S3408 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 24, 2008 Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, to help Blood Institute giving it a mortality rate of Whereas the turnover rate of early child- end the growing problem of phantom approximately 95 percent; hood program staff is roughly 30 percent per traffic, today I introduce the ‘‘Sig- Whereas, to have a chance of surviving an year, and low wages and lack of benefits, naling Modernization Act of 2008.’’ Sen- attack, the American Heart Association among other factors, make it difficult to re- states that victims of sudden cardiac arrest tain high quality educators who have the ators INOUYE, SMITH, DORGAN, THUNE, must receive a lifesaving defibrillation with- consistent, caring relationships with young PRYOR, and SNOWE cosponsored this in the first 4 to 6 minutes of an attack; children that are important to the children’s bill. Phantom traffic is a phone call Whereas, for every minute that passes development; sent over the telephone network with- without a shock from an automated external Whereas the compensation of early child- out the identifying information car- defibrillator, the chance of survival de- hood program staff should be commensurate riers use to bill each other. creases by approximately 10 percent; with the importance of the job of helping the When I call home to Alaska, that call Whereas lifesaving treatments for sudden young children of the Nation develop their is transmitted over several different cardiac arrest are effective if they can be ad- social, emotional, physical, and cognitive carriers. Phone companies charge each ministered in time; skills and helping them to be ready for Whereas, according to joint research by other for the use of their networks. school; the American College of Cardiology and the Whereas providing adequate compensation The funds generated by these charges American Heart Association, implantable to early childhood program staff should be a are particularly important to carriers cardioverter defibrillators are 98 percent ef- priority, and resources can be allocated to in Alaska and throughout rural Amer- fective at protecting those at risk for sudden improve the compensation of early childhood ica. Phantom traffic prevents carriers cardiac arrest; educators to ensure that quality care and from collecting the funds they are Whereas, according to the American Heart education are accessible for all families; owed, impacting universal service and Association, cardiopulmonary resuscitation Whereas additional training and education raising rates for rural customers. and early defibrillation with an automated for the early care and education workforce is It’s time Congress pulled back the external defibrillator more than double a critical to ensuring high-quality early learn- victim’s chances of survival; mask on phantom traffic to discover ing environments; Whereas the Yale-New Haven Hospital and Whereas child care workers should receive who or what is behind this problem the New England Journal of Medicine state that has plagued carriers for several compensation commensurate with their that women and African Americans are at a training and experience; and years. The Federal Communications higher risk than the general population of Whereas the Center for the Child Care Commission is actively analyzing the dying as a result of sudden cardiac arrest, Workforce, a project of the American Fed- issue, but it is time we find a solution. yet this fact is not well known to those at eration of Teachers Educational Foundation, Yesterday the Commerce Committee risk; with support from the National Association heard from a member of the National Whereas there is a need for comprehensive for the Education of Young Children and Telecommunications Cooperative Asso- educational efforts designed to increase other early childhood organizations, recog- awareness of sudden cardiac arrest and re- nizes May 1 as National Child Care Worthy ciation from rural Missouri. He told us lated therapies among medical professionals Wage Day: Now, therefore, be it that 11 percent of their traffic did not and the greater public in order to promote have sufficient information for billing, early detection and proper treatment of this Resolved, That the Senate— causing them to lose about $37 per line disease and to improve quality of life; and (1) designates May 1, 2008, as National per year. This loss of revenue makes it Whereas early October is an appropriate Child Care Worthy Wage Day; and more difficult for rural carriers to de- time to observe National Sudden Cardiac (2) calls on the people of the United States ploy broadband. Awareness Week: Now, therefore, be it to observe National Child Care Worthy Wage Our bill will require all calls from Resolved, That the Senate— Day by honoring early childhood care and (1) designates the week beginning October