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Vol. 162 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2016 No. 23 Senate The Senate met at 11 a.m. and was ZIKA VIRUS August 2013, following time in Jakarta called to order by the President pro Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, just as our Ambassador to Indonesia for 3 tempore (Mr. HATCH). this morning, local health departments years. He served as Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs and as Deputy Assist- f confirmed two cases of the Zika virus in two States bordering Kentucky—In- ant Secretary for the East Asia and Pa- PRAYER diana and Ohio. cific bureau, responsible for relations with Southeast Asia. Earlier in his ca- The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- Americans want a better under- reer, he served in Vietnam, the Phil- fered the following prayer: standing of the administration’s efforts ippines, Hong Kong, Brazil, and Tur- Let us pray. to fight this virus and its spread. key, as well as in the Economic Bu- O God, our help in ages past, our hope Americans want to know what the ad- reau’s Office of Monetary Affairs. for years to come, thank You for our ministration’s funding priorities are Ambassador Marciel will represent us Nation and for the freedoms we enjoy. for combatting Zika in a time of lim- as a new government is formed in Lord, thank You also for the men and ited Federal resources. We appreciate Burma and as America’s policies adjust women who gave their lives that we Secretary Burwell coming today to to those changes on the ground. He ob- might be free. help explain all of this. She and her viously has a lot of experience. I think Forgive us when our preoccupation team will provide a briefing to Senate it will prove valuable as he works to with selfish dreams keeps us from sur- leaders, committee chairs, and ranking represent our Nation at a time of truly rendering to Your will. Help us to members about a virus Americans are consequential change in Burma. strive each day to give You our best. rightly concerned about. Keeping Burma’s transition to a democrat- Guide our Senators. May nothing Americans safe and healthy is a top ically elected government is an impor- deter them from doing Your will. Lord, priority for all of us. I am looking for- tant mark of reform in a country with give them faith to meet each challenge ward to hearing what she has to say. a long and very troubled history. We with Your wisdom. Help them to give f know there is more to be done, but the themselves completely to You, permit- THANKING AMBASSADOR DEREK administration can take credit for its ting Your peace to guard their hearts. MITCHELL efforts, and so can Members of Con- We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, gress in both parties. Hopefully we can f turning to the nomination we will con- build on that momentum working to- sider today, our Ambassador to Burma, gether. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Derek Mitchell, has staunchly pursued f The President pro tempore led the America’s interests in an important NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS AND Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: post. He helped guide our relationship POLICY ENHANCEMENT BILL I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the with Burma through a historic transi- United States of America, and to the Repub- tion to elected government. He also Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, on lic for which it stands, one nation under God, served as a trusted and valuable part- one final matter, the regime in North indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. ner in understanding how best to meas- Korea presents serious threats to re- gional stability, to the security of f ure the pace and viability of reform within Burma. Americans, to the safety of our allies, RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY I have gotten to know Derek pretty and to the well-being of North Koreans LEADER well over the last few years. I offer to themselves. Pyongyang regularly threatens The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. him sincere gratitude for all of his ad- neighbors, such as South Korea and FLAKE). The majority leader is recog- vice and counsel. He will be missed. He Japan. It routinely engages in cyber nized. is a genuine expert on that country. And while he leaves big shoes to fill, I warfare. It repeatedly commits gross f intend to support the man nominated human rights violations against its to succeed him. own people and continues to develop a THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET f nuclear program that threatens peace Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, the in the region and throughout the President released a budget today. Con- NOMINATION OF SCOT MARCIEL world. The regime’s most recent dis- gress will review his final set of pro- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, play of belligerent behavior only un- posals and priorities—his call for new Scot Marciel has served as the Prin- derlines that the administration’s ap- taxes, new spending, and more debt. cipal Deputy Executive Secretary since proach has certainly not worked. Let’s

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VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09FE6.000 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S710 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 9, 2016 work together to change that. Let’s Luxembourg, and Trinidad—a number regarding Congressional efforts to respond to vote to move America’s policy in a bet- of countries that are extremely impor- the tragedy in Flint, Michigan and the expo- ter and more successful direction. tant to what we are doing here. It is a sure of its citizens to lead, a potent neurotoxin, through their drinking water. Last month the House of Representa- shame that they are being held by Re- The AAP supports federal efforts to pro- tives voted to pass comprehensive publicans. It is very unfortunate. vide immediate funding and other assistance sanctions legislation on a bipartisan f to the people of Flint, including the amend- basis. Tomorrow the Senate will turn ment offered by Senators Stabenow and to comprehensive sanctions legislation FLINT, MICHIGAN, WATER CRISIS Peters. While their proposal is a vitally im- that builds on what the House passed, Mr. REID. Mr. President, the people portant first step, we would urge the Senate and we should pass that measure on a in Flint, MI, continue to suffer through to provide additional funding for long-term bipartisan basis as well. educational, early literacy, nutrition, med- a catastrophic series of problems. Basi- ical, behavioral, and other assistance to this The North Korea Sanctions and Pol- cally, it is their water. It is heavily community. This includes, but should not be icy Enhancement Act was written by a contaminated. Their nightmare, which limited to: support for Head Start and Early Republican from Colorado, Senator began almost 2 years ago, is an emer- Head Start; quality child care; literacy pro- CORY GARDNER, and a Democrat from gency that requires a Federal response, grams; Medicaid and Children’s Health Insur- New Jersey, Senator BOB MENENDEZ, and that is what we have been trying ance Program enrollment; the Special Sup- and reported from the Foreign Rela- to do. In the case of emergencies like plemental Nutrition Program for Women, In- tions Committee. It would strengthen this, we must act to help Americans fants, and Children; school meals and after- congressional oversight. It would give school feeding programs; and mental health dealing with a public health crisis. screening and treatment. the President more tools to take action For weeks now, we have called on Re- There is no safe level of lead exposure for against North Korea’s growing aggres- publicans to work with us to provide children. Lead damage can be permanent and sion and require him to do so. It would assistance for the people of Flint— irreversible. Lasting decreases in cognition also reassure our regional allies that 100,000 people. Nine thousand children have been documented in children with blood we have not despaired in taking any under the age of 6 have been poisoned levels as low as 5 micrograms per deciliter of action against North Korea—with or in that little city in Michigan. It is lead in blood.’ It is therefore clear that the without help from China. very large by Nevada standards, but by children and families of Flint will need com- The kind of belligerence we have seen prehensive assistance in both the short- and Michigan standards, that city is not long-term. from Pyongyang must not be ignored. one of the bigger ones, but they need The AAP is eager to assist this commu- Let’s work together to make our coun- help. We need help from the Repub- nity, and federal policymakers, in both im- try and our world safer by passing this licans. Nothing is happening because mediate and longer-term solutions to this bipartisan bill. we haven’t had enough Republican sup- public health tragedy. Thank you for your consideration. If you have any questions, f port. In the meantime, the people of Flint, MI, are using bottled water to please do not hesitate to contact Ami Gadhia in our Washington, D.C. office. RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY bathe, to drink, to brush their teeth, LEADER Sincerely, and to cook with. That is really too BENARD P. DREYER, MD, FAAP, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bad. President. Democratic leader is recognized. This should not be a partisan issue. Mr. REID. I will only read a short f This is drinking water we are talking phrase or two out of the letter, which about. Everyone is entitled to pure, says it all: ZIKA VIRUS clean drinking water, and access to The AAP supports federal efforts to pro- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I said yes- safe water is a right every American vide immediate funding and other assistance terday and I say again today that I ap- deserves. Whether you live in Michi- to the people of Flint, including the amend- preciate very much the Republican gan, Texas, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, ment offered by Senators Stabenow and leader scheduling the meeting to talk Illinois—it doesn’t matter where you Peters. about the Zika virus today. As I indi- live, you shouldn’t be afraid to drink The letter goes on to say: cated yesterday, things crop up. I have the water that comes out of your fau- There is no safe level of lead exposure for been called to the White House at that cet. No one should have to suffer, but children. Lead damage can be permanent and same time, so I personally won’t be at the people of Flint, MI have suffered. irreversible. Lasting decreases in cognition the meeting, but I will have people Yesterday the American Academy of have been documented in children with blood Pediatrics wrote a long letter to me levels as low as 5 micrograms per deciliter of there to make sure that if there is any- lead in blood. It is therefore clear that the thing I missed, I will be brought up to and to Senator MCCONNELL. In this let- ter they said that this organization children and families of Flint will need com- date on that. Again, I appreciate the prehensive assistance in both the short- and Republican leader scheduling that representing 65,000 pediatricians and long-term. other pediatric specialists believes meeting. This is a letter from the American something needs to be done with the Academy of Pediatrics. These are peo- f water in Flint. ple who deal with children. They are Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- NOMINATIONS not politicians. They are willing to tell sent to have printed in the RECORD the Mr. REID. Mr. President, I am us that these children have been letter from the American Academy of pleased that we are going to be consid- poisoned. ering the Ambassador to Burma. Ev- Pediatrics. In order to do something for the chil- eryone knows the personal attention There being no objection, the mate- dren of Flint and other families, we rial was ordered to be printed in the Senator MCCONNELL has shown to the need help from my Republican col- country of Burma for many years. I am RECORD, as follows: leagues. Despite harsh words from sev- pleased we are going to get an Ambas- AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, eral Members of the Republican caucus sador to Burma. Elk Grove Village, IL, February 8, 2016. who have no interest in resolving the Hon. MITCH MCCONNELL, I hope everyone understands we are Majority Leader, U.S. Senate, crisis in Flint, some Republicans are really shortchanging the State Depart- Washington, DC. willing to help. For example, the senior ment. We have numerous people held Hon. HARRY REID, Senator from Oklahoma has been up. The Secretary of State has called Minority Leader, U.S. Senate, working with Senator STABENOW all me on several occasions lamenting the Washington, DC. weekend to put together an aid pack- fact that he is having trouble getting DEAR LEADERS MCCONNELL AND REID: On age that includes immediate funding the work done because we don’t have behalf of the American Academy of Pediat- for the people of Flint. Now we are the people to do the work. rics (AAP), a non-profit professional organi- once again waiting on Republicans to zation of 64,000 primary care pediatricians, Fifteen foreign policy nominations pediatric medical sub-specialists, and pedi- step forward and to support the chair are being held up by Republicans, and atric surgical specialists dedicated to the of the Environment and Public Works we have a number of Ambassadors who health, safety and well-being of infants, chil- Committee. It is incumbent upon the are being held up: Sweden, Norway, dren, adolescents, and young adults, I write Republican majority to get to ‘‘yes’’ to

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09FE6.002 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 9, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S711 help the people of Flint end this man- committee on Defense, I did something That was the state of play until the made emergency that is simply beyond that doesn’t happen around here very senior Senator from Arizona decided he their control. often. I had a hearing scheduled and was going to come to the floor repeat- All Americans deserve safe, clean brought together the CEOs of United edly and challenge this conclusion by drinking water, not just some of them. Launch Alliance, the traditional part- the Appropriations subcommittee, then I hope my Republican colleagues will ner of the Department of Defense in leading to an op-ed which he published choose to help us to pass legislation to launching satellites, and this new com- yesterday in the Wall Street Journal. I resolve this crisis, sending emergency pany, SpaceX. I invited the CEOs from come to the floor this morning to ad- funds to the people of Flint now. both companies to sit at the same table dress that op-ed by the senior Senator Mr. President, would the Chair an- and to answer questions from the Ap- from Arizona. It is titled: ‘‘Congress’s nounce the business of the day. propriations Subcommittee on Defense. Cynical Crony-Capital Gift to Putin.’’ Then, at the end of the hearing, I did The senior Senator from Arizona ref- f something that I thought might be erenced me by name in this article, as RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME positive and constructive. I said to he has repeatedly on the floor of the Senate, though many would argue that The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under each CEO: I would like each of you to write 10 questions that should be in the violates the Senate rules. Notwith- the previous order, the leadership time standing that personal aspect of this, I is reserved. record answered by your partner at the table there. If we haven’t covered ev- want to address the issue that is before f erything to give a fair exposition of us. Why does the senior Senator from MORNING BUSINESS where this issue stands today, now is your chance. Arizona continue to single me out per- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under That was in January 2014. It was the sonally? It is because I happen to agree the previous order, the Senate will be first time anybody had brought to- with the Secretary of Defense, the Di- in a period of morning business, with gether two potentially competing com- rector of National Intelligence, and the Senators permitted to speak therein panies and let them plead their case be- Secretary of the Air Force about a for up to 10 minutes each. fore the Appropriations Subcommittee vital, important national security The assistant Democratic leader. on Defense. But I felt this was the best issue. The senior Senator from Arizona f way to give SpaceX a chance to tell its disagrees with them. story as a new entrant into this com- The issue is deadly serious, despite NATIONAL SECURITY SATELLITE petition and for ULA to defend its posi- the name-calling by my colleague. It is LAUNCHES tion. about competition for launching de- Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I wish to We then decided there was another fense satellites into space. Here are the address an issue of vital importance to element that was important. United facts. One company, United Launch Al- America’s national security. It is the Launch Alliance has several engines liance, or ULA, held a monopoly for issue of reliable rocket launches— that can take a satellite into space. nearly 10 years. The cost of launches rose out of control. Today, there is fi- launches which the Department of De- The most economical one is built by nally an opportunity for competition. fense and the national intelligence the Russians, the RD–180. I happen to A new company I mentioned earlier, agencies count on on a regular basis to believe that it is not in our best secu- SpaceX, has entered space launch. launch satellites to keep America safe. rity interest to be dependent on the They are challenging ULA. As I said There is a separate area of launches Russians to supply us with a rocket en- earlier, in January 2014, I recognized with NASA involving the civilian side, gine for vital satellites to be launched this option—this possibility, this op- but this morning I want to focus pri- into space. So I started pushing in the portunity—and held a hearing with the marily on the Department of Defense Appropriations Subcommittee on De- CEOs of both companies testifying rocket launches. fense to put money into a competition under oath. The result of this competi- We made a decision about 10 years for an American-made, American-built tion is that costs are dropping, exactly ago that was wrong. Two companies rocket engine to replace the Russian what we wanted to achieve, and the that were competing at that time, Boe- RD–180. For 2 successive years we have taxpayer is beginning to see savings. ing and Lockheed, came forward to the appropriated more money for this com- However, as I mentioned earlier, the Federal Government and said: We have petition than the defense authorizing ULA rocket most often uses a Russian- a plan. Instead of our companies com- committee. built rocket engine, the RD–180. After peting, we will join together. We will It turns out that we are on the right the Russian invasion of Crimea and become one company—Boeing and track, but the timing is challenging. eastern Ukraine, the Department of Lockheed—for this purpose, under the What we have been told is that replac- Defense and Congress agreed it was term United Launch Alliance. They ar- ing the Russian engine with an Amer- time for us to phase out any depend- gued, convincingly at the time, that ican-made engine will take up to 5 ence on this Russian-made engine and this was the best way to come up with years. Who is the source of that state- to make an American product as soon affordable, reliable launches. Well, that ment? The Secretary of the Air Force. as possible. I couldn’t agree with that was true for half of the projection. So the obvious question is, If we can’t more. They were reliable. cut off the Russian engine today with- Developing and testing a new, Amer- In the last 10 years, the United out jeopardizing our national security, ican-made rocket takes time—more Launch Alliance has been a reliable what should we do? We decided in the time than I imagined. The Secretary of partner with the Department of De- current appropriations bill to extend the Air Force, testifying before the fense in launching satellites and other the authority to the Department of De- committee of the senior Senator from things into space which are critical for fense to take bids on rockets launched Arizona, estimated that it would take our national security. But, unfortu- by the Russian engine from ULA to at least 2021 or 2022 until there was nately, because they became a monop- through this fiscal year. I thought this an American-made rocket engine that oly, with no competition, they became was a prudent thing to do—to wean can replace the Russian engine that is increasingly more expensive and we ourselves from dependence on Russian- being used today. However, the senior had no place to turn. made engines—but to do it in a Senator from Arizona doesn’t want to Recently, there have been new en- thoughtful, sensible way that gave the wait that long to replace the Russian tries in this market in terms of launch- Department of Defense some options. engine. In his Wall Street Journal dia- ing satellites. One of the most prom- This request, incidentally, for options tribe, he writes that ‘‘we don’t need to ising is SpaceX. SpaceX, from its in- and flexibility came not just from the buy any more.’’ And he is apparently fancy, has matured into a company Secretary of the Air Force, but it came considering a total ban on the Depart- that could play an important role in from the Director of National Intel- ment of Defense using these Russian the future of satellite launches in the ligence as well as the Secretary of De- engines, despite the fact that we have United States. I noted this fact, and as fense. They said they needed these op- received, in writing, from the Sec- chairman of the Appropriations Sub- tions to keep America safe. retary of Defense and the Director of

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09FE6.003 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S712 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 9, 2016 National Intelligence a warning that engine. According to the Pentagon’s ten to our top defense and intelligence doing this would in fact create a gap top weapons buyer and ULA, each of leaders, who favor a responsible transi- which could endanger our national se- those rockets endorsed by the senior tion to the next rocket in the interest curity. Senator from Arizona costs about 30 of national security and oppose the In May 2015, the Secretary of Defense percent more than the Atlas rockets plans put forward by the senior Sen- and the Director of National Intel- with Russian engines. So if that figure ator from Arizona. ligence wrote to the chairman of the is correct, the plan of the senior Sen- One aspect of this article in the Wall defense authorization committee, and ator from Arizona requires American Street Journal that troubles me the they shared his goal of replacing this taxpayers to pay approximately $1 bil- most is the suggestion that I take Russian engine. But they warned the lion more in launch costs over the next lightly the adventurism of Vladimir senior Senator from Arizona that if he 6 years. This Senator, who comes to Putin and his bloody invasion of followed his own plan, it could harm the floor frequently telling us that he Ukraine. I am proud to be the cochair U.S. national security. They were is such a budget hawk, is proposing a of the Ukrainian Caucus with Senator alarmed, in this letter, of the proposed plan that will cost us at least $1 billion PORTMAN of Ohio. We have a large cutoff of access to Russian engines be- more over the next 6 years. That figure Ukrainian population in my State. I fore an American replacement was could be higher. His plan could triple have spoken to them many times, and ready. Secretary Carter and Director the cost of launches for some satellites I have visited Ukraine many times to Clapper do not want to trade one that are too heavy to be launched on a make it clear that I detest what Putin launch monopoly, ULA, for another single rocket. has done in invading their country and launch monopoly, SpaceX. They are en- Under the plan of the senior Senator threatening their sovereignty. The couraging and standing for competi- from Arizona, the taxpayers would foot irony is the senior Senator from Ari- tion. They want to keep them com- the bill for a new government-created zona personally invited me to accom- peting so they can have lower costs and monopoly. It is in fact a $1 billion pany him to Ukraine, where we both options if one of the companies, for windfall and gift to one defense con- protested Putin’s actions. To suggest whatever reason, is unable to meet its tractor in California if we follow the my position on these rocket engines is obligations. plan of the senior Senator from Ari- somehow a give-in to Putin is shame- Also, our defense and intelligence zona, and it would also put our na- less and wrong. I think my state- satellites must not be dependent on tional security at risk if there is a ments—public and otherwise—have one type of rocket. A SpaceX launch technical failure. made it clear. failed last summer, and it took 6 If spending $1 billion of taxpayers’ I yield the floor. months before they could return to money to increase the risk that the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- launches. With only one supplier of United States won’t be able to launch a jority whip. rockets, a crash could stop vital sat- satellite to keep track of Russia sounds f ellite launches for months, endan- like a counterproductive and question- THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET gering America’s national security. able idea, you would be right. Last The senior Senator from Arizona ig- year, the chairman of the Armed Serv- Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, this nored the arguments being made by the ices Committee said many times that morning at 11 a.m., the President re- Secretary of Defense and the Director the Defense authorization bill isn’t a leased the budget, his final budget for of National Intelligence. After all, it is budget bill. Now, as vice chairman of his Presidency. Unfortunately, rather hard for a Senator to argue with the the Appropriations Subcommittee on than something that sends a signal senior national security leader, Sec- Defense—the subcommittee that has to that he wants to work with Congress, retary Carter, whose doctorate is in make the math work—I can say that it is basically more of the same—a $4 theoretical physics, and it would be un- spending an extra $1 billion at this mo- trillion budget that is unserious, par- conscionable to call our Nation’s high- ment in the history of the Department tisan, and contains reckless spending. est intelligence official—a former Air of Defense doesn’t make sense. In it, he does include several new pro- Force pilot and career civil servant—a There is another aspect to this. I posals, proposals he knows will be dead ‘‘Putin crony.’’ don’t know if the senior Senator from on arrival here in the U.S. Congress. But I take warnings from our top na- Arizona is going to look into it or at- From my perspective, coming from tional security experts seriously. My tack it as well. When it comes to sup- an energy State, one pretty astounding Appropriations Subcommittee on De- plying the space station, we are reliant measure he suggested was putting a $10 fense has been working to address on Russian-made engines. If the senior tax on each barrel of oil. What that these issues the right way, the safe Senator from Arizona wants to cut off would do is translate into 25 cents a way. Rather than attack fellow Sen- access of NASA to these Russian-made gallon more for consumers at the ators in the press, the senior Senator engines, it will be a dangerous pro- pump. How in the world would that from Arizona should face the facts. posal. There are a variety of NASA help American families who are suf- When the Defense appropriations bill missions ahead that rely on this Atlas fering as a result of stagnant wages due was marked up in June of 2015, the bill rocket. These include multiple resup- to slow economic growth in this coun- included a bipartisan provision to ply missions to the International Space try as well as additional costs, such as allow the Department of Defense to Station, a mission to take samples ObamaCare, that have been imposed conduct full and open competitions for from a nearby asteroid, a new Mars upon them by the administration? The rocket launches for 1 year. An amend- lander, a probe to study the sun, and simple fact is that it doesn’t help the ment was offered by the Republican several weather satellites. average American family get by. It is senior Senator from the State of South If there is the will to ignore the na- the opposite. Carolina to strike that provision. But tional security concerns of the Sec- At a time when our country is pro- after a full debate, he withdrew his retary of Defense and the Director of ducing more energy domestically than amendment when it was clear there National Intelligence about access to it ever has and just beginning to export was bipartisan support for the bill. The space for national security, we had best that energy to our friends and allies provision was modified in conference, take care. The senior Senator from Ar- around the world, the President’s budg- but the effect of the provision remains izona will now say that supplying the et reveals that he has little interest in the same—to make sure that the De- space station is somehow a sellout to growing our energy independence and partment of Defense and the Director Vladimir Putin. little interest in jump-starting our of National Intelligence have some an- We have appropriated $448 million to economy. swer to their concerns about a launch develop all-American engines, which is All he has to do is look at Texas, monopoly. more than the Armed Services Com- North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and other The senior Senator from Arizona has mittee has authorized. In a few years, places to see how our domestic energy proposed another solution—that ULA we will have real competition for space production has helped create thousands offer another rocket called the Delta launches that will help lower costs for of jobs and helped grow the economy. IV, which, of course, is not a Russian a long time to come—but only if we lis- Instead, the President makes these job-

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True, they could go to of them becoming homeless, living on debt, which is already $19 trillion. court and seek a court order, seeking a our streets or in our jails and our pris- Somebody is going to have to pay temporary commitment to a mental ons when they commit petty crimes that back. In the meantime, what we institution, but that frequently exacer- such as trespassing and the like. will have to do is pay interest on that bates frayed relations among family Since 1960, more than 90 percent of debt, which will continue to crowd out members, and it stigmatizes the indi- State psychiatric beds have been elimi- spending in other areas like national vidual who is suffering from mental ill- nated—90 percent. But prison is a poor security where there is a national con- ness issues. and often very harmful replacement for sensus. This is the number one priority We need to give those families more a treatment facility. Our goal in the for the American people. and better choices on how to deal with hearing tomorrow is to work toward Strangely, but unfortunately predict- their loved ones, hopefully to keep another solution, one that would give ably, rather than deciding to work them from becoming a danger to them- families greater flexibility, including with Congress and to listen to the con- selves and to the community. Thanks actual treatment options for the people cerns that are raised by those hard- to the marvels of modern medicine, for they love. working American families, President many people suffering from mental ill- A bill I introduced, the Mental Obama went ahead and submitted a ness, if they will just follow doctors’ Health and Safe Communities Act, of- budget with no apparent interest in orders and take the medication that fers one proven approach to treating finding any kind of common ground. It has been prescribed for them—fre- mental illness. It borrows from a suc- is a sad testament to his go-it-alone quently under some doctor’s super- cessful model of reform, put into place legacy, which has been more ideolog- vision—many of them can get much in my hometown in Bexar County, TX, ical than actually solution oriented. better and become more productive in more than a decade ago. We are here to try to solve problems, society. Let me say a word about borrowing and the only way we do that is by One of our witnesses tomorrow will from these successful local and State working together to find consensus be Pete Earley who wrote a book called models as opposed to imposing a one- where we can. Understanding that ‘‘Crazy.’’ He is not talking about a per- size-fits-all approach at the national there are people who serve in the Sen- son. He is talking about our so-called level, not knowing whether it would ate and the House from different points system of mental health treatment. actually work in this big and diverse of view all across the ideological spec- Pete Earley wrote this book because, country we live in. I believe that tak- trum, it is only by working together— as an accomplished journalist and writ- ing successful examples of best prac- and that includes not just Congress but er, he knew of no other way than to tices at the local and State level— the President, too—that we can actu- write about the issue to help his very those are the best subject matter for us ally begin to help grow the economy to own son who had encounter after en- to look at in terms of scaling these up help create jobs, to help make America counter with the criminal justice sys- on a national level where appropriate. more secure. tem because he had untreated mental The Bexar County sheriff, Susan Given the fact that the President has illness. Pamerleau, a champion of mental decided to take the tack he has, I hope Sadly, the failure to adequately ad- health reform in San Antonio, will tes- that Congress will lead the charge dress mental health in the United tify tomorrow about the San Antonio against this request for irresponsible States has led to a drastic increase in story. Bexar County’s mental health spending and try to help get our econ- the number of mentally ill individuals program focuses on treatment of the omy back on track, to begin the proc- being locked up in prisons and jails, mentally ill instead of just putting ess of reducing our debt and strength- still without adequate treatment. I them behind bars and leaving them un- ening the hand of the American family. don’t think anyone would support the treated. The results have been very im- f idea of turning our prisons and our pressive. jails into warehouses for the mentally These reforms have reduced the size MENTAL HEALTH REFORM ill, but that is what has happened by of our overcrowded jails, which has Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, on an- default. been a perennial problem. It has saved other note, I wish to spend a few min- We need to provide better choices to tax dollars, and it has improved the utes talking about a very important law enforcement officials, to families, lives of people who otherwise would be hearing that we will be having tomor- and to the individuals who suffer from put behind bars and left to their own row in the Senate Judiciary Com- mental illness. So often many of them devices. mittee, something that I feel very pas- will self-medicate with drugs and alco- I look forward to hearing from Sher- sionately about, and that is finding a hol, compounding their problems, cre- iff Pamerleau tomorrow. I bet other way forward on mental health reform. ating more and more of this turnstile members of the Senate Judiciary Com- As shocking as it is, our jails and our effect within the criminal justice sys- mittee and anyone else who cares to streets have become places where peo- tem where no one ever gets better and listen will learn a lot about how we can ple suffering from mental illness basi- the illness never gets treated. bring these reforms to the rest of the cally are left without treatment and As criminologists and mental health country. without recourse. experts will tell you, locking up people Another part of this is to help equip Tomorrow I will have the honor of with mental illness without treatment law enforcement, teachers, judges, and chairing that hearing where we will will make them only more dangerous people who work in the courts with the discuss the intersection of our mental and increase the risk of crisis, but un- knowledge and skill set they need to health system such as it is and our fortunately this is an all-too-common spot mental illness early on. Wouldn’t criminal justice system, and hopefully practice across our country. it be more helpful if teachers, parents, we will be able to find a way forward to This is a shocking number to me and counselors were empowered to help push toward real reform. The goal of when I read it, but one estimate sug- identify people who need help early on the hearing is to better understand gests there are as many as 400,000 cur- in school? Doesn’t it make sense to how to bring help and support for those rent inmates in our prisons across train our law enforcement officials how who struggle with mental illness. America who suffer from some form of to deal with a person suffering from a This is an area where we can and we mental illness. That is because, at mental health crisis? Do you slap the must do better. Too often, after the least in part, the United States has cuffs on them? Do you get engaged in a fact, we find out that families faced witnessed a rapid decline in psychiatric violent confrontation? Or do you try to with the choice of allowing their loved and mental health hospitals over the deescalate the incident in a way that is

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This missile test, behavior through the use of targeted cludes specialized training for those on which has already been condemned by sanctions. The bill restricts access to the frontlines, such as law enforcement the U.N. Security Council, served as a financial resources and raw materials and judicial officials, so they are ready demonstration of the threat posed by that North Korea uses to support its to respond and can react swiftly and North Korea’s long-range missile pro- nuclear weapons program and operate safely should a mental health crisis gram. In fact, just a few hours later, its political prison and forced labor erupt. the satellite launched by the North Ko- camps. It levels mandatory sanctions The truth is that this is a difficult rean missile passed over the site of the against individuals who contribute to issue and one that raises hard ques- Super Bowl in Santa Clara, CA. North Korea’s ballistic missile develop- tions. But I am grateful to Chairman If equipped with a nuclear warhead, a ment and targets luxury goods the re- missile similar to the one launched GRASSLEY of the Senate Judiciary gime uses to maintain the loyalty of Committee for not shying away from this weekend could potentially threat- party elites. It also puts in place sanc- en the United States and our allies, this topic but embracing it and having tions against any entity determined to and North Korea is actively seeking to witnesses such as those we will have be enabling North Korea’s ability to market this same missile technology, tomorrow who I think will open the censor information, as well as those en- as well as its nuclear weapons tech- eyes of many people to something they gaged in money laundering, narcotics nology, to other rogue regimes. perhaps don’t encounter in their daily trafficking, and counterfeiting. The North Korea’s history of aggressive bill also includes discretionary sanc- lives because they don’t go to our jails behavior is already well known and or our prisons or they don’t have a tions that the U.S. President could use well documented. In March of 2010, a to target entities assisting North loved one who suffers from mental ill- North Korean torpedo sank the South ness. I think this will open a lot of Korea in misappropriating funds for Korean naval vessel Cheonan, killing 46 the benefit of North Korean officials. eyes, and it will help us continue the sailors. In November of 2010, North conversation so we can find some com- The President would have to justify Korea fired artillery on the island of any waivers of these sanctions on a mon ground and work toward real solu- Yeonpyeong, killing two soldiers and case-by-case basis. The bill also codi- tions. injuring an additional 15 soldiers and 2 Reform is long overdue. All you need fies into law the Presidential Execu- civilians. tive orders issued in 2015 following the to do is visit our jails, as I have done in North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Un cyber attack on Sony Pictures. Harris County, Bexar County, and Dal- continues to spout threats against the This is a multifaceted bill designed las County, to see that too often our United States and our allies. This past to target North Korea’s weapons pro- jails are occupied by people who—yes, year, when South Korean citizens sent grams, human rights abuses, and the fi- they may have committed petty leaflets with unfiltered information nances of government elites. And it crimes, nonviolent crimes, but they into North Korea, the regime re- will do so with minimal impact on the really need some help. If we give them sponded with threats to turn the whole lives of everyday North Koreans who the help, they can turn their lives of South Korea into a ‘‘sea of fire.’’ continue to suffer at the hands of their around and become more productive. After the January nuclear test, a North own government. It will save taxpayers money, and I Korean spokesman said: ‘‘North Korean Last week I introduced legislation think it will be a much more humane scientists are in high spirits.’’ The addressing another threat posed by and efficient system of dealing with statement went on to claim that North North Korea. As I stated before, North people suffering with a mental health Korea detonated an H-bomb, which we Korea is actively seeking to market its crisis. I am hopeful we can advance now know to be untrue, and added that nuclear weapons technology to other substantive legislation to help those the bomb was ‘‘capable of wiping out rogue regimes. In fact, the Syrian nu- struggling with mental illness and the whole territory of the U.S. all at clear reactor destroyed in 2007 is based their families and, as a result, make once.’’ These threats are so common on a North Korean design. My bill our communities safer. now that they barely make the news. would ensure that North Korea can’t Mr. President, I yield the floor. North Korea is not only a threat to sell its technology to another rogue re- I suggest the absence of a quorum. the United States, it is also a threat to gime—Iran. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The its own people. It is estimated that Although President Obama’s nuclear clerk will call the roll. 150,000 to 200,000 North Koreans are im- deal seeks to prevent Iran from acquir- The legislative clerk proceeded to prisoned in concentration camps. We ing a nuclear weapon, many of us re- call the roll. can confirm the existence of these main skeptical. And with the North Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask camps from satellite photographs and Korean regime strapped for cash, its unanimous consent that the order for firsthand accounts. These are not nuclear weapons and missile tech- the quorum call be rescinded. camps for what we would consider nology are some of the few commod- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without criminals but for individuals deemed ities it can offer, and it actively tries objection, it is so ordered. disloyal to the regime. The ‘‘crime’’ of to market them to other rogue re- f a single family member—which can be gimes. something as simple as accidentally My bill seeks to prevent Iran from NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS tarnishing the photo of a member of becoming a potential customer for ENFORCEMENT BILL North Korea’s hereditary dictator- North Korea’s nuclear weapons tech- Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I rise to ship—can lead to an entire North Ko- nology. Under my legislation, if Iran discuss the bill that will be coming be- rean family being sent away to a labor attempts to acquire nuclear weapons fore the Senate this week, the North camp. technology from North Korea, all sanc- Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act, The brutality of these camps has tions waived or suspended as a result of which seeks to curb North Korea’s un- been confirmed by those who have the President’s nuclear deal would be acceptable behavior through the imple- made it out. To date, more than 28,000 reinstated immediately. A nuclear mentation of targeted sanctions. North Korean defectors have escaped armed Iran is unacceptable. On January 6 of this year, North and made it to South Korea. Tens of Regardless of what the President Korea tested a nuclear weapon in open thousands more are still in China, claims his Iran nuclear deal has violation of numerous U.N. resolutions. often working as cheap laborers who achieved, we must remain vigilant and This is the fourth time North Korea become victims of human trafficking. ensure that Iran keeps its end of the has conducted a nuclear weapons test, The stories of those who have es- agreement and does not go after a nu- and it is estimated the country may caped Kim Jong Un’s regime carry a clear weapon.

