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formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | At 3:02 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has passed the following bill, without amendment: S. 111. An act to require each agency, in providing notice of a rulemaking, to include a link to a 100-word plain language summary of the proposed rule. The message further announced that the House has passed the following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate: H.R. 813. An act to direct the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the heads of other relevant Federal departments and agencies, to conduct an interagency review of and report to Congress on ways to increase the global competitiveness of the United States in attracting foreign direct investment. H.R. 1418. An act to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to reauthorize user fee programs relating to new animal drugs and generic new animal drugs. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-18-pt1-PgS2982-4 | null | 6,600 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | The following communications were laid before the Senate, together with accompanying papers, reports, and documents, and were referred as indicated: EC-1681. A communication from the Associate General Counsel, Department of Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant to law, three (3) reports relative to vacancies in the Department of Agriculture, received during adjournment of Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. EC-1682. A communication from the Senior Bureau Official, Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a legislative proposal relative to the Compact of Free Association; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. EC-1683. A communication from the Secretary of Energy, transmitting a legislative proposal to repeal the requirement for an annual report to Congress on the status report to Congress on the status of the construction of the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, South Carolina; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. EC-1684. A communication from the Assistant General Counsel for Legislation, Regulation and Energy Efficiency, Department of Energy, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Energy Conservation Program: Test Procedure for Faucets and Showerheads'' (RIN1904-AE75) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. EC-1685. A communication from the Assistant General Counsel for Legislation, Regulation and Energy Efficiency, Department of Energy, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Air Cooled, Three-Phase, Small Commercial Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps With a Cooling Capacity of Less Than 65,000 Btu/h and Air-Cooled, Three- Phase, Variable Refrigerant Flow Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps With a Cooling Capacity of Less Than 65,000 Btu/h'' (RIN1904-AF32) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. EC-1686. A communication from the General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Credit-Related Information Sharing in Organized Wholesale Electric Markets'' ((RIN1902- 0325) (Docket No. RM22-13-000)) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. EC-1687. A communication from the General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Transmission System Planning Performance Requirements for Extreme Weather'' ((RIN1902- AG01) (Docket No. RM22-10-000)) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. EC-1688. A communication from the General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``One-Time Informational Reports on Extreme Weather Vulnerability Assessments'' (Docket No. RM22-16-000) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. EC-1689. A communication from the Assistant General Counsel for Legislation, Regulation and Energy Efficiency, Department of Energy, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Energy Conservation Program: Test Procedure for Commercial Warm Air Furnaces'' (RIN1904-AE57) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. EC-1690. A communication from the Assistant General Counsel for Legislation, Regulation and Energy Efficiency, Department of Energy, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Energy Conservation Program: Test Procedure for Portable Air Conditioners'' (RIN1904-AF03) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. EC-1691. A communication from the Assistant General Counsel for Legislation, Regulation and Energy Efficiency, Department of Energy, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Manufactured Housing; Extension of Compliance Date'' (RIN1904-AF53) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. EC-1692. A communication from the Assistant General Counsel for Legislation, Regulation and Energy Efficiency, Department of Energy, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Energy Conservation Program: Standards for Microwave Ovens'' (RIN1904-AE00) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. EC-1693. A communication from the Director of Congressional Affairs, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.212 Rev 2, ``Sizing of Large Lead-Acid Storage Batteries' '' received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. EC-1694. A communication from the Associate Director of the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Air Plan Revisions; California; San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District; Stationary Source Permits'' (FRL No. 9770-02-R9) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. EC-1695. A communication from the Associate Director of the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Air Plan Approval and Limited Approval-Limited Disapproval; California; Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District; Stationary Source Permits; New Source Review'' (FRL No. 10165-02-R9) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. EC-1696. A communication from the Associate Director of the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Air Plan Revisions; California; Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District'' (FRL No. 10790-02-R9) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. EC-1697. A communication from the Associate Director of the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Air Plan Partial Approval and Partial Disapproval; Missouri; Revision to Sulfur Dioxide Control Requirements for Lake Road Generating Facility'' (FRL No. 10839-02-R7) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. EC-1698. A communication from the Associate Director of the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Air Plan Revisions; California; Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District'' (FRL No. 10867-02-R9) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. EC-1699. A communication from the Associate Director of the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Air Plan Approval; State of Missouri; Confidential Information'' (FRL No. 10875-02-R7) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. EC-1700. A communication from the Director of the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Addition of Diisononyl Phthalate Category; Community Right-to-Know Toxic Chemical Release Reporting'' (FRL No. 2425.1-03-OCSPP) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. EC-1701. A communication from the Director of the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Federal `Good Neighbor Plan' for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards; Response to Judicial Stays of SIP Disapproval Action for Certain States'' (FRL No. 8670.2-03-OAR) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. EC-1702. A communication from the Director of the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Asbestos; Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)'' (FRL No. 8632-01-OCSPP) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. EC-1703. A communication from the Director of the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Phasedown of Hydrofluorocarbons; Allowance Allocation Methodology for 2024 and Later Years'' (FRL No. 8838-02-OAR) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. EC-1704. A communication from the Director of the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Air Plan Approval; Ohio; Consumer Products Rule'' (FRL No. 10425-02-R5) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. EC-1705. A communication from the Director of the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Second 10-Year Maintenance Plan for the Coso Junction PM-10 Planning Areas; California'' (FRL No. 10529- 02-R9) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. EC-1706. A communication from the Director of the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Phasedown of Hydrofluorocarbons; Adjustment to the Hydrofluorocarbon Production Baseline'' (FRL No. 10894-02- OAR) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. EC-1707. A communication from the Director of the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Air Plan Approval; South Carolina; Update to Materials Incorporated by Reference'' (FRL No. 10988-01-R4) received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. EC-1708. A communication from the Senior Regulatory and Policy Coordinator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program: Revised Guidance, Implementation of Sections 1191-1198 of the Social Security Act for Initial Price Applicability Year 2026'' received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Finance. EC-1709. A communication from the Assistant Secretary for Legislation, Department of Health and Human Services, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled ``Non- Emergency Medical Transportation in Medicaid, 2018-2021''; to the Committee on Finance. EC-1710. A communication from the Assistant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting, pursuant to law, a notification of intent to provide assistance to Ukraine, including for self-defense and border security operations; to the Committee on Foreign Relations. EC-1711. A communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, a six-month periodic report on the national emergency that was declared in Executive Order 13936 with respect to Hong Kong; to the Committee on Foreign Relations. EC-1712. A communication from the Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to the cost of response and recovery efforts for FEMA-3593-EM in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands having exceeded the $5,000,000 limit for a single emergency declaration; to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. EC-1713. A communication from the Solicitor, Federal Labor Relations Authority, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a vacancy in the position of General Counsel, Federal Labor Relations Authority, received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on July 7, 2023; to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-18-pt1-PgS2982-6 | null | 6,601 |
formal | based | null | white supremacist | SA 807. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 808. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 809. Mr. SCHATZ (for himself, Mr. Moran, and Ms. Hirono) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 810. Mr. MANCHIN (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Risch, Mr. Heinrich, and Mr. Wyden) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 811. Mr. TESTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 812. Mr. KING (for himself and Ms. Murkowski) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 813. Mr. ROUNDS (for himself, Mr. Tester, Mr. Daines, Mr. Kennedy, and Ms. Lummis) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 814. Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. Peters, Mr. Young, and Mr. Lee) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 815. Mr. SULLIVAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 816. Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mr. Padilla) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 817. Mr. RISCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 818. Mr. RISCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 819. Mr. RISCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 820. Mr. RISCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 821. Mr. RISCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 822. Mr. BARRASSO (for himself and Mr. Cardin) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 823. Mr. ROMNEY (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Scott of South Carolina, and Mr. Braun) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 824. Mr. DAINES submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 825. Mr. FETTERMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 826. Mr. MANCHIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 827. Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. Vance) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 828. Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. Cotton) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 829. Mr. ROUNDS (for himself, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Young, and Mr. Heinrich) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 830. Mr. WICKER (for himself, Mr. Scott of South Carolina, Ms. Ernst, and Mr. Graham) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 831. Mr. WELCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 832. Mr. WELCH (for himself, Mr. Tillis, and Ms. Murkowski) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 833. Mr. REED (for himself and Mr. Wicker) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 834. Mrs. GILLIBRAND (for herself and Ms. Warren) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 835. Mr. HAWLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 836. Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Rubio, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Young, and Mr. Heinrich) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 837. Mr. HAWLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 838. Mr. HAWLEY (for himself and Mr. Vance) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 839. Mr. HAWLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 840. Mr. HAWLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 841. Mr. HAWLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 842. Mr. YOUNG (for himself and Mr. Carper) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 843. Mr. WYDEN (for himself, Mr. Lee, and Mr. Durbin) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 844. Mr. HAGERTY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 845. Mr. HAGERTY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 846. Mr. SULLIVAN (for himself and Ms. Murkowski) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 847. Mr. WARNOCK submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 848. Mrs. FEINSTEIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 849. Mr. GRASSLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 850. Ms. CORTEZ MASTO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 851. Mr. DURBIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 852. Mr. DURBIN (for himself and Ms. Warren) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 853. Mr. DURBIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 854. Mr. VANCE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 855. Mr. VANCE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 856. Mr. VANCE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 857. Mr. VANCE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 858. Mr. TILLIS (for himself and Mr. Budd) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 859. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 860. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 861. Mr. KENNEDY (for himself, Mr. Cassidy, and Ms. Rosen) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 862. Mr. MARSHALL (for himself, Mr. Durbin, and Mr. Welch) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 863. Mr. MARSHALL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 864. Mr. MARSHALL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 865. Mr. MARSHALL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 866. Mr. MARSHALL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 867. Mr. CARDIN (for himself and Mrs. Shaheen) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 868. Mr. CARDIN (for himself and Mrs. Shaheen) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 869. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 870. Mrs. CAPITO (for herself and Mr. Carper) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 871. Mr. BRAUN (for himself and Ms. Warren) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 872. Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Carper, and Mr. Daines) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 873. Mr. MARSHALL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 874. Mr. MARSHALL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 875. Mr. PADILLA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 876. Mr. PADILLA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 877. Mr. PADILLA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 878. Mr. PADILLA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 879. Mr. PADILLA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 880. Mr. PADILLA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 881. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. Cramer) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 882. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. Young) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 883. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. Van Hollen) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 884. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 885. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 886. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 887. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 888. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 889. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 890. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 891. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 892. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 893. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 894. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 895. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 896. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 897. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 898. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 899. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 900. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 901. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 902. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 903. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 904. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 905. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 906. Mr. SCHMITT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 907. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 908. Mr. OSSOFF (for himself and Ms. Ernst) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 909. Mr. OSSOFF (for himself and Mr. Warnock) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 910. Mr. PADILLA (for himself and Mr. Cornyn) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 911. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 912. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 913. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 914. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 915. Mr. WARNER (for himself and Mr. Braun) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 916. Mr. MORAN (for himself and Mr. Warnock) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 917. Mr. GRAHAM (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 918. Mr. OSSOFF (for himself and Mr. Rounds) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 919. Mr. RICKETTS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 920. Mr. RICKETTS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 921. Mr. RICKETTS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 922. Mr. RICKETTS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 923. Mr. RICKETTS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 924. Mr. RICKETTS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 925. Mr. TESTER (for himself and Mr. Rounds) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 926. Mr. CRUZ (for himself, Mr. Manchin, Ms. Ernst, and Mr. Fetterman) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 927. Mr. COTTON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 928. Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself and Mr. Graham) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 929. Mr. MURPHY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 930. Mr. MURPHY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 931. Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. Casey, Mr. Sullivan, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Fetterman, and Mr. Ricketts) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 932. Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself and Mr. Risch) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 933. Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Schatz, and Mr. Schumer) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 934. Mr. SCHUMER (for Mr. Cornyn) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 794, to require a pilot program on the participation of non-asset- based third-party logistics providers in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-18-pt1-PgS2993 | null | 6,602 |
formal | based | null | white supremacist | SA 934. Mr. SCHUMER (for Mr. Cornyn) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 794, to require a pilot program on the participation of non-asset-based third-party logistics providers in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism; as follows: At the end, add the following: | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-18-pt1-PgS3118 | null | 6,603 |
formal | XX | null | transphobic | The SPEAKER pro tempore. Proceedings will resume on questions previously postponed. Votes will be taken in the following order: The motion to recommit on H.R. 3941; and Passage of H.R. 3941, if ordered. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the remaining electronic vote will be conducted as a 5-minute vote. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2023-07-19-pt1-PgH3839-4 | null | 6,604 |
formal | XX | null | transphobic | The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion to recommit on the bill (H.R. 3941) to prohibit the use of the facilities of a public elementary school, a public secondary school, or an institution of higher education to provide shelter for aliens who have not been admitted into the United States, and for other purposes, offered by the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Vasquez), on which the yeas and nays were ordered. The Clerk will redesignate the motion. The Clerk redesignated the motion. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2023-07-19-pt1-PgH3839-5 | null | 6,605 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 118-56) The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following message from the President of the United States; which was read and, together with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed:To the Congress of the United States: Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, within 90 days prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. In accordance with this provision, I have sent to the Federal Register for publication the enclosed notice stating that the national emergency with respect to significant transnational criminal organizations that was declared in Executive Order 13581 of July 24, 2011, under which additional steps were taken in Executive Order 13863 of March 15, 2019, is to continue in effect beyond July 24, 2023. The activities of significant transnational criminal organizations have reached such scope and gravity that they threaten the stability of international political and economic systems. Such organizations are becoming increasingly sophisticated and dangerous to the United States; they are increasingly entrenched in the operations of foreign governments and the international financial system, thereby weakening democratic institutions, degrading the rule of law, and undermining economic markets. These organizations facilitate and aggravate violent civil conflicts and increasingly facilitate the activities of other dangerous persons. Significant transnational criminal organizations continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. Therefore, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency with respect to significant transnational criminal organizations declared in Executive Order 13581. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., The White House, July 19, 2023. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-07-19-pt1-PgH3839 | null | 6,606 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 597 and rule XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill, H.R. 3935. Will the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Sessions) kindly take the chair. In the Committee of the Whole Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill (H.R. 3935) to amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize and improve the Federal Aviation Administration and other civil aviation programs, and for other purposes, with Mr. Sessions (Acting Chair) in the chair. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2023-07-19-pt1-PgH3840 | null | 6,607 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Pursuant to clause 7(c)(1) of rule XII and Section 3(c) of H. Res. 5 the following statements are submitted regarding (1) the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution and (2) the single subject of the bill or joint resolution. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-07-19-pt1-PgH3858 | null | 6,608 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Collins). Pursuant to House Resolution 597 and rule XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill, H.R. 3935. Will the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Carl) kindly take the chair. In the Committee of the Whole Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill (H.R. 3935) to amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize and improve the Federal Aviation Administration and other civil aviation programs, and for other purposes, with Mr. Carl (Acting Chair) in the chair. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Collins) | House | CREC-2023-07-20-pt1-PgH3863-4 | null | 6,609 |
formal | based | null | white supremacist | A message from the Senate by Ms. Byrd, one of its clerks, announced that the Senate has passed without amendment bills of the House of the following titles: H.R. 423. An act to take certain land located in San Diego County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Pala Band of Mission Indians, and for other purposes. H.R. 4004. An act to approve and implement the Agreement between the American Institute in Taiwan and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States regarding Trade between the United States of America and Taiwan. and for other purposes. The message also announced that the Senate has passed bills of the following titles in which the concurrence of the House is requested: S. 70. An act to require the Bureau of Indian Affairs to process and complete all mortgage packages associated with residential and business mortgages on Indian land by certain deadlines, and for other purposes. S. 460. An act to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to establish an urban Indian organization confer policy for the Department of Health and Human Services. S. 794. An act to require a pilot program on the participation of non-asset-based third-party logistics providers in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism. S. 1308. An act to amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to extend the deadline for the Secretary of the Interior to promulgate regulations implementing title IV of that Act, and for other purposes. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-07-20-pt1-PgH3884 | null | 6,610 |
formal | urban | null | racist | A message from the Senate by Ms. Byrd, one of its clerks, announced that the Senate has passed without amendment bills of the House of the following titles: H.R. 423. An act to take certain land located in San Diego County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Pala Band of Mission Indians, and for other purposes. H.R. 4004. An act to approve and implement the Agreement between the American Institute in Taiwan and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States regarding Trade between the United States of America and Taiwan. and for other purposes. The message also announced that the Senate has passed bills of the following titles in which the concurrence of the House is requested: S. 70. An act to require the Bureau of Indian Affairs to process and complete all mortgage packages associated with residential and business mortgages on Indian land by certain deadlines, and for other purposes. S. 460. An act to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to establish an urban Indian organization confer policy for the Department of Health and Human Services. S. 794. An act to require a pilot program on the participation of non-asset-based third-party logistics providers in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism. S. 1308. An act to amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to extend the deadline for the Secretary of the Interior to promulgate regulations implementing title IV of that Act, and for other purposes. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-07-20-pt1-PgH3884 | null | 6,611 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Pursuant to clause 7(c)(1) of rule XII and Section 3(c) of H. Res. 5 the following statements are submitted regarding (1) the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution and (2) the single subject of the bill or joint resolution. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-07-20-pt1-PgH3889-2 | null | 6,612 |
formal | affirmative action | null | racist | U.S. Supreme Court Mr. President, and now finally on the SCOTUS ethics markup, the Supreme Court ethics markup, this morning, as I speak, the Judiciary Committee is holding votes to advance Supreme Court ethics reform legislation. I support Chairman Durbin, Senator Whitehouse, and the Judiciary Committee's work on SCOTUS ethics reform, and I look forward to working with them to make progress on this legislation. Holding Supreme Court Justices to high ethical standards should not be a partisan issue. On the contrary, both sides should leap at the opportunity to do whatever we can to protect the public's trust in our system of justice. It is an essential part of protecting our democracy. Right now, sadly, Americans' trust in the Supreme Court is understandably shaken. They see Supreme Court Justices accepting lavish gifts and vacations from billionaires and MAGA extremists--not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill billionaires but true ideologues who then support organizations and court suits to move America to the far right, and the Court seems to do it. Then they turn around, gut--these ideologues turn around, gut affirmative action, block student debt relief for millions of Americans, and green-light discrimination against the LGBTQ community. The hypocrisy, the appearance of a conflict of interest is sickening, and Americans clearly see right through it. The American people agree that Justices who sit on the highest Court in the land should be held to equally high ethical standards. So, again, to repeat, I support the efforts of Chairman Durbin and the Judiciary Committee, and I will work with them to make progress on this issue. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-20-pt1-PgS3438-2 | null | 6,613 |
formal | extremists | null | Islamophobic | U.S. Supreme Court Mr. President, and now finally on the SCOTUS ethics markup, the Supreme Court ethics markup, this morning, as I speak, the Judiciary Committee is holding votes to advance Supreme Court ethics reform legislation. I support Chairman Durbin, Senator Whitehouse, and the Judiciary Committee's work on SCOTUS ethics reform, and I look forward to working with them to make progress on this legislation. Holding Supreme Court Justices to high ethical standards should not be a partisan issue. On the contrary, both sides should leap at the opportunity to do whatever we can to protect the public's trust in our system of justice. It is an essential part of protecting our democracy. Right now, sadly, Americans' trust in the Supreme Court is understandably shaken. They see Supreme Court Justices accepting lavish gifts and vacations from billionaires and MAGA extremists--not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill billionaires but true ideologues who then support organizations and court suits to move America to the far right, and the Court seems to do it. Then they turn around, gut--these ideologues turn around, gut affirmative action, block student debt relief for millions of Americans, and green-light discrimination against the LGBTQ community. The hypocrisy, the appearance of a conflict of interest is sickening, and Americans clearly see right through it. The American people agree that Justices who sit on the highest Court in the land should be held to equally high ethical standards. So, again, to repeat, I support the efforts of Chairman Durbin and the Judiciary Committee, and I will work with them to make progress on this issue. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-20-pt1-PgS3438-2 | null | 6,614 |
formal | MAGA | null | white supremacist | U.S. Supreme Court Mr. President, and now finally on the SCOTUS ethics markup, the Supreme Court ethics markup, this morning, as I speak, the Judiciary Committee is holding votes to advance Supreme Court ethics reform legislation. I support Chairman Durbin, Senator Whitehouse, and the Judiciary Committee's work on SCOTUS ethics reform, and I look forward to working with them to make progress on this legislation. Holding Supreme Court Justices to high ethical standards should not be a partisan issue. On the contrary, both sides should leap at the opportunity to do whatever we can to protect the public's trust in our system of justice. It is an essential part of protecting our democracy. Right now, sadly, Americans' trust in the Supreme Court is understandably shaken. They see Supreme Court Justices accepting lavish gifts and vacations from billionaires and MAGA extremists--not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill billionaires but true ideologues who then support organizations and court suits to move America to the far right, and the Court seems to do it. Then they turn around, gut--these ideologues turn around, gut affirmative action, block student debt relief for millions of Americans, and green-light discrimination against the LGBTQ community. The hypocrisy, the appearance of a conflict of interest is sickening, and Americans clearly see right through it. The American people agree that Justices who sit on the highest Court in the land should be held to equally high ethical standards. So, again, to repeat, I support the efforts of Chairman Durbin and the Judiciary Committee, and I will work with them to make progress on this issue. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-20-pt1-PgS3438-2 | null | 6,615 |
formal | illegal immigrant | null | anti-Latino | Nominations Mr. President, on another matter, for more than 2 years now, the Biden administration has sent the Senate a steady stream of radical and unqualified nominees. That much is hardly news. But today, the President's pick to serve as Secretary of Labor made an especially ignominious bit of history. Julie Su has now waited longer for confirmation by the Senate of the same party as the President than any previous Cabinet nominee on record. Her nomination has spent 4\1/2\ months in limbo while Senate Democrats decide whether they can even muster a party line confirmation vote. ``We're still taking input.'' That has become sort of our colleagues' go-to line as they decide whether to hold their noses and vote this scandal-plagued, leftwing activist into the job. Well, I would suggest to our colleagues that there is not much that Ms. Su's radical record has left to the imagination. This is a nominee who managed to botch her previous job so royally thatthe biggest newspaper in her home State, The Los Angeles Times, called one department's performance on her watch an ``epic failure.'' That was the L.A. Times describing the performance of this California department head. As head of California's labor authority, Ms. Su was responsible for tens of billions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment insurance payments--tens of billions of dollars in fraud. Why on Earth would the Biden administration think that sort of performance deserves an encore? Well, maybe because Ms. Su has a penchant for doing the bidding of favorite liberal activists and Big Labor allies. On the job in California, Ms. Su reportedly instructed employees on how to hide illegal immigrants from Customs authorities working to enforce the law. Here in Washington, she has worked overtime to give unions access to more of the workers' paychecks and veto power over vast-evolving industries where independent contractors and gig workers thrive. So American taxpayers have seen enough--enough--of Julie Su. When will Senate Democrats finally decide they have as well? | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-20-pt1-PgS3438-6 | null | 6,616 |
formal | illegal immigrants | null | anti-Latino | Nominations Mr. President, on another matter, for more than 2 years now, the Biden administration has sent the Senate a steady stream of radical and unqualified nominees. That much is hardly news. But today, the President's pick to serve as Secretary of Labor made an especially ignominious bit of history. Julie Su has now waited longer for confirmation by the Senate of the same party as the President than any previous Cabinet nominee on record. Her nomination has spent 4\1/2\ months in limbo while Senate Democrats decide whether they can even muster a party line confirmation vote. ``We're still taking input.'' That has become sort of our colleagues' go-to line as they decide whether to hold their noses and vote this scandal-plagued, leftwing activist into the job. Well, I would suggest to our colleagues that there is not much that Ms. Su's radical record has left to the imagination. This is a nominee who managed to botch her previous job so royally thatthe biggest newspaper in her home State, The Los Angeles Times, called one department's performance on her watch an ``epic failure.'' That was the L.A. Times describing the performance of this California department head. As head of California's labor authority, Ms. Su was responsible for tens of billions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment insurance payments--tens of billions of dollars in fraud. Why on Earth would the Biden administration think that sort of performance deserves an encore? Well, maybe because Ms. Su has a penchant for doing the bidding of favorite liberal activists and Big Labor allies. On the job in California, Ms. Su reportedly instructed employees on how to hide illegal immigrants from Customs authorities working to enforce the law. Here in Washington, she has worked overtime to give unions access to more of the workers' paychecks and veto power over vast-evolving industries where independent contractors and gig workers thrive. So American taxpayers have seen enough--enough--of Julie Su. When will Senate Democrats finally decide they have as well? | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-20-pt1-PgS3438-6 | null | 6,617 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | Camp Lejeune Justice Act Mr. President, as my colleagues know so well, as Federal officials, one of the primary duties of our offices is to serve millions of constituents when they interface with the Federal Government. As for North Carolina, my constituents include one of our country's largest population of Active-Duty military members and veterans, including those who serve at Camp Lejeune. As we know, between 1953 and 1987, veterans who served at Camp Lejeune were exposed to toxic water. These men and women are now experiencing various health challenges, ranging from deadly cancers to Parkinson's disease. In order to help, I was proud to support the PACT Act, which included the Camp Lejeune Justice Act. The bill was signed into law last year and allows veterans who are suffering to receive damages and to become eligible for VA care. However, after nearly a year, not a single claim has been processed. On May 3, one struggling veteran wrote me this handwritten letter. In it, he describes the toll that these delays are taking on older veterans who are nearing the end of their lives. He writes: I'm certain obituaries posted in local newspapers across the country [now include] marines or family members who lived on Camp Lejeune, drank its water, bathed and cooked using it, who have died from its use. This man is one of the over 70,000 veterans in North Carolina and across the country who are waiting for action. It is unacceptable that the Navy and the DOJ have failed to process any of these claims and have failed to deliver a plan or a strategy for doing so. That is why several of my Senate and House colleagues and I demanded an explanation from the Secretary of the Navy and the Department of Justice. The Navy's response to our letter was wholly inadequate. It failed to answer critical questions and also failed to provide a timeline for responding to these veterans' claims. Each and every one of our veterans deserves to be treated with the dignity and respect befitting their service to this Nation. When they face health challenges related to their service at facilities like Camp Lejeune, their claims must be dealt with properly and completely. The Navy and the DOJ have a responsibility to act, and I am calling on these Departments to do so now. I will continue to advocate for those who served at Camp Lejeune until they receive the care and the respect they deserve. I yield the floor. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-20-pt1-PgS3442 | null | 6,618 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Camp Lejeune Justice Act Mr. President, as my colleagues know so well, as Federal officials, one of the primary duties of our offices is to serve millions of constituents when they interface with the Federal Government. As for North Carolina, my constituents include one of our country's largest population of Active-Duty military members and veterans, including those who serve at Camp Lejeune. As we know, between 1953 and 1987, veterans who served at Camp Lejeune were exposed to toxic water. These men and women are now experiencing various health challenges, ranging from deadly cancers to Parkinson's disease. In order to help, I was proud to support the PACT Act, which included the Camp Lejeune Justice Act. The bill was signed into law last year and allows veterans who are suffering to receive damages and to become eligible for VA care. However, after nearly a year, not a single claim has been processed. On May 3, one struggling veteran wrote me this handwritten letter. In it, he describes the toll that these delays are taking on older veterans who are nearing the end of their lives. He writes: I'm certain obituaries posted in local newspapers across the country [now include] marines or family members who lived on Camp Lejeune, drank its water, bathed and cooked using it, who have died from its use. This man is one of the over 70,000 veterans in North Carolina and across the country who are waiting for action. It is unacceptable that the Navy and the DOJ have failed to process any of these claims and have failed to deliver a plan or a strategy for doing so. That is why several of my Senate and House colleagues and I demanded an explanation from the Secretary of the Navy and the Department of Justice. The Navy's response to our letter was wholly inadequate. It failed to answer critical questions and also failed to provide a timeline for responding to these veterans' claims. Each and every one of our veterans deserves to be treated with the dignity and respect befitting their service to this Nation. When they face health challenges related to their service at facilities like Camp Lejeune, their claims must be dealt with properly and completely. The Navy and the DOJ have a responsibility to act, and I am calling on these Departments to do so now. I will continue to advocate for those who served at Camp Lejeune until they receive the care and the respect they deserve. I yield the floor. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-20-pt1-PgS3442 | null | 6,619 |
