District, stated that Judge Goodwin as formed, written consent of a parent or firmation today as a U.S. district judge a litigator ‘‘had a strong reputation for guardian; prohibiting any security for the Western District of Oklahoma. being a diligent but ethical advocate. I measures that are not necessary for Judge Goodwin most recently served have never heard his integrity or his children’s protection, such as denying the Western District as a magistrate temperament called into question.’’ children access to drinking water or judge, and he has done so admirably Finally, I will leave you with some preventing them from making private and faithfully since his appointment in words from Chief Judge Joe Heaton of phone calls; and guaranteeing the con- 2013. the U.S. District Court for the Western fidentiality of information disclosed by Judge Goodwin’s service on the Fed- District of Oklahoma. Judge Heaton children to therapists and counselors eral bench, combined with his career as wrote, ‘‘I have reviewed various indica- during treatment. a civil litigator before various Federal tors of Judge Goodwin’s productivity, Ms. Johnson also committed to en- district courts, U.S. circuit courts of such as the number of reports and rec- suring that separated children can call appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court, and as ommendations generated by him and their parents or legal guardians as fre- a Federal law clerk provides him with the complexity of the matters assigned quently as they wish. Calls can be mon- the experience, knowledge, and per- to him. I believe his productivity to be itored if there are documented safety spective necessary to take on his new fully comparable with that of the other concerns, but otherwise, ORR and pri- role of Federal district court judge. magistrate judges of this court.’’ Fur- vate facilities cannot prevent kids Furthermore, Judge Goodwin has thermore, Judge Heaton states, ‘‘Based from talking to their parents or guard- been a leader on Federal civil proce- on his service here and his experience ians. If the parent or guardian is in the dure. He served as chair of the Western as a partner and practicing lawyer with custody of Homeland Security, the District’s Local Civil Rules Com- one of Oklahoma’s largest law firms, I agencies must establish a way to con- mittee, and, while in private practice, believe Judge Goodwin is plainly quali- nect them by phone. he taught seminars and authored arti- fied to be a U.S. District Judge.’’ Finally, Ms. Johnson committed to cles on civil procedure for the Okla- Based on Judge Goodwin’s experi- conducting a full review, within 90 homa Bar Association. Judge Goodwin ence, expertise, and stature in the days, of the oversight, staffing, train- is also active in his community, pro- Oklahoma legal community, I have ing, medication, and licensing policies viding legal assistance to homeless vet- fully supported his nomination as a for ORR-funded facilities. She will erans and volunteering in support of U.S. district judge for the Western Dis- issue a report to Congress describing

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That includes legal 23 and August 27 so I could return to hanced authority for FDA to better services and healthcare, including re- Hawaii to lend my support to the State manage drug shortages. Her work has productive healthcare. and Federal preparations for and re- helped to improve the health and safe- If Ms. Johnson’s agency cannot com- sponse to the severe weather condi- ty of families across the country for plete that review in 90 days, they will tions caused by Hurricane Lane. I rise generations to come, and we are in- provide a summary of their work to today in order to outline how I would credibly grateful for her service. date and give the Congress a new have voted on the rollcall votes that Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I timeline and a guarantee of when the occurred on those dates. join with Senator MURRAY in recog- process will be finalized. For vote No. 190 on August 23, 2018, nizing Dr. Marcia Crosse. In recogni- Let me be very clear: These are not on the motion to invoke cloture on tion of her achievements, she has been suggestions from me or from the Fi- Senate amendment 3695 to H.R. 6157, honored within GAO through meri- nance Committee. These are commit- Department of Defense, Health and torious and distinguished service ments set in stone. The Finance Com- Human Services, and Education Appro- awards for her technical excellence and mittee is going to watchdog this every priations Act, 2019, had I been present, dedication to client service, as well as day going forward. We will do every- I would have voted yea. across government as a 2014 finalist for thing in our power to hold Ms. Johnson For vote No. 191 on August 23, 2018, a Samuel J. Heyman Service to Amer- to these commitments. on adoption of Senate amendment 3967 ica Medal for Citizen Services. Both This administration’s continuing to H.R. 6157, Department of Defense, within GAO and in Congress, Dr. Crosse mistreatment of migrant children and Health and Human Services, and Edu- is recognized as a consummate profes- their parents is cruel and inhuman. cation Appropriations Act, 2019, had I sional and an independent and creative Separating kids from their parents has been present, I would have voted nay. thinker who understands the issues, harmful, long-lasting effects to these For vote No. 192 on August 23, 2018, gets to the bottom of problems, and kids’ physical and mental well-being. on the motion to waive the Budget Act communicates those issues clearly to There is a lot of work left to be done with respect to Amendment No. 3695 to Members of Congress, our staff, and to reunifying the families that were bro- H.R. 6157, Department of Defense, the agencies she works with. Thanks to ken apart as a result of the administra- Health and Human Services, and Edu- the dedication and expertise of Dr. tion’s ‘‘zero tolerance’’ policy. I believe cation Appropriations Act, 2019, had I Crosse, not only are vital parts of our Lynn Johnson will be an improvement. been present, I would have voted yea. government working better, but Amer- I supported her nomination today, but For vote No. 193 on August 23, 2018, icans are better off as well. you can bet my colleagues and I are on final passage of H.R. 6157, Depart- f going to go to every length to hold her ment of Defense, Health and Human to the commitments she has made. Services, and Education Appropria- TRIBUTE TO FRED SCHUSTER Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, today I tions Act, 2019, as amended, had I been Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I am voted yea on the confirmation of Lynn present, I would have voted yea. writing to recognize a longtime mem- Johnson of Colorado to lead the Ad- Finally, for vote No. 194 on August ber of my staff, who will shortly retire ministration for Children and Families 27, 2018, on the motion to invoke clo- from public service, after honorably under the Department of Health and ture on the nomination of Lynn A. serving me and the people of Iowa for Human Services. As the head of the Johnson to be Assistant Secretary for over 35 years. agency that oversees the Office of Ref- Family Support, Department of Health Fred Schuster joined my staff in 1984 ugee Resettlement, Mrs. Johnson now and Human Services, had I been as my regional director in Des Moines, faces the daunting and critically im- present, I would have voted yea. IA. He had been president of the Iowa portant task of overseeing the ongoing f State University student body and a reunification of hundreds of children member of ISU’s Cardinal Key Honor and parents who were forcibly and cru- TRIBUTE TO DR. MARCIA CROSSE Society. He had also been president of elly separated by this administration Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, as the College Republicans of Iowa. at the southern border. ranking member on the Senate Com- In 1987, I asked Fred to move to Wa- This nightmare is far from over. As mittee on Health, Education, Labor, terloo and become the regional direc- of today, hundreds of children have and Pensions and along with my col- tor. During this time, Fred was elected still not been reunified with their fami- league, Senator ALEXANDER, the chair- president of the largest Kiwanis club in lies. According to information I re- man, I would like to recognize a public North East Iowa and served as its lieu- ceived from the Department of Health servant deeply committed to pro- tenant governor, covering seven other and Human Services yesterday, 43 of tecting the health of the American peo- clubs. He was appointed to the Cedar these children are being held in facili- ple, Dr. Marcia Crosse. Dr. Crosse will Falls Library Board and was elected an ties in my home State of Florida. I am retire on August 31, 2018, after a distin- officer each year he served. He was also outraged at the slow pace of reunifica- guished 35–year career at the Govern- selected to be on the North East Iowa tion, and I am furious that these chil- ment Accountability Office, where she regional library board. In 1999, there dren are still being subjected to the un- is currently a director with the Health was a devastating flood in northeast imaginable trauma of separation at the Care Team. Iowa, the recovery from which resulted hands of our government. Over the course of her career, Dr. in a significant shortage of drywall in I conveyed these serious concerns to Crosse led the work behind more than the region. Fred worked to get sup- Mrs. Johnson when I met with her last 200 reports and congressional testi- pliers to provide extra drywall to the month. It is my hope that she under- monies on a wide range of important Waterloo area stores. One of the com- stands the gravity of the situation she public health issues, including the safe- panies instead provided two semi loads has now inherited. I expect her to im- ty of drugs and medical devices; bioter- for free, which was distributed by the mediately put forward a plan to re- rorism; infectious disease outbreaks Area Agency on Aging to those in unify all remaining separated children such as SARS and the West Nile Virus; greatest need. with their families and to ensure that pandemic and emergency preparedness; In 2002, President George W. Bush ap- these children are treated humanely biomedical research; and HIV/AIDS. pointed Fred to be the Region 7 Direc- while they are held in facilities that She has helped shed light on problems tor for the U.S. Department of Health she now oversees. I will continue to that otherwise may have long gone un- and Human Services covering the monitor this crisis, and I will continue noticed. Her work has not only led States of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and

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In addition to the programs men- the best regional director in each of Sake, which brought together leaders tioned, she was a key figure in estab- the last 3 years he served. in education, healthcare, and more to lishing the Baltimore School for the Following Fred’s service in the Bush discuss the most pressing needs of Arts, and to date, her SuperKids Camp administration, he returned to work as America’s children and how best local program has served more than 30,000 my State business and economic liai- communities can address them. She children. The Outward Bound School son. Part of his responsibilities was to brought those ideas home to Balti- has served more than 62,000. raise funds and plan an ambassadors more, often serving as an ambassador Perhaps most impressive of all, ev- tour I had been hosting every other for children’s welfare issues across the erything that Sally accomplished, she year at that time to foster and facili- city. accomplished free of charge. Sally was tate greater awareness of Iowa’s work- Her seemingly boundless energy for never a paid advocate, but a volunteer, force and exports with those assigned community service earned the atten- and when asked about her decades of to the U.S. Embassy in Washington tion and trust of then-Mayor William service, she commented that she re- Donald Schaefer, who entrusted Sally from nationals around the world. ceived ‘‘psychic income’’ and was more with hosting a monthly dinner wherein Iowa’s an exporting State with out- than satisfied with that. Sally’s ex- Baltimore citizens of all professions standing manufacturing and leading in treme generosity of spirit and selfless and backgrounds were invited to come, agriculture commodities. Even though devotion to our community is one of eat, and exchange their ideas for how many reasons Baltimore so acutely 2009 was a challenging economic time, to improve the city. Sally hosted these feels the weight of her passing. She was Fred raised more than enough to cover dinners for more than a decade, culti- a hero to the tens of thousands of chil- the cost of the ambassadors’ airfare to vating hundreds of new, innovative and from Washington, DC, renting ideas for bettering Baltimore’s schools dren who benefited from her altruism three commercial tour buses, and orga- and neighborhoods and ensuring that and creative problem-solving. She was nized lodging for the diplomats, secu- those ideas were executed. Attendees Baltimore’s guardian angel, always rity detail, and staff. He organized the often said that Sally’s dinners made there to watch over, protect, and sup- cultural, educational, manufacturing, them feel more connected with their port the city’s families whenever they and agricultural sites for the ambas- city and as though their experiences needed her most. sadors to visit. and insights truly mattered to the Sally was fueled by raw empathy and In January 2011, I asked Fred to be- city’s leadership. That is what Sally compassion. She took genuine joy in come the regional director in my Cedar did best, bring people together and other people’s successes. Beyond her Rapids office, the role he presently make sure they knew they were impor- impressive list of achievements, she holds. Fred again took an active role in tant. Her unparalleled talent for mak- was, above all, a kind and generous the recovery from the flood of 2016, vis- ing Baltimore’s residents feel heard, soul. It is a tragedy for our city that iting the numerous communities and loved, and supported was a gift to us such a soul was taken from us too soon. businesses damaged by the floodwaters. all. Sally battled Alzheimer’s for nearly 10 Fred Schuster will retire from my of- Later, in the 1980s, Sally turned her years, one of the cruelest, most dif- fice after more than 35 years of service focus to improving Baltimore’s public ficult diseases there is. Sally met it to me and my office, the U.S. Senate, parks. She believed our outdoor spaces head-on, as she did with every other and the people of Iowa, effective Sep- were the key to bringing and keeping challenge she ever faced. I am com- tember 11, 2018. His honest, thoughtful, communities together and provided mitted to honoring her life by fighting helpful, and insightful wisdom and ad- critical safe spaces for children to play for more Federal funds toward curing vice have been valuable to me and to and develop active lifestyles. Toward Alzheimer’s and devising better thera- everyone with whom he connected. His that end, she founded two Baltimore pies for managing its symptoms. Sal- absence will be a loss to my office, but mainstays: the local Outward Bound ly’s story reminds us that resources for I am glad that he will have more time School and the now-legendary Parks medical research and institutions like to spend with his daughters, grand- and People Foundation. the National Institutes of Health are daughter, and friends, as well as to The Parks and People Foundation absolutely critical and that, when we visit the remaining of the 50 State cap- was Sally’s labor of love. The founda- fail to invest in them, we fail good peo- itols and Presidential historical sites. I tion invests in Baltimore’s parks, gar- ple like Sally. greatly value Fred’s friendship and his dens, and afterschool activities and has That kind of failure is inexcusable commitment to public service, and I been so wildly successful that it has be- because Sally never failed us. She rose wish him well. come a model for urban park advocacy above and beyond in all that she did. f nationwide. I was proud to have Her commitment to activism and com- worked with the Parks and People munity service was unmatched and led ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS Foundation to establish bike trails directly to some of Baltimore’s most through our city. One of the founda- successful and lasting programs. For tion’s flagship achievements was the that reason and so many others, Sally’s REMEMBERING SALLY J. MICHEL creation of the SuperKids Camp, a chil- absence will be sorely felt; yet her ∑ Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, today I dren’s literacy program designed spe- presence, through the families she wish to celebrate the life of Sally J. cifically to help elementary school touched and through the fingerprints Michel, a lifelong activist, a staunch children falling behind their reading she left all across our city, is felt all advocate for underprivileged children level. Sally always saw the children the more and will be for decades to and Baltimore’s parks, and a Baltimore that were being overlooked and under- come.∑ icon and friend. Sally passed away last served, and she used the SuperKids pro- f week, and while I join with all of Balti- gram to make sure that they felt seen. more in mourning her passing, I also She inspired and supported kids who TRIBUTE TO DAVID LONG celebrate the lasting impact her legacy would have otherwise lacked the re- ∑ Mr. YOUNG. Mr. President, I wish to will have on generations of Maryland- sources to catch up with their peers, rise today to formally recognize the reers to come. and for that, a grateful city will always tirement of Indiana Senate Pro Tem- Sally grew up in Roanoke, VA, before remember her. My granddaughter Julia pore David Long. The former Fort attending Goucher College and settling volunteered at one such camp over the Wayne City councilman has over 30 down with her husband, Robert summer, and she spoke with pride of years of public service. He has spent ‘‘Butch’’ Michel, in Baltimore, where how many lives she saw positively im- the past 22 years as State Senator rep- she immediately began devoting her pacted by their good work. resenting Senate District 16 and the

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In 2000, the board of directors been named one of Maryland’s Top 100 schools and the creation of private established the Franklin Savings Bank Women. school vouchers, and passage of right- Community Development Foundation. Throughout her distinguished career, to-work law and the Healthy Indiana This is a not-for-profit foundation that Dr. Bell has been a role model for Plan. Senator Long also has a lengthy supports the community, economic, many, including women and women of record of fiscal prudence and acting as and educational needs within areas color, especially those seeking to pur- a good steward of hard-working Hoo- served by the bank. Over the first 15 sue careers in STEM fields. I ask my siers. His legislative accomplishments years, the foundation has contributed colleagues to join me in expressing our were married with his consistent pro- $2 million to local economic develop- gratitude and appreciation to Dr. Juli- duction of balanced budgets. Under his ment, education, and various charities. ette Bell for all that she has done for tenure, Indiana achieved one of the Amidst the mortgage crisis of 2008, students, the State of Maryland, and lowest unemployment rates in the Na- Franklin Savings Bank continued to be our entire Nation.∑ tion, while also boasting some of the a safe and trusted place for the people f lowest property taxes and income taxes of Maine to keep their money. Frank- in the union. lin Savings Bank was named the TRIBUTE TO CHUCK NERUD I know that I add my voice to a cho- Strongest Bank in Maine for 19 years ∑ Mr. DAINES, Mr. President, this rus of those that have sang Senator and, during the mortgage crisis, the week I have the honor of recognizing Long’s praises and expressed their ap- strongest bank in New England. Today Chuck Nerud of McCone County for his preciation for his exemplary service Franklin Savings Bank is consistently contribution to his community. when he announced that he will for- ranked as one of the safest banks in Chuck was born and raised in Circle, mally step down on November 6. His the country. Their mission is to con- MT, where he has been ranching for 65 steadfast service to his fellow Hoosiers tinue to be a financially strong and years. At 8 years old, Chuck was al- and his leadership of the senate lead to independent community bank, and I ready training horses, sparking his long lasting success for our home look forward to seeing their continued love of the rodeo. At 18, marking a dec- State. I wish Senator Long and his wife growth and impact on the State of ade of experience training horses, Melissa a very well-deserved and happy Maine. I join with their customers in Chuck joined the McCone Race and retirement. congratulating Franklin Savings Bank Rodeo Club, which was later named the I ask my colleagues to join me in rec- on 150 years of leadership in western Circle Rodeo Club. ognizing the service of Indiana Senate Maine.∑ For the next 50 years of his life, Pro Tempore David Long for his years f Chuck dedicated his life to the rodeo, of unwavering service as we wish a fond TRIBUTE TO DR. JULIETTE BELL teaching children of all ages the proper farewell to a true titan in the history techniques and rules regarding the ∑ of the Indiana Senate.∑ Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. President, I sport. Some even call Chuck the walk- f wish to recognize an extraordinary ed- ing encyclopedia of professional cow- ucator, Dr. Juliette Bell, for her 6 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF FRANKLIN boys. Chuck also serves on the McCone years of outstanding service as presi- County Stockyard Board. SAVINGS BANK dent of the University of Maryland ∑ Chuck has the heart of a true Mon- Mr. KING. Mr. President, today I Eastern Shore. Dr. Bell has left a last- tanan rancher. I thank Chuck for his wish to recognize the 150th anniversary ing legacy of accomplishment. contributions to McCone County and of Franklin Savings Bank, one of the During Dr. Bell’s tenure, UMES wish him well in his future endeavors.∑ oldest and most successful business in reached new levels of achievement, in- Franklin County and the only locally cluding being ranked as one of the Na- f owned bank in Franklin County. Today tion’s best Historically Black Colleges MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT the bank has eight locations across and Universities, being a top producer Messages from the President of the western and central Maine, including a of African-American pharmacists, be- United States were communicated to commercial lending center in Ells- coming a doctoral research university, the Senate by Ms. Ridgway, one of his worth. establishing the engineering and avia- secretaries. Founded on February 24, 1868, when tion science complex, experiencing an Governor Joshua Chamberlain signed a increase in student graduation rates, bill into law incorporating the bank, and improving relationships and col- EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED the bank’s early mission was ‘‘to help laboration between the university and As in executive session the Presiding the people of Franklin County lay by the community. Thanks to her focus on Officer laid before the Senate messages something each year and deposit in inclusion and her commitment to the from the President of the United some good bank where it will be safe success of all students, Dr. Bell truly States submitting sundry nominations and earn a little something.’’ At the made a difference in the lives of UMES’ and a treaty which were referred to the beginning, President Joseph Fairbanks students. appropriate committees. said that they preferred the small ac- Dr. Bell’s leadership has been recog- (The messages received today are counts of children, which would be nized beyond the UMES campus. A re- printed at the end of the Senate added to little by little over time, over nowned biochemist and scholar, she proceedings.) the large account of a rich man. Times has received numerous prestigious na- f have changed since then, with the bank tional honors and awards, including now serving four Maine counties with the Millennium Award for Excellence MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE eight locations, but their dedication to in Teaching from the White House Ini- At 12:48 p.m., a message from the customer service has not waivered. tiative on Historically Black Colleges House of Representatives, delivered by Over the past 150 years, Franklin Sav- and Universities, the NAFEO Research Mr. McLaughlin, one of its journal ings Bank has shifted from focusing on Excellence Award, the Minority Ac- clerks, announced that the House individual savings accounts to now also cess, Inc., National Role Model Men- agrees to the following concurrent res- offering home mortgage lending and toring Award, and the University of olutions, without amendment: commercial lending. Online banking North Carolina Board of Governors’ S. Con. Res. 43. Concurrent resolution pro- services were added to Franklin Sav- Award for Excellence in Teaching. She viding for the use of the catafalque situated ings Bank in 2001 and have only in- has also been named a Giant in Science in the Exhibition Hall of the Capitol Visitor