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I lieves, as he has shared with me and capped, we are not getting on top of hope we will see similar bipartisan sup- with the American people publicly, the big issues that we face. port for the bill here in the Senate. We that if the government overspends a Where do we go from here? In 1974 should not compromise the national se- little bit, that stimulates the economy. this Congress created the Congres- curity of the United States with dis- Well, that might be true in some eco- sional Budget Act, which set up the putes between our political parties. I nomic formula, but when our interest process of how we would actually do hope my colleagues on both sides of the payments are larger than total what our budget every year. It is a very in- aisle feel the same and will join me in we spend for defense, we are in a spiral teresting process with the House and moving this bill forward. that we cannot sustain. Senate passing budgets, putting them Mr. President, I yield the floor. We cannot keep saying we will add together, going through the process I suggest the absence of a quorum. more debt every year and there is no and getting everything to the Presi- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The reckoning for that. Our total debt right dent. All the timing and everything clerk will call the roll. now exceeds our gross domestic prod- was set up with appropriations bills The senior assistant legislative clerk uct. Literally, if we took from every and how they would be done with all proceeded to call the roll. single American in the entire country the deadlines. Interestingly, since 1979, Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, I ask all of their income for the entire year the Congressional Budget Act, in the unanimous consent that the order for we could not pay off our debt. way that it was set up, has only the quorum call be rescinded. We are very much at a tipping point. worked two times—twice since 1979. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The problem Congress faces is Congress Would anyone else admit that there is objection, it is so ordered. never seems to act until we have to, a problem with that setup? Coming out f and, in this time, in an economic crisis, of Watergate in 1974, they wanted more when we have to, it is too late. How do BUDGET REFORM transparency and an open process we get on top of that? How do we stop doing the budget. So they created this Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, bragging about how much the deficit process that is so cumbersome that today the President of the United has been cut and actually start reduc- since 1979 it has only worked twice. States unveiled the last budget of his ing our debt? Many Americans don’t To give more up-to-date details, in Presidency: $4.1 trillion. Of that, $1.1 hear the difference between the debt the last 10 years we should have passed trillion is discretionary spending, and the deficit because they don’t live 118 appropriations bills. Of the 118 ap- which is the amount Congress will dis- in this world of all of these different propriations bills, only 7 of those indi- cuss over the next few months. terms. Deficit is how much we over- vidual bills were passed on time. We It is no big secret that Presidential spend in any one year; debt is the accu- have a problem just in basic process. budgets typically are dead on arrival— mulation of all of those deficits. So allow this Senator to just throw this one especially so, obviously, as it Washington continues to talk about out a few ideas to recommend to this is the last one of the President’s term. how in the last 6 years we have cut the body that we consider. If we are going It is a requirement of the 1974 Budget deficit by $1 trillion. And that is a good to fix our debt and deficit, we have to Act. The President turns in his budget thing, but the problem is that in the look at the process of executing our by the first Monday of February. It is last 10 years, the debt has also doubled budget to fix it. actually now into the second week. It as deficits are still so large every sin- Here are a few thoughts. A biennial is a week late, but it is closer to on gle year, and that is a problem. budget—if we don’t do a budget every time than the budgets of other Presi- So what do we do with this? I would year, we should do a budget every 2 dents have been in the last few years. say there are multiple things. No. 1, we years. We are dealing with trillions of There are a lot of wish list items in are not going to get out of this in any dollars. We should do a little bit of ad- the President’s budget. It also includes one time period. This body needs to un- vanced planning. We should be able to about $3.4 trillion in new taxes over the derstand that this is not a car payment do that at least 2 years in advance to next 10 years. It increases spending by we are paying off. This is a really big be able to lay out how we are actually $2.5 trillion over the next 10 years, in- jumbo mortgage. We are not going to going to do the spending. We could do cluding next year. The challenge in the pay this off in 1 year, and we are not appropriations every single year to be President’s spending plan is that he in- going to fix it in one stroke. This is able to provide the accountability, but creases spending so much that we also going to take multiple years of picking at least the major budget process we continue to increase the deficit, the away at this. should do every 2 years. debt, and our interest payments. I have reminded several of my col- We should get rid of the budget gim- This body should realize that on the leagues of one sobering fact: If we were micks that dominate this body in how current track, the Congressional Budg- to balance our budget and set this 10- we ‘‘balance our budget.’’ Budget gim- et Office and the President’s budget year time period to actually balance micks such as pension smoothing, cor- that he released today forecast that the budget, if the next year after the porate timing shifts, and all of our fa- within the next 10 years, the United balanced budget we had a $50 billion vorites—CHIMPS, or changes in man- States of America will spend more on surplus as a nation, it would take 460 datory programs, which everyone out- interest on our debt than we spend on years in a row of $50 billion surpluses side of this city thinks is a monkey, national defense. I want everyone to to pay off our debt. For twice as long and everyone inside this city knows it soak that in. Within 10 years, the Fed- as we have been a country, if we had a is a great budgeting technique. eral taxpayer will spend more on inter- $50 billion surplus every year, we could Here is how some of these work. Here est on our debt—our debt payments— pay off our debt. At some point we is an example from October’s budget than we spend on national defense. have to admit this is a really big issue. agreement. A pension payment accel- When the President came into office, CBO, the Congressional Budget Of- eration in section 502 changed the due there was $10.6 trillion in total debt. fice, as all of us know in this room, date for pension premiums from Octo- The President’s budget lays out a plan continues to rattle us and remind us ber 15, 2025, to September 15, 2025, in that by the end of his budget, there that this debt is continuing to grow order to get $2.3 billion into the ten- will be $27.4 trillion in total debt. This and we do not have the resources to do year window. Now what just changed is an issue for us, and it continues to it. For the first time since 2009, our there? They moved the payment time accelerate. And until this body and deficit will rise again next year to $544 30 days forward and so that is when it until the House and until the White billion. That is up 24 percent from just is due. Since they moved it 30 days for- House agree this is a problem, it will this last fiscal year. As we continue to ward 10 years from now, suddenly that not be solved. have more individuals who retire and is another $2 billion into the Federal

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It is a gimmick. don’t have the appropriations done, the fighting for as a nation and what kind There are the changes in mandatory Executive Office of the White House, of a nation we are. programs that go out, such as the the House, and the Senate get another It is important to remember the fact Crime Victims Fund. That is a fund of haircut, and we continue to press. that these forms of torture not only money that is expected to be spent, but There are ways that we can add pres- failed their purpose to secure action- should we actually not spend part of it, sure to ourselves that won’t actually able intelligence to prevent further at- they will say: Great, we can take that damage what is happening in the rest tacks on the United States and our al- part we were ‘‘expected to spend’’ and of the Nation. lies, but they compromised our values, actually spend it this year. Then guess Why don’t we pass a balanced budget stained our national honor, and did lit- what; next year you spend it again, and amendment, which we have talked tle practical good. While some have next year you spend it again. It is a about forever and which we voted on in shamefully sought to minimize the gimmick. That should be struck. We 2011 and has not come up again? We practice of waterboarding, it is clear to shouldn’t have gimmicks like that. will never get to some of these meas- me that this practice, which is a simu- Those things make Congress look good ures until Congress is compelled to do lated execution by drowning, amounts but don’t actually deal with our deficit the right thing. Let’s put some proc- to torture as any reasonable person would define it and how the Geneva and debt. There are rules that are in- esses in place beginning with our budg- Conventions on the treatment of pris- ternal that need to be fixed. We need to et process, with real reform in how we oners of war, of which we are signato- get real numbers and be able to have do the budget and real structural ries, define it. agreeable real numbers. changes to actually push this body to Right now there is a big argument all The use of these methods by the do what everyone outside of this body United States was shameful and unnec- the time saying: How does the budget says needs to be done. essary because the United States has balance against the President’s budg- In the days ahead when we are spend- tried, convicted, and executed foreign et—this particular baseline and that ing more on interest than we are on na- combatants who employed methods of particular baseline? How about this: tional defense, this body should hang torture, including waterboarding, We have a lot of programs that have its head in shame. But before that oc- against American prisoners of war. not been authorized—some of them for curs, we should fix it so that never hap- Following World War II, Japanese gen- more than a decade—though we con- pens and we get on top of our debt and erals were tried, convicted, and hung. tinue to allocate money for them every deficit with a straightforward process One of the charges against them was single year. Authorizing programs as that actually gets us back to work. that they practiced waterboarding. we do for national defense every single With that, I yield the floor. Contrary to assertions made by some year is important, and we should actu- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- of the defenders, it provided little use- ally do the work with that to be able to ator from Arizona. ful intelligence to help us track down bring bills to the floor and to be able to Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I ask the perpetrators of the September 11 get it done. unanimous consent to address the Sen- attacks or to prevent new attacks and We have reports from the GAO and ate in morning business and be allowed atrocities. from the IG that come out every year to complete my remarks, which won’t This Senator knows from personal showing waste, yet many of those no be too long. experience that the abuse of prisoners one ever acts on. Three folks I see on The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without will produce more bad than good intel- the floor right now—Senator FLAKE objection, it is so ordered. ligence. I know that victims of torture and Senator MCCAIN from Arizona and f will offer intentionally misleading in- my office—have all put out waste re- WATERBOARDING formation if they think their captors ports in the past 5 months detailing will believe it. I know they will say billions of dollars in waste. We can Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, today is whatever they think their torturers identify these areas, and the inspector the 100th New Hampshire Presidential will want them to say if they believe it general’s office and the GAO can iden- primary. Regardless of who wins, this will stop their suffering. Most of all, I tify these areas. We need to set a proc- is a celebration of our vibrant democ- know that the use of torture com- ess in place to actually solve those racy of engaged citizens putting can- promises that which most distin- issues. Then we can do more than talk didates to the test and demanding an- guishes us from our enemies—our belief about it. We can move it from just a swers on the tough issues the next that all people, even captured enemies, messaging moment to solutions on our President will confront. possess basic human rights that are debt and our deficit. It is also another important step in protected by international conventions I recommend a measure such as the choosing our next Commander in Chief, the United States not only joined but Government Shutdown Prevention Act and the stakes couldn’t be higher. As for the most part authored. that says we don’t have a government we heard from the Director of National I understand that in the aftermath of shutdown. I understand some are very Intelligence this morning, the threats the worst terrorist attacks on our romantic about government shutdowns to our Nation are growing more di- homeland, those who approved harsh and what they would accomplish. Gov- verse, more complex, and more dan- interrogation methods and those who ernment shutdowns always cost more gerous. More than ever we need a Com- used them were sincerely dedicated to money for the taxpayer than they save. mander in Chief with a clear vision, a securing justice for the victims of ter- They cost a tremendous amount of tur- steady hand, sound judgment and con- rorist attacks and protecting Ameri- moil in the Federal workforce and mul- fidence—not only in our Nation’s power cans from further harm. I know that in tiple places. but in the values and ideals that gen- the aftermath of the terrorist attacks There is an easier way for us to han- erations of American heroes have in Paris and San Bernardino, many dle this. Congress only acts when we fought for and died defending. Americans feel again the grave urgency have to. When we have a government That is why it has been so dis- that we felt 15 years ago. But I dispute shutdown, we suddenly have to act. appointing to see some Presidential wholeheartedly that it was right for How about if we do something simple candidates engaged in loose talk on the our Nation to use these interrogation and straightforward, and we put in campaign trail about reviving methods then or that it is right for our place something that at the end of the waterboarding and other inhumane in- Nation to use them now. budget year, if we do not have a budget terrogation techniques. It might be Waterboarding, as well as any other in place and do not have proper appro- easy to dismiss this bluster as cheap form of torture, is not in the best in- priations done, we have a short-term campaign rhetoric, but these state- terest of justice, security or the ideals

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Last year, the Sen- lead we got in the search for bin Laden ceed to executive session to consider ate passed in an overwhelming vote of came from using conventional interro- the following nomination, which the 91 to 3 the National Defense Authoriza- gation methods. I think it is an insult clerk will report. tion Act for fiscal year 2016, legislation to many of the intelligence officers The senior assistant legislative clerk that took a historic step forward to who have acquired good intelligence read the nomination of Scot Alan ban torture once and for all by limiting without hurting or degrading prisoners Marciel, of California, a Career Mem- U.S. Government interrogation tech- to assert that we cannot win this war ber of the Senior Foreign Service, niques to those in the Army Field Man- on terrorism without such methods. Class of Career Minister, to be Ambas- ual. That vote was 91 to 3. There was Yes, we can and we will. sador Extraordinary and Pleni- debate and discussion about it in the In the end, torture’s failure to serve potentiary of the United States of Armed Services Committee and on the its intended purpose isn’t the main rea- America to the Union of Burma. floor of this Senate. The vote was 91 to son to oppose its use. I have often said The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- 3. and will always maintain that this ator from Arkansas. Now candidates are saying they will question isn’t about our enemies, it is Mr. COTTON. Mr. President, I ask disregard the law. I thought that was about us. It is about who we were, who unanimous consent to speak for up to 2 our complaint—Republicans’ com- we are, and whom we aspire to be. It is minutes. plaint—with the present President of about how we represent ourselves to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there the United States. the world. objection? The U.S. military has successfully in- We have made our way in this often The Senator from Maryland terrogated more foreign terrorist de- dangerous and cruel world, not by just Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask tainees than any other agency of our strictly pursuing our geopolitical in- unanimous consent to speak for 2 min- government. The Army Field Manual, terests but by exemplifying our polit- utes also. in its current form, has worked for the ical values and influencing other na- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Will the U.S. military—including on high-value tions to embrace them. When we fight Senator so modify his request? terrorist detainees in Iraq, Afghani- to defend our security, we fight also for Mr. COTTON. I do modify my re- stan, and elsewhere—and it reflects an idea that all men are endowed by quest. current best thinking and practices on their Creator with inalienable rights; The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without interrogation. that is, all men and women. How much objection, it is so ordered. Moreover, the Army Field Manual safer the world would be if all nations Mr. COTTON. Mr. President, I rise embodies the values Americans have believed the same. How much more today in support not only of the nomi- embraced for generations, preserving dangerous it can become when we for- nation of Scot Marciel to be our Am- the ability of our interrogators to ex- get it ourselves, even momentarily, as bassador to Burma but to celebrate the tract critical intelligence from our ad- we learned from Abu Ghraib. Our en- remarkable change Burma is under- versaries while recognizing that tor- emies act without conscience. We must going. ture and cruel treatment are ineffec- not. It isn’t necessary, and it isn’t even I recently traveled to Burma, leading tive interrogation methods. helpful in winning this strange and a congressional delegation hosted by Some of the Nation’s most respected long war we are fighting. our Embassy there, Ambassador Derek leaders from the U.S. military, CIA, Our Nation needs a Commander in Mitchell, and Deputy Chief of Mission and FBI supported this legislation, as Chief who understands and affirms this Kristen Bauer. well as numerous human rights organi- basic truth. Our Nation needs a Com- Burma has undergone a remarkable zations and faith groups, including the mander in Chief who will make clear to transition. After 50 years of a brutal National Association of Evangelicals those who fight on our behalf that they military dictatorship, Nobel Laureate and the U.S. Conference of Catholic are defending this sacred ideal and that Aung San Suu Kyi and her party won a Bishops. sacrificing our national honor and our landslide election in November. The GEN David Petraeus, a military lead- respect for human dignity will make it military is still entrenched in power, er whom I admire more than literally harder, not easier, to prevail in this but gradual change is occurring, in any living military leader, said he sup- war. Our Nation needs a Commander in part thanks to U.S. policies. It is ported the use of the Army Field Man- Chief who reminds us that in the worst change we should continue to support. ual because ‘‘our Nation has paid a of times, through the chaos and terror Sitting at the intersection of China high price in recent decades for the in- of war, when facing cruelty, suffering, and India, Burma is a geostrategically formation gained by the use of tech- and loss, that we are always Ameri- critical country. Sitting, as it does, be- niques beyond those in the field man- cans—different, stronger, and better tween the crossroads of Southeast Asia ual—and, in my view, that price far than those who would destroy us. and the Middle East, it is critical to outweighed the value of the informa- I yield the floor. the War on Terror. Burma can be a po- tion gained through the use of tech- tent trading partner because of its niques beyond those in the manual.’’ f largely untapped natural resources and Obviously, that includes waterboard- is a shining example of the strategic ing. RECESS impact of U.S. moral leadership in the Why don’t we listen to people like The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under world. GEN David Petraeus, who has had vast the previous order, the Senate stands Those elections were not the end of experience in Iraq and Afghanistan in recess until 2:15 p.m. the work, though; they are only the be- with detainees, the information we Thereupon, the Senate, at 12:36 p.m., ginning of the work. The military still have gotten from them, and our prac- recessed until 2:15 p.m. and reassem- has a deep role in the Constitution. tices. If General Petraeus were here, he bled when called to order by the Pre- The National League for Democracy would tell you the most effective meth- siding Officer (Mr. PORTMAN). needs to transition from an opposition od of gaining information is estab- party to a governing party. Burma lishing a friendly relationship with the f must address its internal ethnic con- detainee. flicts, and, like most countries, it Obviously, we need intelligence to CONCLUSION OF MORNING needs to address corruption and eco- defeat our enemies, but we need reli- BUSINESS nomic reforms as well. Our mission able intelligence. Torture produces The PRESIDING OFFICER. Morning team in Rangoon is working on all more misleading information than ac- business is closed. these matters and more. I know that

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09FE6.012 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S718 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 9, 2016 Ambassador Marciel looks forward to [Rollcall Vote No. 19 Ex.] are printed in today’s RECORD under leading that team and continuing to YEAS—90 ‘‘Statements on Introduced Bills and strengthen the U.S.-Burma relation- Alexander Ernst Merkley Joint Resolutions.’’) ship. Ayotte Feinstein Moran Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I suggest Baldwin Fischer Murkowski I yield the floor. the absence of a quorum. Barrasso Flake Murphy The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Bennet Franken Murray clerk will call the roll. ator from Maryland. Blumenthal Gardner Nelson Blunt Gillibrand Paul The legislative clerk proceeded to Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I rise to Booker Grassley Perdue call the roll. join Senator COTTON in urging our col- Boozman Hatch Peters Boxer Heinrich Portman Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, I ask leagues to vote for the confirmation of Brown Heitkamp Reed unanimous consent that the order for Scot Marciel to be Ambassador to Burr Heller Reid the quorum call be rescinded. Burma for the reasons Senator COTTON Cantwell Hirono Roberts The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. pointed out. Capito Hoeven Rounds Cardin Inhofe Schatz LANKFORD). Without objection, it is so There are exciting things happening Carper Isakson Schumer ordered. Casey Johnson Scott in Burma. It is a country in transition. f We have seen some promise. There are Cassidy Kaine Sessions Coats King Shelby COMPREHENSIVE ADDICTION AND still major challenges in that country. Cochran Kirk Stabenow RECOVERY ACT We clearly need a confirmed ambas- Collins Klobuchar Sullivan sador. It is important that the Senate Coons Lankford Tester Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, I rise Corker Leahy Thune act, and I am glad to see we will be act- Cornyn Lee Tillis today to simply say to Chairman ing in a few moments. Cotton Manchin Udall GRASSLEY and the Judiciary Com- We couldn’t have a more qualified Crapo Markey Warner mittee: Thank you for being willing Daines McCain Warren this week to have a markup and to leg- person to take on the ambassadorship Donnelly McCaskill Whitehouse of Burma than Scot Marciel. He cur- Durbin McConnell Wicker islate and report out a bill with regard rently serves as the Principal Deputy Enzi Menendez Wyden to the prescription drug and heroin epi- Assistant Secretary of State for East NOT VOTING—10 demic we now face around our country. The legislation is called the Com- Asia and Pacific Affairs. I got to know Cruz Rubio Toomey him very well in that capacity in the Graham Sanders Vitter prehensive Addiction and Recovery last Congress when I chaired the sub- Mikulski Sasse Act, or CARA. It focuses on several Risch Shaheen committee of the Senate Foreign Rela- areas. One is prevention and education tions on East Asia and the Pacific. He The nomination was confirmed. to try to keep people from making the is a career diplomat who has taken on The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- wrong decision and going down the some of the most challenging positions ator from South Dakota. road to addiction, but another is to en- in Foreign Service, including being the Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask courage States and provide incentives Chief of Mission in Indonesia. He has unanimous consent that the motion to to local governments and nonprofits to devoted his life to these challenges. I reconsider be considered made and laid use evidence-based treatment and re- know he will do an excellent job rep- upon the table. covery that has been proven to work to resenting U.S. interests in Burma. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without try to deal with this epidemic. objection, it is so ordered. Today we have unfortunately higher I urge our colleagues to support the Under the previous order, the Presi- levels of death from drug overdoses nomination. dent will be immediately notified of than we do any other accidental cause Mr. President, I yield back the time. the Senate’s action. of death—more than car accidents, for The PRESIDING OFFICER. The f instance. In my own home State of question is, Will the Senate advise and Ohio, this has been true for the last consent to the Marciel nomination? LEGISLATIVE SESSION couple of years. We lost over 2,400 Ohio- Mr. MENENDEZ. I ask for the yeas The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under ans last year to drug overdoses. Part of and nays. the previous order, the Senate will re- the legislation also addresses this issue sume legislative session. directly by providing our law enforce- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a The Senator from South Dakota. ment and other first responders—fire- sufficient second? f fighters, EMS—with Narcan, also There appears to be a sufficient sec- known as naloxone, which is a miracle ond. MORNING BUSINESS drug to bring people back if they over- The clerk will call the roll. Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask dose. The senior assistant legislative clerk unanimous consent that the Senate be Finally, the legislation helps to get called the roll. in a period of morning business, with prescription drugs out of the hands of Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators Senators permitted to speak therein the wrong people. There has been over- are necessarily absent: the Senator for up to 10 minutes each. prescribing over the years, and so our The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without from Texas (Mr. CRUZ), the Senator legislation encourages getting these objection, it is so ordered. from South Carolina (Mr. GRAHAM), the drugs off the bathroom shelves so they Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I suggest Senator from Idaho (Mr. RISCH), the can’t be used and having a drug-moni- the absence of a quorum. Senator from Florida (Mr. RUBIO), the toring program to tell if someone has The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nebraska (Mr. SASSE), been prescribing these drugs. It would the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. clerk will call the roll. be national in scope, so if someone The senior assistant legislative clerk TOOMEY), and the Senator from Lou- can’t get prescription drugs in one lo- proceeded to call the roll. isiana (Mr. VITTER). cation, they don’t go across the State Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I ask line to get them somewhere else. Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the unanimous consent that the order for Sadly, these narcotic painkillers have Senator from Maryland (Ms. MIKUL- the quorum call be rescinded. caused a lot of the concern out there SKI), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without because sometimes they are given ap- SANDERS), and the Senator from New objection, it is so ordered. propriately—maybe for pain—but they Hampshire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) are nec- Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I ask are overprescribed, and then someone essarily absent. unanimous consent to speak in morn- uses them to the point that they be- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there ing business. come addicted and later turn to heroin any other Senators in the Chamber de- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without because heroin is so much less expen- siring to vote? objection, it is so ordered. sive. The result was announced—yeas 90, (The remarks of Mr. MCCAIN per- This is an issue that affects the nays 0, as follows: taining to the introduction of S. 2519 whole country. In my own State, it

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09FE6.017 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 9, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S719 looks as if the per capita use in the Senator PORTMAN, I am sure you are opioid epidemic. I am pleased at this rural areas is higher than it is any- getting the same letters. I would en- small step, but let me tell you about where else, including the inner city or courage all our colleagues to read just this small step. They said that now our suburban areas. But no ZIP Code is one letter a week from a family whose they are going to be serious about the immune from this; we are all affected lives have been changed. They have dangers of prescription drugs, and they by it. In Ohio, over the last week, there lost a husband, they have lost their said they are going to finally start lis- have been two incidents where people childhood, or they have lost a dear tening—mind you, listening—to the ad- have overdosed while behind the wheel. family member. It has destroyed their vice of their advisory committee. Oh, In one just a couple of days ago, some- family life as they knew it. They can’t that is wonderful; they are going to lis- one overdosed on heroin while his kids get a job—a first-time felony offense, ten to them now. That means they were in the backseat, and he had a bad and they are out of the workforce now. haven’t really been listening to them crash. Luckily, the children were not If you talk to law enforcement, there up until now, but they are going to injured badly. This continues to hap- is not a law enforcement agency in start now. pen again and again. And of course America today that will not tell you What they don’t tell you is they are much crime is being committed to pay that 80 percent of their crimes are drug not going to be required to take the for the habit. related. Theft, arson, robbery—what- recommendation of their experts. A This is an effort at the Federal Gov- ever it may be, it is around drug abuse. perfect example is Zohydro. It took us So I come to the floor to continue to ernment level to work with State and 3 years to get all opiates—Vicodin and share the story of millions of Ameri- local governments and with nonprofits Lortab, which are the most prescribed cans—most importantly, of some of my to address this growing problem, the pain relievers and pain pills in the very dear West Virginia family mem- epidemic of prescription drugs and her- country—3 years to get the FDA to bers—who have had this. oin abuse. change that from a schedule III to a I encourage the Judiciary Committee I applaud the good Senator from schedule II, even after I went person- to move swiftly with this legislation. Ohio. All of us are working. This will ally, when I was first in the Senate 5 There is a markup scheduled on Thurs- go through a normal process, I hope. It years ago, to the advisory committee day so we can move this legislation to will be an open amendment process, the floor of the Senate, get it to the and we are all going to make a piece of and they voted overwhelmingly that, House, and get it to the President for legislation and maybe for the first time yes, this should be a schedule II. With- his signature. start changing the culture in America, in the bureaucracy, the FDA took 3 There seems to be not only bipar- starting right here in Washington, DC, years. The day they did that and made tisan but nonpartisan support for this with the Food and Drug Administra- that piece of legislation or that rule legislation. In other words, this is not tion. I will talk about that too. saying that now it will be schedule II, a political issue but something that af- West Virginia has been hit the hard- we saw the immediate effect. It took fects us as fathers, mothers, brothers, est per capita. Just this past year, 600 1.1 billion—billion with a ‘‘b’’—pills off and sons. I hope the Senate will take West Virginians have died—in a State the market. Twenty-two percent of the on this issue. with less than 2 million people. The amount of opioids on the market were I was in Ohio yesterday meeting with American people are drowning under reduced immediately within the first some women who are recovering ad- the weight of prescription opioid abuse. year. Within a week of their finally dicts, and they told me their stories. Nationally, more than 51 people die agreeing to go from a schedule III to a Many of them started on prescription every day—in my State, Oklahoma, schedule II, which controlled the pre- drugs sometimes because of an acci- Ohio, all across this great Nation. scriptions, they came out and approved dent. They talked to me about how the The FDA must get serious about the Zohydro against the wishes of their ad- grip of addiction is so great that it re- dangers—we have been speaking about visory committee, 11 to 2. Now you tell quires real courage and real resilience this—of prescription drugs, and this me why that product came to market. to be able to come through it. We want will not be accomplished without a sig- So I have legislation that says: Lis- those women and others to be able to nificant change in the culture. It starts ten, when you are not going to take live out their God-given abilities and with them. their advice and you don’t recommend not to be afflicted by this addiction, Although the FDA announced that or you don’t basically agree with your which is really a disease. This legisla- the agency will be taking steps in the advisory committee, you have to come tion we have before us is a step in the right direction to address these prob- to the people’s representatives—that is right direction. lems, it is not enough and more needs us—and tell us why you think this ad- I encourage my colleagues on both to be done. Let me explain why. The dictive drug needs to be on the market. sides of the aisle to support it and to FDA’s No. 1 priority must be public I believe we have to do things and move it to the President so we can health and well-being—nothing else. take important steps. What we have begin to help local communities, neigh- Yet time and again the FDA has stood basically turned a blind eye to is unbe- borhoods, and our States be able to ad- in the way of efforts to address the lievable. dress this growing problem. opioid abuse epidemic and improve Let me explain what I think goes on I yield back my time, Mr. President. public health. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- The FDA plays a critical role in the and what goes on. This is of such an ator from West Virginia. epidemic as the agency overseeing the epidemic proportion that we are afraid to talk about it. If you have a child in f approval. Let me make sure we under- stand. This starts with a prescription. your family who is addicted, if your PRESCRIPTION DRUG ADDICTION A legally licensed company makes mother or father or maybe you or your Mr. MANCHIN. Mr. President, first, I medicine for pain reduction, if you wife is addicted, you are afraid to talk say to my colleague from Ohio—Sen- will, pain suppressant, an opiate, and about it. It is kind of a shame, so we ator PORTMAN, who is a dear friend— then they bring that to the FDA, and kind of try to take care of it. Guess that we all have it; you are right, it is the FDA goes through a process of what. We can’t even find treatment nonpartisan. This has no home. This evaluating it to see if it should go on centers to help people. And then you has affected every American family the market. They go through an eval- can’t afford it if you can find it—most one way or another. There is not a per- uation—or their committee, basically people in America—and most of the son I know in my State or in the good an oversight committee—and then they times you can’t. State of Ohio that doesn’t have a fam- say this is a product that should be on So there are two things that have to ily member—immediate family, ex- the market or should not. Many times be done. First, and I am as guilty as tended family—or close friend who the FDA has gone against the advice of anybody here—the last 20 years I hasn’t been affected by legal prescrip- their own advisory committee. thought: Boy, if you are going to use tion drug abuse. We are looking at a These are things we have to protect these drugs and abuse them, that is a whole cultural change that needs to go the American public from. Why? crime. I am going to put you in jail. on, and I am on the floor to share let- So last week they decided to slightly You are going to pay the fine for that, ters with you. improve the agency’s response to the a penalty.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09FE6.025 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S720 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 9, 2016 Well, guess what. It hasn’t worked. It’s my first thought in the mornings and my this is not partisan. This should not be They go in addicted and come out ad- last thought at night. It changed my life, bogged down because of who gets cred- dicted. All we did by convicting them taught me alot of life lessons but it also left it, who doesn’t get credit, or whose and putting them in jail is give them a me with alot of heartache. fault it is. We are all to blame, and we felony. Now they can’t get a job. Now And unanswered questions—as I told all can share in changing the culture of they are out of the workforce. Next, you, the rescheduling took 2 years. Ba- drugs in America—legal drugs. they come out more addicted than sically, you could get Vicodin and Most drug addicts today—people who when they went in. Lortab that were schedule III at this are addicted—will tell you if they are As Americans, we must say: Listen, time, and all you had to do was keep on heroin or illicit, harder drugs, they this is an illness, and an illness must calling in. You never had to see the started with legal drugs that were in be treated. You can’t just throw them doctor after the first visit. They can their prescription cabinet, in the medi- in the jail and say out of sight, out of give them to you 90 days at a time or cine cabinet that their mom had or mind; it will take care of itself. So even longer. They were like M&M’s. So that they had. This is what has to once we change that—and we have when we went from schedule III to change. This is why—Dr. Robert Califf enough courage here politically to do schedule II, that knocked it down. It is being recommended by the Presi- that—then we will start moving in a took at least a billion that we know of dent; he is a good man with a stellar cultural change that will basically be off the market, and we are hoping resume, a stellar performance, very able to take on this epidemic. maybe even more. So that is what hap- honorable. But the culture that he We are fighting on that. I continue to pened. comes from is basically from a re- go into all of this, but I have always This is Helen’s story: search institution and a research uni- come here and I have said: Listen, all My husband and I were married for over 21 versity that has been funded by the of you in the State of West Virginia, years. We had two daughters together and I pharmaceutical industry. That is just please get on my Web site, expected to grow old with him and enjoy our the way they say it is done. So they are manchin.senate.gov. It is very simple. grandchildren. He worked in a factory for funding the clinical research, and then And all of us have our Senate Web over 18 years. Part of his job was moving 55 we are expecting Mr. Califf to come sites. Share with me your life-altering gallon drums of different types of fluids. He into this industry, into the FDA, and letter. Tell me what happened. worked full time. Sometimes 6 days a week. make the wholesale changes. He sprained his back and was prescribed I need—and I think we all need—for We have been getting them by the pain medicine. The doctor he was going to hundreds. They are coming from all gave him the maximum amount— America to find somebody who has over my State, and they are in every gone through a life-changing event and At that time it would have been more State. I am sure Oklahomans will send who has all of the experience and all of than 90 days probably, and he didn’t the Presiding Officer theirs too. the education to be able to go into that I am going to read two stories. This have to go back because it felt so agency and say: Listen, we are not brings to light everything we are talk- good— going to give you a prescription just as ing about and why we must be success- allowed by law for about six years. a frontline in the first line of defense ful in fighting this horrific epidemic. As time went on, he needed a higher dose because I know the chances of it chang- This is Kylie’s story: for it to be effective. Taking more caused ing your life are greater than my help- him to run out before the next refill. He In 1994 my dad broke his shoulder. started going through withdrawals. Instead ing you and giving you relief. We all have accidents in our families. of going to the emergency room to get help, Until we have that and until that He had to have surgery. He was on pre- he took his life. Now I have no husband, my permeates clear down through, it will scription narcotics from 1994–1996— children have no father and my grand- not change. Tell me how the CDC—the Now you tell me why he was allowed children do not have a grandpap. Centers for Disease Control within the to be on them and why the doctor kept The stigma surrounding all of this is what agency of DHHS—is able to start re- kept him from getting the help he needed to sponsibly recommending guideline prescribing them for 2 years. That is get off those pills. the biggest problem— changes for how we are going to pre- We have said it is a silent killer. he became addicted in those 2 years. After scribe and how doctors should be the doctor would no longer prescribe— They were afraid to talk about it. They trained before they prescribe these life- Finally, maybe the doctor came to couldn’t go to anybody, didn’t know altering drugs. Then, within the FDA his senses— where to turn, and didn’t have any they are fighting against it, and they types of treatment centers that would are within the same agency of the him pain medication, he’d illegally purchase them off of the street. His life literally re- bring him off of that. HHS. So it is deep-rooted, and it has to volved around his pain medication. His pain The Friday before he ended his life, I spoke be culturally changed from the top. It medication money came before our bills. with a doctor and told him he needed to get doesn’t change from the bottom with- There were a few times we could not have off those pills and get dried out. He didn’t in. Christmas or Easter because he used all of want to be admitted and they let him go. So if this good man would withdraw our money to purchase these drugs. I have 2 They knew he was desperately his name and let us move on, I would sisters. Eventually, he started buying more hooked. be tickled to death, because he is a potent drugs when he couldn’t find anyone to good person and he can be very helpful buy prescription pain pills off of. Heroin, Co- Why do pharmaceutical companies market caine, you name it, he’d buy it. My mother drugs that cause normal people to give up on in his knowledge. But I don’t think he eventually filed for a divorce and that made their families and life? Why do doctors allow can drive the change that needs to be him so much worse. He started using more their patients to take something so long and done for us to save the families and and more. build up such a tolerance for it? I will never children and moms and dads across find the answers to these questions and it is He used more because of depression America. too late for him now. I yield the floor. on top of that addiction. It sickens me to read of others going On February 23, 2007, I stayed home from I suggest the absence of a quorum. through this and there just doesn’t seem to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The school, I was a junior in High school in be an end to it. clerk will call the roll. Clarksburg. I woke up at 10am, went to This is why I am standing here. I face check on my dad who had been having drug The legislative clerk proceeded to withdrawals, I found him dead. He’d found it every day. I go home. There is not a call the roll. drugs and overdosed while I was asleep, leav- person who doesn’t come up to me Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I ing me there to find him. It’s something I knowing that basically their lives have ask unanimous consent that the order carry with me everyday. I don’t have many been changed and knowing now that for the quorum call be rescinded. memories of my father interacting with us they can speak to somebody. I am The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without kids as a father should. I only have the bad making it a point to give them the objection, it is so ordered. memories of him going above and beyond for comfort of speaking to me. I protect Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I drugs. Even back then, if the prescription their identity. I try to get them help. ask unanimous consent to speak as in drug problem wouldn’t have been so bad, I feel like he’d still be here today. There has to be a way. As my good morning business, and will the Pre- I remember exactly how he was laying friend from Ohio and the Presiding Of- siding Officer advise me when 20 min- when I found him. I remember everything. ficer, my good friend from Oklahoma— utes has expired.