education staff and programs in their com- voice communications service pro- 5, 2008, as ‘‘National Sudden Cardiac Arrest munities. viders to contain enough information Awareness Week’’; to allow carriers to bill each other, in- (2) supports— f cluding voice over internet protocol (A) the goals and ideals of National Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Week; and providers offering 2–way service and SENATE RESOLUTION 532—RECOM- providers transiting the traffic between (B) efforts to educate people about sudden cardiac arrest and to raise awareness about MENDING THAT THE LANGSTON originating and terminating providers. GOLF COURSE, LOCATED IN Our bill also directs the FCC to estab- the risk of sudden cardiac arrest, identifying warning signs, and the need to seek medical NORTHEAST WASHINGTON, DC, lish rules implementing this require- attention in a timely manner; AND OWNED BY THE NATIONAL ment within 12 months of enactment, (3) acknowledges the critical importance of PARK SERVICE, BE RECOGNIZED and gives it the authority to adopt en- sudden cardiac arrest awareness to improv- FOR ITS IMPORTANT LEGACY forcement provisions. Phantom traffic ing national cardiovascular health; and AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO AFRI- steals from rural carriers and cus- (4) calls upon the people of the United CAN-AMERICAN GOLF HISTORY, tomers. I hope Congress and the FCC States to observe this week with appropriate AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES will look at this issue closely and put programs and activities. an end to phantom traffic. f Mr. FEINGOLD submitted the fol- f SENATE RESOLUTION 531—SUP- lowing resolution; which was referred SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS PORTING THE GOALS AND to the Committee on Energy and Nat- IDEALS OF A NATIONAL CHILD ural Resources: CARE WORTHY WAGE DAY SENATE RESOLUTION 530—DESIG- Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. S. RES. 532 NATING THE WEEK BEGINNING KENNEDY, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mrs. BOXER, Whereas the Langston Golf Course was des- OCTOBER 5, 2008, AS ‘‘NATIONAL Mr. LEVIN, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. INOUYE, Mr. ignated for construction by the Department SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST SANDERS, Mr. DODD, Mr. CASEY, Mr. of the Interior in the 1930s as a safe and ex- AWARENESS WEEK’’ LAUTENBERG, Mr. AKAKA, and Mr. panded recreational facility for the local and Mr. DORGAN (for himself and Mr. JOHNSON) submitted the following reso- national African-American communities; CRAPO) submitted the following resolu- lution; which was referred to the Com- Whereas Langston Golf Course was named tion; which was referred to the Com- mittee on the Judiciary: for John Mercer Langston, the first African- mittee on the Judiciary: S. RES. 531 American Representative elected to Con- S. RES. 530 Whereas approximately 63 percent of the gress from the State of Virginia, and who Whereas sudden cardiac arrest is a leading Nation’s children under age 5 are in non- also was a founder of the Howard University cause of death in the United States; parental care during part or all of the day Law School; Whereas sudden cardiac takes the lives of while their parents work; Whereas the Langston Golf Course is be- more than 250,000 people in the United States Whereas the early care and education in- lieved to be the first regulation course in the each year, according to the Heart Rhythm dustry employs more than 2,300,000 workers; United States to be built almost entirely on Society; Whereas the average salary of early care a refuse landfill; Whereas anyone can experience sudden car- and education workers is $18,820 per year, diac arrest, including infants, high school and only 1⁄3 of these workers have health in- Whereas Langston Golf Course has been athletes, and people in their 30s and 40s who surance and even fewer have a pension plan; placed on the National Register of Historic have no sign of heart disease; Whereas the quality of early care and edu- Places, and the Capitol City Open golf tour- Whereas sudden cardiac arrest is extremely cation programs is directly linked to the nament has made Langston Golf Course its deadly, with the National Heart, Lung, and quality of early childhood educators; home for the past 40 years;

