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11/25/2022 | Unknown | House | CREC-2022-11-25-pt1-PgH8598 | nan | nan | Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of committees were delivered to
the Clerk for printing and reference to the proper calendar, as
follows:
Mr. NADLER: Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 3372. A bill
to authorize implementation grants to community-based
nonprofits to operate one-stop reentry centers (Rept. 117-
584). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union.
| based | white supremacist |
11/28/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-11-28-pt1-PgS6821-2 | nan | nan | Enrolled Bills Signed
Under the authority of the order of the Senate of January 3, 2021,
the Secretary of the Senate, on November 22, 2022, during the
adjournment of the Senate, received a message from the House of
Representatives announcing that the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. McGovern)
had signed the following enrolled bills:
S. 1941. An act to direct the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget to standardize the use of core-based
statistical area designations across Federal programs, to
allow between 120 and 180 days for public comment on any
proposed change to such designations, and to report on the
scientific basis and estimated impact to Federal programs for
any proposed change to such designations, and for other
purposes.
S. 2159. An act to designate the community-based outpatient
clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs located at 400
College Drive, Middleburg, Florida, as the ``Andrew K. Baker
Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic'', and for other
purposes.
S. 3510. An act to require the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget to issue guidance with respect to
natural disaster resilience, and for other purposes.
S. 3655. An act to amend the Civil Rights Cold Case Records
Collection Act of 2018 to extend the termination date of the
Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.
S. 3826. An act to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 1304 4th Avenue in Canyon,
Texas, as the ``Gary James Fletcher Post Office Building''.
S. 3884. An act to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 404 U.S. Highway 41 North in
Baraga, Michigan, as the ``Cora Reynolds Anderson Post
Office''.
H.R. 8454. An act to expand research on cannabidiol and
marijuana, and for other purposes.
Under the authority of the order of the Senate of January 3, 2021,
the enrolled bills were signed on November 22, 2022, during the
adjournment of the Senate by the President pro tempore (Mr. Leahy).
| based | white supremacist |
11/28/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-11-28-pt1-PgS6821-3 | nan | nan | The Secretary of the Senate reported that on today, November 28,
2022, she had presented to the President of the United States the
following enrolled bills:
S. 1941. An act to direct the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget to standardize the use of core-based
statistical area designations across Federal programs, to
allow between 120 and 180 days for public comment on any
proposed change to such designations, and to report on the
scientific basis and estimated impact to Federal programs for
any proposed change to such designations, and for other
purposes.
S. 2159. An act to designate the community-based outpatient
clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs located at 400
College Drive, Middleburg, Florida, as the ``Andrew K. Baker
Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic'', and for other
purposes.
S. 3510. An act to require the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget to issue guidance with respect to
natural disaster resilience, and other purposes.
S. 3655. Act to amend the Civil Rights Cold Case Records
Collection Act of 2018 to extend the termination date of the
Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.
S. 3826. An act to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 1304 4th Avenue in Canyon,
Texas, as the ``Gary James Fletcher Post Office Building''.
S. 3884. An act to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 404 U.S. Highway 41 North in
Baraga, Michigan, as the ``Cora Reynolds Anderson Post
Office''.
| based | white supremacist |
11/17/2022 | Unknown | House | CREC-2022-11-17-pt1-PgH8554-3 | nan | nan | The Chaplain, the Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the
following prayer:
Today, O God, we lay before You our petitions, prayers,
intercessions, and thanksgiving. We request that You bestow upon us the
joy of Your presence among us, that when we look upon the faces of
those who labor in these Halls, known and unknown, elected or employed,
we may see Your image.
We pray for the health and welfare of this illustrious body, that as
the scenery changes and the actors move on, around, or off the stage,
You will uphold each one. Guide them in the roles You have called them
to fulfill and grant them wisdom to discern the way You would have them
go.
Lord, may our prayers serve as an intercession for those who do not
have enough courage or strength to speak their own needs, for those who
haven't enough faith to trust what lies ahead, and for those who do not
know how to receive the mercy You offer us.
Then accept our offerings of thanksgiving to You for the bounty You
lay before us--the gift to labor, to serve, and to contribute our
energies wherever You call us, but especially here in this, our
Nation's Capital.
May our words be good and pleasing to You as we pray them in Your
most holy name.