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Mr. President, very specific sort of prescription, one some of the work we need to do. today I would like to report some good that is more likely to help me and less Here is my view about mandatory news about the work of the Senate that likely ever to hurt me. funding: I don’t want to get the cart should be of interest to every single I attended the President’s ceremony. before the horse. When I was Governor American family; that is, that we are I told him afterward that we would do of Tennessee and we needed a new road moving ahead in the Senate on a pack- our best to incorporate his Precision system, people would say to me: Are age of 50 bipartisan proposals that will Medicine Initiative into our work in you going to raise the gas tax? I said help move medical devices, medical the Senate on our Biomedical Innova- we are not going to talk about the gas cures, and medical drugs through the tion Project. tax. There are lots of different ways to long, expensive, regulatory process and The House was making good progress pay for the road. You can borrow the into medicine cabinets and doctors’ of- on its 21st Century Cures project. So I money. You can use discretionary fices, where they can help patients. We told the President: Mr. President, I money. You can raise the fuel tax. You call this our Innovation Project. It is a can’t imagine why we can’t get a result can build a toll road. We are not going companion to work that has been done in this Congress. to talk about any of that. First, we are in the House of Representatives al- Since that time, the President has going to decide on what we want to do. ready that they call their 21st Century announced a cancer task force that What we decided to do was to have Cures Act. It is also work that Presi- Vice President BIDEN is leading to three big road programs to attract the dent Obama has talked about in impor- work to speed up treatments and cures auto industry suppliers to Tennessee, tant ways. The reason that the House for cancer. The House has passed its and it worked. has already done its work, that the 21st Century Cures Act. In our com- The decision we made after we de- President has talked about this in his mittee in the Senate during the past cided what we wanted to do was in that State of the Union Address, and that year we have held 10 bipartisan hear- case to raise the fuel tax three times we in our HELP Committee in the Sen- ings, including 6 on how to improve the because we didn’t want any road debt. ate have been working for a year to de- electronic medical records systems We have among the best roads in the velop 50 bipartisan proposals that we that hospitals and doctors are using. country and zero road debt, and we hope to bring to the floor of the Senate We have had five bipartisan staff work- have the auto industry. That worked is because we have never had a more ing groups that have met or held brief- out pretty well for us 30 years ago. I exciting time in biomedical research in ings more than 100 times in the last would like to apply the same sort of America than today. We are talking year, and the result of their work has thinking here. about actually curing some cancers, been 50 bipartisan legislative pro- I don’t want to talk about how we not just treating cancers. We are talk- posals. As I said, every single one of pay for something before I decide what ing about using 3–D printing to actu- those has support from Democrats as the something is. Here is the some- ally help replace knees. well as Republicans on the committee. thing I am thinking about. I am think- I was in a medical device office in Today in our committee we debated ing about something called the NIH— Memphis a few weeks ago, and that and approved the first 7 of these bills, National Institutes of Health—Innova- company told me that in one-third of which included 12 of the 50 bipartisan tion Projects Fund; five areas, in addi- the cases where it sells knee replace- proposals I just mentioned. We had an tion to the things we normally fund ment equipment, it also sells a tool to open process. Any Senator who wished and do that require extraordinary sup- the doctor made with 3–D printing so to could have offered an amendment. port, one-time support for ideas that that if he or she—the doctor—is replac- The bills have had so much work on have a start and a finish. In other ing the knee of the Senator from Okla- them that there weren’t any amend- words, they are not built into the budg- homa, the doctor uses this tool that is ments, but they were important pieces et for a long period of time. just made especially for the knee of the of work. The National Institutes of Health Di- Senator from Oklahoma and virtually Our committee probably is the most rector would have the authority to di- eliminates the possibility of a mistake diverse in the Senate. I know that is rect allocations of this fund to specific by the doctor in that surgery. The saying a lot, but if you look up and areas of importance. The five areas of company told me it not only uses 3–D down the Democratic and Republican importance I have in mind are helping printing in one-third of the cases but aisle, we span the whole spectrum. the President launch his Precision that it could easily do it in all of the Last year we worked together, despite Medicine Initiative and an American cases and expects it will soon. our differences of opinion, and pro- Young Investigators Corps. At our hearing about 3 weeks ago, I duced a bill to fix No Child Left Be- We have heard from Dr. Collins, the asked Janet Woodcock, the head of the hind. A lot of people thought we head of NIH, and many others how im- Center for Drug Evaluation and Re- couldn’t do that. I expect the same sort portant it is to have young investiga- search at the Food and Drug Adminis- of bipartisan effort led by Senator tors have enough money to give them tration, if there had ever been a case of MURRAY, the senior Democrat on her the money to do their research. The a 3–D of printing of a drug, and she side, and me as chairman, to work well BRAIN Initiative, all of us are stag- said, yes, there had been one. They for us again. gered by the prospect of the personal have used 3–D printing to manufacture We have a second markup of legisla- anguish that Alzheimer’s and other a medicine for epilepsy. tion scheduled for March 9 and a third brain diseases will cause individuals That is not all. Last year when the for April 6. My expectation is that and their families, and we are excited President announced his Precision after we meet these 3 times and con- about the prospect of relieving that an- Medicine Initiative, he introduced a sider 50 legislative proposals, when we guish. We know how much this is going young man whose cystic fibrosis had are finished it will all add up to bipar- to cost us—in the tens and tens of bil- been cured by a new medicine, which tisan companion legislation to the lions of dollars. If we can find a way to he takes every day. While that only House’s 21st Century Cures legislation, develop new understandings of neuro- benefits some cystic fibrosis patients, and our legislation will include impor- logical disorders, which help discour- the drugs that are used to cure that tant elements of the President’s Preci- age Alzheimer’s disease or prevent it or number of patients are the same kind sion Medicine Initiative in his Cancer deal with it, it saves money as well as of drugs they believe eventually will Moonshot. saving anguish. A Big Biothink cure every patient with cystic fibrosis. The 21st Century Cures Act, the Award—Dr. Collins had suggested this On that day, the President an- House bill, includes $9.3 billion in so- in some of his testimony. During this nounced what he calls his Precision called mandatory funding over 5 years, exciting time, let’s let each of the 24 Medicine Initiative and that he wanted mostly for the National Institutes of Institutes that fund grant awards at

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Let’s see first, and let’s take the things we dis- We approved it unanimously, and it what comes out of this remarkable agree on and do those later, but most is ready for the Senate to consider. country of ours when we challenge important, just as Senator Kennedy did Senator BURR, a Republican, and them in that way. Then the Cancer with Senator ENZI, just as the full Sen- Senator FRANKEN, a Democrat, offered Moonshot—now that the President and ate did last year on fixing No Child the FDA Device Accountability Act of the Vice President are involved in this Left Behind, we kept in our mind get- 2015. This legislation would help move way, we want to make sure we do all ting a result. innovative medical devices ahead— we can to take advantage of curing I said on the floor many times last such as artificial knees, insulin pumps some cancers as well as treating some year that if all you want to do is make for people with diabetes, stents for peo- cancers. There may be some aspects of a speech or assert your point of view, ple who have suffered a heart attack— that effort that have a start and a fin- you can stay home. You can get your and new surgical tools that can get ish that could be part of what I call own radio program. You don’t have to bogged down in the FDA. In other NIH Innovation Projects Fund. travel as much. There is no need for words, we want to keep the safe and ef- I go into some detail about my Inno- you to come to the U.S. Senate. You fective gold standard, but we want to vation Projects Fund proposal because can have your say here, but if you real- get these devices through the system we may be able to fund these needs in ly want to do your job here, you can as rapidly as we can, at the lowest cost the regular appropriations process, but work with other people and see if we we can, so people can afford and use I am willing to consider using manda- can get a result, especially when we are them. tory funding for these five areas be- talking about issues that affect every Senator BALDWIN and Senator COL- cause, No. 1, they have a start and a American family in such an important LINS—Democrat and Republican—of- finish. They help jump-start. They are way. fered a bill called the Next Generation limited. In that sense, they are not I am determined to get a result. I am Researchers Act. We know that bio- subject to being appropriated forever, delighted I have the opportunity on medical research is our best weapon as appropriations often are. No. 2, I be- this committee to work with the Sen- against diseases, illness, and death, and lieve we should reduce other manda- ator from Washington, Mrs. PATTY we can’t afford to lose young scientists tory funding in order to use this man- MURRAY. She is a strong Democrat. to other countries, so this bill helped datory funding. We should be about She is the leader of the Democratic to attract young scientists by pro- setting priorities in the Senate. I can- caucus, but because of her leadership moting opportunities at the National not think of a more important priority and her interest in getting a result, we Institutes of Health. than biomedical research. This is what Senator COLLINS had to I mentioned we have 50 legislative were able to succeed last year. I be- say about that: proposals for which we have bipartisan lieve, working with her and the other support, but we do not have bipartisan Members of our committee, we will be If you asked Dr. Francis Collins—the head of NIH—whether the bill that Senator BALD- agreement in the Senate committee on able to succeed this year. WIN and I have sponsored is important to at- how to deal with any of these items The House of Representatives has done its work. It has passed the 21st tracting and keeping young researchers, be- that are paid for by mandatory fund- lieve me he would say yes. ing, and neither do we have enough Century Cures legislation. The Presi- Senator KIRK, a Republican, Senator money within the jurisdiction of our dent has made his proposals for preci- BENNET, a Democrat, along with Sen- committee to deal with it. So we will sion medicine and for a cancer moon- ator HATCH, Senator MURKOWSKI, Sen- deal with both the Innovation Projects shot. He talked to all of us during his ator ISAKSON, and Senator COLLINS, in- Fund and the mandatory funding—if State of the Union Address in the last two sessions. We have worked for a troduced another piece of legislation, that is what it turns out to be to pay S. 800. This bill will help millions of for it—once the bill comes to the floor. year in our committee to produce 50 bi- Americans with disabilities, illnesses, We have to decide first what pro- partisan legislative proposals that and chronic conditions that require grams we want and then how to pay for should go through the committee and them. We should do that on the floor. be ready in early April to come to the them to go to medical rehabilitation. We know we will have to have 60 votes floor. Senator KIRK, a stroke victim, spoke to do it in that way that includes man- The majority leader, Senator MCCON- movingly about the importance of that datory funding. We had some experi- NELL, has said to me, and he has said to bill. ence with that. all of us, that even though this is a This morning, Senator COLLINS said: Last year we had some very difficult Presidential year and we have less time If you ask stroke victims whether the re- issues with the Elementary and Sec- here, he is still looking for important habilitation bill that we passed is important, ondary Education Act. I had one of ideas that benefit a large number of they would say yes. them that had to do with vouchers. Americans that have bipartisan sup- There were four other bills we en- That drives some people on the other port and that the President will sign acted. The one by Senator ISAKSON—we side of the aisle up the wall. If I in- into law. I can’t think of a single piece didn’t enact it—we approved it by com- sisted on putting the scholarships for of legislation that the Senate could mittee. Senator ISAKSON and Senator kids proposal that I had on the bill in consider this year that fits that defini- MURPHY had legislation on advancing the committee, the bill may never have tion better than our companion legisla- research for neurological diseases. gotten to the floor. Senator FRANKEN, tion to the House of Representatives’ This is what Senator COLLINS said on the other hand, had an important 21st-Century Cures legislation. about that one: piece of legislation to him on discrimi- I wish to say a word about the legis- If you asked families that are struggling nation, but if he had gotten that on the lation we passed today. As I men- with neurological diseases such as Parkin- bill in the committee, it would never tioned, these were all bipartisan pieces son’s, MS, or Alzheimer’s, whether the bill have gotten to the floor. We agreed, of legislation. The first one was intro- that is on the agenda today is important, since we needed 60 votes to get a re- duced by Senator BENNET, Senator they would say yes. sult—and a result is what we want and WARREN, Senator BURR, and Senator Senator MURRAY offered the Pre- the American people expect us to get— HATCH. It had to do with rare diseases venting Superbugs and Protecting Pa- that we would withhold our controver- such as cystic fibrosis. tients Act, which is based on incidents sial amendments until the floor and see This is what Senator SUSAN COLLINS that happened in her home State of if we could develop bipartisan support of Maine said about that piece of legis- Washington. on the floor to have at least 60 votes lation during the debate in our com- Finally, Senator MURRAY and I of- and get a result. mittee: fered legislation to improve electronic We followed, in our Education bill, If you ask the parents of sons or daugh- medical records. Our committee did the rule that the late Senator Kennedy ters—primarily sons—with muscular dys- not set out to deal with electronic

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Mr. President, I also ask unanimous Many rare diseases, like Cystic Fibrosis, The Senator asked to be notified when consent to have printed in the RECORD, have multiple genetic mutations, making it he reached 20 minutes, and he has following my remarks, the summary of difficult for researchers to find enough pa- reached 20 minutes. The Senator still tients with the same mutation for a clinical each of the seven bills our committee has the floor. trial. This bill will help expand the success- approved today. Mr. ALEXANDER. I thank the Pre- ful treatment of people suffering from rare siding Officer very much. I will com- I thank the Presiding Officer, and I diseases like this. plete my remarks. I see the Senator yield the floor. SENS. BURR (R–N.C.) AND FRANKEN (D–MINN.)— from Florida is here. There being no objection, the mate- THE FDA DEVICE ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2015 (S. 1622) Before I yield the floor, I wish to rial was ordered to be printed in the make a brief statement about the leg- RECORD, as follows: These innovative medical devices, items islation Senator MURRAY and I intro- like artificial knees, insulin pumps for peo- duced. The electronic medical record SENATOR COLLINS REMARKS AT INNOVATION ple with diabetes, or stents for people who system in this country is in a ditch. MARK-UP have suffered a heart attack, or new surgical tools to minimize scarring and reduce post- Doctors and hospitals that use it have Before I turn to the bill that I am honored surgery complications, can get bogged down come to dread it. to cosponsor with Senator Baldwin, which at the FDA. This bill reduces unnecessary addresses a real problem of keeping our The administration recognizes that regulations while maintaining the gold young researchers at NIH, I do want to re- there are problems. They haven’t taken standard of safety and efficacy to keep us spond to some of the earlier comments that all of my advice about what to do safe. about it, but I do give them credit. I have been made about the approach we are taking today. SENS. BALDWIN (D–WISC.) AND COLLINS (R– thank Secretary Burwell, Dr. Karen First—I want to commend the Chairman MAINE)—THE NEXT GENERATION RESEARCH- DeSalvo, the National Coordinator for ERS ACT (S. 2014) Health Information and Technology, and the Ranking Member for scheduling these important bills for markup by this and the head of CMS, Andy Slavitt, for Biomedical research is our best weapon committee. against disease, illness and death and we working with our committee, Senator If you ask the parents of sons and daugh- can’t afford to lose young scientists to other MURRAY and me, to try to find ways to countries or professions because they’re frus- make the electronic medical record ters—primarily sons—with muscular dys- trophy who suffer from Duchenne’s, a very trated by the lack of opportunity or fund- system something that genuinely helps rare kind of muscular dystrophy, whether ing—so this bill helps attract talented young patients and that doctors look forward the bill that we just approved is important, scientists by promoting opportunities at the to instead of dreading. We have to do believe me they will tell you that it is. National Institutes of Health (NIH). this because almost every advance we If you ask stroke victims whether the re- SENS. KIRK (R–ILL.), BENNET (D–COLO.), HATCH need to make in biomedical innovation habilitation bill that we passed is important, (R–UTAH), MURKOWSKI (R–ALASKA), ISAKSON depends upon this. Certainly the Presi- they would say yes. If you asked families (R–GA.), AND COLLINS (R–MAINE)—THE EN- dent’s Precision Medicine Initiative ab- that are struggling with neurological dis- HANCING THE STATURE AND VISIBILITY OF solutely depends upon our getting elec- eases such as Parkinson’s, MS, or Alz- MEDICAL REHABILITATION RESEARCH AT NIH tronic medical records right. Perhaps heimer’s, whether the bill that is on the ACT (S. 800) the most important piece of legislation agenda today is important, they would say This bill will help millions of Americans we approved today, among those seven yes. with disabilities, illnesses and chronic condi- pieces of legislation, was doing what If you asked Dr. Francis Collins—the head tions that require them to go to medical re- we could do in legislation to get the of NIH—whether the bill that Senator Bald- habilitation and prevension. For example, this is important to people who have suffered electronic medical record system out win and I have sponsored is important to at- tracting and keeping young researchers, be- from strokes, 800,000 happen every year in of the ditch and onto a better track so lieve me he would say yes. the U.S. according to the Centers for Disease that doctors use it rather than dread Control. This bill ensures that the NIH is fo- And the fact is that this congress has come it. We are counting on the administra- cusing on research into helping these people, together and approved a much needed $2 bil- and others who suffer from debilitating ill- tion to continue to work with us to fin- lion dollar funding increase for NIH—that is nesses each year. ish that job. the largest increase for NIH’s budget since I believe this is good news for the 2003 we also approved, and I know this well SENS. ISAKSON (R–GA.) AND MURPHY (D–CONN.)— American people. It means we are on a because I was Chairman of it as part of the THE ADVANCING RESEARCH FOR NEURO- path, step by step, to do our part of the bipartisan Alzheimer’s task force—nearly a LOGICAL DISEASES ACT OF 2015 (S. 849) 60% increase in Alzheimer’s funding bringing job. This bill will help people with neurological us to $936 million. Is it enough? Given that There was some debate in our com- diseases like Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, we spend billions caring for people with Alz- mittee about whether the bills we were and Alzheimer’s by helping to advance our heimer’s—no. passing were important. understanding of these diseases and helping I ask unanimous consent that fol- The National Advisory Council on Alz- researchers access data on these diseases in lowing my remarks, Senator COLLINS’ heimer’s says we need to spend $2 billion per order to discover new therapies and cures. comments, which remind us why each year. But to imply that a 60% increase in funding for Alzheimer’s research is nothing; SEN. MURRAY (D–WASH.)—THE PREVENTING of the seven pieces of legislation is im- is just not accurate. There is widespread bi- SUPERBUGS AND PROTECTING PATIENTS ACT portant, be printed in the RECORD. partisan support for biomedical research be- (S. 2503) There was some talk about the fact cause there simply is no investment that If you would ask patients and families or that we disagreed about the level of promises greater returns for Americans than anyone who has undergone a procedure in a mandatory funding or whether to do it that investment. hospital or outpatient facility that involve at all. We disagreed about that. We It not only leads to discoveries and the de- reusable medical devices—and if you asked don’t have bipartisan consensus on it, velopments of effective new treatments for the people of the states of Washington and but we do have bipartisan consensus on families who are coping with these diseases Illinois—whether they thought this legisla- 50 legislative proposals that we need to but it also can have a dramatic impact on tion was important, they would say yes. move ahead, and we will move ahead the budgets of families, states and the fed- There was a tragic outbreak of antibiotic- with them. Twelve of the 50 were done eral government. I am pleased with the resistant infections linked to contaminated today, and the rest will be done in progress we are making, I support the ap- scope devices in Sen. Murray’s home state of proach that the chairman has taken and I Washington, where the devices were not early March and early April. believe that the bills that we are considering being properly disinfected between oper- My hope is that by early April, the at this markup and at the upcoming March ations, and this bill helps FDA in its work to Senate will be able to join the House of 9 markup are important bills that will make ensure that reusable devices like these are Representatives and President Obama a real difference to American families. safe for patients.

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AND MURRAY (D– order to sustain human life and go all robotically remove, in this case, the WASH.)—THE IMPROVING HEALTH INFORMA- the way there—land, survive, reignite prostate cancer by removing the pros- TION TECHNOLOGY ACT (S. 2511) off the surface of Mars—and, by the tate without damaging the nerves and If you asked doctors, hospitals, or patients way, I commend the Matt Damon without cutting the human body open, who want access to complete and useful pa- movie ‘‘The Martian.’’ The author of which takes so much more time to tient records to both deliver care and under- the book which the movie came from heal, instead of just sticking six holes stand more about their own health—and I think that’s most Americans—whether they actually consulted with a number of in. That came directly out of the space think this bill is important, they would say folks, including one of my crewmates, program. It is being used to develop an yes. on the propulsion, how to get to Mars image-guided autonomous robot for use This bill takes several steps to get health a lot quicker. That propulsion uses in the early detection of breast cancer. records flowing between doctors, hospitals, magnets and plasma as its fuel and Let me give my colleagues another and patients to help realize the promise of thrust to get us to Mars, and instead of idea. When we get on a modern airliner health information technology by turning the conventional 8 to 10 months, we today and we look out the window and these systems from something that doctors could get there in as little as 39 days. we look at that swept-back wing, what and hospitals dread into something that ac- But those are to-be-developed tech- do we see out there on the tip of the tually helps patients. nologies. wing? The wing doesn’t just stop as it The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Let me mention a couple of things we normally does; it curves up. This is ator from Florida. are developing. Folks often argue called a winglet. The winglets have Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, I ask about the NASA budget, which back in these upturned features. They save bil- unanimous consent to speak for up to the lunar days the Apollo Program was lions of dollars in fuel costs. 20 minutes. as much as 4 percent of the entire Fed- Now, with NASA technology at the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without eral budget. Now it is about one-half of Langley Research Center and now the objection, it is so ordered. 1 percent. In the process of divvying up tests conducted at the Dryden Flight f the dollars out here, we pull and tug Center—now named, after the first as- THE PRESIDENT’S SPACE because people will ask: Why do we tronaut on the moon, the Armstrong PROGRAM BUDGET need to go to Mars? Why do we need to Flight Center—this winglet technology go to an asteroid in preparation to go was released to Boeing, and it has Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, I come to Mars? Why do we need a space pro- saved the airline industry more than 2 to the floor to speak about the Presi- gram when we have so many needs here billion gallons of jet fuel, and it has dent’s proposal with regard to our on Earth? That is a legitimate ques- saved more than $4 billion in jet fuel space budget, the civilian space pro- tion. What is the legitimate answer? costs and a reduction of almost 21.5 gram, and NASA. Of course we have Do you appreciate the fact that we million tons of carbon dioxide emis- many other space programs, primarily have MRIs and CT scans? MRIs—mag- sions, just by the design of the wing. national security, but now there is a netic resonance imaging—and CT That technology came directly out of commercial space program. We are see- scans—computer-aided tomography— NASA. ing the burgeoning commercial space technologies that are used routinely Here is another example. All of this industry in the NASA budget. We are today to help us so much in a diagnosis is coming back to this: Why go to amazed by the rockets which can take of what is wrong or what is right in our space? Well, we go to space because our the first stage—instead of throwing it own human bodies and is part of this nature is that we are explorers and ad- away when it lands in the Atlantic medical miracle that we know as mod- venturers. We go there because we Ocean after a launch from Cape Canav- ern medicine—they came straight out haven’t been there. We go there to ex- eral—under powered flight, even with- of the space program. plore. Our nature is one of pioneers. out parachutes, can come back and In the 1960s, NASA had to find a safe The frontier is now not westward, as it land on a specific spot, just as SpaceX landing spot for the Apollo lunar land- was in the beginning of this country, did in its first stage in a launch about er amid all of that Moon surface and but upward. So that is certainly a rea- 2 months ago. We are seeing commer- all of that dust. So what happened was son to have the space program, but let cial space. the engineers at JPL out in California me tell my colleagues more of how it The fact that these things we carry developed a digital scanning process applies to our daily lives. around in our pockets that we loosely using high-frequency sound waves, How about fortified baby formula? refer to as phones that know exactly magnets, and computers. In addition to Early 1980s research on regenerative where we are at any time is as a result making six successful Moon landings, ecosystems led to a method of algae- of a constellation of satellites up there this technology was tweaked, adapted, based food supplements that provide called GPS that triangulate and cal- improved, and it led to CT scans and the long-chain polysaturated fatty culate exactly where we are. It is abso- MRIs. acids that support brain and eye devel- lutely amazing to me that my latest How about robots in the use of mod- opment and function. So this led to a gadgetry acquisition—a Fitbit—can so ern medicine? How about robots in the spinoff product called Formulaid, sensitively understand what my heart use of the manufacturing process? which was patented in 1996. It can now rate is at any moment, can measure Well, my colleagues will remember the be found in over 90 percent of infant distance, and gives me all kinds of in- one thing on the space shuttle that had formula sold in the United States as formation about the functioning of the the name of another country; it was well as those sold around the world. human body. the Canadarm. It was the robotic arm I will give another example: image Well, this didn’t just accidentally ap- that was birthed in the cargo bay of sensors—image sensors to enhance cell pear. Where in the world did a lot of the space shuttle. It was used to de- phone cameras. In the 1990s, a NASA this come from? It came from the space ploy, maneuver, and capture payloads. team had been improving digital image program. I wish to talk about that, but It has now been the forerunner of the sensors in order to miniaturize cam- first I want to underscore something. neuroArm, a surgical device that has eras on spacecraft while maintaining Other than its pioneering, for example, successfully performed dozens of tumor the scientific image quality. So this of increased investments in aero- removals by robotic surgery. was spun off into commerce, and the nautics, which is the first ‘‘A’’ in Now, any of the males around here company that commercialized the ‘‘NASA’’—the National Aeronautics over the age of 50 ought to be con- technology has shipped over 1 billion and Space Administration—there are cerned about prostate cancer. They sensors for use in applications such other parts of the President’s proposal have a robot named DA Vinci that is as—now, does this sound familiar—dig- that have been left behind in the vi- built in California, even though it is ital cameras, camera phones, web cam- sionary appropriations bill we passed named after Leonardo da Vinci, and eras, automotive cameras. They are back in the middle of December which this robotic device, with a small inci- even developing something where you has sent us on a course that we are sion—six times—can go in and, with will swallow a pill; only it is not a pill. going to Mars. We are preparing to go some of this precise photography that It is an ingestible camera for imaging to Mars, and that is a long way. In was developed for these cameras, the patient’s gastrointestinal tract.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09FE6.027 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 9, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S725 Let me tell my colleagues about an- Madam President, I yield the floor. A lot of attention gets paid to those other one. I had a visit from Tallahas- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- who die in episodes of mass violence. see Community College today. They ator from Arkansas. This is a binder that is basically full of showed me what they could do with a (The remarks of Mr. COTTON per- the stories of the individuals who were 3–D printer. I ask unanimous consent taining to the introduction of S. 2123 killed in mass shootings over the past to show this in front of the Senate. are printed in today’s RECORD under couple of years. This doesn’t even begin The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. ‘‘Statements on Introduced Bills and to account for the individuals who are AYOTTE). Without objection, it is so or- Joint Resolutions.’’) killed every day on the streets of Chi- dered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- cago and New Haven and Los Angeles Mr. NELSON. We are doing this on ator from Connecticut. and New Orleans, people such as Jona- the space station right now. We are f than Aranda, who was 19 years old putting together tools so that if we GUN VIOLENCE when he was killed just before Christ- don’t have a tool in space or if we were Mr. MURPHY. Madam President, mas of 2015. He was killed in the morn- on the long journey to Mars and we did ing hours of December 8. He had just not have a tool that we needed to re- over the course of the last year and a half, I have come down to the floor graduated from Eli Whitney Technical pair something, we could send the mes- fairly regularly to tell some simple High School, which is located in Ham- sages up to the spacecraft and 3–D stories about victims of gun violence den, CT. print the tools that we need. So long- all across the country. The idea is that His cousin said: term space missions like the one to if the overwhelming data of those He was getting out of work, stopped at a Mars are going to benefit from this on- killed through gun violence—31,000 a friend’s house to talk about cars and this board manufacturing capability. senseless act of violence happened. He was year; 2,600 a month; 86 a day—if these Spare parts—what happens if we get quick to lend a hand when you needed help mind-numbing numbers don’t move up there and we don’t have enough? without asking for anything in return. He this body to action, then maybe the Well, we can print it. Engineers are worked a third shift job to come home, rest voices of the victims, the stories of the even experimenting with creating a and help at home. victims of gun violence may eventually completely 3–D printed high-perform- His younger sister, Genisis, said that thaw the ice of this Congress and cause ance rocket engine. Can my colleagues her brother was ‘‘a humble and loving us to act in some way, shape or form to believe that? So that would advance person, he was a person who never reduce this scourge of gun violence— manufacturing technologies that could picked fights. He was quick to lend a whether it be tightening the Nation’s benefit a number of us right here on hand when you needed help without gun laws, which are the loosest in the asking for anything in return.’’ the face of the Earth. world, whether it be to pass mental So the excitement of this—even Jonathan’s cousin Edgar said he was health legislation that will address though some would look at the Presi- a ‘‘very, very likeable kid. . . . He those who are wrestling with demons dent’s request for NASA and see that it didn’t have a problem with anybody.’’ manifested eventually in gun homi- is $600 million over what he requested The community has been devastated cides or whether it be giving more re- last year, but it is actually almost flat- by this loss. He was liked by every- sources to gun enforcement to simply line to what we actually appropriated. body. He cared deeply for his family. enforce the laws on the books. We have Jonathan was 19 years old when he was Don’t be discouraged by that because done nothing. We have done nothing killed after stopping at a friend’s in this sense the excitement is gath- since the murders of Sandy Hook, CT, house—after getting off of work—to ering as we are about to launch hu- to address this epidemic of gun vio- talk about cars. mans—Americans on American rock- lence. It is about time that we do. ets. That is going to occur next year, On New Year’s Eve, I spent most of Treesa Wiley was killed just a few as we send crews to and from the Inter- that day tweeting out the 370-plus in- days ago in Rockford, IL. She was fa- national Space Station. As a result, we stances of mass shootings over the tally shot while she was visiting a therefore do not have to rely on the course of 2015. Think about that for a friend in her home. An unknown person proven Russian Soyuz that gets our second. There were more mass shoot- forced entry into the home and shot crews to and from today. Now we will ings in 2015 then there were days in the Wiley and her friend. She lived pay- have the capability of not only trans- year. Just to be honest, I will tell you check to paycheck, but she was still porting cargo to and from but our what I believe to be a mass shooting. I immensely generous with her friends American astronauts. am talking about a shooting in which and family, showering them with love, Even though the President’s request there were more than four people shot. attention, and gifts. falls short in some areas, I think the If there were more than four people Her uncle said of Treesa: President’s request has been overcome shot in your neighborhood, that would She didn’t have children herself, but every with what we have done here in the probably be something you would be child that she met was her child. That’s why Congress, with a substantial increase talking about, that would probably rise she enjoyed that work so much. She enjoyed in this current fiscal year over and giving back to the community because it had to the level of being something serious given her so much.’’ above last year and with the excite- enough to change behavior or to call ment of human space flight again with- for a change in policy. There were 370 Her friends described her as ‘‘bub- in our grasp on American rockets, as instances in 2015 where more than 4 bly,’’ ‘‘angelic,’’ and ‘‘lovable.’’ Her fa- well as this excitement of defining, cre- people were shot at one given time— vorite color was purple. Her favorite ating, and manufacturing new tech- more than one per day. So I tweeted team was the Green Bay Packers. She nologies for space flight that will ben- out to every single one of them on the loved red lipstick. She had overcome a efit us here on the face of the Earth. day before the year turned to 2016 just learning disability to get a 2-year de- If it sounds like I am a cheerleader, to give people a sense all in one place gree. She was killed while she was indeed I am a cheerleader. When I see of how big this problem of mass shoot- studying to get her bachelor’s degree. the miracles of modern medicine, when ings is. Of course, that is only the tip A friend said: I see the increased capabilities of ex- of the iceberg. She was the most loving and honest friend ploring the heavens and now almost If on the average day there are 4, 5, 6 you could hope for. . . . I can’t think of one back to the original light emitted from or 7 people being shot in episodes of person who didn’t like Treesa. the big bang, and when we start to un- mass violence, there are another 80 Raven White was 16 years old when cover the new discoveries that expand that are killed through other episodes about a month ago she was killed in our horizons, indeed, I am a cheer- of gun violence. Many of those are sui- Birmingham, AL. She was fatally shot leader. For that, I am grateful. cides, but many of those are just the in her car in the early morning hours I commend the Senate to keep this day-to-day gun violence incidents that of January 8. It looks as if it was a rob- space program going at a fast pace as happen across this country, most of bery. She was a junior in high school, we increasingly get back into the total which happen in our cities. and she was 6 months pregnant. business, both manned and unmanned, So I want to share a few of those sto- Her mother said Raven was very out- of space exploration. ries here with you today. going.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09FE6.034 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S726 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 9, 2016 I know she loved school. Even after getting buy a gun through a private gun sale. The reason is that the story of dark pregnant, she made good grades and didn’t That is a purchase at a gun store or a money and the story of climate change miss a day of school. purchase at a gun show. Here are all denial are the same story—two sides of She was planning to go back to the the States with no additional back- the same coin, as it were. volleyball team that she played on ground check laws besides the Federal Two strategies of that Koch-led, in- after giving birth. She had just gotten floor. The data is pretty irrefutable. On fluence-buying operation particularly off work at Walmart hours before the average, there is 1 additional death per bear on climate change. Indeed, they shooting. ‘‘All I want is to hold my 100,000 in the States with no additional are probably the major reason we don’t grandbaby once, but I can’t,’’ said background check laws than there are have a comprehensive climate bill in Raven’s mother, Tangee Dixon. in the States that have additional Congress and instead have this present Miguel Arguelles was 22 when he was background check laws. It is a 30-some- little mouse of a bipartisan energy effi- killed in Bridgeport, CT. He was shot odd percent increase for the States ciency bill. ‘‘Oh, there goes White- in the neck and the shoulder during a that don’t take extra steps to make house,’’ I am sure some listeners are shooting at the Charles F. Greene sure criminals don’t get guns. saying, ‘‘off his rocker, trying to con- Homes housing complex. Police say he So when people say that we shouldn’t nect the Koch brothers to this climate wasn’t a target, but he was hit by stray pass a background check law that 90 change.’’ Well, it is not just something bullets. He was 22 years old. At the hos- percent of the American public support I am saying; it is what the Koch broth- pital, Miguel’s mother pounded his because it won’t make a difference, the ers’ own operatives say when they are chest, urging him to come back to life, data doesn’t tell us that. The data ac- crowing about their influence-buying saying: ‘‘Mommy’s here. C’mon, baby, tually tells us that if we take steps to success. I will get to that later, but first the c’mon, baby. Mommy’s here.’’ make sure criminals don’t get guns, two strategies. One strategy is to A veteran officer said the nurses were fewer criminals will get guns and fewer mimic real science with phony science. crying, the priest was crying, and even people will be killed, because I will as- Real science wants to find the truth. the police were crying while watching sure you that one of these five people this. This phony science has no interest whom I just listed was killed with a whatsoever in the truth. It wants to It was one of the saddest things I’ve seen. gun that was purchased legally. It You feel so helpless. look like science, sure, but it is per- might have been purchased in a gun fectly content to be wrong. There is an His mother said he lit up the room show, put in the back of a van, and sold when he walked in. apparatus, a whole array of front on the streets of Wilmington, Bridge- groups through which this phony You saw his teeth every time he smiled— port, or New Haven. science is perpetrated. This machinery he brought a smile to your face. . . . I just Laws won’t save all 31,000 of these want to hug him. I just want to tell him I of phony science has been wrong over lives, but they certainly will save a and over. It was wrong about tobacco, love him. handful. And for the individuals, the ‘‘He was my protector,’’ said his sis- wrong about lead paint, wrong about nurses, the clergy, and the police offi- ozone, wrong about mercury, and now ter. ‘‘He loved to make people laugh.’’ cers who witnessed Miguel Arguelles’s Jabari Saunders was 30 when he was it is wrong about climate change. They mother pressing on his heart trying to are the same organizations, the same killed in December of 2015 in Wil- get him to come back to life—simply mington. He was shot on the very same strategies, the same funding sources, one less death would make a debate on even in some cases the same people— street on which he used to walk his the Senate floor worth it. children to school every morning. He always wrong. You would think that if I hope that we take some steps this they cared a hoot about right from was a devoted father of four. His life re- year, perhaps, to pass a mental health volved around his kids. The neighbors wrong, they would change their meth- reform bill. I hope we get to where 9 odology after such an unblemished said the only time they would see him out of 10 of our constituents are and is with his kids. He was always smil- record of being wrong every time. But pass legislation that keeps guns out of they don’t care. Truth is not their ob- ing. It is sad. You can’t even let your the hands of criminals. If we don’t do it kids walk to school—walk to after- ject; truth is actually their adversary. because of the statistics, maybe we will This isn’t science; it is public rela- school stuff now. do it because we will start to hear the tions dressed up in a lab coat. It mas- When a neighbor’s son was shot, real voices of these victims. querades as science. But, as a visiting irony of all ironies, the victim’s moth- I yield the floor. university president from Rhode Island er recalls that Jabari visited her home The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- recently said to me, ‘‘it uses the lan- every single day the week after the ator from Rhode Island. guage of science, but its purpose is to shooting. Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Madam Presi- undermine actual science.’’ To pull off He just came to pay respect. . . . I know dent, I ask unanimous consent to speak this masquerade, you have to trick the love he showed me when my son was in morning business for up to 20 min- killed. people. You have to do what Ms. Mayer utes. describes a Koch brothers associate Another neighbor said: The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without saying as this whole scheme was being I can’t say anything bad about him. He was objection, it is so ordered. developed. It is perhaps the most tell- just a nice guy. f ing quote in her book. Here is what the That is 5 stories out of 2,600 a month. CLIMATE CHANGE man said. ‘‘It would be necessary,’’ he There is no antidote to this epidemic. said, to ‘‘use ambiguous and misleading There is no one law that we can pass Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Madam Presi- names, obscure the true agenda, and that makes it all better, that makes dent, investigative author Jane Mayer conceal the means of control.’’ this all go away. But that can’t be the has written an important piece of jour- The next quote in her book is this: excuse. The excuse cannot be that be- nalism—her new book, ‘‘Dark ‘‘This is the method that Charles Koch cause there is no panacea legislatively, Money’’—about the secret but massive would soon practice in his charitable we shouldn’t even try. The excuse can’t influence-buying rightwing billionaires giving, and later in his political ac- be that because it is impossible to led by the infamous Koch brothers. tions.’’ erase gun violence, we shouldn’t take Jane Mayer’s book catalogs the rise Did he ever. Misleading names. How some commonsense steps to make it all and the expansion into a vast array of about the John Locke Foundation, the better. The excuse also can’t be that front groups of this operation and the Ethan Allen Institute. The pages lis- laws don’t make a difference, because role in it of two of America’s more tening will know these names from his- they do. shameless villains: Charles and David tory: the James Madison Institute for I will leave you with this because my Koch. Some have called this beast they Public Policy; the Thomas Jefferson point really is to tell the stories of have created the Kochtopus because it Institute; the Franklin Center for Gov- these victims, not to expound on the has so many tentacles. ernment & Public Integrity, with a lit- data, but the data is pretty irrefutable. The Presiding Officer may be won- tle profile of old Ben Franklin on its Here are all the States where back- dering why I am talking about secret letterhead; the George C. Marshall In- ground checks are required in order to influence-buying in my climate speech. stitute, named after the hero of World