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A bill to require repayment of S. 352 the late Honorable John Sidney McCain, III. wasteful agency spending, and for other pur- At the request of Mr. CORKER, the The message also announced that poses; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- name of the Senator from Maryland pursuant to section 1 of the Library of rity and Governmental Affairs. (Mr. VAN HOLLEN) was added as a co- Congress Trust Fund Board Act (2 By Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. sponsor of S. 352, a bill to award a Con- KENNEDY): U.S.C. 154), and the order of the House gressional Gold Medal to Master Ser- S. 3399. A bill to provide standards relating geant Rodrick ‘‘Roddie’’ Edmonds in of January 3, 2017, the Speaker ap- to airline travel by Federal employees for of- points the following individual on the ficial business; to the Committee on Home- recognition of his heroic actions during part of the House of Representatives to land Security and Governmental Affairs. World War II. the Library of Congress Trust Fund By Mr. COONS (for himself and Mr. S. 732 Board for a 5-year term: Ms. Elizabeth WICKER): At the request of Mr. BOOZMAN, the Beretta-Perik of Jamestown, Rhode Is- S. 3400. A bill to address the threat to na- name of the Senator from Illinois (Ms. tional security from illegal, unreported, and land. DUCKWORTH) was added as a cosponsor unregulated fishing and associated illegal ac- f tivity, to prevent the illegal trade of seafood of S. 732, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a refund- ENROLLED BILL PRESENTED and seafood products, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, able tax credit against income tax for The Secretary of the Senate reported and Transportation. the purchase of qualified access tech- that on today, August 28, 2018, she had By Mr. WARNER (for himself and Mr. nology for the blind. ROUNDS): presented to the President of the S. 1086 United States the following enrolled S. 3401. A bill to provide minimum stand- At the request of Mr. HATCH, the bill: ards for transactions secured by a dwelling, and for other purposes; to the Committee on name of the Senator from Alabama S. 899. An act to amend title 5, United Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (Mr. JONES) was added as a cosponsor States Code, to ensure that the requirements By Mr. YOUNG (for himself and Mr. of S. 1086, a bill to amend title 10, that new Federal employees who are vet- DONNELLY): erans with service-connected disabilities are United States Code, to remove the pro- S. 3402. A bill to designate the National provided leave for purposes of undergoing hibition on eligibility for TRICARE Airmail Museum at Smith Air Field in Fort medical treatment for such disabilities apply Reserve Select of members of the re- Wayne, Indiana; to the Committee on Energy to certain employees of the Veterans Health serve components of the Armed Forces and Natural Resources. Administration. By Mr. WYDEN: who are eligible to enroll in a health f S. 3403. A bill to authorize transitional benefits plan under chapter 89 of title INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND sheltering assistance for individuals who live 5, United States Code. JOINT RESOLUTIONS in areas with unhealthy air quality caused S. 2105 by wildfires, and for other purposes; to the At the request of Mr. BOOZMAN, the The following bills and joint resolu- Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- name of the Senator from Michigan tions were introduced, read the first ernmental Affairs. (Ms. STABENOW) was added as a cospon- and second times by unanimous con- By Mr. BOOKER: sor of S. 2105, a bill to modify the present, and referred as indicated: S. 3404. A bill to impose a moratorium on large agribusiness, food and beverage manu- sumption of service connection for vet- By Mr. TESTER (for himself and Mrs. facturing, and grocery retail mergers, and to erans who were exposed to herbicide SHAHEEN): establish a commission to review large agri- S. 3391. A bill to amend the Elementary agents while serving in the Armed culture, food and beverage manufacturing, and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ex- Forces in Thailand during the Vietnam and grocery retail mergers, concentration, pand access to school-wide arts and music era, and for other purposes. and market power; to the Committee on the programs, and for other purposes; to the Judiciary. S. 2680 Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and By Ms. BALDWIN (for herself, Mrs. At the request of Mr. ALEXANDER, the Pensions. MURRAY, Mr. WYDEN, Mrs. MCCAS- name of the Senator from Tennessee By Mrs. GILLIBRAND (for herself, Mr. KILL, Mr. TESTER, Mr. DONNELLY, Mr. (Mr. CORKER) was added as a cosponsor BOOKER, and Ms. HARRIS): JONES, Mr. CARPER, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, S. 3392. A bill to address maternal mor- of S. 2680, a bill to address the opioid Ms. STABENOW, Mr. COONS, Ms. HAR- tality and morbidity; to the Committee on crisis. RIS, Mr. MERKLEY, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. S. 2823 VAN HOLLEN, Mr. BROWN, Mr. NELSON, By Ms. CORTEZ MASTO (for herself Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mr. CASEY, Mr. At the request of Mr. HATCH, the and Mr. PORTMAN): S. 3393. A bill to establish the Council on BOOKER, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Ms. name of the Senator from Maryland Rural Community Innovation and Economic HIRONO, Mr. SCHATZ, Mr. REED, Mr. (Mr. CARDIN) was added as a cosponsor Development; to the Committee on Agri- BLUMENTHAL, Ms. HASSAN, Mrs. SHA- of S. 2823, a bill to modernize copyright culture, Nutrition, and Forestry. HEEN, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. PETERS, law, and for other purposes. By Ms. COLLINS (for herself and Mr. Mr. MURPHY, and Mr. KING): S.J. Res. 63. A joint resolution providing S. 3172 CARPER): At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the S. 3394. A bill to establish a national mer- for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 cury monitoring program, and for other pur- of title 5, United States Code, of the rule name of the Senator from Arkansas poses; to the Committee on Environment and submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, (Mr. BOOZMAN) was added as a cospon- Public Works. Secretary of Labor, and Secretary of Health sor of S. 3172, a bill to amend title 54, By Mr. HELLER: and Human Services relating to ‘‘Short- United States Code, to establish, fund, S. 3395. A bill to promote veteran involve- Term, Limited Duration Insurance’’ to the and provide for the use of amounts in a ment in STEM education, computer science, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. National Park Service Legacy Restora- and scientific research, and for other pur- tion Fund to address the maintenance poses; to the Committee on Commerce, f Science, and Transportation. backlog of the National Park Service, By Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Mr. SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND and for other purposes. BLUNT, Mr. CASEY, Mr. INHOFE, and SENATE RESOLUTIONS At the request of Mr. BOOKER, his Mr. BOOZMAN): The following concurrent resolutions name was added as a cosponsor of S. S. 3396. A bill to establish an Intercountry and Senate resolutions were read, and 3172, supra. Adoption Advisory Committee, and for other S. 3225 purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Rela- referred (or acted upon), as indicated: tions. By Mr. NELSON (for himself and Mr. At the request of Mrs. MURRAY, the By Mr. HELLER: BLUNT): name of the Senator from Connecticut S. 3397. A bill to promote conservation, im- S. Res. 620. A resolution congratulating the (Mr. MURPHY) was added as a cosponsor prove public land, and provide for sensible National Academy of Inventors on the mile- of S. 3225, a bill to ensure the humane

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RES. 525 emissions and environmental response name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the and human health. Successful design, NELSON) was added as a cosponsor of S. name of the Senator from New Hamp- implementation, and assessment of so- 3254, a bill to amend title 18, United shire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) was added as a co- lutions to the mercury pollution prob- States Code, to establish criminal pen- sponsor of S. Res. 525, a resolution des- lem require comprehensive long-term alties for unlawful payments for refer- ignating September 2018 as National information. A system for collecting rals to recovery homes and clinical Democracy Month as a time to reflect such information, such as we have for treatment facilities. on the contributions of the system of acid rain and other pollution, does not S. 3349 government of the United States to a currently exist for mercury—a much At the request of Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, more free and stable world. more toxic pollutant. Mercury is a potent neurotoxin of the name of the Senator from Nevada S. RES. 610 significant ecological and public health (Mr. HELLER) was added as a cosponsor At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, concern, especially for children and of S. 3349, a bill to amend the Carl the name of the Senator from Iowa pregnant women. It is estimated that Levin and Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon (Mr. GRASSLEY) was added as a cospon- approximately 200,000 children born in National Defense Authorization Act for sor of S. Res. 610, a resolution urging the U.S. per year are exposed to levels Fiscal Year 2015 to modify provisions the release of information regarding of mercury in the womb that are high relating to the conveyance of certain the September 11, 2001, terrorist at- enough to impair neurological develop- Federal land in Storey County, Nevada. tacks upon the United States. ment. Mercury exposure has gone down S. 3359 S. RES. 612 as U.S. mercury emissions have de- At the request of Ms. HARRIS, the At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the clined; however, levels remain far too names of the Senator from New Jersey names of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. high. (Mr. MENENDEZ), the Senator from Or- GRASSLEY) and the Senator from North By accurately quantifying regional egon (Mr. MERKLEY) and the Senator Dakota (Mr. HOEVEN) were added as co- and national changes in atmospheric from Colorado (Mr. BENNET) were added sponsors of S. Res. 612, a resolution deposition, ecosystem contamination, as cosponsors of S. 3359, a bill to post- designating September 2018 as ‘‘Na- and bioaccumulation of mercury in fish humously award a Congressional Gold tional Child Awareness Month’’ to pro- and wildlife in response to changes in Medal to Aretha Franklin in recogni- mote awareness of charities that ben- mercury emissions, a monitoring net- tion of her contributions of out- efit children and youth-serving organi- work would help policy makers, sci- standing artistic and historical signifi- zations throughout the United States entists, and the public to better under- cance to culture in the United States. and recognizing the efforts made by stand the sources, consequences, and S. 3381 those charities and organizations on trends in mercury pollution in the At the request of Ms. STABENOW, the behalf of children and youth as critical United States. We must have more names of the Senator from North Caro- contributions to the future of the comprehensive information and we lina (Mr. TILLIS) and the Senator from United States. must have it soon; otherwise, we risk West Virginia (Mr. MANCHIN) were f making misguided policy decisions. added as cosponsors of S. 3381, a bill to STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED Specifically, the Comprehensive Na- encourage Federal agencies to expedi- BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS tional Mercury Monitoring Act would: tiously enter into or amend coopera- Direct EPA, in conjunction with the tive agreements with States for re- By Ms. COLLINS (for herself and Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geologi- moval and remedial actions to address Mr. CARPER): cal Survey, National Park Service, the PFAS contamination in drinking, sur- S. 3394. A bill to establish a national National Oceanic and Atmospheric As- face, and ground water and land sur- mercury monitoring program, and for sociation, and other appropriate Fed- face and subsurface strata, and for other purposes; to the Committee on eral agencies, to establish a national other purposes. Environment and Public Works. mercury monitoring program to meas- S. 3382 Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, today ure and monitor mercury levels in the along with Senator CARPER, I am intro- At the request of Ms. STABENOW, the air and watersheds, water and soil name of the Senator from North Caro- ducing the Comprehensive National chemistry, and in marine, freshwater, Mercury Monitoring Act. This bill lina (Mr. TILLIS) was added as a co- and terrestrial organisms across the sponsor of S. 3382, a bill to require the would ensure that we have accurate in- nation; Director of the United States Geologi- formation about the extent of mercury Establish a scientific advisory com- cal Survey to perform a nationwide pollution in the United States. mittee to advise on the establishment, survey of perfluorinated compounds, A comprehensive national mercury site selection, measurement, recording and for other purposes. monitoring network is needed to pro- protocols, and operations of the moni- tect human health, safeguard fisheries, S. 3388 toring program; and track the effect of emissions reduc- Establish a centralized database for At the request of Mr. TILLIS, the tions. This tracking is particularly im- existing and newly collected environ- name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. portant in light of increasing mercury mental mercury data that can be freely ISAKSON) was added as a cosponsor of S. emissions from other countries, includ- accessed on the Internet and is com- 3388, a bill to amend the Health Insur- ing a substantial amount of mercury prised of data that is compatible with ance Portability and Accountability emissions from China. Mercury can be similar international efforts; Act. transported around the globe, meaning Require a report to Congress every S. 3389 emissions and releases can affect two years on the program, including At the request of Mrs. CAPITO, the human health and environment even in trends, and an assessment of the reduc- name of the Senator from West Vir- remote locations. tion in mercury deposition rates that ginia (Mr. MANCHIN) was added as a co- The issue of mercury emissions is need to be achieved in order to prevent sponsor of S. 3389, a bill to redesignate growing in importance around the adverse human and ecological effects a facility of the National Aeronautics world. In 2013, the United States was every four-years; and and Space Administration. the first Nation to join and sign the Authorize $95 million over three S. RES. 481 Minamata Convention on Mercury, a years to carry out the Act. At the request of Mr. HATCH, the global agreement to reduce mercury We must establish a comprehensive, name of the Senator from Vermont pollution. The Minamata Convention robust national monitoring network

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A bill to authorize transi- grocery retail mergers, concentration, has increased from 63 percent to 86 per- tional sheltering assistance for individ- and market power; to the Committee cent. uals who live in areas with unhealthy on the Judiciary. The top four grain companies today air quality caused by wildfires, and for Mr. President, I rise to introduce the control nearly 90 percent of the global other purposes; to the Committee on Food and Agribusiness Merger Morato- grain market. Homeland Security and Governmental rium and Antitrust Review Act of 2018, During the past two years, there has Affairs. a critical bill that would put a pause been a wave of consolidation among Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, today I on the largest, most consequential ac- global seed and crop-chemical firms, am introducing the Clean Air Refugee quisitions and mergers in the food and and three companies now control near- Assistance Act of 2018 to help Ameri- agriculture sector, and give Congress ly two-thirds of the world’s commodity cans who have been driven away from an opportunity to update our antitrust crop seeds. Those same three compa- their homes by choking, hazardous laws in order to protect America’s nies now also control nearly 70 percent wildfire smoke. Western wildfires are farmers, workers and rural commu- of all agricultural chemicals and pes- getting bigger, hotter, and more dif- nities who are being harmed by the ticides. ficult to fight and scientists says it’s ever increasing levels of corporate con- In the United States, the four largest only likely to get worse. centration. corn seed sellers accounted for 85 per- Folks back home in Oregon and Almost 20 years ago, Senator Paul cent of the market in 2015, up from 60 across the Pacific Northwest already Wellstone of Minnesota introduced the percent in 2000. Over the past 20 years, know what I’m talking about because Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and the cost for an acre’s worth of seeds for they’re on the front lines of these dis- Antitrust Review Act of 1999. an average corn farmer has nearly asters. With dryer summers and lower Senator Wellstone introduced that quadrupled, and the cost of fertilizer snow packs, wildfires rage across the bill out of a concern that growing con- has more than doubled. Yet corn yields West. They’re threatening lives, centration in the agricultural sector increased only 36 percent over that homes, and businesses and generating was harming our farmers and rural time, and the price received for the so much smoke that they’re creating communities, and was causing agricul- sale of a bushel of corn increased only what I call clean air refugees. tural commodity markets to become 31 percent. These are people who can’t go outside stacked against the farmer. 71 percent of the contract poultry and, in some cases, who must flee their Senator Wellstone was right to be growers who depend on the income homes and communities to find pock- concerned, and over the past two dec- from their poultry contracts live at or ets of fresh air. ades concentration has only gotten below the federal poverty level. I’m talking about children suffering worse—much worse. Today a small The United States is losing farmers from asthma and other conditions and number of giant companies control at an alarming rate, agricultural jobs seniors who need a respirator to every link of the food chain. and wages are drying up, and rural breathe. Consolidation has now reached a communities are disappearing. In some cases, Oregonians lacking ac- point where the top four firms in al- These problems can be mitigated by cess to safe, clean air are being told to most every sector in the food and agri- more active use of our antitrust laws, seek shelter in public places like li- culture economy have acquired abusive and allowing an opportunity for U.S. braries and government buildings. levels of market power. farmers and ranchers to compete in My legislation would help provide Recently I traveled and met with fair and open markets. some relief by opening the Federal farmers and ranchers in rural America. The Food and Agribusiness Merger Emergency Management Agency’s I heard firsthand how excessive levels Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act (FEMA) Transitional Sheltering As- of concentration and market power provides the opportunity to stop in- sistance program to people seeking hurt our independent family farmers, creased consolidation through acquisi- temporary shelter from wildfire smoke. This program already permits FEMA who are being forced to sell into ever tions and mergers until such time as a to pay for temporary lodging for people more concentrated marketplaces that full review of the impact of concentra- who can’t immediately return home unfairly reduce the prices they receive tion is completed and government re- following a disaster. for their crops and livestock. sponses are formulated. My bill would permit clean air refu- The data paints a grim picture: The Specifically, this bill would halt gees to apply if they live in an area farmer’s share of every retail dollar large mergers in the food system for 18 where the air quality index is deter- has plummeted from 41 percent in 1950 months and would set up a commission mined to be unhealthy for at least to approximately 15 percent today. to study how to strengthen antitrust three consecutive days as the result of Since 2013, net farm income for United oversight of the farm and food sectors a wildfire declared to be a major dis- States farmers has fallen by half and and publish recommended improve- aster by the President or Governor of median farm income was negative in ments to merger enforcement. the affected state. 2017 and is expected to be negative This moratorium would provide need- FEMA-approved applicants would again in 2018. ed time to develop new tools to pick from a list of participating hotels Excessive market power has led to strengthen merger enforcement and and motels and FEMA would pay the price gouging of both farmers and con- antitrust rules to address the unique lodging costs. sumers. For example, in 2016 the larg- conditions in the farm and food econ- Mr. President, the Federal govern- est pork producer in the U.S., Chinese- omy and protect farmers, workers and ment needs to step up and be a better owned Smithfield Foods, credited its consumers. partner on these wildfires and it can enhanced profits to the 14–year low The federal government needs to pro- start by helping Americans who have prices paid to farmers for live hogs and vide safeguards to the agricultural been driven from their homes find the higher selling prices for pork to marketplace so that farmers and work- some refuge. consumers. ers have the opportunity to share in Passing the Clean Air Refugee Assist- In the past three decades, the top the prosperity that open, transparent ance Act would be a breath of fresh air four largest pork packers have seized and fair markets can provide them. for folks struggling to escape the chok- control of 71 percent of the market, up Senator Wellstone was prescient ing smoke, and I urge my colleagues to from 36 percent. Over the same period, when he put forward this legislation al- support this important bill. the top four beef packers have ex- most twenty years ago. The problem of panded their market share from 32 per- concentration was apparent then, and By Mr. BOOKER: cent to 85 percent. The top four flour has grown even worse. What would