formal | COIN | null | transphobic | 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS COMMEMORATIVE COIN | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-20-pt1-PgS3451 | null | 6,620 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Ms. Duckworth) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: S. Res. 306 Whereas mothers are an essential part of the workforce and economy of the United States; Whereas 2,500,000 women left the workforce in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, as compared to 1,800,000 men, largely as a result of the burdens of childcare, work, and remote learning; Whereas maternal employment fell by 15.7 percent as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as compared to paternal employment, which fell by 9.6 percent in the same time period; Whereas at least \4/10\ of women report having experienced gender discrimination at work; Whereas, on average, women are paid 77 cents for every dollar paid to men; Whereas Black women, Latinas, Native women, and many communities of Asian-American and Pacific-Islander women experience higher poverty rates and higher wage gaps compared to White, non-Hispanic men; Whereas women occupy close to \2/3\ of jobs that pay the Federal minimum wage or just a few dollars above it; Whereas even 1 percent of mothers leaving the workforce would result in an estimated $8,700,000,000 economic fallout for families; Whereas strong investments in childcare are essential for the full employment of women, and the gross domestic product of the United States would increase by 10 to 15 basis points with such investments; Whereas \1/2\ of the families in the United States with children under the age of 18 years have a mother who contributes at least 40 percent of household earnings; Whereas mothers of color play a vital role in the financial stability of their families, with 79 percent of Black mothers, 64 percent of Native American mothers, 49 percent of Latina mothers, and 43 percent of Asian-American and Pacific- Islander mothers serving as breadwinners; Whereas, in addition to the economic security that mothers provide for their families, mothers are more than 3 times as likely as fathers to be responsible for most of the housework and caregiving in their households; Whereas, in addition to caregiving for children, mothers disproportionately shoulder unpaid caregiving responsibilities for older relatives and other family members with disabilities; Whereas women are twice as likely as men to say that taking time off had a negative impact on their professional development; Whereas industries dominated by women disproportionately fail to provide family-friendly workplace benefits such as paid family and medical leave, health insurance, and retirement plans; Whereas 44 percent of workers are not eligible for unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.); Whereas 3 of 10 women without access to paid leave exit the workforce after giving birth; Whereas paid leave policies can reduce the number of women leaving their jobs by 20 percent during the first year after welcoming a child and up to 50 percent after 5 years; Whereas mothers sometimes find childcare costs are almost as much as their paychecks, creating a financial incentive for mothers to leave the workforce in exchange for childcare duties; Whereas 40 percent of parents have gone into debt due to the high costs of childcare; Whereas the childcare crisis costs the United States $122,000,000,000 each year, including $78,000,000,000 in lost earnings and job search expenses, $23,000,000,000 in lost workforce productivity, and $21,000,000,000 in lost tax revenue; Whereas a significant investment in childcare is simultaneously job creating and job enabling, creating good jobs and supporting parental employment; Whereas, by encouraging women to remain in the workforce full time, access to paid leave and childcare significantly boosts mothers' lifetime earning potential; Whereas the 2021 temporary expansion of the child tax credit lifted 3,700,000 children out of poverty; Whereas families used the child tax credit to cover routine expenses, improve nutrition, decrease reliance on credit cards and other high-risk financial services, and make long- term educational investments; and Whereas families of color saw the largest quality of life improvements due to the expansion of the child tax credit in 2021: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that-- (1) the United States needs to prioritize a Mom Economy that invests in the caregiving infrastructure required to adequately support and empower mothers in the workforce and sustain a thriving economy; (2) mothers, especially mothers of color, face systemic economic and social inequalities that restrict their ability to balance parenting responsibilities with workplace roles and limit their professional advancement; (3) mothers play an integral role not only in the financial well-being of their families but in the productivity of the American economy as a whole; (4) the United States should invest in its mothers by expanding and developing the social safety net in order to secure meaningful and sustainable economic growth, including-- (A) robust paid family and medical leave plans for all workers, including-- (i) paid parental leave following the birth of a child or the placement of a child for adoption or foster care, provided in equal amounts for all parents regardless of gender; and (ii) paid leave policies that can be used for family caregiving and workers' own medical leave; (B) paid menstrual leave and remote work accommodations for workers experiencing debilitating menstrual or menopause symptoms; (C) investment in the childcare industry with the goal of providing universal childcare and early learning, including-- (i) robust funding for Head Start and Early Head Start programs; (ii) Federal financial support for childcare programs to guarantee all families have access to affordable and high quality child care; and (iii) commitments to pay childcare workers a dignified, living wage; (D) access to nutritious food as a human right, including through-- (i) boosting SNAP maximum and minimum benefits and removing barriers to access, including time restrictions and additional work requirements; and (ii) increasing funds for school meals and other nutrition programs to combat child hunger and making school meals more accessible; (E) the implementation and expansion of child poverty reduction tools that improve income security, infant and maternal health, and educational and economic outcomes into the second generation, including-- (i) a permanent expansion of the child tax credit; and (ii) improvements in the earned income tax credit, which lifts millions of people above the poverty line each year and boosts labor force participation among single mothers; (F) addressing the Nation's maternal mortality crisis through critical investments in maternal health care, including ensuring access to the full range of reproductive health care and family planning; (G) raising the Federal minimum wage for all workers, including tipped workers, and adjusting it on a yearly basis to keep pace with inflation; and (H) investments in legislation that ensures protections for LGBTQ+ mothers in the workplace, such as the Equality Act, and reduces wage discrimination, such as the Paycheck Fairness Act; and (5) United States policymakers should include a specific focus on working mothers in future policymaking, beyond the aforementioned policies, including with regard to economic policy, fiscal policy, and social safety net policy, in order to ensure that working mothers and other caregivers can continue to balance their roles as family anchors and caregivers with their work and economic contributions to both their families and the economy of the United States. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-20-pt1-PgS3463 | null | 6,621 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Ms. Duckworth) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: S. Res. 306 Whereas mothers are an essential part of the workforce and economy of the United States; Whereas 2,500,000 women left the workforce in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, as compared to 1,800,000 men, largely as a result of the burdens of childcare, work, and remote learning; Whereas maternal employment fell by 15.7 percent as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as compared to paternal employment, which fell by 9.6 percent in the same time period; Whereas at least \4/10\ of women report having experienced gender discrimination at work; Whereas, on average, women are paid 77 cents for every dollar paid to men; Whereas Black women, Latinas, Native women, and many communities of Asian-American and Pacific-Islander women experience higher poverty rates and higher wage gaps compared to White, non-Hispanic men; Whereas women occupy close to \2/3\ of jobs that pay the Federal minimum wage or just a few dollars above it; Whereas even 1 percent of mothers leaving the workforce would result in an estimated $8,700,000,000 economic fallout for families; Whereas strong investments in childcare are essential for the full employment of women, and the gross domestic product of the United States would increase by 10 to 15 basis points with such investments; Whereas \1/2\ of the families in the United States with children under the age of 18 years have a mother who contributes at least 40 percent of household earnings; Whereas mothers of color play a vital role in the financial stability of their families, with 79 percent of Black mothers, 64 percent of Native American mothers, 49 percent of Latina mothers, and 43 percent of Asian-American and Pacific- Islander mothers serving as breadwinners; Whereas, in addition to the economic security that mothers provide for their families, mothers are more than 3 times as likely as fathers to be responsible for most of the housework and caregiving in their households; Whereas, in addition to caregiving for children, mothers disproportionately shoulder unpaid caregiving responsibilities for older relatives and other family members with disabilities; Whereas women are twice as likely as men to say that taking time off had a negative impact on their professional development; Whereas industries dominated by women disproportionately fail to provide family-friendly workplace benefits such as paid family and medical leave, health insurance, and retirement plans; Whereas 44 percent of workers are not eligible for unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.); Whereas 3 of 10 women without access to paid leave exit the workforce after giving birth; Whereas paid leave policies can reduce the number of women leaving their jobs by 20 percent during the first year after welcoming a child and up to 50 percent after 5 years; Whereas mothers sometimes find childcare costs are almost as much as their paychecks, creating a financial incentive for mothers to leave the workforce in exchange for childcare duties; Whereas 40 percent of parents have gone into debt due to the high costs of childcare; Whereas the childcare crisis costs the United States $122,000,000,000 each year, including $78,000,000,000 in lost earnings and job search expenses, $23,000,000,000 in lost workforce productivity, and $21,000,000,000 in lost tax revenue; Whereas a significant investment in childcare is simultaneously job creating and job enabling, creating good jobs and supporting parental employment; Whereas, by encouraging women to remain in the workforce full time, access to paid leave and childcare significantly boosts mothers' lifetime earning potential; Whereas the 2021 temporary expansion of the child tax credit lifted 3,700,000 children out of poverty; Whereas families used the child tax credit to cover routine expenses, improve nutrition, decrease reliance on credit cards and other high-risk financial services, and make long- term educational investments; and Whereas families of color saw the largest quality of life improvements due to the expansion of the child tax credit in 2021: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that-- (1) the United States needs to prioritize a Mom Economy that invests in the caregiving infrastructure required to adequately support and empower mothers in the workforce and sustain a thriving economy; (2) mothers, especially mothers of color, face systemic economic and social inequalities that restrict their ability to balance parenting responsibilities with workplace roles and limit their professional advancement; (3) mothers play an integral role not only in the financial well-being of their families but in the productivity of the American economy as a whole; (4) the United States should invest in its mothers by expanding and developing the social safety net in order to secure meaningful and sustainable economic growth, including-- (A) robust paid family and medical leave plans for all workers, including-- (i) paid parental leave following the birth of a child or the placement of a child for adoption or foster care, provided in equal amounts for all parents regardless of gender; and (ii) paid leave policies that can be used for family caregiving and workers' own medical leave; (B) paid menstrual leave and remote work accommodations for workers experiencing debilitating menstrual or menopause symptoms; (C) investment in the childcare industry with the goal of providing universal childcare and early learning, including-- (i) robust funding for Head Start and Early Head Start programs; (ii) Federal financial support for childcare programs to guarantee all families have access to affordable and high quality child care; and (iii) commitments to pay childcare workers a dignified, living wage; (D) access to nutritious food as a human right, including through-- (i) boosting SNAP maximum and minimum benefits and removing barriers to access, including time restrictions and additional work requirements; and (ii) increasing funds for school meals and other nutrition programs to combat child hunger and making school meals more accessible; (E) the implementation and expansion of child poverty reduction tools that improve income security, infant and maternal health, and educational and economic outcomes into the second generation, including-- (i) a permanent expansion of the child tax credit; and (ii) improvements in the earned income tax credit, which lifts millions of people above the poverty line each year and boosts labor force participation among single mothers; (F) addressing the Nation's maternal mortality crisis through critical investments in maternal health care, including ensuring access to the full range of reproductive health care and family planning; (G) raising the Federal minimum wage for all workers, including tipped workers, and adjusting it on a yearly basis to keep pace with inflation; and (H) investments in legislation that ensures protections for LGBTQ+ mothers in the workplace, such as the Equality Act, and reduces wage discrimination, such as the Paycheck Fairness Act; and (5) United States policymakers should include a specific focus on working mothers in future policymaking, beyond the aforementioned policies, including with regard to economic policy, fiscal policy, and social safety net policy, in order to ensure that working mothers and other caregivers can continue to balance their roles as family anchors and caregivers with their work and economic contributions to both their families and the economy of the United States. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-20-pt1-PgS3463 | null | 6,622 |
formal | single mother | null | racist | Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Ms. Duckworth) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: S. Res. 306 Whereas mothers are an essential part of the workforce and economy of the United States; Whereas 2,500,000 women left the workforce in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, as compared to 1,800,000 men, largely as a result of the burdens of childcare, work, and remote learning; Whereas maternal employment fell by 15.7 percent as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as compared to paternal employment, which fell by 9.6 percent in the same time period; Whereas at least \4/10\ of women report having experienced gender discrimination at work; Whereas, on average, women are paid 77 cents for every dollar paid to men; Whereas Black women, Latinas, Native women, and many communities of Asian-American and Pacific-Islander women experience higher poverty rates and higher wage gaps compared to White, non-Hispanic men; Whereas women occupy close to \2/3\ of jobs that pay the Federal minimum wage or just a few dollars above it; Whereas even 1 percent of mothers leaving the workforce would result in an estimated $8,700,000,000 economic fallout for families; Whereas strong investments in childcare are essential for the full employment of women, and the gross domestic product of the United States would increase by 10 to 15 basis points with such investments; Whereas \1/2\ of the families in the United States with children under the age of 18 years have a mother who contributes at least 40 percent of household earnings; Whereas mothers of color play a vital role in the financial stability of their families, with 79 percent of Black mothers, 64 percent of Native American mothers, 49 percent of Latina mothers, and 43 percent of Asian-American and Pacific- Islander mothers serving as breadwinners; Whereas, in addition to the economic security that mothers provide for their families, mothers are more than 3 times as likely as fathers to be responsible for most of the housework and caregiving in their households; Whereas, in addition to caregiving for children, mothers disproportionately shoulder unpaid caregiving responsibilities for older relatives and other family members with disabilities; Whereas women are twice as likely as men to say that taking time off had a negative impact on their professional development; Whereas industries dominated by women disproportionately fail to provide family-friendly workplace benefits such as paid family and medical leave, health insurance, and retirement plans; Whereas 44 percent of workers are not eligible for unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.); Whereas 3 of 10 women without access to paid leave exit the workforce after giving birth; Whereas paid leave policies can reduce the number of women leaving their jobs by 20 percent during the first year after welcoming a child and up to 50 percent after 5 years; Whereas mothers sometimes find childcare costs are almost as much as their paychecks, creating a financial incentive for mothers to leave the workforce in exchange for childcare duties; Whereas 40 percent of parents have gone into debt due to the high costs of childcare; Whereas the childcare crisis costs the United States $122,000,000,000 each year, including $78,000,000,000 in lost earnings and job search expenses, $23,000,000,000 in lost workforce productivity, and $21,000,000,000 in lost tax revenue; Whereas a significant investment in childcare is simultaneously job creating and job enabling, creating good jobs and supporting parental employment; Whereas, by encouraging women to remain in the workforce full time, access to paid leave and childcare significantly boosts mothers' lifetime earning potential; Whereas the 2021 temporary expansion of the child tax credit lifted 3,700,000 children out of poverty; Whereas families used the child tax credit to cover routine expenses, improve nutrition, decrease reliance on credit cards and other high-risk financial services, and make long- term educational investments; and Whereas families of color saw the largest quality of life improvements due to the expansion of the child tax credit in 2021: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that-- (1) the United States needs to prioritize a Mom Economy that invests in the caregiving infrastructure required to adequately support and empower mothers in the workforce and sustain a thriving economy; (2) mothers, especially mothers of color, face systemic economic and social inequalities that restrict their ability to balance parenting responsibilities with workplace roles and limit their professional advancement; (3) mothers play an integral role not only in the financial well-being of their families but in the productivity of the American economy as a whole; (4) the United States should invest in its mothers by expanding and developing the social safety net in order to secure meaningful and sustainable economic growth, including-- (A) robust paid family and medical leave plans for all workers, including-- (i) paid parental leave following the birth of a child or the placement of a child for adoption or foster care, provided in equal amounts for all parents regardless of gender; and (ii) paid leave policies that can be used for family caregiving and workers' own medical leave; (B) paid menstrual leave and remote work accommodations for workers experiencing debilitating menstrual or menopause symptoms; (C) investment in the childcare industry with the goal of providing universal childcare and early learning, including-- (i) robust funding for Head Start and Early Head Start programs; (ii) Federal financial support for childcare programs to guarantee all families have access to affordable and high quality child care; and (iii) commitments to pay childcare workers a dignified, living wage; (D) access to nutritious food as a human right, including through-- (i) boosting SNAP maximum and minimum benefits and removing barriers to access, including time restrictions and additional work requirements; and (ii) increasing funds for school meals and other nutrition programs to combat child hunger and making school meals more accessible; (E) the implementation and expansion of child poverty reduction tools that improve income security, infant and maternal health, and educational and economic outcomes into the second generation, including-- (i) a permanent expansion of the child tax credit; and (ii) improvements in the earned income tax credit, which lifts millions of people above the poverty line each year and boosts labor force participation among single mothers; (F) addressing the Nation's maternal mortality crisis through critical investments in maternal health care, including ensuring access to the full range of reproductive health care and family planning; (G) raising the Federal minimum wage for all workers, including tipped workers, and adjusting it on a yearly basis to keep pace with inflation; and (H) investments in legislation that ensures protections for LGBTQ+ mothers in the workplace, such as the Equality Act, and reduces wage discrimination, such as the Paycheck Fairness Act; and (5) United States policymakers should include a specific focus on working mothers in future policymaking, beyond the aforementioned policies, including with regard to economic policy, fiscal policy, and social safety net policy, in order to ensure that working mothers and other caregivers can continue to balance their roles as family anchors and caregivers with their work and economic contributions to both their families and the economy of the United States. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-20-pt1-PgS3463 | null | 6,623 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive communications were taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows: EC-1429. A letter from the Secretary of the Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, transmitting the Commission's final rule -- Governance Requirements for Derivatives Clearing Organizations (RIN: 3038-AF15) received July 10, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Agriculture. EC-1430. A letter from the Chief Innovation Officer, Rural Development Innovation Center, Department of Agriculture, transmitting the Department's Major notice -- Notice of Funding Opportunity for Calendar Year 2022 Disaster Water Grants Program for Fiscal Year 2023 [Docket No.: RUS-23- WATER-0009] received June 29, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Agriculture. EC-1431. A letter from the Chief Innovation Officer, Rural Utilities Service, Department of Agriculture, transmitting the Department's Major notice -- Notice of Funding Opportunity for Calendar Year 2022 Disaster Water Grants Program for Fiscal Year 2023 [Docket No.: RUS-23-WATER-0009] received June 30, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Agriculture. EC-1432. A letter from the Secretary, Department of the Treasury, transmitting the report on the operation of the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund for Fiscal Year 2022, and 2021, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 5302(c)(2); Jan. 30, 1934, ch. 6, Sec. 10 (as amended by Public Law 97-258, Sec. 5302(c)(2)); (96 Stat. 994); to the Committee on Financial Services. EC-1433. A letter from the Chairman, National Credit Union Administration, transmitting the Administration's 2022 annual report to Congress on Minority Depository Institutions, pursuant to 12 U.S.C. 1463 note; Public Law 101-73, Sec. 308 (as amended by Public Law 111-203, Sec. 367(4)); (124 Stat. 1556); to the Committee on Financial Services. EC-1434. A letter from the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, transmitting the 2022 management report of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 9106(a)(1); Public Law 97-258 (as amended by Public Law 101-576, Sec. 306(a)); (104 Stat. 2854); to the Committee on Financial Services. EC-1435. A letter from the Assistant General Counsel for Regulatory Services, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education, transmitting the Department's final priority and requirements -- Full-Service Community Schools [Docket ID: ED-2021-OESE-0152] received July 10, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Education and the Workforce. EC-1436. A letter from the Attorney for Regulatory Affairs Division, Office of the General Counsel, Consumer Product Safety Commission, transmitting the Commission's direct final rule -- Marking of Toy, Look-Alike, and Imitation Firearms [Docket No.: CPSC-2023-0021] received July 10, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1437. A letter from the Section Chief, Diversion Control Division, DEA, Department of Justice, transmitting the Administration's final rule -- Reporting Theft or Significant Loss of Controlled Substances [Docket No.: DEA-574] (RIN: 1117-AB57) received July 10, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1438. A letter from the Secretary, Department of the Treasury, transmitting a six-month periodic report on the national emergency with respect to hostage-taking and the wrongful detention of United States nationals abroad that was declared in Executive Order 14078 of July 19, 2022, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1641(c); Public Law 94-412, Sec. 401(c); (90 Stat. 1257) and 50 U.S.C. 1703(c); Public Law 95-223, Sec 204(c); (91 Stat. 1627); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1439. A letter from the Secretary, Department of the Treasury, transmitting a six-month periodic report on the national emergency with respect to global illicit drug trafficking that was declared in Executive Order 14059 of December 15, 2021, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1641(c); Public Law 94-412, Sec. 401(c); (90 Stat. 1257) and 50 U.S.C. 1703(c); Public Law 95-223, Sec 204(c); (91 Stat. 1627); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1440. A letter from the Secretary, Department of the Treasury, transmitting a six-month periodic report on the national emergency with respect to Hong Kong that was declared in Executive Order 13936 of July 14, 2020, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1641(c); Public Law 94-412, Sec. 401(c); (90 Stat. 1257) and 50 U.S.C. 1703(c); Public Law 95-223, Sec 204(c); (91 Stat. 1627); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1441. A letter from the President, transmitting notice that the national emergency declared on July 26, 2019, with respect to Mali declared in Executive Order 13882, must continue in effect beyond July 26, 2023, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1622(d); Public Law 94-412, Sec. 202(d); (90 Stat. 1257) (H. Doc. No. 118--57); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. EC-1442. A letter from the President, transmitting a notice that the national emergency with respect to Lebanon, declared in Executive Order 13441 on August 1, 2007, is to continue in effect beyond August 1, 2023, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1622(d); Public Law 94-412, Sec. 202(d); (90 Stat. 1257) (H. Doc. No. 118--58); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. EC-1443. A letter from the Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Management, U.S. Agency for International Development, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Acquisition Regulation: Foreign Tax Reporting, Conference Planning, and Trade Investment Activities (RIN: 0412-AB04) received July 17, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1444. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a certification of a proposed transfer of major defense equipment, Department Notification Number: RSAT case 23-9333; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1445. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a certification of a proposed transfer of major defense equipment, Department Notification Number: RSAT case 23-9258; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1446. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a certification of a proposed transfer of major defense equipment, Department Notification Number: RSAT case 23-9552; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1447. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a Memorandum of Justification for the drawdown of defense articles and services and military education and training under section 506(a)(1) and section 614(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide immediate military assistance to Ukraine; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1448. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a determination under section 506(a)(1) and section 614(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide military assistance to Ukraine; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1449. A letter from the Chair, Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee, Department of Commerce, transmitting the Department's 2023 National Export Strategy; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1450. A letter from the Chairman, Council of the District of Columbia, transmitting D.C. Act 25-173, ``Expanding Access to Fertility Treatment Amendment Act of 2023'', pursuant to Public Law 93-198, Sec. 602(c)(1); (87 Stat. 814); to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. EC-1451. A letter from the Deputy Secretary, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's FY 2022 No FEAR Act Report, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 2301 note; Public Law 107- 174, Sec. 203(a) (as amended by Public Law 109-435, Sec. 604(f)); (120 Stat. 3242); to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. EC-1452. A letter from the President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis, transmitting the 2022 management report and financial statements of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 9106(a)(1); Public Law 97-258 (as amended by Public Law 101- 576, Sec. 306(a)); (104 Stat. 2854); to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. EC-1453. A letter from the Deputy Archivist of the United States, National Archives and Records Administration, transmitting the Administration's final rule -- Federal Records Management: Digitizing Permanent Records and Reviewing Records Schedules [FDMS No.: NARA-20-0006; NARA- 2022-066] (RIN: 3095-AB99) received July 17, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. EC-1454. A letter from the Regulation Development Coordinator, Office of of Regulation Policy and Management, Department of Veterans Affairs, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Allowance for Caskets and Urns for Unclaimed Remains of Veterans (RIN: 2900-AR36(F)) received July 10, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. EC-1455. A letter from the Director, Legal Processing Division, Associate Chief Counsel, Department of the Treasury, transmitting the Service's final regulation -- Expenses Related to COVID-19 and Preventive Care for Purposes of High Deductible Health Plans [Notice 2023-37] received July 5, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Ways and Means. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-07-24-pt1-PgH3894 | null | 6,624 |
formal | Chicago | null | racist | Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive communications were taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows: EC-1429. A letter from the Secretary of the Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, transmitting the Commission's final rule -- Governance Requirements for Derivatives Clearing Organizations (RIN: 3038-AF15) received July 10, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Agriculture. EC-1430. A letter from the Chief Innovation Officer, Rural Development Innovation Center, Department of Agriculture, transmitting the Department's Major notice -- Notice of Funding Opportunity for Calendar Year 2022 Disaster Water Grants Program for Fiscal Year 2023 [Docket No.: RUS-23- WATER-0009] received June 29, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Agriculture. EC-1431. A letter from the Chief Innovation Officer, Rural Utilities Service, Department of Agriculture, transmitting the Department's Major notice -- Notice of Funding Opportunity for Calendar Year 2022 Disaster Water Grants Program for Fiscal Year 2023 [Docket No.: RUS-23-WATER-0009] received June 30, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Agriculture. EC-1432. A letter from the Secretary, Department of the Treasury, transmitting the report on the operation of the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund for Fiscal Year 2022, and 2021, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 5302(c)(2); Jan. 30, 1934, ch. 6, Sec. 10 (as amended by Public Law 97-258, Sec. 5302(c)(2)); (96 Stat. 994); to the Committee on Financial Services. EC-1433. A letter from the Chairman, National Credit Union Administration, transmitting the Administration's 2022 annual report to Congress on Minority Depository Institutions, pursuant to 12 U.S.C. 1463 note; Public Law 101-73, Sec. 308 (as amended by Public Law 111-203, Sec. 367(4)); (124 Stat. 1556); to the Committee on Financial Services. EC-1434. A letter from the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, transmitting the 2022 management report of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 9106(a)(1); Public Law 97-258 (as amended by Public Law 101-576, Sec. 306(a)); (104 Stat. 2854); to the Committee on Financial Services. EC-1435. A letter from the Assistant General Counsel for Regulatory Services, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education, transmitting the Department's final priority and requirements -- Full-Service Community Schools [Docket ID: ED-2021-OESE-0152] received July 10, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Education and the Workforce. EC-1436. A letter from the Attorney for Regulatory Affairs Division, Office of the General Counsel, Consumer Product Safety Commission, transmitting the Commission's direct final rule -- Marking of Toy, Look-Alike, and Imitation Firearms [Docket No.: CPSC-2023-0021] received July 10, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1437. A letter from the Section Chief, Diversion Control Division, DEA, Department of Justice, transmitting the Administration's final rule -- Reporting Theft or Significant Loss of Controlled Substances [Docket No.: DEA-574] (RIN: 1117-AB57) received July 10, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1438. A letter from the Secretary, Department of the Treasury, transmitting a six-month periodic report on the national emergency with respect to hostage-taking and the wrongful detention of United States nationals abroad that was declared in Executive Order 14078 of July 19, 2022, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1641(c); Public Law 94-412, Sec. 401(c); (90 Stat. 1257) and 50 U.S.C. 1703(c); Public Law 95-223, Sec 204(c); (91 Stat. 1627); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1439. A letter from the Secretary, Department of the Treasury, transmitting a six-month periodic report on the national emergency with respect to global illicit drug trafficking that was declared in Executive Order 14059 of December 15, 2021, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1641(c); Public Law 94-412, Sec. 401(c); (90 Stat. 1257) and 50 U.S.C. 1703(c); Public Law 95-223, Sec 204(c); (91 Stat. 1627); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1440. A letter from the Secretary, Department of the Treasury, transmitting a six-month periodic report on the national emergency with respect to Hong Kong that was declared in Executive Order 13936 of July 14, 2020, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1641(c); Public Law 94-412, Sec. 401(c); (90 Stat. 1257) and 50 U.S.C. 1703(c); Public Law 95-223, Sec 204(c); (91 Stat. 1627); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1441. A letter from the President, transmitting notice that the national emergency declared on July 26, 2019, with respect to Mali declared in Executive Order 13882, must continue in effect beyond July 26, 2023, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1622(d); Public Law 94-412, Sec. 202(d); (90 Stat. 1257) (H. Doc. No. 118--57); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. EC-1442. A letter from the President, transmitting a notice that the national emergency with respect to Lebanon, declared in Executive Order 13441 on August 1, 2007, is to continue in effect beyond August 1, 2023, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1622(d); Public Law 94-412, Sec. 202(d); (90 Stat. 1257) (H. Doc. No. 118--58); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. EC-1443. A letter from the Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Management, U.S. Agency for International Development, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Acquisition Regulation: Foreign Tax Reporting, Conference Planning, and Trade Investment Activities (RIN: 0412-AB04) received July 17, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1444. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a certification of a proposed transfer of major defense equipment, Department Notification Number: RSAT case 23-9333; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1445. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a certification of a proposed transfer of major defense equipment, Department Notification Number: RSAT case 23-9258; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1446. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a certification of a proposed transfer of major defense equipment, Department Notification Number: RSAT case 23-9552; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1447. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a Memorandum of Justification for the drawdown of defense articles and services and military education and training under section 506(a)(1) and section 614(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide immediate military assistance to Ukraine; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1448. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a determination under section 506(a)(1) and section 614(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide military assistance to Ukraine; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1449. A letter from the Chair, Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee, Department of Commerce, transmitting the Department's 2023 National Export Strategy; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EC-1450. A letter from the Chairman, Council of the District of Columbia, transmitting D.C. Act 25-173, ``Expanding Access to Fertility Treatment Amendment Act of 2023'', pursuant to Public Law 93-198, Sec. 602(c)(1); (87 Stat. 814); to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. EC-1451. A letter from the Deputy Secretary, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's FY 2022 No FEAR Act Report, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 2301 note; Public Law 107- 174, Sec. 203(a) (as amended by Public Law 109-435, Sec. 604(f)); (120 Stat. 3242); to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. EC-1452. A letter from the President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis, transmitting the 2022 management report and financial statements of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 9106(a)(1); Public Law 97-258 (as amended by Public Law 101- 576, Sec. 306(a)); (104 Stat. 2854); to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. EC-1453. A letter from the Deputy Archivist of the United States, National Archives and Records Administration, transmitting the Administration's final rule -- Federal Records Management: Digitizing Permanent Records and Reviewing Records Schedules [FDMS No.: NARA-20-0006; NARA- 2022-066] (RIN: 3095-AB99) received July 17, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. EC-1454. A letter from the Regulation Development Coordinator, Office of of Regulation Policy and Management, Department of Veterans Affairs, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Allowance for Caskets and Urns for Unclaimed Remains of Veterans (RIN: 2900-AR36(F)) received July 10, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. EC-1455. A letter from the Director, Legal Processing Division, Associate Chief Counsel, Department of the Treasury, transmitting the Service's final regulation -- Expenses Related to COVID-19 and Preventive Care for Purposes of High Deductible Health Plans [Notice 2023-37] received July 5, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Ways and Means. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-07-24-pt1-PgH3894 | null | 6,625 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Pursuant to clause 7(c)(1) of rule XII and Section 3(c) of H. Res. 5 the following statements are submitted regarding (1) the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution and (2) the single subject of the bill or joint resolution. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-07-24-pt1-PgH3896 | null | 6,626 |