Amen.
| welfare | racist |
11/16/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-11-16-pt1-PgS6737-3 | nan | nan | The following communications were laid before the Senate, together
with accompanying papers, reports, and documents, and were referred as
indicated:
EC-5286. A communication from the Senior Advisor,
Department of Health and Human Services, transmitting,
pursuant to law, a report relative to a vacancy in the
position of Director of the Indian Health Service, Department
of Health and Human Services, received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on October 11, 2022; to the Committee
on Indian Affairs.
EC-5287. A communication from the Wildlife Biologist, Fish
and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior,
transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled
``Migratory Bird Hunting; Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations
on Certain Federal Indian Reservations and Ceded Lands for
the 2022-23 Season'' (RIN1018-BF07) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Indian Affairs.
EC-5288. A communication from the Regulation Development
Coordinator, Office of Regulation Policy and Management,
Department of Veterans Affairs, transmitting, pursuant to
law, the report of a rule entitled ``Extension of Program of
Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers Eligibility
for Legacy Participants and Legacy Applicants'' (RIN2900-
AR28) received in the Office of the President of the Senate
on September 27, 2022; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
EC-5289. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Special
Local Regulation; 2022 Horsepower on the Hudson, Hudson
River, Castleton, NY'' ((RIN1625-AA08) (Docket No. USCG-2021-
0904)) received in the Office of the President of the Senate
on September 27, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation.
EC-5290. A communication from the Attorney-Advisor, Office
of General Counsel, Department of Transportation,
transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a vacancy
in the position of Administrator, National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, Department of Transportation, received
during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 23, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5291. A communication from the Associate General
Counsel for General Law, Department of Homeland Security,
transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a vacancy
in the position of Administrator, Transportation Security
Administration, Department of Homeland Security, received in
the Office of the President of the Senate on October 11,
2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5292. A communication from the Division Chief for
Regulatory Development, Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, Department of Transportation, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``General
Technical, Organizational, Conforming, and Correcting
Amendments to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations''
(RIN2126-AC47) received in the Office of the President of the
Senate on October 11, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5293. A communication from the Attorney-Advisor, Office
of General Counsel, Department of Transportation,
transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a vacancy
in the position of Administrator, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, Department of Transportation, received
in the Office of the President of the Senate on October 11,
2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5294. A communication from the Attorney for Regulatory
Affairs Division, Office of the General Counsel, Consumer
Product Safety Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the
report of a rule entitled ``Safety Standard for Infant Bath
Tubs'' (16 CFR Part 1234) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5295. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of United States Area
Navigation (RNAV) Route T-369; Bethel, AK'' ((RIN2120-AA66)
(Docket No. FAA-2021-1163)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 29, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5296. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of United States Area
Navigation (RNAV) Route T-370; Kenai, AK'' ((RIN2120-AA66)
(Docket No. FAA-2021-1194)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5297. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of United States Area
Navigation (RNAV) Route T-385; Kodiak, AK'' ((RIN2120-AA66)
(Docket No. FAA-2021-0860)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5298. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of United States Area
Navigation (RNAV) Route T-364; Kotzebue, AK'' ((RIN2120-AA66)
(Docket No. FAA-2021-1156)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5299. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of United States Area
Navigation (RNAV) Route T-235; Atqasuk, AK'' ((RIN2120-AA66)
(Docket No. FAA-2021-1100)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5300. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of United States Area
Navigation (RNAV) Route T-232; Fairbanks, AK'' ((RIN2120-
AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0026)) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5301. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of United States Area
Navigation (RNAV) Route T-382; Hooper Bay, AK'' ((RIN2120-
AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2021-0857)) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5302. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Revocation of Class E Airspace; Coalgate,
OK'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0715)) received in
the Office of the President of the Senate on September 28,
2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5303. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Amendment of Class E Airspace; Coldwater
and Sturgis, MI'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0758))
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation.
EC-5304. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Amendment of Class D and Class E Airspace;
Mansfield, OH'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0714))
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation.
EC-5305. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Amendment of Class E Airspace; Alma, GA''
((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0568)) received in the
Office of the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5306. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Amendment of Class D Airspace, and
Revocation of Class E Airspace; Fort Pierce, FL'' ((RIN2120-
AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0668)) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5307. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Revocation of Class E Airspace;
Brownsville, PA'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0661))
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation.
EC-5308. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Amendment of Class D and Class E Airspace;
Baltimore, MD'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0545))
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation.
EC-5309. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Amendment of Class E Airspace; Multiple
Texas Towns'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0775))
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation.