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I GRATULATING THE NATIONAL has the approval of the Majority and look forward to working with my col- ACADEMY OF INVENTORS ON Minority leaders. leagues, educating others about this THE MILESTONE OF ACHIEVING Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph issue, and continuing the work he 200 MEMBER INSTITUTIONS 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Sen- started to defend farmers, workers, and ate, the following committee is author- consumers from the harms being posed Mr. NELSON (for himself and Mr. BLUNT) submitted the following resolu- ized to meet during today’s session of by corporate concentration. the Senate: This legislation has broad support, tion; which was considered and agreed SUBCOMMITTEE ON OCEANS, ATMOSPHERE, with endorsements from the following to: FISHERIES, AND COAST GUARD S. RES. 620 organizations: The Subcommittee on Oceans, At- ActionAid USA, Alabama Contract Poultry Whereas the systematic application of organized knowledge and information can gen- mosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard Growers Association, Alliance for Democ- of the Committee on Commerce, racy, American Agriculture Movement, erate technology and produce creative solu- American Grassfed Association, Animal tions to existing problems; Science, and Transportation is author- Wellness Action, Appetite for Change (MN), Whereas innovation, based on new inven- ized to meet during the session of the Beyond Pesticides, California Dairy Cam- tions and technologies, has proven to be a Senate on Tuesday, August 28, 2018, at paign, California Farmers Union, Campaign key factor in the industrial and economic de- 2:30 p.m. to conduct a hearing entitled for Contract Agriculture Reform, Campaign velopment of the world; ‘‘Harmful Algal Blooms: The Impact on for Family Farms and the Environment, Cat- Whereas the majority of our Nation’s basic Our Nation’s Waters.’’ tle Producers of Louisiana, Center for Food research is done at United States colleges Safety, Community Farm Alliance (KY), and universities; f Contract Poultry Growers Association of the Whereas the National Academy of Inven- REMEMBERING JOHN McCAIN tors was founded at the University of South Virginias, The Cornucopia Institute, Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I Crawford Stewardship Project (WI), Dakota Florida in 2010; Rural Action of SD, Dallas Farmers Market Whereas the National Academy of Inven- come to the floor today to add my Friends, Family Farm Action. tors serves a valuable role in the translation voice to many around the world who Family Farm Defenders (WI), Farm Aid, of science and technology within the univer- remember our dear friend and our col- Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, Farm- sity, college, government, and nonprofit re- league John McCain. worker Association of Florida, Federation of search institute community, and for the ben- John McCain was a man of the high- Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance efit of society; est character, courage, and credibility, Fund, Food & Water Watch, Food Chain Whereas the National Academy of Inven- known for his stubborn courage and his tors enhances the visibility of university, Workers Alliance, Food for Maine’s Future, heroic patriotism. He leaves a legacy of Food Policy Council of San Antonio, Friends college, government, and nonprofit research of the Earth U.S., Government Account- institute technology and academic innova- unquestioned devotion and love for his ability Project, GROW North Texas, HEAL tion; country and his family. Food Alliance, Idaho Organization of Re- Whereas the National Academy of Inven- When I first came to the Senate, source Councils, Illinois Farmers Union, Illi- tors educates and mentors innovative stu- John was very welcoming. He knew I nois Stewardship Alliance, Independent dents; had been an orthopedic surgeon, and he Cattlemen of Wyoming, Institute for Agri- Whereas the National Academy of Inven- told me I really ought to take a look at culture and Trade Policy, Iowa Citizens for tors encourages the commercialization of re- his x rays. Of course, the x rays showed Community Improvement, Iowa Farmers search; the many fractures which were the re- Union. Whereas the National Academy of Inven- Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future tors recognizes and encourages inventors sult of being shot down over Hanoi and (MD), Kansas Farmers Union, Land Steward- who have patents issued by the United the injuries that resulted from the ship Project (MN), Michigan Farmers Union, States Patent and Trademark Office; crash and the subsequent beatings as a Minnesota Farmers Union, Missouri Farmers Whereas the National Academy of Inven- prisoner of war. It was out of pure gen- Union, Missouri Rural Crisis Center, Na- tors includes thousands of researchers, am- erosity on his part that we became tional Family Farm Coalition, National plifying their work into practical applica- friends and traveling companions. Farmers Organization, National Farmers tions; and John took great pride in this institu- Union, National Latino Farmers & Ranchers Whereas the National Academy of Inven- tion and in knowing that none of us in Trade Association, National Women Involved tors has achieved the significant milestone this body of 100—left or right, Repub- in Farm Economics, Nebraska Farmers of 200 member institutions across the Na- Union, North Dakota Farmers Union, North- tion: Now, therefore, be it lican or Democrat, conservative or lib- east Organic Dairy Producers Alliance, Resolved, That the Senate— eral—none of us agreed with him 100 Northeast Organic Farming Assoc.—NY, (1) recognizes the importance of inven- percent of the time. But every one of Northeast Organic Farming Assoc.—VT, tions, patents, and copyrights as part of us respected him and the strength of Northern Plains Resource Council (MT), maintaining United States leadership in the his convictions. I always have. Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (MA), world and a competitive global economy; Probably no one knows the first per- Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association. (2) expresses support for academic techno- son to give him the nickname ‘‘Mav- Oklahoma Independent Stockgrowers Asso- logical developments that promote entrepre- erick,’’ but he certainly lived up to it. ciation, Oklahoma Stewardship Council, Or- neurship and for academic innovations in ganic Farmers’ Agency for Relationship Mar- local communities; For John, it wasn’t about playing a keting (OFARM), Organic Seed Alliance, Or- (3) supports the mission of the National character on television. For him, there ganic Seed Growers & Trade Association Academy of Inventors to recognize and en- was no switching between a public and (OSGATA), Organization for Competitive courage inventors with patents issued by the a private persona; he was the same Markets, PCC Community Markets (WA), United States Patent and Trademark Office, when the cameras were off as when Pennsylvania Farmers Union, Powder River enhance the visibility of academic tech- they were on. Basin Resource Council (WY), R-CALF nology and innovation, encourage the disclo- His voice would thunder on the Sen- United Stockgrowers of America, Rocky sure of intellectual property, educate and ate floor when he was stirred to out- Mountain Farmers Union, Rural Advance- mentor innovative students, and translate rage, with incredible force and convic- ment Foundation International—USA the inventions of its members to benefit so- (RAFI–USA), Rural Coalition/Coalicio´ n ciety; tion, and so he came to another affec- Rural, Rural Vermont, Slow Food Dallas-Ft. (4) acknowledges the National Academy of tionate name—‘‘Hurricane McCain.’’ Worth, South Dakota Farmers Union, South- Inventors for its role in elevating the con- His humor was legendary. He used his ern Colorado Livestock Association, State of tributions of academic inventors across all biting humor like a surface-to-air mis- Missouri National Association for the Ad- disciplines; and sile.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:09 Aug 29, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A28AU6.016 S28AUPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with SENATE August 28, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5995 We all know his incredible biog- say yes. Then they would hand us a cell spends his life in a worthy cause; who at the raphy—the courage he showed as a phone and say: Could you please take a best knows in the end the triumph of high naval officer and as a prisoner of war in picture of me with Senator McCain. Of achievement . . . and who . . . if he fails, at Vietnam. It was a story that inspired course we always said yes. You could least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and millions of people around the world. I see the reverence and respect each of timid souls who neither know victory nor de- could see it when we traveled the world these individuals had for Senator feat. together. We would visit American McCain. John McCain knew both. He knew troops overseas, and it was incredible People also respected his incredible victory, and he knew defeat. John to see the respect he commanded no legacy of service, his strength as one of McCain was the man in the arena. matter where he went. the fiercest legislators in our history. Mostly, John and I sat and enjoyed Mr. President, you served time in the It is fitting that just a few weeks ago, the view of the river, the trees, and the military. You have been deployed. You Congress paid tribute to him by pass- red rocks. I know that view was one of know what it is like to be there and ing the John S. McCain National De- his great joys, the peace and serenity when someone from home comes to fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year of a hard landscape shaped by years of thank you and support you and make 2019 because we all know that caring wear and weather. Think about that— sure you have everything you need. for the military was an abiding concern the serenity of a hard landscape shaped Our men and women in uniform looked in his career. He wanted to make sure by years of wear and weather. People at him in awe, and they hung on his that the men and women in uniform will see all sorts of symbolism in that every word. Foreign leaders did the were treated fairly by the government, hard landscape shaped by years of wear same. John really was a reassuring fig- that they were respected, and that they and weather, but if John had heard me ure around the world. were honored for their service. say that, he would have said: Whiskey My first trip with John was Thanks- We get used to using the language of Tango Foxtrot—get to the point. So I giving 2007. It was before he was the combat around here in all sorts of will. nominee for President. He was actually other areas where it doesn’t really be- John McCain was the conscience of trailing significantly in the polls. We long. We talk about fierce political the Senate. He served the American went to Iraq during the surge. We spent battles. We talk about hard-fought people and the Senate on his own the day in Baghdad and in other loca- election campaigns. But as someone terms. He left us on his own terms as tions, and then in the dark of night, we who knew what real battles looked well. We grieve him today because, for flew out into the Anbar Province, like, John had a realistic perspective us, it just was not enough time. That is where his son, a marine grunt, was on the political kind of battle. He took the thing about our heroes—we start to serving. them seriously, and he never engaged believe they will live on forever, but of We had Thanksgiving dinner with a in a fight where he didn’t believe that course they do not. number of the soldiers. When John got he was on the side of right. Ronald Reagan’s final letter to the to see his son, he went to hug him, to He never tired of ridiculing what he American people said this: lift his arms, but because of the ortho- saw as wasteful government spending. When the Lord calls me home, whenever pedic injuries he had sustained, until Every soldier, every sailor, every air- that may be, I will leave with the greatest the end of his life, he was unable to man knows that none of us are indis- love for this country of ours and eternal op- really lift his arms due to the frac- pensable. We serve our mission, and if timism for its future. tures. He was up on his toes trying to we fall, another will step up to take John McCain has left this world, I hug his son in the Anbar Province of our place. John understood that truth can assure you, with the greatest love Iraq. I had a chance to have dinner also about public service. for this country of ours and eternal op- with six Wyoming soldiers that I think John would also understand timism for the future. evening. They had only one request of the sincerity of the grief that the Mem- Rest in peace, my friend John me: Could I introduce them to Senator bers of this Senate are feeling today. McCain. Rest in peace. McCain? I remember vividly the last time I The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Our final trip was over Memorial Day saw John McCain. I went to visit him RUBIO). The Senator from Hawaii. this past year, 2017. It was to Vietnam. and his wife Cindy at the ranch in Mr. SCHATZ. Mr. President, Senator We went to the lake where he had been Sedona. I will tell you, John and Cindy McCain may have represented the peo- shot down. It was a bipartisan group. have been so kind to my wife Bobbi ple of Arizona, but in doing so, he Senator COONS from Delaware was when we have visited the ranch in the changed the world. along. We went to the Hanoi prison past. I remember John taking my wife His family legacy and leadership are, where he spent 51⁄2 years. We saw the Bobbi on a tour of the many historic actually, partly rooted in the Pacific. cell. We also went to the Presidential trees on the ranch. John has also been He met his wife, Cindy, in Honolulu, Palace. No matter where we went, he so very kind to my daughter Emma on and generations of McCains have left was met with a hero’s welcome. I don’t her visits in Washington and some of their mark on the region as his grand- know how many people could have sus- her travels with me. father served in the Pacific theater as tained and survived 51⁄2 years in that Let me assure you about Cindy an admiral in World War II, as his fa- prison with the beatings. It took a man McCain. Cindy is also an American of ther commanded the Armed Forces in of incredible courage and character, great strength and great courage. the Pacific during the Vietnam war, and he gained credibility, as well as a When I was there, we sat together and and as John S. McCain III became the certainty for his own life. we talked about the Senate, about his most famous POW of the Vietnam war. We also went to Cam Ranh Bay dur- beloved Arizona, about the past and ac- His relationship with the region began ing that trip to Vietnam. Many Viet- tually about the future as well, and with those conflicts—with pain and nam war veterans have been through about the places around the world we with loss—but he never let that begin- that area. They brought in the USS had visited together. ning define his views of the Asia-Pa- John McCain, the ship named after his Senator McCain was a great lover cific. father and his grandfather. While and student of history. We talked of As a Senator, he called for the United there, we had a luncheon on the deck of Teddy Roosevelt’s ‘‘Man in the Arena’’ States to transform the peace we made the ship, and it was called McCain speech. It was one that he knew quite with Vietnam into a partnership. It is Field. He was greeted warmly by every- well, he knew by heart. thanks, in part, to him that the United one, and he greeted them just as warm- It is not the critic who counts; not the man States now works closely with Viet- ly. who points out how the strong man stum- nam on everything from economic de- Every Senator who ever traveled bles, or where the doer of deeds could have velopment to counterterrorism, and with Senator McCain shared a common done them better. The credit belongs to the the people of Vietnam know it. The man who is actually in the arena, whose face experience; it was being approached by is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who monument that marks where he was someone on the street or in a res- strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up captured as a naval pilot in Vietnam taurant and being asked: Are you with short again and again . . . who knows great has turned into a shrine this week, Senator McCain? Of course we would enthusiasms, the great devotions; who with people leaving flowers in memory

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That was a mistake on my and to help professionalize militaries moral clarity whenever he spoke. part because, despite his prickly na- in the region, including the military of This week, our hearts are with his ture, knowing John McCain has be- Vietnam. He was a strong advocate for mother, Roberta, with his wife, Cindy, come one of the most valuable experi- freedom of navigation in the region and with his children and his grand- ences I have had in the Senate. for human rights. He worked with Sen- children, and with all of those who We began working together on one of ator CARDIN to introduce a bill to pun- loved him. May his memory be a bless- those issues that John McCain and no ish military officials in Burma for the ing. one else in the U.S. Senate could have part that they had played in waging I yield the floor. had the stature to have dealt with— genocide against the Rohingya—a bill I suggest the absence of a quorum. certainly, our military men and women that, I hope, the Senate will pass soon. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The in the defense of our Nation. We bonded He was an early voice that warned clerk will call the roll. in our efforts to see that the veterans about North Korea’s nuclear program, The bill clerk proceeded to call the of our Nation received the care that and as a longtime member and chair- roll. they deserved, that they received their man of the Armed Services Committee, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- benefits from the Veterans Health Ad- he always stood up for our men and ator from Kansas. ministration that they were entitled to and that they had earned through their women in uniform. Mr. MORAN. Mr. President, I join my A few years ago, on the 70th anniver- colleagues today in tribute to our col- service to our Nation. That work—a sary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, my league, Senator John McCain of Ari- McCain-Moran bill—became a signifi- predecessor, Daniel K. Inouye, planned zona. cant part of the VA MISSION Act. I learned in that experience the dedi- to give a floor speech to remember the We look for heroes in this world. It cation that Senator McCain had to 2,400 Americans who died that day. seems to me we are always looking in those who served—to have made sure Senator Inouye’s staff made it known the wrong places. We look at baseball diamonds and basketball courts and that the mistakes that had been made that he would mark the anniversary on at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Senate floor. He gave that speech amphitheaters and stadiums where per- formers sing, but we fail to look in the which may have cost veterans their to a Chamber that was not full, but lives, never happened again. Initially, John McCain was there. He was there right places. Sometimes we are with heroes, and we don’t always recognize that resulted in the Veterans Choice for Senator Inouye just as he was Act, and in its just recently being it at the moment. Yet there is no there, time after time, for our military passed by the House, passed by the American I know who is more deserv- and for our country. He was earnest Senate, and in having been signed by ing of the title ‘‘hero’’ than John and solemn when it came to fulfilling the President, the legislation that we McCain. Those who serve us in the his oath to the Constitution, but he named in honor of Senator John military are entitled to that honorific, was also the embodiment of taking McCain has resulted in the VA MIS- and those who serve in the military your job seriously, not yourself. SION Act, which replaces and improves and serve others in the military—those One tribute from a former staff mem- the Choice Act. ber recalled how Senator McCain led a who serve our veterans—are heroes too. In that experience of working with codel to Estonia, where he joined Sen- Senator McCain lived a life in which Senator McCain on behalf of America’s ate colleague Hillary Clinton and en- heroics were a part of every day. veterans, I also got acquainted with joyed several rounds of vodka shots be- I first met John McCain in 1996, in Senator McCain’s staff. I think it is fore having decided to take a midnight Hays, KS, my hometown. The habit probably true that we can learn a lot stroll around town. He also remem- was that Senator Bob Dole, then a can- about our colleagues by the people bered the Senator’s holding a press didate for President of the United they surround themselves with, in the conference in a geothermal pool in Ice- States, would fly to the airport in way that a Senator treats his or her land—in his bathing suit and all. Hays, near his hometown of Russell. staff members and, perhaps, even more Early on in my time in the U.S. Sen- This time he had a guest with him, importantly, in the way that those in- ate, I would pick up the phone and call John McCain, who was the campaign dividuals who work for a U.S. Senator my dad to tell him whenever I had had chairman on his Presidential cam- treat their boss. What I saw from those a substantive conversation with Sen- paign. I watched the two of them inter- who worked for Senator McCain was ator McCain, because he was that much act, and it was really the first time I abiding respect, love, care, and com- of a giant, and now he is gone. We all had had the opportunity to see a Sen- passion for U.S. Senator John McCain. need people in our lives who ask us to ator other than, perhaps, my own two It told me a lot about his staff, but it do more, who remind us that we are ca- from Kansas. told me even more about Senator pable of doing more and of doing bet- Senator Dole had the greatest regard McCain’s person and character. ter. The world needs heroes, and we for Senator McCain. Senator Dole wore In my time in working in the Senate have lost one in the death of Senator the POW bracelet. He never knew John with John McCain, I also discovered his McCain. McCain when he was a POW, but by abiding love for the people of Arizona. He once challenged a leader in his happenstance, he chose to wear a Senator McCain was a national figure party to ‘‘set the example for what our bracelet in honor of and in respect and and could be only a national figure if country can and should represent.’’ concern for a POW in Vietnam. John he desired. Yet he had the stature to be That was also his challenge to the Sen- McCain learned on the Senate floor not only a person who was known in ate. He demanded more of the Senate that Bob Dole wore his throughout the State he represented and in the Na- and more from us. It is for that, espe- much of his captivity. I respect and tion but around the world. While Sen- cially, he will be missed in this Cham- honor Senator Dole, and I saw that day ator McCain represented the United ber. Who will hold us accountable when the respect and honor he had for a fel- States well, here in the U.S. Senate we fall into a destructive pattern? low Senator, a fellow serviceman, a fel- and in countries around the globe, you When he lectured us—and he did lec- low veteran. Both Senator Dole’s and could tell that Senator McCain cared ture us—we took it to heart. He was Senator McCain’s lives were dramati- about and loved the people he rep- true north for the U.S. Senate. He cally affected by their service to our resented at home. He respected them. cared deeply about relationships be- Nation. He recognized that they were the ones tween Members of both parties. He Quite frankly, when I arrived at the who gave him the opportunity to per- cared about legislating and about find- U.S. Senate, I was intimidated by Sen- form on a national stage. He never for- ing a way to govern. ator McCain. He was vitriolic, and he got Arizonans.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:09 Aug 29, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G28AU6.039 S28AUPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with SENATE August 28, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5997 I appreciate the way that he and his John McCain led a full and meaning- able for their crimes. He truly believed junior colleague from Arizona, Senator ful life. I admired him, I respected him, that public officials have a responsi- FLAKE, worked together on behalf of and I loved him. bility to serve and protect their citi- the citizens of his State. So, while it Senator McCain, thank you for your zenry from harm, and he had a par- would have been easy for John to have service to our Nation. It is a grateful ticular disdain for officials who instead played only the national figure, he Nation. chose to exploit their citizens for per- never forgot from where he came. The Navy hymn says: ‘‘Eternal Fa- sonal enrichment. While many of my comments today ther, strong to save, whose arms hath Anyone who knew John knows of his have paid my respect to Senator bound the restless wave.’’ disdain for one of the most corrupt McCain for his service to the U.S. Sen- May John McCain rest in peace. leaders of our time, Vladimir Putin. It ate, it is his service in the military, in I yield the floor. was the Putin regime’s ruthless torture The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. SUL- the Navy, that is most compelling to and murder of Sergei Magnitsky, after LIVAN). The Senator from Maryland. Sergei exposed their corruption, as well me. I have known this story through- Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I rise as the regime’s repeated attacks on the out my life—and it has been reported today in great sadness to address the Russian people, that inspired Senator and repeated here on the Senate floor— passing of Senator John McCain, which McCain and me to work together on but I do not know a person who, as a marks a deep loss for this country, for the Magnitsky law. I thank Senator prisoner of war and who was given the his State of Arizona, and, above all, for McCain for giving me that opportunity, opportunity to be released and to re- his family and friends. turn home to family and loved ones, John McCain was an honorable public for giving me the strength to develop a would say no. I do not know a person servant who sacrificed greatly to serve strategy where we could, in fact, enact other than John McCain who would his country in uniform, and as a law- not only the original Magnitsky stat- say: No, it is not my turn. No, there maker, he proudly represented the peo- ute but the Global Magnitsky statute, are others who are prisoners of war ple of Arizona. which truly provided the U.S. leader- who are more deserving and who are, in I will always remember the bipar- ship globally. Many other countries fact, on the list ahead of me to be re- tisan luncheon that we had when Sen- have followed our leadership. leased. ator McCain recounted his experiences After Vladimir Putin attacked our What an honor to know a person who as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. There 2016 elections, Senator McCain worked has put others so much ahead of him- wasn’t a dry eye in our caucus. with me and others to ensure a new, self, to know someone who, because of In my visit to Vietnam, I had a tough sanctions regime against Mr. his love of country and love of those chance to visit the Hanoi Hilton, and I Putin and his oligarchs for their insid- who served and his sense of responsi- saw firsthand the place where John ious attacks on our democracy. Sen- bility and obligation to those he served McCain acted so bravely. He was truly ator McCain fought to ensure that our with and who were prisoners of war an American hero. efforts to hold Russia accountable for with him, had the character, the values I would like to express my deepest these actions made it into law. Just to say: No, it is not my turn. sympathies and condolences at this dif- last month, he joined a bipartisan I wish I knew people; I wish I were ficult time to Cindy, their children, group of Senators again toward the one of them. and their family. same goal, given Mr. Putin’s persistent So, today, I, certainly, honor Senator In his final letter to Americans, Sen- attacks on our democratic system. Senator McCain and I worked along- McCain for his status and service as a ator McCain reminded us: side one another to address the geno- Senator. Yet I admire and respect him We are citizens of the world’s greatest re- cide against the Rohingya community for his service to the Nation, his serv- public, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil. in Rakhine, Burma, orchestrated by ice in the Navy, and his care and com- We are blessed and are a blessing to humanity when we uphold and advance those ideals the Burmese military. Last Saturday, passion for those with whom he served. at home and in the world. August 25, marked 1 year since the out- John McCain led a full and meaning- For nearly a dozen years in the Sen- break of violence in western Rakhine ful life. He instructed us numerous ate, I have watched my friend Senator State, which has resulted in the mass times about our behavior here in the McCain live and act by those ideals on exodus of over 700,000 Rohingya to U.S. Senate. He asked us, as Ameri- behalf of the American people and on neighboring Bangladesh. In response to cans, to behave differently. He asked behalf of our global community. John this violence and crimes against hu- our country to come together. was my enduring partner in standing manity perpetrated against the We desperately need the opportunity up for universal rights and advancing Rohingya community, Senator McCain for Americans to see what they are see- core American values. John always ex- and I introduced the Burma Human ing on the Senate floor this week, pressed his views with passion but re- Rights and Freedom Act. where both Republicans and Democrats spected civility. He represented the Senator McCain would stand up for are honoring the life and service of best of the Senate, working across people anywhere in the world who were John McCain. We need to answer his party lines to get issues resolved. victimized by human rights violations. call. We need to honor his request to The Senate has lost a great patriot Russian dissident Vladimir Kara- make certain that the work we perform and a role model for Senators. The Na- Murza wrote yesterday that John was is done for all Americans. tion has lost a strong, effective leader ‘‘an idealist. . . . He believed in his John McCain was a Republican, but for American values. Arizona has lost a principles and was prepared to stand on much more so, he was an American. He Senator who loved the State and the them—regardless of party, conven- reminds me of what I see on the monu- people he represented. I, along with ience, or political advantage.’’ ments and memorials at the National many Members—all the Members of Mr. Kara-Murza has been poisoned Mall when I make my trek up to the this Chamber—have lost a friend. twice in Russia as a result of his stand- Lincoln Memorial and pass the World Today John’s faith in American ing up against Mr. Putin. War II, the Vietnam war, and the Ko- ideals endures with the Sergei and I remember John doing just that dur- rean war memorials. No one memorial- Global Magnitsky acts. With these two ing our Foreign Relations Committee ized there fought, died, sacrificed, and laws, the United States stands in soli- 2013 debate on whether we should arm served for Republicans or for Demo- darity with Sergei Magnitsky from the rebels in Syria. He passionately ar- crats. John McCain and those we me- Russia, David Kato from Uganda, Berta gued that we should do more to support morialize on the National Mall recog- Caceres from Honduras, and the many them against Bashar Assad’s ‘‘butch- nized a higher calling. unsung and unnamed people around the ery.’’ If we could do something that would world who have suffered human rights In 2016, as the Assad regime merci- alter our behavior in respect to John abuses for uncovering corruption and lessly pummeled rebels in Aleppo, McCain, what a difference we might fighting for freedom, equal justice, and McCain said: ‘‘The name of Aleppo will make in the country, and if Americans dignity. echo through history . . . as a testa- can use this moment to pull together, It was John who insisted we ensure ment to our moral failure and ever- our country will be better. that corrupt leaders were held account- lasting shame.’’ Senator McCain called