formal | XX | null | transphobic | The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the Chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered, or votes objected to under clause 6 of rule XX. The House will resume proceedings on postponed questions at a later time. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2023-07-25-pt1-PgH3907-5 | null | 6,627 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | Mr. JAMES. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 3395) to direct the Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission to seek to enter into an agreement with a federally funded research and development center to evaluate foreign ownership of marine terminals at the 15 largest United States container ports, and for other purposes, as amended. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. JAMES | House | CREC-2023-07-25-pt1-PgH3915 | null | 6,628 |
formal | XX | null | transphobic | The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 1338) to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide authority for certain licenses, and for other purposes, as amended, on which the yeas and nays were ordered. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2023-07-25-pt1-PgH3934-2 | null | 6,629 |
formal | XX | null | transphobic | The SPEAKER pro tempore. Proceedings will resume on questions previously postponed. Votes will be taken in the following order: Motions to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 1338 and H.R. 4470, and Agreeing to the Speaker's approval of the Journal, if ordered. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, remaining electronic votes will be conducted as 5-minute votes. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2023-07-25-pt1-PgH3934 | null | 6,630 |
formal | XX | null | transphobic | The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the question on agreeing to the Speaker's approval of the Journal, which the Chair will put de novo. The question is on the Speaker's approval of the Journal. Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Journal stands approved. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2023-07-25-pt1-PgH3936-2 | null | 6,631 |
formal | based | null | white supremacist | House of Representatives, Committee on the Budget, Washington, DC, July 25, 2023. Mr. Speaker, section 112 of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, Public Law 118-5, requires the Chairman of the House Budget Committee to submit for printing in the Congressional Record a list of discretionary accounts identified for advance appropriations in fiscal year 2024 appropriations legislation. This filing is made for technical purposes as required by section 112 of the Fiscal Responsibility Act and for the purposes of enforcing titles III and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and other budgetary enforcement provisions. If there are any questions, please contact Brad Watson or Mary Popadiuk of the Budget Committee staff. Jodey C. Arrington, Chairman, Committee on the Budget. Accounts Identified for Advanced Appropriations--For Fiscal Year 2025 (SUBJECT TO A GENERAL LIMIT OF $28,852,000,000) Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies: Employment and Training Administration; Education for the Disadvantaged School Improvement Programs; Career, Technical, and Adult Education; Special Education. Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies: Tenant-based Rental Assistance, Project-based Rental Assistance. Veterans Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations--For Fiscal Year 2025 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies: Medical Services, Medical Support and Compliance, Medical Facilities, Medical Community Care. Indian Health Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations--For Fiscal Year 2025 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies: Indian Health Services, Indian Health Facilities. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-07-25-pt1-PgH3947 | null | 6,632 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Pursuant to clause 7(c)(1) of rule XII and Section 3(c) of H. Res. 5 the following statements are submitted regarding (1) the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution and (2) the single subject of the bill or joint resolution. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-07-25-pt1-PgH3950 | null | 6,633 |
formal | public school | null | racist | Mr. BARRASSO. Madam President, at the 111th Wyoming State Fair, Senator Lummis and I will have the pleasure of introducing Jon and Dianne Kirkbride as 2023 inductees to the Wyoming Agriculture Hall of Fame. Jon and Dianne Kirkbride have been devoted to each other and the agriculture industry for over five decades. They have been married for 55 years while also running a multi-operational ranch, the Harding and Kirkbride Livestock Company. Harding and Kirkbride Livestock company is located 32 miles outside of Cheyenne, WY. The ranch has hosted tours during the Cheyenne Frontier Days Fair and Rodeo, educating the public on Wyoming ranch life. Dianne devoted decades to the beef industry. She is a member of Wyoming CattleWomen, of which she is the past president. She advocates for American and Wyoming beef. Dianne was selected as the American National CattleWomen's Woman of the Year in 2001 for her years of dedicated service to the cattle industry. Dianne also worked for Senator Mike Enzi as a field representative in Cheyenne for 20 years. Dianne's service to her community doesn't end here. She is on the Cheyenne Regional Medical Board of Trustees, the Laramie County Community College Foundation Board, and the Congressional Award Council, where she was the president for 6 years. Through her work in the Wyoming Congressional Awards Program, Dianne mentored more than 80 students in volunteer and community service projects for the past 24 years. Dianne regularly follows up with kids that she worked with 20 years ago. She is delighted when she hears about all of their impressive accomplishments. These students learned early on the value of being involved and giving back to their communities. This is a great example of how the Kirkbrides are influencing the next generation in Wyoming. Jon runs the ranch while also contributing to the beef industry on a local, State, and national level. He is committed to agriculture in Wyoming and to Wyoming public schools. Jon has served as president of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association and as the Wyoming director of the U.S. Meat Export Federation. Jon also spent 16 years on the Laramie County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees. He served as president of the Wyoming School Board Association and also served on the Wyoming State Board of Education. In addition to serving his community, Jon served his country in the U.S. Air Force. Together, Jon and Dianne have garnered an impressive list of accomplishments. Both Jon and Dianne exemplify the leadership in Wyoming agriculture that the Agriculture Hall of Fame has recognized for over 20 years. Jon and Dianne have three sons TJ, Jeff, and Glen. TJ and his wife Michelle have two daughters Maddy and Bryn and two boys Brady and Joel. Jeff and Jami have six boys Taylor, Carter, Jackson, Jayden, Grayson, and Bennett, along with their daughter Savannah. Glen and Rochel have three children Kayla, Morgan, and Shelby. Jon and Dianne's son Jeff and grandson Taylor are both ranchers living in Meriden. TJ is a counselor at Triumph High School, and Glen is also a teacher and coach at Central High School. Dianne and Jon's children are a testament to their dedication for education in Wyoming. Jon and Dianne's unmatched passion for family, Wyoming agriculture, wildlife and animal conservation, and cultivating partnerships make them an outstanding choice for the Wyoming Agriculture Hall of Fame. It is a great honor to participate in their induction. They continue to represent Wyoming and Western interests with dedication and distinction. My wife Bobbi joins me in congratulating Jon and Dianne as 2023 inductees into the Wyoming Agriculture Hall of Fame. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. BARRASSO | Senate | CREC-2023-07-25-pt1-PgS3518-2 | null | 6,634 |
formal | public schools | null | racist | Mr. BARRASSO. Madam President, at the 111th Wyoming State Fair, Senator Lummis and I will have the pleasure of introducing Jon and Dianne Kirkbride as 2023 inductees to the Wyoming Agriculture Hall of Fame. Jon and Dianne Kirkbride have been devoted to each other and the agriculture industry for over five decades. They have been married for 55 years while also running a multi-operational ranch, the Harding and Kirkbride Livestock Company. Harding and Kirkbride Livestock company is located 32 miles outside of Cheyenne, WY. The ranch has hosted tours during the Cheyenne Frontier Days Fair and Rodeo, educating the public on Wyoming ranch life. Dianne devoted decades to the beef industry. She is a member of Wyoming CattleWomen, of which she is the past president. She advocates for American and Wyoming beef. Dianne was selected as the American National CattleWomen's Woman of the Year in 2001 for her years of dedicated service to the cattle industry. Dianne also worked for Senator Mike Enzi as a field representative in Cheyenne for 20 years. Dianne's service to her community doesn't end here. She is on the Cheyenne Regional Medical Board of Trustees, the Laramie County Community College Foundation Board, and the Congressional Award Council, where she was the president for 6 years. Through her work in the Wyoming Congressional Awards Program, Dianne mentored more than 80 students in volunteer and community service projects for the past 24 years. Dianne regularly follows up with kids that she worked with 20 years ago. She is delighted when she hears about all of their impressive accomplishments. These students learned early on the value of being involved and giving back to their communities. This is a great example of how the Kirkbrides are influencing the next generation in Wyoming. Jon runs the ranch while also contributing to the beef industry on a local, State, and national level. He is committed to agriculture in Wyoming and to Wyoming public schools. Jon has served as president of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association and as the Wyoming director of the U.S. Meat Export Federation. Jon also spent 16 years on the Laramie County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees. He served as president of the Wyoming School Board Association and also served on the Wyoming State Board of Education. In addition to serving his community, Jon served his country in the U.S. Air Force. Together, Jon and Dianne have garnered an impressive list of accomplishments. Both Jon and Dianne exemplify the leadership in Wyoming agriculture that the Agriculture Hall of Fame has recognized for over 20 years. Jon and Dianne have three sons TJ, Jeff, and Glen. TJ and his wife Michelle have two daughters Maddy and Bryn and two boys Brady and Joel. Jeff and Jami have six boys Taylor, Carter, Jackson, Jayden, Grayson, and Bennett, along with their daughter Savannah. Glen and Rochel have three children Kayla, Morgan, and Shelby. Jon and Dianne's son Jeff and grandson Taylor are both ranchers living in Meriden. TJ is a counselor at Triumph High School, and Glen is also a teacher and coach at Central High School. Dianne and Jon's children are a testament to their dedication for education in Wyoming. Jon and Dianne's unmatched passion for family, Wyoming agriculture, wildlife and animal conservation, and cultivating partnerships make them an outstanding choice for the Wyoming Agriculture Hall of Fame. It is a great honor to participate in their induction. They continue to represent Wyoming and Western interests with dedication and distinction. My wife Bobbi joins me in congratulating Jon and Dianne as 2023 inductees into the Wyoming Agriculture Hall of Fame. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. BARRASSO | Senate | CREC-2023-07-25-pt1-PgS3518-2 | null | 6,635 |
formal | Reagan | null | white supremacist | Mr. BOOZMAN. Madam President, I rise today to applaud the efforts of the young people who interned in my Washington, DC, and Arkansas offices this summer. I appreciate their commitment and dedication to serving Arkansans andbeing an ambassador for our office. These talented students and recent graduates have grown professionally and personally through this experience. On a daily basis, they provided support to all areas of office operations. From giving tours of the U.S. Capitol, to drafting press releases and researching legislation, they played a vital role in helping us provide the best possible constituent service. Interns also took advantage of our speaker series, hearing from some of Arkansas' best and brightest in our Nation's Capital. This summer offered our interns memorable moments, including attending Prime Minister Modi's arrival at the White House, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and the Army Birthday Run at Arlington National Cemetery. These responsibilities and opportunities allow interns to maximize their time in the Nation's Capital while ultimately serving the Natural State. I would like to recognize the following interns for their hard work and service to Arkansans this summer: Alex Sumrall, Danny Moreno, Reese Maginn, Cross Thompson, Wyatt Bailey, Kylie Roesler, Sydney Kincaid, Ben Sherman, Julija Eddy, Kendall Webb, Blake Bradshaw, Rebecca Brown, Trey Nichols, Sam Woodhouse, John Reagan Hiland, Jackson Renfro, and Colin Keady all served in the Washington, DC office. Anna Mathis, Kade Miller, Logan Moss, Heath Brandt, Ryan Munley, and Mary Eichenberger served as interns for the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee. Victoria Moody, Buddy Gaston, Jake Strawn, and Kyleigh Threlkeld served in State offices. I extend my deepest gratitude to our interns for their service. Their contributions to our office have been invaluable, and I wish them all the best. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. BOOZMAN | Senate | CREC-2023-07-25-pt1-PgS3518-6 | null | 6,636 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | As in executive session the Presiding Officer laid before the Senate messages from the President of the United States submitting sundry nominations which were referred to the appropriate committees. (The messages received today are printed at the end of the Senate proceedings.) At 6:14 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered by Mrs. Alli, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has passed the following bill, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate: H.R. 3935. An act to amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize and improve the Federal Aviation Administration and other civil aviation programs, and for other purposes. Enrolled Bill Signed At 7:56 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered by Mrs. Alli, one of its reading clerks, announced that the Speaker has signed the following enrolled bill: H.R. 1096. An act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the United States Marine Corps, and to support programs at the Marine Corps Heritage Center. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-25-pt1-PgS3520-3 | null | 6,637 |
formal | based | null | white supremacist | At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) was added as a cosponsor of S. 141, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve certain programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs for home and community based services for veterans, and for other purposes. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-25-pt1-PgS3522-2 | null | 6,638 |
formal | based | null | white supremacist | SENATE RESOLUTION 310--RECOGNIZING THE MOTORCYCLE SAFETY FOUNDATION FOR 50 YEARS OF SAFETY EDUCATION Mr. PETERS (for himself, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Budd, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Tillis, and Mr. Casey) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: S. Res. 310 Whereas, in 1973, the Motorcycle Safety Foundation began creating the first motorcycle rider safety training curriculum in the United States; Whereas the Motorcycle Safety Foundation is a nonprofit organization providing motorcycle rider training and education; Whereas the Motorcycle Safety Foundation meets the needs of motorcycle riders by continuing to create courses for the most popular bikes on the road and on the trail, including the hands-on Adventure Bike Rider Course and the Dirtbike School courses, that enable motorcycle riders to get the most out of their bikes; Whereas new and experienced riders can benefit from learning basic motorcycle controls, safe-riding habits, and street strategies in a comprehensive, research-based curriculum created by the Motorcycle Safety Foundation; Whereas 10,000,000 motorcyclists have taken the Basic Rider Course taught by Motorcycle Safety Foundation rider coaches in the last 50 years; Whereas 46 States and the Armed Forces use Motorcycle Safety Foundation curriculum as their motorcycle license waiver course; Whereas nearly 10,000 rider coaches teach Motorcycle Safety Foundation curriculum at 2,700 training sites across the United States; and Whereas the efforts of the Motorcycle Safety Foundation are aimed at making the roadways of the United States safer for both motorcycle riders and non-riders: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Senate recognizes the Motorcycle Safety Foundation for 50 years of safety education and improving the ride for motorcycle riders across the United States. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-25-pt1-PgS3527-2 | null | 6,639 |
formal | XX | null | transphobic | The SPEAKER pro tempore. Proceedings will resume on questions previously postponed. Votes will be taken in the following order: Ordering the previous question on House Resolution 614; Adoption of House Resolution 614, if ordered; and The motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 3395, if ordered. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, remaining electronic votes will be conducted as 5-minute votes. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgH3974-3 | null | 6,640 |
formal | XX | null | transphobic | The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the question on suspending the rules and passing the bill (H.R. 3399) to study the security of the Soo Locks and effects on the supply chain resulting from a malfunction or failure of the Soo Locks, and for other purposes. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgH3976-2 | null | 6,641 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the question on suspending the rules and passing the bill (H.R. 3395) to direct the Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission to seek to enter into an agreement with a federally funded research and development center to evaluate foreign ownership of marine terminals at the 15 largest United States container ports, and for other purposes, as amended. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgH3976 | null | 6,642 |
formal | XX | null | transphobic | The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the question on suspending the rules and passing the bill (H.R. 3395) to direct the Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission to seek to enter into an agreement with a federally funded research and development center to evaluate foreign ownership of marine terminals at the 15 largest United States container ports, and for other purposes, as amended. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgH3976 | null | 6,643 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Pursuant to clause 7(c)(1) of rule XII and Section 3(c) of H. Res. 5 the following statements are submitted regarding (1) the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution and (2) the single subject of the bill or joint resolution. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgH4031 | null | 6,644 |
formal | working families | null | racist | Mr. McCONNELL. The Biden administration has been working overtime to sell the American people a fantasy. The President would like working families who struggled under 2 years of soaring inflation to believe their refrain that ``Bidenomics is working for America.'' The White House Press Secretary declared recently that ``people are feeling better about their personal finances.'' If only that were true. Unfortunately, the American people have too many reasons to believe their financial outlook is worse today--worse--than when the President took office. According to a survey conducted last month, just 24 percent of voters say the American economy is on the right track; less than a third buy the claim that this administration's policies are bringing costs down for working families; and just 22 percent think inflation is getting any better. No matter how many ways the administration officials spin the numbers, folks who work for a living and manage a family budget know that Bidenomics has made their lives harder. They know that prices have risen 16.6 percent since the President took office because they feel it every time they pay their bills. Energy prices, for example, are 38 percent higher than they were in January of 2021, and groceries are 20 percent more expensive. In Washington State, one man reported recently that soaring rent had forced him to move, take on a longer commute, spend more on gas, and put his goal of homeownership on hold. In Illinois, one woman told a reporter recently that she had paid $90 for groceries that would feed her family of three for 3 days. They might have to start visiting food pantries. ``You have no choice but to sacrifice,'' she said. So look at it this way: During the first terms of the last four administrations before this one, year-on-year inflation never cracked 4 percent. Under President Biden, it happened 26 times. To borrow the President's own phrase, that is Bidenomics in action. As one top Democratic economist put it last year, ``This is Biden's inflation and he needs to own it.'' So it is fitting that the President finally slapped his name on our current economic situation. He is right to take credit. Working families wouldn't be in this mess if he hadn't spent his first few months in office cramming $2 trillion in leftwing spending down the throat of our economy. So owning the runaway inflation Washington Democrats helped produce is one thing, but it is about time they focused on fixing it. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. McCONNELL | Senate | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgS3561-6 | null | 6,645 |
formal | terrorism | null | Islamophobic | Mr. McCONNELL. Now, on a different matter, tomorrow, Prime Minister Meloni of Italy will visit Washington for a series of meetings. I look forward to welcoming her to the Capitol at an important time for our two countries' friendship and for Italy's role in the transatlantic alliance. Prime Minister Meloni took office as Europe faced its first large-scale land war in decades and Italy faced the increasing economic vulnerabilities of reliance on China. By all accounts, she has addressed these challenges head-on.The Prime Minister has repeatedly asserted Italy's commitment to helping Ukraine beat Russian aggression and rebuild its economy. Importantly, like some leaders, she has done so with refreshing clarity to the Italian people about their own country's concrete interest in helping Ukraine defend itself. Earlier this spring, in an address to the Italian Senate, Prime Minister Meloni summed up the reality. She said: We are also sending [arms] to the Ukrainians to prevent the possibility of having to use them ourselves one day. We are sending arms to Ukraine also to keep the war far away from the rest of Europe and our home. Not vaguely defining philanthropy; just cold, hard investments in our own security. At the NATO summit in Vilnius earlier this month, Italy's leader rightly declared: Our freedom has a cost. . . . [W]hat is invested in defence comes back tenfold, a hundredfold, in terms of our ability to defend our national interests. Secretary General Stoltenberg has recognized the Prime Minister's ``strong, personal commitment to NATO, [and] to our trans-Atlantic alliance.'' And the Italian Government has expressed its intention to accelerate progress toward the alliance's 2-percent defense spending program. I hope and expect to see Italy and all NATO allies meet this goal. This shift in Italy's approach to defense and security policy reflects what allies have recognized across Europe: that the long holiday from history is over, and their investments and hard power are overdue. But as Prime Minister Meloni meets with President Biden tomorrow, it is important to remember that our shared interests extend beyond Europe. Italy is rightly concerned about growing instability, terrorism, and migration flows in Africa--yet another area where Russian and Chinese influence has played a corrosive and threatening role. America has a shared interest in keeping pressure on the global terrorist resurgence that has followed the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. I am also encouraged that the Italian government is unraveling its involvement with China's so-called Belt and Road Initiative, another indication our European allies are taking steps to protect themselves against China's economic force. So if we are serious about competition with the PRC, we need to work more closely with allies and partners who share our interest in preserving a world of free and fair trade and secure supply chains. I am hopeful that President Biden and Prime Minister Meloni have a productive meeting tomorrow. I look forward to discussing our two nations' common challenges and priorities with her directly. In the meantime, I am hopeful our colleagues will continue to work diligently to provide for common defense and equip America and our allies to meet and deter common threats. I suggest the absence of a quorum. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. McCONNELL | Senate | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgS3561-7 | null | 6,646 |
formal | terrorist | null | Islamophobic | Mr. McCONNELL. Now, on a different matter, tomorrow, Prime Minister Meloni of Italy will visit Washington for a series of meetings. I look forward to welcoming her to the Capitol at an important time for our two countries' friendship and for Italy's role in the transatlantic alliance. Prime Minister Meloni took office as Europe faced its first large-scale land war in decades and Italy faced the increasing economic vulnerabilities of reliance on China. By all accounts, she has addressed these challenges head-on.The Prime Minister has repeatedly asserted Italy's commitment to helping Ukraine beat Russian aggression and rebuild its economy. Importantly, like some leaders, she has done so with refreshing clarity to the Italian people about their own country's concrete interest in helping Ukraine defend itself. Earlier this spring, in an address to the Italian Senate, Prime Minister Meloni summed up the reality. She said: We are also sending [arms] to the Ukrainians to prevent the possibility of having to use them ourselves one day. We are sending arms to Ukraine also to keep the war far away from the rest of Europe and our home. Not vaguely defining philanthropy; just cold, hard investments in our own security. At the NATO summit in Vilnius earlier this month, Italy's leader rightly declared: Our freedom has a cost. . . . [W]hat is invested in defence comes back tenfold, a hundredfold, in terms of our ability to defend our national interests. Secretary General Stoltenberg has recognized the Prime Minister's ``strong, personal commitment to NATO, [and] to our trans-Atlantic alliance.'' And the Italian Government has expressed its intention to accelerate progress toward the alliance's 2-percent defense spending program. I hope and expect to see Italy and all NATO allies meet this goal. This shift in Italy's approach to defense and security policy reflects what allies have recognized across Europe: that the long holiday from history is over, and their investments and hard power are overdue. But as Prime Minister Meloni meets with President Biden tomorrow, it is important to remember that our shared interests extend beyond Europe. Italy is rightly concerned about growing instability, terrorism, and migration flows in Africa--yet another area where Russian and Chinese influence has played a corrosive and threatening role. America has a shared interest in keeping pressure on the global terrorist resurgence that has followed the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. I am also encouraged that the Italian government is unraveling its involvement with China's so-called Belt and Road Initiative, another indication our European allies are taking steps to protect themselves against China's economic force. So if we are serious about competition with the PRC, we need to work more closely with allies and partners who share our interest in preserving a world of free and fair trade and secure supply chains. I am hopeful that President Biden and Prime Minister Meloni have a productive meeting tomorrow. I look forward to discussing our two nations' common challenges and priorities with her directly. In the meantime, I am hopeful our colleagues will continue to work diligently to provide for common defense and equip America and our allies to meet and deter common threats. I suggest the absence of a quorum. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. McCONNELL | Senate | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgS3561-7 | null | 6,647 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, today, the Senate will continue making progress on the NDAA, one of the most important bills of the year and something that for more than six decades has passed with bipartisan support. Yesterday, we adopted two important amendments to the NDAA, adding to the Senate's work on outcompeting the Chinese Government. Both amendments--one by Senators Cornyn and Casey and one by Senators Rounds and Tester--passed overwhelmingly, with 91 ``yes'' votes each. It is not often that 91 Senators can unite on a single measure, let alone two measures. So to see us unite on outcompeting the Chinese Government was an important demonstration that this issue remains broadly bipartisan and something we will continue working on throughout the year. This morning, we will hold another vote on an amendment by Senators Warnock and Budd halting the harassment of our servicemembers by debt collectors. I hope this will also enjoy broad support. Last night, we sent out a hotline with a number of additional amendments. I am hopeful we can lock in an agreement soon to begin voting on some of them. Since last Wednesday, the Senate has voted on eight amendments here on the floor and adopted seven more by voice vote. This is how the process should work. Finally, I will also keep working with the Republican leader, Chair Reed, and Ranking Member Wicker on a second managers' package that will have more accomplishments both sides can embrace, and I appreciate the cooperation and good faith of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. I have said repeatedly that the NDAA is an opportunity for the Senate to show we can work on the biggest issues facing our country through bipartisanship, cooperation, and honest debate. That is what we have seen play out so far this year on the floor--bipartisanship. The NDAA process in this Chamber is a welcome departure from the contentious, chaotic, and partisan race to the bottom we saw in the House. As I have also said, if we continue embracing bipartisanship, we will finish our work on the NDAA before the start of the August State work period. We wish to finish the NDAA as soon as we can. There is no reason for delay. We aren't quite there yet--there is still some more work to be done--but we are close. I thank my colleagues for their cooperation, and the Senate will continue working on the NDAA until the job is done. (Mr. BENNET assumed the Chair.) | 2020-01-06 | Mr. SCHUMER | Senate | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgS3562-2 | null | 6,648 |
formal | based | null | white supremacist | Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 195, adoption of the Lee amendment to limit the availability of funds for the support of Ukraine (376). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted nay. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 196, adoption of the Cornyn amendment to provide for an investment screening mechanism relating to covered sectors (931). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted yea. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 197, adoption of the Rounds amendment to amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and require review of certain agricultural transactions (No. 813). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted yea. The Rounds-Tester amendment adds the Secretary of Agriculture to the Committee on Foreign Investment. If the committee determines that investments by foreign adversaries into agricultural real estate or a U.S. business engaged in agriculture or biotech would result in control by the foreign adversary, it requires the President to prohibit the transaction. I support this amendment's efforts to protect critical agricultural assets, but I am concerned that the amendment as drafted merits additional review to avoid unintended risks of discrimination based on national origin or citizenship. While I will support this amendment and its objectives, Senators Rounds and Tester understand my concern and have agreed to continue working with me and our colleagues to resolve these concerns before Congress sends a final bill to the President. (At the request of Mr. Schumer, the following statement was ordered to be printed in the Record.) | 2020-01-06 | Mr. DURBIN | Senate | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgS3609-2 | null | 6,649 |
formal | banker | null | antisemitic | Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I recently traveled to Vilnius, Lithuania, for this year's NATO Summit. It was a fitting location; Lithuania has had an extraordinary journey breaking free from the tyranny of the Soviet Union and becoming a thriving democracy. The visit also had a deep significance for me personally. One hundred and twelve years ago, my mother came to the United States from Lithuania. Although she never saw her homeland again, she always carried it in her heart. Just a few decades before my mother arrived in the United States, a Lithuanian Jewish couple, Ida and Arie Krinsky, immigrated to the United States. They settled in Chicago, where Arie toiled in a sweatshop to make a living and support his wife and seven children. Eventually, the Krinsky family changed their surname to Crown. Three of the Crown sons, Henry and his brothers Irving and Sol, established a sand and gravel company, the Material Service Corporation, that would grow into a business empire before merging with General Dynamics. When Henry Crown passed away in 1990, his obituary in the New York Times referred to him as ``the billionaire whose life exemplified the Horatio Alger rags-to-riches story of American industrialists.'' It is a legacy that has been preserved and expanded by his children. To this day, the Crown familyis widely known for its socially conscious investment and philanthropic efforts, and as a pillar of the Jewish community from Chicago to Israel. Tragically, late last month, James ``Jim'' Crown, Henry's grandson, passed away in a car accident on his 70th birthday. Born to Renee and Lester Crown, Jim went to high school in Winnetka, attended Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, for his undergraduate studies, and graduated from Stanford Law School. He began his career at Salomon Brothers, eventually becoming vice president of the Capital Markets Service Group. It was during his time on Wall Street that Jim met and fell in love with Paula Hannaway, an investment banker. In 1985, the two married and returned to Chicago to join the family business. Jim was chair and CEO of Henry Crown and Company, a privately held company dealing in securities, real estate, and other investments. He also was a member of the board of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jim was one of Chicago's most prominent philanthropists and a longtime member of the board of trustees for the University of Chicago, serving as chair from 2003 to 2009. In early 2003, Jim had breakfast with a young Illinois State senator who was gearing up to make a run for the U.S. Senate. Some might have seen an inexperienced newcomer with almost no chance of success. But Jim saw what others did not. In Jim's words, ``I was just taken with his sensibility, his intelligence, his values, and how he conducted himself during that campaign.'' That young State senator, Barack Obama, would not only win that seat but go on to become our Nation's first Black President. And Jim was one of his earliest supporters. Jim represented the best of finance and business; he knew that success went well beyond profits and bull markets. He understood the importance of giving back. In 2021, Jim and Paula made history with a $75 million donation to the University of Chicago's School of Social Work, reportedly the largest ever private donation to a school of social work. Today, the school has been renamed the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Jim's father Lester Crown said, ``[Jim] was the leader of our family both intellectually and emotionally, and he looked out for everybody.'' I would add that ``everybody'' stretched far beyond Jim's own family. And just before his passing, as the head of the Civic Committee and Commercial Club of Chicago, Jim was working to convene Chicago business leaders to focus on ways to address violent crime, to make Chicago ``the Safest Big City in America.'' The strategy centered on investing in the communities most impacted by violent crime, expanding community violence intervention programs, and committing to expand economic opportunity, all with the goal of breaking the cycle of trauma and ending generational poverty. While Jim may be gone, I hope his work will be continued to make this a reality. Jim is survived by his loving wife of 38 years, Paula; their children, Torie, Hayley, Summer, and W. Andrew; and two grandchildren; as well as his parents Renee and Lester; four sisters Patricia, Susan, Sara, and Janet; two brothers Steve and Daniel. To the entire Crown family and all of those who knew and loved Jim, Loretta and I send our deepest condolences. Thank you, Jim, for all that you did for the city of Chicago; it will not be the same without you. (At the request of Mr. Schumer, the following statement was ordered to be printed in the Record.) | 2020-01-06 | Mr. DURBIN | Senate | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgS3609-3 | null | 6,650 |