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09FE6.036 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 9, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S727 War II and the European recovery that global warming as if working from the same roots and remedies of this massive global followed. None of them have a thing to script. What he discovered was that from threat. At the very least, American voters do with their illustrious namesakes; 2005 to 2008, a single source, the Koch [broth- deserve to know who is behind these efforts. they just took the famous names to er]s, poured almost $25 million into dozens of But it wasn’t enough for the Koch different organizations fighting climate re- brothers to have the paid-for, phony put on a veneer of legitimacy. form. The sum was staggering. His research The George C. Marshall Institute—it showed that Charles and David [Koch] had science masquerade. You also had to sounds impressive. You might fool the outspent what was then the world’s largest drive politicians to accept the phony occasional editorial page editor. Who public oil company, ExxonMobil, by a factor science. You had to make politicians does that? Maybe someone trying to of three. In a 2010 report, Greenpeace willing to participate in the mas- hide something, ‘‘obscure the true crowned Koch Industries, a company few had querade and put on the phony science agenda.’’ ever heard of at the time, the ‘‘kingpin of costume. To do that, they turned to Take the Mercatus Center, which the climate science denial.’’ the mother’s milk of politics: money. Washington Post described as a By the way, I should say that The money was set loose by five Re- ‘‘staunchly anti-regulatory center ExxonMobil has been actively involved publican justices on the Supreme Court funded largely by Koch Industries Inc.’’ in this as well, as a lot of very good re- when they decided Citizens United. In ‘‘Dark Money,’’ journalist Jane cent reporting has showed. But they Citizens United is described in ‘‘Dark Mayer wrote that Clayton Coppin, a were outshone and outdone by the Money’’ as ‘‘the polluters[’] triumph.’’ professor at George Mason who re- Koch brothers. Mayer quotes a defeated candidate the viewed Bill Koch’s political activities, I will quote again from ‘‘Dark Kochs went after: concluded Mercatus to be ‘‘a lobbying Money.’’ There was a huge change after Citizens group disguised as a disinterested aca- The first peer-reviewed academic study on United, when anyone could spend any demic program.’’ And conceal the the topic added further detail. Robert Brulle, amount of money, without revealing who a Drexel University professor of sociology they were, by hiding behind amorphous- means of control—a large portion of and environmental science, discovered that the funding behind this special interest named organizations, the floodgates opened. between 2003 and 2010 over half a billion dol- The Supreme Court made a huge mistake. apparatus is simply not traceable. lars was spent on what he described as a There is no accountability. Zero. Why? Because money is funneled massive ‘‘campaign to manipulate and mis- The money got loaded into political through organizations that exist to lead the public about the threat posed by cli- conceal donor identity. That is their mate change.’’ The study examined the tax organizations like Americans for Pros- purpose. The biggest identity-laun- records of more than a hundred nonprofit or- perity, the leading Koch brothers- dering shops are Donors Trust and Do- ganizations engaged in challenging the pre- backed political front group. They vailing science on global warming. What it nors Capital Fund. Indeed, they are by waved that money around like a club, found was, in essence, a corporate lobbying touting how they were going to spend far the biggest sources of funding in campaign disguised as a tax-exempt, philan- the web of climate-change front groups $750 million just in this 2016 election. thropic endeavor. Some 140 conservative They told Republicans they would be that have been stood up. foundations funded the campaign, Brulle Dr. Robert Brulle of Drexel Univer- found. During the seven-year period he stud- so ‘‘severely disadvantaged’’ if they sity, who studies the network of fossil ied, these foundations distributed $558 mil- crossed them on climate change that fuel-backed climate denial, reports the lion in the form of 5,299 grants to ninety-one they would be in political peril. Do the Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund different nonprofit organizations. math. How much more obvious could operations are the ‘‘central compo- It is quite a ‘‘Kochtopus.’’ you get? nent’’ and ‘‘predominant funder’’ of the The money went to think tanks, advocacy Here is how Jane Mayer quotes their denier apparatus; and at the same time groups, trade associations, other founda- own official crowing about their vic- he continues it is the ‘‘black box that tions, and academic and legal programs. Cu- tory. Remember what I said earlier? mulatively, this private network waged a This is not me making wild allega- conceals the identity of contributors.’’ permanent campaign to undermine Ameri- Jane Mayer reports in her book: ‘‘Be- tions. This is them taking credit for cans’ faith in climate science to defeat any what they did. tween 1999 and 2015, Donors Trust redis- effort to regulate carbon emissions. Tim Phillips gladly took credit for the dra- tributed some $750 million from the The bottom line is if your faith in pooled contributions to myriad con- matic spike in expressed skepticism. ‘‘If you climate science is undermined, you look at where the situation was three years servative causes under its own name.’’ have been had by a well-funded, com- ago and where it is today, there’s been a dra- There were $750 million laundered into plex, sophisticated scheme of matic turnaround,’’ he told the National anonymity with no telltale fossil fuel disinformation. Journal. . . . fingerprints. Back to ‘‘Dark Money’’ again. We’ve made great headway. What it means This is no small operation. There are The cast of conservative organizations for candidates on the Republican side is ‘‘if over 100 groups involved, all beholden identified by Brulle was familiar to anyone you . . . buy into green energy or you play to the same master: the fossil fuel in- who had followed the funding of the conserv- footsie on this issue, you do so at your polit- dustry. Setting up or supporting over ative movement. Among those he pinpointed ical peril. And that’s our influence. Groups 100 front groups may seem unduly com- as the largest bankrollers of climate change like Americans for Prosperity have done it.’’ plicated, but remember, an internal denial were foundations affiliated with the That is what they say about what combustion engine has more than 500 Koch and Scaife families, both of whose for- they are doing. And don’t think we parts, and we are totally comfortable tunes derived partly from oil. Also heavily don’t see that effect in this Chamber. involved were the Bradley Foundation and with that mechanism. The Koch brothers have had their day, several others associated with hugely doing their dirty work in the dark. I According to the International Mone- wealthy families participating in the Koch tary Fund, this apparatus is defending donor summits, such as the foundations run will give them that. It has been quite a a $700 billion—billion with a ‘‘b’’—ef- by the DeVos Family, Art Pope, the retail racket, but the truth will come out. It fective subsidy, just in the United magnate from North Carolina, and John always does. States of America, every year. How Templeton, Jr., a doctor and heir to the for- Jane Mayer is not alone. Academic much work would you do—how much tune of his father John Templeton, Sr., an researchers like Robert Brulle at complication would you be willing to American mutual fund pioneer who eventu- Drexell, Riley Dunlap at Oklahoma ally renounced his U.S. citizenship in favor create—to defend $700 billion per year? State University, Justin Farrell at of living in the Bahamas, reportedly saving Yale University, and Michael Mann at To use Jane Mayer’s telling phrase, $100 million on taxes. Brulle found that as this is a new device. Put it all together the money was dispersed, three-quarters of Penn State University are exposing the and what do you have? ‘‘The think the funds from these and other sources fi- precise dimensions and functions of tank as disguised political weapon.’’ nancing what he called the ‘‘climate change this denial machine. Investigative Who is behind this elaborate scheme? I counter-movement’’ were untraceable. writers like Naomi Oreskes, Erik will quote from ‘‘Dark Money.’’ Brulle’s conclusion, as reported by Conway, Naomi Klein, and Steve Coll [T]he director of research at Greenpeace Ms. Mayer, is this: are on the hunt. ‘‘Merchants of Doubt’’ . . . spent months trying to trace the funds Powerful funders are supporting the cam- is already a movie. Jeff Nesbit’s forth- flowing into a web of nonprofit organizations paign to deny scientific findings about global coming book, ‘‘Poison Tea,’’ about how and talking heads, all denying the reality of warming and raise public doubts about the these big money boys suckered the tea

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In short, what could well be the situation, the urgent situation we process, and because it was good proc- the biggest scam to hit politics since see in Flint, there is a recognition that ess and it was so inclusive, we got a Teapot Dome and Watergate is being there is a broader problem at play bill that moved out of the committee unraveled and exposed. when we think about our Nation’s in- 18 to 4. The four dissenting votes were The dirty fossil fuel money has delib- frastructure and our water infrastruc- interesting. We had two Republicans erately polluted our American politics, tures. I wanted to take a few minutes who dissented and two Democrats. just as their carbon emissions have pol- this evening to speak to that and Even the opposition was bipartisan. luted the atmosphere and oceans. Jus- where we are in this process and why I say this by laying the groundwork tice cannot come too soon for these this ‘‘getting to yes’’ has perhaps been for what we have built because I want people. more problematic than most had colleagues to appreciate the substance I yield the floor. hoped. of the measure we have before us with I suggest the absence of a quorum. I remind my colleagues that what we the Energy Policy Modernization Act. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. have been debating on the floor is an We then came to the floor the first of GARDNER). The clerk will call the roll. energy bill. It is a bill that was written the year, the first big bill to come to The legislative clerk proceeded to by myself as the chairman of the En- the floor and take up valuable floor call the roll. ergy Committee, along with Senator time, and I am pleased we were able to Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I CANTWELL from Washington as my come to the floor early. In the time ask unanimous consent that the order ranking member. It included the Pre- that we have been to the floor, we have for the quorum call be rescinded. siding Officer as a member of the com- dispensed with 38 amendments. Most of The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without mittee, along with dozens of other those have gone by voice, not because objection, it is so ordered. members who serve on the Energy it has been a take-this-or-leave-it ap- f Committee. It has been the result of proach. A voice vote means it comes by more than a year of regular process, unanimous consent. You have to get ENERGY POLICY MODERNIZATION regular order, within the committee, consent to get these before the body. BILL where we worked to consider ideas We worked through a host of different Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I from all over the board. issues, all over the board—whether it was in the cloakroom listening to my We undertook an effort that some related to advanced nuclear or whether colleague from Rhode Island talk about would say you just don’t see around it related to coal research or whether the issue he is clearly very passionate here anymore. We started with an it related to issues as they relate to about relating to our climate and rec- agreement, an agreement between the our public lands. We have been working ognizing that in that space, as we chairman, myself, and the ranking this throughout this process. think about energy and our energy member, and asked: Do we want to In fact, I think it is important to rec- needs as a nation, our economic secu- send a message this year about what ognize that even during this time pe- rity, our energy security, our national we need to do with energy and our en- riod where it has been quiet on the security, how that is all tangled and ergy policies or do we want to bring floor, we haven’t heard people talking intertwined, I can’t help but think we about some change? Is it time to up- much about where we are with the En- have colleagues from very different date our energy policies after 8 years? ergy bill. Our staffs on the majority perspectives who have stood on this The two of us agreed we wanted to side and the minority side have been floor over the course of the past couple make that change. We recognized that working together to clear even more of weeks, and it seems that one thing in order to do that, in order to get it amendments that have that support we have found some level of consensus through the committee with a good bi- that we could move by voice, almost 30 on is that it is time to update our en- partisan vote, in order to get it to the additional amendments on top of what ergy policies. It has been over 8 years floor, we were going to have to work we have already done. now since we have seen any energy together. We made that commitment, We are not letting the moss collect policies that do anything to move us our staffs made that commitment, and and gather as we are trying to deal forward as a nation, that work to help we not only said we were going to do it, with the situation that has detracted us be more energy efficient, be more we did it. and distracted this Energy bill, and energy independent, move toward a We started off with a series of over- that is the nature of the Flint issue. I cleaner energy future, embrace the sight hearings that we had in Wash- don’t want people to think the basis of technologies we have available to us. ington, DC, and around the country, the bill which brought us here, a bill There is a recognition we need to act bringing people in, soliciting their that would modernize our energy poli- together to update our energy policies. ideas. After the oversight hearings, we cies, a bill that would help America I have come to the floor this evening had six legislative hearings before the produce more energy, a bill that would to speak to where we are in this proc- committee, going through a host of dif- help Americans save money, a bill that ess of successfully moving an energy ferent initiatives. There were 114 bills, would help our Nation with our na- modernization bill across the floor of separate bills—some from members of tional security, our energy security, the Senate. We took this up some 2 the committee, some from Members and our economic security, a bill that weeks ago now. I wanted to comment who were not serving on the Energy would help to cement our status as a on some of the comments that were ac- Committee but who had good ideas, global energy superpower—it is impor- tually made on the floor this morning. and we reviewed them all, considered tant we remember why we are here. There was a comment that was made them as part of the bill we were build- Others are remembering that when that as Republicans we need to ‘‘get to ing, and then we had our markup. We we left the floor on Thursday with an yes’’ on assistance for Flint. went into 3 days of markup before the indeterminate path forward into how I have stood on the floor and have Energy Committee. We considered over we were going to advance the Energy made clear there is no doubt in my 50 different measures, 50 different bill, those groups that have been inter- mind that Flint is the site of a tragedy measures from folks within the com- ested in following this debate come to that should have been, could have been mittee and outside the committee, Re- us with concern saying: Wait. Don’t avoided. There is no doubt in my mind publicans and Democrats, urban and stop that forward movement. The Bi- that Federal assistance could be pro- rural. partisan Policy Center has sent out a vided to help with the city’s ongoing In the committee process, it was full- letter urging us to move forward with crisis, but there is also no doubt in my on. It was an open exchange. It was any this Energy Policy Modernization Act. mind but that this is something where good idea, any amendment that you ClearPath has urged us: Please, this is we need to get to yes on a number to have, if you think you have the votes, important to us from a clean energy help Flint out. We need to get to yes, let’s run it. If you think you don’t and perspective. Bill Gates has put out a

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I appreciate the response of the Sen- importance of the underlying bill we We have been doing this since day one. ator from Michigan when there was a are debating, which is the Energy Pol- I think it is important to outline little bit of back and forth with the icy Modernization Act. these issues to people so that when Senator from Texas, saying that in her The progress we have made on this someone suggests that somehow or bill there is a requirement to detail bill is critically important. Again, we other we just need to ‘‘get to yes’’ how the money will be spent. I truly are working with the ranking member quickly, they know that there is a appreciate that part of it. We are being to keep plugging along on all of those range of factors that have complicated put in a situation where we are trying issues we have outstanding. We believe our efforts. It doesn’t help that the En- to define the right amount here, and it we have a path forward for a bipartisan ergy bill that has drawn widespread ac- is important that we get that right. As bill, a bill that so many Members of claim for having a very open process important as it is for us to get to yes this body have come to the floor and has to now try and deal with the situa- and figure out what we can do to help said that this is good, this is impor- tion in Flint, so there hasn’t been an Flint in a way that is fair to Flint and tant, this is something we need to do. open process. In fact, there hasn’t been fair overall, we have to get it right as We are not going to forget that, but a process. I think that is part of what well. in the meantime, what we are dealing is complicating this situation. Again, I was reading some newsclips with is this plea for assistance, Federal This is a big issue. There is an ur- last night. The New York Times had an assistance by the people of Flint, MI. gency to address Flint’s situation, article about how all around the coun- As I said last week, I don’t fault that which is maybe more specific, but try we are seeing other States that are request. Coming from a State like again, this is bigger than Flint. We setting up an alarm in terms of situa- Alaska, which has considerable needs heard from colleagues on both sides of tions within their communities—from of its own when it comes to water in- the aisle about the issues around their Pennsylvania to Ohio to California— frastructure, in far too many of my respective States and around our coun- where there is a need to not only im- communities it is not a situation of try which we are going to have to be prove the current infrastructure, but aging infrastructure. It is a situation dealing with. there are issues in these communities of no infrastructure, no clean water, no We have an amazing, complete proc- that have raised a level of concern that safe drinking water. ess with the Energy bill that we have we should all be concerned and care I understand, but I am increasingly methodically and consistently—almost about. So how we approach this issue frustrated by where we are now and over the top—gone through a process, and how we make sure that—in an ef- how the decisions that have been made and now we have something that is fort to kind of rush money out the door to date are effectively stopping all ac- kind of been airdropped in, to use an to Flint alone—we don’t put ourselves tivity on an energy bill, even as it be- expression around here, that is not as in a place where we commit to a course comes perhaps increasingly obvious or easy as people would suggest. It is not of action where the Federal Govern- clear that the issue related to Flint, something where you can say: Just ment pays for all of the costs for local the urgency of Flint’s situation—the throw some money at it. We are not water systems. We can’t legislate crisis bigger issue we see looming when it helped by attempts to federalize the by crisis, community by community, comes to our Nation’s water infrastruc- process, regardless of the Federal Gov- or pretend that the Federal Govern- ture, that is a problem that demands a ernment’s share of the responsibility in ment is not already $19 trillion in debt. level of scrutiny and attention that we it. I believe there is a proportionate We have to do right by this. We want as a Congress should give—but is the share where we have to be there to to address the urgency—I want to ad- Energy Policy Modernization Act the help. dress the urgency—for the people in right vehicle for what is being sought We are not helped by the President’s Flint, but I also want to make sure we right now? decision not to issue a disaster declara- do it right. I want to make sure that not only tion but instead to grant a much more I think most Members recognize that colleagues know but people who have limited emergency declaration, and our solution is going to have to be na- been following this issue know that we then we are not necessarily helped by tional in scope because there are other have been working in good faith toward the President’s budget that he laid communities in other States that may a solution that will help address the down today. He didn’t request funding also need help. Most Members know situation in Flint. Many of my Repub- for Flint in this massive budget pro- that our answers must be responsible lican colleagues are working with the posal. In fact, the level of funds that in light of our already difficult fiscal Senators from Michigan to try to find we have been looking at that could situation, and most Members are at a good-faith solution. I have been en- help Flint—the State revolving funds— least willing to consider the legislation gaged in this from the very get-go. I have not increased. What we have actu- that provides assistance so long as it have been working on this issue, as ally seen is a decrease in the Clean doesn’t violate our Senate rules, the have many Republican members. Water Fund. That is not going to help Constitution, or add to the Federal def- We found some programs out there us because we recognize that we have icit. Again, that is why we are kind of that make sense for providing assist- to address those issues as well. Also, sitting here today, Tuesday evening. ance. The State revolving fund is one we are not helped when they ask for far There are a couple of plans that have we have looked to and have, along with more Federal dollars than the city of been viewed as viable because they our staffs, spent considerable hours de- Flint may be capable of spending over meet that criteria. They meet the cri- bating the merits of different ap- the next year. We have been trying to teria in terms of not adding to the Fed- proaches and drafting language for identify and discern what would help. eral deficit, not violating the rules of them in the hope of being able to re- I had a conversation with the Gov- the Senate, and not violating our Con- solve scoring issues and generally try- ernor of Michigan to try to discern it. stitution, and it is interesting that ing to seek a path forward. I have talked to the Senators from both of those measures are actually While others were enjoying the Super Michigan, and I have talked to the measures that come from this side of Bowl on Sunday, my staff was not. Ac- House Members from Michigan. We the aisle. tually, the Senator from Washington have at least four Flint-related amend- I note that the majority leader is on and I happened to be on the same air- ments that are pending to the Energy the floor, and I will defer to him at his plane when we were coming back from bill from the Michigan delegation convenience; otherwise, I will continue the west coast so we could be here to alone, but again, in terms of the extent with my comments. work on this bill, and we missed the of the repairs that need to be made, I laid down an offer last week. The game as well. Our staffs were going does it include all of the pipes in Flint? offer would make $550 million avail- back and forth with CBO to determine Are they trying to get a corrosion con- able, $50 million would be made avail- if the solutions that we had laid down trol system in place? Is that it? Do we able through State-revolving grants.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09FE6.040 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S730 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 9, 2016 This money could help the people of tunity to approve these almost 30 The House already passed this kind Flint and other communities that have amendments that could go by voice. We of commonsense bipartisan legislation contaminated drinking water. It gives are kind of at a stall spot. to make the ban on Internet taxes per- access to $500 million in loans. It is Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, will manent. It is time we did it here in the fully paid for. It is one of the few viable the Senator yield for a comment? Senate. The action I am about to take offsets that we have found within the Ms. MURKOWSKI. I will. will allow us to have that chance on jurisdiction of the Energy and Natural Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Thursday of this week. Resources Committee where I am the just want to assure the chairman of the chairman, and I think that is part of Energy Committee that we are not giv- f the issue that we need to be discussing ing up on this bill. It has too much sup- port on a bipartisan basis for us to here. It is so important to make sure— TRADE FACILITATION AND TRADE as we look to these pay-fors—we can walk away from it, and I know all of our colleagues on both sides of the ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 2015— make an agreement on the pay-fors, CONFERENCE REPORT and I believe this one is viable because aisle appreciate the ongoing efforts the I believe it is one we can agree on. Senator has made to deal with the Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Last week I asked unanimous con- other issue that has arisen here, re- ask that the Chair lay before the Sen- sent to have this amendment pending grettably right when she was on the ate the conference report accom- for a vote, but that was rejected. The verge of achieving an agreement here. I panying H.R. 644. know the Senator from Alaska will second proposal was one made by The PRESIDING OFFICER. The stick with it, and I am behind this ef- Chairman INHOFE, who is the chairman Chair lays before the Senate the con- fort all the way. of the Environment and Public Works ference report to accompany H.R. 644, Committee, which is the committee of Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I appreciate those comments, and I ap- which will be stated by title. jurisdiction, and last week he also in- The legislative clerk read as follows: troduced an amendment that was fully preciate the support of the majority paid for. He used funds that are avail- leader. I had an opportunity to speak The committee of conference on the dis- able from an all-but-dormant loan pro- with the minority leader earlier today, agreeing votes of the two Houses on the and he reiterated the priority of this amendment of the House to the amendment gram at the Department of Energy of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 644), to reau- which is used to subsidize the auto in- Energy bill. To my colleagues and those who have been urging us to carry thorize trade facilitation and trade enforce- dustry. We can go back and forth about on and continue, know that we are ment functions and activities, and for other the merits of that fund, but the fact re- purposes, having met, have agreed that the doing exactly that and that I remain mains that it would have been a viable Senate recede from its disagreement to the committed to not only the Energy Pol- pay-for for the measure that Senator amendment of the House to the amendment icy Modernization Act, but I am com- INHOFE laid down. It, too, was rejected of the Senate and agree to the same with an mitted to finding a path forward as we even though it was effectively an offer amendment and the House agree to the deal with the important issue that re- same, signed by a majority of the conferees to prioritize assistance for the families lates to Flint and also relates to the on the part of both Houses. and the children in Flint over some of rest of the Nation when it comes to the the major corporations, and we were Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to security and safety of our water sup- consider the conference report. told no. That is kind of where we are ply. right now. If you want to know why With that, I yield the floor. (The conference report is printed in the negotiations aren’t proceeding as The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- the House proceedings of the RECORD of quickly and as smoothly as they had jority leader. December 9, 2015.) hoped, I think that is one of the rea- f CLOTURE MOTION sons we are where we are. The fact is, many of us are willing INTERNET TAX FREEDOM Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I and trying valiantly, and in many FOREVER ACT send a cloture motion to the desk. cases desperately, to get to yes, but we Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, on The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- can’t get to yes on just anything. We an entirely different matter, I think ture motion having been presented cannot accept something that is not many Americans would agree with the under rule XXII, the Chair directs the paid for. Quite honestly, we can’t do following statement: The Internet clerk to read the motion. something that would jeopardize and should remain open and free. Politi- The legislative clerk read as follows: doom the underlying Energy bill, and I cians should certainly not try to tax it. CLOTURE MOTION think we can’t get to yes on something Congress passed a temporary ban on that provides more funding than could Internet taxes back in 1998. It was an We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the reasonably be used in the short term or important bipartisan win for the Amer- Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby ignores the problems that we are facing ican people, but Congress has never move to bring to a close debate on the con- in other parts of the country. made that ban permanent. In fact, ference report to accompany H.R. 644, an act We have looked at how we can sepa- there have been eight different short- to reauthorize trade facilitation and trade rate this and how we can work it out as term extensions of the Internet tax enforcement functions and activities, and for a stand-alone measure. I think it needs ban. It is time we made it permanent. other purposes. to be made a priority. I think Chair- It is time we made it permanent. Mitch McConnell, David Perdue, Pat man INHOFE, who is on the EPW, has The bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Roberts, Roy Blunt, Chuck Grassley, made it one, but I think it needs to be Forever Act has 51 cosponsors. It was Shelley Moore Capito, Richard Burr, Mike Crapo, Thad Cochran, John separate and apart from what we are introduced by the top Republican on Thune, John Hoeven, Tim Scott, Lisa doing on this bipartisan Energy bill the Commerce Committee and the top Murkowski, Rob Portman, Kelly which already includes priorities from Democrat on the Finance Committee. Ayotte, Tom Cotton, Orrin G. Hatch. over 62 Members of the Senate. In my office we have received many, I don’t think it is too much to ask many messages from Kentuckians who Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I that our Energy bill be allowed to support this measure. ask unanimous consent that the man- move forward in the meantime. If we Here is what the bipartisan Internet datory quorum call be waived with re- had been able to move forward as we Tax Freedom Forever Act would do. It spect to the cloture motion. had planned, we would have tucked would ensure any existing Internet The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without this legislation away last Thursday, taxes are phased out permanently. It objection, it is so ordered. and we would have had a full week to would ensure any new attempts to tax Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I buckle down and figure out a path for- the Internet are prohibited perma- just filed cloture on the Customs con- ward for Flint and for the Nation. In- nently. It would ensure Americans’ ac- ference report. The House has passed stead, here we are on a Tuesday, we cess to information and online commu- this commonsense bipartisan bill, and have a recess coming up at the end of nications remain open and free perma- it is time for the Senate to do it as the week, and we haven’t had an oppor- nently. well.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09FE6.042 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 9, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S731 MORNING BUSINESS Ray grew up as part of a military continue to enjoy the scenic beauty of family originally from Douglas, WY. the Jackson Hole area. According to His formative years were spent in a friends, Ray was most at peace when he ‘‘I WANT TO LIVE’’ number of States, including Hawaii and was in his boat on Jackson Lake. In ad- Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, over Utah. Though he traveled extensively dition, he was a seasoned triathlete nearly four decades of public service, I with his parents, Loren and Eleanor, and had been training to run in an have long endeavored to protect the and his two siblings, John and Helen, international marathon. rights of the unborn. As I have fought Ray’s roots were firmly planted on Wy- Ray is survived by his wife, Debbie, to uphold pro-life values in Congress, I oming soil. He returned to the State to and his children, Brian and Kristina have been inspired by countless indi- attend college at the University of Wy- Bishop, Abbey and Mike Donley, and viduals who are equally committed to oming. In 1970, he graduated with his Clark and Christine Bishop. He loved the cause. bachelor of science degree in ecology his grandchildren, Megan Bishop, Elise Last month, I was particularly and received his commission from the Bishop, and William Donley; his sister, moved when I listened to a recording of U.S. Air Force ROTC program. This Helen Thompson, and her husband, ‘‘I Want to Live’’—a song composed by distinct honor became the first in a Fred. singer-songwriter Russ Marsh. Marsh long line of achievements earned while Wyoming flies a little higher because writes this song from the perspective of serving his country. of Ray Bishop’s service. We thank Ray an unborn child eager to live and be Ray had a successful career in the for his service to our Nation and Wyo- loved. The lyrics underscore a truth U.S. Air Force. He was driven and fo- ming. We will miss him, but we are too often overlooked in the debate over cused and honorably served his country confident that his legacy lives on and abortion—that each unborn child is a for over 25 years. He had a distinct tal- can be seen by all who visit the Jack- living soul. ent for flying. Throughout his service, son Hole Airport.∑ I ask unanimous consent that this Ray completed two combat tours in f Vietnam and logged over 4,100 hours of song be printed in the RECORD. REMEMBERING CLAYTON JAMES There being no objection, the mate- flight time piloting B–52 and C–7A air- ∑ rial was ordered to be printed in the craft. Ray continued his record of lead- Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, RECORD, as follows: ership with a number of other assign- today I wish to remember the life of a great Wyoming citizen, Clayton James. ‘‘I WANT TO LIVE’’—MUSIC AND LYRICS BY ments. He was commander at a number RUSS MARSH of bases, including 325th Bomb Squad- A longtime Jackson Hole resident, Clay was well-loved by all in the com- VERSE 1 ron Commander at Fairchild Air Force Base, Operations Commander at Ander- munity. I am honored to recognize I want to live. Can’t you see my life’s begun? Clay’s lifetime of accomplishments. Don’t you think I feel the pain? I’m the son Air Force Base, and Wing Com- helpless one. I want to live to feel the mander at Castle Air Force Base. He Born in St. Louis, Clay first felt the gentle rain fall upon my face. And to was also a skilled educator, providing call of the West in college. He attended see the light of day. training for T38 pilots and serving as Arizona State University, eventually I want to live to see your smiling face, have the Strategic Air Command Chair at graduating with a bachelor of science you hold me in your arms. Don’t leave the Air War College in Alabama. degree in business. He held several jobs me here to die. Please take me home. Ray met each new assignment with during the academic year, but his sum- Won’t you give me a chance to have enthusiasm and fortitude. He earned mers were reserved for the great beau- the things you have ty of Grand Teton National Park. It And a life that’s full of love. many accolades during his years of service. In addition to the Air Force was here that he first began working CHORUS Commendation Medal, he was awarded for the Grand Teton Lodge Company. I want to live to see the morning sun. I want the Distinguished Flying Cross and nu- During this time, he learned to appre- to live to see my Mommy and Daddy. ciate the natural beauty of the park, Let me live. Don’t take my life away. merous other Meritorious Service Med- I want to live to be all that I can be. als. These accomplishments and his Ac- while also gaining firsthand experience in the hospitality industry. VERSE 2 tive-Duty service highlight his extraor- dinary patriotism. This experience proved useful upon I want you to live. Can’t take your life away; his graduation. He returned to the ‘cause I would feel the pain if you’re Following his military career, Ray not here with me. I want you to live. continued his service in the aviation Grand Teton Lodge Company as a full- Forgive me, won’t you please. industry as the director of airports for time employee. The company was part You will see the light of day and I’ll take Kern County, California. He served in of the Rockefeller RockResort Com- you home with me. this position until 2006, when Wyoming pany, owned by Laurance Rockefeller. The years have passed. You’ve seen all that welcomed his return. Settling in Jack- Clay’s career in the resort management I have done. My life’s a happy one. And son, he became the director of the and development sector was largely the I want to Thank You Mom. Jackson Hole Airport. He successfully result of his relationship with Rocke- CHORUS rose to the challenge of directing the feller. Shortly after being hired, he was You let me live to see the morning sun. You only commercial airport located in a selected to open a new Rockefeller re- let me live to see my Mommy and national park. In the years he served as sort in the British Virgin Islands; thus Daddy. You let me live. Didn’t take my director, Ray brought the airport to began a nearly 20-year career of open- life away. You let me live to be all that ing, operating, and managing resorts I can be. new heights of success. Under his guid- ance, the airport experienced over and hotels. CHILDREN’S CHORUS $80,000,000 in capital improvements, in- Clay was an outstanding representa- I want to live to see the morning sun. I want cluding a complete renovation and ex- tive for Wyoming’s tourism industry. to live to see my Mommy and Daddy. In working with the RockResort Com- Let me live. Don’t take my life away. pansion of the main terminal. I want to live to be all that I can be. Safety was Ray’s first priority, and pany, Clay travelled extensively, open- the runway was improved with several ing resorts across the United States. f safety features that many larger air- During one such assignment in Hawaii, ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS ports have yet to implement. During he met his future wife, Shay. They his tenure, the airport received both were married in 1966. And although airline and FAA accolades and national they traveled frequently, often with REMEMBERING RAY BISHOP recognition for the terminal updates. family in tow, Clay never lost his love ∑ Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, Ray loved Grand Teton National Park, for the Teton Mountain Range. In 1984, today I wish to honor the life of a great and he was proud of the strong working they settled in Jackson Hole perma- Wyoming citizen: Col. Raymond ‘‘Ray’’ relationship between the park and the nently, and he again returned to the Corbett Bishop, retired. Col. Bishop airport’s board members that made the Grand Teton Lodge Company as the was an experienced leader who devoted airport renovations possible. general manager. His love for the re- his life to serving the country and Ray retired in late 2014 and decided sort and his staff was truly remark- State he loved. to remain in the area so that he could able. When he retired in 2006, Clay was

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09FE6.045 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S732 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 9, 2016 the well-admired president of the com- Mayor A. David Hamill, who recently in honoring the memory of ‘‘Ranson’s pany. passed away at the age of 71. I first met Champion.’’∑ Clay was deeply passionate about Dave following my election to the U.S. f conservation. He believed that it was House of Representatives in 2000, and I possible to preserve the diverse eco- came to know him as a passionate ad- MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT system in Grand Teton National Park vocate for the city of Ranson. We A message from the President of the while also welcoming the millions of began working together very early in United States was communicated to visitors who came to enjoy its splen- my House tenure, revitalizing Ranson the Senate by Mr. Williams, one of his dors each year. This guiding principle through Federal Brownfields initia- secretaries. led to his involvement in the transfer tives. of the historic JY Ranch to the Na- With his height, his booming voice, f tional Park Service. Owned by the and his mischievous sense of humor, he PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE Rockefeller Estate, the JY Ranch was certainly cut an impressive figure. And a parcel of about 33,000 acres that was while he was in many ways a larger- originally purchased by John Rocke- than-life persona, his greatest strength BUDGET OF THE UNITED STATES feller, Jr., in the early 20th century. In was his willingness to listen. He tried GOVERNMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007, Laurance Rockefeller asked Clay to genuinely understand the needs of 2017—PM 41 to manage this important transition. his constituents and the people with The PRESIDING OFFICER laid be- The project was completed in 2008, and whom he worked. Indeed, his humility fore the Senate the following message the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve was evident in an excerpt from the from the President of the United was opened in Grand Teton National open letter he wrote to the city last States, together with accompanying Park for the public to enjoy. Clay was month, sharing his worsening prog- reports and papers; which was referred especially proud of this achievement nosis. He wrote, ‘‘I have tried to do jointly, pursuant to the order of Janu- because it brought so many of his pas- what is best for the City of Ranson— ary 30, 1975 as modified by the order of sions together. sometimes my result may not have April 11, 1986; to the Committees on the Clay’s extensive background in hotel been successful as I planned, but it was Budget; and Appropriations: management, as well as his experience not for my lack of passion or desire to as a concessionaire in Grand Teton Na- do the right thing.’’ THE BUDGET MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT tional Park, was especially useful dur- Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Dave met To the Congress of the United States: ing his service on the Jackson Hole his wife, Helen, while working in As I look back on the past seven Airport’s board of directors. This expe- Macon, GA. Although they married in years, I am inspired by America’s rience, coupled with his unique per- Canada, Dave would always submit job progress—and I am more determined spective, made Clay an effective liaison applications to local employers when than ever to keep our country moving between the National Park Service and he and Helen would return to her forward. When I took office, our Nation the Jackson Hole Airport. He was in- hometown of Ranson, WV. They would was in the midst of the worst recession strumental in the design and construc- return to Ranson for good in 1979 when since the Great Depression. The econ- tion of the airport’s terminal renova- Dave was hired at Abex, in nearby Win- omy was shedding 800,000 jobs a month. tion and expansion project. With Clay’s chester, VA. Dave rose to become a cer- The auto industry was on the brink of advocacy, the airport was able to com- tified purchasing manager and nego- collapse and our manufacturing sector plete all renovations while working tiated purchasing contracts for the was in decline. Many families were with the Park Service to maintain the company’s eight factories in its North struggling to pay their bills and make environmental integrity of Grand American division. When Dave became ends meet. Millions more saw their Teton National Park. a U.S. citizen, he almost immediately savings evaporate, even as retirement Clay’s penchant for giving back to began his public service career. Begin- neared. the community was incredible. He de- ning with the planning commission, But thanks to the grit and deter- voted his free time to serving on sev- Dave soon became a member of mination of the American people, we eral local and State boards and com- Ranson’s city council. In 1987, he was rescued our economy from the depths mittees, each as different as his wide appointed mayor and was subsequently of the recession, revitalized our auto range of interests. He was a proud reelected seven consecutive times, industry, and laid down new rules to member of the U.S. Marine Corps Re- most recently in 2013. safeguard our economy from reckless- serve and also served in the Army Na- Dave will be celebrated for his many ness on Wall Street. We made the larg- tional Guard. He always strove to im- accomplishments as mayor, including est investment in clean energy in our prove the quality of life for his family, his work with the Brownfields initia- history, and made health care reform a friends, and the community of Jack- tive, the redevelopment surrounding reality. And today, our economy is the son, and his impact will be felt for the American Public University Sys- strongest, most durable on Earth. years to come. tem campus, Ranson’s annexations for Our businesses have created more Clay is survived by his wife of 49 future growth, the city’s streetscape than 14 million jobs over 70 months, years, Shay Orlin James, and his chil- projects, Ranson’s youth football field, the longest streak of job growth on dren and their spouses, Scott and Jen- and the Fairfax Boulevard extension record. We have cut our unemployment nifer James and McKenzie and Robert project. The list could certainly go on, rate in half. Our manufacturing sector Hammond. He loved his grandchildren but to highlight only the accomplish- has added nearly 900,000 jobs in the last Emma and Cole James and Rigdon and ments of the man would be to over- six years—and our auto industry just Riley Hammond. He also is survived by shadow Dave’s spirit and his dedication had its best year of sales ever. We are his brothers and their spouses, several to the city he served. less reliant on foreign oil than at any nieces and nephews, and many close In addition to his wife, Helen, Dave is point in the previous four decades. family friends. survived by his three children: Cindy, Nearly 18 million people have gained It is an honor to celebrate Clay Melissa, and James; and nine grand- health coverage under the Affordable James and his extraordinary legacy of children. In addition to his public serv- Care Act (ACA), cutting the uninsured community service. He was kind, per- ice, Dave was also very active in the rate to a record low. Our children are sonable, and a natural leader. I know United Methodist Church, where he graduating from high school at the that the community of Jackson shines was a lay speaker and lay member to highest rate ever. And we managed to brighter because of his special con- the Methodist Annual Conference. accomplish all of this while dramati- tributions.∑ I will miss Mayor Dave Hamill, as cally cutting our deficits by almost f will all who knew him. I am honored to three-quarters and setting our Nation have worked with this talented indi- on a more sustainable fiscal path. To- REMEMBERING A. DAVID HAMILL vidual and am proud to have called gether, we have brought America back. ∑ Mrs. CAPITO. Mr. President, today I Dave my friend for more than 15 years. Yet while it is important to take wish to celebrate the life of Ranson Today I ask my colleagues to join me stock of our progress, this Budget is