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Senator McCain, Senator Kennedy, and he was captured and spent 51⁄2 years as If he was there, almost every time he President Bush. That legislation ulti- a prisoner of war. During those years, would bring them in. It wasn’t a case of mately did not pass, but it showed me through torture and misery, he never getting enough time or getting a quick that Senator McCain was a serious leg- gave up. He was offered freedom but re- picture, or something like that. Invari- islator who was willing to work across fused to be released unless every other ably, he would have them come in, sit the aisle to get things done. prisoner was released with him. Think down, talk with him, and take pic- Senator Kennedy died in 2009 of the about that. He was flying over Vietnam tures, and pretty soon he would be tak- same form of brain cancer that Senator and was shot down. He was projected ing them all around his office and McCain succumbed to this past week- from his plane and landed in a lake in showing them pictures of his family— end. They both died on August 25. Hanoi. He was bruised, in terrible he was so proud of his family, his In 2013, Senator McCain was part of shape, put in a prison, and was clearly grandfather, his father—and his the Gang of 8, along with Senator in incredible pain, and, through it all, mementoes, all the amazing things SCHUMER—the bipartisan group of Sen- he was offered an opportunity to go that made up his amazing life. He loved ators who wrote a 2013 measure to over- home early, and he said: Nope, I am not it, and he was so warm. haul the country’s immigration system going unless all of the POWs go. Think There are so many things that I will and border security. I supported that of the strength and character that never forget, but that is one that I bill, which passed in the Senate but takes. It is almost unfathomable. truly treasure and will always remem- sadly was never taken up in the House, I always affectionately refer to him ber. Here is Senator McCain, somebody although we all know there was enough as an admiral because both his father who is known across America, around support in the House to pass that legis- and grandfather were full admirals. the world. He was certainly an icon and lation. There is no doubt that Senator McCain a colleague, obviously, to all of us, but Senator McCain believed in working would have been an admiral had he he was somebody who really was a together to get things done. He lis- stayed in the Navy, as well. It was just friend. When you went over and you tened and fought passionately for what the way that I could recognize his wanted to talk to him about something he believed in, but he wanted to make amazing service in a fun way and in a or take someone over to see him, or sure we got things done in the best tra- personal way. Here is somebody, when whatever it was, he was a friend. He dition of the Senate as the greatest de- you talk about serving our country in was somebody who was down-to-earth, liberative body in the world. Senator the military, who just epitomizes that who was a person you could connect McCain lived by that tradition. grit, that determination, that char- with at a real level. That is pretty In his memoir, Senator McCain said acter, and that service that we love, re- amazing for somebody who lived such that his failure to enact comprehensive spect, and honor so much in our serv- an incredible life. immigration reform was ‘‘a harder dis- icemen and servicewomen. We will miss John McCain. May God appointment than other defeats.’’ John’s perseverance followed him as bless him. From my wife Mikey and He continued: he began serving our Nation as a Mem- myself, to John’s wife Cindy and the We failed twice, and then once more after ber of Congress and in the U.S. Senate. entire McCain family, we join with you Ted had passed away, despite big majorities He fought fiercely for what he believed in mourning his loss and honoring his in both houses of Congress in favor of it. . . . in. Everyone talks about how, when he tremendous memory and legacy. I’d like to say I’ll try again. But that is not up to me anymore. . . . That’s a harder dis- took a position, he took it with a pas- I yield the floor. appointment than other defeats have been sion. So whenever you debated him, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- because first, it’s something that most discussed things with him, and worked ator from Montana. Americans want, and most members of Con- with him—whether you were on the f gress know is the right thing to do. same side or if you disagreed with HEALTHCARE He always called it the way he saw it. him—he had that amazing passion that He showed his passion, but respected came through, and many have re- Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, I rise on civility. marked on it. It was a remarkable behalf of the 152,000 Montanans whose The Senate and the American people trait. It is part of that warrior in him. healthcare coverage is currently in have lost in John McCain a man who For the entirety of his life, John end- jeopardy. was the very definition of service to his lessly advocated for our men and Next week, a Texas courthouse will country. I will miss John terribly, and women in uniform. He served, and he become the newest battlefield in the I hope all Americans will pause today served them throughout his life in the war against our healthcare. The latest to remember his legacy and admire his Senate. Working with him to support attack is a lawsuit attempting to get courage. our servicemembers and veterans is rid of legal protections for folks with I yield the floor. something that I will never forget. preexisting conditions. These are pro- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- What many people will not know tections that make it illegal for insur- ator from North Dakota. about John, though, is his warmth as a ance companies to deny healthcare Mr. HOEVEN. Mr. President, I rise friend. You know, you hear about his coverage or charge absurd rates be- today to commemorate the life of Sen- temper. He could be mercurial. Al- cause of common conditions like high ator John McCain along with my col- though, then he would get over it, and blood pressure or diabetes or heart dis- leagues. you would be right back working ease or cancer or even pregnancy. John is an American icon whose leg- again. These protections were signed into acy is known not only across our Na- You heard about his incredible en- law almost 10 years ago, passed by mation but around the world. His belief in ergy, about his war record, his time as jorities in both the House and in the American exceptionalism was unwaver- a POW, the things he did as a Senator, Senate. Despite many attempts to un- ing, and it propelled him to a lifelong but one thing that I think you don’t dermine them, they have been upheld service to our Nation. hear as often but that was very much by the Supreme Court and continue to Few have demonstrated John’s level true is that he had a tremendous, tre- be supported by Members of both par- of commitment and service to our mendous sense of humor, and that ties in Congress. That is because an country. Through both, his bravery came through so often in his inter- overwhelming majority—more than serving in the U.S. Navy and his long views. three-fourths—of Americans support tenure in Congress, he demonstrated He was also a warm person. I can re- these protections. In fact, the Kaiser his deep love of country. member when somebody would come to Family Foundation recently reported

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I got to grill hamburgers So why are we even here? protections disappear. and serve them to troops in Afghani- Well, in June, the Department of Jus- Instead of doing their job and pro- stan on the Fourth of July with John tice announced it would stop defending tecting folks like Kim and Karen and McCain. these critical protections in court. Christina, a bunch of unelected bureau- As we in this body praise John That is correct. You heard it right. A crats in the Department of Justice McCain today and for the rest of this bunch of unelected bureaucrats have have decided to help repeal a law that week, as we rightly should, there will decided to stop defending the law of the it is their job to defend. be a lot of people talking about his land that protects folks with pre- Well, if they will not protect Mon- time in the Hanoi Hilton. existing conditions. This decision not tanans, then we will. That is why I John McCain was in prison to fight only harms millions of Americans, it have helped introduce legislation that for our freedom for more than 5 years. threatens to create chaos in the mar- will authorize the Senate to intervene He was in solitary confinement for ketplace and could drive up healthcare in next week’s lawsuit and defend pro- about 3 years. He was tortured for costs, not to mention it is a dereliction tections for people with preexisting years. If you have ever met any of the of duty. conditions. POWs who were in the cells around Now, I know we all wake up some I would be the first to say that our him, almost to a man they credit the days, and we would just rather go fish- healthcare system isn’t perfect, but fact that they didn’t lose their minds ing, but a job is a job, and you just folks are no longer denied coverage or during that time to the fact that John can’t decide it is not worth doing, espe- forced to pay higher premiums because McCain kept them sane. He kept them cially when your job is to defend proof common ailments like high blood stable. tections for millions of Americans and pressure, diabetes, or cancer, and the John McCain told me a story one thousands of Montanans with pre- vast majority of Americans, on both time on one of those overnight existing conditions. sides of the aisle, want to keep it that flights—and he has told it to many Montanans like Christina, from Mis- way. other people around here—about tap soula, who told me last week about That is why a group of my colleagues code, which is sort of akin to Morse how the Justice Department’s decision from across the aisle introduced a bill code, but new folks in the Army learn could impact her husband who suffers last week to try and preserve some of tap code. It is a way to spell out a five- from a chronic type of leukemia that these protections. That might sound by-five grid: You can put letters to- can be managed but not cured. Chris- good in theory, but in reality it will gether and make words, make sen- tina wrote: still threaten people with preexisting tences, and make paragraphs. Six years ago, we started the cancer jour- conditions. John McCain thought it was very im- ney when my husband was diagnosed with That is why I am calling on my col- portant that the men who were in pris- CLL, a type of lymphoma/leukemia. Thank- leagues to pass our resolution, which on with him would learn to tell each fully, he found work and is receiving the care will ensure folks with preexisting con- other stories—they would tell poems he needs to manage his chronic disease that they knew from their youth; they has no cure. But if he could be denied health ditions get the coverage they need. The insurance because of a preexisting condition, thousands of Montanans and millions would tap out songs they knew from my husband probably would not have re- of Americans who rely on these protec- when they were kids—because if they ceived the care he needs. tions deserve nothing less. had a sense of history past, they would Karen, from Belgrade, MT, wrote With that, I yield the floor. have a sense of hope and history fu- something similar, saying: The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ture. John McCain kept those people I am very concerned about the DOJ’s deci- ator from Nebraska. sane. sion to no longer defend Americans against f I remember one time hearing him insurance companies who want to disallow wax on and on about this story, and I REMEMBERING JOHN MCCAIN people with preexisting conditions. I am a was just in awe of how long it must cancer survivor, as is my 22-year-old son. It Mr. SASSE. Mr. President, like so have taken to persuade these men that is frightening to think that both of us may many here today, I rise to honor John they were going to teach each other be uninsurable in the future if this trend McCain and to sing John McCain’s songs and poetry from their youth. I continues. praises. said: How long did it take to do that? Kim, from Helena, wrote me and said: There are many here—most here— He looked at me like I was just a I have been a Type 1 diabetic for 35 years— who knew him longer than I did. I will complete idiot, and he said: What did I and the burden is heavy. The cost of insulin admit that when the Presiding Officer care? What the hell did it matter to continues to soar to the point that some peo- and I first got here in 2014, I knew John me? We had infinite time, you moron. ple have to choose between their insulin or McCain as somebody from the history He didn’t say ‘‘you moron,’’ but it their rent, food, or other medication. I have books. I knew John McCain as some- good health insurance through my employer, was clear: How do you not get that which makes the financial cost of my diabe- body destined for the history books. I time was the one thing that just was tes manageable. But if preexisting condi- knew John McCain as an American completely irrelevant when you are in tions weren’t covered, my next health in- hero, but I didn’t know John McCain, prison? If something takes too long, surer could simply choose not to cover my the man. I didn’t know John McCain, that is a virtue, not a liability. diabetes. the flesh and blood, genuinely hilarious One of the things we don’t tell here I am here to tell you, there are thou- guy, but over the past 48 months, I had and that we need to tell more is the sands of others in Montana like Karen, the privilege of actually getting to be- connection between how he thought Kim, and Christina. In fact, a new re- come friends with John McCain. about time and why he acted the way port released today, also by the Kaiser It is sort of weird to say, when you he acted as a Senator. If we want to Family Foundation, found that with- are roughly our age—I am 46 and John honor John McCain around here, one of out current protections—without cur- McCain was an octogenarian—that he the most basic things we should do is rent protections—52 million Americans befriended me. I went on many over- recognize that the reason he didn’t suf- could be denied healthcare coverage be- night flights with John McCain. I have fer fools lightly is because he had a cause of a preexisting condition. been to refugee camps with John concept of time that was—as a man The report broke this number down McCain. I have been to war zones with who had spent 51⁄2 years in prison, he even further and found that in Billings, John McCain. I have been cussed out wanted to redeem the time. After he MT—our State’s largest city—one out by John McCain lots of times. He was released, he wanted to make sure of every four adults between the ages called me a stupid bastard on a regular he spent all of his time on big things. of 18 and 64 have a preexisting condi- basis—and he meant it, affectionately. His impatience, his volcanic temper tion that could prevent them from get- I am convinced he didn’t use the term flowed directly from the fact that he

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If we wanted to make So the fact that John McCain is a that everybody is created with infinite both parties uncomfortable—and John hero because of the way he endured worth, and though we know that, we was a guy who loved to point both bar- torture on our behalf and the fact that are not doing that much about it. rels at both parties—I think we can John McCain worked really hard on big In this institution, most of the time find a way to do that in a way the issues and often ran over people rudely we finger-point, we don’t problem- American people will applaud, and I in his interactions with them in the solve, and the public is groaning for us think that might be the right way to Senate—those things were inextricably to do better. The last few years should honor John McCain. linked. If we are really going to honor be blinking red lights for all of us who His willingness to take on everybody John McCain, we have to understand are privileged to serve here for a time. and all the sacred cows in this town that his impatience was a huge part of When the American people look at was why a lot of people hated him, but what he saw as his mission—to serve Washington, they rightly think it is it is why a lot more people loved him. his fellow Americans. shady for Cabinet members and their I think, if we are going to honor his So how do we honor this man? There spouses to be raising money from for- spirit, we ought to find a way to do is a lot of talk around here right now eign sources. something that is big and disruptive about what we should do to honor John When the American people look at and uncomfortable for Washington, DC. McCain, and it is an important con- Washington, they rightly think there The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- versation. My understanding is, the is a whole lot of shady going on and ator from Iowa. two leaders are going to get together that people’s taxes and finances ought Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, as a and put together a commission to de- to be disclosed when they are running lot of my colleagues, I rise to speak for liberate over the next many weeks or for an office of public trust. a short period of time about our de- months about the proper way to honor When the American people look at ceased colleague, Senator John John McCain. I am glad they are doing Washington, they don’t see most Mem- McCain. that. bers of Congress as stewards of the pub- I begin my remarks by paying my re- There is a lot of discussion about re- lic trust but rather as hypocrites with spect for our colleague and friend, Sen- naming a building after him or renam- taxpayer-funded sexual lawsuit settle- ator John McCain. A great American ing a different committee room after ments. has died. When the American people look at him, and some of those tributes may be Senator McCain represented the peo- Washington, they think it is weird that the right tributes. I am not meaning to ple of Arizona and the United States of the average Member of Congress has an prejudge that right now. Obviously, America with great honor, always investment portfolio that grows much there is something just hilarious about holding his ground and sticking to his faster than the market average, and the idea that a Senate office building principles. ‘‘Sticking to his principles’’ when people leave jobs in this institu- may be renamed after John McCain behave been the words used by more col- tion they often head for ‘‘cush’’ jobs on leagues since his death than any other cause if you had the ‘‘McCain SOB,’’ it K Street rather than moving back description of him. Senator McCain is obvious what John McCain would home, which is where they said they was tough and tenacious, both as a 32- want you to call that McCain SOB were going to end up after they ran for year Member of the U.S. Senate and building all the time. office. So there are important things to talk We have seen multiple indictments also as a member of the U.S. Navy. His about. Yet I want to urge one bit of across both the legislative and execu- grit and determination as a prisoner of caution, which is: We should not think tive branches just in recent weeks in war in Vietnam are legendary and that what John McCain would want us this town. Is it any wonder the Amer- ought to be an inspiration. For the rest to do in this time and place is in any ican people look at us and wonder if we of his life, he understood from his own way reducible to marble because just really care about the crisis of public experience what it takes to keep a as America is not the sum of her cities, trust? Is it any wonder that John country safe, and he stood up for the so, too, the U.S. Senate is not the sum McCain was impatient with the pace of security of the United States, and, in of its buildings. The U.S. Senate is not us tackling big problems in this place? turn, that was standing up for the secu- the places where we meet. We obviously have a truncated week rity of the world. As John reminded us in his farewell here, and many of us are headed to Ari- He prioritized those in uniform and charge, read posthumously yesterday, zona for a funeral in the next few hours the veterans who safeguard our Nation. America is an idea. America is a cause. so I will not introduce anything now, I had tremendous respect for Senator America is about liberty. America is but I want to say that when we get McCain’s leadership of the Armed Serv- about justice. America is about uni- back, and as this Commission gets ices Committee and for the many ways versal human dignity. Even though kicked off trying to figure out the he led on the No. 1 responsibility of the John could often run over you, when proper way to honor John McCain, I Federal Government: our national de- you were having a debate and an argu- plan to make a proposal that we should fense. ment if you were in his way, probably find a way to honor John McCain not Senator McCain and I served in the more than any person I have ever met just in marble. Maybe that is a step Senate together since 1986. Even after John actually believed in universal that is important, but if John McCain he became ill last year, Senator human dignity. were here, I submit to you that John McCain’s charisma was as strong as The reason he was so big on the glob- McCain wouldn’t be all that concerned ever. At Christmastime, he greeted me al stage is because he stood on a tradi- about what names and placards and with an oft-repeated joke he had since tion 230 years long, announcing what signs we put up on buildings and meet- he was a candidate for President and America believes: There are about 71⁄2 ing rooms. traveling around Iowa. He learned a lot billion people who are created in God’s I think we should find a way to honor about Iowa, and this greeting was image with universal dignity, and that John McCain in a way that John something like: Well, Chuck, I had my applies to everybody everywhere. It McCain would have seen fit, and that is glass of ethanol for breakfast. He isn’t America’s job to fix every prob- we ought to pass a piece of legislation would often say to me something he lem everywhere, but it is certainly part that we wouldn’t have passed absent learned in Iowa about advertising by of America’s mission in the world to this moment. We ought to come to- the John Deere corporation: Nothing proclaim that universal human dig- gether, in a bipartisan way, and we runs like a Deere. Of course, being from nity, and that is what John did. That ought to do something that makes Iowa, I liked to hear that sort of greet- was a huge part of his calling. both political parties really uncomfort- ing, and it was often that he said those Unfortunately, we know all too well able. things to me. that when the public looks at this in- That was one of the things John As I stand here today with his Senate stitution right now, when the public McCain was great at. This man is gone desk close at hand and draped in his