EC-5310. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Revocation of Class E Airspace; Watersmeet,
MI'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0766)) received in
the Office of the President of the Senate on September 28,
2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5311. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of Class E Airspace; Dayton,
OH'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2021-1080)) received in
the Office of the President of the Senate on September 28,
2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5312. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; General Electric
Company Turbofan Engines; Amendment 39-22167'' ((RIN2120-
AA64) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0690)) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5313. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; Dassault Aviation
Airplanes; Amendment 39-22169'' ((RIN2120-AA64)
(Docket No. FAA-2022-1067)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5314. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; Honda Aircraft
Company LLC Airplanes; Amendment 39-22154'' ((RIN2120-AA64)
(Docket No. FAA-2022-1057)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5315. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; CFM
International, S.A. Turbofan Engines; Amendment 39-22150''
((RIN2120-AA64) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0160)) received in the
Office of the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5316. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; MT-Propeller
Entwicklung GmbH Propellers; Amendment 39-22153'' ((RIN2120-
AA64) (Docket No. FAA-2022-1056)) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5317. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; The Boeing
Company Airplanes; Amendment 39-22109'' ((RIN2120-AA64)
(Docket No. FAA-2022-0290)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5318. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; Gulfstream
Aerospace Corporation Airplanes; Amendment 39-22133''
((RIN2120-AA64) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0953)) received in the
Office of the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5319. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; Viking Air
Limited (Type Certificate Previously Held by Bombardier, Inc.
and de Havilland) Airplanes; Amendment 39-22143'' ((RIN2120-
AA64) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0602)) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5320. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; Airbus Defense
and Space S.A. (Formerly Known as Construcciones
Aeronauticas, S.A.) Airplanes; Amendment 39-22144''
((RIN2120-AA64) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0595)) received in the
Office of the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5321. A communication from the Senior Attorney Advisor/
Regulations Officer, Federal Highway Administration,
Department of Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law,
the report of a rule entitled ``Drug Offender's Driver's
License Suspension'' (RIN2125-AF93) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on October 27, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5322. A communication from the General Counsel,
National Indian Gaming Commission, transmitting, pursuant to
law, the report of a rule entitled ``Audit Standards''
(RIN3141-AA68) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on October 27,
2022; to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
EC-5323. A communication from the General Counsel,
National Indian Gaming Commission, transmitting, pursuant to
law, the report of a rule entitled ``Submission of Gaming
Ordinance or Resolution'' (RIN3141-AA73) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on October 27, 2022; to the Committee on Indian
Affairs.
EC-5324. A communication from the Alternate Federal
Register Liaison Officer, Office of the Secretary, Department
of Defense, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a
rule entitled ``Civil Monetary Penalty Inflation Adjustment''
(RIN0790-AL50) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on October 27,
2022; to the Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5325. A communication from the Chief Innovation
Officer, Rural Development Innovation Center, Department of
Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a
rule entitled ``Rural eConnectivity Program'' received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on October 27, 2022; to the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
EC-5326. A communication from the Chief of the Planning
and Regulatory Affairs Branch, Food and Nutrition Service,
Department of Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant to law, the
report of a rule entitled ``Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program: Civil Rights Update to the Federal-State Agreement''
(RIN0584-AE75) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on October 27,
2022; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and
Forestry.
EC-5327. A communication from the Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, Farm Credit Administration, transmitting,
pursuant to law, a report relative to the Administration's
2022 compensation program adjustments; to the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
EC-5328. A communication from the Board Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, Farm Credit Administration, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the 2020 annual report of the Farm Credit
Administration Regulator of the Farm Credit System; to the
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
EC-5329. 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 13959 with respect to the threat from
securities investments that finance certain companies of the
People's Republic of China; to the Committee on Banking,
Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5330. 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 12170 with respect to Iran; to the Committee
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5331. 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 13536 with respect to Somalia; to the
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5332. 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 14024 with respect to specified harmful
foreign activities of the Government of the Russian
Federation; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs.
EC-5333. A communication from the Senior Congressional
Liaison, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Fair Credit
Reporting; Facially False Data'' (12 CFR Part 1022) received
during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the
President of the Senate on October 27, 2022; to the Committee
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
| Baltimore | racist |
11/16/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-11-16-pt1-PgS6737-3 | nan | nan | The following communications were laid before the Senate, together
with accompanying papers, reports, and documents, and were referred as
indicated:
EC-5286. A communication from the Senior Advisor,
Department of Health and Human Services, transmitting,
pursuant to law, a report relative to a vacancy in the
position of Director of the Indian Health Service, Department
of Health and Human Services, received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on October 11, 2022; to the Committee
on Indian Affairs.