formal | Chicago | null | racist | Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I recently traveled to Vilnius, Lithuania, for this year's NATO Summit. It was a fitting location; Lithuania has had an extraordinary journey breaking free from the tyranny of the Soviet Union and becoming a thriving democracy. The visit also had a deep significance for me personally. One hundred and twelve years ago, my mother came to the United States from Lithuania. Although she never saw her homeland again, she always carried it in her heart. Just a few decades before my mother arrived in the United States, a Lithuanian Jewish couple, Ida and Arie Krinsky, immigrated to the United States. They settled in Chicago, where Arie toiled in a sweatshop to make a living and support his wife and seven children. Eventually, the Krinsky family changed their surname to Crown. Three of the Crown sons, Henry and his brothers Irving and Sol, established a sand and gravel company, the Material Service Corporation, that would grow into a business empire before merging with General Dynamics. When Henry Crown passed away in 1990, his obituary in the New York Times referred to him as ``the billionaire whose life exemplified the Horatio Alger rags-to-riches story of American industrialists.'' It is a legacy that has been preserved and expanded by his children. To this day, the Crown familyis widely known for its socially conscious investment and philanthropic efforts, and as a pillar of the Jewish community from Chicago to Israel. Tragically, late last month, James ``Jim'' Crown, Henry's grandson, passed away in a car accident on his 70th birthday. Born to Renee and Lester Crown, Jim went to high school in Winnetka, attended Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, for his undergraduate studies, and graduated from Stanford Law School. He began his career at Salomon Brothers, eventually becoming vice president of the Capital Markets Service Group. It was during his time on Wall Street that Jim met and fell in love with Paula Hannaway, an investment banker. In 1985, the two married and returned to Chicago to join the family business. Jim was chair and CEO of Henry Crown and Company, a privately held company dealing in securities, real estate, and other investments. He also was a member of the board of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jim was one of Chicago's most prominent philanthropists and a longtime member of the board of trustees for the University of Chicago, serving as chair from 2003 to 2009. In early 2003, Jim had breakfast with a young Illinois State senator who was gearing up to make a run for the U.S. Senate. Some might have seen an inexperienced newcomer with almost no chance of success. But Jim saw what others did not. In Jim's words, ``I was just taken with his sensibility, his intelligence, his values, and how he conducted himself during that campaign.'' That young State senator, Barack Obama, would not only win that seat but go on to become our Nation's first Black President. And Jim was one of his earliest supporters. Jim represented the best of finance and business; he knew that success went well beyond profits and bull markets. He understood the importance of giving back. In 2021, Jim and Paula made history with a $75 million donation to the University of Chicago's School of Social Work, reportedly the largest ever private donation to a school of social work. Today, the school has been renamed the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Jim's father Lester Crown said, ``[Jim] was the leader of our family both intellectually and emotionally, and he looked out for everybody.'' I would add that ``everybody'' stretched far beyond Jim's own family. And just before his passing, as the head of the Civic Committee and Commercial Club of Chicago, Jim was working to convene Chicago business leaders to focus on ways to address violent crime, to make Chicago ``the Safest Big City in America.'' The strategy centered on investing in the communities most impacted by violent crime, expanding community violence intervention programs, and committing to expand economic opportunity, all with the goal of breaking the cycle of trauma and ending generational poverty. While Jim may be gone, I hope his work will be continued to make this a reality. Jim is survived by his loving wife of 38 years, Paula; their children, Torie, Hayley, Summer, and W. Andrew; and two grandchildren; as well as his parents Renee and Lester; four sisters Patricia, Susan, Sara, and Janet; two brothers Steve and Daniel. To the entire Crown family and all of those who knew and loved Jim, Loretta and I send our deepest condolences. Thank you, Jim, for all that you did for the city of Chicago; it will not be the same without you. (At the request of Mr. Schumer, the following statement was ordered to be printed in the Record.) | 2020-01-06 | Mr. DURBIN | Senate | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgS3609-3 | null | 6,651 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I would like to thank someone who is critical to the functioning of the U.S. Senate--and who has been instrumental in the lives of many of us Senators, staff, and the entire Senate community for more than two decades. At the end of this week, Sharon Cohen will be retiring after many years of service in the Senate Dining Room. The Senate Dining Room will be a very different place without her, and we will all miss her. Sharon is wonderful--kind, caring, and dedicated. Since joining the Senate Dining Room, she has won over everyone she has met with her warmth, patience, and dedication--both to her work and to anyone with whom she interacts. We have all had people who touched our lives, providing guidance during difficult times, or even just a friendly face on long days. Sharon provided all of that--and more--to Senators, staff, and the colleagues who worked beside her every single day. Throughout her many years of service, Sharon has worked just as hard as anyone else in the Senate--in fact, she has probably worked harder. She never missed a day of work, never showed up late, and never called out sick. Her colleagues always trusted that they could rely on her. It is one of Sharon's many qualities that will be missed in the Senate. And she was willing to go above and beyond to support fellow workers, both new and old, and lend a hand no matter the task. While her work may not have made headline news every day, Sharon is one of the many unsung heroes that make the Senate run. Soon, Sharon will be enjoying her well-earned retirement, but true to form, she will stay busy. In fact, she has already started her next role: grandmother to a beautiful new grandchild. She will spend her retirement caring for Trent, or as she refers to him, ``her little man,'' alongside her daughter Angie. I know I am not alone when I say I will miss Sharon's cheerful presence in the Senate Dining Room. We all are grateful for her many years of hard work and dedication to this body and our country. We wish her all the best as she embarks on a new adventure. (At the request of Mr. Schumer, the following statement was ordered to be printed in the Record.) | 2020-01-06 | Mr. DURBIN | Senate | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgS3610 | null | 6,652 |
formal | public school | null | racist | Ms. BALDWIN. Mr. President, I rise today to honor Walter Knight, who passed away on June 20, 2023, at the age of 89. Mr. Knight will be remembered for his numerous acts of leadership in the community of Beloit, WI--notably, serving as the first African-American on the Beloit Police and Fire Commission and the first African-American to be elected to the Beloit City Council. Mr. Knight spent the first 17 years of his life in Arkansas where he attended segregated public schools and graduated from Union Grove High School in 1951. Upon graduation, he moved to Beloit, WI, where he went on to work for Fairbanks Morse in the foundry. The grueling conditions of the foundry motivated him to enroll in Blackhawk Technical College. This allowed him to move into a position in the machine shop at Fairbanks Morse where he remained for 25 years. Later in his career at Fairbanks Morse, he was elected the president of the Local Union 1533 United Steelworkers of America from 1972-1976. To further advance his educational career, Mr. Knight studied union policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At the time he attended Madison, less than 1 percent of students were African-American. After securing higher-level education, Mr. Knight's activist voice and profound leadership in the Beloit community led him to be elected the first African-American on the Beloit City Council, where he served from 1972-1985. Mr. Knight's involvement and dedication to the Beloit community did not stop there. As an African-American, he spent his early years in Beloit fighting segregation by exposing and assisting in the closure of local discriminatory and prejudice businesses. In addition to his fight for racial justice, Mr. Knight spent over 30 years with the Rock County Opportunities Industrialization Center. As executive director, he dedicated his time to helping minority and other local residents build occupational and social skills to enhance their career prospects. Mr. Knight always wanted to be remembered as someone who did all he could to help others. His life of selfless acts for his community accurately displays this. From working in the foundry at Fairbanks Morse to becoming president of the Beloit City Council, Mr. Knight was truly a trailblazer and has left an indelible mark on the Beloit community. By creating opportunities and a voice for the minority community in Beloit, Mr. Knight's leadership granted him induction into the Beloit Historical Society Hall of Fame in 2014. Additionally, as a part of the 2019 Juneteenth celebration, the Portland Avenue Bridge in Beloit was renamed ``Walter R. Knight Bridge'' in his honor. Mr. Knight will be whole-heartedly missed and always remembered for the years of compassion and love he bestowed upon his community. | 2020-01-06 | Ms. BALDWIN | Senate | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgS3613-2 | null | 6,653 |
formal | public schools | null | racist | Ms. BALDWIN. Mr. President, I rise today to honor Walter Knight, who passed away on June 20, 2023, at the age of 89. Mr. Knight will be remembered for his numerous acts of leadership in the community of Beloit, WI--notably, serving as the first African-American on the Beloit Police and Fire Commission and the first African-American to be elected to the Beloit City Council. Mr. Knight spent the first 17 years of his life in Arkansas where he attended segregated public schools and graduated from Union Grove High School in 1951. Upon graduation, he moved to Beloit, WI, where he went on to work for Fairbanks Morse in the foundry. The grueling conditions of the foundry motivated him to enroll in Blackhawk Technical College. This allowed him to move into a position in the machine shop at Fairbanks Morse where he remained for 25 years. Later in his career at Fairbanks Morse, he was elected the president of the Local Union 1533 United Steelworkers of America from 1972-1976. To further advance his educational career, Mr. Knight studied union policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At the time he attended Madison, less than 1 percent of students were African-American. After securing higher-level education, Mr. Knight's activist voice and profound leadership in the Beloit community led him to be elected the first African-American on the Beloit City Council, where he served from 1972-1985. Mr. Knight's involvement and dedication to the Beloit community did not stop there. As an African-American, he spent his early years in Beloit fighting segregation by exposing and assisting in the closure of local discriminatory and prejudice businesses. In addition to his fight for racial justice, Mr. Knight spent over 30 years with the Rock County Opportunities Industrialization Center. As executive director, he dedicated his time to helping minority and other local residents build occupational and social skills to enhance their career prospects. Mr. Knight always wanted to be remembered as someone who did all he could to help others. His life of selfless acts for his community accurately displays this. From working in the foundry at Fairbanks Morse to becoming president of the Beloit City Council, Mr. Knight was truly a trailblazer and has left an indelible mark on the Beloit community. By creating opportunities and a voice for the minority community in Beloit, Mr. Knight's leadership granted him induction into the Beloit Historical Society Hall of Fame in 2014. Additionally, as a part of the 2019 Juneteenth celebration, the Portland Avenue Bridge in Beloit was renamed ``Walter R. Knight Bridge'' in his honor. Mr. Knight will be whole-heartedly missed and always remembered for the years of compassion and love he bestowed upon his community. | 2020-01-06 | Ms. BALDWIN | Senate | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgS3613-2 | null | 6,654 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Ms. CORTEZ MASTO. Mr. President, today I rise to recognize the 100th birthday of my dear friend John Squire Drendel. John dedicated his life to advocating on behalf of his clients and serving the people of Nevada. For 70 years, John shaped Nevada's legal community, and I am proud to join his family and friends in celebrating this significant milestone. On August 4, 1923, John was born in Carson Valley, NV, a beautiful rural community just south of Carson City. In the midst of the Great Depression, John left home to work on a nearby ranch and complete his studies at Douglas County High School. During his first semester at the University of Notre Dame in the fall of 1941, the bombing of Pearl Harbor altered the trajectory of his life. John served in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant and as a commander of a landing craft tank in the Pacific Islands of Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Following the end of World War II, John took advantage of the education benefits provided in the G.I. Bill to complete his undergraduate education and attend law school at the University of Colorado. After obtaining his law degree, John returned home to Nevada with his wife Marilyn to raise their four children and work as a Nevada highway patrolman. In 1950, John passed the Nevada Bar Exam and later partnered with William O. Bradley to form Bradley & Drendel, a premier personal injury firm in northern Nevada. In 1957, in order to make their services more accessible to their clients, the two selected a converted garage in Reno, NV, to serve as their firm's office. By 1970, John had solidified his reputation by representing a diesel mechanic from Ely, NV, who suffered from a debilitating injury while at work. John won the highest verdict awarded to a single plaintiff in the U.S. at that point in time, providing financial security for the mechanic and his family. This firm continues to serve the community with a third generation of attorneys. Currently, John's son Thomas is of counsel to the firm. John is deeply respected by his peers and remains active in Nevada's legal community as a founding member and former president of the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association and the Washoe County Bar Association. John has been honored with countless accolades throughout the duration of his career, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association in 2001. The list of John's contributions to the legal community and Nevada are never-ending. John strived for excellence throughout his career and has proven himself a great Nevadan. His professional accomplishments are surpassed only by the wonderful family and community he has built in the Silver State. I know John is happy to be spending his retirement with his children Mary, John, Ann, and Thomas; their grandchildren Sarah, Andrew, Anne, Clara, Nathaniel, Mary, and Matthew; and their four great-grandchildren. I am incredibly pleased to honor this momentous event in his life and wish him joy in the years to come. | 2020-01-06 | Ms. CORTEZ MASTO | Senate | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgS3615-2 | null | 6,655 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, my dear friend, Robert Clark Penney, passed away on March 14, 2023. As we prepare to say our final goodbyes at a memorial ceremony this coming weekend, I am among many Alaskans who are reflecting on the legacy Bob created across our state and especially along his beloved Kenai River. Named Alaska's Ambassador for Sport Fishing by our State legislature in 2017, Bob was known for his success in business and his tireless advocacy of the iconic Kenai River watershed. But, like many Alaskans, he started with humble roots in the lower 48. Bob was born in Portland in 1932, where he showed his business acumen early. At the age of 10, he and his sister Patsy were gifted a pony. While his sister was gathering her friends for a free ride, Bob was on the next block with the pony, selling rides for a dime apiece. As he grew up, Bob played on the high school tennis team and worked part-time after school hours. He also loved the outdoors, hunting birds and fishing for salmon in the local rivers near Gresham, OR. Bob answered the call to head north to Alaska in 1951, when the lumber company he worked for expanded into what was then still a U.S. Territory. When Bob was just 19, the company offered him the job of managing their new Alaska prospect. Bob excelled there, but it was a job he took at Wade Trailer sales in 1956 that inspired him to enter real estate, where he would really make his mark. After learning the ropes at Wade's, Bob opened Penney Trailer Sales in 1959, selling mobile homes. Bob soon grew the business to include RVs and housing for construction camps. In just a few short years, he was the largest mobile home dealer in our new State. During that time, Bob also began to invest in real estate and building development. He built everything from single-family homes to massive commercial real estate ventures spanning the west coast and Mexico. Through it all, Bob always gave back, seemingly more by the year. His philosophy in both life and business was to ``wear the other guy's shoes'' and ``always leave a little bit for the next person.'' Bob served on the boards of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation, and the Alaska Regional Hospital Board of Trustees. He was a philanthropist, starting the Anchorage Mayor's Charity Ball, which has now raised more than $4 million for charitable organizations in our State's largest city. When the oil industry started to boom in Alaska, Bob felt the State needed greater community involvement to bring attention to this opportunity and others like it. He formed the Organization for the Management of Alaska's Resources--OMAR--later renamed the Resource Development Council--RDC--and included many State leaders in the effort. RDC is now Alaska's largest resource trade association--encompassing the fishing, forestry, mining, oil and gas, and tourism industries--and its advocacy remains critical to growing our economy and reaching our potential as a state. Bob also had a distinguished tenure as a member of the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council. The federally chartered council is critical to the sustainable management of Alaska's commercial fisheries, one of the largest employers and economic drivers in our State. Bob's service on the board contributed to the health and well-being of the largest fishery in America, but his true passion was the conservation of the fishery of the Kenai River in southcentral Alaska. Bob was always delighted by Kenai Chinooks, or ``Kings,'' the largest salmon in the world. He loved to take friends and visitors out on the river and the pictures of happy anglers and their catch of the day adorned the walls of his riverfront home. Bob realized these fish are an amazing resource for the State and for Alaskans, as more than half our population can access the river by road in a matter of hours. Bob knew that Alaskans could feed their families and fill their freezers from this river in perpetuity if it was managed correctly. So, in 1986, Bob founded the Kenai River Sportfishing Association. Under his direction, the association grew into Alaska's premier sportfish and fishhabitat conservation organization, helping to ensure the long-term sustainability of the river. Bob and two of his friends, Senator Ted Stevens and Bix Bonney, utilized KRSA to start the Kenai River Classic, an invitational fishing tournament held each August. The tournament has brought in elected officials and industry leaders from across America, educating them about the Kenai River and its needs. It has raised over $25 million for conservation of the local watershed, enabling the rehabilitation of critical fish spawning habitat, opportunities for youth, and better access to the river for both subsistence and sportfishing. ``Alaska's Sport Fish Ambassador'' was true to his name and title, but family and friends were the driving force in his life. Bob met his wife Jeannie in 1973 at a dinner party in Girdwood; they dated and got married on New Year's Eve in 1974 on a sailing schooner in Kawela Bay off Oahu. Since the vessel was ``just outside the limits,'' their marriage license lists the latitude and longitude, instead. Bob always had big ideas for Alaska. He couldn't walk through a room without taking up one cause or other. He followed through, helping to build our young State. But Bob was always happiest holding court at his home, ``River Presence,'' on the Kenai, surrounded by his family and friends. Bob is survived by 4 grown children, 10 grandchildren, 7 great-grandchildren, and leaves a remarkable legacy, from economic development to philanthropy, to world-class fishing on the Kenai River. My family and I knew Bob for decades, were proud to call him our friend, and are grateful for all he did to enrich our great State. | 2020-01-06 | Ms. MURKOWSKI | Senate | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgS3616-2 | null | 6,656 |
formal | Hollywood | null | antisemitic | Mr. PADILLA. Mr. President, I rise today to recognize outstanding academic achievement on the world stage by none other than two California students. Earlier this month, the 2023 International Biology Olympiad--IBO--showcased the remarkable talents and encyclopedic knowledge of pre-university students in the field of theoretical and laboratory biology. To even qualify was a challenge, but after competing in a field of 44 States, over 600 schools, and nearly 10,000 students at the national competition and then competing among their peers from over 80 countries at the international level, two California students stood out. Richard Zhu of North Hollywood Senior High School earned a silver medal, while Yufei Chen of University High School in Irvine not only earned a gold medal, he earned the highest score in the world. Both students demonstrated a remarkable intellect, a refreshing passion in the field of STEM, and an example for every other California student to follow to achieve their dreams. I can't wait to see where their talents will lead them next. Congratulations, once again, to Yufei Chen and Richard Zhu, on the hard-earned and well-deserved recognition. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgS3617 | null | 6,657 |
formal | illegal immigrant | null | anti-Latino | SA 1066. Mr. WHITEHOUSE (for Mr. Cruz) proposed an amendment to the resolution S. Res. 166, honoring the efforts of the Coast Guard for excellence in maritime border security; as follows: In the third whereas clause, in the matter preceding paragraph (1), strike ``through'' and insert ``executing Coast Guard missions across the world, including the''. In the third whereas clause, in paragraph (1), strike ``15,000'' and insert ``17,000''. In the third whereas clause, in paragraph (2), strike ``6,300'' and insert ``6,000 at sea''. In the third whereas clause, in paragraph (2), strike ``100'' and insert ``90''. In the third whereas clause, in paragraph (3), strike ``interdicted approximately 12,500 illegal immigrants'' and insert ``conducted approximately 12,500 migrant interdictions''. In the third whereas clause, in paragraph (3), strike ``150'' and insert ``over 350''. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgS3686 | null | 6,658 |
formal | illegal immigrants | null | anti-Latino | SA 1066. Mr. WHITEHOUSE (for Mr. Cruz) proposed an amendment to the resolution S. Res. 166, honoring the efforts of the Coast Guard for excellence in maritime border security; as follows: In the third whereas clause, in the matter preceding paragraph (1), strike ``through'' and insert ``executing Coast Guard missions across the world, including the''. In the third whereas clause, in paragraph (1), strike ``15,000'' and insert ``17,000''. In the third whereas clause, in paragraph (2), strike ``6,300'' and insert ``6,000 at sea''. In the third whereas clause, in paragraph (2), strike ``100'' and insert ``90''. In the third whereas clause, in paragraph (3), strike ``interdicted approximately 12,500 illegal immigrants'' and insert ``conducted approximately 12,500 migrant interdictions''. In the third whereas clause, in paragraph (3), strike ``150'' and insert ``over 350''. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-26-pt1-PgS3686 | null | 6,659 |
formal | welfare | null | racist | The Chaplain, the Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the following prayer: Gracious God, in this summer season, when many have opportunity to take time with friends and family to enjoy rest and relaxation, we pray that in the August recess that is before this body that You would grant to our legislators respite to their bodies, counsel to their spirits, and renewal to their souls. When year-round so much draws so necessarily yet heavily on their energy and attention, grant them opportunity in these coming weeks to allow their minds and their souls to pause from their grueling schedules. In the quiet of these moments, may they listen for Your voice, yield their wills to Your will, and realign their priorities to Your desired direction for their efforts. Remind the rest of us, too, to take Sabbath from the onslaught of news and media. Silence our desire for the buzzing of the latest sound bite or the thrill of the hottest political contest. Give us pause from the critique and analysis and inspire in us the compassion and concern for those whom we have elected to carry the heavy mantle of responsibility of governing our Nation. May we dedicate this break in the congressional grind to pray for the health and welfare of our leadership. May all who labor and who are heavy laden come to You in this season and always, that in You they would find rest for their bodies and peace in their souls. To You be the glory as we offer ourselves and our prayers to You. Amen. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgH4041-4 | null | 6,660 |
formal | based | null | white supremacist | A message from the Senate by Ms. Byrd, one of its clerks, announced that the Senate has agreed to the following resolution: S. Res. 316 Whereas Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.-- (1) was horn in Paris, France, in 1931; and (2) graduated from Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, and the University of Virginia Law School; Whereas Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. served in the United States Army from 1953 through 1955, achieving the rank of first lieutenant; Whereas Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. was elected to the House of Representatives in 1968; Whereas Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. was first elected to the Senate in 1970 and was reelected in 1976 and 1982; Whereas Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. served on the Senate Watergate Committee, where he was the first Republican senator to call for the resignation of President Richard Nixon, an act of political courage and dedication to public service; Whereas Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. was an early and strong advocate in the Senate for the Americans with Disabilities Act or 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.), which prohibits discrimination based on disability in everyday activities; Whereas, while serving in the Senate, Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. was a strong advocate for protecting public health, shown through his efforts to-- (1) prevent cuts in funding for the National Institutes of Health; (2) support scientific and medical research efforts; and (3) secure funding for human inmumodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) treatment; Whereas, after his tenure in the Senate, Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. was elected Governor of Connecticut in 1990; Whereas, as Governor of Connecticut, Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. secured the passage of a state income tax that, while unpopular, balanced the budget of the State; Whereas, as Governor of Connecticut, Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. signed many laws that sought to improve the quality of life for residents of the State, including a ban on assault rifles for the first time in State history; Whereas, after leaving public office, Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. continued his work to improve the public health, founding Trust for America's Health, a nonprofit working on disease prevention, and serving as the president of the organization from 2001 through 2011; and Whereas Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. is survived by his wife, Claudia Weicker, as well as his 5 sons, 2 stepsons, 12 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That-- (1) the Senate has heard with profound sorrow and deep regret the announcement of the death of Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., former member of the Senate; (2) the Senate directs the Secretary of the Senate to communicate this resolution to the House of Representatives and transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution to the family of Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.; and (3) when the Senate adjourns today. it stand adjourned as a further mark of respect to the memory of the late Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. The message also announced that the Senate has agreed to without amendment a concurrent resolution of the House of the following title: H. Con. Res. 57. Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress supporting the State of Israel. The message also announced that the Senate has passed bills of the following titles in which the concurrence of the House is requested: S. 546. An act to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize law enforcement agencies to use COPS grants for recruitment activities, and for other purposes. S. 994. An act to amend Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide that COPS grant funds may be used for local law enforcement recruits to attend schools or academies if the recruits agree to serve in precincts of law enforcement agencies in their communities. S. 1387. An act to reauthorize the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act of 2018, and for other purposes. S. 2051. An act to reauthorize the Missing Children's Assistance Act, and for other purposes. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgH4041-7 | null | 6,661 |
formal | XX | null | transphobic | The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, proceedings will resume on questions previously postponed. Votes will be taken in the following order: The motion to recommit on H.R. 4366; Passage of H.R. 4366; and Passage of S.J. Res. 9. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, remaining electronic votes will be conducted as 5-minute votes. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgH4049-3 | null | 6,662 |
formal | XX | null | transphobic | The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion to recommit on the bill (H.R. 4366) making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes, offered by the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz), on which the yeas and nays were ordered. The Clerk will redesignate the motion. The Clerk redesignated the motion. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgH4049-4 | null | 6,663 |
formal | XX | null | transphobic | The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the question on suspending the rules and passing the bill (H.R. 1501) to prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from operating or procuring certain foreign-made unmanned aircraft systems, and for other purposes, as amended. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgH4052-2 | null | 6,664 |
formal | XX | null | transphobic | The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the question on suspending the rules and passing the bill (H.R. 3254) to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a process to review applications for certain grants to purchase equipment or systems that do not meet or exceed any applicable national voluntary consensus standards, and for other purposes. | 2020-01-06 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgH4052-3 | null | 6,665 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Pursuant to clause 7(c)(1) of rule XII and Section 3(c) of H. Res. 5 the following statements are submitted regarding (1) the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution and (2) the single subject of the bill or joint resolution. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgH4142 | null | 6,666 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | By Mr. PFLUGER: H.J. Res. 83. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: This resolution uses the Congressional Review Act to repeal the ``Circumention of Lawful Pathways'' rule. | 2020-01-06 | The RECORDER | House | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgH4147-5 | null | 6,667 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | Mr. LEE. Mr. President, as we wrap up our work in the National Defense Authorization Act, we need to address an issue, an issue that has been the focus of a lot of controversy. It has been the focus of a lot of heated words. Now, I understand heated words happen around here. It occurs; people feel passionate about things. But when heated words become untrue words, defamatory words, fighting words, sometimes the record needs to be corrected. This is one of those times. Moments ago, the President of the United States--who, to put it mildly, has not had a good week--made some comments that I regard as not only insensitive, inflammatory, but also downright misleading and unfair. He has made them about and directed them toward a Member of this body, our friend and colleague, the Senator from Alabama, Senator Tuberville. These attacks against Senator Tuberville have been relentless. Relentless all because he has chosen to take a stand, a stand against what he properly, legitimately, understandably perceives as a violation of the spirit--if not also the letter--of the law. The law in question is codified in 10 U.S.C. section 1093. And 10 U.S.C. 1093, in a nutshell, says that the U.S. Department of Defense may not spend Department of Defense funds to perform an abortion, and it may not use a Department of Defense property, facility, to perform an abortion. This has been in place for a long time. It has been in place for decades. This, you see, represents something of an island oasis in the debate of abortion, this idea about government funding. It is one of the last bastions of our overwhelming bipartisan agreement when it comes to abortion in America, which is to say, regardless of how people feel about abortion in general--whether they support it, whether they are against it, in what circumstances they might recognize it as something that can appropriately be legal or not--what unites them and unites them overwhelmingly along bipartisan lines is this: That, in part, because of the widespread disagreement among the American people about abortion, Federal funds shouldn't be performing abortions. They shouldn't be used to promote or conduct or perform abortions. It is a very simple matter. This can and does unite Americans across party lines--and overwhelmingly so. And so it was with good reason in another National Defense Authorization Act--we just finished up the National Defense Authorization Act for 2024, at least the initial Senate version of it. But it was in another National Defense Authorization Act a few decades ago that, I understand, 10 U.S.C. 1093 came to be law, because the American people agreed then, as they agree now, that regardless of how people feel about abortion, we ought not to be using Federal funds, particularly in the military but also otherwise, to perform abortions. Well, late last year, the U.S. Department of Defense started considering a measure to get around 10 U.S.C. 1093 for a method that was at once really creative and too cute by half. When I say ``too cute by half'' not as a compliment, I, indeed, mean it as a criticism, because it cleverly attempts to step around the stated purpose, intent, spirit of 10 U.S.C. 1093. And one could not argue that you avoid the technical grip of its talents if you do what the Department of Defense started considering doing last year. They started thinking about saying, OK, well, let's say that we will give 3 weeks of paid leave time and reimburse travel expenses to any military woman who wants to get an abortion and needs to travel interstate to do it. We will pay for their interstate travel, for their lodgings, their meals, and 3 weeks of paid leave. It is understandable why this would cause some consternation, because the only purpose of this could be to flout, to circumvent the stated purpose and effect of 10 U.S.C. section 1093. Technically speaking, one could argue, yeah, this is not performing abortions, so you can get away with it. Sometimes in the military, it is not just about getting away with it; sometimes in the military there ought to be some concern for whether the American people have a voice in this, and the fact that their elected representatives have tried to take things like this off the table, and not let them do that. So Senator Tuberville saw this coming. He also understood--as I think anyone rationally looking at it has the ability to understand--that the distinction between this and providing funding for the performance of an abortion is really difficult to differentiate. If you add up the value, the economic value, of the 3 weeks of paid leave and add to that interstate travel--in many cases, it is going to be interstate air travel--and lodgings, meals, per diem for that period of time, at the end of the day, performance of the abortion is going to be dwarfed by that policy. It is almost the afterthought. It is the least expensive part of all of that. And so, yeah, can you say that you have evaded the letter of the law? Yeah, I think you can make that argument, but it is too cute by half, and they are trying deliberately to flout this law while claiming that they are respecting it. So what did Senator Tuberville do? Well, Senator Tuberville serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee. And in that capacity, he has oversight authority, oversight responsibilities over the Department of Defense. So he did what he felt was appropriate and what I think was appropriate, and he decided to sit down with the Secretary of Defense and just talk it out with him, rather than relying on the rumor mill to either confirm or dispel what might be happening. He articulated his concerns. He said: Look, if you were to do this, it is just a poke in the eye. You are doing it because you can get away with it for the time being. So don't do it. And if you still do it, there will be consequences. And then he spelled out what those consequences would be. You see, in the Senate, when we confirm people, particularly when we confirm people who are up for consideration for a military promotion, there is a custom and practice that we don't require the full procedures to be followed--the full procedures, which takes some time. And so Senators, typically, agree to expedite that process so that these military promotions can be considered as a group, en bloc, and on a really fast-tracked basis. It is, nonetheless, a senatorial courtesy; it is something that we choose to do. It is our choice, and it is the choice of each Senator individually. Any one Senator can decide for him or herself when, whether, to what extent to allow that person and where to withhold it. And so what Senator Tuberville told Secretary Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, was simple: If you do this, I will not any longer be able to justify giving expedited treatment to military promotions for flag officers--you know, admirals and generals. I won't do that, so don't do it, because you will be flouting the law. You will be flouting the law in a way that may take a significant amount of time, whether through litigation--if it follows that course--or through legislation. Probably be able to run out the clock through the end of this administration. Senator Tuberville felt that would be an unfortunate result and wanted to give Secretary Austin the chance to avoid it. So he said: Don't do it; but if you do do it, it is going to take you a whole lot longer to confirm your admirals and your generals. Well, what happened? A month or two later, lo and behold, the Department of Defense releases that policy: 3 weeks of paid leave and compensated, reimbursed travel expenses, and per diem, for the purpose of getting an abortion. Sure, they try to dress it up in other language. This is about abortion. This is about Dobbs because the administration doesn't like the Dobbs decision. It is mad that the Supreme Court of the United States stood up for the plain text of the Constitution. The plain text of the Constitution does not make abortion itself categorically a Federal issue and certainly doesn't prohibit to the States the authority to protect unborn human life. It doesn't take that away, and because it doesn't take that away, it is not an issue that nine lawyers wearing robes can just decide, just graft it on to the Constitution. So the Dobbs Court reached that conclusion. Whether you agree with the Dobbs Court or not--I do. It was right. But whether you agree with me on that or not, it is the Supreme Court's ruling. This is a temper tantrum. It is a temper tantrum by the Department of Defense and by the Biden administration. They are still mad that they lost the Dobbs ruling. That is what this is. So they proceeded with it, and Coach Tuberville said: I told you what I would do, and I am going to stand up for what I told you I would do. This isn't right. You are encouraging, you are facilitating abortions, and it sends the wrong message altogether. This is not something that we are comfortable with the Department of Defense doing. We made that clear in law decades ago. And you are doing this for the sole purpose of flouting--of circumventing. So don't do it. Now, it is clear as a bell: This doesn't stop anyone from getting confirmed. There is not one person whom we stop from getting confirmed simply because any one Senator decides that he or she isn't going to continue to expedite the process. Every one of these people could be confirmed. Essentially, every one of them could be confirmed in not a whole lot of time. It would be some time-consuming processes they would have to go through, but it is not overwhelming. In the meantime, all this pressure is mounting. The message from the White House and from the Pentagon has been to put the blame entirely at Senator Tuberville's feet and to say that all kinds of horrible things are going to happen--dogs and cats living together in the streets; Book of Revelationsstuff, apocalyptic stuff is going to happen--and it is all Senator Tommy Tuberville's fault. This is nonsense. For those who have made that argument within this body, it is uncollegial. For the President of the United States to jump on this bandwagon and do the same thing--the President of the United States, a longtime Member of this body who never served with Senator Tuberville, but if he had, he would have known him and he would have liked him. They would have been friends. Senator Biden, I have no doubt, would have respected as a matter of senatorial courtesy what Senator Tuberville is doing because we respect each other's procedural rights, especially when standing on a sincerely held conviction. But that is not what President Biden is doing. He gave a speech just a little while ago. He begins with the words ``Something dangerous is happening.'' A few sentences later, he says: The Republican Party used to . . . support the military, but today they're undermining the military. The senior senator from Alabama, who claims to support our troops, is now blocking more than 300 military operations with his extreme political agenda. Let's talk for a moment about what is extreme. It is extreme to take U.S. taxpayer dollars and use them to facilitate, promote, and encourage abortion. That is extreme. It is also extreme for this administration to refuse even to consider the possibility that maybe they overstepped. Now, there is dispute among people in the military as to whether or to what extent any delay in the promotion of these members is a matter of national security. I understand there are disagreements on that. There are also no fewer than 5,000 veterans who have signed on to support Senator Tuberville's Pentagon hold--5,000--who say that Senator Tuberville's decision to place these holds is absolutely right and that he is not to blame and that there are no circumstances in which Senator Tuberville should be blamed for any impact on military readiness. Now, let's step back for a minute, and let's just assume. Let's assume for purposes of argument here that we are living in a world in which there are legitimate national security ramifications flowing from the nonconfirmation of any or all of the roughly 300 promotions we are talking about. Let's assume that into existence. If that is the case, to whatever extent that is true, what is true for the goose is also true for the gander. It is not something that you could put solely on Senator Tuberville, especially given the fact that we could promote and confirm the promotions of every single one of these people right now within the next 5 minutes. We could do it if only this administration would stop trying to advance its radical, pro-abortion agenda through