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In would say a Judge becomes a super- for his lifetime of service. fact, we have already received over legislator. f 430,000 pages of Judge Kavanaugh’s ex- Judge Kavanaugh recently said this ecutive branch legal records, which is on that point: ‘‘When courts apply doc- NOMINATION OF BRETT nearly as many as the last 5 nominees trines that allow them to rewrite the KAVANAUGH combined. This is on top of the 307 laws (in effect), they are encroaching Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I rise opinions he wrote and hundreds more on the legislature’s Article I power.’’ on another matter that I have ad- he joined as a judge on the DC Circuit If you ever wonder why judges dressed the Senate on quite frequently over the past 12 years. The public al- shouldn’t be superlegislators, that is lately, and that is about Judge Brett ready has access right now to every because they have lifetime appoint- Kavanaugh. one of those more than 10,000 pages of ments. If you don’t like what they do, One week from today, Brett judicial writings, as well as the nearly you can’t vote them out of office; Kavanaugh will appear before the Sen- 18,000 pages we received in connection whereas if the legislating is done by ate Judiciary Committee for the first with his judicial questionnaire. Those the Congress of the United States and day of his confirmation hearing. After were supplemental to the 110 pages he you don’t like the laws the Congress reviewing Judge Kavanaugh’s very ex- filled out in the questionnaire. By the passes, you can vote those Members of tensive record, I am convinced he is way, that happens to be the most ro- Congress out of office. perhaps the most qualified person ever bust questionnaire ever issued to a Su- Judge Kavanaugh has also argued nominated to the Supreme Court. preme Court nominee. that judges must apply the same ap- Some of my colleagues on the other Democratic leaders now are asking proach to all cases. He said this: ‘‘Like side, including all of the Democratic me to delay Judge Kavanaugh’s hear- cases should be treated alike by judges members of the Judiciary Committee, ing because of some of the President’s of all ideological and philosophical have asked that I delay Judge former associates’ legal troubles, but stripes, regardless of the subject mat- Kavanaugh’s hearing. They have asked this is just another obvious and oppor- ter and regardless of the identity of the me to delay the hearing because of tunistic attempt to push the confirma- parties to that case.’’ Judge legal issues surrounding some of Presi- tion process past the midterm elec- Kavanaugh’s judicial record reveals dent Trump’s former associates. It is tions. After all, both Justice Ruth that he follows his own advice. He de- absolutely not clear to me what one Bader Ginsburg and Justice Stephen cided cases based on his understanding has to do with the other. But this is, by Breyer were confirmed while President of law as written, not his own personal my account, at least the third strategy Clinton was personally under inves- policy preferences or who the litigant Democratic leaders have used to try to tigation for the Whitewater con- is. delay Judge Kavanaugh’s hearing. troversy. In fact, Justice Breyer was In addition to his impeccable quali- Liberal outside groups, if you recall, confirmed while President Clinton’s fications and record of achievement, announced their opposition to every personal documents were under grand Judge Kavanaugh has shown a dedica- one of the 25 potential nominees before jury subpoena. Moreover, between June tion to public service, mentorship, and the President made his decision. Those 1993 and February 1999—a period during diversity. He spent all but 3 years of 25 potential nominees were, for the which President Clinton faced signifi- his legal career in public service. He most part, given to the people of the cant legal jeopardy—the Senate con- volunteers his time to coach both his country probably 6 months before the firmed 248 district judges and 50 circuit daughters’ youth basketball teams, and President’s election. No other Presi- judges for lifetime appointments. he serves meals to the homeless with dent has told you the types of people It is clear that the Democratic lead- Catholic Charities. Judge Kavanaugh is he was going to put on the Supreme ers’ latest attempt to delay the con- a proven mentor to law students and Court and given you those examples. firmation is unsupported by law or his- young lawyers. Judge Kavanaugh has Some Democrats joined these outside tory. taught courses at Harvard Law School liberal groups, and many others an- Another reason Democratic leaders on separation of powers and the mod- nounced their opposition immediately have focused on these issues is to di- ern Supreme Court since 2008. after the nomination. vert attention from the great record The Senate Judiciary Committee re- The minority leader, before he even and abilities of Judge Kavanaugh. They ceived a letter in support of his con- had a chance to meet with Judge know that Judge Kavanaugh is exactly firmation from his former students. Kavanaugh or review Judge the type of Justice the American peo- They wrote this: Kavanaugh’s record, said that he would ple want because that is what the Con- We . . . represent a broad spectrum of po- fight the nomination with everything stitution calls for—somebody to inter- litical and ideological beliefs, as well as per- he has. pret the law, not to be a superlegis- spectives on judicial philosophy. We may Democratic leaders’ first strategy lator. have differing views on political issues sur- was to try to argue that the Biden rule, Judge Kavanaugh has served for 12 rounding the confirmation process, but we all agree on one thing: Judge Kavanaugh is a which bars the confirmation of Su- years on the DC Circuit Court of Ap- rigorous thinker, a devoted teacher, and a preme Court Justices in a Presidential peals—a court many consider to be the gracious person. election year, also applies during mid- second most powerful court in our But this letter goes on with other term election years. This was a strange country. During that time, he authored things that are important about Judge argument to make given that many of more than 300 opinions and joined hun- Kavanaugh, so I quote again: those Senators argued in 2016 that the dreds more. The Supreme Court has in Both inside and outside the courtroom, Biden rule didn’t even exist for Presi- at least a dozen separate cases adopted Judge Kavanaugh evinced a genuine warmth dential elections. legal positions advanced by Judge and interest in his students and their ca- Fact checkers and outside observers Kavanaugh in his opinions. Historians reers. . . . He was exceptionally generous widely rejected their argument. The of the Supreme Court would say that is with his time, making himself available to historical record was clear: The Biden a very impressive record. meet with students not only to discuss the rule has never applied during midterm Judge Kavanaugh has demonstrated class, but also to assist with their scholarly election years. that he understands the proper role of writings or to offer career advice. In many The second strategy Democratic a judge. I also would say he sees him- instances, he has continued to provide advice leaders pursued was to attempt to bury self as a judge and not a superlegis- and support long after the class ended by writing letters of recommendation and serv- the Judiciary Committee in irrelevant lator. In numerous opinions and in ing as a valued mentor. In our view, his gen- paperwork—mountains of it. I have dis- speeches and publications, Judge uine interest in helping young lawyers dem- cussed the issue at length previously, Kavanaugh has eloquently expressed onstrates a deep commitment to the legal so I will only give you a bottom line. that judges must find and apply the community as a whole.

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A The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. and initiative. We are all busy here in judge’s law clerks know the judge bet- PERDUE). The Senator from Alaska. the U.S. Senate, but this was and is a ter than anyone else. Day in and day f truly important hallmark of the out, law clerks work closely with a REMEMBERING JOHN MCCAIN McCain legacy—critical—and it is a bi- judge in chambers every day on com- partisan legacy. plex legal issues. Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, I am Just look at the Senators who have Judge Kavanaugh has clearly taken standing at a different desk this come to the floor to speak about Sen- seriously his mentorship role with his evening to give my remarks because I ator McCain. Look at some of the clerks. His former law clerks submitted want to be actually behind this desk in newer Senators who have come to the a letter to this committee strongly front of me, which is Senator McCain’s floor: Senators WHITEHOUSE, KLO- supporting his confirmation. They desk draped in black, with beautiful BUCHAR, ERNST, SASSE, and GRAHAM, of wrote: flowers, signifying the loss that we are course—so many who had that privi- all feeling here in the U.S. Senate. It was a tremendous stroke of luck to work lege, the great privilege, of having for and be mentored by a person of his As we have heard from so many in strength of character, generosity of spirit, this Chamber all week—this evening in John McCain actually take an interest intellectual capacity, and unwavering care particular—Senator John McCain’s in them and spend his precious time for his family, friends, colleagues, and us, his passing represents an incalculable loss and energy on their well-being and ca- law clerks. . . . He is unfailingly warm and not only to his family, his dear wife reers in the Senate. gracious with his colleagues no matter how One of the true honors of my life was strongly they disagree about a case, and he Cindy, his friends, and a legion of ad- mirers across the world, but also to his having John McCain as a friend and a is well-liked and respected by judges and mentor in the Senate. At the time this lawyers across the ideological spectrum as a colleagues here in the U.S. Senate— result. . . . He always makes time for us, his Democrats and Republicans—and to was happening, I didn’t always think law clerks. He makes it to every wedding, the institution of the Senate itself, about it too much, but now, as we look answers every career question, and gives un- where he served as a model of honor at his desk, I am so grateful that I had flinchingly honest advice. That advice often and integrity and character for 31 these experiences. boils down to the same habits we saw him years. Like most things with John McCain, practice in the chambers every day: Shoot it wasn’t a subtle experience. In fact, a straight, be careful and brave, work as hard There are so many people who served with him much longer and knew him lot of the time I didn’t feel I had a as you possibly can, and then work a little choice in the matter. My first month in harder. much better than I did. I have been watching the speeches, the wonderful, the Senate, in January 2015, like a lot That is from his law clerks. of the new Senators, I was pretty One of the areas where Judge passionate, and emotional words from clueless here, quite clueless—rules, Kavanaugh has had a particular impact my colleagues like Senator GRAHAM— faces, names, votes. This lion of the is his commitment to diversity. More LINDSEY GRAHAM—his best friend here Senate, John McCain, pulled me aside than half of his law clerks have been in the Senate this afternoon; Senator on the floor of the Senate on two dif- female. Indeed, during one year, all WHITEHOUSE, a good friend of Senator four of his law clerks were female, McCain’s, a good friend of mine whom ferent times in the first month I was a which was a first for the DC Circuit. I met through many trips with Senator Senator. Judge Kavanaugh’s female law clerks McCain; Leader MCCONNELL; Senator On one occasion, he was talking sent the committee a letter. These law SASSE—so many have been coming to about an institution that really clerks wrote: the floor. mattered to him—the U.S. Naval Acad- emy. He said to me: Dan, do you know We know all too well that women in the The tributes on the Senate floor and workplace still face challenges, inequality, in the newspapers across the country what? Under Federal law, the chairman and even harassment. Among other things, have been inspiring, and they have of the Armed Services Committee— women do not enjoy a representative share been true, talking about a man of cour- which he was—sits on the boards of all of prestigious clerkships or high-profile legal age, a steadfast patriot, an American the service academies, or his designee. positions, but this committee and the Amer- hero, a warrior of indomitable spirit, He asked me if I was interested in sit- ican public more broadly should be aware of who not only believed in American ting on the Board of Visitors for the the important work Judge Kavanaugh has Naval Academy. This was from John done to remedy those disparities. In our exceptionalism but inspired millions of view, the Judge has been one of the strongest Americans and millions of people McCain, who went to the Naval Acad- advocates in the Federal judiciary for across the globe to believe in it as well. emy. His dad went to the Naval Acad- women lawyers. As I have watched and listened, emy, and his grandfather went to the Additionally, Judge Kavanaugh has a sometimes I have started to wonder Naval Academy. The name McCain and track record of recruiting and hiring what more there is to add—there has the Naval Academy are almost synony- diverse law clerks from the best law been a lot said—especially from a mous. He is going to be buried there, in schools. It is clear that he cares about freshman Senator who hadn’t served fact. expanding opportunities to unrepre- with John nearly as long as most in I looked at the Senator, and I said sented groups in the law. The legal pro- this august Chamber. But if Senator ‘‘Yes, sir.’’ fession should be open to anyone, re- John McCain taught us anything, it Another time, in the Armed Services gardless of where they grew up or was to speak when you feel compelled Committee, he mentioned to me that where their parents emigrated from. to speak, and when it comes to him, I he had always taken a very strong in- Judge Kavanaugh’s clerks reflect this certainly feel compelled to speak, par- terest in the Asia-Pacific and our force important principle. ticularly as a newer Member of this posture out there, what was happening In sum, Democratic leaders com- body who thought the world of this in places like Okinawa, and he wanted mitted 1 month ago to oppose Judge man and learned so much from him. the newer Members of the Senate to be Kavanaugh’s confirmation. They have John McCain was a leader. There is part of it. Reaching out to new Sen- thrown a lot against the wall to try to no arguing about that. One of the ators—I want you to do this. I am delay his confirmation, but none of it qualities of leadership that is so impor- going to travel the region, and I want sticks. Judge Kavanaugh will have his tant and sometimes gets overlooked you to come with me. I mean, it was hearing next week, and I am looking and that was a huge quality of this unbelievable. And I said ‘‘Yes, sir’’ to forward to it. great Senator was his ability to focus that. Based upon my review of Judge on and give his time and willingness to Like so many here who have talked Kavanaugh’s extensive record, it ap- mentor newer Members of the Senate. about it, we went to these places. Just