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09FE6.019 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 9, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S733 not about looking back at the road we ness tax system to promote innovation yond high school. For our students and have traveled. It is about looking for- and job creation. It invests in strate- for our economy, we must make a qual- ward. It is about making sure our econ- gies to make our communities more re- ity college education affordable for omy works for everybody, not just silient to floods, wildfires, and other every American. To support that goal, those at the top. It is about choosing effects of climate change. And, it pro- the Budget strengthens Pell Grants to investments that not only make us tects and modernizes our water supply help families pay for college by in- stronger today, but also reflect the and preserves our natural landscapes. creasing the scholarships available to kind of country we aspire to be—the These investments, coupled with those students who take enough courses to kind of country we want to pass on to in other cutting-edge technology sec- stay on track for on-time graduation, our children and grandchildren. It is tors ranging from manufacturing to allowing students making progress to- about answering the big questions that space exploration, will drive new jobs, ward their degrees to get support for will define America and the world in new industries, and a new under- summer classes, and providing scholar- the 21st Century. standing of the world around us. ships to help incarcerated Americans My Budget makes critical invest- Just as a commitment to innovation turn their lives around, get jobs, and ments while adhering to the bipartisan can accelerate our efforts to protect support their families. It also offers budget agreement I signed into law last our planet and create a sustainable two years of free community college to fall, and it lifts sequestration in future economy, it can also drive critical every responsible student and strength- years so that we continue to invest in medical breakthroughs. The Budget ens the American Opportunity Tax our economic future and our national supports a new ‘‘moonshot’’ to finally Credit. security. It also drives down deficits cure cancer, an effort that will be led In addition to preparing students for and maintains our fiscal progress by the Vice President and will channel careers, we must help workers gain the through smart savings from health resources, technology, and our collec- skills they need to fill jobs in growing care, immigration, and tax reforms. tive knowledge to save lives and end industries. My Budget builds on the And, it focuses on meeting our greatest this deadly disease. It also supports the progress we have made to improve the challenges not only for the year ahead, Precision Medicine Initiative to accel- Nation’s job training programs through but for decades to come. erate the development of customized implementation of the bipartisan First, by accelerating the pace of treatments that take into account a Workforce Innovation and Opportunity American innovation, we can create patient’s genes, environment, and life- Act. It funds innovative strategies to jobs and build the economy of the fu- style, as well as the BRAIN Initiative, train more workers and young people ture while tackling our greatest chal- which will dramatically increase our for 21st Century jobs. And it doubles lenges, including addressing climate understanding of how the brain works. down on apprenticeships—a proven change and finding new treatments— Second, we must work to deliver a pathway to the middle class—and sup- and cures—for devastating diseases. fair shot at opportunity for all, both ports a robust set of protections for the The challenge of climate change will because this reflects American values health, safety, wages, working condi- define the contours of this century and because, in the 21st Century global tions, and retirement security of work- more dramatically than any other. economy, our competitiveness depends ing Americans. Last year was the hottest on record, on tapping the full potential of every Even as we invest in better skills and surpassing the record set just a year American. Even as we have rebounded education for our workforce, we must before. Climate change is already caus- from the worst economic crisis of our respond to dramatic changes in our ing damage, including longer, more se- lifetimes, too many families struggle economy and our workforce: more au- vere droughts and dangerous floods, to reach the middle class and stay tomation; increased global competi- disruptions to our food and water sup- there, and too many kids face obstacles tion; corporations less rooted in their ply, and threats to our health, our on the path to success. communities; frequent job changes economy, and our security. Real opportunity begins with edu- throughout a worker’s career; and a We have made great strides to foster cation. My Budget supports the ambi- growing gap between the wealthiest a robust clean energy industry and tious goal that all children should have and everyone else. These trends move our economy away from energy access to high-quality preschool, in- squeeze workers, even when they have sources that fuel climate change. In cluding kids from low-income families jobs, even when the economy is grow- communities across the Nation, wind who too often enter kindergarten al- ing. They make it harder to start a ca- power is now cheaper than dirtier, con- ready behind. It also supports States reer, a family, a business, or retire- ventional power, and solar power is and cities as they implement a new ment. saving Americans tens of millions of education law that will place all stu- To address these changes and give dollars a year on their energy bills. dents on a path to graduate prepared Americans more economic security, we The solar industry employs more work- for college and successful careers. The need to update several key benefit ers than the coal industry—in jobs that bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act structures to make sure that workers pay better than average. sets high standards for our schools and can balance work and family, save for Despite these advances, we can and students, ensures that States are held retirement, and get back on their feet must do more. Rather than shrinking accountable for the success of all stu- if they lose a job. The Budget supports from the challenge, America must fos- dents, including those in the lowest these priorities by funding high-quality ter the spirit of innovation to create performing schools, spurs innovation in child care, encouraging State paid jobs, build a climate-smart economy of education, helps schools recruit and leave policies, extending employer- the future, and protect the only planet support great teachers, and encourages based retirement plans to part-time we have. To speed our transition to an States to reduce unnecessary testing. workers, putting us on a path to more affordable, reliable, clean energy sys- And because jobs in science, tech- portable benefit models, and providing tem, my Budget funds Mission Innova- nology, engineering, and mathematics a new tax credit for two-earner fami- tion, our landmark commitment to are projected to grow faster than other lies. It also modernizes the unemploy- double clean energy research and de- jobs in the years ahead, the Budget ment insurance system, so that more velopment funding. It also calls for a makes critical investments in math unemployed workers receive the unem- 21st century Clean Transportation ini- and science. Through a new Computer ployment benefits they need and an op- tiative that would help to put hundreds Science for All initiative, the Budget portunity to retrain for their next job. of thousands of Americans to work will expand the teaching and learning And, if that new job does not pay as modernizing our infrastructure to ease of these important concepts across much initially, it offers a system of congestion and make it easier for busi- America’s schools, better preparing our wage insurance to encourage workers nesses to bring goods to market Nation’s students for today’s innova- to rejoin the workforce and help them through new technologies such as au- tion economy. pay their bills. The Budget includes tax tonomous vehicles and high-speed rail, Higher education is the clearest path cuts for middle-class and working fam- funded through a fee paid by oil compa- to the middle class. By 2020, two-thirds ilies that will make paychecks go fur- nies. It proposes to modernize our busi- of jobs will require some education be- ther in meeting the costs of child care,

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Too vulnerable to malicious cyber activity. standard of living; and a sustainable, many Americans live in communities This challenge requires bold, aggres- peaceful planet for our kids. This fu- with under-performing schools and few sive action. My Budget significantly ture is within our reach. But just as it jobs. We know from groundbreaking increases our investment in cybersecu- took the collective efforts of the Amer- new research that growing up in these rity through a Cybersecurity National ican people to rise from the recession communities can put lifelong limits on Action Plan This Plan includes retiring and rebuild an even stronger economy, a child’s opportunities. Over the past outdated Federal information tech- so will it take all of us working to- few years, we have made progress in nology (IT) systems that were designed gether to meet the challenges that lie supporting families that were falling in a different age and increasingly are ahead. behind. For example, working family vulnerable to attack, reforming the It will not be easy. But I have never tax credits keep more than 9 million way that the Federal Government been more optimistic about America’s people—including 5 million children— manages and responds to cyber threats, future than I am today. Over the past out of poverty each year, and the ACA and recruiting the best cyber talent. It seven years, I have seen the strength, provides access to quality, affordable will also help strengthen cybersecurity resilience, and commitment of the health care to millions. Nevertheless, in the private sector and the digital American people. I know that when we we need to do more to ensure that a ecosystem as a whole, enhancing cyber are united in the face of challenges, our child’s zip code does not determine his education and making sure companies Nation emerges stronger and better or her destiny. Improving the oppor- and consumers have the tools they than before. I know that when we work tunity and economic security of poor need to protect themselves. But many together, there are no limits to what children and families is both a moral of our challenges in cybersecurity re- we can achieve. Together, we will move and an economic imperative. quire bold, long-term commitments to forward to innovate, to expand oppor- The Budget funds innovative strate- change the way we operate in an in- tunity and security, and to make our gies to support this goal, including creasingly digital world. That is why, Nation safer and stronger than ever be- helping families move to safer neigh- to complement these steps, I am also fore. borhoods with better schools and more creating a commission of experts to BARACK OBAMA. jobs, revitalizing distressed commu- make recommendations for enhancing THE WHITE HOUSE, February 9, 2016. nities to create more neighborhoods of cybersecurity awareness and protec- f opportunity, preventing families expe- tions inside and outside of Govern- riencing a financial crisis from becom- ment, protecting privacy and empow- EXECUTIVE REPORTS OF ing homeless, and ensuring that chil- ering Americans to take better control COMMITTEE—TREATIES dren have enough to eat when school is of their digital security. The following executive reports of To ensure security at home, we must out for the summer. It also supports ef- committee were submitted: forts to break the cycle of poverty and also demonstrate leadership around the world. Strong leadership means not By Mr. CORKER, from the Committee on incarceration through criminal justice Foreign Relations: reform. only a wise application of military Treaty Doc. 112–1: Protocol Amending Tax Finally, as we work to build a bright- power, but also rallying other nations Convention with Swiss Confederation (Ex. er future at home, we must also behind causes that are right. It means Rept. 114–1); strengthen our national security and viewing our diplomacy and develop- Treaty Doc. 113–4: The Protocol Amending global leadership. The United States of ment efforts around the world as an es- the Tax Convention with Spain (Ex. Rept. America is the most powerful nation sential instrument of our national se- 114–2); on Earth, blessed with the finest fight- curity strategy, and mobilizing the pri- Treaty Doc. 113–5: Convention on Taxes vate sector and other donors alongside with the Republic of Poland (Ex. Rept. 114–3); ing force in the history of the world. Treaty Doc. 112–8: Tax Convention with Still, this is a dangerous time. We our foreign assistance to help achieve Chile (Ex. Rept. 114–4); face many threats, including the threat our global development and climate Treaty Doc. 114–1: Protocol Amending the of terrorist attacks and violent extre- priorities. The Budget supports this vi- Tax Convention with Japan (Ex. Rept. 114–5); mism in many forms. My highest pri- sion with funding for effective global Treaty Doc. 111–8: Protocol Amending Tax ority is keeping the American people health programs to fight HIV/AIDS, Convention with Luxembourg (Ex. Rept. 114– safe and going after terrorist networks. malaria, and other illnesses; assistance 6); That is why my Budget increases sup- for displaced persons and refugees, in- Treaty Doc. 111–7: Tax Convention with port for our comprehensive strategy to cluding from Syria; and expanding edu- Hungary (Ex. Rept. 114–7); and Treaty Doc. 112–5: Protocol Amending the destroy the Islamic State of Iraq and cational opportunities for girls, among Convention on Mutual Administrative As- the Levant (ISIL), in partnership with many other critical development ini- sistance in Tax Matters (Ex. Rept. 114–8). more than 60 other countries, by elimi- tiatives. The text of the committee-rec- nating its leadership, cutting off its fi- As we make these investments to ommended resolutions of advice and nancing, disrupting its plots, stopping meet our greatest challenges, we are consent to ratification are as follows: the flow of terrorist fighters, and also working to build a 21st Century stamping out its vicious ideology. If Government that delivers for the [Treaty Doc. 112–1 Protocol Amending Tax Convention with Swiss Confederation] the Congress is serious about winning American people. The Budget supports this war and wants to send a message efforts to make the Federal Govern- Section 1. Senate Advice and Consent Sub- ment more efficient and effective, ject to a Declaration to the troops and the world, it should The Senate advises and consents to the specifically authorize the use of mili- through smarter IT delivery and pro- ratification of the Protocol Amending the tary force against ISIL. curement, improving digital services, Convention between the United States of The Budget also sustains and builds eliminating outdated regulations, and America and the Swiss Confederation for the the strength of our unmatched mili- recruiting and retaining the best tal- Avoidance of Double Taxation With Respect tary forces, making the investments ent. It also invests in a new approach to Taxes on Income, signed at Washington and reforms that will maintain our Na- to working in local communities, one October 2, 1996, signed September 23, 2009, at tion’s superiority and ensure our ad- that disrupts an outdated, top-down Washington, with a related agreement ef- vantage over any potential adversary. approach, and makes our efforts more fected by an exchange of notes September 23, 2009, as corrected by an exchange of notes ef- It also makes investments to ensure responsive to the ideas and concerns of fected November 16, 2010 (the ‘‘Protocol’’) that our men and women in uniform, local citizens. The Budget supports the (Treaty Doc. 112–1), subject to the declara- who sacrifice so much to defend our use of data and evidence to drive pol- tion of section 2. Nation and keep us safe, get the sup- icymaking, so the Federal Government Section 2. Declaration

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Conditions (IV) The proposed resolutions (income, ex- the Protocol, the Secretary of the Treasury The advice and consent of the Senate pense, or taxation) submitted by each com- shall transmit to the Committees on Finance under section 1 is subject to the following petent authority to the arbitration panel. and Foreign Relations of the Senate and the conditions: (B) The treaties referred to in subpara- Joint Committee on Taxation the text of the (1) Not later than 2 years after the Pro- graph (A) are— rules of procedure applicable to arbitration tocol enters into force and prior to the first (i) the 2006 Protocol Amending the Conven- panels, including conflict of interest rules to arbitration conducted pursuant to the bind- tion between the United States of America be applied to members of the arbitration ing arbitration mechanism provided for in and the Federal Republic of Germany for the panel. the Protocol, the Secretary of the Treasury Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Pre- (2)(A) Not later than 60 days after a deter- shall transmit to the Committees on Finance vention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to mination has been reached by an arbitration and Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Taxes on Income and Capital and to Certain panel in the tenth arbitration proceeding Joint Committee on Taxation the text of the Other Taxes, done at Berlin June 1, 2006 conducted pursuant to the Protocol or any of rules of procedure applicable to arbitration (Treaty Doc. 109–20) (the ‘‘2006 German Pro- the treaties described in subparagraph (B), panels, including conflict of interest rules to tocol’’); the Secretary of the Treasury shall prepare be applied to members of the arbitration (ii) the Convention between the Govern- and submit to the Joint Committee on Tax- panel. ment of the United States of America and ation and the Committee on Finance of the (2)(A) Not later than 60 days after a deter- the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium Senate, subject to laws relating to taxpayer mination has been reached by an arbitration for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and confidentiality, a detailed report regarding panel in the tenth arbitration proceeding the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Re- the operation and application of the arbitra- conducted pursuant to the Protocol or any of spect to Taxes on Income, and accompanying tion mechanism contained in the Protocol the treaties described in subparagraph (B), protocol, done at Brussels July 9, 1970 (the and such treaties. The report shall include the Secretary of the Treasury shall prepare ‘‘Belgium Convention’’) (Treaty Doc. 110–3); the following information: and submit to the Joint Committee on Tax- (iii) the Protocol Amending the Conven- (i) For the Protocol and each such treaty, ation and the Committee on Finance of the tion between the United States of America the aggregate number of cases pending on Senate, subject to laws relating to taxpayer and Canada with Respect to Taxes on Income the respective dates of entry into force of the confidentiality, a detailed report regarding and on Capital, signed at Washington Sep- Protocol and each treaty, including the fol- the operation and application of the arbitra- tember 26, 1980 (the ‘‘2007 Canada Protocol’’) lowing information: tion mechanism contained in the Protocol (Treaty Doc. 110–15); (I) The number of such cases by treaty ar- and such treaties. The report shall include (iv) the Protocol Amending the Convention ticle or articles at issue. the following information: between the Government of the United (II) The number of such cases that have (i) For the Protocol and each such treaty, States of America and the Government of been resolved by the competent authorities the aggregate number of cases pending on the French Republic for the Avoidance of through a mutual agreement as of the date the respective dates of entry into force of the Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fis- of the report. Protocol and each treaty, including the fol- cal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income (III) The number of such cases for which lowing information: and Capital, signed at Paris August 31, 1994 arbitration proceedings have commenced as (I) The number of such cases by treaty ar- (the ‘‘2009 France Protocol’’) (Treaty Doc. of the date of the report. ticle or articles at issue. 111–4). (ii) A list of every case presented to the (II) The number of such cases that have (3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall pre- competent authorities after the entry into been resolved by the competent authorities pare and submit the detailed report required force of the Protocol and each such treaty, through a mutual agreement as of the date under paragraph (2) on March 1 of the year including the following information regard- of the report. following the year in which the first report ing each case: (III) The number of such cases for which is submitted to the Joint Committee on Tax- (I) The commencement date of the case for arbitration proceedings have commenced as ation and the Committee on Finance of the purposes of determining when arbitration is of the date of the report. Senate, and on an annual basis thereafter for available. (ii) A list of every case presented to the a period of five years. In each such report, (II) Whether the adjustment triggering the competent authorities after the entry into disputes that were resolved, either by a mu- case, if any, was made by the United States force of the Protocol and each such treaty, tual agreement between the relevant com- or the relevant treaty partner. including the following information regard- petent authorities or by a determination of (III) Which treaty the case relates to. ing each case: an arbitration panel, and noted as such in (IV) The treaty article or articles at issue (I) The commencement date of the case for prior reports may be omitted. in the case. purposes of determining when arbitration is (4) The reporting requirements referred to (V) The date the case was resolved by the available. in paragraphs (2) and (3) supersede the re- competent authorities through a mutual (II) Whether the adjustment triggering the porting requirements contained in para- case, if any, was made by the United States agreement, if so resolved. graphs (2) and (3) of section 3 of the resolu- (VI) The date on which an arbitration pro- or the relevant treaty partner. tion of advice and consent to ratification of (III) Which treaty the case relates to. ceeding commenced, if an arbitration pro- (IV) The treaty article or articles at issue the 2009 France Protocol, approved by the ceeding commenced. in the case. Senate on December 3, 2009. (VII) The date on which a determination (V) The date the case was resolved by the [Treaty Doc. 113–4 The Protocol Amending was reached by the arbitration panel, if a de- competent authorities through a mutual the Tax Convention with Spain] termination was reached, and an indication agreement, if so resolved. Section 1. Senate Advice and Consent Sub- as to whether the panel found in favor of the (VI) The date on which an arbitration pro- ject to a Declaration United States or the relevant treaty partner. ceeding commenced, if an arbitration pro- The Senate advises and consents to the (iii) With respect to each dispute sub- ceeding commenced. ratification of the Protocol Amending the mitted to arbitration and for which a deter- (VII) The date on which a determination Convention between the United States of mination was reached by the arbitration was reached by the arbitration panel, if a de- America and the Kingdom of Spain for the panel pursuant to the Protocol or any such termination was reached, and an indication Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Pre- treaty, the following information: as to whether the panel found in favor of the vention of Fiscal Evasion With Respect to (I) In the case of a dispute submitted under United States or the relevant treaty partner. Taxes on Income and its Protocol, signed at the Protocol, an indication as to whether the (iii) With respect to each dispute sub- Madrid on February 22, 1990, and a related presenter of the case to the competent au- mitted to arbitration and for which a deter- Memorandum of Understanding signed on thority of a Contracting State submitted a mination was reached by the arbitration January 14, 2013, at Madrid, together with Position Paper for consideration by the arbi- panel pursuant to the Protocol or any such correcting notes dated July 23, 2013, and Jan- tration panel. treaty, the following information: uary 31, 2014 (the ‘‘Protocol’’) (Treaty Doc. (II) An indication as to whether the deter- (I) In the case of a dispute submitted under 113–4), subject to the declaration of section 2 mination of the arbitration panel was ac- the Protocol, an indication as to whether the and the conditions of section 3. cepted by each concerned person. presenter of the case to the competent au- Section 2. Declaration (III) The amount of income, expense, or thority of a Contracting State submitted a The advice and consent of the Senate taxation at issue in the case as determined Position Paper for consideration by the arbi- under section 1 is subject to the following by reference to the filings that were suffi- tration panel. declaration: cient to set the commencement date of the (II) An indication as to whether the deter- The Protocol is self-executing. case for purposes of determining when arbi- mination of the arbitration panel was ac- Section 3. Conditions tration is available. cepted by each concerned person. The advice and consent of the Senate (IV) The proposed resolutions (income, ex- (III) The amount of income, expense, or under section 1 is subject to the following pense, or taxation) submitted by each com- taxation at issue in the case as determined conditions: petent authority to the arbitration panel.

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Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Pre- under section 1 is subject to the following (VI) The date on which an arbitration pro- vention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to declaration: ceeding commenced, if an arbitration pro- Taxes on Income and Capital and to Certain The Convention is self-executing. ceeding commenced. Other Taxes, done at Berlin June 1, 2006 [Treaty Doc. 114–1 Protocol Amending the (VII) The date on which a determination (Treaty Doc. 109–20) (the ‘‘2006 German Pro- Tax Convention with Japan] was reached by the arbitration panel, if a de- tocol’’); termination was reached, and an indication Section 1. Senate Advice and Consent Sub- (ii) the Convention between the Govern- as to whether the panel found in favor of the ject to a Declaration ment of the United States of America and United States or the relevant treaty partner. The Senate advises and consents to the the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium (iii) With respect to each dispute sub- ratification of the Protocol Amending the for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and mitted to arbitration and for which a deter- Convention between the United States of the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Re- mination was reached by the arbitration America and the Government of Japan for spect to Taxes on Income, and accompanying panel pursuant to the Protocol or any such the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the protocol, done at Brussels July 9, 1970 (the treaty, the following information: Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to ‘‘Belgium Convention’’) (Treaty Doc. 110–3); (I) In the case of a dispute submitted under (iii) the Protocol Amending the Conven- Taxes on Income and a related agreement en- the Protocol, an indication as to whether the tion between the United States of America tered into by an exchange of notes (together presenter of the case to the competent au- and Canada with Respect to Taxes on Income with the ‘‘proposed protocol’’), both signed thority of a Contracting State submitted a and on Capital, signed at Washington Sep- on January 24, 2013, at Washington, together Position Paper for consideration by the arbi- tember 26, 1980 (the ‘‘2007 Canada Protocol’’) with correcting notes exchanged March 9 and tration panel. (Treaty Doc. 110–15); or March 29, 2013 (the ‘‘Protocol’’) (Treaty Doc. (II) An indication as to whether the deter- (iv) the Protocol Amending the Convention 114–1), subject to the declaration of section 2 mination of the arbitration panel was ac- between the Government of the United and the conditions of section 3. cepted by each concerned person. States of America and the Government of Section 2. Declaration (III) The amount of income, expense, or the French Republic for the Avoidance of The advice and consent of the Senate taxation at issue in the case as determined Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fis- under section 1 is subject to the following by reference to the filings that were suffi- cal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income declaration: cient to set the commencement date of the and Capital, signed at Paris August 31, 1994 The Convention is self-executing. case for purposes of determining when arbi- (the ‘‘2009 France Protocol’’) (Treaty Doc. Section 3. Conditions tration is available. 111–4). The advice and consent of the Senate (IV) The proposed resolutions (income, ex- (3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall pre- under section 1 is subject to the following pense, or taxation) submitted by each com- pare and submit the detailed report required conditions: petent authority to the arbitration panel. under paragraph (2) on March 1 of the year (1) Not later than 2 years after the Pro- (B) The treaties referred to in subpara- following the year in which the first report tocol enters into force and prior to the first graph (A) are— is submitted to the Joint Committee on Tax- arbitration conducted pursuant to the bind- (i) the 2006 Protocol Amending the Conven- ation and the Committee on Finance of the ing arbitration mechanism provided for in tion between the United States of America Senate, and on an annual basis thereafter for the Protocol, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Federal Republic of Germany for the a period of five years. In each such report, shall transmit to the Committees on Finance Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Pre- disputes that were resolved, either by a mu- and Foreign Relations of the Senate and the vention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to tual agreement between the relevant com- Joint Committee on Taxation the text of the Taxes on Income and Capital and to Certain petent authorities or by a determination of rules of procedure applicable to arbitration Other Taxes, done at Berlin June 1, 2006 an arbitration panel, and noted as such in panels, including conflict of interest rules to (Treaty Doc. 109–20) (the ‘‘2006 German Pro- prior reports may be omitted. be applied to members of the arbitration tocol’’); (4) The reporting requirements referred to panel. (ii) the Convention between the Govern- in paragraphs (2) and (3) supersede the re- (2)(A) Not later than 60 days after a deter- ment of the United States of America and porting requirements contained in para- mination has been reached by an arbitration the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium graphs (2) and (3) of section 3 of the resolu- panel in the tenth arbitration proceeding for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and tion of advice and consent to ratification of conducted pursuant to the Protocol or any of the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Re- the 2009 France Protocol, approved by the the treaties described in subparagraph (B), spect to Taxes on Income, and accompanying Senate on December 3, 2009. the Secretary of the Treasury shall prepare protocol, done at Brussels July 9, 1970 (the and submit to the Joint Committee on Tax- ‘‘Belgium Convention’’) (Treaty Doc. 110–3); [Treaty Doc. 113–5 Convention on Taxes ation and the Committee on Finance of the (iii) the Protocol Amending the Conven- with the Republic of Poland] Senate, subject to laws relating to taxpayer tion between the United States of America Section. 1. Senate Advice and Consent Sub- confidentiality, a detailed report regarding and Canada with Respect to Taxes on Income ject to a Declaration the operation and application of the arbitra- and on Capital, signed at Washington Sep- The Senate advises and consents to the tion mechanism contained in the Protocol tember 26, 1980 (the ‘‘2007 Canada Protocol’’) ratification of the Convention between the and such treaties. The report shall include (Treaty Doc. 110–15); or United States of America and the Republic the following information: (iv) the Protocol Amending the Convention of Poland for the Avoidance of Double Tax- (i) For the Protocol and each such treaty, between the Government of the United ation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion the aggregate number of cases pending on States of America and the Government of with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed on the respective dates of entry into force of the the French Republic for the Avoidance of February 13, 2013, at Warsaw (the ‘‘Conven- Protocol and each treaty, including the fol- Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fis- tion’’) (Treaty Doc. 113–5), subject to the dec- lowing information: cal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income laration of section 2. (I) The number of such cases by treaty ar- and Capital, signed at Paris August 31, 1994 Section 2. Declaration ticle or articles at issue. (the ‘‘2009 France Protocol’’) (Treaty Doc. The advice and consent of the Senate (II) The number of such cases that have 111–4). under section 1 is subject to the following been resolved by the competent authorities (3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall pre- declaration: through a mutual agreement as of the date pare and submit the detailed report required The Convention is self-executing. of the report. under paragraph (2) on March 1 of the year [Treaty Doc. 112–8 Tax Convention with (III) The number of such cases for which following the year in which the first report Chile] arbitration proceedings have commenced as is submitted to the Joint Committee on Tax- Section 1. Senate Advice and Consent Sub- of the date of the report. ation and the Committee on Finance of the ject to a Declaration (ii) A list of every case presented to the Senate, and on an annual basis thereafter for The Senate advises and consents to the competent authorities after the entry into a period of five years. In each such report, ratification of the Convention Between the force of the Protocol and each such treaty, disputes that were resolved, either by a mu- Government of the United States of America including the following information regard- tual agreement between the relevant com- and the Government of the Republic of Chile ing each case: petent authorities or by a determination of for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and (I) The commencement date of the case for an arbitration panel, and noted as such in the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Re- purposes of determining when arbitration is prior reports may be omitted. spect to Taxes on Income and Capital, signed available. (4) The reporting requirements referred to at Washington February 4, 2010, with a Pro- (II) Whether the adjustment triggering the in paragraphs (2) and (3) supersede the re- tocol and a related agreement effected by ex- case, if any, was made by the United States porting requirements contained in para- change of notes February 4, 2010, as cor- or the relevant treaty partner. graphs (2) and (3) of section 3 of the resolu- rected by exchanges of notes effected Feb- (III) Which treaty the case relates to. tion of advice and consent to ratification of

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the 2009 France Protocol, approved by the S. 2516. A bill to revitalize Army arsenals, Mr. COONS, Mr. THUNE, Mr. BOOZMAN, Senate on December 3, 2009. and for other purposes; to the Committee on Mrs. CAPITO, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. [Treaty Doc. 111–8 Protocol Amending Tax Armed Services. CASEY, and Mr. DURBIN): Convention with Luxembourg] By Mr. JOHNSON (for himself and Mrs. S. Res. 367. A resolution supporting the Section 1. Senate Advice and Consent Sub- ERNST): goals and ideals of Career and Technical ject to a Declaration S. 2517. A bill to require a report on United Education Month; considered and agreed to. The Senate advises and consents to the States strategy to combat terrorist use of By Mr. CARDIN (for himself, Mr. ratification of the Protocol Amending the social media, and for other purposes; to the CORKER, and Mr. KAINE): Convention between the Government of the Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- S. Res. 368. A resolution supporting efforts United States of America and the Govern- ernmental Affairs. by the Government of Colombia to pursue ment of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for By Mr. JOHNSON: peace and the end of the country’s enduring the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the S. 2518. A bill to authorize the use of Ebola internal armed conflict and recognizing Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to funds for Zika response and preparedness; to United States support for Colombia at the Taxes on Income and Capital, signed on May the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 15th anniversary of Plan Colombia; to the 20, 2009, at Luxembourg with a related agree- and Pensions. Committee on Foreign Relations. ment effected by exchange of notes also By Mr. MCCAIN (for himself and Mr. By Mr. DAINES (for himself and Mr. signed on May 20, 2009 (the ‘‘Protocol’’) PERDUE): BLUMENTHAL): (Treaty Doc. 111–8), subject to the declara- S. 2519. A bill to provide for incentives to S. Res. 369. A resolution affirming the im- tion of section 2. encourage health insurance coverage, and for portance of student data privacy and recog- Section 2. Declaration other purposes; to the Committee on Fi- nizing Digital Learning Day; considered and The advice and consent of the Senate nance. agreed to. under section 1 is subject to the following By Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and f declaration: Mr. TILLIS): The Convention is self-executing. S. 2520. A bill to amend title 38, United ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS [Treaty Doc. 111–7 Tax Convention with States Code, to improve the care provided by S. 134 the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to newborn Hungary] At the request of Mr. WYDEN, the children; to the Committee on Veterans’ Af- Section 1. Senate Advice and Consent Sub- fairs. name of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. ject to a Declaration By Mrs. ERNST (for herself, Mr. GRA- SCHATZ) was added as a cosponsor of S. The Senate advises and consents to the 134, a bill to amend the Controlled Sub- ratification of the Convention between the HAM, Mr. KIRK, Mrs. MCCASKILL, and Government of the United States of America Ms. MIKULSKI): stances Act to exclude industrial hemp and the Government of the Republic of Hun- S. 2521. A bill to amend the Veterans Ac- from the definition of marihuana, and gary for the Avoidance of Double Taxation cess, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 for other purposes. to improve the treatment at non-Depart- and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with S. 524 Respect to Taxes on Income, signed at Buda- ment of Veterans Affairs facilities of vet- erans who are victims of military sexual as- At the request of Mr. WHITEHOUSE, pest February 4, 2010, with a related agree- the name of the Senator from New ment effected by exchange of notes on Feb- sault, and for other purposes; to the Com- ruary 4, 2010 (the ‘‘Convention’’) (Treaty Doc. mittee on Veterans’ Affairs. Mexico (Mr. UDALL) was added as a co- 111–7), subject to the declaration of section 2. By Mr. CARPER: sponsor of S. 524, a bill to authorize the Section 2. Declaration S. 2522. A bill to amend the Homeland Se- Attorney General to award grants to The advice and consent of the Senate curity Act of 2002 to build partnerships to address the national epidemics of pre- under section 1 is subject to the following prevent violence by extremists; to the Com- scription opioid abuse and heroin use. declaration: mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- S. 682 The Convention is self-executing. mental Affairs. [Treaty Doc. 112–5 Protocol Amending the By Mr. PAUL: At the request of Mr. DONNELLY, the Convention on Mutual Administrative As- S. 2523. A bill to amend title 10, United name of the Senator from Arizona (Mr. sistance in Tax Matters] States Code, to provide for continued energy MCCAIN) was added as a cosponsor of S. self-sufficiency at Fort Knox, Kentucky; to Section 1. Senate Advice and Consent Sub- 682, a bill to amend the Truth in Lend- the Committee on Armed Services. ing Act to modify the definitions of a ject to a Declaration By Mr. GARDNER (for himself and Mr. The Senate advises and consents to the mortgage originator and a high-cost BENNET): ratification of the Protocol Amending the S. 2524. A bill to insure adequate use and mortgage. Convention on Mutual Administrative As- access to the existing Bolts Ditch headgate S. 795 sistance in Tax Matters, done at Paris May and ditch segment within the Holy Cross 27, 2010 (the ‘‘Protocol’’) (Treaty Doc. 112–5), At the request of Mrs. MCCASKILL, Wilderness in Eagle County, Colorado, and subject to the declaration of section 2. the name of the Senator from Wis- for other purposes; to the Committee on En- Section 2. Declaration consin (Mr. JOHNSON) was added as a ergy and Natural Resources. The advice and consent of the Senate cosponsor of S. 795, a bill to enhance under section 1 is subject to the following By Ms. STABENOW (for herself and Mr. BLUNT): whistleblower protection for con- declaration: tractor and grantee employees. The Convention is self-executing. S. 2525. A bill to increase the number of States that may conduct Medicaid dem- S. 849 f onstration programs to improve access to At the request of Mr. ISAKSON, the INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND community mental health services; to the name of the Senator from Tennessee Committee on Finance. JOINT RESOLUTIONS (Mr. ALEXANDER) was added as a co- By Mrs. GILLIBRAND (for herself, Mr. The following bills and joint resolu- KIRK, Mr. MORAN, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, sponsor of S. 849, a bill to amend the tions were introduced, read the first and Mr. COONS): Public Health Service Act to provide and second times by unanimous con- S. 2526. A bill to improve the competitive- for systematic data collection and sent, and referred as indicated: ness of United States manufacturing by des- analysis and epidemiological research ignating and supporting manufacturing com- By Mr. COTTON (for himself, Mr. SES- regarding Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Par- munities, and for other purposes; to the SIONS, Mr. HATCH, and Mr. PERDUE): kinson’s disease, and other neuro- S. 2514. A bill to require the Bureau of Jus- Committee on Commerce, Science, and logical diseases. Transportation. tice Statistics to report on recidivism rates S. 901 of Federal prisoners who are released early, f and for other purposes; to the Committee on At the request of Mr. MORAN, the the Judiciary. SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND names of the Senator from Colorado By Mr. BURR (for himself and Mrs. SENATE RESOLUTIONS (Mr. BENNET), the Senator from Maine BOXER): The following concurrent resolutions (Ms. COLLINS), the Senator from Min- S. 2515. A bill to amend title 10, United nesota (Mr. FRANKEN) and the Senator States Code, to ensure criminal background and Senate resolutions were read, and referred (or acted upon), as indicated: from California (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) were checks of employees of the military child added as cosponsors of S. 901, a bill to care system and providers of child care serv- By Mr. KAINE (for himself, Mr. establish in the Department of Vet- ices and youth program services for military PORTMAN, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. ISAKSON, dependents; to the Committee on Armed Mr. WARNER, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. erans Affairs a national center for re- Services. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. FRANKEN, Ms. KLO- search on the diagnosis and treatment By Mr. KIRK (for himself, Mr. DURBIN, BUCHAR, Mr. ENZI, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. of health conditions of the descendants Mr. GRASSLEY, and Mrs. ERNST): WYDEN, Ms. CANTWELL, Ms. AYOTTE, of veterans exposed to toxic substances

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09FE6.011 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S738 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 9, 2016 during service in the Armed Forces (Ms. BALDWIN) was added as a cospon- vania (Mr. TOOMEY) were added as co- that are related to that exposure, to es- sor of S. 2119, a bill to provide for sponsors of S. 2474, a bill to allow for tablish an advisory board on such greater congressional oversight of additional markings, including the health conditions, and for other pur- Iran’s nuclear program, and for other words ‘‘Israel’’ and ‘‘Product in Israel,’’ poses. purposes. to be used for country of origin mark- S. 1074 S. 2185 ing requirements for goods made in the At the request of Ms. BALDWIN, the At the request of Ms. HEITKAMP, the geographical areas known as the West name of the Senator from Minnesota names of the Senator from Minnesota Bank and Gaza Strip. (Mr. FRANKEN) was added as a cospon- (Mr. FRANKEN) and the Senator from S. 2483 sor of S. 1074, a bill to clarify the sta- New York (Mr. SCHUMER) were added as At the request of Mr. UDALL, the tus of the North Country, Ice Age, and cosponsors of S. 2185, a bill to require name of the Senator from Minnesota New England National Scenic Trails as the Secretary of the Treasury to mint (Mr. FRANKEN) was added as a cospon- units of the National Park System, and coins in recognition of the fight sor of S. 2483, a bill to prohibit States for other purposes. against breast cancer. from carrying out more than one Con- S. 1110 S. 2268 gressional redistricting after a decen- At the request of Mr. ENZI, the names At the request of Mr. CORNYN, the nial census and apportionment, to re- of the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. name of the Senator from Arkansas quire States to conduct such redis- INHOFE) and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. COTTON) was added as a cosponsor tricting through independent commis- (Mr. PETERS) were added as cosponsors sions, and for other purposes. of S. 1110, a bill to direct the Secretary of S. 2268, a bill to award a Congres- S. 2487 of Agriculture to publish in the Federal sional Gold Medal to the United States Register a strategy to significantly in- Army Dust Off crews of the Vietnam At the request of Mrs. BOXER, the crease the role of volunteers and part- War, collectively, in recognition of names of the Senator from Montana ners in National Forest System trail their extraordinary heroism and life- (Mr. TESTER) and the Senator from Ha- maintenance, and for other purposes. saving actions in Vietnam. waii (Ms. HIRONO) were added as co- sponsors of S. 2487, a bill to direct the S. 1607 S. 2311 Secretary of Veterans Affairs to iden- At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the At the request of Mr. HELLER, the name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. tify mental health care and suicide prevention programs and metrics that KIRK) was added as a cosponsor of S. KIRK) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1607, a bill to affirm the authority of 2311, a bill to amend the Public Health are effective in treating women vet- the President to require independent Service Act to authorize the Secretary erans as part of the evaluation of such regulatory agencies to comply with of Health and Human Services, acting programs by the Secretary, and for regulatory analysis requirements ap- through the Administrator of the other purposes. plicable to executive agencies, and for Health Resources and Services Admin- S. 2497 other purposes. istration, to make grants to States for At the request of Mr. BLUNT, the S. 1775 screening and treatment for maternal name of the Senator from Tennessee At the request of Mr. MURPHY, the depression. (Mr. ALEXANDER) was added as a co- name of the Senator from New Hamp- S. 2322 sponsor of S. 2497, a bill to amend the shire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) was added as a co- At the request of Mr. SCHUMER, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to pro- sponsor of S. 1775, a bill to direct the name of the Senator from Massachu- vide protections for retail customers, Secretary of Homeland Security to ac- setts (Ms. WARREN) was added as a co- and for other purposes. cept additional documentation when sponsor of S. 2322, a bill to amend the S. 2505 considering the application for vet- Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to At the request of Mr. KIRK, the name erans status of an individual who per- provide that over-the-road bus drivers of the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. formed service as a coastwise merchant are covered under the maximum hours ALEXANDER) was added as a cosponsor seaman during World War II, and for requirements. of S. 2505, a bill to amend the Internal other purposes. S. 2449 Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that re- S. 1890 At the request of Mrs. BOXER, her tirement investors receive advice in At the request of Mr. HATCH, the name was added as a cosponsor of S. their best interests, and for other pur- names of the Senator from Montana 2449, a bill to amend the Immigration poses. (Mr. DAINES) and the Senator from and Nationality Act to remove limita- S. 2506 Kansas (Mr. ROBERTS) were added as tions on the ability of certain dual citi- At the request of Mr. LEAHY, the cosponsors of S. 1890, a bill to amend zens from participating in the Visa name of the Senator from Massachu- chapter 90 of title 18, United States Waiver Program. setts (Ms. WARREN) was added as a co- Code, to provide Federal jurisdiction S. 2450 sponsor of S. 2506, a bill to restore stat- for the theft of trade secrets, and for utory rights to the people of the United other purposes. At the request of Mr. TESTER, the name of the Senator from Missouri States from forced arbitration. S. 2014 (Mrs. MCCASKILL) was added as a co- S.J. RES. 18 At the request of Ms. BALDWIN, the sponsor of S. 2450, a bill to amend title At the request of Mr. DONNELLY, the name of the Senator from Tennessee 5, United States Code, to address ad- name of the Senator from Montana (Mr. ALEXANDER) was added as a co- sponsor of S. 2014, a bill to demonstrate ministrative leave for Federal employ- (Mr. TESTER) was added as a cosponsor a commitment to our Nation’s sci- ees, and for other purposes. of S.J. Res. 18, a joint resolution pro- entists by increasing opportunities for S. 2473 posing a balanced budget amendment the development of our next generation At the request of Mr. SULLIVAN, the to the Constitution of the United of researchers. name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. States. S RES 99 S. 2071 MORAN) was added as a cosponsor of S. . . At the request of Mr. CRAPO, the 2473, a bill to direct the Secretary of At the request of Mr. NELSON, the name of the Senator from Louisiana Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot name of the Senator from Delaware (Mr. CASSIDY) was added as a cosponsor program to provide veterans the option (Mr. COONS) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2071, a bill to amend title XVIII of of using an alternative appeals process of S. Res. 99, a resolution calling on the the Social Security Act to modernize to more quickly determine claims for Government of Iran to fulfill its prom- payments for ambulatory surgical cen- disability compensation, and for other ises of assistance in the case of Robert ters under the Medicare program, and purposes. Levinson, the longest held United for other purposes. S. 2474 States civilian in our Nation’s history. S. 2119 At the request of Mr. COTTON, the S. RES. 349 At the request of Mr. CARDIN, the names of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. At the request of Mr. ROBERTS, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin KIRK) and the Senator from Pennsyl- name of the Senator from Colorado