every jurisdiction, every Department, every Agency. This is an all-of-government thing. They don't care; they are going to promote abortion in whatever way possible. All they would have to do is say: You know, let's set that aside. In the interest of national security, let's do that. It is not as if members of the military choosing to get an abortion are prohibited from doing so. It is not as though members of the military choosing to seek an abortion are denied leave or denied the ability to do this. So what exactly are we fighting for, and to whatever degree this is impairing and impacting national security, who exactly is doing this? The President of the United States and Secretary Austin both independently have at their disposal the ability to end this now. So a national security threat? Not a national security threat? To the extent it is, it is on you, President Biden, and you certainly can't put this entirely at Senator Tuberville's feet. This is your doing. You have chosen this route. He warned you that Federal law itself cautioned against it, and you did it anyway. It goes on a few sentences later: This partisan freeze is already harming military readiness, security and leadership, and troop morale. He goes on: Freezing pay, freezing people in place. Military families who have already sacrificed so much unsure of where or when they change stations, unable to get housing or start their kids in the new school [because they are not there yet]. Here again, I get it. It would be great to get those people confirmed. It really would. I would like to see them confirmed. So even though this wasn't my decision--I wasn't in his shoes. I wasn't the one who chose this particular option. But he is my friend, he is my colleague, and he is a U.S. Senator who holds an election certificate just like the rest of us and just like President Biden did for the many decades he served in this body. He has every right to decide when and when not to extend the courtesy of expediting these confirmations. He went about it in a gentlemanly, courteous way, giving advance notice. He rested his theory on a law that has been in place for decades that is being flouted. The President of the United States has the audacity to lay at his feet any suffering, any misfortune, any unhappiness among these families, any military readiness that may flow from it, when he himself knows darn well that in order to score cheap political points with the abortion lobby, he is willing to bring these things on. And then he has the audacity to blame this on one Senator from Alabama. Shame on you, President Biden. Shame on you. He goes on: Military spouses are forced to take critical career decisions, not knowing where or if they can apply for a new job. . . . a growing cascade of damage and disruption all because one senator from Alabama and 48 Republicans refused to stand up to him to lift the blockade over a Pentagon policy offering servicemen and women and their families access to reproductive health care rights they deserve if they're stationed in states that deny it. He can dress that up all he wants. It is still on him. He can call this healthcare all he wants, but he is talking about a procedure that has one purpose, and that is to culminate in the cessation of unborn human life. I find that difficult to take--difficult to take especially in the face of 10 U.S.C. 1093, which on its face makes clear that the American people don't want and have outlawed the use of military funds and facilities to perform abortions. Why should we be willing to tolerate something that indirectly, in a way that is way too cute by at least half, openly flouts the intended purpose and spirit of that law? He continues: I think it's outrageous. But don't just take it from me. Hundreds of military spouses petitioned to end the extreme blockade. One spouse, referring to the Senator from Alabama, said: This isn't a football game. This nonsense must stop right now. Enough. You know, the military spouse quoted is right. This isn't a football game. It is much more serious than that--in fact, far more serious. This is about the law. This is about maintaining military readiness. This is about making sure that our laws aren't openly flouted by those charged with managing and directing the affairs of what is our largest Department and one of the central, key parts of the Federal Government, one of its main reasons for existing. It is not a football game, and this business of openly flouting the law and the business of law in which we work is also not a game. You see, the fact is, Secretary Austin made a grave miscalculation when he decided he was going to make policy and make policy utterly at odds with the policy embodied in enacted law. You see, you can't legislate from the E-ring of the Pentagon. It can't be done. My copy of the Constitution, the very first operative provision of that document, article I, section 1, says: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives. Article I, section 7, puts additional meat on the bones and makes abundantly clear what is teed up in article I, section 1, clause 1. It says that in order to make a law within the Federal Government, it has to be through Congress. In order to make a law, you have to pass it through the House and pass it through the Senate. Once you pass the same text through both Houses of Congress, it has to be presented to the President for signature, veto, or acquiescence. Maybe he didn't get the memo on article I. Maybe he needs to be reminded of the fact that he doesn't get to make law. It is not within his prerogative. He openly, brazenly and I believe very, very deliberately sought to undermine the stated purpose, intent, effect, and spirit of 10 U.S.C. 1093. He chose to do that. What is sad in this day and age, when the government is as big as ours, a government that unwisely gives as much deference as it does to the executive branch--not just to the President himself but those who serve him in various capacities in executive branch Agencies and Departments. In this day and age, it is almost analogous to the expression that ``possession is nine-tenths of the law.'' As long as he remains in charge of the Department of Defense, he can say up is down and is surrounded by people who literally salute him every day and people who follow those orders. Unless or until Congress does something about it, he may get away with openly flouting the law. (Ms. Cantwell assumed the Chair.) That doesn't mean that nobody in the Senate can have anything to say about it, and it certainly does not entitle the Secretary of Defense or the President of the United States to have every Member of the U.S. Senate agree to continue to reward them with continued deference and a grant of expedited consideration of all military promotions, whether flag officers or otherwise. This is not something they are entitled to. It is something that Senators freely choose to give or to withhold. Here, he has chosen to withhold it. The beginning of the end of his speech says: I urge Senate Republicans to do what they know is right. On that point, I agree, and we will. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. LEE | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3733-3 | null | 6,668 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Mr. LEE. Mr. President, as we wrap up our work in the National Defense Authorization Act, we need to address an issue, an issue that has been the focus of a lot of controversy. It has been the focus of a lot of heated words. Now, I understand heated words happen around here. It occurs; people feel passionate about things. But when heated words become untrue words, defamatory words, fighting words, sometimes the record needs to be corrected. This is one of those times. Moments ago, the President of the United States--who, to put it mildly, has not had a good week--made some comments that I regard as not only insensitive, inflammatory, but also downright misleading and unfair. He has made them about and directed them toward a Member of this body, our friend and colleague, the Senator from Alabama, Senator Tuberville. These attacks against Senator Tuberville have been relentless. Relentless all because he has chosen to take a stand, a stand against what he properly, legitimately, understandably perceives as a violation of the spirit--if not also the letter--of the law. The law in question is codified in 10 U.S.C. section 1093. And 10 U.S.C. 1093, in a nutshell, says that the U.S. Department of Defense may not spend Department of Defense funds to perform an abortion, and it may not use a Department of Defense property, facility, to perform an abortion. This has been in place for a long time. It has been in place for decades. This, you see, represents something of an island oasis in the debate of abortion, this idea about government funding. It is one of the last bastions of our overwhelming bipartisan agreement when it comes to abortion in America, which is to say, regardless of how people feel about abortion in general--whether they support it, whether they are against it, in what circumstances they might recognize it as something that can appropriately be legal or not--what unites them and unites them overwhelmingly along bipartisan lines is this: That, in part, because of the widespread disagreement among the American people about abortion, Federal funds shouldn't be performing abortions. They shouldn't be used to promote or conduct or perform abortions. It is a very simple matter. This can and does unite Americans across party lines--and overwhelmingly so. And so it was with good reason in another National Defense Authorization Act--we just finished up the National Defense Authorization Act for 2024, at least the initial Senate version of it. But it was in another National Defense Authorization Act a few decades ago that, I understand, 10 U.S.C. 1093 came to be law, because the American people agreed then, as they agree now, that regardless of how people feel about abortion, we ought not to be using Federal funds, particularly in the military but also otherwise, to perform abortions. Well, late last year, the U.S. Department of Defense started considering a measure to get around 10 U.S.C. 1093 for a method that was at once really creative and too cute by half. When I say ``too cute by half'' not as a compliment, I, indeed, mean it as a criticism, because it cleverly attempts to step around the stated purpose, intent, spirit of 10 U.S.C. 1093. And one could not argue that you avoid the technical grip of its talents if you do what the Department of Defense started considering doing last year. They started thinking about saying, OK, well, let's say that we will give 3 weeks of paid leave time and reimburse travel expenses to any military woman who wants to get an abortion and needs to travel interstate to do it. We will pay for their interstate travel, for their lodgings, their meals, and 3 weeks of paid leave. It is understandable why this would cause some consternation, because the only purpose of this could be to flout, to circumvent the stated purpose and effect of 10 U.S.C. section 1093. Technically speaking, one could argue, yeah, this is not performing abortions, so you can get away with it. Sometimes in the military, it is not just about getting away with it; sometimes in the military there ought to be some concern for whether the American people have a voice in this, and the fact that their elected representatives have tried to take things like this off the table, and not let them do that. So Senator Tuberville saw this coming. He also understood--as I think anyone rationally looking at it has the ability to understand--that the distinction between this and providing funding for the performance of an abortion is really difficult to differentiate. If you add up the value, the economic value, of the 3 weeks of paid leave and add to that interstate travel--in many cases, it is going to be interstate air travel--and lodgings, meals, per diem for that period of time, at the end of the day, performance of the abortion is going to be dwarfed by that policy. It is almost the afterthought. It is the least expensive part of all of that. And so, yeah, can you say that you have evaded the letter of the law? Yeah, I think you can make that argument, but it is too cute by half, and they are trying deliberately to flout this law while claiming that they are respecting it. So what did Senator Tuberville do? Well, Senator Tuberville serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee. And in that capacity, he has oversight authority, oversight responsibilities over the Department of Defense. So he did what he felt was appropriate and what I think was appropriate, and he decided to sit down with the Secretary of Defense and just talk it out with him, rather than relying on the rumor mill to either confirm or dispel what might be happening. He articulated his concerns. He said: Look, if you were to do this, it is just a poke in the eye. You are doing it because you can get away with it for the time being. So don't do it. And if you still do it, there will be consequences. And then he spelled out what those consequences would be. You see, in the Senate, when we confirm people, particularly when we confirm people who are up for consideration for a military promotion, there is a custom and practice that we don't require the full procedures to be followed--the full procedures, which takes some time. And so Senators, typically, agree to expedite that process so that these military promotions can be considered as a group, en bloc, and on a really fast-tracked basis. It is, nonetheless, a senatorial courtesy; it is something that we choose to do. It is our choice, and it is the choice of each Senator individually. Any one Senator can decide for him or herself when, whether, to what extent to allow that person and where to withhold it. And so what Senator Tuberville told Secretary Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, was simple: If you do this, I will not any longer be able to justify giving expedited treatment to military promotions for flag officers--you know, admirals and generals. I won't do that, so don't do it, because you will be flouting the law. You will be flouting the law in a way that may take a significant amount of time, whether through litigation--if it follows that course--or through legislation. Probably be able to run out the clock through the end of this administration. Senator Tuberville felt that would be an unfortunate result and wanted to give Secretary Austin the chance to avoid it. So he said: Don't do it; but if you do do it, it is going to take you a whole lot longer to confirm your admirals and your generals. Well, what happened? A month or two later, lo and behold, the Department of Defense releases that policy: 3 weeks of paid leave and compensated, reimbursed travel expenses, and per diem, for the purpose of getting an abortion. Sure, they try to dress it up in other language. This is about abortion. This is about Dobbs because the administration doesn't like the Dobbs decision. It is mad that the Supreme Court of the United States stood up for the plain text of the Constitution. The plain text of the Constitution does not make abortion itself categorically a Federal issue and certainly doesn't prohibit to the States the authority to protect unborn human life. It doesn't take that away, and because it doesn't take that away, it is not an issue that nine lawyers wearing robes can just decide, just graft it on to the Constitution. So the Dobbs Court reached that conclusion. Whether you agree with the Dobbs Court or not--I do. It was right. But whether you agree with me on that or not, it is the Supreme Court's ruling. This is a temper tantrum. It is a temper tantrum by the Department of Defense and by the Biden administration. They are still mad that they lost the Dobbs ruling. That is what this is. So they proceeded with it, and Coach Tuberville said: I told you what I would do, and I am going to stand up for what I told you I would do. This isn't right. You are encouraging, you are facilitating abortions, and it sends the wrong message altogether. This is not something that we are comfortable with the Department of Defense doing. We made that clear in law decades ago. And you are doing this for the sole purpose of flouting--of circumventing. So don't do it. Now, it is clear as a bell: This doesn't stop anyone from getting confirmed. There is not one person whom we stop from getting confirmed simply because any one Senator decides that he or she isn't going to continue to expedite the process. Every one of these people could be confirmed. Essentially, every one of them could be confirmed in not a whole lot of time. It would be some time-consuming processes they would have to go through, but it is not overwhelming. In the meantime, all this pressure is mounting. The message from the White House and from the Pentagon has been to put the blame entirely at Senator Tuberville's feet and to say that all kinds of horrible things are going to happen--dogs and cats living together in the streets; Book of Revelationsstuff, apocalyptic stuff is going to happen--and it is all Senator Tommy Tuberville's fault. This is nonsense. For those who have made that argument within this body, it is uncollegial. For the President of the United States to jump on this bandwagon and do the same thing--the President of the United States, a longtime Member of this body who never served with Senator Tuberville, but if he had, he would have known him and he would have liked him. They would have been friends. Senator Biden, I have no doubt, would have respected as a matter of senatorial courtesy what Senator Tuberville is doing because we respect each other's procedural rights, especially when standing on a sincerely held conviction. But that is not what President Biden is doing. He gave a speech just a little while ago. He begins with the words ``Something dangerous is happening.'' A few sentences later, he says: The Republican Party used to . . . support the military, but today they're undermining the military. The senior senator from Alabama, who claims to support our troops, is now blocking more than 300 military operations with his extreme political agenda. Let's talk for a moment about what is extreme. It is extreme to take U.S. taxpayer dollars and use them to facilitate, promote, and encourage abortion. That is extreme. It is also extreme for this administration to refuse even to consider the possibility that maybe they overstepped. Now, there is dispute among people in the military as to whether or to what extent any delay in the promotion of these members is a matter of national security. I understand there are disagreements on that. There are also no fewer than 5,000 veterans who have signed on to support Senator Tuberville's Pentagon hold--5,000--who say that Senator Tuberville's decision to place these holds is absolutely right and that he is not to blame and that there are no circumstances in which Senator Tuberville should be blamed for any impact on military readiness. Now, let's step back for a minute, and let's just assume. Let's assume for purposes of argument here that we are living in a world in which there are legitimate national security ramifications flowing from the nonconfirmation of any or all of the roughly 300 promotions we are talking about. Let's assume that into existence. If that is the case, to whatever extent that is true, what is true for the goose is also true for the gander. It is not something that you could put solely on Senator Tuberville, especially given the fact that we could promote and confirm the promotions of every single one of these people right now within the next 5 minutes. We could do it if only this administration would stop trying to advance its radical, pro-abortion agenda through every jurisdiction, every Department, every Agency. This is an all-of-government thing. They don't care; they are going to promote abortion in whatever way possible. All they would have to do is say: You know, let's set that aside. In the interest of national security, let's do that. It is not as if members of the military choosing to get an abortion are prohibited from doing so. It is not as though members of the military choosing to seek an abortion are denied leave or denied the ability to do this. So what exactly are we fighting for, and to whatever degree this is impairing and impacting national security, who exactly is doing this? The President of the United States and Secretary Austin both independently have at their disposal the ability to end this now. So a national security threat? Not a national security threat? To the extent it is, it is on you, President Biden, and you certainly can't put this entirely at Senator Tuberville's feet. This is your doing. You have chosen this route. He warned you that Federal law itself cautioned against it, and you did it anyway. It goes on a few sentences later: This partisan freeze is already harming military readiness, security and leadership, and troop morale. He goes on: Freezing pay, freezing people in place. Military families who have already sacrificed so much unsure of where or when they change stations, unable to get housing or start their kids in the new school [because they are not there yet]. Here again, I get it. It would be great to get those people confirmed. It really would. I would like to see them confirmed. So even though this wasn't my decision--I wasn't in his shoes. I wasn't the one who chose this particular option. But he is my friend, he is my colleague, and he is a U.S. Senator who holds an election certificate just like the rest of us and just like President Biden did for the many decades he served in this body. He has every right to decide when and when not to extend the courtesy of expediting these confirmations. He went about it in a gentlemanly, courteous way, giving advance notice. He rested his theory on a law that has been in place for decades that is being flouted. The President of the United States has the audacity to lay at his feet any suffering, any misfortune, any unhappiness among these families, any military readiness that may flow from it, when he himself knows darn well that in order to score cheap political points with the abortion lobby, he is willing to bring these things on. And then he has the audacity to blame this on one Senator from Alabama. Shame on you, President Biden. Shame on you. He goes on: Military spouses are forced to take critical career decisions, not knowing where or if they can apply for a new job. . . . a growing cascade of damage and disruption all because one senator from Alabama and 48 Republicans refused to stand up to him to lift the blockade over a Pentagon policy offering servicemen and women and their families access to reproductive health care rights they deserve if they're stationed in states that deny it. He can dress that up all he wants. It is still on him. He can call this healthcare all he wants, but he is talking about a procedure that has one purpose, and that is to culminate in the cessation of unborn human life. I find that difficult to take--difficult to take especially in the face of 10 U.S.C. 1093, which on its face makes clear that the American people don't want and have outlawed the use of military funds and facilities to perform abortions. Why should we be willing to tolerate something that indirectly, in a way that is way too cute by at least half, openly flouts the intended purpose and spirit of that law? He continues: I think it's outrageous. But don't just take it from me. Hundreds of military spouses petitioned to end the extreme blockade. One spouse, referring to the Senator from Alabama, said: This isn't a football game. This nonsense must stop right now. Enough. You know, the military spouse quoted is right. This isn't a football game. It is much more serious than that--in fact, far more serious. This is about the law. This is about maintaining military readiness. This is about making sure that our laws aren't openly flouted by those charged with managing and directing the affairs of what is our largest Department and one of the central, key parts of the Federal Government, one of its main reasons for existing. It is not a football game, and this business of openly flouting the law and the business of law in which we work is also not a game. You see, the fact is, Secretary Austin made a grave miscalculation when he decided he was going to make policy and make policy utterly at odds with the policy embodied in enacted law. You see, you can't legislate from the E-ring of the Pentagon. It can't be done. My copy of the Constitution, the very first operative provision of that document, article I, section 1, says: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives. Article I, section 7, puts additional meat on the bones and makes abundantly clear what is teed up in article I, section 1, clause 1. It says that in order to make a law within the Federal Government, it has to be through Congress. In order to make a law, you have to pass it through the House and pass it through the Senate. Once you pass the same text through both Houses of Congress, it has to be presented to the President for signature, veto, or acquiescence. Maybe he didn't get the memo on article I. Maybe he needs to be reminded of the fact that he doesn't get to make law. It is not within his prerogative. He openly, brazenly and I believe very, very deliberately sought to undermine the stated purpose, intent, effect, and spirit of 10 U.S.C. 1093. He chose to do that. What is sad in this day and age, when the government is as big as ours, a government that unwisely gives as much deference as it does to the executive branch--not just to the President himself but those who serve him in various capacities in executive branch Agencies and Departments. In this day and age, it is almost analogous to the expression that ``possession is nine-tenths of the law.'' As long as he remains in charge of the Department of Defense, he can say up is down and is surrounded by people who literally salute him every day and people who follow those orders. Unless or until Congress does something about it, he may get away with openly flouting the law. (Ms. Cantwell assumed the Chair.) That doesn't mean that nobody in the Senate can have anything to say about it, and it certainly does not entitle the Secretary of Defense or the President of the United States to have every Member of the U.S. Senate agree to continue to reward them with continued deference and a grant of expedited consideration of all military promotions, whether flag officers or otherwise. This is not something they are entitled to. It is something that Senators freely choose to give or to withhold. Here, he has chosen to withhold it. The beginning of the end of his speech says: I urge Senate Republicans to do what they know is right. On that point, I agree, and we will. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. LEE | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3733-3 | null | 6,669 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | Mr. WELCH. Madam President, I would like to address the Senate and describe the situation in Vermont. On July 10, we had a catastrophic flood that affected parts of the entire State. What I would like to speak about today are a couple of things: one, where Vermont stands in the recovery and, two, to describe specifically damages to our agriculture community and our farming community. Before I do start, I want to express my gratitude to the Biden administration, to the FEMA folks who visited, to the Secretary of Transportation, who visited, and to the staff at FEMA, who have been working tirelessly to help Vermonters go through the very difficult process. There are folks who have lost their homes or suffered significant damage to their homes, folks who have lost their businesses. We saw, when I was here originally, a photograph of Montpelier, where the entire downtown district was flooded, and the individuals in the farming community who have seen all of their work and all of their crops destroyed. Senator Sanders and Congresswoman Balint and I are working as closely as we possibly can with Governor Scott, whose administration is totally dedicated to trying to help Vermonters recover. What did happen in Vermont affected homes, it affected infrastructure, it affected businesses, but it also affected the farming communities. Earlier this week, Governor Scott and I visited the farm of Paul Mazza in Essex Junction. Paul has been farming for about 40 years, since he was 11 years old. The farmland that we see here along the river--as you can see, it has risen up so that it covers much of the acreage. The acreage included raspberries, blueberries, blackberries--crops for which neighbors and Vermonters from all around look forward to coming to the Mazza farm and self-harvesting. As Paul Mazza said to Governor Scott and to me, ``The people of Essex and the people of Vermont need my farm, and my farm needs the people of Vermont.'' A custom in Vermont was for folks, with their families, to go to the Mazza farm and do their own picking. He has about 40 acres that are dedicated to those extraordinary crops, and they have been destroyed. We walked that farm and saw the devastation. When the flooded waters rose up above the crops and then receded, it left a residue which destroyed them. He also has almost 300 acres of corn, feed corn, and about 250 acres of that were destroyed as well. What we understand is that about 100,000 acres of forest and cropland have been affected by the flood. About 10,000 of those acres are in direct agricultural activity. As for the vegetable crops from our small farmers, whose work is only paid for at the end of the season when they harvest and sell those crops, those crops are destroyed. So, with many of our smaller vegetable farmers, who are so important to community life and so important to getting good, nutritious food, those crops have been destroyed. The question is whether those farmers are going to be able to get back in business, and we are going to need to be able to help them if that is going to happen. I have a couple of things I would like to say. One is to Vermonters and to Vermont farmers: Report. Report. Report. In order for us here in Washington to be able to make the case for the aid that we need and you need, we have to document what the damages are. Some folks in Vermont are hesitant to make that report, thinking they might affect their neighbor's ability to get aid. That is not the case. We need to document how much loss has been suffered by every Vermonter. So, please, especially our farmers but our homeowners and our businesses, report. Call 211, and let us know what the damage is where you live. It could be anything from driveway damage to Paul Mazza's crop damage of a couple hundred acres. Second, Senator Sanders and I will be asking at some point, when we know what that damage is, for the assistance of our colleagues to help out Vermonters who have been the victims of this natural disaster, this catastrophic flood, that occurred 17 days ago. Before I finish, I want to express the inspiring response that Vermonters have had. You know, we are 17 days into this, and immediately after the flood, there was an outpouring of support from volunteers--other Vermonters--to come to help businesses that were flooded, to help homeowners who were flooded, and even to help our farmers. People are going back to their lives, but Vermonters still want to help. Some of the stories so inspired me, and I will give one. In Marshfield, there is an owner of a general store, Michelle Eddleman McCormick. She thought she was running a country store. Well, on the day of the storm, in Marshfield, it was absolutely devastated. She took in three dozen people who stayed in her store, and she sheltered them. I just can't believe the generosity of this person to fellow Vermonters in need--taking three dozen people in, sleeping on the floor, and doing whatever they could to get through the night and the next day. The damage was enormous. Marshfield, where the country store is, lost three bridges, and a fourth was severely damaged. In the small town of Johnson, a sewer main was taken out when the line attached to the bottom of a bridge was ripped away by a car that was floating down the river. The wastewater treatment facility in Johnson was totally destroyed. It suffered 8 feet of water in the plant itself. Across Vermont, we lost 33 wastewater treatment plants. In the small town of Cabot--famous for its Cabot/Agri-Mark cheese--every single road was damaged, and people were stranded within the community because you couldn't get out, and you couldn't get in. In Cambridge and Jeffersonville, these small towns were completely cut off during the flood. A senior low-income housing project was lost to the flood. So we are now in that stage where the initial trauma of that flood on July 10 is behind us, but there is very hard work that is required to try to get that business back on its feet or for that homeowner to find shelter, for that farmer--Paul Mazza and his daughter, Katie, and the folks who worked so hard on the Mazza farm--they have to do the day by day, step-by-step recovery because we want folks to be back in their homes; we want folks to be back on their farms; and we want folks to be back in their businesses. Vermonters are going to do everything they possibly can. The Governor's response and the legislative response is important, and there is public and private activity that is going on to help Vermonters get back on their feet, but we in the Federal Government have to do our part. Vermonters have always, always been there to help other parts of our country that have suffered natural disasters, which is through no fault of anyone's, but for the folks who are on the receiving end--in this case a flood, in another case a hurricane, in another case a wildfire--we have to help each other, and Vermonters have always helped others. My hope--and I am confident on the basis of the very supportive comments that my colleagues have made to Senator Sanders and to me--is that we will get the help that we need for Vermonters. I am inspired by how Vermonters have helped each other, and my hope is that we will help them get back, fully recovered as soon as possible. I yield the floor. (Mr. COONS assumed the Chair.) (Mr. WELCH assumed the Chair.) | 2020-01-06 | Mr. WELCH | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3736 | null | 6,670 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Mr. WELCH. Madam President, I would like to address the Senate and describe the situation in Vermont. On July 10, we had a catastrophic flood that affected parts of the entire State. What I would like to speak about today are a couple of things: one, where Vermont stands in the recovery and, two, to describe specifically damages to our agriculture community and our farming community. Before I do start, I want to express my gratitude to the Biden administration, to the FEMA folks who visited, to the Secretary of Transportation, who visited, and to the staff at FEMA, who have been working tirelessly to help Vermonters go through the very difficult process. There are folks who have lost their homes or suffered significant damage to their homes, folks who have lost their businesses. We saw, when I was here originally, a photograph of Montpelier, where the entire downtown district was flooded, and the individuals in the farming community who have seen all of their work and all of their crops destroyed. Senator Sanders and Congresswoman Balint and I are working as closely as we possibly can with Governor Scott, whose administration is totally dedicated to trying to help Vermonters recover. What did happen in Vermont affected homes, it affected infrastructure, it affected businesses, but it also affected the farming communities. Earlier this week, Governor Scott and I visited the farm of Paul Mazza in Essex Junction. Paul has been farming for about 40 years, since he was 11 years old. The farmland that we see here along the river--as you can see, it has risen up so that it covers much of the acreage. The acreage included raspberries, blueberries, blackberries--crops for which neighbors and Vermonters from all around look forward to coming to the Mazza farm and self-harvesting. As Paul Mazza said to Governor Scott and to me, ``The people of Essex and the people of Vermont need my farm, and my farm needs the people of Vermont.'' A custom in Vermont was for folks, with their families, to go to the Mazza farm and do their own picking. He has about 40 acres that are dedicated to those extraordinary crops, and they have been destroyed. We walked that farm and saw the devastation. When the flooded waters rose up above the crops and then receded, it left a residue which destroyed them. He also has almost 300 acres of corn, feed corn, and about 250 acres of that were destroyed as well. What we understand is that about 100,000 acres of forest and cropland have been affected by the flood. About 10,000 of those acres are in direct agricultural activity. As for the vegetable crops from our small farmers, whose work is only paid for at the end of the season when they harvest and sell those crops, those crops are destroyed. So, with many of our smaller vegetable farmers, who are so important to community life and so important to getting good, nutritious food, those crops have been destroyed. The question is whether those farmers are going to be able to get back in business, and we are going to need to be able to help them if that is going to happen. I have a couple of things I would like to say. One is to Vermonters and to Vermont farmers: Report. Report. Report. In order for us here in Washington to be able to make the case for the aid that we need and you need, we have to document what the damages are. Some folks in Vermont are hesitant to make that report, thinking they might affect their neighbor's ability to get aid. That is not the case. We need to document how much loss has been suffered by every Vermonter. So, please, especially our farmers but our homeowners and our businesses, report. Call 211, and let us know what the damage is where you live. It could be anything from driveway damage to Paul Mazza's crop damage of a couple hundred acres. Second, Senator Sanders and I will be asking at some point, when we know what that damage is, for the assistance of our colleagues to help out Vermonters who have been the victims of this natural disaster, this catastrophic flood, that occurred 17 days ago. Before I finish, I want to express the inspiring response that Vermonters have had. You know, we are 17 days into this, and immediately after the flood, there was an outpouring of support from volunteers--other Vermonters--to come to help businesses that were flooded, to help homeowners who were flooded, and even to help our farmers. People are going back to their lives, but Vermonters still want to help. Some of the stories so inspired me, and I will give one. In Marshfield, there is an owner of a general store, Michelle Eddleman McCormick. She thought she was running a country store. Well, on the day of the storm, in Marshfield, it was absolutely devastated. She took in three dozen people who stayed in her store, and she sheltered them. I just can't believe the generosity of this person to fellow Vermonters in need--taking three dozen people in, sleeping on the floor, and doing whatever they could to get through the night and the next day. The damage was enormous. Marshfield, where the country store is, lost three bridges, and a fourth was severely damaged. In the small town of Johnson, a sewer main was taken out when the line attached to the bottom of a bridge was ripped away by a car that was floating down the river. The wastewater treatment facility in Johnson was totally destroyed. It suffered 8 feet of water in the plant itself. Across Vermont, we lost 33 wastewater treatment plants. In the small town of Cabot--famous for its Cabot/Agri-Mark cheese--every single road was damaged, and people were stranded within the community because you couldn't get out, and you couldn't get in. In Cambridge and Jeffersonville, these small towns were completely cut off during the flood. A senior low-income housing project was lost to the flood. So we are now in that stage where the initial trauma of that flood on July 10 is behind us, but there is very hard work that is required to try to get that business back on its feet or for that homeowner to find shelter, for that farmer--Paul Mazza and his daughter, Katie, and the folks who worked so hard on the Mazza farm--they have to do the day by day, step-by-step recovery because we want folks to be back in their homes; we want folks to be back on their farms; and we want folks to be back in their businesses. Vermonters are going to do everything they possibly can. The Governor's response and the legislative response is important, and there is public and private activity that is going on to help Vermonters get back on their feet, but we in the Federal Government have to do our part. Vermonters have always, always been there to help other parts of our country that have suffered natural disasters, which is through no fault of anyone's, but for the folks who are on the receiving end--in this case a flood, in another case a hurricane, in another case a wildfire--we have to help each other, and Vermonters have always helped others. My hope--and I am confident on the basis of the very supportive comments that my colleagues have made to Senator Sanders and to me--is that we will get the help that we need for Vermonters. I am inspired by how Vermonters have helped each other, and my hope is that we will help them get back, fully recovered as soon as possible. I yield the floor. (Mr. COONS assumed the Chair.) (Mr. WELCH assumed the Chair.) | 2020-01-06 | Mr. WELCH | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3736 | null | 6,671 |