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Of the 13 Members of the class Republican. will never forget. of 2014 who joined the Armed Services ‘‘We are Americans first, Americans We actually went to the Hanoi Hil- Committee, if you look at it right now, last, Americans always,’’ he once said. ton, which has been talked about a lot there are 8 who are on it. That is John ‘‘Let us argue our differences. But re- this past week, where John McCain suf- McCain in action as the former chair- member we are not enemies, but com- fered and was tortured. There is a trib- man of that committee, taking newer rades together in a war against a real ute in that place of torture. It is not Senators and getting them on that enemy.’’ really a tribute, but it has pictures of committee to focus and learn about the He always fought with honor, and he him. We walked in, and we looked at world. always kept his word. In his final mem- this, and there were a couple of Ameri- There have been numerous articles oir, ‘‘The Restless Wave’’—which I rec- cans in front, reading about this. They and commentary—particularly in the ommend everybody read; it is a great turned around, and they saw John realm of foreign policy and national se- book—he has a chapter called ‘‘Fight- McCain, and two of them just started curity—saying that the passing of this ing the Good Fight.’’ It recounts a lot crying. great Senator has left a huge void in of his battles on the floor of this body, By the way, when you were in Viet- the Senate, and I couldn’t agree more. but when the fight was over, he empha- nam with John McCain, he was treated The combination of service, sacrifice, sized the importance of keeping your like a hero—the hero that he was—by moral authority, military and combat word—what he called the Senate’s prin- the Vietnamese people, which was experience, and a deep, abiding convic- cipal virtue. He always did that, and he amazing. These codels—and Senator tion about America’s role in the world taught others to do that. McCain has led them all over the world makes him a unique Senator, un- Another thing I learned early on with Senators—have gotten a lot of at- matched by anyone in this body. from Senator McCain was how to have tention. Of course, they are very im- One of the things I believe Senator fun and not take life too seriously here McCain knew about leadership and one in the Senate. Senator McCain’s good portant. Senator GRAHAM was talking of the reasons he focused so much on about them recently in the Senate. We friend John Lehman, who was Presi- the issue of mentoring other Senators focus a lot on foreign policy and na- dent Reagan’s Secretary of the Navy, over the years was to prepare this body tional security. You can’t learn that recently wrote an op-ed about Senator and the next generation of Senators, McCain’s life entitled ‘‘A Life of Serv- from watching cable TV, but you can whether on the Armed Services Com- ice, Lived With Good-Natured Irrever- learn when you go out into the world mittee or as part of another institution ence.’’ I think for those of us who knew and travel and meet with leaders and he led for many years, the Inter- and loved John McCain, that was a meet with people and see the suffering, national Republican Institute—making great description of him. His wit was see the opportunities, and see the chal- sure and being ready so that when this legendary. After a while, I learned that lenges. day happened, other Senators who were if you were a target of it, it was ulti- John McCain took so many of us, taught and mentored and encouraged mately a term of endearment, although through his leadership and mentorship, by John McCain would be focused on it could take some getting used to. on these congressional delegations all issues that he cared so much about, Senator SASSE was just on the floor over the world. like the indispensable role of America There has been some joking now talking about some of the barbs, some and the Senate in making the world a about how, with his energy and his of his first engagements with the Sen- better place. focus, some Members called these ator. A mentor is, almost by definition, a I first met John McCain 4 years ago. forced marches. By the way, nobody teacher. Many of us have learned so I remember the meeting like it was could keep up with him—even the much from him. Much has been said yesterday. I was a huge fan. I had read newer Members. They certainly were about this, and I am sure that over the books about him. I read books by him. tense. years, we will learn more about what I was here as a candidate for the Sen- Back to the idea of mentorship, on a Senator McCain taught us. I would like ate and had recently won my primary, codel with John McCain, he once again to highlight two areas where I person- and I was meeting Senators at one of showed that leadership. He would be ally learned so much from John our lunches. Senator MURKOWSKI, my leading it. He would be in a room with McCain. colleague from Alaska, was taking me a world leader, and then he would take The first was how to fight for what around and introducing me to a num- the time to name and introduce every you believe in. When you look at the ber of Republican Senators, and she Member of the Senate on the codel and arc of John McCain’s whole life, wheth- said: Dan, have you ever met John have them ask questions, have them er in the Hanoi Hilton or on the Senate McCain? engage. He could have dominated every floor, it was about fighting for what he I said: No. I would be honored to one of these conversations. He never believed in. Pretty much everybody in meet him. did. He was always asking the Mem- this body has had a scrap with John I walked up to Senator McCain. Of bers: What do you think? Do you have McCain, and when you did, you had to course I was a bit nervous. My col- a question? be ready to fight with all you had be- league from Alaska, Senator MUR- These codels were also a great oppor- cause he was so passionate and intense. KOWSKI, was introducing me and telling tunity to bring Senators together— On the Armed Services Committee, I him about my background—that I was Democrats and Republicans. When you had a bit of a tradition with him. Prior in the Marine Reserves commanding a are traveling overseas, partisan dif- to the markup of the National Defense battalion—and Senator McCain looked ferences fade if you are in a war zone or Authorization Act, I would go and have at me very seriously and said: Well, in a poverty-stricken country or dicta- a one-on-one meeting with him on that is interesting, Dan. I almost torship. You see that what unites us is some provisions that he might not like joined the Marines. a lot more important than what divides that I was trying to get in the bill. I said: Really, Senator? us. These were mostly behind-closed-door He said: Yeah. I almost joined the The bottom line is that he clearly battles, some of which got a little heat- Marines, but the Marines told me I saw that part of his mission was to ed, fingers pointed, voices raised. I won wasn’t qualified. work with and mentor the next genera- a few, lost a lot more than I won, but I said: Really? Why weren’t you tion of Senators on responsibilities it was never personal for John McCain. qualified? that he clearly cared so much about, He was a warrior, and as he often said, As I was asking this question of him, particularly on foreign policy and na- ‘‘A fight not joined is a fight not en- I noticed other Senators gathering tional security. joyed.’’ around, all smiling. I would like to talk a little bit about When he took a stand, he could be He said: Why wasn’t I qualified? Be- my class, the class that was elected in unwavering, but he was always willing cause I knew who my parents were.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:09 Aug 29, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G28AU6.050 S28AUPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with SENATE S6004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE August 28, 2018 Of course everybody laughed. Senator I yield the floor. In his 2008 acceptance speech at the McCain laughed. I realized I and my be- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Republican National Convention, John loved Marine Corps had just been as- ator from Pennsylvania. McCain said: saulted by John McCain in the first of Mr. CASEY. Mr. President, I rise, as I fell in love with my country when I was what would be many jokes. Only later my colleague from Alaska just did so a prisoner in someone else’s. I loved it not did I know—and Senator GRAHAM was eloquently, to pay tribute to our col- just for the many comforts of life here. I talking about it—that this Marine joke loved it for its decency, for its faith in the league and our friend, Senator John wisdom, justice, and goodness of its people. was one of the many in the McCain rep- McCain. ertoire. I have heard it many times It is a rare soul of great courage who I guess I have to start with a ques- comes away from such a painful, sear- now. It always gets a laugh. These tion: Where do I begin? Where does jokes are a great part of his wonderful ing experience with that outlook and anyone begin after all we have heard with a deep desire to continue to serve. personality—irreverent wisecracks to these last number of days and will con- keep people humble, keep them laugh- John McCain’s life, obviously, was a tinue to hear in the days ahead when life of action and a life of commitment. ing even about serious topics. we pay tribute, in a more formal way I remember when I was in Vietnam He was committed to this country that in the next few days, here in Wash- with Senator McCain. We were at the he served for 60 years in the Navy, in ington, in Arizona, and around the lake in Hanoi where he had been shot the House of Representatives, and in world? down and had parachuted into this the Senate—the Senate, of course, for lake. There is a statue of John McCain John McCain lived to serve his coun- more than 30 after having been elected coming out of the lake. The language is try. His life could be best described in in 1986. He was, of course, committed in Vietnamese. He said: You know, I many words, but three come to mind: to bringing hope to the oppressed, to really don’t like this statue. I can’t courage, commitment, and character. the persecuted around the world, and stand it. Do you know why, Dan? There is a line attributed to Abra- to the people here at home. No. I have no idea, John. ham Lincoln in which he said: In the When I think of John, I am reminded Look at what it says: John McCain, end, it is not the years in one’s life of some of the words from ‘‘America Major, U.S. Air Force. that count; it is the life in those years. the Beautiful.’’ The one line that is in- Then he let a few choice words out It is a loose translation, not exact. Yet, spirational is that line that we have that I can’t say here on the Senate when you consider the life in those often heard: ‘‘O beautiful for patriot floor. years in the context of John McCain, dream That sees beyond the years.’’ He said: I wasn’t a major in the U.S. what a life it was. He was a remarkable John McCain’s life was a testament Air Force; I was a commander in the human being who was able to rise to that dream, not a ‘‘dream’’ in a the- U.S. Navy. above the horror of being a captive and oretical sense but in the belief that, Even in the twilight of his life, the of being tortured in order to achieve so every day, your work has to be geared wit and wisecracks were as strong as much in his life after that in the Navy, toward the future. The dream of a pa- ever. I had the honor of visiting Sen- as an elected official, as a Presidential triot is not something abstract. The ator McCain about 6 weeks ago in Ari- candidate, and, of course, most espe- dream of a patriot has to be the com- zona with his wonderful wife Cindy. We cially, as a leader. mitment of working on behalf of those were talking about the National De- John McCain demonstrated a kind of who will come after you. That is why fense Authorization Act that we were courage that most people cannot even the line talks about seeing beyond the years, always working, as John McCain getting ready to vote on that was begin to imagine—51⁄2 years spent in an named after him. I was getting ready enemy prison camp in North Vietnam. did, for the future—for more freedom, to leave, and I said: John, I just want I was thinking, as it was recounted this for more opportunity, for less oppres- sion, for less suffering for people here you to know all your Senate colleagues week, that 51⁄2 years is just a little less really miss you. than a Senate term that he spent as a at home and around the world. He had He hadn’t said much during the con- captive. Given the opportunity to cut that dream that animated his life’s versation. He looked at me and said: the line and be released ahead of his work. John McCain, of course, would also Dan, that is a lie. fellow prisoners, likely because of his have been the first person to have re- Again, after all he had been through, father’s rank as an admiral, John minded us that he had been far from he still had a lightness of being and wit McCain said, no, he would wait his turn perfect. I am not sure I have ever heard and laughter. He still knew how to love and endure the beatings and suffering the world, how to appreciate it in all of a public official recounting or recit- that he had to endure. ing instances in which he was not per- its humor, splendor, and creativity. A few years ago, a number of us re- The story of John McCain is a story fect or when he didn’t do the right treated to the rare privilege of listen- for the ages—carefree, somewhat reck- thing. Very few public officials are ing to John McCain talk about that ex- less young man; a rebel searching for a willing to admit that. Of course, John perience. We had a lunch—both sides of cause who found that cause in love of was not the usual public official. Even the aisle—in the caucus room in the country as a POW in Vietnam; a person when he cataloged mistakes or things Russell Building, and John McCain who underwent unimaginable pain and that he believed he did wrong, everyone talked about some of his experiences as suffering and yet came back better for who knew him—everyone who knew a prisoner of war. I will never forget it and loved America more for it and anything about his life or his work or those stories, and I will never forget wanted most of all to pass down that his service—would also conclude at the how he walked through those experi- love, that sense of service to the next same time that, without question, ences with such humility. There is no generation. He succeeded. John McCain had integrity, that John Let me close by quoting the same recitation of facts that would lead you McCain had character, and that char- Robert Louis Stevenson poem Senator to the conclusion that he was heroic— acter must continue to matter in the McCain recited during his father’s fu- though, he was. There was no self-ag- life of a public official. If it doesn’t neral service: grandizement, no effort to tell you how matter, then we are not going to have tough he was or how strong he was. He Here he lies where he longed to be much of a country. John McCain un- Home is the sailor, home from the sea just told stories about what it was derstood that. It is not good enough to And the hunter home from the hill. like—the daily suffering and the pain be smart and committed to your posi- To Cindy McCain and the whole his captors would inflict on him day tions on public policy. It is not good McCain family, please be assured of our after day after day. enough just to be there for votes and continued prayers and deepest condo- This experience, obviously and cer- for debates. That is, obviously, critical, lences for your loss. We miss John tainly, impacted his approach to for- but character still matters, and John McCain so much, as we know you do. eign policy and his approach to mili- McCain was living proof of that. To my friend John McCain, God- tary policy for the rest of his life. It es- I remember one occasion on which he speed. Semper Fidelis. Fair winds and pecially impacted his work as a public and I had an acrimonious exchange in a following seas. It was an honor to serve official in the House of Representatives Senate elevator, for just a couple sec- with you. You will always be with us. and in the U.S. Senate. onds when the elevator went from the

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On behalf of my family and, I am dered to be printed; and that the Presi- A couple of hours later, we were back sure, not just of the family of Pennsyl- dent’s message be printed in the on the Senate floor. I wanted to con- vania but of those well beyond our RECORD. tinue the argument, and I started to State, we offer condolences to John’s The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without approach him on the floor to continue wife Cindy and to their family, and his objection, it is so ordered. the argument. I guess I wanted to get many friends. May he rest in peace. The message of the President is as the last word, which might have been a God bless John McCain. follows: mistake with John McCain. Yet, as I I yield the floor. To the Senate of the United States: got close to him, John McCain lifted up The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- With a view to receiving the advice his arms, reached out to me, and em- jority leader. and consent of the Senate to ratifica- braced me. He said, ‘‘I’m sorry.’’ He f tion, I transmit herewith the Amend- apologized. It is not common for elect- ments to the Treaty on Fisheries be- ed officials in any government or at EXECUTIVE SESSION tween the Governments of Certain Pa- any level of government to apologize cific Island States and the Government on a regular basis, but John McCain EXECUTIVE CALENDAR of the United States of America, done was uncommon when it came to being at Port Moresby April 2, 1987, as a unique public official. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I amended (the ‘‘Treaty’’), done at Nadi, John worked with so many of us on move to proceed to executive session to Fiji, December 3, 2016. I also transmit, many issues. I didn’t have the chance consider Calendar No. 1061. for the information of the Senate, the to work with him on a long list of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendments to the Annexes to the issues, but I do remember one that had question is on agreeing to the motion. Treaty and report of the Department of a particular impact on me. That was The motion was agreed to. State with respect to the Treaty and a his work as a vocal advocate for the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Memorandum of Understanding reflect- people of Syria, who were still suf- clerk will report the nomination. ing the parties’ intent to provisionally fering under the oppressive, violent re- The legislative clerk read the nomi- apply certain amendments. gime of Bashar al-Assad. I worked with nation of Elad L. Roisman, of Maine, to The objective of the Treaty is to pro- John, as many did here, to pursue a be a Member of the Securities and Ex- vide United States purse seine vessels policy as to how the United States change Commission for a term expiring with fishing access to waters under the could best support the aspirations of June 5, 2023. jurisdiction of 16 Pacific Island parties, the Syrian people for new political CLOTURE MOTION and to provide a platform for broader leadership, for stability, security, and, Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I cooperation between the parties. The of course, for a prosperous future. send a cloture motion to the desk. Amendments update the Treaty’s John McCain and I didn’t agree on all The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- terms and conditions to promote more national security issues, but I will al- ture motion having been presented effective cooperation between parties ways remember his courage of convic- under rule XXII, the Chair directs the and United States private-sector stake- tion when it came to standing with the clerk to read the motion. holders. The Senate gave its advice and oppressed and vulnerable people across The legislative clerk read as follows: consent to prior amendments to the the world against tyrannical dictators CLOTURE MOTION Treaty in 2003, but those amendments or despots. On this issue, we were on We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- never entered into force. The Amend- the same page and tried to get the pol- ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the ments my Administration is now sub- icy right. Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby mitting include some of those prior Whether it was with international af- move to bring to a close debate on the nomi- amendments. fairs or domestic policies, John worked nation of Elad L. Roisman, of Maine, to be a The Treaty and its Amendments to find common ground with his col- Member of the Securities and Exchange serve United States diplomatic and leagues, though, to do that, we were Commission for a term expiring June 5, 2023. economic interests by promoting posi- trying to create, of course, a stronger Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Michael tive relations with the Pacific Island country and a better world, and I am B. Enzi, Roy Blunt, Thom Tillis, Mike Rounds, Johnny Isakson, Roger F. parties and allowing for the continued grateful to have been included among Wicker, Mike Crapo, Richard C. operation of the United States-flagged those who can say they worked with Shelby, Steve Daines, John Kennedy, fishing fleet in the region. The Amend- John McCain to try to enact good pol- John Boozman, David Perdue, John ments are supported by both Pacific Is- icy. Thune, Shelley Moore Capito, Pat Rob- land parties and United States indus- Let me conclude with these words. In erts. try stakeholders. one of his final interviews, when asked Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I The recommended changes to the how he would like to be remembered, ask unanimous consent that the man- Treaty’s implementing legislation, the John McCain’s simple response was: datory quorum call for the cloture mo- South Pacific Tuna Act of 1988, to re- ‘‘He served his country honorably.’’ tion be waived. flect the Amendments to the Treaty The final word was added with some The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without and its Annexes, will be submitted sep- reservation as if he still wondered if it objection, it is so ordered. arately to the Congress. were deserved. f I recommend that the Senate give Let’s be clear. John McCain did serve early and favorable consideration to his country honorably, and this coun- REMOVAL OF INJUNCTION OF SE- the Amendments to this Treaty, and try is much better for his service. We CRECY—TREATY DOCUMENT NO. give its advice and consent to ratifica- will miss him in this Chamber, but we 115–3 tion. should all strive to live up to his exam- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I DONALD J. TRUMP. ple of service and bipartisan work in ask unanimous consent that the in- THE WHITE HOUSE, August 28, 2018. the Senate and bipartisan work for our junction of secrecy be removed from EXECUTIVE CALENDAR Nation. the following treaty transmitted to the Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I The words ring true for John McCain Senate on August 28, 2018, by the Presi- ask unanimous consent that the Sen- more than almost anyone else I can dent of the United States: amendments ate proceed to the consideration of the think of: ‘‘O beautiful for patriot to the Treaty on Fisheries between the following nomination: Executive Cal- dream That sees beyond the years.’’ Governments of Certain Pacific Island endar No. 1060.

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Career Member of the Senior Foreign Senate’s action; that no further mo- Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to Service, Class of Career Minister, to be tions be in order; and that any state- consider the nominations en bloc. an Under Secretary of State (Political ments relating to the nominations be Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Affairs). printed in the RECORD. ask unanimous consent that the Sen- Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ate vote on the nominations en bloc consider the nomination. objection, it is so ordered. with no intervening action or debate; Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I The question is, Will the Senate ad- that if confirmed, the motions to re- ask unanimous consent that the Sen- vise and consent to the Goodwin, consider be considered made and laid ate vote on the nomination with no in- Ladner, Pamerleau, Serralta, Jordan, upon the table en bloc; that the Presi- tervening action or debate; that if con- Sloke, Willard, Lopez, and Taylor dent be immediately notified of the firmed, the motion to reconsider be nominations en bloc? Senate’s action; that no further mo- considered made and laid upon the The nominations were confirmed en tions be in order; and that any state- table; that the President be imme- bloc. ments relating to the nominations be diately notified of the Senate’s action; f printed in the RECORD. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without that no further motions be in order; EXECUTIVE CALENDAR and that any statements relating to objection, it is so ordered. the nomination be printed in the Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I The question is, Will the Senate ad- RECORD. ask unanimous consent that the Sen- vise and consent to the Copeland and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ate proceed to the en bloc consider- Urda nominations en bloc? objection, it is so ordered. ation of the following nominations: Ex- The nominations were confirmed en The question is, Will the Senate ad- ecutive Calendar Nos. 1066, 1067, and bloc. vise and consent to the Hale nomina- 1068. f The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tion? EXECUTIVE CALENDAR The nomination was confirmed. objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the nomina- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I f tions en bloc. ask unanimous consent that the Sen- EXECUTIVE CALENDAR The legislative clerk read the nomi- ate proceed to the following nomina- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I nations of Ariana Fajardo Orshan, of tion: Executive Calendar No. 1015. ask unanimous consent that the Sen- Florida, to be United States Attorney The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ate proceed to the en bloc consider- for the Southern District of Florida for objection, it is so ordered. ation of the following nominations: Ex- the term of four years; Peter G. The clerk will report the nomination. ecutive Calendar Nos. 916, 917, 918, 919, Strasser, of Louisiana, to be United The legislative clerk read the nomi- 948, 949, 950, 1004, and 1005. States Attorney for the Eastern Dis- nation of Karen S. Evans, of West Vir- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without trict of Louisiana for the term of four ginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of objection, it is so ordered. years; and G. Zachary Terwilliger, of Energy (Cybersecurity, Energy Secu- The clerk will report the nomina- Virginia, to be United States Attorney rity and Emergency Response). tions en bloc. for the Eastern District of Virginia for Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to The legislative clerk read the nomi- the term of four years. consider the nomination. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I nations of Charles L. Goodwin, of Ha- Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to ask unanimous consent that the Sen- waii, to be United States Marshal for consider the nominations en bloc. ate vote on the nomination with no in- the District of Hawaii for the term of Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I tervening action or debate; that if con- four years; R. Don Ladner, Jr., of Flor- ask unanimous consent that the Sen- firmed, the motion to reconsider be ida, to be United States Marshal for ate vote on the nominations en bloc considered made and laid upon the the Northern District of Florida for the with no intervening action or debate; table; that the President be imme- term of four years; Susan Lewellyn that if confirmed, the motions to re- diately notified of the Senate’s action; Pamerleau, of Texas, to be United consider be considered made and laid that no further motions be in order; States Marshal for the Western Dis- upon the table en bloc; that the Presi- and that any statements relating to trict of Texas for the term of four dent be immediately notified of the the nomination be printed in the years; Gadyaces S. Serralta, of Florida, Senate’s action; that no further mo- RECORD. to be United States Marshal for the tions be in order; and that any state- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Southern District of Florida for the ments relating to the nominations be objection, it is so ordered. term of four years; John D. Jordan, of printed in the RECORD. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The question is, Will the Senate ad- Missouri, to be United States Marshal objection, it is so ordered. vise and consent to the Evans nomina- for the Eastern District of Missouri for The question is, Will the Senate ad- tion? the term of four years; Mark F. Sloke, vise and consent to the Orshan, The nomination was confirmed. of Alabama, to be United States Mar- Strasser, and Terwilliger nominations f shal for the Southern District of Ala- en bloc? EXECUTIVE CALENDAR bama for the term of four years; Nick The nominations were confirmed en Willard, of New Hampshire, to be bloc. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I United States Marshal for the District f ask unanimous consent that the Sen- of New Hampshire for the term of four ate proceed to the en bloc consider- years; Maria Chapa Lopez, of Florida, EXECUTIVE CALENDAR ation of the following nominations: Ex- to be United States Attorney for the Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I ecutive Calendar Nos. 832 and 834. Middle District of Florida for the term ask unanimous consent that the Sen- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without of four years; and Richard E. Taylor, ate proceed to the en bloc consider- objection, it is so ordered. Jr., of Texas, to be United States Mar- ation of the following nominations: Ex- The clerk will report the nomina- shal for the Northern District of Texas ecutive Calendar Nos. 995 and 996. tions en bloc. for the term of four years. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The legislative clerk read the nomi- Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to objection, it is so ordered. nations of Robert M. Duncan, of Ken- consider the nominations en bloc. The clerk will report the nomina- tucky, to be a Governor of the United Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I tions en bloc. States Postal Service for a term expir- ask unanimous consent that the Sen- The legislative clerk read the nomi- ing December 8, 2018; and David Wil- ate vote on the nominations en bloc nations of Elizabeth Ann Copeland, of liams, of Illinois, to be a Governor of