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09FE6.015 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 9, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S739 (Mr. GARDNER) was added as a cospon- ple possession but for major drug traf- hardened violent criminals like him. sor of S. Res. 349, a resolution con- fickers—ones who deal in hundreds of The Commission first reduced sen- gratulating the Farm Credit System on thousands of dollars’ worth of heroin tencing guidelines in 2007. It did so the celebration of its 100th anniver- and thousands of pounds of marijuana. again in 2010 and again in 2014. That is sary. And let’s be clear. Drug trafficking is three major systemic sentencing reduc- AMENDMENT NO. 3107 not nonviolent, as the bill’s proponents tions in the span of a mere 7 years. The At the request of Ms. BALDWIN, the often claim. It is built on an entire edi- result is that 46,000 Federal convicts name of the Senator from Minnesota fice of violence, stretching from the will walk from jail early. Wendell Cal- lahan was one among that 46,000. There (Mr. FRANKEN) was added as a cospon- narcoterrorists of South America to sor of amendment No. 3107 intended to the drug-deal enforcers on our city will be many more like him. While we pray against all odds that none of them be proposed to S. 2012, an original bill streets. If you think dealing drugs on a go on to commit a triple-murder like to provide for the modernization of the street corner while armed with a gun is Wendell Callahan did—or any other energy policy of the United States, and a nonviolent offense, you probably live heinous crime—I am afraid our prayers for other purposes. in a rich suburb or a gated community. By its text, this bill will apply to fel- will go unanswered, at least in part. AMENDMENT NO. 3120 ons convicted as juveniles of murder, The U.S. Sentencing Commission is At the request of Mr. KING, the name rape, assault, and other crimes for an independent judicial agency that of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. which they were justly tried as adults. provides uniform sentencing guidelines MERKLEY) was added as a cosponsor of By its text, this bill will apply to re- to judges. Congress didn’t have a hand amendment No. 3120 intended to be pro- peat felons whose past crimes include in those sentencing reductions, but posed to S. 2012, an original bill to pro- kidnapping, carjacking, armed robbery, with the Sentencing Reform and Cor- vide for the modernization of the en- and other violent crimes. rections Act, the Senate would impose ergy policy of the United States, and By its text, this bill will make eligi- a fourth major sentencing reduction for other purposes. ble for early release into America’s within 8 years—one that is deeper and AMENDMENT NO. 3133 communities thousands of drug traf- broader than the reductions imposed At the request of Ms. HIRONO, the fickers and other violent felons. And by the U.S. Sentencing Commission. This is badly misguided. The Senate name of the Senator from Montana when we catch such criminals going would be launching a massive social (Mr. DAINES) was added as a cosponsor forward, we will not be able to keep experiment in criminal leniency with- of amendment No. 3133 intended to be them locked up for the same sentences. out knowing the full consequences of proposed to S. 2012, an original bill to It has been reported that the bill’s the first three reductions imposed by provide for the modernization of the sponsors are preparing to release a re- the Sentencing Commissions. This ex- energy policy of the United States, and vised bill, one that would address some periment threatens to undo the his- for other purposes. of the many shortcomings. Regarding toric drops in crime that we have seen this news, I thank the sponsors for ac- f over the last 25 years. STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED knowledging that the bill as passed by That drop in crime rate was no acci- BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS committee does, in fact, apply to seri- dent. It was the result of higher man- ous drug traffickers and other violent By Mr. COTTON (for himself, Mr. datory minimums put in place in the felons. I look forward to evaluating the 1980s, coupled with vigilant policing SESSIONS, Mr. HATCH, and Mr. new legislative text, and I hope it ad- strategies pioneered by scholars like PERDUE): dresses these problems. Until then, Jim Wilson and practiced by elected S. 2514. A bill to require the Bureau though, we can only examine more of Justice Statistics to report on re- leaders like Rudy Giuliani and other closely the bill as passed by the com- American mayors and law enforcement cidivism rates of Federal prisoners who mittee and its consequences. officials. The combination of manda- are released early, and for other pur- Make no mistake, the consequences tory minimums and innovative polic- poses; to the Committee on the Judici- of this bill are all too predictable. ing is not a haphazard anticrime strat- ary. Sadly, more than half of released pris- egy. It is one that was reached through Mr. COTTON. Mr. President, today I oners are rearrested within 1 year, and tough trial-and-error performed at wish to discuss the Sentencing Reform 77 percent are rearrested within 5 local, State, and, eventually, the Fed- and Corrections Act that has been years. We can be sure, then, that we eral levels. It is one that arose from ad- voted out of the Judiciary Committee. will see more crimes committed by vocacy that originated in the commu- There is much debate about the wis- those who might be released early— nities and cities that were hardest hit dom of this bill. That is, like most bills thanks to this bill. That is indis- by the drug trade. It is one that has a we discuss in this Chamber, a judgment putable. Those new crimes will wreak proven record of success, not in terms call. But there cannot be debate over havoc on the citizens, families, and of crime rates but in terms of lives the facts of this bill. We have to be communities in each of our States. saved, families protected, and commu- very clear on what this bill, by its own This risk is not hypothetical. Sterile nities healed. text, is designed to do. statistics do not adequately convey the The connection between higher man- Proponents of the bill often invoke severity of the threat of mass recidi- datory minimums and lower crime is four phrases to describe the felons to vism. Last month in Columbus, OH, a often lost on those unfamiliar with this be released under the terms of the bill: man named Wendell Callahan brutally history or blinded by ideology. For ex- ‘‘first-time,’’ ‘‘nonviolent,’’ ‘‘low- killed his ex-girlfriend and her two ample, in 1997 the New York Times re- level,’’ ‘‘drug possession’’ offenders. young daughters. In what was de- ported: ‘‘Crime Keeps On Falling, but Yet none of these four terms is accu- scribed as a ‘‘stabbing rampage,’’ Cal- Prisons Keep On Filling.’’ One year rate. lahan murdered Erveena Hammonds, later, in 1998, the Times added: ‘‘Prison By its text, the bill will apply sen- her 10-year-old daughter Anaesia, and Population Growing Although Crime tence reductions not to first-time of- Anaesia’s little sister, 7-year-old Rate Drops.’’ In 2004 the Times reiter- fenders but to repeat offenders—some Breya. ated yet again, just for good measure: many times over. These are felons who These murders were an atrocity, and ‘‘Despite Drop In Crime, An Increase In have made the conscious choice to they were completely avoidable. Wen- Inmates.’’ You can’t make this stuff commit crimes over and over. dell Callahan walked out of Federal up, yet it is real and appears to be all By its text, the bill will not just prison in August 2014, but his original too soon forgotten. apply to so-called ‘‘nonviolent offend- sentence should have kept him in jail Like most conservative achieve- ers’’ but to thousands of violent felons until 2018. If he had been in jail instead ments, the reduction in crime over the and armed career criminals who have of on the streets, a young family would past generation is built on the hard les- used firearms in the course of their still be alive today. sons of experience. We should not light- drug felonies or crimes of violence. Callahan walked out of jail early be- ly abandon the criminal justice wisdom By its text, the bill will reduce sen- cause the U.S. Sentencing Commission accumulated over decades to the pass- tences not for those convicted of sim- reduced sentences retroactively for ing fashions of current thinking. We

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09FE6.017 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S740 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 9, 2016 should not blithely move from a proven be drug treatment. Like you, I believe then, the American people have only strategy of accountability and vigi- that our prisons should not be an anar- seen higher health care costs, less ac- lance to an experimental theory of le- chic jungle that is a danger to both cess, decreased quality of care, and niency. We should not trade away con- prisoners and corrections officers. Like fewer choices. crete, hard-won gains when the results you, I believe that those prisoners who Every day I hear from Arizonans who may be devastating to American com- will someday complete their sentences have been forced to give up the health munities. and reenter society should be given a insurance plans they liked and now The Senate and the American people chance to rehabilitate and redeem face skyrocketing monthly premiums need to consider any change to our sen- themselves while in prison so they do and never-ending wait times for ap- tencing laws with full information. We not commit additional new crimes once pointments. Moreover, I have spoken need to know if this sentencing leni- they are out of prison. Like you, I do with small business owners across my ency bill will return us closer to the believe there exists a possibility of a State who have been forced to choose days of the 1970s and 1980s, when our manifestly unjust sentence. between complying with costly govern- cities were besieged by the drug trade So I suggest: Let’s work on that bill. ment mandates, laying off employees and whole communities were being rot- Let’s work on a bill that identifies and or, worse, closing their doors. ted out as a result. We need to debate addresses all first-time drug possession For 5 long years, the American peo- sentencing changes with all the data inmates in the Federal system but ple have been unfairly burdened by this available to us, and we need to do this keeps drug traffickers and other vio- failed law, and the negative effects are with eyes wide open. lent offenders in prison to finish their only expected to grow. According to That is why today, together with sentences. Let’s improve prison condi- the Department of Health and Human Senators HATCH, SESSIONS, and tions and give prisoners a shot at re- Service’s own data, 24 insurance plans PERDUE, I am introducing the Criminal demption and a better life while pro- in the ObamaCare exchanges were ex- Consequences of Early Release Act. tecting our communities. If you wish, pected to see double-digit rate hikes in This is a simple but very needed bill. It let’s work on a bill to speed the consid- 2016, while residents of Phoenix, AZ, will require the Federal Government to eration of commutation and pardon ap- were expected to see their premiums report on the recidivism rates of the plications because, if you want to undo increase by roughly 19 percent. The 46,000 Federal inmates to be released manifestly unjust sentences, we can highest average premium increase in early under the Sentencing Commis- help the President use his constitu- Arizona was projected to reach a whop- sion’s reductions, and it will require tional power of pardon and commuta- ping 78 percent. the same reporting for any prisoners tion as a precise scalpel to identify and ObamaCare’s numerous failures are released early under any future reduc- remedy those very rare cases of mani- well established. Take, for example, tions mandated by Congress. festly unjust sentences. What we the President’s broken promise that The report required by this bill will should not do is use the blunt instru- Americans who liked their health care make clear how many crimes are being ment of releasing thousands of violent plans and doctors could keep them; committed by released felons who felons and major drug traffickers back skyrocketing premiums and would otherwise still be in prison. It onto our streets early. deductibles; 21 tax increases that both will make clear what types of crimes— The President has a constitutional the CBO and the Joint Committee on from drug trafficking to assault to rob- power to remedy unjust sentences, but Taxation predict would be passed on to bery to murder—are being committed you know what power he doesn’t have? the consumer; over $1 billion wasted on by these felons. It will make clear in The power to bring back to life the vic- failed ObamaCare-established health which States these crimes are occur- tims who are murdered by prisoners re- care co-ops; and an estimated 2 million ring. leased early or sentenced inadequately. full-time equivalent workers expected Currently this type of data is ex- In the discussion about the Sen- to lose their jobs by 2024, according to tremely hard to compile. It is not re- tencing Reform and Corrections Act, the Congressional Budget Office. ported by the Bureau of Justice Statis- there is much talk about legacy, and, For these reasons, a majority of tics, and any information we do have in particular, a legacy of President Americans today oppose the Presi- comes mostly through anecdotes and Obama after he leaves office. If consid- dent’s failed health care law. They are sporadic media reports. Full informa- erations of legacy should factor into counting on us, their elected represent- tion on the criminal consequences of the debate, I would close with this ob- atives in Congress, to fight to fully re- early release must be published in de- servation. Legacies are not necessarily peal and replace it. That is why I was tail. Before voting on any bill to reduce positive. They can be negative and proud to partner with my Republican sentences, Senators need to understand deeply tragic. If supporters of this bill colleagues in sending the first fully the criminal consequences of and President Obama are wrong, if this ObamaCare repeal to the President’s prior sentence reductions. grand experiment in criminal leniency desk. That is also why I am proud to To hold Senators accountable for goes awry, how many lives will be ru- stand before the Congress today to re- their votes, the American people need ined and how many dead? How much of introduce the Empowering Patients to understand how their communities the anticrime progress of the last gen- First Act along with my friend, the are being affected. When the Federal eration will be wiped away for the Senator from Georgia, Mr. PERDUE, to Government decides to release thou- next? replace the President’s failed law with sands of violent criminals onto the Those are the questions we must ask health care reform that puts patients streets, no legislator or official should as we consider this bill. If we ask them and physicians back in charge of their be able to plead ignorance. If people honestly, soberly, and with full infor- health care decisions. The Empowering are being killed, drugs trafficked, prop- mation, we will invariably be led to Patients First Act is companion legis- erty stolen, and children kidnapped by one conclusion: We should not grant lation to a bill introduced in the House felons who should have been in prison early release to thousands of drug traf- of Representatives by Congressman but instead are out on the streets, then fickers and other violent criminals nor TOM PRICE that would fully repeal the the people in our States and commu- should we shorten their sentences in Affordable Care Act and replace it with nities deserve to know that. the future. solutions that put patients, families, I want to be clear. To those who sup- and doctors back in charge of their port the Sentencing Reform Correc- By Mr. MCCAIN (for himself and medical decisions—not Washington bu- tions Act, we are not in full disagree- Mr. PERDUE): reaucrats. ment. Like you, I oppose jail for first- S. 2519. A bill to provide for incen- It is past time for my colleagues on time drug users with no prior record. It tives to encourage health insurance the other side of the aisle to wake up is vanishingly rare for such offenders coverage, and for other purposes; to the to the reality that ObamaCare is the to be prosecuted and jailed in the Fed- Committee on Finance. wrong solution to health care reform. eral system, of course, but it remains Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, it has Just consider a recent report by the true that the better option for them— been more than 5 years since Galen Institute which notes that since particularly if they are addicts—would ObamaCare was signed into law. Since the President’s health care law was

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ObamaCare has been changed a machinists, operators, craft workers, dis- Whereas, on October 1, 2000, President Wil- total of 70 times—in many cases tributors, and technicians; through unilateral action—in order to Whereas career and technical education liam Clinton, having worked with the sup- protect the American people from its (referred to in this preamble as ‘‘CTE’’) en- port of Republican majorities in the United States Senate and the United States House damaging effects. sures that competitive and skilled workers are ready, willing, and capable of holding of Representatives, commenced implementa- I am as convinced today as I was 7 tion of the first United States foreign assist- years ago when I stood on this floor to jobs in high-wage, high-skill, and in-demand career fields such as science, technology, en- ance package in support of Plan Colombia; propose the first Republican amend- gineering, mathematics, nursing, allied Whereas Plan Colombia has received stead- ment to ObamaCare that this law is health, construction, information tech- fast commitments from the administrations the wrong approach to health care re- nology, energy sustainability, and many of Presidents William Clinton, George W. form. other career fields that are vital in keeping Bush, and Barack Obama, and continuously The bill I am reintroducing today the United States competitive in the global has been strengthened by broad bipartisan would create policies that empower pa- economy; support in the United States Congress; Whereas the United States Congress, tients and doctors to take charge of Whereas CTE helps the United States meet the very real and immediate challenges of through Plan Colombia, has appropriated their health care decisions, including economic development, student achieve- more than $9,000,000,000 in foreign assistance by ensuring no one is priced out of the ment, and global competitiveness; to support initiatives of the Government of market, including individuals with pre- Whereas approximately 14,000,000 students Colombia to combat the illicit narcotics existing conditions; building on and ex- are enrolled in CTE across the country with trade and terrorism, confront irregular panding health savings accounts and CTE programs in nearly 1,300 public high armed actors, advance democratic govern- other models to drive down costs; es- schools and 1,700 2-year colleges; ance, promote economic growth, defend tablishing age-adjusted tax credits for Whereas of the 20 fastest growing occupa- human rights, and pursue a strategy towards tions— health insurance; equalizing tax treat- sustainable peace; (1) 10 require an associate’s degree or a de- Whereas the Government of Colombia, ment of employer-sponsored plans and gree with fewer requirements; throughout the administrations of Presi- plans purchased by individuals by let- (2) 13 with the largest numbers of new jobs dents Andre´s Pastrana, A´ lvaro Uribe, and ting individuals buy health insurance projected require on-the-job training, an as- Juan Manuel Santos, has made investments sociate’s degree, or a certificate; and with pretax dollars; enhancing cov- in Plan Colombia and carried out trans- (3) nearly all require real-world skills that erage options by letting small business can be mastered through CTE; formational efforts to consolidate domestic owners band together across State Whereas CTE matches employability skills security, socioeconomic development, and lines through association health plans with workforce demand and provides rel- the rule of law that far exceed those con- to create more affordable and com- evant academic and technical coursework tributions made by the United States; prehensive health care; letting con- leading to industry-recognized credentials Whereas the United States and Colombia for secondary, postsecondary, and adult have forged a resolute bond through the im- sumers buy insurance across State plementation of Plan Colombia, which has lines; curbing defensive medicine and learners; Whereas CTE affords students the oppor- been bolstered by the support of hundreds of lawsuit abuse through tort reform; and tunity to gain the knowledge, skills, and cre- thousands of Colombian-Americans and their making coverage more affordable by dentials needed to secure careers in growing, contribution to American life; enabling individuals to own their in- high-demand fields; Whereas, over the past 15 years, levels of surance, like a 401(k) plan, so they can Whereas CTE students were significantly crime and violence have subsided sharply in take it with them across State lines more likely than non-CTE student to report Colombia, with annual per capita homicide and if they change jobs. That only having developed problem-solving, project rates declining from 62 per 100,000 people in makes sense. completion, research, math, college applica- 1999 to 27 per 100,000 people in 2014, and the annual number of kidnappings decreasing Americans deserve an alternative to tion, work-related, communication, time management, and critical thinking skills from more than 3,000 in 1999 to less than 300 the mandates, high costs, and bureau- during high school; and in 2014; cratic mess that have been created by Whereas students at schools with highly Whereas the alignment of improved secu- ObamaCare. The Empowering Patients integrated rigorous academic and CTE pro- rity and sound economic policies has trans- First Act would repeal ObamaCare grams have significantly higher achievement lated into steady growth in Colombia’s Gross once and for all and replace it with in reading, mathematics, and science than Domestic Product, which increased from health care reform that gives patients, students at schools with less integrated pro- $86,000,000,000 in 1999 to more than grams: Now, therefore, be it $377,000,000,000 in 2014, and led to greater For- families, and doctors the power to Resolved, That the Senate— make medical decisions—not bureau- eign Direct Investment, which grew from (1) designates February 2016 as ‘‘Career and $1,500,000,000 in 1999 to one of the highest in crats in Washington. Technical Education Month’’ to celebrate ca- Latin America at $16,000,000,000 in 2014; f reer and technical education across the Whereas the Government of Colombia has United States; SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS made impressive strides in reducing poverty (2) supports the goals and ideals of Career during the last 15 years, with the poverty and Technical Education month; rate decreasing from 64 percent in 1999 to 28.5 (3) recognizes the importance of career and percent in 2014, according to the World Bank; SENATE RESOLUTION 367—SUP- technical education in preparing a well-edu- Whereas, since 1999, the Government of Co- PORTING THE GOALS AND cated and skilled workforce in the United lombia has expanded the presence of the States; and IDEALS OF CAREER AND TECH- state across all 32 territorial departments, (4) encourages educators, counselors, and NICAL EDUCATION MONTH has contributed to the professionalism of the administrators to promote career and tech- Colombian judiciary, and has improved the Mr. KAINE (for himself, Mr. nical education as an option to students. PORTMAN, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. ISAKSON, capacity of the Colombian Army, Navy, Air f Force, and National Police; Mr. WARNER, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. Whereas, in November 2012, the Govern- BLUMENTHAL, Mr. FRANKEN, Ms. KLO- SENATE RESOLUTION 368—SUP- PORTING EFFORTS BY THE GOV- ment of Colombia entered into talks to nego- BUCHAR, Mr. ENZI, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. tiate an end to the country’s enduring con- WYDEN, Ms. CANTWELL, Ms. AYOTTE, ERNMENT OF COLOMBIA TO PUR- flict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces Mr. COONS, Mr. THUNE, Mr. BOOZMAN, SUE PEACE AND THE END OF of Colombia (FARC), a guerilla movement Mrs. CAPITO, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. CASEY, THE COUNTRY’S ENDURING IN- that has ties to the illicit narcotics trade, and Mr. DURBIN) submitted the fol- TERNAL ARMED CONFLICT AND has kidnapped Colombian and United States lowing resolution; which was consid- RECOGNIZING UNITED STATES civilians, and has been designated by the ered and agreed to: SUPPORT FOR COLOMBIA AT United States Department of State as a For- eign Terrorist Organization; S. RES. 367 THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF PLAN COLOMBIA Whereas a half-century of conflict has Whereas a competitive global economy re- taken a devastating toll on Colombia’s civil- quires workers who are trained in skilled Mr. CARDIN (for himself, Mr. ian population, has claimed the lives of more professions; CORKER, and Mr. KAINE) submitted the than 220,000 people, and has left more than

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6,500,000 people internally displaced, accord- Whereas Digital Learning Day highlights ‘‘(3) SIGNATURE PROJECT OR PROGRAM.—The ing to the United Nations High Commis- the many ways in which technology can en- term ‘signature project or program’ means sioner for Refugees; hance the classroom experience; any project or program identified by the Sec- Whereas the internal armed conflict has Whereas teachers and schools use tech- retary as a project or program that would victimized all Colombians, including women, nology and digital information in innovative further the purposes of the System or any children, and Afro-descendant and indige- ways that benefit students; System unit. nous peoples, and has led to the repeated tar- Whereas schools use electronic records to ‘‘(c) NATIONAL PARK CENTENNIAL CHAL- geting of leading representatives of civil so- update student information and transfer LENGE FUND.— ciety, including trade unionists, journalists, electronic records from one school to an- ‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established human rights defenders, and other commu- other school; and in the Treasury of the United States a fund, nity activists; Whereas it is important to maintain stu- to be known as the ‘National Park Centen- Whereas efforts to achieve lasting peace in dent privacy and ensure the data is stored nial Challenge Fund’. Colombia must address the hardships faced safely and securely: Now, therefore, be it ‘‘(2) DEPOSITS.—The Challenge Fund shall by victims of the armed conflict, as exempli- Resolved by the Senate, That Congress rec- consist of— fied by the Government of Colombia’s Law ognizes— ‘‘(A) qualified donations that are trans- on Victims and Restitution of Land of 2011; (1) the benefits of digital learning and ferred from the Service donation account, in Whereas the prospects for national rec- the importance of student privacy; and accordance with subsection (e)(1); and onciliation and sustainable peace in Colom- (2) that policies should safeguard student ‘‘(B) such amounts as are appropriated bia rely on the effective delivery of justice data and encourage innovative educational from the general fund of the Treasury, in ac- for victims of the conflict and the ability to technologies. cordance with subsection (e)(2). hold accountable and appropriately punish ‘‘(3) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts in the Chal- f perpetrators of serious violations of human lenge Fund shall— rights and international humanitarian law; AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND ‘‘(A) be available to the Secretary for sig- and PROPOSED nature projects and programs under this Whereas a potential accord between the title, without further appropriation; and Government of Colombia and the Revolu- SA 3295. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself, Ms. ‘‘(B) remain available until expended. tionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) CANTWELL, and Ms. MURKOWSKI) submitted ‘‘(d) SIGNATURE PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS.— represents an opportunity to end the endur- an amendment intended to be proposed to ‘‘(1) DEVELOPMENT OF LIST.—Not later than ing conflict in Colombia and bring peace to amendment SA 2953 proposed by Ms. MUR- 180 days after the date of enactment of this the Americas: Now, therefore, be it KOWSKI to the bill S. 2012, to provide for the section, the Secretary shall develop a list of Resolved, That the Senate— modernization of the energy policy of the signature projects and programs eligible for (1) reaffirms the unwavering support of the United States, and for other purposes; which funding from the Challenge Fund. Government and people of the United States was ordered to lie on the table. ‘‘(2) SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.—The Sec- for the people of Colombia in their pursuit of SA 3296. Mr. MCCONNELL (for Mr. JOHN- retary shall submit to the Committees on peace and their aspiration to live in a coun- SON) proposed an amendment to the bill S. Appropriations and Energy and Natural Re- try free of violent conflict; 2109, to direct the Administrator of the Fed- sources of the Senate and the Committees on (2) commends efforts to bring an end to Co- eral Emergency Management Agency to de- Appropriations and Natural Resources of the lombia’s enduring internal armed conflict; velop an integrated plan to reduce adminis- House of Representatives the list developed (3) maintains its commitment to the vic- trative costs under the Robert T. Stafford under paragraph (1). tims of Colombia’s armed conflict and urges Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance ‘‘(3) UPDATES.—Subject to the notice re- the negotiating parties to forge an agree- Act, and for other purposes. quirements under paragraph (2), the Sec- ment that holds accountable perpetrators of f retary may add any signature project or pro- serious violations of human rights and inter- gram to the list developed under paragraph national humanitarian law and ensures that TEXT OF AMENDMENTS (1). they are appropriately punished; SA 3295. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself, ‘‘(e) DONATIONS AND MATCHING FEDERAL (4) encourages the Government of Colom- Ms. CANTWELL, and Ms. MURKOWSKI) FUNDS.— bia to promote informed public debate about submitted an amendment intended to ‘‘(1) QUALIFIED DONATIONS.—The Secretary the details of a potential peace accord in ad- may transfer any qualified donations to the vance of voter ratification; be proposed to amendment SA 2953 pro- Challenge Fund. (5) encourages the Secretary of State to de- posed by Ms. MURKOWSKI to the bill S. ‘‘(2) MATCHING AMOUNT.—There is author- velop a comprehensive, multiyear strategy 2012, to provide for the modernization ized to be appropriated to the Challenge to ensure the successful implementation and of the energy policy of the United Fund for each fiscal year through fiscal year sustainability of a potential peace accord in States, and for other purposes; which 2020 an amount equal to the amount of quali- Colombia, if such an accord is endorsed by was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- fied donations received for the fiscal year. the Colombian people, and further strength- lows: ‘‘(3) SOLICITATION.—Nothing in this section en the close bilateral partnership shared by expands any authority of the Secretary, the the Governments of the United States and At the end of subtitle E of title IV, add the Service, or any employee of the Service to Colombia; and following: receive or solicit donations. (6) reaffirms its commitment to continued SEC. 44lll. NATIONAL PARK CENTENNIAL. ‘‘(f) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary partnership between the United States and (a) NATIONAL PARK CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE shall provide with the submission of the Colombia on issues of mutual security, in- FUND.— budget of the President to Congress for each cluding counternarcotics cooperation, com- (1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 1049 of title 54, fiscal year a report on the status and funding bating transnational organized crime, and United States Code (as amended by section of the signature projects and programs.’’. ensuring justice for those who have caused 5001(a)), is amended by adding at the end the (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of indelible harm to our populations. following: sections affected for title 54, United States f ‘‘§ 104909. National Park Centennial Chal- Code (as amended by section 5001(b)), is lenge Fund amended by inserting after the item relating SENATE RESOLUTION 369—AFFIRM- to section 104908 the following: ING THE IMPORTANCE OF STU- ‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to establish a fund in the Treasury— ‘‘§ 104909. National Park Centennial Chal- DENT DATA PRIVACY AND REC- ‘‘(1) to finance signature projects and pro- lenge Fund.’’. OGNIZING DIGITAL LEARNING grams to enhance the National Park System (b) SECOND CENTURY ENDOWMENT FOR THE DAY as the centennial of the National Park Sys- NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM.— Mr. DAINES (for himself and Mr. tem approaches in 2016; and (1) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 1011 of title 54, United States Code, is amend- BLUMENTHAL) submitted the following ‘‘(2) to prepare the System for another cen- resolution; which was considered and tury of conservation, preservation, and en- ed by adding at the end the following: joyment. agreed to: ‘‘SEC. 101121. SECOND CENTURY ENDOWMENT ‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: FOR THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM. S. RES. 369 ‘‘(1) CHALLENGE FUND.—The term ‘Chal- ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The National Park Whereas, on February 17, 2016, Digital lenge Fund’ means the National Park Cen- Foundation shall establish an endowment, to Learning Day is recognized; tennial Challenge Fund established by sub- be known as the ‘Second Century Endow- Whereas laws must sufficiently protect the section (c)(1). ment for the National Park System’ (re- personal information of students as data be- ‘‘(2) QUALIFIED DONATION.—The term ‘quali- ferred to in this section as the ‘Endowment’). comes a form of currency; fied donation’ means a cash donation or the ‘‘(b) CAMPAIGN.—To further the mission of Whereas, without sufficient safeguards, pledge of a cash donation guaranteed by an the Service, the National Park Foundation student information could end up in the irrevocable letter of credit to the Service may undertake a campaign to fund the En- hands of criminals or other bad actors that the Secretary certifies is to be used for dowment through gifts, devises, or bequests, around the world; a signature project or program. in accordance with section 101113.

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‘‘(c) USE OF PROCEEDS.— words, terms, names, symbols, or devices to ‘‘(5) to strengthen public understanding of ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—On request of the Sec- suggest any likeness of the Service emblem the natural and cultural heritage and the retary, the National Park Foundation shall or Service uniform in a manner that is rea- United States. expend proceeds from the Endowment in ac- sonably calculated to convey the impression ‘‘§ 100802. Definitions cordance with projects and programs in fur- that the wearer of the item of apparel is act- ‘‘In this chapter: therance of the mission of the Service, as ing pursuant to the legal authority of the ‘‘(1) EDUCATION.—The term ‘education’ identified by the Secretary. Service; or means enhancing public awareness, under- ‘‘(2) MANAGEMENT.—The National Park ‘‘(D) knowingly make any false statement standing, and appreciation of the resources Foundation shall manage the Endowment in for the purpose of obtaining permission to of the System through learner-centered, a manner that ensures that annual expendi- use any Service emblem or Service uniform. place-based materials, programs, and activi- tures as a percentage of the principal are ‘‘(2) PENALTIES.—Any person who violates ties that achieve specific learning objectives consistent with Internal Revenue Service the provisions of paragraph (1), shall— as identified in a curriculum. guidelines for endowments maintained for ‘‘(A) in the case of a first violation by an ‘‘(2) INTERPRETATION.—The term ‘interpre- charitable purposes. individual, be fined not more than $5,000 per tation’ means— ‘‘(d) INVESTMENTS.—The National Park use, imprisoned not more than 180 days, or ‘‘(A) providing opportunities for people to Foundation shall— both; form intellectual and emotional connections ‘‘(1) maintain the Endowment in an inter- ‘‘(B) in the case of a subsequent violation to gain awareness, appreciation, and under- est-bearing account; and by an individual, be fined not more than standing of the resources of the System; and ‘‘(2) invest Endowment proceeds with the $100,000 per use, imprisoned not more than 1 purpose of supporting and enriching the Sys- ‘‘(B) the professional career field of Service year, or both; employees, volunteers, and partners who in- tem in perpetuity. ‘‘(C) in the case of a first violation by a ‘‘(e) REPORT.—Each year, the National terpret the resources of the System. person or entity other than an individual, be Park Foundation shall make publicly avail- ‘‘(3) RELATED AREA.—The term ‘related fined not more than $10,000 per use; or able information on the amounts deposited area’ means— ‘‘(D) in the case of a subsequent violation into, and expended from, the Endowment.’’. ‘‘(A) a component of the National Trails by a person or entity other than an indi- (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of System; vidual, be fined not more than $200,000 per sections affected for title 54, United States ‘‘(B) a National Heritage Area; and use. Code, is amended by inserting after the item ‘‘(C) an affiliated area administered in con- ‘‘(c) CIVIL CAUSE OF ACTION.—The Attorney relating to section 101120 the following: nection with the System. General may, on request of the Secretary, ‘‘§ 100803. Interpretation and education au- ‘‘§ 101121. Second Century Endowment for the bring a civil action in a court of competent thority National Park System.’’. jurisdiction, to obtain injunctive or other eq- (c) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INTELLECTUAL uitable relief and to recover damages, ‘‘The Secretary shall ensure that manage- ment of System units and related areas is PROPERTY PROTECTION.— against a person who manufactures, repro- enhanced by the availability and utilization (1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 1049 of title 54, duces, or uses the Service emblem or Service of a broad program of the highest quality in- United States Code (as amended by sub- uniform, without the written permission of terpretation and education. section (a)(1)), is amended by adding at the the Secretary. end the following: ‘‘(d) RETENTION OF FUNDS.—Any fines col- ‘‘§ 100804. Interpretation and education eval- ‘‘§ 104910. Intellectual property lected under section (b)(2) and any damages uation and quality improvement ‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: collected under subsection (c) shall be re- ‘‘The Secretary may undertake a program ‘‘(1) SERVICE EMBLEM.— tained by the National Park Service, until of regular evaluation of interpretation and ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘Service em- expended and without further appropriation, education programs to ensure that the pro- blem’ means any word, phrase, insignia, for use by System units and programs ad- grams— logo, logotype, trademark, service mark, ministered by the Service.’’. ‘‘(1) adjust to the ways in which people symbol, design, graphic, image, color, badge, (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of learn and engage with the natural world and uniform, or any combination of emblems sections affected for title 54, United States shared heritage as embodied in the System; used to identify the Service or a component Code, is amended by inserting after the item ‘‘(2) reflect different cultural backgrounds, of the System. relating to section 104908 (as added by sub- ages, education, gender, abilities, ethnicity, ‘‘(B) INCLUSIONS.—The term ‘Service em- section (a)(2)) the following: and needs; ‘‘(3) demonstrate innovative approaches to blem’ includes— ‘‘§ 104910. Intellectual property.’’. ‘‘(i) the Service name; management and appropriately incorporate (d) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EDUCATION AND ‘‘(ii) an official System unit name; emerging learning and communications INTERPRETATION.— ‘‘(iii) any other name used to identify a technology; and Service component or program; and (1) IN GENERAL.—Division A of subtitle I of ‘‘(4) reflect current scientific and academic ‘‘(iv) the Arrowhead symbol. title 54, United States Code, is amended by research, content, methods, and audience inserting after chapter 1007 the following: ‘‘(2) SERVICE UNIFORM.—The term ‘Service analysis. uniform’ means any combination of apparel, ‘‘CHAPTER 1008—EDUCATION AND ‘‘§ 100805. Improved utilization of partners accessories, or emblems, any distinctive INTERPRETATION and volunteers in interpretation and edu- clothing or other items of dress, or a rep- ‘‘CHAPTER 1008—EDUCATION AND cation resentation of dress— INTERPRETATION ‘‘The Secretary may— ‘‘(A) that is worn during the performance ‘‘Sec. ‘‘(1) coordinate with System unit partners of official duties; and ‘‘100801. Purposes. and volunteers in the delivery of quality pro- ‘‘(B) that identifies the wearer as a Service ‘‘100802. Definitions. grams and services to supplement the pro- employee. ‘‘100803. Interpretation and education au- grams and services provided by the Service ‘‘(b) PROHIBITED ACTS.— thority. as part of a Long-Range Interpretive Plan ‘‘(1) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EMBLEM OR ‘‘100804. Interpretation and education evalua- for a System unit; UNIFORM.—No person shall, without the writ- tion and quality improvement. ‘‘(2) support interpretive partners by pro- ten permission of the Secretary— ‘‘100805. Improved utilization of partners and viding opportunities to participate in inter- ‘‘(A) use any Service emblem or uniform, volunteers in interpretation pretive training; and or any word, term, name, symbol or device and education. ‘‘(3) collaborate with other Federal and or any combination of emblems to suggest non-Federal public or private agencies, orga- any colorable likeness of the Service emblem ‘‘§ 100801. Purposes nizations, or institutions for the purposes of or Service uniform in connection with goods ‘‘The purposes of this chapter are— developing, promoting, and making available or services in commerce if the use is likely ‘‘(1) to more effectively achieve the mis- educational opportunities related to re- to cause confusion, or to deceive the public sion of the Service by providing clear au- sources of the System and programs.’’. into believing that the emblem or uniform is thority and direction for interpretation and (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of from or connected with the Service; education programs that are carried out by chapters for division A of subtitle I of title ‘‘(B) use any Service emblem or Service the Service under separate authorities; uniform or any word, term, name, symbol, ‘‘(2) to ensure that the public encounters a 54, United States Code, is amended by insert- device, or any combination of emblems or variety of interpretive and educational op- ing after the item relating to chapter 1007 uniforms to suggest any likeness of the Serv- portunities and services during visits to Sys- the following: ice emblem or Service uniform in connection tem units; ‘‘1008. Education and Interpretation 100801’’. with goods or services in commerce in a ‘‘(3) to recognize that the Service provides (e) PUBLIC LAND CORPS AMENDMENTS.— manner reasonably calculated to convey the lifelong learning opportunities and contrib- (1) DEFINITIONS.—Section 203(10)(A) of the impression to the public that the goods or utes to interdisciplinary learning in tradi- Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 (16 U.S.C. services are approved, endorsed, or author- tional and nontraditional educational set- 1722(10)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘25’’ and ized by the Service; tings; inserting ‘‘30’’. ‘‘(C) use in commerce any word, term, ‘‘(4) to provide opportunities for all people (2) PARTICIPANTS.—Section 204(b) of the name, symbol, device or any combination of to find relevance in the System; and Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 (16 U.S.C.