formal | based | null | white supremacist | Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, I rise tonight to speak about important legislation that was included in the National Defense Authorization Act tonight and something that will help us fight the scourge of illicit fentanyl in the United States of America. An urgent public health crisis is gripping our State and many other parts of the United States. I want to thank my colleagues Senator Scott from South Carolina and Senator Brown from Ohio for their leadership on the bipartisan legislation known as the FEND Act that was included in tonight's legislation. The fentanyl crisis is having a direct and dire impact on families in the State of Washington and all throughout the United States. In the past 12 months, more than 65,000 Americans have died by overdosing on synthetic opioids like fentanyl. That is why it is so important that, tonight, included in this legislation is the FEND Act, and that is part of a response that we need to have to take this national crisis seriously. This legislation declares the international trafficking of fentanyl, and its precursors needed to make it, a national emergency. This gives the President and us the focus that we need to fight, as it says in the legislation, ``an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.'' Mr. President, a crisis of this magnitude demands a robust Federal response, and that is why this legislation provides the President with new tools to stop the illicit fentanyl flooding our borders and those who are trying to transport it into our country. First, the new tools in this legislation are sanctions targeting transnational criminal organizations and foreigners engaged in international fentanyl trafficking. The bill specifically calls out eight known cartels in Mexico, which means that Treasury can investigate suspicious activities involved here and declare sanctions. It recognizes that these traffickers, once identified, can have sanctions imposed and can have forfeiture of their property. Recognizing that fentanyl production is not simply these entities but also diverse networks of players, this legislation helps us go after those. Sanctions will enable the U.S. Government to try to disrupt the flow of this product: the distributors, the brokers, the wholesalers, the retailers, the sellers of precursors--anyone who is involved in trafficking these deadly pills can now be targeted. Second, the Senate-passed legislation goes after financial institutions that participate in fentanyl-related money laundering. Once caught, property forfeited by international fentanyl traffickers can be used by the Department of Justice and State and local law enforcements to help participate in additional investigations, and this legislation also empowers Treasury to use special measures to pursue fentanyl-related and other types of drug laundering activity. For example, a foreign financial institution engaged in fentanyl-related money laundering, it can impose restrictions on those banks and U.S. banks doing business with those foreign entities. So the bottom line is there are new tools. Once this legislation makes it to the President's desk and through the finish of our colleagues working together on a final House and Senate NDAA package, it will give the U.S. Government Agencies more tools to disrupt the illicit fentanyl trafficking and the supply chains that exist internationally. Severely penalizing those engaged in fentanyl trafficking is just one step. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, my State, Washington, experienced the single highest increase among U.S. States in reported drug overdoses last year--an increase of more than 21 percent. Hundreds of traumatized families that will never be the same, thousands of first responders struggling to cope with this daily tragedy that they respond to--the statistics are stunning, but they are also just very tragic. Sometimes it is hard to even listen to the stories, but I have been going around my State listening to people affected by this crisis and talking to those in my State about the opportunities to do something--the heart-wrenching stories of individuals who have been impacted by this: a mother whose son went off to college and just simply didn't come home; a beloved brother who fought addiction for years and who got help to kick heroin, got sober, and got his life back but then, sadly, succumbed to fentanyl; a woman struggling with addiction who realized she needed help but then couldn't find a bed available for detox, only to hear, time and time again, that such a bed did not exist; a young man who took a single pill he thought was Percocet who died from an illicit counterfeit pill laced with fentanyl. That is why we need legislation. In addition to the FEND Off Fentanyl Act, we need to do more with just the supply. In the Tri-Cities, a police officer told me that their local task force has already seized over 200,000 fentanyl pills this year. Statewide, we have already surpassed the number of fentanyl seizures in all of last year. Law enforcement in Washington has already seized more than 1.6 million fentanyl pills this year compared to a total of 1.3 million in all of last year. So the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has seized over 379 million deadly doses of fentanyl. That was last year. That is more than enough supply in the United States. We need to do something now to also aid in the stopping and obstruction to make sure that we are preventing this from happening in the rest of the United States and to stop it in my State of Washington. I plan to work with TSA and DEA to make sure that we strengthen the laws that allow for the investigation of fentanyl distribution at our airports, to make sure that we are tracking the supply and investigating and giving our law enforcement any tool that they can use to help stop the movement of this product. I am also grateful that our colleagues tonight acted in a bipartisan way, and I hope they will act in a bipartisan way in the future. There are other things that we need to do to stop the cycle of addiction. As one doctor told me: We could have access to recovery be as easy as access to the drug, but it is not. We have heard from people all over the State--from our firefighters, from our police officers, from our courts, to our healthcare treatment centers--and we have seen unbelievable pilot programs that are being used to try to tackle this problem. We have seen fire stations use new equipment and first responders so they can quickly get to the scene and have the tools in place. We have heard from our State and from our healthcare officials like Dr. Banta-Green from the University of Washington, who has helped to understand and pioneer a program so that people can just walk into a facility that is community-based and get access to care and treatment immediately. So no more trying to respond every day of where to go or having a first responder having to go back to the same place, but giving people a place that they can go. I hope our colleagues will look at some of these innovative preventionmeasures that my State is trying to undertake. I hope that we can work in a bipartisan effort to give more tools to DEA, but I hope tonight we will be happy that we are now declaring this a national emergency, that we have given the President and Treasury and our officials new tools to stop the trafficking of this product and to pursue those who are involved in it in an aggressive way around the world. I yield the floor. | 2020-01-06 | Ms. CANTWELL | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3737 | null | 6,672 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, I rise tonight to speak about important legislation that was included in the National Defense Authorization Act tonight and something that will help us fight the scourge of illicit fentanyl in the United States of America. An urgent public health crisis is gripping our State and many other parts of the United States. I want to thank my colleagues Senator Scott from South Carolina and Senator Brown from Ohio for their leadership on the bipartisan legislation known as the FEND Act that was included in tonight's legislation. The fentanyl crisis is having a direct and dire impact on families in the State of Washington and all throughout the United States. In the past 12 months, more than 65,000 Americans have died by overdosing on synthetic opioids like fentanyl. That is why it is so important that, tonight, included in this legislation is the FEND Act, and that is part of a response that we need to have to take this national crisis seriously. This legislation declares the international trafficking of fentanyl, and its precursors needed to make it, a national emergency. This gives the President and us the focus that we need to fight, as it says in the legislation, ``an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.'' Mr. President, a crisis of this magnitude demands a robust Federal response, and that is why this legislation provides the President with new tools to stop the illicit fentanyl flooding our borders and those who are trying to transport it into our country. First, the new tools in this legislation are sanctions targeting transnational criminal organizations and foreigners engaged in international fentanyl trafficking. The bill specifically calls out eight known cartels in Mexico, which means that Treasury can investigate suspicious activities involved here and declare sanctions. It recognizes that these traffickers, once identified, can have sanctions imposed and can have forfeiture of their property. Recognizing that fentanyl production is not simply these entities but also diverse networks of players, this legislation helps us go after those. Sanctions will enable the U.S. Government to try to disrupt the flow of this product: the distributors, the brokers, the wholesalers, the retailers, the sellers of precursors--anyone who is involved in trafficking these deadly pills can now be targeted. Second, the Senate-passed legislation goes after financial institutions that participate in fentanyl-related money laundering. Once caught, property forfeited by international fentanyl traffickers can be used by the Department of Justice and State and local law enforcements to help participate in additional investigations, and this legislation also empowers Treasury to use special measures to pursue fentanyl-related and other types of drug laundering activity. For example, a foreign financial institution engaged in fentanyl-related money laundering, it can impose restrictions on those banks and U.S. banks doing business with those foreign entities. So the bottom line is there are new tools. Once this legislation makes it to the President's desk and through the finish of our colleagues working together on a final House and Senate NDAA package, it will give the U.S. Government Agencies more tools to disrupt the illicit fentanyl trafficking and the supply chains that exist internationally. Severely penalizing those engaged in fentanyl trafficking is just one step. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, my State, Washington, experienced the single highest increase among U.S. States in reported drug overdoses last year--an increase of more than 21 percent. Hundreds of traumatized families that will never be the same, thousands of first responders struggling to cope with this daily tragedy that they respond to--the statistics are stunning, but they are also just very tragic. Sometimes it is hard to even listen to the stories, but I have been going around my State listening to people affected by this crisis and talking to those in my State about the opportunities to do something--the heart-wrenching stories of individuals who have been impacted by this: a mother whose son went off to college and just simply didn't come home; a beloved brother who fought addiction for years and who got help to kick heroin, got sober, and got his life back but then, sadly, succumbed to fentanyl; a woman struggling with addiction who realized she needed help but then couldn't find a bed available for detox, only to hear, time and time again, that such a bed did not exist; a young man who took a single pill he thought was Percocet who died from an illicit counterfeit pill laced with fentanyl. That is why we need legislation. In addition to the FEND Off Fentanyl Act, we need to do more with just the supply. In the Tri-Cities, a police officer told me that their local task force has already seized over 200,000 fentanyl pills this year. Statewide, we have already surpassed the number of fentanyl seizures in all of last year. Law enforcement in Washington has already seized more than 1.6 million fentanyl pills this year compared to a total of 1.3 million in all of last year. So the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has seized over 379 million deadly doses of fentanyl. That was last year. That is more than enough supply in the United States. We need to do something now to also aid in the stopping and obstruction to make sure that we are preventing this from happening in the rest of the United States and to stop it in my State of Washington. I plan to work with TSA and DEA to make sure that we strengthen the laws that allow for the investigation of fentanyl distribution at our airports, to make sure that we are tracking the supply and investigating and giving our law enforcement any tool that they can use to help stop the movement of this product. I am also grateful that our colleagues tonight acted in a bipartisan way, and I hope they will act in a bipartisan way in the future. There are other things that we need to do to stop the cycle of addiction. As one doctor told me: We could have access to recovery be as easy as access to the drug, but it is not. We have heard from people all over the State--from our firefighters, from our police officers, from our courts, to our healthcare treatment centers--and we have seen unbelievable pilot programs that are being used to try to tackle this problem. We have seen fire stations use new equipment and first responders so they can quickly get to the scene and have the tools in place. We have heard from our State and from our healthcare officials like Dr. Banta-Green from the University of Washington, who has helped to understand and pioneer a program so that people can just walk into a facility that is community-based and get access to care and treatment immediately. So no more trying to respond every day of where to go or having a first responder having to go back to the same place, but giving people a place that they can go. I hope our colleagues will look at some of these innovative preventionmeasures that my State is trying to undertake. I hope that we can work in a bipartisan effort to give more tools to DEA, but I hope tonight we will be happy that we are now declaring this a national emergency, that we have given the President and Treasury and our officials new tools to stop the trafficking of this product and to pursue those who are involved in it in an aggressive way around the world. I yield the floor. | 2020-01-06 | Ms. CANTWELL | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3737 | null | 6,673 |
formal | terrorism | null | Islamophobic | Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 198, adoption of the Warnock amendment to provide enhanced protection against debt collector harassment of members of the Armed Forces (199). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted yea. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 199, adoption of the Cruz amendment to provide remedies to members of the Armed Forces discharged or subject to adverse action under the COVID-19 vaccine mandate (421). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted nay. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 200, adoption of the Wicker amendment to establish the Office of the Lead Inspector General for Ukraine Assistance (1055). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted nay. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 201, adoption of the Paul amendment to provide for the independent and objective conduct and supervision of audits and investigations relating to the programs and operations funded with amounts appropriated or otherwise made available to Ukraine for military, economic, and humanitarian aid (438). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted nay. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 202, adoption of the Barrasso amendment to require the Secretary of Energy to establish a Nuclear Fuel Security Program, expand the American Assured Fuel Supply Program, establish an HALEU for Advanced NuclearReactor Demonstration Projects Program, and submit a report on a civil nuclear credit program, and to enhance programs to build workforce capacity to meet critical mission needs of the Department of Energy (999). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted yea. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 203, adoption of the Sanders amendment to reduce military spending (1030). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted nay. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 204, adoption of the Marshall amendment to prohibit the flying, draping, or other display of any flag other than the flag of the United States at public buildings (874). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted nay. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 205, adoption of the Kennedy amendment to prohibit allocations of Special Drawing Rights at the International Monetary Fund for perpetrators of genocide and state sponsors of terrorism without congressional authorization (1034). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted nay. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 206, adoption of the Gillibrand amendment to amend title XXXIII of the Public Health Service Act with respect to funding for the World Trade Center Health Program (1065). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted yea. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 207, adoption of the Hawley amendment to extend the period for filing claims under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act and to provide for compensation under such Act for claims relating to Manhattan Project waste, and to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining (1058). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted yea. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 208, adoption of the Menendez amendment to reauthorize the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2018 (638). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted yea. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 209, adoption of the Schatz amendment to reauthorize the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (1078). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted yea. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 210, adoption of the Rubio amendment to provide that sums in the Thrift Savings Fund may not be invested in securities that are listed on certain foreign exchanges (523). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted nay. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 211, adoption of the Reed-Wicker amendment: managers package (1087). Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted yea. I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 212, passage of S. 2226, as amended, an original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. Had I been present for the vote, I would have voted yea. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. DURBIN | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3740-3 | null | 6,674 |
formal | Reagan | null | white supremacist | Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, today is National Whistleblower Appreciation Day on the Hill. So today we celebrate and recognize the contributions and sacrifices that whistleblowers make every day for our country. I have said this many times before, whistleblowers get treated like skunks at a picnic. It shouldn't be that way. Whistleblowers are patriots. This year is special because it marks the 10th anniversary of National Whistleblower Appreciation Day. And I am proud to introduce the National Whistleblower Appreciation Day resolution for the 10th year in a row along with Senator Wyden and the rest of the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus. As early as the Revolutionary War, the first whistleblower reported fraud and misconduct. On July 30, 1778, the Founding Fathers passed the first piece of legislation to protect whistleblowers in our country. Whistleblowers are critical to the operation of good government. Whistleblowers risk their jobs, livelihoods, and reputations when they blow the whistle on government waste, fraud, and abuse. Recently, VA whistleblowers approached my office and alerted me of the Agency's failure to secure veterans' sensitive, private information. They also exposed how the failure in security allows for staff to learn the identities of whistleblowers, leaving them vulnerable to retaliation. DEA whistleblowers also have provided important details about alleged contract irregularities and the DEA's failure to root out corruption in its foreign operations. The oversight that flows from this kind of crucial information can help clean house at DEA and save taxpayer money. It can also improve international drug interdiction and save lives. Let's also not forget about the IRS whistleblowers who have recently testified before Congress regarding wrongdoing at the IRS and Justice Department. As many know, I have had my fair share of Justice Department whistleblowers over the years. Most recently, my public oversight activities regarding the Justice Department and FBI shows that more have come my way. God bless them all. The information that I have made public, whether it is the VA, DEA, DOJ, or IRS, it is only because of whistleblowers that I am able to do the work. The government hides information that the American people ought to know about. Simply put, that is wrong and we must ensure that all whistleblowers are fully protected from retaliation and championed for their work. Accordingly, it is critically important that all Federal Agencies promote openness and transparency. They must also ensure Federal employees know their rights to blow the whistle on wrongdoing, including to Congress. Federal Agencies must protect their employees from retaliation and take appropriate corrective actions against those who retaliate against whistleblowers. For me, there is no middle ground when it comes to whistleblowers. They must be protected and fought for. Full stop. This year, I introduced the SEC Whistleblower Reform Act to expand protections for whistleblowers and ensure SEC whistleblower awards are made in a timely manner. This bill ensures that these whistleblowers would be fully protected if they report wrongdoing to a supervisor. Since we created the SEC's Whistleblower Program in 2010, it has been a massive success. The SEC reported receiving a record number of whistleblower tips in 2022--over 12,000. This year, I also introduced the IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act. And this week, I have introduced the False Claims Amendments Act and the CFTC Whistleblower Fund Improvement Act. There is still a lot of work to be done. In April, I wrote to President Biden requesting him to honor whistleblowers by hosting a Rose Garden ceremony on Whistleblower Appreciation Day. I have asked every President since President Reagan to hold a Rose Garden ceremony to honor whistleblowers. No President has done so. The task of supporting whistleblowers doesn't start and stop on Whistleblower Appreciation Day. It is a year-round job. Whistleblowers are brave men and women who perform an invaluable public service. Again, they are patriots. Together, one day we are going to get that Rose Garden ceremony. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. GRASSLEY | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3741 | null | 6,675 |
formal | based | null | white supremacist | Mr. WELCH. Mr. President, on May 24, 2023, Congressman Jim McGovern spoke on the House floor about the distressing situation in Cuba, and I want to associate myself with his remarks. He expressed his deep disappointment and frustration, which I share, with the current policy of the United States toward Cuba that amounts to little more than a continuation of the failed policies of the previous administration. If the consequences of our policy were benign, perhaps one could ignore what is happening on that tiny island of 11 million people. But, as Congressman McGovern described, it is anything but benign. Our policy is contributing, directly and indirectly, to widespread hardships and hunger in Cuba that caused some 313,000 Cubans to abandon the island last year alone, seeking entry to the United States. As any objective observer of Cuba knows, since long before the Castro revolution, the Cuban people have suffered continuous deprivations and humiliations. Political oppression and severely limited economic opportunities, punctuated by recurrent natural disasters, have circumscribed their lives. Through it all, they have persevered, propelled by their extraordinary ingenuity, national pride, and innate resilience. However, the mass exodus of Cubans in the past two years illustrates how dire the situation has become. This is by no means the first time that large numbers of Cubans have risked their lives to seek refuge and a better life in the United States, but none were on the scale of recent years. Several factors have led to the current calamity, including punitive Cold War sanctions reimposed by the previous administration and unfortunately kept in place by the current administration.The Cuban Government's mismanagement of the economy and its reluctance to fully unleash and energize Cuba's fledgling private sector, the global COVID pandemic and economic downturn, and the cutbacks in oil imports from Venezuela have all played a role in the Cuban people's plight. However, there also are several deeply flawed U.S. policies which enable Cuban authorities to continue to deflect blame for their own failures onto the United States. They have compounded the misery of average Cubans and damaged our relations with partners in the hemisphere. These policies must change. First, Cuba must be removed from the state sponsors of terrorism list. We will continue to have profound differences with the Cuban Government over the importance of democracy and protection of human rights. But the designation as a state sponsor of terrorism is based on a determination that a government has ``repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism,'' not on differences of opinion about democracy or association with unsavory governments. Removing Cuba from this list, as President Obama did, will bolster Cuba's growing private sector and enable American commercial investment, trade, and travel to Cuba. Both are critical to the future prosperity of the Cuban people. The Biden administration should expeditiously complete any necessary review to remove Cuba from the terrorism list. Second, the administration should waive the extraterritorial sanctions under title 3 of the Helms-Burton Act, which drew the ire of our hemispheric allies when it was enacted in 1996 and have been waived by all previous Republican and Democratic administrations, save one. Cubans continue to flee the island out of desperation, and we cannot credibly claim to ``stand with the Cuban people,'' while supporting policies designed to cripple their economy and increase their daily hardships. Finally, we should continue on the path of improving relations between our two governments, including by sending an ambassador to Havana. U.S. engagement with a foreign country does not ascribe legitimacy to its government. If that were the case, we would recall our Ambassadors and close our Embassies in dozens of countries. Our isolationist policy is helping to expand malign Chinese and Russian influence in Cuba, not prevent it. Engagement creates opportunities to cooperate when it is in our national interest and to actively defend universal rights and freedoms. Notably, engagement provides the United States the ability to more effectively counter the influence of our adversaries who seek to exploit the vacuum created by our absence. None of us condone the repressive policies and practices of the Cuban Government but there are serious consequences to our policy of unilateral isolation. History has shown that regardless of how difficult life is in Cuba, the Cuban authorities will take whatever measures they deem necessary to crush public dissent to maintain control, as we saw in the wake of the historic street protests of July 11, 2021. Hundreds of brave protesters continue to languish in Cuban jails. For years, Senator Patrick Leahy worked to replace an anachronistic, failed, punitive policy toward Cuba with one based on common sense and in accordance with our national interests. His efforts played a central role in President Obama's decision to restore diplomatic relations and engagement with Cuba in 2015. That policy was producing unprecedented, positive results for the Cuban people until it was unfortunately reversed. I urge the Biden administration to continue the work Senator Leahy and President Obama began. It is the only policy worthy of the United States. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. WELCH | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3742 | null | 6,676 |
formal | terrorism | null | Islamophobic | Mr. WELCH. Mr. President, on May 24, 2023, Congressman Jim McGovern spoke on the House floor about the distressing situation in Cuba, and I want to associate myself with his remarks. He expressed his deep disappointment and frustration, which I share, with the current policy of the United States toward Cuba that amounts to little more than a continuation of the failed policies of the previous administration. If the consequences of our policy were benign, perhaps one could ignore what is happening on that tiny island of 11 million people. But, as Congressman McGovern described, it is anything but benign. Our policy is contributing, directly and indirectly, to widespread hardships and hunger in Cuba that caused some 313,000 Cubans to abandon the island last year alone, seeking entry to the United States. As any objective observer of Cuba knows, since long before the Castro revolution, the Cuban people have suffered continuous deprivations and humiliations. Political oppression and severely limited economic opportunities, punctuated by recurrent natural disasters, have circumscribed their lives. Through it all, they have persevered, propelled by their extraordinary ingenuity, national pride, and innate resilience. However, the mass exodus of Cubans in the past two years illustrates how dire the situation has become. This is by no means the first time that large numbers of Cubans have risked their lives to seek refuge and a better life in the United States, but none were on the scale of recent years. Several factors have led to the current calamity, including punitive Cold War sanctions reimposed by the previous administration and unfortunately kept in place by the current administration.The Cuban Government's mismanagement of the economy and its reluctance to fully unleash and energize Cuba's fledgling private sector, the global COVID pandemic and economic downturn, and the cutbacks in oil imports from Venezuela have all played a role in the Cuban people's plight. However, there also are several deeply flawed U.S. policies which enable Cuban authorities to continue to deflect blame for their own failures onto the United States. They have compounded the misery of average Cubans and damaged our relations with partners in the hemisphere. These policies must change. First, Cuba must be removed from the state sponsors of terrorism list. We will continue to have profound differences with the Cuban Government over the importance of democracy and protection of human rights. But the designation as a state sponsor of terrorism is based on a determination that a government has ``repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism,'' not on differences of opinion about democracy or association with unsavory governments. Removing Cuba from this list, as President Obama did, will bolster Cuba's growing private sector and enable American commercial investment, trade, and travel to Cuba. Both are critical to the future prosperity of the Cuban people. The Biden administration should expeditiously complete any necessary review to remove Cuba from the terrorism list. Second, the administration should waive the extraterritorial sanctions under title 3 of the Helms-Burton Act, which drew the ire of our hemispheric allies when it was enacted in 1996 and have been waived by all previous Republican and Democratic administrations, save one. Cubans continue to flee the island out of desperation, and we cannot credibly claim to ``stand with the Cuban people,'' while supporting policies designed to cripple their economy and increase their daily hardships. Finally, we should continue on the path of improving relations between our two governments, including by sending an ambassador to Havana. U.S. engagement with a foreign country does not ascribe legitimacy to its government. If that were the case, we would recall our Ambassadors and close our Embassies in dozens of countries. Our isolationist policy is helping to expand malign Chinese and Russian influence in Cuba, not prevent it. Engagement creates opportunities to cooperate when it is in our national interest and to actively defend universal rights and freedoms. Notably, engagement provides the United States the ability to more effectively counter the influence of our adversaries who seek to exploit the vacuum created by our absence. None of us condone the repressive policies and practices of the Cuban Government but there are serious consequences to our policy of unilateral isolation. History has shown that regardless of how difficult life is in Cuba, the Cuban authorities will take whatever measures they deem necessary to crush public dissent to maintain control, as we saw in the wake of the historic street protests of July 11, 2021. Hundreds of brave protesters continue to languish in Cuban jails. For years, Senator Patrick Leahy worked to replace an anachronistic, failed, punitive policy toward Cuba with one based on common sense and in accordance with our national interests. His efforts played a central role in President Obama's decision to restore diplomatic relations and engagement with Cuba in 2015. That policy was producing unprecedented, positive results for the Cuban people until it was unfortunately reversed. I urge the Biden administration to continue the work Senator Leahy and President Obama began. It is the only policy worthy of the United States. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. WELCH | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3742 | null | 6,677 |
formal | based | null | white supremacist | Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I rise today to urge my colleagues to join me in recognizing July as National Minority Mental Health Month. Since 2008, Congress has declared this month as National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month in honor of author, journalist and teacher Bebe Moore Campbell, a national agent of change who passed away in 2006. Thanks to President Biden, through the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, millions of Americans have been able to seek out help with nearly 5 million calls, texts, and chats that have been answered over the past year. Unfortunately, mental health is a subject that often still has stigma attached to it, even though mental illness touches the lives of millions of Americans each year. This month provides an opportunity to bring awareness and recommit us to tackling longstanding health disparities and improve the public's awareness of the health challenges that disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. Mental illness can have a devastating impact on an individual's overall health and quality of life. Racial and ethnic minorities often suffer from poor mental health outcomes due to multiple factors, including lack of access to quality mental health care services, cultural stigma surrounding mental health care, discrimination, and overall lack of awareness about mental health. Today, because of historical injustices across our society, including those in the healthcare system, communities of color continue to face health disparities that result in poorer quality of life and lower life expectancies when compared to their White counterparts. For people of color who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender--LGBT--these disparities are often exacerbated. In 2021, according to estimates, only 39 percent of Black or African-American adults, 25 percent of Asian adults, and 36 percent of Hispanic/Latino adults with any mental illness were treated, compared to 52 percent of non-Hispanic White adults. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration, American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans report experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder--PTSD--at double the rate of non-Hispanic White Veterans--20.5 percent compared to 11.6 percent. In 2020, suicide was the leading cause of death among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders aged 10 to 19; it was the second leading cause of death among those aged 20 to 34. Mental illness also has a significant impact on our country's economy. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention--CDC--the economic cost of mental illness in the United States was more than $300 billion in 2021. Fewer than half of those in need, however, receive any mental health care in the United States. This is simply unacceptable. Stigma, cost, and other barriers, such as limited capacity in some areas to serve all those in need, prevent many individuals from receiving necessary mental health care. It is imperative that we act to improve access to high-quality, evidence-based mental health care services in our country. Maternal mental health has been an enduring issue that has stricken women across the Nation. The types of disorders are vast, though the most common include depression, anxiety, and psychosis. The consequences of leaving such disorders untreated are dire, as they impact not only the mother, but her child, and the community, as well. While all women are potentially susceptible to maternal mental health disorders, there is an evident disparity in the rates at which certain racial and ethnic groups are affected. Around one in seven women suffers specifically from postpartum depression, though mothers of color possess rates at around 38 percent, nearly double that of White mothers. Despite this alarming statistic, these mothers of color are still less likely to receiveboth a diagnosis and treatment for their disorder. Too many children and their families do not have adequate access to high-quality specialty child and adolescent behavioral health care. Child and adolescent psychiatrists practice in a wide range of settings and further facilitate access to treatment through telehealth and collaborative care arrangements with primary care providers, schools, and other systems. And yet, there is still a shortage of inpatient child and adolescent psychiatric beds. According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, there are 1,341,682 children under the age of 18 in Maryland, but only 365 practicing child and adolescent psychiatrists, or 1 for every 3,676 children. There are six counties in Maryland that have no child and adolescent psychiatrists available at all. This is simply unacceptable. Children should have access to a full array of prevention, early intervention, and treatment options within all child-facing systems. We need to act now and improve services with integrated care models, including collaborative care arrangements. Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to tour Brooke's House, a community-based sober living environment for women in Hagerstown, MD. I had the pleasure of attending the graduation of a resident who has completed treatment and is transitioning out of the residential treatment environment. Brooke's House was the dream of a young Maryland girl who struggled opioid addiction. It provides a community-based, safe, stable, and emotionally supportive living environment for adult women in the early stages of substance abuse recovery. This model of care ensures a tranquil, home-like facility to provide state-of-the-art treatment and recovery services with resources to help residents achieve their dreams of living drug-free and productive lives. This year, Brooke's House will use an ARC INSPIRE grant to expand support and engagement services, specifically by hiring a coordinator for a commercial driver's license--CDL--program to help more women access job training and placement while in recovery. The addition of this coordinator will help expand the CDL program to serve 12 participants. Behavioral health equity is the right of all individuals--regardless of race, age, ethnicity, gender, disability, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, or ZIP Code--to access high-quality and affordable healthcare support. I am excited to see reforms such as the SUPPORT Act, enacted in 2018 with overwhelming bipartisan support, which addresses the opioid epidemic and tackles many aspects of the epidemic, including treatment, prevention, recovery, and enforcement. This year, we begin work to reauthorize key programs within the SUPPORT Act. This bipartisan legislation takes an important step forward in providing additional tools to battle the opioid crisis. It is imperative we work toward advancing access to high-quality behavioral health care. The United States is an ever-changing cultural landscape that shapes the way we experience diversity. Cultural values and beliefs not only affect our daily activities, but also influence the way we perceive physical and emotional distress and the need for interventions to deal with them. Mental illness is perceived differently by various cultures, as is the ability to express certain symptoms. Emotional distress and mental health problems occur in all socio-cultural backgrounds as well as ages. Mental illness affects the lives of so many Americans. We have made great strides as a nation to better support individuals and communities, which is why we recently celebrated the anniversary of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. This July, in honor of National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, let us commit to continue working together on both sides of the aisle to improve mental health care in our country by building on the success of integrated care models and innovative systems. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. CARDIN | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3743-2 | null | 6,678 |