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:09 Aug 29, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00046 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G28AU6.058 S28AUPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with SENATE August 28, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S6007 the United States Postal Service for a The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without RECOGNIZING THE AMERICAN LE- term expiring December 8, 2019. objection, it is so ordered. GION FOR 100 YEARS OF SERVICE Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to The clerk will report the nomination. TO VETERANS AND MEMBERS OF consider the nominations en bloc. The legislative clerk read the nomi- THE ARMED FORCES IN THE Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I nation of James H. Anderson, of Vir- UNITED STATES AND THEIR ask unanimous consent that the Sen- ginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of FAMILIES ate vote on the nominations en bloc Defense. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I with no intervening action or debate; Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to ask unanimous consent that the Com- that if confirmed, the motions to reconsider the nomination. mittee on the Judiciary be discharged consider be considered made and laid Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I from further consideration of S. Res. upon the table en bloc; that the Presi- ask unanimous consent that the Sen- 617 and the Senate proceed to its imme- dent be immediately notified of the ate vote on the nomination with no in- diate consideration. Senate’s action; that no further mo- tervening action or debate; that if con- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tions be in order; and that any state- firmed, the motion to reconsider be objection, it is so ordered. ments relating to the nominations be considered made and laid upon the The clerk will report the resolution printed in the RECORD. table; that the President be imme- by title. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without diately notified of the Senate’s action; The legislative clerk read as follows: objection, it is so ordered. that no further motions be in order; A resolution (S. Res. 617) recognizing The The question is, Will the Senate ad- and that any statements relating to American Legion for 100 years of service to vise and consent to the Duncan and the nomination be printed in the veterans and members of the Armed Forces Williams nominations en bloc? RECORD. in the United States and their families. The nominations were confirmed en The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without There being no objection, the Senate bloc. objection, it is so ordered. proceeded to consider the resolution. f The question is, Will the Senate ad- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I vise and consent to the Anderson nomi- EXECUTIVE CALENDAR further ask unanimous consent that nation? the resolution be agreed to, the pre- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I The nomination was confirmed. amble be agreed to, and the motions to ask unanimous consent that the Sen- reconsider be considered made and laid ate proceed to the en bloc consider- f upon the table with no intervening ac- ation of the following nominations: Ex- LEGISLATIVE SESSION tion or debate. ecutive Calendar Nos. 270, 1039, and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 1040. objection, it is so ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without MORNING BUSINESS objection, it is so ordered. The resolution (S. Res. 617) was Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I The clerk will report the nomina- agreed to. ask unanimous consent that the Sen- tions en bloc. The preamble was agreed to. ate proceed to legislative session for a The legislative clerk read the nomi- (The resolution, with its preamble, is period of morning business, with Sen- nations of Dawn DeBerry Stump, of printed in the RECORD of August 23, ators permitted to speak therein for up Texas, to be a Commissioner of the 2018, under ‘‘Submitted Resolutions.’’) to 10 minutes each. Commodity Futures Trading Commis- f The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without sion for a term expiring April 13, 2022; objection, it is so ordered. APPOINTMENT Dan Michael Berkovitz, of Maryland, to be a Commissioner of the Com- f The PRESIDING OFFICER. The modity Futures Trading Commission Chair announces, on behalf of the CONGRATULATING THE NATIONAL for a term expiring April 13, 2023; and Democratic Leader, pursuant to the ACADEMY OF INVENTORS ON James E. Hubbard, of Colorado, to be provisions of Public Law 114–198, the THE MILESTONE OF ACHIEVING Under Secretary of Agriculture for appointment of the following indi- 200 MEMBER INSTITUTIONS Natural Resources and Environment. vidual to serve as a member of the Cre- Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I ating Options for Veterans’ Expedited consider the nominations en bloc. ask unanimous consent that the Sen- Recovery (COVER Commission): Mat- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I ate proceed to the immediate consider- thew J. Kuntz of Montana (Veteran). ask unanimous consent that the Sen- ation of S. Res. 620, submitted earlier Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I ate vote on the nominations en bloc today. suggest the absence of a quorum. with no intervening action or debate; The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The PRESIDING OFFICER. The that if confirmed, the motions to re- clerk will report the resolution by clerk will call the roll. consider be considered made and laid title. The senior assistant legislative clerk upon the table en bloc; that the Presi- The legislative clerk read as follows: proceeded to call the roll. dent be immediately notified of the A resolution (S. Res. 620) congratulating The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Ma- Senate’s action; that no further mo- the National Academy of Inventors on the jority Leader. tions be in order; and that any state- milestone of achieving 200 member institu- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I ments relating to the nominations be tions. ask unanimous consent that the order printed in the RECORD. There being no objection, the Senate for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without proceeded to consider the resolution. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I objection, it is so ordered. The question is, Will the Senate ad- further ask unanimous consent that f vise and consent to the Stump, the resolution be agreed to, the pre- ORDERS FOR FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, Berkovitz, and Hubbard nominations amble be agreed to, and the motions to 2018, THROUGH TUESDAY, SEP- en bloc? reconsider be considered made and laid TEMBER 4, 2018 The nominations were confirmed en upon the table with no intervening ac- bloc. tion or debate. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I f The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ask unanimous consent that when the objection, it is so ordered. Senate completes its business today, it EXECUTIVE CALENDAR The resolution (S. Res. 620) was adjourn to then convene for a pro Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I agreed to. forma session only, with no business ask unanimous consent that the Sen- The preamble was agreed to. being conducted, on Friday, August 31, ate proceed to the consideration of the (The resolution, with its preamble, is at 10 a.m.; and that following the pro following nomination: Executive Cal- printed in today’s RECORD under ‘‘Sub- forma session, the Senate adjourn until endar No. 869. mitted Resolutions.’’) 3 p.m. on Tuesday, September 4; and

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:09 Aug 29, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G28AU6.060 S28AUPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with SENATE S6008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE August 28, 2018 that on Tuesday, September 4, fol- 10 U.S.C. SECTION 950F(B)(2) TO SERVE AS APPELLATE DAVID WILLIAMS, OF ILLINOIS, TO BE A GOVERNOR OF MILITARY JUDGES ON THE UNITED STATES COURT OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE FOR A TERM EX- lowing the prayer and pledge, the MILITARY REVIEW. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS PIRING DECEMBER 8, 2019. morning hour be deemed expired, the FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE OR THE UNITED STATES THE JUDICIARY Journal of proceedings be approved to NAVY AND AS APPELLATE MILITARY JUDGES ON THE NANCY E. BRASEL, OF MINNESOTA, TO BE UNITED UNITED STATES COURT OF MILITARY COMMISSION RE- date, the time for the two leaders be STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF MIN- VIEW. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR CONTINUED STATUS NESOTA. reserved for their use later in the day, AS APPELLATE MILITARY JUDGES PURSUANT TO THEIR and morning business be closed; fur- ASSIGNMENT BY THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE UNDER 10 U.S.C. SECTION 950F(B)(2), WHILE SERVING ON ther, that following leader remarks, THE UNITED STATES COURT OF MILITARY COMMISSION JAMES H. ANDERSON, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE AN ASSIST- the Senate proceed to executive session REVIEW, ALL UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE PROHIBITIONS RE- ANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE. MAIN UNDER 10 U.S.C. SECTION 949B(B) AND SUCH APPEL- and resume consideration of the LATE MILITARY JUDGES SHALL ONLY BE ELIGIBLE TO FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Roisman nomination; finally, that not- SERVE AS JUDGES ON THE UNITED STATES COURT OF MILITARY COMMISSION REVIEW SO LONG AS THEY RE- RICHARD CLARIDA, OF CONNECTICUT, TO BE VICE withstanding the provisions of rule MAIN ON ACTIVE DUTY STATUS. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FED- ERAL RESERVE SYSTEM FOR A TERM OF FOUR YEARS. XXII, the cloture motion filed during To be colonel RICHARD CLARIDA, OF CONNECTICUT, TO BE A MEMBER today’s session ripen at 5:30 p.m., Tues- OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RE- SCOTT E. HARDING SERVE SYSTEM FOR THE UNEXPIRED TERM OF FOUR- day, September 4. TEEN YEARS FROM FEBRUARY 1, 2008. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without IN THE NAVY objection, it is so ordered. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS HAVE BEEN AS- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE UNDER TITLE f 10 U.S.C. SECTION 950F(B)(2) TO SERVE AS APPELLATE CHARLES L. GOODWIN, OF HAWAII, TO BE UNITED MILITARY JUDGES ON THE UNITED STATES COURT OF STATES MARSHAL FOR THE DISTRICT OF HAWAII FOR ADJOURNMENT UNTIL FRIDAY, MILITARY REVIEW. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS. FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE R. DON LADNER, JR., OF FLORIDA, TO BE UNITED AUGUST 31, 2018, AT 10 A.M. UNITED STATES AIR FORCE OR THE UNITED STATES STATES MARSHAL FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NAVY AND AS APPELLATE MILITARY JUDGES ON THE FLORIDA FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, if UNITED STATES COURT OF MILITARY COMMISSION RE- SUSAN LEWELLYN PAMERLEAU, OF TEXAS, TO BE there is no further business to come be- VIEW. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR CONTINUED STATUS UNITED STATES MARSHAL FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT AS APPELLATE MILITARY JUDGES PURSUANT TO THEIR OF TEXAS FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS. fore the Senate, I ask that it stand ad- ASSIGNMENT BY THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE AND GADYACES S. SERRALTA, OF FLORIDA, TO BE UNITED journed under the previous order. UNDER 10 U.S.C. SECTION 950F(B)(2), WHILE SERVING ON STATES MARSHAL FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under THE UNITED STATES COURT OF MILITARY COMMISSION FLORIDA FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS. REVIEW, ALL UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE PROHIBITIONS RE- JOHN D. JORDAN, OF MISSOURI, TO BE UNITED STATES the previous order, the Senate stands MAIN UNDER 10 U.S.C. SECTION 949B(B) AND SUCH APPEL- MARSHAL FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI adjourned until 10 a.m. Friday, August LATE MILITARY JUDGES SHALL ONLY BE ELIGIBLE TO FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS. SERVE AS JUDGES ON THE UNITED STATES COURT OF MARK F. SLOKE, OF ALABAMA, TO BE UNITED STATES 31, 2018. MILITARY COMMISSION REVIEW SO LONG AS THEY RE- MARSHAL FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA MAIN ON ACTIVE DUTY STATUS. FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS. There being no objection, the Senate, NICK WILLARD, OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, TO BE UNITED at 7:46 p.m., adjourned until Friday, To be captain STATES MARSHAL FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMP- SHIRE FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS. August 31, 2018, at 10 a.m. MARCUS N. FULTON FRANK D. HUTCHISON f DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD LYNN A. JOHNSON, OF COLORADO, TO BE ASSISTANT NOMINATIONS SECRETARY FOR FAMILY SUPPORT, DEPARTMENT OF MARK GASTON PEARCE, OF NEW YORK, TO BE A MEM- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. Executive nominations received by BER OF THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD FOR THE TERM OF FIVE YEARS EXPIRING AUGUST 27, 2023. UNITED STATES TAX COURT the Senate: (REAPPOINTMENT) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ELIZABETH ANN COPELAND, OF TEXAS, TO BE A JUDGE f OF THE UNITED STATES TAX COURT FOR A TERM OF FIF- LISA M. SCHENCK, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE A JUDGE OF THE TEEN YEARS. UNITED STATES COURT OF MILITARY COMMISSION RE- CONFIRMATIONS PATRICK J. URDA, OF INDIANA, TO BE A JUDGE OF THE VIEW. (NEW POSITION) UNITED STATES TAX COURT FOR A TERM OF FIFTEEN SOCIAL SECURITY ADVISORY BOARD Executive nominations confirmed by YEARS. the Senate August 28, 2018: MICHAEL J. ASTRUE, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE A DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE MEMBER OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADVISORY BOARD COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION MARIA CHAPA LOPEZ, OF FLORIDA, TO BE UNITED FOR A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 30, 2022, VICE ALAN L. STATES ATTORNEY FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLOR- DAWN DEBERRY STUMP, OF TEXAS, TO BE A COMMIS- COHEN, TERM EXPIRED. IDA FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS. SIONER OF THE COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMIS- JASON J. FICHTNER, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, RICHARD E. TAYLOR, JR., OF TEXAS, TO BE UNITED SION FOR A TERM EXPIRING APRIL 13, 2022. TO BE A MEMBER OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADVISORY STATES MARSHAL FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF BOARD FOR A TERM EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 30, 2024, VICE THE JUDICIARY TEXAS FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS. LANHEE J. CHEN, TERM EXPIRING. UNITED STATES TAX COURT TERRY FITZGERALD MOORER, OF ALABAMA, TO BE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE SOUTHERN TRAVIS GREAVES, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO DISTRICT OF ALABAMA. KAREN S. EVANS, OF WEST VIRGINIA, TO BE AN ASSIST- BE A JUDGE OF THE UNITED STATES TAX COURT FOR A R. STAN BAKER, OF GEORGIA, TO BE UNITED STATES ANT SECRETARY OF ENERGY (CYBERSECURITY, ENERGY TERM OF FIFTEEN YEARS, VICE JUAN F. VASQUEZ, TERM DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF SECURITY AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE). EXPIRED. GEORGIA. CHARLES BARNES GOODWIN, OF OKLAHOMA, TO BE COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION INTERNATIONAL JOINT COMMISSION, UNITED UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE WESTERN DAN MICHAEL BERKOVITZ, OF MARYLAND, TO BE A STATES AND CANADA DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA. COMMISSIONER OF THE COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING BARRY W. ASHE, OF LOUISIANA, TO BE UNITED STATES COMMISSION FOR A TERM EXPIRING APRIL 13, 2023 . JANE L. CORWIN, OF NEW YORK, TO BE COMMISSIONER DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOU- ON THE PART OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE INTER- ISIANA. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE NATIONAL JOINT COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND JAMES R. SWEENEY II, OF INDIANA, TO BE UNITED CANADA, VICE LANA POLLACK. STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT JAMES E. HUBBARD, OF COLORADO, TO BE UNDER SEC- ROBERT C. SISSON, OF MICHIGAN, TO BE COMMIS- OF INDIANA. RETARY OF AGRICULTURE FOR NATURAL RESOURCES SIONER ON THE PART OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE SUSAN PARADISE BAXTER, OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO BE AND ENVIRONMENT. INTERNATIONAL JOINT COMMISSION, UNITED STATES UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE WESTERN AND CANADA, VICE DERETH BRITT GLANCE. DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. DEPARTMENT OF STATE LANCE V. YOHE, OF NORTH DAKOTA, TO BE COMMIS- SIONER ON THE PART OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY DAVID HALE, OF NEW JERSEY, A CAREER MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL JOINT COMMISSION, UNITED STATES THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF CAREER MIN- AND CANADA, VICE RICHARD M. MOY. ISABEL MARIE KEENAN PATELUNAS, OF PENNSYL- ISTER, TO BE AN UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (POLIT- VANIA, TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTEL- ICAL AFFAIRS). THE JUDICIARY LIGENCE AND ANALYSIS, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREAS- URY. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE JEAN–PAUL BOULEE, OF GEORGIA, TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ARIANA FAJARDO ORSHAN, OF FLORIDA, TO BE UNITED OF GEORGIA, VICE WILLIAM S. DUFFEY, JR., RETIRED. STATES ATTORNEY FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF JAMES DAVID CAIN, JR., OF LOUISIANA, TO BE UNITED JOSEPH H. HUNT, OF MARYLAND, TO BE AN ASSISTANT FLORIDA FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS. STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT ATTORNEY GENERAL. PETER G. STRASSER, OF LOUISIANA, TO BE UNITED OF LOUISIANA, VICE PATRICIA HEAD MINALDI , RETIRED. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE STATES ATTORNEY FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF IN THE AIR FORCE LOUISIANA FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS. ROBERT M. DUNCAN, OF KENTUCKY, TO BE A GOV- G. ZACHARY TERWILLIGER, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS HAVE BEEN AS- ERNOR OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE FOR A UNITED STATES ATTORNEY FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT SIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE UNDER TITLE TERM EXPIRING DECEMBER 8, 2018. OF VIRGINIA FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS.

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KOMAL PANJWANI EARNS GIRL REESE VANNERSON WINS 3 MED- Then-naval aviator McCain refused, and SCOUT GOLD AWARD ALS AT THE 2018 AAU JUNIOR showed the valor and courage for which he OLYMPICS would soon become known. After his time as a POW, he was elected in HON. PETE OLSON HON. PETE OLSON 1982 to the U.S. House of Representatives OF TEXAS OF TEXAS and served for two terms prior to his election IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to the United States Senate in 1986, a position he held until his death. Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Through his six terms in the U.S. Senate, Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Senator McCain developed a well-deserved congratulate Stephen F. Austin High School recognize Reese Vannerson from Sugar Land, reputation as a statesman—a legislator who student, Komal Panjwani of Sugar Land, TX TX for winning three medals at the 2018 Ama- did not conform to partisan entrenchment and for earning her Girl Scout Gold Award. teur Athletic Union (AAU) Junior Olympics. worked to formulate innovative solutions with Vannerson is an 8th grade student at Lau- members across the aisle. The Gold Award is the highest achievement rence Catholic School. After qualifying for nu- a Girl Scout can earn. To earn this distin- John McCain’s first duty always was to merous events, Reese went on to win a gold country. guished award, Komal had to spend at least medal in the 1500-meter race, setting a new 80 hours developing and executing a project When President Bill Clinton called for the personal record of 4:18.71. He continued his nation to bind the wounds of the Vietnam War, that would benefit the community, as well as success by winning bronze in the 800-meter have a long-term impact on girls. For her Gold President Clinton sent Senator John McCain. and finally earned a silver medal for his per- When the pervasive, and at times corrosive, award project, she organized two workshop formance in the 3000-meter. One day later, he events to educate parents and students about effect of money in politics reached critical was the overall winner for the 13- to 15-year- mass, Senator John McCain reached across the importance of career diversity. She also old boys at the 2018 Triatialon Nationals in W. created a blog and a Facebook page to en- the aisle and championed landmark legislation Chester, Ohio, running the fastest split for the to curb the excesses of our system of cam- courage students to choose careers that they race and placing first among 13 year old boys. are passionate about. paign finance. His hard work has brought great pride to our And, when the Trump Republicans’ threat to On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- Sugar Land community and will be remem- the landmark Affordable Care Act came within sional District of Texas, congratulations again bered by his community and parents, Lisa & striking distance of reality, Senator John to Komal Panjwani for earning her Girl Scout Rodner, for many for years to come. McCain—by then diagnosed with terminal Gold Award. We are confident she will have On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- brain cancer—appeared on the floor of the in- continued success in her future endeavors. sional District of Texas, congratulations again stitution he loved so much, and saved the law We are very proud. to Reese Vannerson for winning three medals championed by his former political rival, Presi- at the 2018 AAU Olympics in Iowa. We look dent Barack Obama. f forward to seeing what he will accomplish in Through it all, Senator John McCain exhib- the future on and off the track. THANKING RANDY STOCK FOR HIS ited grace, class, and sacrifice; he was the f 40 YEARS OF SERVICE very embodiment of the civic virtue this coun- TRIBUTE TO JOHN SIDNEY MCCAIN try needs and requires of its public servants. III: AMERICAN HERO, LION OF Senator John McCain’s record of service HON. PETE OLSON THE SENATE, NAVAL AVIATOR, has both earned the respect of his colleagues OF TEXAS AND PATRIOT WHO ALWAYS PUT throughout the years and has been a source of inspiration to millions of young people IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COUNTRY FIRST across the nation and around the world. Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Senator John McCain’s dedication to coun- HON. SHEILA JACKSON LEE try over party, to his fellow countrymen over OF TEXAS Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to self, and to the greater good over personal recognize Randy Stock for his 40 years of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gain, is a model of conduct for those who service to the city of Sugar Land, TX. Tuesday, August 28, 2018 seek to lead this nation. Randy, a Public Utilities Operator, was born Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise not I send my sincerest thoughts and prayers to and raised in Sugar Land and began working to mourn the death but to celebrate the re- his family in this most difficult time, and urge for the town’s water division when he was 17 markable life of John Sidney McCain III, the all Americans, in celebration of this extraor- years old. When he started, there was one lion of the Senate, a valiant naval aviator, and dinary statesman, to work to recover our water plant for the whole city—the city now an ‘American Pericles’ who always put country sense of civility and to find the common operates 12 groundwater plants and five ele- first. ground needed to advance the common good. vated tanks. Over the years, he has played a In degree and kind, it will be a long time be- I ask the House to observe a moment of si- role in ensuring Sugar Land has safe water fore our nation again sees the likes of John lence in memory of an American hero, John and helped during the numerous annexations McCain, whom we lost at the age of 81. Sidney McCain III. that occurred during his tenure. Randy was The son and grandson of Navy admirals, f also on the front lines during Hurricane Harvey Senator McCain chose to give back to this and previous hurricanes, making sure that our country through service, as has been the call- MEEHA AMIRTHALINGAM NAMED water supply remained safe. Each and every ing of his family since the early years of the FINALIST IN DISCOVERY EDU- day he goes above and beyond to serve our last century. CATION 3M YOUNG SCIENTIST community. Senator McCain’s love of country was mani- CHALLENGE On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- fested not merely through words; he showed sional District of Texas, congratulations again his fidelity to this nation through his deeds. HON. PETE OLSON to Randy Stock on his completion of 40 years During his six years as a prisoner of war OF TEXAS of service to the city of Sugar Land, TX. I during the Vietnam War, Senator McCain en- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES thank him for his work to ensure Sugar Land dured the torture and indignities of the infa- has safe, quality water. His efforts help make mous Hanoi Hilton. Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Sugar Land a wonderful place to live, work When his imprisoners realized he was of of- Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to and raise a family. ficial stock, they offered him early release. recognize Meeha Amirthalingam from Sugar