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Mr. President, I ask (f) VOLUNTEERS IN PARKS PROGRAM.—Sec- TIVE EXPENSES.—No Federal funds made unanimous consent that the Com- tion 102301(d) of title 54, United States Code, available under subsection (a) shall be used is amended— mittee on Health, Education, Labor, by the National Park Foundation for admin- and Pensions be authorized to meet (1) by striking ‘‘is’’ and inserting ‘‘are’’; istrative expenses of the National Park and Foundation, including for salaries, travel during the session of the Senate on (2) by striking ‘‘not more than $3,500,000’’ and transportation expenses, and other over- February 9, 2016, at 10 a.m., in room and inserting ‘‘such sums as are necessary’’. head expenses.’’. SD–430 of the Dirksen Senate Office (g) NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION.— (B) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of Building. (1) BOARD OF DIRECTORS.—Subchapter II of sections affected for title 54, United States chapter 1011 of title 54, United States Code, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Code, is amended by inserting after the item objection, it is so ordered. is amended— relating to section 101121 (as amended by (A) in section 101112— subsection (b)(2)) the following: SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE (i) by striking subsection (a) and inserting ‘‘§101122. Authorization of appropriations.’’. the following: Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask ‘‘(a) MEMBERSHIP.—The National Park unanimous consent that the Select Foundation shall consist of a Board having SA 3296. Mr. MCCONNELL (for Mr. Committee on Intelligence be author- as members at least 6 private citizens of the JOHNSON) proposed an amendment to ized to meet during the session of the United States appointed by the Secretary, the bill S. 2109, to direct the Adminis- Senate on February 9, 2016, at 2:30 p.m. with the Secretary and the Director serving trator of the Federal Emergency Man- as ex officio members of the Board.’’; and agement Agency to develop an inte- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without (ii) by striking subsection (c) and inserting grated plan to reduce administrative objection, it is so ordered. the following: costs under the Robert T. Stafford Dis- SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISHERIES, WATER, AND ‘‘(c) CHAIRMAN.— WILDLIFE ‘‘(1) SELECTION.—The Board shall select a aster Relief and Emergency Assistance Chairman of the Board from among the Act, and for other purposes; as follows: Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask members of the Board. On page 10, line 5, insert ‘‘for 7 years begin- unanimous consent that the Sub- ‘‘(2) TERM.—The Chairman of the Board ning on the date of enactment of this Act’’ committee on Fisheries, Water, and shall serve for a 2-year term.’’; and after ‘‘each year’’. Wildlife of the Committee on Environ- (iii) in section 101113(a)— f ment and Public Works be authorized (I) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para- to meet during the session of the Sen- graph (3); and AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO (II) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol- MEET ate on February 9, 2016, at 2:30 p.m., in lowing: room SD–406 of the Dirksen Senate Of- COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES ‘‘(2) COORDINATION WITH SERVICE.—Activi- fice Building, to conduct a hearing en- ties of the National Park Foundation under Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask titled, ‘‘Federal Interactions with paragraph (1) shall be undertaken after con- unanimous consent that the Com- State Management of Fish and Wild- sultation with the Secretary to ensure the mittee on Armed Services be author- life.’’ activities are consistent with the programs ized to meet during the session of the and policies of the Service.’’. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Senate on February 9, 2016, at 9:30 a.m. objection, it is so ordered. (2) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without (A) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter objection, it is so ordered. SUBCOMMITTEE ON STRATEGIC FORCES 1011 of title 54, United States Code (as amended by subsection (b)(1)), is amended by COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask adding at the end the following: Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Sub- ‘‘SEC. 101122. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIA- unanimous consent that the Com- committee on Strategic Forces of the TIONS. mittee on Foreign Relations be author- Committee on Armed Services be au- ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to ized to meet during the session of the thorized to meet during the session of be appropriated to carry out this subchapter Senate on February 9, 2016, at 5 p.m., to the Senate on February 9, 2016, at 2:30 $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2016 p.m. through 2026. conduct a classified briefing entitled ‘‘(b) USE OF APPROPRIATED FUNDS.— ‘‘Administration Update on the Way The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Amounts made available under subsectionh Forward in Syria and Iraq.’’ objection, it is so ordered. FOREIGN TRAVEL FINANCIAL REPORTS In accordance with the appropriate provisions of law, the Secretary of the Senate herewith submits the following re- ports for standing committees of the Senate, certain joint committees of the Congress, delegations and groups, and select and special committees of the Senate, relating to expenses incurred in the performance of authorized foreign travel:

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS FOR TRAVEL FROM OCT. 1 TO DEC. 31, 2015

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Paul Grove: Burma ...... Kyat ...... 1,087.00 ...... 440.00 ...... 1,527.00 Japan ...... Yen ...... 1,169.01 ...... 1,169.01 United States ...... Dollar ...... 5,423.10 ...... 5,423.10 Jason Wheelock: Burma ...... Kyat ...... 1,087.00 ...... 1,087.00 Japan ...... Yen ...... 1,169.01 ...... 1,169.01 United States ...... Dollar ...... 5,423.10 ...... 5,423.10 Senator Lamar Alexander: Italy ...... Euro ...... 2,275.83 ...... 2,275.83 Greece ...... Euro ...... 732.09 ...... 732.09 Sara Fairchild: Italy ...... Euro ...... 2,275.83 ...... 2,275.83 Greece ...... Euro ...... 732.09 ...... 732.09 Senator Susan Collins: Italy ...... Euro ...... 2,275.83 ...... 2,275.83 Greece ...... Euro ...... 732.09 ...... 732.09

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Elizabeth McDonnell: Italy ...... Euro ...... 2,275.83 ...... 2,275.83 Greece ...... Euro ...... 732.09 ...... 732.09 Senator Thad Cochran: Italy ...... Euro ...... 2,275.83 ...... 2,275.83 Greece ...... Euro ...... 732.09 ...... 732.09 Kay Webber: Italy ...... Euro ...... 2,275.83 ...... 2,275.83 Greece ...... Euro ...... 732.09 ...... 732.09 Linda Good: Italy ...... Euro ...... 2,275.83 ...... 2,275.83 Greece ...... Euro ...... 732.09 ...... 732.09 Patrick Magnuson: Japan ...... Yen ...... 672.75 ...... 672.75 United States ...... Dollar ...... 7,184.80 ...... 7,184.80 Michael Bain: Japan ...... Yen ...... 672.75 ...... 672.75 United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,935.60 ...... 6,935.60 Senator Brian Schatz: Jordan ...... Dinar ...... 685.96 ...... 221.24 ...... 91.07 ...... 998.27 Germany ...... Euro ...... 306.15 ...... 521.42 ...... 145.36 ...... 972.93 United States ...... Dollar ...... 18,399.50 ...... 18,399.50 William Rogers: Jordan ...... Dinar ...... 685.96 ...... 221.23 ...... 91.06 ...... 998.25 Germany ...... Euro ...... 306.15 ...... 521.42 ...... 145.35 ...... 972.92 United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,957.50 ...... 12,957.50 Adam Yezerski: Tanzania ...... Tanzanian Franc ...... 309.00 ...... 309.00 Rwanda ...... Rwandan Franc ...... 297.00 ...... 297.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 8,039.20 ...... 8,039.20 *Delegation Expenses: Japan ...... Yen ...... 1,918.52 ...... 1,918.52 Burma ...... Kyat ...... 1,517.00 ...... 1,517.00 Greece ...... Euro ...... 10,128.00 ...... 10,128.00 Italy ...... Euro ...... 1,522.08 ...... 1,522.08 Jordan ...... Dinar ...... 442.47 ...... 182.13 ...... 624.60 Germany ...... Euro ...... 1,042.84 ...... 290.71 ...... 1,333.55 Total ...... 29,503.18 ...... 67,773.42 ...... 16,031.28 ...... 113,307.88 * Delegation expenses include payments and reimbursements to the Department of State under authority of Sec. 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended by Section 22 of P.L. 95–384, and S. Res. 179 agreed to May 25, 1977. SENATOR THAD COCHRAN, Chairman, Committee on Appropriations, Feb. 1, 2016.

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES FOR TRAVEL FROM OCT. 1 TO DEC. 31, 2015

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Jonathan Epstein: United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,000.20 ...... 12,000.20 Belgium ...... Euro ...... 913.95 ...... 913.95 *Delegation Expenses: Belgium ...... Euro ...... 1,150.16 ...... 1,150.16 David E. Sayers: United States ...... Dollar ...... 17,811.00 ...... 17,811.00 Australia ...... Dollar ...... 1,777.00 ...... 1,777.00 *Delegation Expenses: Australia ...... Dollar ...... 696.00 ...... 696.00 Senator Jeanne Shaheen: United States ...... Dollar ...... 15,629.50 ...... 15,629.50 Greece ...... Euro ...... 511.27 ...... 511.27 Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 293.41 ...... 293.41 Germany ...... Euro ...... 448.22 ...... 448.22 Brian McKeon: United States ...... Dollar ...... 11,503.50 ...... 11,503.50 Greece ...... Euro ...... 479.83 ...... 479.83 Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 293.75 ...... 293.75 Germany ...... Euro ...... 467.88 ...... 467.88 Josh Lucas: United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,099.90 ...... 12,099.90 Greece ...... Euro ...... 539.15 ...... 539.15 Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 293.75 ...... 293.75 Germany ...... Euro ...... 448.22 ...... 448.22 *Delegation Expenses: Greece ...... Euro ...... 4,356.66 ...... 4,356.66 Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 379.06 ...... 379.06 Germany ...... Euro ...... 1,000.47 ...... 1,000.47 United Kingdom ...... Pound ...... 13.34 ...... 13.34 Steven Barney: United States ...... Dollar ...... 21,103.08 ...... 21,103.08 Israel ...... Shekel ...... 1,369.64 ...... 1,369.64 United Kingdom ...... Pound ...... 524.01 ...... 524.01 James B. Hickey: United States ...... Dollar ...... 21,025.56 ...... 21,025.56 Israel ...... Shekel ...... 1,369.64 ...... 1,369.64 United Kingdom ...... Pound ...... 615.01 ...... 615.01 Samantha Clark: United States ...... Dollar ...... 21,071.56 ...... 21,071.56 Israel ...... Shekel ...... 1,369.64 ...... 1,369.64 United Kingdom ...... Pound ...... 615.01 ...... 615.01 Jonathan Clark: United States ...... Dollar ...... 21,080.68 ...... 21,080.68 Israel ...... Shekel ...... 1,369.64 ...... 1,369.64 United Kingdom ...... Pound ...... 615.01 ...... 615.01 *Delegation Expenses: Israel ...... Shekel ...... 495.90 ...... 660.33 ...... 1,156.23 United Kingdom ...... Pound ...... 186.06 ...... 186.06

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

David E. Sayers: United States ...... Dollar ...... 19,351.00 ...... 19,351.00 Japan ...... Yen ...... 383.47 ...... 383.47 Philippines ...... Peso ...... 1,380.34 ...... 1,380.34 Ozge Guzelsu: United States ...... Dollar ...... 24,026.05 ...... 24,026.05 Japan ...... Yen ...... 419.50 ...... 419.50 Philippines ...... Peso ...... 1,386.75 ...... 1,386.75 *Delegation Expenses: Philippines ...... Peso ...... 437.23 ...... 437.23 Kathryn Wheelbarger: United States ...... Dollar ...... 18,183.00 ...... 18,183.00 Turkey ...... Lira ...... 315.00 ...... 315.00 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 265.00 ...... 265.00 Qatar ...... Riyal ...... 584.96 ...... 584.96 Hungary ...... Forint ...... 285.00 ...... 285.00 Thomas Goffus: United States ...... Dollar ...... 25,960.80 ...... 25,960.80 Turkey ...... Lira ...... 355.00 ...... 355.00 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 265.00 ...... 265.00 Qatar ...... Riyal ...... 595.00 ...... 595.00 Hungary ...... Forint ...... 278.00 ...... 278.00 Adam Barker: United States ...... Dollar ...... 25,783.70 ...... 25,783.70 Turkey ...... Lira ...... 108.00 ...... 108.00 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 357.00 ...... 357.00 Qatar ...... Riyal ...... 549.96 ...... 549.96 William G.P. Monahan: United States ...... Dollar ...... 25,932.40 ...... 25,932.40 Turkey ...... Lira ...... 98.00 ...... 98.00 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 337.00 ...... 337.00 Qatar ...... Riyal ...... 320.00 ...... 320.00 Michael Kuiken: United States ...... Dollar ...... 16,700.00 ...... 16,700.00 Turkey ...... Lira ...... 365.00 ...... 365.00 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 265.00 ...... 265.00 Qatar ...... Riyal ...... 557.96 ...... 557.96 *Delegation Expenses: Turkey ...... Lira ...... 166.38 ...... 166.38 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 172.52 ...... 172.52 Qatar ...... Riyal ...... 69.15 ...... 69.15 Robert Soofer: United States ...... Dollar ...... 17,936.50 ...... 17,936.50 United Kingdom ...... Pound ...... 1,336.25 ...... 1,336.25 France ...... Dollar ...... 530.30 ...... 530.30 Jonathan Epstein: United States ...... Dollar ...... 17,870.50 ...... 17,870.50 United Kingdom ...... Pound ...... 1,465.24 ...... 1,465.24 France ...... Dollar ...... 530.30 ...... 530.30 *Delegation Expenses: United Kingdom ...... Pound ...... 509.20 ...... 509.20 France ...... Dollar ...... 1,745.00 ...... 1,745.00 James B. Hickey: United States ...... Dollar ...... 19,268.60 ...... 19,268.60 United Arab Emirates ...... Dirham ...... 990.04 ...... 990.04 Qatar ...... Riyal ...... 389.89 ...... 389.89 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 979.36 ...... 979.36 Kathryn Wheelbarger: United States ...... Dollar ...... 19,268.60 ...... 19,268.60 United Arab Emirates ...... Dirham ...... 90.04 ...... 90.04 Qatar ...... Riyal ...... 389.89 ...... 389.89 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 884.36 ...... 884.36 Thomas Goffus: United States ...... Dollar ...... 19,268.60 ...... 19,268.60 United Arab Emirates ...... Dirham ...... 939.04 ...... 939.04 Qatar ...... Riyal ...... 389.89 ...... 389.89 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 889.36 ...... 889.36 Adam Barker: United States ...... Dollar ...... 10,897.60 ...... 10,897.60 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 669.36 ...... 669.36 Samantha Clark: United States ...... Dollar ...... 15,441.30 ...... 15,441.30 United Arab Emirates ...... Dirham ...... 497.53 ...... 497.53 William G.P. Monahan: United States ...... Dollar ...... 15,441.30 ...... 15,441.30 United Arab Emirates ...... Dirham, ...... 358.43 ...... 358.43 Michael Kuiken: United States ...... Dollar ...... 11,015.08 ...... 11,015.08 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 844.36 ...... 844.36 *Delegation Expenses: United Arab Emirates ...... Dirham ...... 52.25 ...... 52.25 Qatar ...... Riyal ...... 108.77 ...... 108.77 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 900.00 ...... 900.00 Afghanistan ...... Afghani ...... 923.00 ...... 923.00 Ozge Guzelsu: United States ...... Dollar ...... 11,184.60 ...... 11,184.60 Myanmar ...... Burmese Kyat ...... 1,395.00 ...... 1,395.00 *Delegation Expenses: Myanmar ...... Burmese Kyat ...... 371.50 ...... 371.50 David E. Sayers: United States ...... Dollar ...... 14,365.80 ...... 14,365.80 Japan ...... Yen ...... 787.00 ...... 787.00 Singapore ...... Dollar ...... 712.00 ...... 712.00 Jason Potter: United States ...... Dollar ...... 14,365.80 ...... 14,365.80 Japan ...... Yen ...... 787.00 ...... 787.00 Singapore ...... Dollar ...... 712.00 ...... 712.00 *Delegation Expenses: Japan ...... Yen ...... 1,102.75 ...... 1,102.75 Senator Tim Kaine: United States ...... Dollar ...... 764.49 ...... 764.49 Canada ...... Dollar ...... 442.90 ...... 442.90 Christian Brose: United States ...... Dollar ...... 764.49 ...... 764.49 Canada ...... Dollar ...... 116.00 ...... 116.00

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Ryan Colvert: United States ...... Dollar ...... 764.49 ...... 764.49 Canada ...... Dollar ...... 57.25 ...... 57.25 Nicole Porreca: United States ...... Dollar ...... 764.49 ...... 764.49 Canada ...... Dollar ...... 57.25 ...... 57.25 *Delegation Expenses: Canada ...... Dollar ...... 9,035.50 ...... 9,035.50 Senator John McCain: United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,634.30 ...... 12,634.30 Christian Brose: United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,634.30 ...... 12,634.30 Iraq ...... Dinar ...... 122.00 ...... 122.00 James B. Hickey: United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,634.30 ...... 12,634.30 Kathryn Wheelbarger: United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,634.30 ...... 12,634.30 Iraq ...... Dinar ...... 122.00 ...... 122.00 Senator Lindsey Graham: United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,634.30 ...... 12,634.30 Iraq ...... Dinar ...... 5.00 ...... 5.00 Craig Abele: United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,634.30 ...... 12,634.30 *Delegation Expenses: Iraq ...... Dinar ...... 16,800.00 ...... 16,800.00 United Arab Emirates ...... Dirham ...... 243.03 ...... 243.03 Kathryn Wheelbarger: United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,207.56 ...... 9,207.56 Israel ...... Shekel ...... 570.00 ...... 570.00 Jordan ...... Dinar ...... 1,139.67 ...... 1,139.67 Thomas Goffus: United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,340.60 ...... 9,340.60 Israel ...... Shekel ...... 565.00 ...... 565.00 Jordan ...... Dinar ...... 1,164.67 ...... 1,164.67 Adam Barker: United States ...... Dollar ...... 13,764.86 ...... 13,764.86 Israel ...... Shekel ...... 572.00 ...... 572.00 Jordan ...... Dinar ...... 761.11 ...... 761.11 *Delegation Expenses: Israel ...... Shekel ...... 374.07 ...... 745.80 ...... 1,119.87 Jordan ...... Dinar ...... 293.45 ...... 325.04 ...... 618.49 Daniel Lerner: United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,082.00 ...... 12,082.00 Germany ...... Euro ...... 520.75 ...... 520.75

Total ...... 46,567.21 ...... 641,977.32 ...... 20,180.29 ...... 708,724.82 * Delegation expenses include payments and reimbursements to the Department of State under authority of Sec. 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended by Section 22 of P.L. 95–384, and S. Res. 179 agreed to May 25, 1977. SENATOR JOHN McCAIN, Chairman, Committee on Armed Services, Feb. 1, 2016.

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS FOR TRAVEL FROM OCT. 1 TO DEC. 31, 2015

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Senator Elizabeth Warren: Greece ...... Euro ...... 184.37 ...... 184.37 Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 73.59 ...... 73.59 Germany ...... Euro ...... 150.48 ...... 150.48 United States ...... Dollar ...... 15,629.50 ...... 15,629.50 Jonathan Donenberg: Greece ...... Euro ...... 212.25 ...... 212.25 Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 58.48 ...... 58.48 Germany ...... Euro ...... 88.00 ...... 88.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 16,040.00 ...... 16,040.00

Total ...... 767.17 ...... 31,669.50 ...... 32,436.67 SENATOR RICHARD C. SHELBY, Chairman, Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Jan. 11, 2016.

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Kusai Merchant: France ...... Euro ...... 1,744.00 ...... 1,458.10 ...... 3,033.00 ...... 6,235.10

Total ...... 1,744.00 ...... 1,458.10 ...... 3,033.00 ...... 6,235.10 SENATOR MICHAEL B. ENZI, Chairman, Committee on the Budget, Jan. 29, 2016.

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

David Quinalty: United States ...... Dollar ...... 2,223.30 ...... 2,223.30 Ireland ...... Euro ...... 791.20 ...... 791.20 Jeffrey Farrah: United States ...... Dollar ...... 2,223.10 ...... 2,223.10 Ireland ...... Euro ...... 791.20 ...... 791.20 John Branscome: United States ...... Dollar ...... 2,223.10 ...... 2,223.10 Ireland ...... Euro ...... 791.20 ...... 791.20 Shawn Bone: United States ...... Dollar ...... 2,223.10 ...... 2,223.10 Ireland ...... Euro ...... 791.20 ...... 791.20 Senator Brian Schatz: France ...... Euro ...... 1,173.06 ...... 1,173.06 *Delegation Expenses: ...... 608.09 ...... 608.09 Dale Hahn: France ...... Euro ...... 1,296.23 ...... 1,296.23 *Delegation Expenses: ...... 608.09 ...... 608.09 Total ...... 5,634.09 ...... 8,892.60 ...... 1,216.18 ...... 15,742.87 *Delegation expenses include payments and reimbursements to the Department of State under authority of Sec. 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended by Section 22 of P.L. 95–384, and S. Res. 179 agreed to May 25, 1977. SENATOR JOHN THUNE, Chairman, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Feb. 2, 2016.

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Senator Angus King, Jr.: United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,836.50 ...... 1,836.50 Ireland ...... Krona ...... 507.25 ...... 507.25 Margaret Williams: United States ...... Dollar ...... 2,419.60 ...... 2,419.60 Ireland ...... Krona ...... 507.25 ...... 507.25 *Delegation Expenses: Iceland ...... Krona ...... 4,158.00 ...... 4,158.00 Senator Al Franken: France ...... Euro ...... 1,371.74 ...... 1,371.74 Ali Nouri: United States ...... Dollar ...... 524.00 ...... 524.00 France ...... Euro ...... 2,169.59 ...... 2,169.59 *Delegation Expenses: France ...... Euro ...... 1,250.92 ...... 1,250.92 Total ...... 4,555.83 ...... 4,780.10 ...... 5,408.92 ...... 14,744.85 *Delegation expenses include payments and reimbursements to the Department of State under authority of Sec. 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended by Section 22 of P.L. 95–384, and S. Res. 179 agreed to May 25, 1977. SENATOR LISA MURKOWSKI, Chairman, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Jan. 21, 2016.

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS FOR TRAVEL FROM OCT. 1 TO DEC. 31, 2015

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Senator James M. Inhofe: France ...... Euro ...... 780.00 ...... 780.00 Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: France ...... Euro ...... 2,796.00 ...... 2,796.00 Senator Jeff Merkley: France ...... Euro ...... 1,299.00 ...... 1,299.00 Senator Edward J. Markey: France ...... Euro ...... 1,621.00 ...... 1,621.00 Senator Cory A. Booker: United States ...... Dollar ...... 5,224.40 ...... 5,224.40 France ...... Euro ...... 1,379.53 ...... 1,379.53 Jan Brunner: United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,121.80 ...... 1,121.80 France ...... Euro ...... 5,913.00 ...... 5,913.00 Brandon Elsner: United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,112.90 ...... 1,112.90 France ...... Euro ...... 5,165.00 ...... 5,165.00 Ann Mesnikoff: United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,602.90 ...... 1,602.90 France ...... Euro ...... 5,709.00 ...... 5,709.00 Frederick Illston: United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,602.90 ...... 1,602.90 France ...... Euro ...... 6,522.00 ...... 6,522.00 Kathryn R. Thomas: United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,416.10 ...... 1,416.10 France ...... Euro ...... 4,775.00 ...... 4,775.00 Emily Enderle: United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,406.90 ...... 1,406.90 France ...... Euro ...... 2,200.00 ...... 2,200.00 Aaron Goldner: France ...... Euro ...... 784.00 ...... 784.00

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Jeremiah Baumann: France ...... Euro ...... 1,435.00 ...... 1,435.00 Adrian Deveny: United States ...... Dollar ...... 610.80 ...... 610.80 France ...... Euro ...... 4,210.00 ...... 4,210.00 Ana Unruh Cohen: United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,122.10 ...... 1,122.10 France ...... Euro ...... 5,647.00 ...... 5,647.00 Jessica Clowser: United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,652.90 ...... 1,652.90 France ...... Euro ...... 5,300.00 ...... 5,300.00 Adam Zipkin: France ...... Euro ...... 1,290.00 ...... 1,290.00 Philip Moore: United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,122.10 ...... 1,122.10 France ...... Euro ...... 4,688.00 ...... 4,688.00 Brian Clifford: United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,088.20 ...... 1,088.20 France ...... Euro ...... 1,526.00 ...... 1,526.00 Amanda Gunasekara: United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,121.90 ...... 1,121.90 France ...... Euro ...... 5,502.00 ...... 5,502.00 Ryan Jackson: France ...... Euro ...... 1,559.00 ...... 1,559.00 *Delegation Expenses: France ...... Euro ...... 10,945.04 ...... 10,945.04 Total ...... 70,100.53 ...... 20,205.90 ...... 10,945.04 ...... 101,251.47 * Delegation expenses include payments and reimbursements to the Department of State under authority of Sec. 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended by Section 22 of P.L. 95–384, and S. Res. 179 agreed to May 25, 1977. SENATOR JAMES M. INHOFE, Chairman, Committee on Environment & Public Works, Feb. 2, 2016.

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Senator Dan Coats: Italy ...... Euro ...... 750.02 ...... 750.02 Greece ...... Euro ...... 459.66 ...... 459.66 Terrry Snell: Italy ...... Euro ...... 722.90 ...... 772.90 Greece ...... Euro ...... 445.98 ...... 445.98 *Delegation Expenses: United States ...... Dollar ...... 2,426.14 ...... 2,426.14 Shane Warren: Philippines ...... Peso ...... 2,593.68 ...... 2,593.68 United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,938.50 ...... 12,938.50 Everett Eissenstat: Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 1,125.40 ...... 1,125.40 United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,535.10 ...... 12,535.10 Shane Warren: Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 1,176.51 ...... 1,176.51 United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,535.10 ...... 12,535.10 *Delegation Expenses: United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,512.35 ...... 1,512.35 Theda Khrestin: Estonia ...... Euro ...... 689.09 ...... 689.09 Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 1,165.42 ...... 1,165.42 United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,271.60 ...... 12,271.60 Tyler Brace: Estonia ...... Euro ...... 603.58 ...... 603.58 Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 1,521.59 ...... 1,521.59 United States ...... ollar ...... 45.72 ...... 11,428.60 ...... 11,474.32 Ryan Evans: Estonia ...... Euro ...... 662.06 ...... 662.06 Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 1,094.28 ...... 1,094.28 United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,196.70 ...... 12,196.70 *Delegation Expenses: United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,623,37 ...... 1,623.37 Total ...... 13,055.89 ...... 73,905.60 ...... 5,561.86 ...... 92,523.35 * Delegation Expenses include transportation, embassy overtime, as well as official expenses in accordance with the responsibilities of the host country. SENATOR ORRIN HATCH, Chairman, Committee on Finance, Feb. 2, 2016.

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Senator John Barrasso: Canada ...... Dollar ...... 539.21 ...... 539.21 United States ...... Dollar ...... 2,100.29 ...... 2,100.29 Senator Christopher Murphy: Canada ...... Dollar ...... 471.63 ...... 471.63 United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,052.53 ...... 1,052.53 Jessica Elledge: Canada ...... Dollar ...... 646.63 ...... 646.63

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

United States ...... Dollar ...... 764.49 ...... 764.49 *Delegation Expenses: Canada ...... Dollar ...... 7,744.71 ...... 7,744.71 Senator John Barrasso: United Arab Emirates ...... Dollar ...... 244.00 ...... 244.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 10,615.60 ...... 10,615.60 Charles Ziegler: United Arab Emirates ...... Dollar ...... 237.00 ...... 237.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,813.00 ...... 9,813.00 *Delegation Expenses: Afghanistan ...... Dollar ...... 15,900.00 ...... 15,900.00 Senator Bob Corker: France ...... Euro ...... 673.05 ...... 673.05 Egypt ...... Pound ...... 501.84 ...... 501.84 United States ...... Dollar ...... 11,161.10 ...... 11,161.10 David Kinzler: France ...... Euro ...... 848.30 ...... 848.30 Egypt ...... Pound ...... 684.00 ...... 684.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 10,959.30 ...... 10,959.30 *Delegation Expenses: France ...... Euro ...... 1,659.00 ...... 1,659.00 Egypt ...... Pound ...... 3,208.00 ...... 3,208.00 Senator Cory Gardner: Mexico ...... Peso ...... 627.92 ...... 627.92 United States ...... Dollar ...... 750.59 ...... 750.59 Chris Hansen: Mexico ...... Peso ...... 627.92 ...... 627.92 United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,190.49 ...... 1,190.49 *Delegation Expenses: Mexico ...... Peso ...... 2,133.00 ...... 2,133.00 Senator Ben Cardin: France ...... Euro ...... 1,436.91 ...... 1,436.91 Debbie Yamada: France ...... Euro ...... 1,565.88 ...... 1,565.88 Josh Klein: France ...... Euro ...... 1,464.91 ...... 1,464.91 Adam Sharon: France ...... Euro ...... 1,060.00 ...... 1,060.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,086.90 ...... 1,086.90 Senator Christopher Coons: France ...... Euro ...... 1,796.88 ...... 1,796.88 United States ...... Dollar ...... 5,714.40 ...... 5,714.40 Allison Schwier: France ...... Euro ...... 1,848.35 ...... 1,848.35 Senator Jeanne Shaheen: France ...... Euro ...... 1,422.91 ...... 1,422.91 Robert Diznoff: France ...... Euro ...... 1,554.91 ...... 1,554.91 Senator Tom Udall: France ...... Euro ...... 1,621.00 ...... 1,621.00 *Delegation Expenses: France ...... Euro ...... 6,080.83 ...... 6,080.83 Amber Bland: Finland ...... Euro ...... 291.12 ...... 291.12 Lithuania ...... Euro ...... 798.12 ...... 798.12 Croatia ...... Kuna ...... 285.28 ...... 285.28 United States ...... Dollar ...... 3,093.80 ...... 3,093.80 Curtis Swager: Finland ...... Euro ...... 243.59 ...... 243.59 Lithuania ...... Euro ...... 746.60 ...... 746.60 Croatia ...... Kuna ...... 261.76 ...... 261.76 United States ...... Dollar ...... 3,128.80 ...... 3,128.80 Lydia Westlake: Finland ...... Euro ...... 312.54 ...... 312.54 Lithuania ...... Euro ...... 940.97 ...... 940.97 Croatia ...... Kuna ...... 313.76 ...... 313.76 United States ...... Dollar ...... 3,128.80 ...... 3,128.80 *Delegation Expenses: Lithuania ...... Euro ...... 1,211.80 ...... 1,211.80 Croatia ...... Kuna ...... 29.07 ...... 29.07 Jaime Fly: Bahrain ...... Dinar ...... 289.46 ...... 289.46 Saudi Arabia ...... Riyal ...... 403.27 ...... 403.27 Egypt ...... Pound ...... 412.76 ...... 412.76 United States ...... Dollar ...... 7,707.80 ...... 7,707.80 John Rader: Bahrain ...... Dinar ...... 396.00 ...... 396.00 Saudi Arabia ...... Riyal ...... 484.33 ...... 484.33 Egypt ...... Pound ...... 517.00 ...... 517.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 7,742.80 ...... 7,742.80 *Delegation Expenses: Bahrain ...... Dinar ...... 1,379.26 ...... 1,379.26 Saudi Arabia ...... Riyal ...... 688.00 ...... 688.00 Egypt ...... Pound ...... 61.00 ...... 61.00 Heather Flynn: United Kingdom ...... Pound ...... 1,035.40 ...... 1,035.40 France ...... Euro ...... 978.00 ...... 978.00 Belgium ...... Euro ...... 814.86 ...... 814.86 United States ...... Dollar ...... 3,848.50 ...... 3,848.50 *Delegation Expenses: United Kingdom ...... Pound ...... 186.06 ...... 186.06 Jodie Herman: Israel ...... Shekel ...... 1,563.77 ...... 1,563.77 United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,751.06 ...... 9,751.06 Dana Stroul: Israel ...... Shekel ...... 1,521.89 ...... 1,521.89 United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,399.86 ...... 6,399.86 *Delegation Expenses: Israel ...... Shekel ...... 4,433.72 ...... 4,433.72 David Kinzler: Saudi Arabia ...... Riyal ...... 1,000.00 ...... 1,000.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,822.70 ...... 12,822.70 Stacie Oliver: Saudi Arabia ...... Riyal ...... 920.00 ...... 920.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,822.70 ...... 12,822.70

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

*Delegation Expenses: Saudi Arabia ...... Riyal ...... 116.00 ...... 116.00 David Kinzler: Bahrain ...... Dinar ...... 1,073.17 ...... 1,073.17 United States ...... Dollar ...... 14,073.80 ...... 14,073.80 Dana Stroul: Bahrain ...... Dinar ...... 1,073.17 ...... 1,073.17 United States ...... Dollar ...... 13,574.10 ...... 13,574.10 *Delegation Expenses: Bahrain ...... Dinar ...... 1,743.00 ...... 1,743.00 Carolyn Leddy: Burma ...... Kyat ...... 699.33 ...... 699.33 United States ...... Dollar ...... 5,704.60 ...... 5,704.60 Frank Polley: Burma ...... Kyat ...... 621.00 ...... 621.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 5,669.70 ...... 5,669.70 Michael Schiffer: Burma ...... Kyat ...... 747.00 ...... 747.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 5,771,00 ...... 5,771.00 *Delegation Expenses: Burma ...... Kyat ...... 9,559.50 ...... 9,559.50 Stacie Oliver: United Arab Emirates ...... Dirham ...... 1,462.00 ...... 1,462.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 2,079.20 ...... 2,079.20 David Fite: United Arab Emirates ...... Dirham ...... 1,126.00 ...... 1,126.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 2,079.20 ...... 2,079.20 *Delegation Expenses: United Arab Emirates ...... Dirham ...... 753.28 ...... 753.28 Margaret Taylor: France ...... Euro ...... 2,561.45 ...... 2,561.45 United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,637.90 ...... 1,637.90 Nick Barbash: France ...... Euro ...... 1,918.23 ...... 1,918.23 United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,637.70 ...... 1,637.70 Michael Bednarczyk: France ...... Euro ...... 2,628.00 ...... 2,628.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,637.60 ...... 1,637.60 *Delegation Expenses: France ...... Euro ...... 1,824.24 ...... 1,824.24 Brandon Yoder: Colombia ...... Peso ...... 1,453.81 ...... 1,453.81 United States ...... Dollar ...... 806.60 ...... 806.60 Viviana Bovo: Colombia ...... Peso ...... 796.39 ...... 796.39 United States ...... Dollar ...... 848.00 ...... 848.00 Nury Gambarrotti: Colombia ...... Peso ...... 1,434.10 ...... 1,434.10 United States ...... Dollar ...... 806.60 ...... 806.60 Matthew Padilla: Colombia ...... Peso ...... 1,810.00 ...... 1,810.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,130.10 ...... 1,130.10 *Delegation Expenses: Colombia ...... Peso ...... 3,083.00 ...... 3,083.00 Total ...... 53,807.38 ...... 183,111.61 ...... 61,793.47 ...... 298,712.46 * Delegation expenses include payments and reimbursements to the Department of State under authority of Sec. 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended by Section 22 of P.L. 95–384, and S. Res. 179 agreed to May 25, 1977. SENATOR BOB CORKER, Chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations, Jan. 27, 2015.