formal | identify as | null | transphobic | Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I rise today to urge my colleagues to join me in recognizing July as National Minority Mental Health Month. Since 2008, Congress has declared this month as National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month in honor of author, journalist and teacher Bebe Moore Campbell, a national agent of change who passed away in 2006. Thanks to President Biden, through the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, millions of Americans have been able to seek out help with nearly 5 million calls, texts, and chats that have been answered over the past year. Unfortunately, mental health is a subject that often still has stigma attached to it, even though mental illness touches the lives of millions of Americans each year. This month provides an opportunity to bring awareness and recommit us to tackling longstanding health disparities and improve the public's awareness of the health challenges that disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. Mental illness can have a devastating impact on an individual's overall health and quality of life. Racial and ethnic minorities often suffer from poor mental health outcomes due to multiple factors, including lack of access to quality mental health care services, cultural stigma surrounding mental health care, discrimination, and overall lack of awareness about mental health. Today, because of historical injustices across our society, including those in the healthcare system, communities of color continue to face health disparities that result in poorer quality of life and lower life expectancies when compared to their White counterparts. For people of color who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender--LGBT--these disparities are often exacerbated. In 2021, according to estimates, only 39 percent of Black or African-American adults, 25 percent of Asian adults, and 36 percent of Hispanic/Latino adults with any mental illness were treated, compared to 52 percent of non-Hispanic White adults. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration, American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans report experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder--PTSD--at double the rate of non-Hispanic White Veterans--20.5 percent compared to 11.6 percent. In 2020, suicide was the leading cause of death among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders aged 10 to 19; it was the second leading cause of death among those aged 20 to 34. Mental illness also has a significant impact on our country's economy. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention--CDC--the economic cost of mental illness in the United States was more than $300 billion in 2021. Fewer than half of those in need, however, receive any mental health care in the United States. This is simply unacceptable. Stigma, cost, and other barriers, such as limited capacity in some areas to serve all those in need, prevent many individuals from receiving necessary mental health care. It is imperative that we act to improve access to high-quality, evidence-based mental health care services in our country. Maternal mental health has been an enduring issue that has stricken women across the Nation. The types of disorders are vast, though the most common include depression, anxiety, and psychosis. The consequences of leaving such disorders untreated are dire, as they impact not only the mother, but her child, and the community, as well. While all women are potentially susceptible to maternal mental health disorders, there is an evident disparity in the rates at which certain racial and ethnic groups are affected. Around one in seven women suffers specifically from postpartum depression, though mothers of color possess rates at around 38 percent, nearly double that of White mothers. Despite this alarming statistic, these mothers of color are still less likely to receiveboth a diagnosis and treatment for their disorder. Too many children and their families do not have adequate access to high-quality specialty child and adolescent behavioral health care. Child and adolescent psychiatrists practice in a wide range of settings and further facilitate access to treatment through telehealth and collaborative care arrangements with primary care providers, schools, and other systems. And yet, there is still a shortage of inpatient child and adolescent psychiatric beds. According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, there are 1,341,682 children under the age of 18 in Maryland, but only 365 practicing child and adolescent psychiatrists, or 1 for every 3,676 children. There are six counties in Maryland that have no child and adolescent psychiatrists available at all. This is simply unacceptable. Children should have access to a full array of prevention, early intervention, and treatment options within all child-facing systems. We need to act now and improve services with integrated care models, including collaborative care arrangements. Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to tour Brooke's House, a community-based sober living environment for women in Hagerstown, MD. I had the pleasure of attending the graduation of a resident who has completed treatment and is transitioning out of the residential treatment environment. Brooke's House was the dream of a young Maryland girl who struggled opioid addiction. It provides a community-based, safe, stable, and emotionally supportive living environment for adult women in the early stages of substance abuse recovery. This model of care ensures a tranquil, home-like facility to provide state-of-the-art treatment and recovery services with resources to help residents achieve their dreams of living drug-free and productive lives. This year, Brooke's House will use an ARC INSPIRE grant to expand support and engagement services, specifically by hiring a coordinator for a commercial driver's license--CDL--program to help more women access job training and placement while in recovery. The addition of this coordinator will help expand the CDL program to serve 12 participants. Behavioral health equity is the right of all individuals--regardless of race, age, ethnicity, gender, disability, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, or ZIP Code--to access high-quality and affordable healthcare support. I am excited to see reforms such as the SUPPORT Act, enacted in 2018 with overwhelming bipartisan support, which addresses the opioid epidemic and tackles many aspects of the epidemic, including treatment, prevention, recovery, and enforcement. This year, we begin work to reauthorize key programs within the SUPPORT Act. This bipartisan legislation takes an important step forward in providing additional tools to battle the opioid crisis. It is imperative we work toward advancing access to high-quality behavioral health care. The United States is an ever-changing cultural landscape that shapes the way we experience diversity. Cultural values and beliefs not only affect our daily activities, but also influence the way we perceive physical and emotional distress and the need for interventions to deal with them. Mental illness is perceived differently by various cultures, as is the ability to express certain symptoms. Emotional distress and mental health problems occur in all socio-cultural backgrounds as well as ages. Mental illness affects the lives of so many Americans. We have made great strides as a nation to better support individuals and communities, which is why we recently celebrated the anniversary of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. This July, in honor of National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, let us commit to continue working together on both sides of the aisle to improve mental health care in our country by building on the success of integrated care models and innovative systems. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. CARDIN | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3743-2 | null | 6,679 |
formal | Baltimore | null | racist | Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to Wendy Sherman, a fellow native Marylander and a distinguished daughter of Baltimore--and a true friend of mine--as she retires tomorrow from her position as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of State. As Deputy Secretary of State since the start of the Biden administration, Ms. Sherman has been entrusted with handling some of the most intractable diplomatic engagements our country has to manage. It is no wonder that one of her senior colleagues in the administration told the New York Times recently that she is the one most often deployed to have ``hard conversations in hard places.'' This included a vital meeting with her Russian counterpart in Geneva in January of 2022 where she delivered the U.S. Government's final warnings to the Kremlin about the high costs they would incur should they invade Ukraine. Wendy's early career was built around assisting women who had been abused and people in poverty, helping them to succeed despite underprivileged circumstances. The circle of people benefiting from her sharp intelligence and good heart widened quickly over the years. Advancing from her early career as a social worker, she became the executive director of EMILY's List, an important organization for the advancement of women in American politics, to the director of Maryland's office of child welfare, and later to become the founding president of the Fannie Mae Foundation. Along the way, Ms. Sherman also worked closely with our former colleague Senator Barbara Mikulski as her chief of staff during her time in the House of Representatives, and so she worked on many legislative issues and constituent services that were important for the people of Maryland. Ms. Sherman later served during the Clinton administration as an Assistant Secretary and then counselor at the U.S. Department of State and then as special adviser to President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as North Korea policy coordinator. She was instrumental in negotiations related to North Korea's nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs. Wendy directly contributed to our country's national security, as she secured a deal in which North Korea agreed not to produce, test, or deploy missiles with a range of more than 300 miles, preventing North Korea from fielding missiles that could strike the United States. Working closely with Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, Wendy returned to the Department during the Obama administration and continued her work to further our international goals as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the fourth-ranking official in the U.S. Department of State, and the first women to rise to that rank. As the lead negotiator for the Iran nuclear deal, Wendy led six arduous negotiating rounds between Iran and six world powers to reach consensus on Tehran's nuclear program. As leader of a special task force following 2012 Benghazi attack, Wendy leveraged her experience to help implement recommendations to improve protections for Foreign Service personnel, bolstering the safety and security of our diplomats serving our countries overseas. For these and many other diplomatic accomplishments requiring toughness, fortitude, and diplomatic savvy, she was awarded the National Security Medal by President Barack Obama. Out of government, Wendy continued to work closely with Madeline Albright as vice president and senior counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group, before returning to the national security sector again in her present capacity. Wendy has further leveraged her diplomatic experience to the benefit of academia and the nonprofit world, serving as professor of the practice of public leadership and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard's Kennedy School. She was also a senior fellow at the School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She has served on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, as chair of the Board of Directors of Oxfam America, and on the DOD's Defense Policy Board and the Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism. Through these diverse roles, Wendy has helped to not only shape the next generation of diplomats and foreign affairs professionals, but the future of diplomacy. This month, Wendy Sherman retires as one of the most accomplished diplomats in American history. Wendy will be missed by me and by her wide circle of professional colleagues and admirers. I have no doubt that she will continue to impart her wisdom and experience even as she returns to the private sector. Wendy Sherman is the embodiment of a fine public servant and a true stateswoman, by turns persuasive and toughminded as the situation calls for, inspiring future generations to follow in her footsteps. I wish her all the best for her future endeavors. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. CARDIN | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3745 | null | 6,680 |
formal | welfare | null | racist | Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to Wendy Sherman, a fellow native Marylander and a distinguished daughter of Baltimore--and a true friend of mine--as she retires tomorrow from her position as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of State. As Deputy Secretary of State since the start of the Biden administration, Ms. Sherman has been entrusted with handling some of the most intractable diplomatic engagements our country has to manage. It is no wonder that one of her senior colleagues in the administration told the New York Times recently that she is the one most often deployed to have ``hard conversations in hard places.'' This included a vital meeting with her Russian counterpart in Geneva in January of 2022 where she delivered the U.S. Government's final warnings to the Kremlin about the high costs they would incur should they invade Ukraine. Wendy's early career was built around assisting women who had been abused and people in poverty, helping them to succeed despite underprivileged circumstances. The circle of people benefiting from her sharp intelligence and good heart widened quickly over the years. Advancing from her early career as a social worker, she became the executive director of EMILY's List, an important organization for the advancement of women in American politics, to the director of Maryland's office of child welfare, and later to become the founding president of the Fannie Mae Foundation. Along the way, Ms. Sherman also worked closely with our former colleague Senator Barbara Mikulski as her chief of staff during her time in the House of Representatives, and so she worked on many legislative issues and constituent services that were important for the people of Maryland. Ms. Sherman later served during the Clinton administration as an Assistant Secretary and then counselor at the U.S. Department of State and then as special adviser to President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as North Korea policy coordinator. She was instrumental in negotiations related to North Korea's nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs. Wendy directly contributed to our country's national security, as she secured a deal in which North Korea agreed not to produce, test, or deploy missiles with a range of more than 300 miles, preventing North Korea from fielding missiles that could strike the United States. Working closely with Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, Wendy returned to the Department during the Obama administration and continued her work to further our international goals as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the fourth-ranking official in the U.S. Department of State, and the first women to rise to that rank. As the lead negotiator for the Iran nuclear deal, Wendy led six arduous negotiating rounds between Iran and six world powers to reach consensus on Tehran's nuclear program. As leader of a special task force following 2012 Benghazi attack, Wendy leveraged her experience to help implement recommendations to improve protections for Foreign Service personnel, bolstering the safety and security of our diplomats serving our countries overseas. For these and many other diplomatic accomplishments requiring toughness, fortitude, and diplomatic savvy, she was awarded the National Security Medal by President Barack Obama. Out of government, Wendy continued to work closely with Madeline Albright as vice president and senior counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group, before returning to the national security sector again in her present capacity. Wendy has further leveraged her diplomatic experience to the benefit of academia and the nonprofit world, serving as professor of the practice of public leadership and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard's Kennedy School. She was also a senior fellow at the School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She has served on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, as chair of the Board of Directors of Oxfam America, and on the DOD's Defense Policy Board and the Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism. Through these diverse roles, Wendy has helped to not only shape the next generation of diplomats and foreign affairs professionals, but the future of diplomacy. This month, Wendy Sherman retires as one of the most accomplished diplomats in American history. Wendy will be missed by me and by her wide circle of professional colleagues and admirers. I have no doubt that she will continue to impart her wisdom and experience even as she returns to the private sector. Wendy Sherman is the embodiment of a fine public servant and a true stateswoman, by turns persuasive and toughminded as the situation calls for, inspiring future generations to follow in her footsteps. I wish her all the best for her future endeavors. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. CARDIN | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3745 | null | 6,681 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. President, I come to the floor today to recognize and celebrate Mrs. Phyllis Salowe-Kaye, an exemplary leader in New Jersey and a lifelong advocate for social and economic justice. Born and raised in Bradley Beach, Mrs. Salowe-Kaye graduated from Asbury Park High School and received her bachelor of arts in education from Boston University. In college, she began staging her first political actions: demonstrating against the Vietnam war and starting a ``food fight'' to protest poor cafeteria options. After earning her diploma, Phyllis began a teaching career in the city of Newark, ultimately rising to become a leader in the Newark Teachers Union. It was in this role advocating for better conditions on behalf of her fellow educators that a fire was lit inside her. After nearly a decade as an elementary school teacher, she transitioned to organizing for more affordable housing. First as president of the tenant association in her building, then with the local tenants association in the city of Orange, and finally as head of the New Jersey Tenants Organization, Mrs, Salowe-Kaye's commitment to social activism and public advocacy was formed. For the last 35 years, Mrs. Salowe-Kaye has capably led New Jersey Citizen Action--NJCA--the Garden State's largest and oldest multi-issue nonprofit organization. As a champion for fairness and justice, she has brought to the forefront many of the quality-of-life issues that are most important to New Jersey's residents. From healthcare to housing, environmental protections to a living wage, Mrs. Salowe-Kaye has consistently marshalled the full force of her organization's 60,000 members to move the needle on issues and push our State forward. Of her many crowning achievements, she has successfully leveraged the Federal Community Reinvestment Act to secure more than $30 billion in commitments from local banks. These commitments have opened doors of opportunities for thousands of low-income families, women, and minorities who have been able to access financial tools including housing counseling, affordable mortgages, and more. In addition to her public advocacy and leadership in civil society, Mrs. Salowe-Kaye has sat on too many councils, boards, and task forces to list. However, among other roles, she has proudly served as a trustee of the Teacher's Pension and Annuity Fund, a commissioner for New Jersey's Public Broadcasting Authority, and a member of the Federal Reserve Community Advisory Council during the Obama administration. In 2012, I was honored to recognize her work by presenting her with a Trailblazer Award at my annual Women's History Month celebration. Since then, not only has she continued to demonstrate visionary leadership, genuine care, and selfless commitment, she has also grown the reach and influence of New Jersey Citizen Action. For this and for all she has done to distinguish herself as a passionate leader, I am honored to recognize her with these remarks which will live on forever in the Congressional Record. Today, I join her loving husband of 47 years, Mr. Stewart Kaplowitz; her children Joanna and Zachary; and her three grandchildren in thanking Mrs. Phyllis Salowe-Kaye for her lifelong service as a community leader who has never stopped fighting for a better New Jersey for all. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. MENENDEZ | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3748 | null | 6,682 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Mr. PADILLA. Mr. President, I rise today as a proud, lifelong Los Angeles Dodgers fan to recognize the achievements and legacy of Fernando ``El Toro'' Valenzuela, whose jersey will soon be retired by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Valenzuela stunned the baseball world, captured the hearts of millions of Californians, and inspired Little League baseball players, future Major League Baseball Hall of Famers, and Mexican Americans across the country to dream big. The youngest of 12 children, Valenzuela was born and raised in the small town of Etchohuaquila, in Sonora, Mexico. His parents Avelino and Maria were poor farmers who worked the land with their children. Valenzuela learned to play baseball from his older brothers and started pitching professionally in Mexico at the age of 17. Discovered by legendary Dodgers scout Mike Brito, Valenzuela soon made his Major League debut at the age of 19. In 1980, his first season, he pitched in relief in 10 games and did not surrender a single earned run. The 1981 season saw the cultural phenomenon of ``Fernandomania,'' which brought one of the best stretches of pitching in Major League Baseball history. He was on the mound for the Dodgers as their opening day starting pitcher and proceeded to win his first eight starts--at that time, the longest such streak since World War II. He finished the season with 11 complete games, 8 shutouts, and a 2.48 ERA. His sensational pitching brought packed crowds to Dodger Stadium as he captured the hearts of Los Angeles' Mexican-American community, and brought record crowds to every stadium he pitched in across the country. During the deciding game 5 of the 1981 National League Championship Series against the Expos, Valenzuela locked into a grueling pitching duel for over eight innings and helped the Dodgers win the National League pennant. In game 3 of the 1981 World Series, Valenzuela pitched a complete game against the Yankees and jumpstarted a four-game Dodgers winning streak on their way to winning the World Series title. On a personal note, as a kid growing up playing Little League baseball in the San Fernando Valley, I remember watching Fernando pitch, his iconic wind-up with his leg sweeping up chest high, his quick glance toward the heavens, and suddenly, El Toro would deliver a devastating screwball. Valenzuela would go on to pitch for the Dodgers for 11 seasons, play for several other MLB teams, and even pitch in the Mexican Pacific League when he was nearly 44 years old. He ended his career as a World Series Champion, a six-time All-Star, a two-time Silver Slugger winner, and a Gold Glove winner. He also became the first player--and remains the only player--ever to win the Rookie of the Year and Cy Young awards in the same season for his remarkable 1981 season. And today, he remains part of the Dodgers organization as the color commentator for the team's Spanish language television broadcast. More than 40 years later, Fernandomania lives on. Valenzuela continues to bring immense joy and pride to the Mexican-American community in Los Angeles and around the country. I am proud that the Dodgers will be retiring Valenzuela's No. 34 jersey, and I am proud to recognize his many years of dedication to the Los Angeles community and for inspiring generations of Latinos to pursue their dreams and be champions in their own right. So now, enshrined in Dodger Stadium alongside names like ``Robinson,'' ``Koufax,'' ``Drysdale,'' ``Hodges,'' and ``Snider,'' finally, a new number will hang forever--34, for Valenzuela. | 2020-01-06 | Mr. PADILLA | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3749-2 | null | 6,683 |
formal | based | null | white supremacist | 1Mr. MORAN. Mr. President, I rise today to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the creation of Watco Companies. Watco is a Pittsburg, KS, based transportation and logistics company that demonstrates the very best of Kansas work ethic. Following the deregulation of the railroad industry in October 1980, founder Dick Webb saw a niche available to serve customers in the rail industry. With no line of credit, Dick moved his family to Louisiana, purchased a locomotive, and began an industrial railcar switching operation. The first customer in Louisiana was Boise Cascade, a paper manufacturer, which is still a Watco customer today. A company that started with only one locomotive in 1983 has now grown to nearly 5,000 employees across North America and Australia and is known for its world-class management of short-line railroads, ports, and dependable transportation and supply-chain services. Dick Webb laid the foundation for the growth Watco has experienced today. He set the core values of the company--humility, integrity, and respect for the customer--which has translated in Newsweek magazine naming Watco as one of the top 100 most loved places to work in the U.S. in 2022 and worldwide in 2023. Dedication to serving the customers' needs drives Watco's business model and, over the years, has contributed to Watco's expansion. In Kansas, there are more than 2,000 miles of short-line rail alone, and for the last 40 years, Watco has been an integral mover of Kansas agricultural commodities such as grain and feed products, industrial products such as chemicals and liquid petroleum gasses, cement, coal, steel, and plastics. Kansas providers rely on rail transportation to move their products to markets across the region. Without efficient and varied transportation options, a versatility innate to Watco, producers are at a significant disadvantage. Last June, a $375 million soybean crushing facility opened in Cherryvale, KS, and the South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad, owned and operated by Watco, provides services to the facility, connecting it to the class 1 rail network. I have been proud to support Watco in their applications to the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement--CRISI--Grant Program, not only because of their contributions to Kansas businesses, but also the larger impact to the Pittsburg community. Watco and the Webb family have made it a point to give back to local schools and universities, utilizing their platform to contribute graciously to the community in numerous philanthropic ways. Companies like Watco exhibit the excellence of the Kansas workforce and a commitment to delivering quality service to their customers. I want to congratulate Watco on 40 years of excellence and reliability and look forward to 40 more years of delivering on their promises. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3749 | null | 6,684 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | At 11:11 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has passed the following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate: H.R. 3395. An act to direct the Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission to seek to enter into an agreement with a federally funded research and development center to evaluate foreign ownership of marine terminals at the 15 largest United States container ports, and for other purposes. H.R. 3399. An act to study the security of the Soo Locks and effects on the supply chain resulting from a malfunction or failure of the Soo Locks, and for other purposes. Enrolled Bills Signed At 4:07 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the Speaker has signed the following enrolled bills: H.R. 423. An act to take certain land located in San Diego County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Pala Band of Mission Indians, and for other purposes. H.R. 3672. An act to designate the clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Indian River, Michigan, as the ``Pfc. Justin T. Paton Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic''. H.R. 4004. An act to approve and implement the Agreement between the American Institute in Taiwan and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States regarding Trade between the United States of America and Taiwan, and for other purposes. The enrolled bills were subsequently signed by the President pro tempore (Mrs. Murray). | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3750-3 | null | 6,685 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | The following bills were read the first and the second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated: H.R. 3395. An act to direct the Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission to seek to enter into an agreement with a federally funded research and development center to evaluate foreign ownership of marine terminals at the 15 largest United States container ports, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. H.R. 3399. An act to study the security of the Soo Locks and effects on the supply chain resulting from a malfunction or failure of the Soo Locks, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3750-4 | null | 6,686 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | The following petition or memorial was laid before the Senate and was referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated: POM-34. A concurrent resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio urging the President of the United States to rescind the Federal Housing Finance Agency's new loan-level price adjustments (LLPAs) for purchase, rate- term refinance, and cash-out refinance loans; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 115 Whereas, The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced a new fee structure for purchase, rate-term refinance, and cash-out refinance loans that will take effect on May 1, 2023; and Whereas, The new fee structure reduces or eliminates fees for first-time and low-income homebuyers, but would significantly increase fees for borrowers with moderate incomes and higher credit scores; and Whereas, These increased fees, combined with higher mortgage interest rates, could inhibit the ability of middle class Ohioans to afford a home or to obtain a loan to maintain or improve their current home; and Whereas, The increased fees could have a significant chilling effect on the real estate market in Ohio and create greater uncertainty for both buyers and sellers; now therefore be it Resolved, That we, the members of Ohio Senate of the 135th General Assembly, call upon the President of the United States to rescind the new loan-level price adjustments for purchase, rate-term refinance, and cash-out refinance loans and, should the President refuse, call upon the Unites States Congress to intervene; and be it further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate transmit duly authenticated copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, the President Pro Tempore and Clerk of the United States Senate, the Speaker and Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, each member of the Ohio congressional delegation, and the new media of Ohio. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3752 | null | 6,687 |
formal | based | null | white supremacist | Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to: S. Res. 323 Whereas families in the United States affected by the use of illicit fentanyl use Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day to-- (1) preserve the memory of the individuals lost to fentanyl overdose or poisoning who were unsuspecting victims, experimenting with the drug, or suffering from substance use disorder; (2) acknowledge the devastation caused by the use of illicit fentanyl and other dangerous drugs; and (3) share awareness about the dangers of the use of illicit fentanyl to prevent a public health crisis, self-harm, addiction, and death; Whereas Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day is celebrated each year on August 21 by State governors and attorneys general, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, parent-teacher associations, the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Drug Enforcement Administration (referred to in this preamble as the ``DEA''), and hundreds of other organizations throughout the United States; Whereas fentanyl is a highly addictive synthetic opioid that is 100 times more potent than morphine; Whereas, according to the DEA, illicit fentanyl is-- (1) manufactured with other illicit drugs to increase potency; (2) sold as a powder or mixed with other illicit drugs; and (3) pressed into counterfeit pills to look like legitimate pharmaceutical drugs; Whereas the fentanyl crisis in the United States is a serious public safety threat; Whereas the illicit fentanyl poisoning rate in 2022 was the highest in the history of the United States, and fentanyl poisoning was the number one cause of death among citizens of the United States aged 18 to 45; Whereas synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl and the analogues of fentanyl, are devastating communities and families at an unprecedented rate, claiming \2/3\ of the more than 107,000 lives lost to drug overdoses in 2021; Whereas drug-related deaths throughout the United States reached a new record in 2022, with at least 109,680 deaths; Whereas individuals increasingly use pills or other drugs without knowing those substances contain fentanyl; Whereas, in 2021, the DEA issued the first public safety alert by the agency in more than 6 years to raise awareness of a significant nationwide surge in counterfeit pills; Whereas the rate of fentanyl-related mass poisonings (events including 3 or more poisonings close in time at the same location) was rising as of 2022, according to the DEA; Whereas families in the United States affected by the use of illicit fentanyl have gained momentum in educating the public about the dangers of the use of illicit fentanyl and other drugs and actively engage with Federal agencies to promote such education and awareness; Whereas families in the United States affected by the use of illicit fentanyl seek to raise awareness of that issue and prevent fentanyl-related deaths, and those families join together in the effort to save lives on Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day; and Whereas parents, young people, schools, businesses, law enforcement agencies, religious institutions and faith-based organizations, service organizations, senior citizens, medical and military personnel, sports teams, and individuals throughout the United States will demonstrate a commitment to healthy, productive, and drug-free lifestyles on Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Senate-- (1) supports the goals and ideals of Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day; (2) encourages the people of the United States to promote prevention of the use of fentanyl and to educate young people on Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day, symbolizing a commitment to healthy, drug-free lifestyles; (3) encourages children, teenagers, and other individuals to choose to live drug-free lives; and (4) encourages the people of the United States to-- (A) promote drug prevention and the creation of drug-free communities; and (B) participate in drug prevention activities to show support for healthy, productive, and drug-free lifestyles. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3770-3 | null | 6,688 |
formal | urban | null | racist | SENATE RESOLUTION 324--DESIGNATING THE WEEK OF AUGUST 6 THROUGH AUGUST 12, 2023, AS ``NATIONAL FARMERS MARKET WEEK'' Mr. PADILLA (for himself and Ms. Ernst) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to: S. Res. 324 Whereas farmers markets accounted for $1,700,000,000 in income for farmers of the United States in 2020, demonstrating the crucial role of farmers markets in local economies; Whereas, according to the Marketing Service of the Department of Agriculture, the number of farmers markets in the United States rose from 1,755 in 1994 to 8,771 in 2019, an average growth of nearly 7 percent per year; Whereas farmers markets serve as significant educational sites and as bridges between urban and rural communities, contributing to a better public understanding of farming and ranching; Whereas the adoption of more sustainable farming practices is closely associated with farmer-to-consumer interactions facilitated by farmers markets; Whereas farmers markets and direct marketing farmers help improve the health and wellness of low-income people in the United States who receive Federal nutrition benefits; and Whereas National Farmers Market Week is a time to recognize the unique and indispensable role farmers markets play in supporting food access, bolstering local economies, promoting healthy communities, and fostering sustainable farming: Now, therefore be it Resolved, That the Senate-- (1) designates the week of August 6 through August 12, 2023, as ``National Farmers Market Week''; and (2) recognizes the vital role that farmers markets play in bringing communities together and in supporting the livelihoods of millions of people in the United States, from farmers and food producers to consumers. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3771 | null | 6,689 |
formal | terrorist | null | Islamophobic | Mr. REED (for himself, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. King, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. Rosen, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Ossoff, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Warnock, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Cotton, and Mr. McConnell) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary: S. Res. 327 Whereas the members of the airborne forces of the Armed Forces of the United States have a long and honorable history as bold and fierce warriors who, for the national security of the United States and the defense of freedom and peace, project the ground combat power of the United States by air transport to the far reaches of the battle area and to the far corners of the world; Whereas, on June 25, 1940, experiments with airborne operations by the United States began after the Army Parachute Test Platoon was first authorized by the Department of War; Whereas, in July 1940, 48 volunteers began training for the Army Parachute Test Platoon; Whereas the first official Army parachute jump took place on August 16, 1940, to test the innovative concept of inserting United States ground combat forces behind a battle line by means of a parachute; Whereas the success of the Army Parachute Test Platoon, before the entry of the United States into World War II, validated the airborne operational concept and led to the creation of a formidable force of airborne formations that included the 11th, 13th, 17th, 82nd, and 101st Airborne Divisions; Whereas included in those divisions, and among other separate formations, were many airborne combat, combat support, and combat service support units that served with distinction and achieved repeated success in armed hostilities during World War II; Whereas the achievements of the airborne units during World War II prompted the evolution of those units into a diversified force of parachute and air-assault units that, over the years, have fought in Korea, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, the Persian Gulf region, and Somalia, and have engaged in peacekeeping operations in Lebanon, the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo; Whereas, since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the members of the United States airborne forces, including members of the XVIII Airborne Corps, the 82ndAirborne Division, the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) of the 25th Infantry Division, the 75th Ranger Regiment, special operations forces of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force, and other units of the Armed Forces, have demonstrated bravery and honor in combat, stability, and training operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other theaters in the Global War on Terrorism; Whereas the continued evolution of United States Army airborne units allowed for the reactivation of the 11th Airborne Division on June 6, 2022, to lead the Armed Forces of the United States in Arctic warfighting capabilities, support United States Indo-Pacific Command operations, and continue the storied legacy of the 11th Airborne Division that dates back to World War II; Whereas the modern airborne forces also include other elite forces composed of airborne trained and qualified special operations warriors, including Army Special Forces, Marine Corps Reconnaissance Battalions, Navy SEALs, and Air Force combat control and pararescue teams; Whereas, of the members and former members of the United States airborne forces, thousands have achieved the distinction of making combat jumps, dozens have earned the Medal of Honor, and hundreds have earned the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star, or other decorations and awards for displays of heroism, gallantry, intrepidity, and valor; Whereas the members and former members of the United States airborne forces are all members of a proud and honorable tradition that, together with the special skills and achievements of those members, distinguishes the members as intrepid combat parachutists, air assault forces, special operation forces, and, in the past, glider infantry; Whereas individuals from every State of the United States have served gallantly in the airborne forces, and each State is proud of the contributions of its paratrooper veterans during the many conflicts faced by the United States; Whereas the history and achievements of the members and former members of the United States airborne forces warrant special expressions of the gratitude of the people of the United States; and Whereas, since the airborne forces, past and present, celebrate August 16 as the anniversary of the first official jump by the Army Parachute Test Platoon, August 16 is an appropriate day to recognize as National Airborne Day: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Senate-- (1) designates August 16, 2023, as ``National Airborne Day''; and (2) calls on the people of the United States to observe National Airborne Day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3772-2 | null | 6,690 |