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VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:20 Aug 29, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A28AU8.001 E28AUPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with REMARKS E1182 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks August 28, 2018 Land, TX, for making it to the final round in last seven years. She is an instructor at the Epiphany of the Lord Catholic School the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Stafford High School’s Alternative Education opened to students on August 16, after four Challenge. Program, SHS Quest Academy, which serves years of hard work, fundraising, and careful Amirthalingam, a 14-year-old student at students who have been repeatedly unsuc- planning. Denny Dillinger, the development Travis High School, was named one of the top cessful in a traditional classroom setting. The board co-chair has stated the project began 10 students in the nation for taking on a global award is given every year and seeks out four years ago, with 12–18 months of periodic challenge: water conservation. She was the Edmentum educators who go above and be- fundraisers. Currently, there are just over 90 only student from Texas to make it this far in yond for their students. Jerry spends countless students, but 100 are expected on their first the competition. Meeha was inspired when hours helping students, even going beyond day. The faculty consists of 14 teachers, two she learned of the water shortage in Cape the district recommended time, and visits stu- in prekindergarten, two in kindergarten and Town, South Arica, and made it her mission to dents at home to help encourage attendance. one teacher per classes 1–4. The plan is to make water preservation a simpler task. When She makes it a priority to meet with potential add at least one grade each year over the she was in eighth grade, she developed a toi- graduates and the overall success rate of her next three to four years until they get to eighth let flushing system that uses both fresh and program has increased to an impressive 91 grade. The Epiphany School will boast a li- recycled water, which reduces water con- percent. brary, music room, STEM lab and science lab. sumption. On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- The church hopes to provide a faith-based al- On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- sional District of Texas, congratulations again ternative to public schools, with a dedication to sional District of Texas, congratulations again to Ms. Jerry Hodge. I thank her for her com- faith, and knowledge and compassion being at to Meeha Amirthalingam for becoming a final- mitment to our Stafford MSD students. We the forefront of their curriculum. ist in the Discovery Education 3M Young Sci- look forward to seeing her accomplishments in On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- entist Challenge. We look forward to seeing the future. sional District of Texas, congratulations again what she will accomplish in the future. f to the Epiphany Church for opening the Epiph- f any of the Lord Catholic School. TRIBUTE TO CAROL AND THE f ‘BEL SANCHEZ RECEIVES 2018 LATE DON BREMER HISPANIC HERO AWARD LENNY GARCIA EARNS LIFETIME HON. PAUL COOK ACHIEVEMENT AWARD HON. PETE OLSON OF CALIFORNIA OF TEXAS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. PETE OLSON IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, August 28, 2018 OF TEXAS Tuesday, August 28, 2018 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. COOK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to rec- Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ognize the contributions that Carol and the Tuesday, August 28, 2018 recognize ‘Bel Sanchez of Alvin Community late Don Bremer have provided to our commu- Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to College for receiving the 2018 Hispanic Hero nity of Big Bear Lake as they are awarded the recognize Lenny Garcia of Alvin, TX for win- Award from Comcast Houston. Sanchez was one of only ten recipients of 2018 Humanitarian Award. ning the Lifetime Achievement Award from the this award, which she received for her commit- After studying to be educators at Wayne Texas Interscholastic Swim Coaches Associa- ment to making a difference through State College, the late Don Bremer and his tion (TISCA). mentorship, volunteerism, civic engagement wife Carol Bremer honorably served our coun- Garcia was the head swim coach at Alvin and advocacy. She has served on the ACC try throughout the Korean conflict. The High School between 1981 and 2013 and is a Board of Regents since 2008. Previously, Bremer’s spirit for public service progressed two-time region coach of the year. He is Sanchez was an educator with Alvin ISD for through their service as educators and admin- known for his willingness to give each and 30 years and has volunteered for many local istrators for over thirty-five years. Their experi- every student an opportunity and was instru- boards including the Thelma Ley Anderson ence within military, education and public serv- mental in their development in and out of the YMCA, Red Cross of Brazoria County, Sorop- ice only flamed their charitable hearts leading pool. Over the years, many of his swim and timist International of Alvin, Alpha Delta them to establish a Charitable Foundation and water polo teams advanced to regional and Gamma and the United Way of Brazoria create over six endowed annual scholarships; state competitions. Mr. Garcia and his wife County. She was the district’s first director of all while engaging and participating in multiple Vicky direct the Annual BENeezy Purple Mon- bilingual and ESL programs and was named philanthropic organizations. Don and Carol are key Fun Run, which celebrates the life of their Alvin’s Citizen of the year in 2013. Alvin ISD most recognized for their participation through- late son Ben. He is also an active volunteer at has also named an elementary school in her out Big Bear Lake with various, fundraisers the Alvin YMCA, the Alvin Senior Center and honor. ‘Bel credits her parents for their instruc- and community projects including the yearly the Upward Bound program at Alvin Commu- tion and wise life lessons, where they felt they Big Bear Homecoming Royalty Parade where nity College and Salvation Army. Lenny will re- were doing the Lord’s work through helping Don enjoyed towing the float in his 1968 Cor- ceive his award at the TISCA luncheon on out their fellow man. vette convertible. Most recently, Don and September 15. On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- Carol raised over $110,000.00 to fix and up- On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- sional District of Texas, congratulations again grade our local hospital’s patient rooms. sional District of Texas, congratulations again to ‘Bel Sanchez on receiving the Hispanic The Bremer’s are a shining beacon of char- to Lenny Garcia for winning the Lifetime Hero Award from Comcast Houston. I thank ity throughout Big Bear and Southern Cali- Achievement Award from the Texas Inter- her for her commitment to our students. fornia and it is with sadness that I learn Don’s scholastic Swim Coaches Association. We passing, may his contributions live onward and thank him for his continued service and dedi- f thank you Carol Bremer for being an excep- cation to our students and Alvin community. JERRY HODGE NAMED RUNNER-UP tional wife, mother and member of our com- f FOR NATIONAL EDUCATOR OF munity. LAMAR CISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES THE YEAR f NAMED 2018 TEXAS HONOR EPIPHANY OF THE LORD CATHO- SCHOOL BOARD HON. PETE OLSON LIC SCHOOL OPENS IN KATY, OF TEXAS TEXAS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. PETE OLSON OF TEXAS Tuesday, August 28, 2018 HON. PETE OLSON IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to OF TEXAS Tuesday, August 28, 2018 recognize Jerry Hodge of Stafford, TX for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES being one of three national runner-up winners Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to for the 3rd annual National Educator of the Tuesday, August 28, 2018 recognize the Lamar CISD Board of Trustees Year Award from Edmentum. Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to for being selected as one of the Honor School Jerry Hodge has worked in education since congratulate Epiphany of the Lord Catholic Boards as part of the 2018 Texas Association 1997 and has been with Stafford MSD for the School in Katy, TX on opening their doors. of School Administrators (TASA) School Board

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:20 Aug 29, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A28AU8.005 E28AUPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with REMARKS August 28, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1183 Awards—one of only five school boards to be Although he was a Chicago native, Pro- Stewart T. Cobine, which educated thousands selected across Texas. fessor Jegen was a long time Hoosier, dedi- of lawyers and accountants from 1994 to The five Honor Boards are selected by a cating more than five decades of service to In- 2010. committee made up of distinguished school diana University (IU) and his law students. A A testament to an outstanding career, Pro- superintendents. Their selection decisions 1956 graduate of Beloit College, Professor fessor Jegen was honored with numerous were based on a specific educational criterion, Jegen earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy awards and accolades. He was awarded the including maintaining harmonious and sup- and literature. He later attended the University President’s Distinguished Teaching Award portive relationships amongst board members, of Michigan receiving his Juris Doctor in 1959 from IU President John Ryan in 1987 and the support for educational improvement projects, and a Masters of Business Administration in Teaching Excellence Recognition Award from a commitment to a code of ethics and support accounting in 1960. His passion for knowledge the IU Board of Trustees in 1997. He notably for continuous educational development. The led him to New York University, where he re- received the Thomas Hart Benton Mural Me- Lamar CISD Board was chosen by Super- ceived a Master of Laws (LL.M) in taxation in dallion twice, the highest award given by IU. intendent Dr. Thomas Randle, who said the 1963. Professor Jegen began his career as an Professor Jegen was especially honored to re- Board has ‘‘made a dramatic impact in the Assistant Professor of Law in 1962. He later ceive the ‘‘Black Cane Award’’ six times from lives of the local community, taxpayer, and became the Special Counsel for the Indiana students, recognizing him as the most out- schoolchildren in a just a short time.’’ Their Department Revenue in 1963 before becom- standing law professor. He was also a three- mission resonates within their community as ing a full Professor of Law at the Indiana Uni- time recipient of the Sagamore of the Wabash they continue to center their teachings to de- versity Robert H. McKinney School of Law in from Governors Matthew E. Welsh, Edgar velop and relay practical life-long learning hab- 1966. During his tenure, he served on Gov- Whitcomb, and Otis Bowen. its. ernor Edgar Whitcomb’s Commission on Med- His life-long commitment to the law and his On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congres- ical Education in 1970 while teaching taxation, students led to Professor Jegen’s service on sional District of Texas, congratulations again estate planning, and philanthropy. Professor the board of directors for the American Col- to the Lamar CISD Board of Trustees. I thank Jegen is best remembered for his love of tax lege Probate Counsel, American College Tax them for their commitment to the betterment of law and his dedication to his students, both Counsel, American Bar Association, Federal education and helping to nurture Texas stu- prior to and following graduation. I am so for- Bar Association, the Indianapolis Bar Associa- dents. We all wish them the best of luck as tunate to have been one of those students. He tion, and the Indiana Trial Lawyers Associa- they compete for the final prize: 2018 Out- saw the greatness within all his pupils and tion, and served as chairman of Baccalaureate standing School Board. found fulfillment in helping them grow. Education Systems Trust of Indiana. He also f With a proven record as an exceptional leader, Professor Jegen was appointed by the sat on the advisory boards for the Indiana Uni- HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service versity Center on Philanthropy and the Mid- OF PROFESSOR LAWRENCE A. (IRS), to the Commissioner’s Advisory Com- west Institute on Estate and Tax Planning. He JEGEN III mittee in 1981. For his work, he received nine served on the American College Indiana Con- certificates of recognition from the IRS for continuing Legal Education Forum in the 1980s HON. SUSAN W. BROOKS tributions to the education of IRS personnel. and early 1990s where he helped shape and define the direction of future programming ef- OF INDIANA Professor Jegen was a driving force behind forts. In 2018, an endowed chair, the Law- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), helping to draft the bill and testifying rence A. Jegen, III Chair in Tax Law, was cre- Tuesday, August 28, 2018 before Congress. After the bill’s passage in ated in his honor. Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I 1974, he attended the signing ceremony in the Professor Jegen will be forever missed by rise today to honor the life and legacy of the Rose Garden of the White House at the invita- his family and loved ones as well as his col- late Professor Lawrence A. Jegen III, a pillar tion of President Gerald Ford. ERISA remains leagues and friends at the Indiana University of the Indianapolis community and an out- an important tax and labor act of legislation Robert H. McKinney School of Law and standing teacher and mentor. For 56 years, today, becoming the underpinning of current across Indiana. The people of Indiana’s Fifth Professor Jegen served as the Thomas F. pension and 401(k) plans. Professor Jegen Congressional District are grateful for Pro- Sheehan Professor of Tax Law and Policy at also co-founded the Indiana Bar Review, the fessor Jegen’s service to our Hoosier commu- the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney official bar exam review course of the Indian- nity and it is my privilege to honor him today. School of Law, and was an active member of apolis Bar Association. This program is spe- On behalf of all Hoosiers, I thank Professor the legal community. The people of Indiana’s cifically designed to prepare future Indiana Jegen for his service to the great state of Indi- Fifth Congressional District are forever grateful lawyers to practice Indiana law. Here he con- ana and the United States of America. His leg- for Professor Jegen’s commitment to providing ducted over 400 bar review tax lectures span- acy of excellence will live on for generations to his law students with an outstanding education ning more than 35 years. Ever dedicated to come through his family, friends, colleagues and for his significant contributions to the state education, he later co-founded the Annual Tax and the thousands of attorneys who had the of Indiana and the nation. Institute for Colleges and Universities with privilege of learning from him.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:20 Aug 29, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A28AU8.011 E28AUPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with REMARKS Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Daily Digest Senate The treaty was transmitted to the Senate today, Chamber Action considered as having been read for the first time, and Routine Proceedings, pages S5961–S6008 referred, with accompanying papers, to the Com- Measures Introduced: Fourteen bills and two reso- mittee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be print- lutions were introduced, as follows: S. 3391–3404, ed. Page S6005 S.J. Res. 63, and S. Res. 620. Page S5991 Nominations—Agreement: A unanimous-consent Measures Passed: agreement was reached providing that notwithstanding the provisions of Rule XXII, the pending National Academy of Inventors: Senate agreed to cloture motions be withdrawn on the nominations of S. Res. 620, congratulating the National Academy of Richard Clarida, of Connecticut, to be a Member of Inventors on the milestone of achieving 200 member the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Sys- institutions. Page S6007 tem, Joseph H. Hunt, of Maryland, to be an Assist- American Legion 100th Anniversary: Committee ant Attorney General, Department of Justice, Isabel on the Judiciary was discharged from further consid- Marie Keenan Patelunas, of Pennsylvania, to be As- eration of S. Res. 617, recognizing The American sistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, De- Legion for 100 years of service to veterans and mem- partment of the Treasury, Terry Fitzgerald Moorer, bers of the Armed Forces in the United States and to be United States District Judge for the Southern their families, and the resolution was then agreed to. District of Alabama, R. Stan Baker, to be United Page S6007 States District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia, Charles Barnes Goodwin, to be United Appointments: States District Judge for the Western District of Creating Options for Veterans’ Expedited Recov- Oklahoma, Barry W. Ashe, to be United States Dis- ery (COVER Commission): The Chair announced, trict Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, on behalf of the Democratic Leader, pursuant to the James R. Sweeney II, to be United States District provisions of Public Law 114–198, the appointment Judge for the Southern District of Indiana, Susan of the following individual to serve as a member of Paradise Baxter, to be United States District Judge the Creating Options for Veterans’ Expedited Recov- for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Marilyn ery (COVER Commission): Matthew J. Kuntz of Jean Horan, to be United States District Judge for Montana (Veteran) vice Jon Soltz of Virginia (Vet- the Western District of Pennsylvania, William F. eran). Page S6007 Jung, to be United States District Judge for the Pro Forma Sessions—Agreement: A unanimous- Middle District of Florida, Dominic W. Lanza, to be consent agreement was reached providing that the United States District Judge for the District of Ari- Senate adjourn, to then convene for pro forma ses- zona, Charles J. Williams, to be United States Dis- sions only, with no business being conducted on Fri- trict Judge for the Northern District of Iowa, Robert day, August 31, 2018, at 10 a.m.; and that fol- R. Summerhays, to be United States District Judge lowing the pro forma session, Senate adjourn until 3 for the Western District of Louisiana, and Alan D. p.m., on Tuesday, September 4, 2018. Albright, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas; and that at a time to be Pages S6007–08 determined by the Majority Leader, in consultation Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction with the Democratic Leader, during the week of Sep- of secrecy was removed from the following treaty: tember 4, 2018, Senate vote on confirmation of the Amendments to the Treaty on Fisheries between following nominations in the order listed: Marilyn the Governments of Certain Pacific Island States and Jean Horan, to be United States District Judge for the Government of the United States of America the Western District of Pennsylvania, William F. (Treaty Doc. No. 115–3). Jung, to be United States District Judge for the D958

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Stan Baker, of Georgia, to be United States to be United States District Judge for the District District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia. of Minnesota, and Alan D. Albright, to be United Pages S5981, S6008 States District Judge for the Western District of By 52 yeas to 42 nays (Vote No. EX. 200), Texas. Pages S5976, S6008 Charles Barnes Goodwin, of Oklahoma, to be United Roisman Nomination—Cloture: Senate began con- States District Judge for the Western District of sideration of the nomination of Elad L. Roisman, of Oklahoma. Pages S5981, S6008 Maine, to be a Member of the Securities and Ex- Barry W. Ashe, of Louisiana, to be United States change Commission. Page S6005 District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana. A motion was entered to close further debate on Pages S5981, S6008 the nomination, and, in accordance with the provi- James R. Sweeney II, of Indiana, to be United sions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the States District Judge for the Southern District of In- Senate, and pursuant to the unanimous-consent diana. Pages S5981–82, S6008 agreement of Tuesday, August 28, 2018, a vote on Susan Paradise Baxter, of Pennsylvania, to be cloture will occur at 5:30 p.m., on Tuesday, Sep- United States District Judge for the Western Dis- tember 4, 2018. Page S6005 trict of Pennsylvania. Pages S5982, S6008 Prior to the consideration of this nomination, Sen- Nancy E. Brasel, of Minnesota, to be United ate took the following action: States District Judge for the District of Minnesota. Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Execu- Pages S5982, S6008 tive Session to consider the nomination. Page S6005 A unanimous consent agreement was reached pro- Dawn DeBerry Stump, of Texas, to be a Commis- viding that at approximately 3 p.m., on Tuesday, sioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commis- September 4, 2018, Senate resume consideration of sion for a term expiring April 13, 2022. the nomination; and that notwithstanding Rule Elizabeth Ann Copeland, of Texas, to be a Judge XXII, the motion to invoke cloture on the nomina- of the United States Tax Court for a term of fifteen tion ripen at 5:30 p.m. Pages S6007–08 years. Patrick J. Urda, of Indiana, to be a Judge of the Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the fol- United States Tax Court for a term of fifteen years. lowing nominations: Robert M. Duncan, of Kentucky, to be a Gov- By 67 yeas to 28 nays (Vote No. EX. 195), Lynn A. Johnson, of Colorado, to be Assistant Secretary for ernor of the United States Postal Service for a term Family Support, Department of Health and Human expiring December 8, 2018. David Williams, of Illinois, to be a Governor of Services. Pages S5964–65, S6008 By 69 yeas to 26 nays (Vote No. EX. 197), Rich- the United States Postal Service for a term expiring ard Clarida, of Connecticut, to be Vice Chairman of December 8, 2019. the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Sys- James H. Anderson, of Virginia, to be an Assist- tem for a term of four years. ant Secretary of Defense. During consideration of this nomination today, Charles L. Goodwin, of Hawaii, to be United Senate also took the following action: States Marshal for the District of Hawaii for the By 69 yeas to 26 nays (Vote No. 196), Senate term of four years. agreed to the motion to close further debate on the John D. Jordan, of Missouri, to be United States nomination. Page S5965 Marshal for the Eastern District of Missouri for the Richard Clarida, of Connecticut, to be a Member term of four years. of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve R. Don Ladner, Jr., of Florida, to be United States System for the unexpired term of fourteen years from Marshal for the Northern District of Florida for the February 1, 2008. Pages S5980, S6008 term of four years. By 72 yeas to 23 nays (Vote No. EX. 198), Jo- Gadyaces S. Serralta, of Florida, to be United seph H. Hunt, of Maryland, to be an Assistant At- States Marshal for the Southern District of Florida torney General. Pages S5980, S6008 for the term of four years.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 10 a.m., Friday, August 31 9:30 a.m., Friday, August 31

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Friday: Senate will meet in a pro forma Program for Friday: House will meet in Pro Forma ses- session. sion at 9:30 a.m.

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

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Brooks, Susan W., Ind., E1183 Cook, Paul, Calif., E1182 Jackson Lee, Sheila, Tex., E1181 Olson, Pete, Tex., E1181, E1181, E1181, E1181, E1182, E1182, E1182, E1182, E1182

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