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Senator Ron Johnson: Guatemala ...... Quetzal ...... 272.99 ...... 272.99 Honduras ...... Lempira ...... 191.00 ...... 191.00 Senator Tom Carper: Guatemala ...... Quetzal ...... 267.49 ...... 267.49 Honduras ...... Lempira ...... 185.50 ...... 185.50 Senator Heidi Heitkamp: Guatemala ...... Quetzal ...... 272.99 ...... 272.99 Honduras ...... Lempira ...... 191.00 ...... 191.00 Senator Gary Peters: Guatemala ...... Quetzal ...... 264.65 ...... 264.65 Honduras ...... Lempira ...... 182.66 ...... 182.66 Holly Idelson: Guatemala ...... Quetzal ...... 268.13 ...... 268.13 Honduras ...... Lempira ...... 186.14 ...... 186.14 Stephen Vina: Guatemala ...... Quetzal ...... 273.68 ...... 273.68 Honduras ...... Lempira ...... 191.68 ...... 191.68 Eric Bursch: Guatemala ...... Quetzal ...... 272.99 ...... 272.99 Honduras ...... Lempira ...... 191.00 ...... 191.00 Jose Bautista: Guatemala ...... Quetzal ...... 273.67 ...... 273.67 Honduras ...... Lempira ...... 191.69 ...... 191.69 Zephranie Buetow: Guatemala ...... Quetzal ...... 279.48 ...... 279.48 Honduras ...... Lempira ...... 212.16 ...... 212.16 Brooke Ericson: Guatemala ...... Quetzal ...... 273.00 ...... 273.00 Honduras ...... Lempira ...... 191.68 ...... 191.68 Katie Delacenserie: United States ...... Dollar ...... 1,734.10 ...... 1,734.10

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Germany ...... Euro ...... 1,668.09 ...... 1,668.09 Jason Rauch: United States ...... Dollar ...... 4,235.90 ...... 4,235.90 Estonia ...... Euro ...... 453.22 ...... 453.22 Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 659.16 ...... 659.16 *Delegation Expenses: Honduras ...... Quetzal ...... 3,982.00 ...... 3,982.00 Total ...... 7,414.05 ...... 5,970.00 ...... 3,982.00 ...... 17,366.05 * Delegation expenses include payments and reimbursements to the Department of State under authority of Sec. 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended by Section 22 of P.L. 95–384, and S. Res. 179 agreed to May 25, 1977. SENATOR RON JOHNSON, Chairman, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Feb. 3, 2016.

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY FOR TRAVEL FROM OCT. 1 TO DEC. 31, 2015

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Virginia Boney: United States ...... Dollar ...... 18,512.80 ...... 18,512.80 Estonia ...... Euro ...... 419.51 ...... 419.51 Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 803.69 ...... 803.69 *Delegation Expenses: Estonia ...... Euro ...... 114.32 ...... 114.32 Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 426.69 ...... 426.69 Senator Amy Klobuchar: United States ...... Dollar ...... 13,712.40 ...... 13,712.40 Greece ...... Euro ...... 552.02 ...... 552.02 Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 297.20 ...... 297.20 Asal Sayas: United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,112.70 ...... 12,112.70 Greece ...... Euro ...... 579.90 ...... 579.90 Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 298.34 ...... 298.34 Germany ...... Euro ...... 234.95 ...... 234.95 Delegation Expenses: * Greece ...... Euro ...... 2,904.44 ...... 2,904.44 Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 252.71 ...... 252.71 Germany ...... Euro ...... 428.78 ...... 428.78 Total ...... 3,185.61 ...... 44,337.90 ...... 4,126.94 ...... 51,650.45 * Delegation expenses include payments and reimbursements to the Department of State under authority of Sec. 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended by Section 22 of P.L. 95–384, and S. Res. 179 agreed to May 25, 1977. SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY, Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, Jan. 26, 2016.

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR, AND PENSIONS FOR TRAVEL FROM OCT. 1 TO DEC. 31, 2015

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Senator Mike Enzi: Italy ...... Euro ...... 1,184.45 ...... 1,184.45 Greece ...... Euro ...... 687.85 ...... 687.85 Senator Johnny Isakson: Italy ...... Euro ...... 1,184.45 ...... 1,184.45 Greece ...... Euro ...... 687.85 ...... 687.85 David Cleary: Italy ...... Euro ...... 1,178.93 ...... 1,178.93 Greece ...... Euro ...... 687.85 ...... 687.85 Tara Shaw: Italy ...... Euro ...... 1,178.93 ...... 1,178.93 Greece ...... Euro ...... 687.85 ...... 687.85 Joan Kirchner: Italy ...... Euro ...... 1,178.93 ...... 1,178.93 Greece ...... Euro ...... 687.85 ...... 687.85 *Delegation Expenses: Italy ...... Euro ...... 6,065.38 ...... 6,065.38 Greece ...... Euro ...... 6,816.90 ...... 6,816.90 Total ...... 9,344.94 ...... 12,882.28 ...... 22,227.22 * Delegation expenses include payments and reimbursements to the Department of State under the authority of Sec. 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended by Sec. 22 of P.L. 95-384, and S. Res. 179, agreed to May 25, 1977. SENATOR LAMAR ALEXANDER, Chairman, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Jan. 7, 2016.

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE FOR TRAVEL FROM OCT. 1 TO DEC. 31, 2015

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Brian Walsh ...... 926.00 ...... 926.00

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

...... 550.00 ...... 550.00 ...... 9,389.80 ...... 9,389.80 Emily Harding ...... 926.00 ...... 926.00 ...... 550.00 ...... 550.00 ...... 9,389.80 ...... 9,389.80 Ryan Tully ...... 926.00 ...... 926.00 ...... 550.00 ...... 550.00 ...... 7,983.00 ...... 7,983.00 Mike Pevzner ...... 926.00 ...... 926.00 ...... 550.00 ...... 550.00 ...... 9,386.80 ...... 9,386.80 *Delegation Expenses ...... 240.00 ...... 240.00 Ryan Kaldahl ...... 13,608.20 ...... 13,608.20 ...... 1,836.08 ...... 1,836.08 ...... 535.00 ...... 535.00 Nate Adler ...... 13,608.20 ...... 13,608.20 ...... 1,836.08 ...... 1,836.08 ...... 535.00 ...... 535.00 James Catella ...... 256.00 ...... 256.00 ...... 14,072.90 ...... 14,072.90 Brian Miller ...... 256.00 ...... 256.00 ...... 14,072.90 ...... 14,072.90 Emily Harding ...... 256.00 ...... 256.00 ...... 14,072.90 ...... 14,072.90 Ryan Tully ...... 504.00 ...... 504.00 ...... 300.00 ...... 300.00 ...... 326.00 ...... 326.00 Senator Tom Cotton ...... 504.00 ...... 504.00 ...... 300.00 ...... 300.00 ...... 326.00 ...... 326.00 Chris Joyner ...... 504.00 ...... 504.00 ...... 300.00 ...... 300.00 ...... 326.00 ...... 326.00 Christian Cook ...... 504.00 ...... 504.00 ...... 300.00 ...... 300.00 ...... 326.00 ...... 326.00 Senator Richard Burr ...... 509.33 ...... 14.50 ...... 523.83 ...... 1,196.00 ...... 109.53 ...... 1,305.53 ...... 14,788.85 ...... 14,788.85 Senator Tom Cotton ...... 509.33 ...... 14.50 ...... 523.83 ...... 1,196.00 ...... 109.53 ...... 1,305.53 ...... 14,788.85 ...... 14,788.85 Chris Joyner ...... 509.33 ...... 14.50 ...... 523.83 ...... 1,196.00 ...... 109.53 ...... 1,305.53 ...... 14,788.85 ...... 14,788.85 Christian Cook ...... 509.33 ...... 14.50 ...... 523.83 ...... 1,196.00 ...... 109.83 ...... 1,305.83 ...... 14,788.85 ...... 14,788.85 Ryan Tully ...... 509.33 ...... 14.50 ...... 523.83 ...... 1,196.00 ...... 109.83 ...... 1,305.83 ...... 14,788.85 ...... 14,788.85 James Catella ...... 509.33 ...... 14.50 ...... 523.83 ...... 1,196.00 ...... 109.83 ...... 1,305.83 ...... 14,788.85 ...... 14,788.85 Paul Matulic ...... 509.33 ...... 14.50 ...... 523.83 ...... 1,196.00 ...... 109.83 ...... 1,305.83 ...... 14,788.85 ...... 14,788.85

Total ...... 27,871.47 ...... 209,106.45 ...... 1,109.41 ...... 238,087.33 * Delegation expenses include payments and reimbursements to the Department of State under authority of Sec. 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended by Section 22 of P.L. 95–384, and S. Res. 179 agreed to May 25, 1977. SENATOR RICHARD BURR, Chairman, Committee on Intelligence, Feb. 4, 2016.

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), COMMISSION ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE (AMENDED REPORT) FOR TRAVEL FROM JULY 1 TO SEPT. 30, 2015

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Amb. David Killion: Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 594.00 ...... 594.00 Czech Republic ...... Koruna ...... 466.00 ...... 466.00 Finland ...... Euro ...... 2,050.00 ...... 2,050.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 10,024.10 ...... 10,024.10 Poland ...... Zloty ...... 2,600.00 ...... 2,600.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,272.00 ...... 9,272.00 *Delegation Expenses: Ukraine ...... Hryvnia ...... 600.17 ...... 600.17 Czech Republic ...... Koruna ...... 1,577.92 ...... 1,577.92 Finland ...... Euro ...... 2,219.52 ...... 2,219.52 Poland ...... Zloty ...... 239.73 ...... 239.73

Total ...... 5,710.00 ...... 19,296.10 ...... 4,637.34 ...... 29,643.44 * Delegation expenses include payments and reimbursements to the Department of State under authority of Sec. 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended by Section 22 of P.L. 95–384, and S. Res. 179 agreed to May 25, 1977. SENATOR ROGER WICKER, Chairman, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Jan. 11, 2016.

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Amb. David Killion: Israel ...... Shekel ...... 1,085.00 ...... 1,085.00 Jordan ...... Dinar ...... 900.19 ...... 900.19 United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,769.96 ...... 9,769.96 Serbia ...... Dinar ...... 947.00 ...... 947.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 11,019.40 ...... 11,019.40 *Delegation Expenses: Israel ...... Shekel ...... 2,044.78 ...... 2,044.78 Jordan ...... Dinar ...... Serbia ...... Dinar ...... Total ...... 2,932.19 ...... 20,789.36 ...... 2,044.78 ...... 25,766.33 *Delegation expenses include payments and reimbursements to the Department of State under authority of Sec. 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended by Section 22 of P.L. 95–384, and S. Res. 179 agreed to May 25, 1977. SENATOR ROGER WICKER, Chairman, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Jan. 11, 2016.

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), MAJORITY LEADER FOR TRAVEL FROM OCT. 9 TO OCT. 17, 2015

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Senator Mitch McConnell: Spain ...... Euro ...... 421.00 ...... 421.00 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 450.00 ...... 450.00 Jordan ...... Dollar ...... 711.89 ...... 711.89 Iraq ...... Dollar ...... 5.00 ...... 2,700.00 ...... 2,705.00 Kuwait ...... Dollar ...... 418.81 ...... 418.81 Afghanistan ...... Dollar ...... 6.00 ...... 6.00 Turkey ...... Dollar ...... 354.00 ...... 354.00 Senator Tom Cotton: Spain ...... Euro ...... 456.21 ...... 456.21 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 485.21 ...... 485.21 Jordan ...... Dollar ...... 746.03 ...... 746.03 Iraq ...... Dollar ...... 5.00 ...... 2,700.00 ...... 2,705.00 Kuwait ...... Dollar ...... 418.81 ...... 418.81 Afghanistan ...... Dollar ...... 6.00 ...... 6.00 Turkey ...... Dollar ...... 354.00 ...... 354.00 Senator Mike Rounds: Spain ...... Euro ...... 421.00 ...... 421.00 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 450.00 ...... 450.00 Jordan ...... Dollar ...... 718.38 ...... 718.38 Iraq ...... Dollar ...... 5.00 ...... 2,700.00 ...... 2,705.00 Kuwait ...... Dollar ...... 418.81 ...... 418.81 Afghanistan ...... Dollar ...... 6.00 ...... 6.00 Turkey ...... Dollar ...... 354.00 ...... 354.00 Senator Joni Ernst: Spain ...... Euro ...... 421.00 ...... 421.00 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 450.00 ...... 450.00 Jordan ...... Dollar ...... 713.14 ...... 713.14 Iraq ...... Dollar ...... 5.00 ...... 2,700.00 ...... 2,705.00 Kuwait ...... Dollar ...... 418.81 ...... 418.81 Afghanistan ...... Dollar ...... 6.00 ...... 6.00 Turkey ...... Dollar ...... 354.00 ...... 354.00 Dr. Brian Monahan: Spain ...... Euro ...... 442.35 ...... 442.35 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 471.36 ...... 471.36 Jordan ...... Dollar ...... 732.18 ...... 732.18 Iraq ...... Dollar ...... 5.00 ...... 2,700.00 ...... 2,705.00 Kuwait ...... Dollar ...... 418.81 ...... 418.81 Afghanistan ...... Dollar ...... 6.00 ...... 6.00 Turkey ...... Dollar ...... 354.00 ...... 354.00 Thomas Hawkins: Spain ...... Euro ...... 473.66 ...... 473.66 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 502.67 ...... 502.67 Jordan ...... Dollar ...... 763.49 ...... 763.49 Iraq ...... Dollar ...... 5.00 ...... 2,700.00 ...... 2,705.00 Kuwait ...... Dollar ...... 418.81 ...... 418.81 Afghanistan ...... Dollar ...... 6.00 ...... 6.00 Turkey ...... Dollar ...... 354.00 ...... 354.00 Stefanie Muchow: Spain ...... Euro ...... 421.00 ...... 421.00 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 450.00 ...... 450.00 Jordan ...... Dollar ...... 711.89 ...... 711.89 Iraq ...... Dollar ...... 5.00 ...... 2,700.00 ...... 2,705.00 Kuwait ...... Dollar ...... 418.81 ...... 418.81 Afghanistan ...... Dollar ...... 14.00 ...... 14.00 Turkey ...... Dollar ...... 354.00 ...... 354.00 Philip Maxson: Spain ...... Euro ...... 421.00 ...... 421.00 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 450.00 ...... 450.00 Jordan ...... Dollar ...... 711.89 ...... 711.89 Iraq ...... Dollar ...... 5.00 ...... 2,700.00 ...... 2,705.00 Kuwait ...... Dollar ...... 418.81 ...... 418.81 Afghanistan ...... Dollar ...... 14.00 ...... 14.00 Turkey ...... Dollar ...... 354.00 ...... 354.00 *Delegation Expenses: Spain ...... Euro ...... 2,499.17 ...... 2,499.17 Israel ...... New Shekel ...... 10,588.75 ...... 10,588.75 Jordan ...... Dinar ...... 3,073.25 ...... 3,073.25 Iraq ...... Dollar ...... 69.80 ...... 69.80 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 518.84 ...... 518.84 Afghanistan ...... Dollar ...... 69.80 ...... 69.80 Turkey ...... Lira ...... 1,081.20 ...... 1,081.20

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CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), MAJORITY LEADER FOR TRAVEL FROM OCT. 1 TO DEC. 31, 2015

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Thomas Hawkins: United States ...... Dollar ...... 14,788.85 ...... 14,788.85 Saudi Arabia ...... Riyal ...... 382.83 ...... 382.83 United Arab Emirates ...... Dirham ...... 1,069.50 ...... 1,069.50 Total ...... 1,452.33 ...... 14,788.85 ...... 16,241.18 SENATOR MITCH McCONNELL, h Majority Leader, Jan. 21, 2016. DIRECTING DOLLARS TO Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform grated plan required under section 3 for the pre- DISASTER RELIEF ACT OF 2015 Act of 2006 (6 U.S.C. 741); and vious fiscal year. (9) the term ‘‘public assistance program’’ (b) REPORT UPDATES.— Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I means the public assistance grant program au- (1) THREE YEAR UPDATE.—Not later than 3 ask unanimous consent that the Sen- thorized under sections 403(a)(3), 406, 418, 419, years after the date on which the Administrator ate proceed to the immediate consider- 428, and 502(a) of the Robert T. Stafford Dis- submits a report under subsection (a), the Ad- ation of Calendar No. 313, S. 2109. aster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 ministrator shall submit an updated report for The PRESIDING OFFICER. The U.S.C. 5170b(a)(3), 5172, 5185, 5186, 5189f, and the previous 3-fiscal-year period. 5192(a)). (2) FIVE YEAR UPDATE.—Not later than 5 years clerk will report the bill by title. after the date on which the Administrator sub- The legislative clerk read as follows: SEC. 3. INTEGRATED PLAN FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COST REDUCTION. mits a report under subsection (a), the Adminis- A bill (S. 2109), to direct the Administrator (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 365 days trator shall submit an updated report for the of the Federal Emergency Management after the date of enactment of this Act, the Ad- previous 5-fiscal-year period. Agency to develop an integrated plan to re- ministrator shall— (c) CONTENTS OF REPORTS.—Each report re- duce administrative costs under the Robert (1) develop and implement an integrated plan quired under subsections (a) and (b) shall con- T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency to control and reduce administrative costs for tain, at a minimum— Assistance Act, and for other purposes. major disasters, which shall include— (1) the total amount spent on administrative There being no objection, the Senate (A) steps the Agency will take to reduce ad- costs for the fiscal year period for which the re- port is being submitted; proceeded to consider the bill, which ministrative costs; (B) milestones needed for accomplishing the (2) the average annual percentage of adminis- had been reported from the Committee trative costs for the fiscal year period for which on Homeland Security and Govern- reduction of administrative costs; (C) strategic goals for the average annual per- the report is being submitted; (3) an assessment of the effectiveness of the mental Affairs, with an amendment to centage of administrative costs of major disas- strike all after the enacting clause and plan developed under section 3(a)(1); ters for each fiscal year; (4) an analysis of— insert in lieu thereof the following: (D) the assignment of clear roles and respon- (A) whether the Agency is achieving the stra- SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. sibilities, including the designation of officials tegic goals established under section 3(a)(1)(C); This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Directing Dol- responsible for monitoring and measuring per- and lars to Disaster Relief Act of 2015’’. formance; and (B) in the case of the Agency not achieving SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. (E) a timetable for implementation; such strategic goals, what is preventing the In this Act— (2) compare the costs and benefits of tracking Agency from doing so; (1) the term ‘‘administrative cost’’— the administrative cost data for major disasters (5) any actions the Agency has identified as (A) means a cost incurred by the Agency in by the public assistance, individual assistance, useful in improving upon and reaching the support of the delivery of disaster assistance for hazard mitigation, and mission assignment pro- goals for administrative costs established under a major disaster; and grams, and if feasible, track this information; section 3(a)(1)(C); and (B) does not include a cost incurred by a and (6) any data described in section 3(a)(2), if the grantee or subgrantee; (3) clarify Agency guidance and minimum Agency determines it is feasible to track such (2) the term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad- documentation requirements for a direct admin- data. ministrator of the Agency; istrative cost claimed by a grantee or subgrantee (d) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—Not later than 30 (3) the term ‘‘Agency’’ means the Federal of a public assistance grant program. days after the date on which the Administrator Emergency Management Agency; (b) CONGRESSIONAL UPDATE.—Not later than submits a report to Congress under this section, (4) the term ‘‘direct administrative cost’’ 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall make the report publicly means a cost incurred by a grantee or sub- the Administrator shall brief the Committee on available on the website of the Agency. grantee of a program authorized by the Robert Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As- the Senate and the Committee on Transpor- consent that the Johnson amendment sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) that can be tation and Infrastructure of the House of Rep- resentatives on the plan required to be devel- be agreed to; the committee-reported identified separately and assigned to a specific substitute amendment, as amended, be project; oped under subsection (a)(1). (5) the term ‘‘hazard mitigation program’’ (c) UPDATES.—If the Administrator modifies agreed to; the bill, as amended, be read means the hazard mitigation grant program au- the plan or the timetable under subsection (a), a third time and passed, and the mo- thorized under section 404 of the Robert T. Staf- the Administrator shall submit to the Committee tion to reconsider be considered made ford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- and laid upon the table. Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c); fairs of the Senate and the Committee on Trans- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without (6) the term ‘‘individual assistance program’’ portation and Infrastructure of the House of objection, it is so ordered. means the individual assistance grant program Representatives a report notifying Congress of The amendment (No. 3296) was agreed authorized under sections 408, 410, 415, 416, 426, the modification, which shall include the details to, as follows: of the modification. and 502(a) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Re- (Purpose: To sunset the reporting lief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. SEC. 4. REPORTING REQUIREMENT. requirement after 7 years) 5174, 5177, 5182, 5183, 5189d, and 5192(a)); (a) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than Novem- On page 10, line 5, insert ‘‘for 7 years begin- (7) the term ‘‘major disaster’’ means a major ber 30 of each year, the Administrator shall sub- ning on the date of enactment of this Act’’ disaster declared by the President under section mit to Committee on Homeland Security and after ‘‘each year’’. 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170); Committee on Transportation and Infrastruc- The committee-reported amendment (8) the term ‘‘mission assignment’’ has the ture of the House of Representatives a report on in the nature of a substitute, as amend- meaning given the term in section 641 of the the development and implementation of the inte- ed, was agreed to.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09FE6.029 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S756 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 9, 2016 The bill (S. 2109), as amended, was or- ministrative cost claimed by a grantee or A bill (H.R. 1428) to extend Privacy Act dered to be engrossed for a third read- subgrantee of a public assistance grant pro- remedies to citizens of certified states, and ing, was read the third time, and gram. for other purposes. passed, as follows: (b) CONGRESSIONAL UPDATE.—Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of The Senate proceeded to consider the S. 2109 this Act, the Administrator shall brief the bill, which had been reported from the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- Committee on the Judiciary, with an resentatives of the United States of America in ernmental Affairs of the Senate and the amendment, as follows: Congress assembled, Committee on Transportation and Infra- (The part of the bill intended to be SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. structure of the House of Representatives on stricken is shown in boldface brackets This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Directing the plan required to be developed under sub- Dollars to Disaster Relief Act of 2015’’. section (a)(1). and the part of the bill intended to be SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. (c) UPDATES.—If the Administrator modi- inserted is shown in italic.) In this Act— fies the plan or the timetable under sub- H.R. 1428 (1) the term ‘‘administrative cost’’— section (a), the Administrator shall submit (A) means a cost incurred by the Agency in to the Committee on Homeland Security and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- support of the delivery of disaster assistance Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the resentatives of the United States of America in for a major disaster; and Committee on Transportation and Infra- Congress assembled, (B) does not include a cost incurred by a structure of the House of Representatives a SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. grantee or subgrantee; report notifying Congress of the modifica- (2) the term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Judicial Re- tion, which shall include the details of the dress Act of 2015’’. Administrator of the Agency; modification. (3) the term ‘‘Agency’’ means the Federal SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF PRIVACY ACT REMEDIES SEC. 4. REPORTING REQUIREMENT. Emergency Management Agency; TO CITIZENS OF DESIGNATED COUN- (4) the term ‘‘direct administrative cost’’ (a) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than No- TRIES. vember 30 of each year for 7 years beginning means a cost incurred by a grantee or sub- (a) CIVIL ACTION; CIVIL REMEDIES.—With on the date of enactment of this Act, the Ad- grantee of a program authorized by the Rob- respect to covered records, a covered person ministrator shall submit to Committee on ert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer- may bring a civil action against an agency Homeland Security and Governmental Af- gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) and obtain civil remedies, in the same man- fairs of the Senate and the Committee on that can be identified separately and as- ner, to the same extent, and subject to the Transportation and Infrastructure of the signed to a specific project; same limitations, including exemptions and House of Representatives a report on the de- (5) the term ‘‘hazard mitigation program’’ exceptions, as an individual may bring and velopment and implementation of the inte- means the hazard mitigation grant program obtain with respect to records under— grated plan required under section 3 for the authorized under section 404 of the Robert T. (1) section 552a(g)(1)(D) of title 5, United previous fiscal year. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As- States Code, but only with respect to disclo- (b) REPORT UPDATES.— sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c); sures intentionally or willfully made in vio- (1) THREE YEAR UPDATE.—Not later than 3 (6) the term ‘‘individual assistance pro- lation of section 552a(b) of such title; and years after the date on which the Adminis- gram’’ means the individual assistance grant (2) subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section trator submits a report under subsection (a), program authorized under sections 408, 410, 552a(g)(1) of title 5, United States Code, but the Administrator shall submit an updated 415, 416, 426, and 502(a) of the Robert T. Staf- such an action may only be brought against report for the previous 3-fiscal-year period. ford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assist- a designated Federal agency or component. ance Act (42 U.S.C. 5174, 5177, 5182, 5183, 5189d, (2) FIVE YEAR UPDATE.—Not later than 5 (b) EXCLUSIVE REMEDIES.—The remedies and 5192(a)); years after the date on which the Adminis- set forth in subsection (a) are the exclusive (7) the term ‘‘major disaster’’ means a trator submits a report under subsection (a), remedies available to a covered person under major disaster declared by the President the Administrator shall submit an updated this section. under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford report for the previous 5-fiscal-year period. Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance (c) CONTENTS OF REPORTS.—Each report re- (c) APPLICATION OF THE PRIVACY ACT WITH Act (42 U.S.C. 5170); quired under subsections (a) and (b) shall RESPECT TO A COVERED PERSON.—For pur- (8) the term ‘‘mission assignment’’ has the contain, at a minimum— poses of a civil action described in sub- meaning given the term in section 641 of the (1) the total amount spent on administra- section (a), a covered person shall have the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Re- tive costs for the fiscal year period for which same rights, and be subject to the same limi- form Act of 2006 (6 U.S.C. 741); and the report is being submitted; tations, including exemptions and excep- (9) the term ‘‘public assistance program’’ (2) the average annual percentage of ad- tions, as an individual has and is subject to means the public assistance grant program ministrative costs for the fiscal year period under section 552a of title 5, United States authorized under sections 403(a)(3), 406, 418, for which the report is being submitted; Code, when pursuing the civil remedies de- 419, 428, and 502(a) of the Robert T. Stafford (3) an assessment of the effectiveness of scribed in paragraphs (1) and (2) of sub- Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance the plan developed under section 3(a)(1); section (a). Act (42 U.S.C. 5170b(a)(3), 5172, 5185, 5186, (4) an analysis of— ø(d) DESIGNATION OF COVERED COUNTRY.— 5189f, and 5192(a)). (A) whether the Agency is achieving the (1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General SEC. 3. INTEGRATED PLAN FOR ADMINISTRATIVE strategic goals established under section may, with the concurrence of the Secretary COST REDUCTION. 3(a)(1)(C); and of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 365 days (B) in the case of the Agency not achieving the Secretary of Homeland Security, des- after the date of enactment of this Act, the such strategic goals, what is preventing the ignate a foreign country or regional eco- Administrator shall— Agency from doing so; nomic integration organization, or member (1) develop and implement an integrated (5) any actions the Agency has identified country of such organization, as a ‘‘covered plan to control and reduce administrative as useful in improving upon and reaching the country’’ for purposes of this section if— costs for major disasters, which shall in- goals for administrative costs established (A) the country or regional economic inte- clude— under section 3(a)(1)(C); and gration organization, or member country of (A) steps the Agency will take to reduce (6) any data described in section 3(a)(2), if such organization, has entered into an agree- administrative costs; the Agency determines it is feasible to track ment with the United States that provides (B) milestones needed for accomplishing such data. for appropriate privacy protections for infor- the reduction of administrative costs; (d) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—Not later than mation shared for the purpose of preventing, (C) strategic goals for the average annual 30 days after the date on which the Adminis- investigating, detecting, or prosecuting percentage of administrative costs of major trator submits a report to Congress under criminal offenses; or disasters for each fiscal year; this section, the Administrator shall make (B) the Attorney General has determined (D) the assignment of clear roles and re- the report publicly available on the website that the country or regional economic inte- sponsibilities, including the designation of of the Agency. gration organization, or member country of officials responsible for monitoring and f such organization, has effectively shared in- measuring performance; and formation with the United States for the (E) a timetable for implementation; JUDICIAL REDRESS ACT OF 2015 purpose of preventing, investigating, detect- (2) compare the costs and benefits of track- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I ing, or prosecuting criminal offenses and has ing the administrative cost data for major ask unanimous consent that the Sen- appropriate privacy protections for such disasters by the public assistance, individual ate proceed to the immediate consider- shared information. assistance, hazard mitigation, and mission (2) REMOVAL OF DESIGNATION.—The Attor- assignment programs, and if feasible, track ation of Calendar No. 356, H.R. 1428. ney General may, with the concurrence of this information; and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the (3) clarify Agency guidance and minimum clerk will report the bill by title. Treasury, and the Secretary of Homeland Se- documentation requirements for a direct ad- The legislative clerk read as follows: curity, revoke the designation of a foreign

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00048 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09FE6.048 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 9, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S757 country or regional economic integration or- agency or component of an agency is a ‘‘des- The bill was read the third time. ganization, or member country of such orga- ignated Federal agency or component’’ for The bill (H.R. 1428), as amended, was nization, as a ‘‘covered country’’ if the At- purposes of this section, if— passed. torney General determines that such des- (A) the Attorney General determines that ignated ‘‘covered country’’— information exchanged by such agency with f (A) is not complying with the agreement a covered country is within the scope of an described under paragraph (1)(A); agreement referred to in subsection (d)(1)(A); SUPPORTING THE GOALS AND (B) no longer meets the requirements for or IDEALS OF CAREER AND TECH- designation under paragraph (1)(B); or (B) with respect to a country or regional NICAL EDUCATION MONTH (C) impedes the transfer of information economic integration organization, or mem- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I (for purposes of reporting or preventing un- ber country of such organization, that has ask unanimous consent that the Sen- lawful activity) to the United States by a been designated as a ‘‘covered country’’ private entity or person.¿ under subsection (d)(1)(B), the Attorney Gen- ate proceed to the immediate consider- (d) DESIGNATION OF COVERED COUNTRY.— eral determines that designating such agen- ation of S. Res. 367, submitted earlier (1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may, cy or component thereof is in the law en- today. with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, forcement interests of the United States. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary (f) FEDERAL REGISTER REQUIREMENT; NON- clerk will report the resolution by of Homeland Security, designate a foreign coun- REVIEWABLE DETERMINATION.—The Attorney try or regional economic integration organiza- title. General shall publish each determination The legislative clerk read as follows: tion, or member country of such organization, made under subsections (d) and (e). Such de- as a ‘‘covered country’’ for purposes of this sec- termination shall not be subject to judicial A resolution (S. Res. 367) supporting the tion if— or administrative review. goals and ideals of Career and Technical (A)(i) the country or regional economic inte- (g) JURISDICTION.—The United States Dis- Education Month. gration organization, or member country of such trict Court for the District of Columbia shall There being no objection, the Senate organization, has entered into an agreement have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim proceeded to consider the resolution. with the United States that provides for appro- arising under this section. priate privacy protections for information (h) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous shared for the purpose of preventing, inves- (1) AGENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the consent that the resolution be agreed tigating, detecting, or prosecuting criminal of- meaning given that term in section 552(f) of to, the preamble be agreed to, and the fenses; or title 5, United States Code. motions to reconsider be considered (ii) the Attorney General has determined that (2) COVERED COUNTRY.—The term ‘‘covered made and laid upon the table with no the country or regional economic integration or- country’’ means a country or regional eco- ganization, or member country of such organi- intervening action or debate. nomic integration organization, or member The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without zation, has effectively shared information with country of such organization, designated in the United States for the purpose of preventing, accordance with subsection (d). objection, it is so ordered. investigating, detecting, or prosecuting criminal (3) COVERED PERSON.—The term ‘‘covered The resolution (S. Res. 367) was offenses and has appropriate privacy protec- person’’ means a natural person (other than agreed to. tions for such shared information; an individual) who is a citizen of a covered The preamble was agreed to. (B) the country or regional economic integra- country. (The resolution, with its preamble, is tion organization, or member country of such (4) COVERED RECORD.—The term ‘‘covered organization, permits the transfer of personal printed in today’s RECORD under ‘‘Sub- record’’ has the same meaning for a covered mitted Resolutions.’’) data for commercial purposes between the terri- person as a record has for an individual tory of that country or regional economic orga- under section 552a of title 5, United States f nization and the territory of the United States, Code, once the covered record is trans- AFFIRMING THE IMPORTANCE OF through an agreement with the United States or ferred— otherwise; and (A) by a public authority of, or private en- STUDENT DATA PRIVACY AND (C) the Attorney General has certified that the tity within, a country or regional economic RECOGNIZING DIGITAL LEARN- policies regarding the transfer of personal data organization, or member country of such or- ING DAY for commercial purposes and related actions of ganization, which at the time the record is the country or regional economic integration or- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I transferred is a covered country; and ganization, or member country of such organi- ask unanimous consent that the Sen- (B) to a designated Federal agency or com- zation, do not materially impede the national ponent for purposes of preventing, inves- ate proceed to the consideration of S. security interests of the United States. tigating, detecting, or prosecuting criminal Res. 369, submitted earlier today. (2) REMOVAL OF DESIGNATION.—The Attorney The PRESIDING OFFICER. The General may, with the concurrence of the Sec- offenses. retary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, (5) DESIGNATED FEDERAL AGENCY OR COMPO- clerk will report the resolution by and the Secretary of Homeland Security, revoke NENT.—The term ‘‘designated Federal agency title. the designation of a foreign country or regional or component’’ means a Federal agency or The legislative clerk read as follows: component of an agency designated in ac- economic integration organization, or member A resolution (S. Res. 369) affirming the im- cordance with subsection (e). country of such organization, as a ‘‘covered portance of student data privacy and recog- (6) INDIVIDUAL.—The term ‘‘individual’’ has country’’ if the Attorney General determines nizing Digital Learning Day. that such designated ‘‘covered country’’— the meaning given that term in section (A) is not complying with the agreement de- 552a(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code. There being no objection, the Senate scribed under paragraph (1)(A)(i); (i) PRESERVATION OF PRIVILEGES.—Nothing proceeded to consider the resolution. (B) no longer meets the requirements for des- in this section shall be construed to waive Mr. DAINES. Mr. President, as a fifth ignation under paragraph (1)(A)(ii); any applicable privilege or require the dis- generation Montanan and engineer who (C) fails to meet the requirements under para- closure of classified information. Upon an agency’s request, the district court shall re- worked at a cloud computing company graph (1)(B); for, 13 years, I have seen firsthand the (D) no longer meets the requirements for cer- view in camera and ex parte any submission tification under paragraph (1)(C); or by the agency in connection with this sub- opportunities created by advances in (E) impedes the transfer of information (for section. technology. As a father of four, I am purposes of reporting or preventing unlawful (j) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This Act shall take aware of the huge role technology activity) to the United States by a private entity effect 90 days after the date of the enactment plays in our students’ lives. of this Act. or person. February 17, 2016, is Digital Learning Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I (e) DESIGNATION OF DESIGNATED FEDERAL Day. Students around the globe will be AGENCY OR COMPONENT.— ask unanimous consent that the com- using technology to enhance the class- (1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General mittee-reported amendment be agreed shall determine whether an agency or com- to; the bill, as amended, be read a third room learning experience. While digital ponent thereof is a ‘‘designated Federal time and passed; and the motion to re- learning offers many benefits, we must agency or component’’ for purposes of this consider be considered made and laid sufficiently protect the personal infor- section. The Attorney General shall not des- upon the table. mation of our students. Without proper ignate any agency or component thereof The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without safeguards in place, our children’s pri- other than the Department of Justice or a objection, it is so ordered. vacy is at risk, and student data could component of the Department of Justice end up in the hands of criminals and without the concurrence of the head of the The committee-reported amendment relevant agency, or of the agency to which was agreed to. other bad actors. We need policies in the component belongs. The amendment was ordered to be place to ensure students’ information (2) REQUIREMENTS FOR DESIGNATION.—The engrossed, and the bill to be read a and electronic records are processed Attorney General may determine that an third time. and stored safely and securely.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:20 Feb 10, 2016 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09FE6.035 S09FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S758 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 9, 2016 I am committed to working with my ORDERS FOR WEDNESDAY, ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10 A.M. colleagues to harness the power of dig- FEBRUARY 10, 2016 TOMORROW ital learning while protecting the pri- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, if vacy of our kids. ask unanimous consent that when the there is no further business to come be- Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous Senate completes its business today, it fore the Senate, I ask unanimous con- sent that it stand adjourned under the consent that the resolution be agreed adjourn until 10 a.m. tomorrow, previous order. to, the preamble be agreed to, and the Wednesday, February 10; that following motions to reconsider be considered There being no objection, the Senate, the prayer and pledge, the morning at 6:06 p.m., adjourned until Wednes- made and laid upon the table with no hour be deemed expired, the Journal of day, February 10, 2016, at 10 a.m. intervening action or debate. proceedings be approved to date, and f The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the time for the two leaders be re- objection, it is so ordered. served for their use later in the day; CONFIRMATION further, that following leader remarks, The resolution (S. Res. 369) was the Senate be in a period of morning Executive nomination confirmed by agreed to. business until 10:30 a.m., with Senators the Senate February 9, 2016: The preamble was agreed to. permitted to speak therein for up to 10 DEPARTMENT OF STATE minutes each. SCOT ALAN MARCIEL, OF CALIFORNIA, A CAREER MEM- (The resolution, with its preamble, is BER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF CA- printed in today’s RECORD under ‘‘Sub- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without REER MINISTER, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF mitted Resolutions.’’) objection, it is so ordered. AMERICA TO THE UNION OF BURMA.

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