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Whereas the first American-born golf pro- S. RES. 533 ty’s dominant control and manipulation of fessional of African-American ancestry was Whereas, on March 29, 2008, parliamentary the political process through intimidation John Shippen, who was born circa 1878 in the and presidential elections were held in and corruption effectively negated the right Anacostia area of Washington, placed 5th in Zimbabwe amid widespread reports of voting of citizens to change their government. Un- the second United States Open golf tour- irregularities in favor of the ruling lawful killings and politically motivated ab- nament in 1896 at 16 years old, and helped Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic ductions occurred. State sanctioned use of found the Capitol City Golf Club in 1925; Front (ZANU–PF) party and President Rob- excessive force increased, and security forces Whereas the Capitol City Golf Club, even- ert Mugabe, including, according to the De- tortured members of the opposition, student tually renamed the Royal Golf Club and partment of State, ‘‘production of far more leaders, and civil society activists’’; and Wake Robin Women’s Club, has historically ballots than there were registered vot- Whereas annual inflation in Zimbabwe is promoted a safe golf facility for African- ers. . .[and] the allowance of police in polling reportedly running over 150,000 percent, un- Americans in Washington, especially during places’’; employment stands at over 80 percent, hun- an era when few facilities were available, Whereas official results showed that the ger affects over 4,000,000 people, and an esti- and these 2 clubs remain the oldest African opposition Movement for Democratic Change mated 3,500 people die each week from hun- American golf clubs in the United States; (MDC) won a majority of seats in the par- ger, disease, and other causes related to ex- Whereas the Langston facility continues to liamentary elections, and independent mon- tremely poor living conditions: Now, there- fore, be it provide important recreational outlets, in- itors concluded based on initially posted re- structional forums, and a ‘‘safe haven cen- Resolved, That it is the sense of the Sen- sults that MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai re- ate— ter’’ for the enhancement of the lives of the ceived substantially more votes than Presi- city of Washington’s inner city youth; (1) to support the people of Zimbabwe, who dent Mugabe in the presidential election; have been subjected to incredible hardships, Whereas the Langston Golf Course and re- Whereas, as of April 24, 2008, the Zimbabwe lated recreational facilities provide a home including violence, political repression, and Electoral Commission has still not released severe economic deprivation, in their aspira- for the Nation’s important minority youth the results of the presidential election, de- ‘‘First Tee’’ golf instruction and recreational tions for a free, democratic, and more pros- spite calls to do so by the African Union perous future; program in Washington; (AU), the European Union, the Government Whereas Langston Golf Course’s operations (2) to call for an immediate cessation of of South Africa, the Southern African Devel- politically motivated violence, detentions, and its related facilities seek to increase opment Community (SADC), United Nations course-based educational opportunities and efforts to intimidate the people of Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, and the Zimbabwe perpetrated by Zimbabwe’s secu- under the auspices of the National Park United States; Service for persons under 18 years of age, rity forces and militias loyal to ZANU–PF; Whereas, on April 19, 2008, the Zimbabwe (3) that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commis- particularly those from populations of the Electoral Commission officially commenced inner-city and historically under-represented sion should immediately release the legiti- recounting ballots cast in 23 parliamentary mate results of the presidential election and among visitors to units of the National Park constituencies, primarily in districts that ratify the previously announced results of System; did not support candidates affiliated with the parliamentary elections; Whereas the preservation and ecologically ZANU–PF; (4) that President Robert Mugabe should balanced enhancements via future public and Whereas, on April 21, 2008, British Foreign accept the will of the people of Zimbabwe in private funding for the lands making up the Secretary David Miliband stated that the on- order to effect a timely and peaceful transi- 212 acres of the Langston Golf Course will going recount was potentially a ‘‘charade of tion to genuine democratic rule; contribute a positive benefit to the National democracy’’ that ‘‘only serves to fuel sus- (5) that regional organizations, including Park System’s Environmental Leadership picion that President Mugabe is seeking to SADC and the AU, should play a sustained projects program, the Anacostia River Wa- reverse the results that have been published, and active role in resolving the crisis peace- tershed, the city of Washington, and the en- to regain a majority in parliament, and to fully and in a manner that respects the will tire metropolitan area; amplify his own count in the presidential of the people of Zimbabwe; Whereas Federal funds for enhancements election,’’ and