formal | based | null | white supremacist | Mr. BOOKER (for himself, Mr. Coons, Mr. Markey, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Warren, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Whitehouse, and Ms. Duckworth) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary: S. Con. Res. 19 Whereas the first ship carrying enslaved Africans to what is now known as the United States of America arrived in 1619; Whereas that event more than 400 years ago was significant not only because it ushered in the institution of chattel slavery of African Americans, but also because it facilitated the systematic oppression of all people of color that has been a devastating and insufficiently understood and acknowledged aspect of our Nation's history over those past 400-plus years, and that has left a legacy of that oppression that haunts our Nation to this day; Whereas the institution of chattel slavery in the United States subjugated African Americans for nearly 250 years, fractured our Nation, and made a mockery of its founding principle that ``all men are created equal''; Whereas the signing of the Constitution of the United States failed to end slavery and oppression against African Americans and other people of color, thus embedding in society the belief in the myth of a hierarchy of human value based on superficial physical characteristics such as skin color and facial features, and resulting in purposeful and persistent racial inequities in education, health care, employment, Social Security and veteran benefits, land ownership, financial assistance, food security, wages, voting rights, and the justice system; Whereas that oppression denied opportunity and mobility to African Americans and other people of color within the United States, resulting in stolen labor worth billions of dollars while ultimately forestalling landmark contributions that African Americans and other people of color would make in science, arts, commerce, and public service; Whereas Reconstruction represented a significant but constrained moment of advances for Black rights as epitomized by the Freedman's Bureau, which negotiated labor contracts for ex-enslaved people but failed to secure for them land of their own; Whereas the brutal overthrow of Reconstruction failed all individuals in the United States by failing to ensure the safety and security of African Americans and by emboldening States and municipalities in both the North and South to enact numerous laws and policies to stymie the socioeconomic mobility and political voice of freed Blacks, thus maintaining their subservience to Whites; Whereas Reconstruction, the civil rights movement, and other efforts to redress the grievances of marginalized people were sabotaged, both intentionally and unintentionally, by those in power, thus rendering the accomplishments of those efforts transitory and unsustainable, and further embedding the racial hierarchy in society; Whereas examples of government actions directed against populations of color (referred to in this resolution as ``discriminatory government actions'') include-- (1) the creation of the Federal Housing Administration, which adopted specific policies designed to incentivize residential segregation; (2) the enactment of legislation creating the Social Security program, for which most African Americans were purposely rendered ineligible during its first 2 decades; (3) the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (commonly known as the ``GI Bill of Rights''; 58 Stat. 284, chapter 268), which left administration of its programs to the States, thus enabling blatant discrimination against African- American veterans; (4) the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which allowed labor unions to discriminate based on race; (5) subprime lending aimed purposefully at families of color; (6) disenfranchisement of Native Americans, who, until 1924, were denied citizenship on land Native Americans had occupied for millennia; (7) Federal Indian Boarding School Policy during the 19th and 20th centuries, the purpose of which was to ``civilize'' Native children through methods intended to eradicate Native cultures, traditions, and languages; (8) land policies toward Indian Tribes, such as the allotment policy, which caused the loss of over 90,000,000 acres of Tribal lands, even though \2/3\ of that acreage was guaranteed to Indian Tribes by treaties and other Federal laws, and similar unjustified land grabs from Indian Tribes that occurred regionally throughout the late 1800s and into the termination era in the 1950s and 1960s; (9) the involuntary removal of Mexicans and United States citizens of Mexican descent through large-scale discriminatory deportation programs in the 1930s and 1950s; (10) the United States annexation of Puerto Rico, which made Puerto Ricans citizens of the United States without affording them voting rights; (11) racial discrimination against Latino Americans, which has forced Latino Americans to fight continuously for equal access to employment, housing, health care, financial services, and education; (12) the Act entitled ``An Act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese'', approved May 6, 1882 (commonly known as the ``Chinese Exclusion Act''; 22 Stat. 58, chapter 126), which effectively halted immigration from China and barred Chinese immigrants from becoming citizens of the United States, and which was the first instance of xenophobic legislation signed into law specifically targeting a specific group of people based on ethnicity; (13) the treatment of Japanese Americans, despite no evidence of disloyalty, as suspect and traitorous in the very country they helped to build, leading most notably to the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans beginning in 1942; (14) the conspiracy to overthrow the Kingdom of Hawaii and annex the land of the Kingdom of Hawaii, without the consent of or compensation to the Native Hawaiian people of Hawaii; and (15) the United States history of colonialism in the Pacific, which has resulted in economic, health, and educational disparities among other inequities, for people in United States territories, as well as independent nations with which the United States has treaty obligations; Whereas those discriminatory government actions, among other government policies that have had racially disparate impacts, have disproportionately barred African Americans and other people of color from building wealth, thus limiting capital and exacerbating the racial wealth gap; Whereas research has shown that the persistent racial wealth gap has had a significant negative impact on other racial disparities, such as the achievement gap, disparities in school dropout rates, income gaps, disparities in home ownership rates, health outcome disparities, and disparities in incarceration rates; Whereas United States civic leaders and foundations have spearheaded critical efforts to advance racial healing, understanding, and transformation within the United States, recognizing that it is in our collective national interest to urgently address the unhealed, entrenched divisions that will severely undermine our democracy if they are allowed to continue to exist; Whereas many of the most far-reaching victories for racial healing in the United States have been greatly enhanced by the involvement, support, and dedication of individuals from any and all racial groups; Whereas, at the same time, much of the progress toward racial healing and racial equity in the United States has been limited or reversed by our failure to address the root cause of racism, which is the belief in the myth of a hierarchy of human value based on superficial physical characteristics such as skin color and facial features; Whereas the United States institution of slavery, as well as other examples enumerated in this resolution, represents intentional and blatant violations of the most basic right of every individual in the United States to a free and decent life; Whereas the consequences of oppression against people of color have cascaded for centuries, across generations, beyond the era of active enslavement, imperiling for descendants of slaves and other targets of oppression what should have otherwise been the right of every individual in the United States to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; Whereas more than 40 countries have reckoned with historical injustice and its aftermath through forming truth and reconciliation commissions to move toward restorative justice and to return dignity to their citizens; Whereas for 3 decades there has been a growing movement inside and outside Congress to have the Federal Government develop material remedies for the institution of slavery, including through a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans described in H.R. 40, 118th Congress, as introduced on January 9, 2023, and S. 40, 118th Congress, as introduced on January 24, 2023; Whereas the formation of a United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation does not supplant the formation of a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, but rather complements that effort; and Whereas contemporary social science, medical science, and the rapidly expanding use of artificial intelligence and social media reveal the costs and potential threats to our democracy if we continue to allow unhealed, entrenched divisions to be ignored and exploited: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That Congress-- (1) affirms, more than 400 years after the arrival of the first slave ship to the United States, that the Nation owes a long-overdue debt of remembrance to not only those who lived through the egregious injustices enumerated in this resolution, but also to their descendants; and (2) urges the establishment of a United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation to properly acknowledge, memorialize, and be a catalyst for progress toward-- (A) jettisoning the belief in a hierarchy of human value; (B) embracing our common humanity; and (C) permanently eliminating persistent racial inequities. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3772-3 | null | 6,691 |
formal | disloyalty | null | antisemitic | Mr. BOOKER (for himself, Mr. Coons, Mr. Markey, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Warren, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Whitehouse, and Ms. Duckworth) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary: S. Con. Res. 19 Whereas the first ship carrying enslaved Africans to what is now known as the United States of America arrived in 1619; Whereas that event more than 400 years ago was significant not only because it ushered in the institution of chattel slavery of African Americans, but also because it facilitated the systematic oppression of all people of color that has been a devastating and insufficiently understood and acknowledged aspect of our Nation's history over those past 400-plus years, and that has left a legacy of that oppression that haunts our Nation to this day; Whereas the institution of chattel slavery in the United States subjugated African Americans for nearly 250 years, fractured our Nation, and made a mockery of its founding principle that ``all men are created equal''; Whereas the signing of the Constitution of the United States failed to end slavery and oppression against African Americans and other people of color, thus embedding in society the belief in the myth of a hierarchy of human value based on superficial physical characteristics such as skin color and facial features, and resulting in purposeful and persistent racial inequities in education, health care, employment, Social Security and veteran benefits, land ownership, financial assistance, food security, wages, voting rights, and the justice system; Whereas that oppression denied opportunity and mobility to African Americans and other people of color within the United States, resulting in stolen labor worth billions of dollars while ultimately forestalling landmark contributions that African Americans and other people of color would make in science, arts, commerce, and public service; Whereas Reconstruction represented a significant but constrained moment of advances for Black rights as epitomized by the Freedman's Bureau, which negotiated labor contracts for ex-enslaved people but failed to secure for them land of their own; Whereas the brutal overthrow of Reconstruction failed all individuals in the United States by failing to ensure the safety and security of African Americans and by emboldening States and municipalities in both the North and South to enact numerous laws and policies to stymie the socioeconomic mobility and political voice of freed Blacks, thus maintaining their subservience to Whites; Whereas Reconstruction, the civil rights movement, and other efforts to redress the grievances of marginalized people were sabotaged, both intentionally and unintentionally, by those in power, thus rendering the accomplishments of those efforts transitory and unsustainable, and further embedding the racial hierarchy in society; Whereas examples of government actions directed against populations of color (referred to in this resolution as ``discriminatory government actions'') include-- (1) the creation of the Federal Housing Administration, which adopted specific policies designed to incentivize residential segregation; (2) the enactment of legislation creating the Social Security program, for which most African Americans were purposely rendered ineligible during its first 2 decades; (3) the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (commonly known as the ``GI Bill of Rights''; 58 Stat. 284, chapter 268), which left administration of its programs to the States, thus enabling blatant discrimination against African- American veterans; (4) the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which allowed labor unions to discriminate based on race; (5) subprime lending aimed purposefully at families of color; (6) disenfranchisement of Native Americans, who, until 1924, were denied citizenship on land Native Americans had occupied for millennia; (7) Federal Indian Boarding School Policy during the 19th and 20th centuries, the purpose of which was to ``civilize'' Native children through methods intended to eradicate Native cultures, traditions, and languages; (8) land policies toward Indian Tribes, such as the allotment policy, which caused the loss of over 90,000,000 acres of Tribal lands, even though \2/3\ of that acreage was guaranteed to Indian Tribes by treaties and other Federal laws, and similar unjustified land grabs from Indian Tribes that occurred regionally throughout the late 1800s and into the termination era in the 1950s and 1960s; (9) the involuntary removal of Mexicans and United States citizens of Mexican descent through large-scale discriminatory deportation programs in the 1930s and 1950s; (10) the United States annexation of Puerto Rico, which made Puerto Ricans citizens of the United States without affording them voting rights; (11) racial discrimination against Latino Americans, which has forced Latino Americans to fight continuously for equal access to employment, housing, health care, financial services, and education; (12) the Act entitled ``An Act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese'', approved May 6, 1882 (commonly known as the ``Chinese Exclusion Act''; 22 Stat. 58, chapter 126), which effectively halted immigration from China and barred Chinese immigrants from becoming citizens of the United States, and which was the first instance of xenophobic legislation signed into law specifically targeting a specific group of people based on ethnicity; (13) the treatment of Japanese Americans, despite no evidence of disloyalty, as suspect and traitorous in the very country they helped to build, leading most notably to the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans beginning in 1942; (14) the conspiracy to overthrow the Kingdom of Hawaii and annex the land of the Kingdom of Hawaii, without the consent of or compensation to the Native Hawaiian people of Hawaii; and (15) the United States history of colonialism in the Pacific, which has resulted in economic, health, and educational disparities among other inequities, for people in United States territories, as well as independent nations with which the United States has treaty obligations; Whereas those discriminatory government actions, among other government policies that have had racially disparate impacts, have disproportionately barred African Americans and other people of color from building wealth, thus limiting capital and exacerbating the racial wealth gap; Whereas research has shown that the persistent racial wealth gap has had a significant negative impact on other racial disparities, such as the achievement gap, disparities in school dropout rates, income gaps, disparities in home ownership rates, health outcome disparities, and disparities in incarceration rates; Whereas United States civic leaders and foundations have spearheaded critical efforts to advance racial healing, understanding, and transformation within the United States, recognizing that it is in our collective national interest to urgently address the unhealed, entrenched divisions that will severely undermine our democracy if they are allowed to continue to exist; Whereas many of the most far-reaching victories for racial healing in the United States have been greatly enhanced by the involvement, support, and dedication of individuals from any and all racial groups; Whereas, at the same time, much of the progress toward racial healing and racial equity in the United States has been limited or reversed by our failure to address the root cause of racism, which is the belief in the myth of a hierarchy of human value based on superficial physical characteristics such as skin color and facial features; Whereas the United States institution of slavery, as well as other examples enumerated in this resolution, represents intentional and blatant violations of the most basic right of every individual in the United States to a free and decent life; Whereas the consequences of oppression against people of color have cascaded for centuries, across generations, beyond the era of active enslavement, imperiling for descendants of slaves and other targets of oppression what should have otherwise been the right of every individual in the United States to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; Whereas more than 40 countries have reckoned with historical injustice and its aftermath through forming truth and reconciliation commissions to move toward restorative justice and to return dignity to their citizens; Whereas for 3 decades there has been a growing movement inside and outside Congress to have the Federal Government develop material remedies for the institution of slavery, including through a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans described in H.R. 40, 118th Congress, as introduced on January 9, 2023, and S. 40, 118th Congress, as introduced on January 24, 2023; Whereas the formation of a United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation does not supplant the formation of a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, but rather complements that effort; and Whereas contemporary social science, medical science, and the rapidly expanding use of artificial intelligence and social media reveal the costs and potential threats to our democracy if we continue to allow unhealed, entrenched divisions to be ignored and exploited: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That Congress-- (1) affirms, more than 400 years after the arrival of the first slave ship to the United States, that the Nation owes a long-overdue debt of remembrance to not only those who lived through the egregious injustices enumerated in this resolution, but also to their descendants; and (2) urges the establishment of a United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation to properly acknowledge, memorialize, and be a catalyst for progress toward-- (A) jettisoning the belief in a hierarchy of human value; (B) embracing our common humanity; and (C) permanently eliminating persistent racial inequities. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3772-3 | null | 6,692 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | Mr. BOOKER (for himself, Mr. Coons, Mr. Markey, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Warren, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Whitehouse, and Ms. Duckworth) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary: S. Con. Res. 19 Whereas the first ship carrying enslaved Africans to what is now known as the United States of America arrived in 1619; Whereas that event more than 400 years ago was significant not only because it ushered in the institution of chattel slavery of African Americans, but also because it facilitated the systematic oppression of all people of color that has been a devastating and insufficiently understood and acknowledged aspect of our Nation's history over those past 400-plus years, and that has left a legacy of that oppression that haunts our Nation to this day; Whereas the institution of chattel slavery in the United States subjugated African Americans for nearly 250 years, fractured our Nation, and made a mockery of its founding principle that ``all men are created equal''; Whereas the signing of the Constitution of the United States failed to end slavery and oppression against African Americans and other people of color, thus embedding in society the belief in the myth of a hierarchy of human value based on superficial physical characteristics such as skin color and facial features, and resulting in purposeful and persistent racial inequities in education, health care, employment, Social Security and veteran benefits, land ownership, financial assistance, food security, wages, voting rights, and the justice system; Whereas that oppression denied opportunity and mobility to African Americans and other people of color within the United States, resulting in stolen labor worth billions of dollars while ultimately forestalling landmark contributions that African Americans and other people of color would make in science, arts, commerce, and public service; Whereas Reconstruction represented a significant but constrained moment of advances for Black rights as epitomized by the Freedman's Bureau, which negotiated labor contracts for ex-enslaved people but failed to secure for them land of their own; Whereas the brutal overthrow of Reconstruction failed all individuals in the United States by failing to ensure the safety and security of African Americans and by emboldening States and municipalities in both the North and South to enact numerous laws and policies to stymie the socioeconomic mobility and political voice of freed Blacks, thus maintaining their subservience to Whites; Whereas Reconstruction, the civil rights movement, and other efforts to redress the grievances of marginalized people were sabotaged, both intentionally and unintentionally, by those in power, thus rendering the accomplishments of those efforts transitory and unsustainable, and further embedding the racial hierarchy in society; Whereas examples of government actions directed against populations of color (referred to in this resolution as ``discriminatory government actions'') include-- (1) the creation of the Federal Housing Administration, which adopted specific policies designed to incentivize residential segregation; (2) the enactment of legislation creating the Social Security program, for which most African Americans were purposely rendered ineligible during its first 2 decades; (3) the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (commonly known as the ``GI Bill of Rights''; 58 Stat. 284, chapter 268), which left administration of its programs to the States, thus enabling blatant discrimination against African- American veterans; (4) the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which allowed labor unions to discriminate based on race; (5) subprime lending aimed purposefully at families of color; (6) disenfranchisement of Native Americans, who, until 1924, were denied citizenship on land Native Americans had occupied for millennia; (7) Federal Indian Boarding School Policy during the 19th and 20th centuries, the purpose of which was to ``civilize'' Native children through methods intended to eradicate Native cultures, traditions, and languages; (8) land policies toward Indian Tribes, such as the allotment policy, which caused the loss of over 90,000,000 acres of Tribal lands, even though \2/3\ of that acreage was guaranteed to Indian Tribes by treaties and other Federal laws, and similar unjustified land grabs from Indian Tribes that occurred regionally throughout the late 1800s and into the termination era in the 1950s and 1960s; (9) the involuntary removal of Mexicans and United States citizens of Mexican descent through large-scale discriminatory deportation programs in the 1930s and 1950s; (10) the United States annexation of Puerto Rico, which made Puerto Ricans citizens of the United States without affording them voting rights; (11) racial discrimination against Latino Americans, which has forced Latino Americans to fight continuously for equal access to employment, housing, health care, financial services, and education; (12) the Act entitled ``An Act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese'', approved May 6, 1882 (commonly known as the ``Chinese Exclusion Act''; 22 Stat. 58, chapter 126), which effectively halted immigration from China and barred Chinese immigrants from becoming citizens of the United States, and which was the first instance of xenophobic legislation signed into law specifically targeting a specific group of people based on ethnicity; (13) the treatment of Japanese Americans, despite no evidence of disloyalty, as suspect and traitorous in the very country they helped to build, leading most notably to the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans beginning in 1942; (14) the conspiracy to overthrow the Kingdom of Hawaii and annex the land of the Kingdom of Hawaii, without the consent of or compensation to the Native Hawaiian people of Hawaii; and (15) the United States history of colonialism in the Pacific, which has resulted in economic, health, and educational disparities among other inequities, for people in United States territories, as well as independent nations with which the United States has treaty obligations; Whereas those discriminatory government actions, among other government policies that have had racially disparate impacts, have disproportionately barred African Americans and other people of color from building wealth, thus limiting capital and exacerbating the racial wealth gap; Whereas research has shown that the persistent racial wealth gap has had a significant negative impact on other racial disparities, such as the achievement gap, disparities in school dropout rates, income gaps, disparities in home ownership rates, health outcome disparities, and disparities in incarceration rates; Whereas United States civic leaders and foundations have spearheaded critical efforts to advance racial healing, understanding, and transformation within the United States, recognizing that it is in our collective national interest to urgently address the unhealed, entrenched divisions that will severely undermine our democracy if they are allowed to continue to exist; Whereas many of the most far-reaching victories for racial healing in the United States have been greatly enhanced by the involvement, support, and dedication of individuals from any and all racial groups; Whereas, at the same time, much of the progress toward racial healing and racial equity in the United States has been limited or reversed by our failure to address the root cause of racism, which is the belief in the myth of a hierarchy of human value based on superficial physical characteristics such as skin color and facial features; Whereas the United States institution of slavery, as well as other examples enumerated in this resolution, represents intentional and blatant violations of the most basic right of every individual in the United States to a free and decent life; Whereas the consequences of oppression against people of color have cascaded for centuries, across generations, beyond the era of active enslavement, imperiling for descendants of slaves and other targets of oppression what should have otherwise been the right of every individual in the United States to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; Whereas more than 40 countries have reckoned with historical injustice and its aftermath through forming truth and reconciliation commissions to move toward restorative justice and to return dignity to their citizens; Whereas for 3 decades there has been a growing movement inside and outside Congress to have the Federal Government develop material remedies for the institution of slavery, including through a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans described in H.R. 40, 118th Congress, as introduced on January 9, 2023, and S. 40, 118th Congress, as introduced on January 24, 2023; Whereas the formation of a United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation does not supplant the formation of a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, but rather complements that effort; and Whereas contemporary social science, medical science, and the rapidly expanding use of artificial intelligence and social media reveal the costs and potential threats to our democracy if we continue to allow unhealed, entrenched divisions to be ignored and exploited: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That Congress-- (1) affirms, more than 400 years after the arrival of the first slave ship to the United States, that the Nation owes a long-overdue debt of remembrance to not only those who lived through the egregious injustices enumerated in this resolution, but also to their descendants; and (2) urges the establishment of a United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation to properly acknowledge, memorialize, and be a catalyst for progress toward-- (A) jettisoning the belief in a hierarchy of human value; (B) embracing our common humanity; and (C) permanently eliminating persistent racial inequities. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2023-07-27-pt1-PgS3772-3 | null | 6,693 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Pursuant to clause 7(c)(1) of rule XII and Section 3(c) of H. Res. 5 the following statements are submitted regarding (1) the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution and (2) the single subject of the bill or joint resolution. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-07-28-pt1-PgH4152 | null | 6,694 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Pursuant to clause 7(c)(1) of rule XII and Section 3(c) of H. Res. 5 the following statements are submitted regarding (1) the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution and (2) the single subject of the bill or joint resolution. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-08-01-pt1-PgH4158-2 | null | 6,695 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | By Mr. GREEN of Texas: H.J. Res. 84. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: [The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States or in any Department or Officer thereof The single subject of this legislation is: This bill will award a Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to Africans and their descendants enslaved within the United States from August 20, 1619, to December 6, 1865 | 2020-01-06 | The RECORDER | House | CREC-2023-08-01-pt1-PgH4160-6 | null | 6,696 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Pursuant to clause 7(c)(l) of rule XII and Section 3(c) of H. Res. 5 the following statements are submitted regarding (1) the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution and (2) the single subject of the bill or joint resolution. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-08-04-pt1-PgH4165 | null | 6,697 |
formal | the Fed | null | antisemitic | Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive communications were taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows: EC-1586. A letter from the Regulation Development Coordinator, Office of Regulation Policy and Management, Department of Veterans Affairs, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Names for National Cemeteries and Features (RIN: 2900-AR81(F)) received July 24, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. EC-1587. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's direct final rule -- Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rule, the Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals Rule, and the Definition of Solid Waste Rule; Technical Corrections [EPA-HQ-OLEM-2023-0081; FRL -8687-02- OLEM] (RIN: 2050-AH23) received July 19, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1588. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Removal of Title V Emergency Affirmative Defense Provisions from State Operating Permit Programs and Federal Operating Permit Program [EPA-HQ- OAR-2016-0186; FRL-8961-02-OAR] (RIN: 2060-AV39) received July 19, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1589. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Air Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Montana; Libby 1997 Annual PM2.5 Limited Maintenance Plan and Redesignation Request [EPA-R08-OAR-2021-0003; FRL-10454-02-R8] received July 19, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1590. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Air Plan Approval; Wisconsin; Emissions Reporting and Infrastructure SIP Requirements [EPA-R05-OAR-2015-0529; EPA-R05-OAR-2022-0685; FRL-10638-02-R5] received July 19, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1591. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Air Plan Approval; Virginia; Startup, Shutdown, ad Malfunction Amendments to Facility and Control Equipment Maintenance or Malfunction Regulations; Correction [EPA-R03-OAR-2023-0104; FRL10907-03- R3] received July 19, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1592. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's direct final rule -- Air Plan Approval; Michigan; DTE River Rouge [EPA- R05-OAR-2023-0031; FRL-10954-02-R5] received July 19, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1593. A letter from the Director, Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Air Plan Approval; West Virginia; 2022 Amendments to West Virginia's Ambient Air Quality Standards [EPA-R03-OAR-2022-0656; FRL-10083-02-R3] received July 24, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1594. A letter from the Director, Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Air Plan Approval; State of Missouri; Construction Permits by Rule [EPA-R07-OAR-2023-0197; FRL- 10826-02-R7] received July 24, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1595. A letter from the Director, Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Sodium Salt of Acifluorfen; Pesticide Tolerances [EPA-HQ-OPP-2022-0361; FRL-11130-01-OCSPP] received July 24, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1596. A letter from the Director, Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Indaziflam; Pesticide Tolerance [EPA- HQ-OPP-2022-0479; FRL-11131-01-OCSPP] received July 24, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1597. A letter from the Director, Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's final rule -- N-(n-Octyl)-2-pyrrolidone in Pesticide Formulations; Tolerance Exemption [EPA-HQ-OPP-2021-0172; FRL- 11166-01-OCSPP] received July 24, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1598. A letter from the Chief of Staff, Media Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, transmitting the Commission's final rule -- In the Matter of Amendment of section 73.202(b), Table of Allotments, FM Broadcast Stations (Peach Springs, Arizona) [MB Docket No.: 23-45; RM-11945] received July 31, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1599. A letter from the Chief of Staff, Media Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, transmitting the Commission's final rule -- In the Matter of Amendment of section 73.202(b), Table of Allotments, FM Broadcast Stations (Tecopa, California) [MB Docket No.: 23-86; RM-11948] received July 31, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1600. A letter from the General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, transmitting the Commission's Major final rule -- Improvements to Generator Interconnection Procedures and Agreements [Docket No.: RM22-14-000; Order No.: 2023] (RIN: 1902-AG00) received August 2, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1601. A letter from the Director, Office of Congressional Affairs, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, transmitting the Commission's issuance of regulatory guide -- Criteria for Programmable Digital Devices in Safety-Related Systems of Nuclear Power Plants [Regulatory Guide 1.152, Revision 4] received July 24, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1602. A letter from the Director, Office of Congressional Affairs, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, transmitting the Commission's issuance of regulatory guide -- Use of Plant Parameter Envelope in Early Site Permit Applications for Nuclear Power Plants [Regulatory Guide 4.27, Revision 0] received July 24, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1603. A letter from the Director, Office of Congressional Affairs, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, transmitting the Commission's issuance of regulatory guide -- Performance-Based Containment Leak-Test Program [Regulatory Guide 1.163, Revision 1] received July 24, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1604. A letter from the Director, Office of Congressional Affairs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, transmitting the Commission's final rule -- Security Frequently Asked Question, 2022-01 HHS Lab Audits received July 24, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EC-1605. A letter from the Policy Advisor, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Seizure and Forfeiture Procedures [Docket No.: FWS-HQ-LE-2016-0067; FF09L00200-FX- LE12200900000] (RIN: 1018-BG73) received August 1, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Natural Resources. EC-1606. A letter from the Senior Trial Attorney, Office of the Secretary, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's Major final rule -- Accessible Lavatories on Single-Aisle Aircraft [Docket No.: DOT-OST-2021-0137] (RIN: 2105-AE89) received August 4, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. EC-1607. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Establishment of Class E Airspace; Whiteriver, AZ [Docket No.: FAA-2023-1078; Airspace Docket No.: 23-AWP-30] (RIN: 2120-AA66) received July 25, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. EC-1608. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Airworthiness Directives; Airbus Canada Limited Partnership (Type Certificate Previously Held by C Series Aircraft Limited Partnership (CSALP); Bombardier, Inc.) Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA-2023-0654; Project Identifier MCAI-2022-01505-T; Amendment 39-22467; AD 2023-12- 09] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received July 25, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. EC-1609. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Airworthiness Directives; Airbus Canada Limited Partnership Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA-2023- 1408; Project Identifier MCAI-2023-00791-T; Amendment 39- 22502; AD 2023-14-02] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received July 25, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. EC-1610. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Airworthiness Directives; Bombardier, Inc., Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA-2023-1407; Project Identifier MCAI-2023-00788-T; Amendment 39-22501; AD 2023-14-01] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received July 25, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. EC-1611. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Airworthiness Directives; Bombardier, Inc., Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA-2022-1662; Project Identifier MCAI-2022-00689-T; Amendment 39-22446; AD 2023-11-01] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received July 25, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. EC-1612. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Airworthiness Directives; GE Aviation Czech s.r.o. (Type Certificate Previously Held by WALTER Engines a.s., Walter a.s., and MOTORLET a.s.) Engines [Docket No.: FAA-2023-0664; Project Identifier MCAI-2022- 01527-E; Amendment 39-22483; AD 2023-12-24] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received July 25, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. EC-1613. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Airworthiness Directives; Rolls- Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG Engines [Docket No.: FAA-2023- 0660; Project Identifier MCAI-2022-01561-E; Amendment 39- 22474; AD 2023-12-16] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received July 25, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. EC-1614. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Airworthiness Directives; Rolls- Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG Engines [Docket No.: FAA-2023-0437; Project Identifier MCAI- 2022-01358-E; Amendment 39-22480; AD 2023-12-21] (RIN: 2120- AA64) received July 25, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. EC-1615. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Airworthiness Directives; The Boeing Company Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA-2022-1304; Project Identifier AD-2022-00347-T; Amendment 39-22482; AD 2023-12- 23] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received July 25, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. EC-1616. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Airworthiness Directives; Safran Helicopter Engines, S.A. (Type Certificate Previously Held by Turbomeca, S.A.) Engines [Docket No.: FAA-2023-1411; Project Identifier MCAI-2023-00710-E; Amendment 39-22499; AD 2023-13- 14] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received July 25, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. EC-1617. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Airworthiness Directives; The Boeing Company Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA-2022-0816; Project Identifier AD-2022-00355-T; Amendment 39-22477; AD 2023-12- 18] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received July 25, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. EC-1618. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Airworthiness Directives; The Boeing Company Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA-2023-0157; Project Identifier AD-2022-01309-T; Amendment 39-22466; AD 2023-12- 08] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received July 25, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. EC-1619. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Airworthiness Directives; Bell Textron Canada Limited Helicopters [Docket No.: FAA-2023- 1395; Project Identifier MCAI-2023-00720-R; Amendment 39- 22485; AD 2023-12-26] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received July 25, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. EC-1620. A letter from the Regulation Development Coordinator, Office of Regulation Policy and Management, Department of Veterans Affairs, transmitting the Department's final rule -- VA Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Nomenclature Change for Position Title -- Revision (RIN: 2900-AQ11(F)) received July 24, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. EC-1621. A letter from the Federal Register Liaison Office, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, Department of the Treasury, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Establishment of the Long Valley-Lake County Viticultural Area and Modification of the High Valley and North Coast Viticultural Areas [Docket No.: TTB-2022-0003; T.D. TTB-188; Ref: Notice No.: 209] (RIN: 1513-AC79) received July 26, 2023, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Ways and Means. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-08-08-pt1-PgH4169-8 | null | 6,698 |
formal | single | null | homophobic | Pursuant to clause 7(c)(1) of rule XII and Section 3(c) of H. Res. 5 the following statements are submitted regarding (1) the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution and (2) the single subject of the bill or joint resolution. | 2020-01-06 | Unknown | House | CREC-2023-08-08-pt1-PgH4172 | null | 6,699 |
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