accused him of trying ‘‘to (6) that the United Nations Security Coun- to the Langston course have perennially steal the election’’; cil should be seized of the issue of Zimbabwe, been promised but rarely provided, even Whereas, the Government of Zimbabwe has support efforts to bring about a peaceful res- after the designation of Langston Golf arrested numerous members of the media olution of the crisis that respects the will of Course as a ‘‘Legacy Project for the 21st Cen- and election officials, and over 1,000 the people of Zimbabwe, and impose an tury’’, and after significant private funding Zimbabweans have reportedly been fleeing international arms embargo on Zimbabwe and contributions were committed and pro- into South Africa every day, while forces until a legitimate democratic government vided; and loyal to the government have engaged in a has taken power; Whereas the Langston Golf Course and re- brutal and systematic effort to intimidate (7) that the United States Government and lated recreational facilities have tradition- voters; the international community should impose ally provided additional quality of life value Whereas, on April 20, 2008, the MDC re- targeted sanctions against additional indi- to all residents of Washington, DC, and will leased a detailed report showing that more viduals in the Government of Zimbabwe and do more so once upgraded to meet its obvi- than 400 of its supporters had been arrested, state security services and militias in ous athletic and historical promise: Now, 500 had been attacked, 10 had been killed, Zimbabwe who are responsible for human therefore, be it and 3,000 families had been displaced, and rights abuses and interference in the legiti- Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate Human Rights Watch reported on April 19, mate conduct of the elections in Zimbabwe; that— 2008, that ZANU–PF is operating ‘‘torture and (1) Langston Golf Course, its general man- camps’’ where opposition supporters are (8) that the United States Government and agement, and the Royal Golf and Wake being beaten; the international community should work Robin Golf Clubs are to be commended for Whereas United States Ambassador to the together to prepare a comprehensive eco- their historical and ongoing contributions to United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad stated on nomic and political recovery package for the local community and the Nation; April 16, 2008, that he was ‘‘gravely con- Zimbabwe in the event that a genuinely (2) the Director of the National Park Serv- cerned about the escalating politically moti- democratic government is formed and com- ice and the Secretary of the Interior should vated violence perpetrated by security forces mits to implementing key constitutional, give appropriate consideration to the future and ruling party militias’’; economic, and political reforms. budget needs of this important park in the Whereas, while there is currently no inter- f National Park System; and national embargo on arms transfers to (3) the Secretary of the Senate should Zimbabwe, a Chinese ship carrying weapons AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution destined for Zimbabwe was recently pre- PROPOSED to the general manager of the Langston Golf vented from unloading its cargo in Durban, SA 4576. Mr. AKAKA (for himself and Mr. Course. South Africa, and has been denied access to BURR) proposed an amendment to the bill S. f other ports in the region due to concerns 1315, to amend title 38, United States Code, SENATE RESOLUTION 533—EX- that the weapons could further destabilize to enhance veterans’ insurance and housing the situation in Zimbabwe; benefits, to improve benefits and services for PRESSING THE SENSE OF THE Whereas Secretary of State Condoleezza SENATE REGARDING THE POLIT- transitioning servicemembers, and for other Rice stated on April 17, 2008, that President purposes. ICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE Mugabe has ‘‘done more harm to his country SA 4577. Mr. WYDEN (for himself, Mr. BEN- Mr. KERRY (for himself, Mr. COLE- than would have been imaginable . . . the NETT, Mr. GRASSLEY, and Ms. STABENOW) sub- last years have been really an abomination MAN, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. mitted an amendment intended to be pro- ...’’ and called for the AU and SADC to play posed by him to the bill S. 334, to provide af- DODD, Mr. OBAMA, and Mr. ISAKSON) a greater role in resolving the crisis; fordable, guaranteed private health coverage submitted the following resolution; Whereas, the Department of State’s 2007 that will make Americans healthier and can which was referred to the Committee Country Report on Human Rights Practices never be taken away; which was referred to on Foreign Relations: stated that, in Zimbabwe, ‘‘the ruling par- the Committee on Finance.

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