EC-5287. A communication from the Wildlife Biologist, Fish
and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior,
transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled
``Migratory Bird Hunting; Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations
on Certain Federal Indian Reservations and Ceded Lands for
the 2022-23 Season'' (RIN1018-BF07) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Indian Affairs.
EC-5288. A communication from the Regulation Development
Coordinator, Office of Regulation Policy and Management,
Department of Veterans Affairs, transmitting, pursuant to
law, the report of a rule entitled ``Extension of Program of
Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers Eligibility
for Legacy Participants and Legacy Applicants'' (RIN2900-
AR28) received in the Office of the President of the Senate
on September 27, 2022; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
EC-5289. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Special
Local Regulation; 2022 Horsepower on the Hudson, Hudson
River, Castleton, NY'' ((RIN1625-AA08) (Docket No. USCG-2021-
0904)) received in the Office of the President of the Senate
on September 27, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation.
EC-5290. A communication from the Attorney-Advisor, Office
of General Counsel, Department of Transportation,
transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a vacancy
in the position of Administrator, National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, Department of Transportation, received
during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 23, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5291. A communication from the Associate General
Counsel for General Law, Department of Homeland Security,
transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a vacancy
in the position of Administrator, Transportation Security
Administration, Department of Homeland Security, received in
the Office of the President of the Senate on October 11,
2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5292. A communication from the Division Chief for
Regulatory Development, Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, Department of Transportation, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``General
Technical, Organizational, Conforming, and Correcting
Amendments to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations''
(RIN2126-AC47) received in the Office of the President of the
Senate on October 11, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5293. A communication from the Attorney-Advisor, Office
of General Counsel, Department of Transportation,
transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a vacancy
in the position of Administrator, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, Department of Transportation, received
in the Office of the President of the Senate on October 11,
2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5294. A communication from the Attorney for Regulatory
Affairs Division, Office of the General Counsel, Consumer
Product Safety Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the
report of a rule entitled ``Safety Standard for Infant Bath
Tubs'' (16 CFR Part 1234) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5295. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of United States Area
Navigation (RNAV) Route T-369; Bethel, AK'' ((RIN2120-AA66)
(Docket No. FAA-2021-1163)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 29, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5296. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of United States Area
Navigation (RNAV) Route T-370; Kenai, AK'' ((RIN2120-AA66)
(Docket No. FAA-2021-1194)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5297. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of United States Area
Navigation (RNAV) Route T-385; Kodiak, AK'' ((RIN2120-AA66)
(Docket No. FAA-2021-0860)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5298. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of United States Area
Navigation (RNAV) Route T-364; Kotzebue, AK'' ((RIN2120-AA66)
(Docket No. FAA-2021-1156)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5299. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of United States Area
Navigation (RNAV) Route T-235; Atqasuk, AK'' ((RIN2120-AA66)
(Docket No. FAA-2021-1100)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5300. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of United States Area
Navigation (RNAV) Route T-232; Fairbanks, AK'' ((RIN2120-
AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0026)) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5301. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of United States Area
Navigation (RNAV) Route T-382; Hooper Bay, AK'' ((RIN2120-
AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2021-0857)) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5302. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Revocation of Class E Airspace; Coalgate,
OK'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0715)) received in
the Office of the President of the Senate on September 28,
2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5303. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Amendment of Class E Airspace; Coldwater
and Sturgis, MI'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0758))
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation.
EC-5304. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Amendment of Class D and Class E Airspace;
Mansfield, OH'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0714))
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation.
EC-5305. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Amendment of Class E Airspace; Alma, GA''
((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0568)) received in the
Office of the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5306. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Amendment of Class D Airspace, and
Revocation of Class E Airspace; Fort Pierce, FL'' ((RIN2120-
AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0668)) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5307. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Revocation of Class E Airspace;
Brownsville, PA'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0661))
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation.
EC-5308. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Amendment of Class D and Class E Airspace;
Baltimore, MD'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0545))
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation.
EC-5309. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Amendment of Class E Airspace; Multiple
Texas Towns'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0775))
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation.
EC-5310. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Revocation of Class E Airspace; Watersmeet,
MI'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0766)) received in
the Office of the President of the Senate on September 28,
2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5311. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Establishment of Class E Airspace; Dayton,
OH'' ((RIN2120-AA66) (Docket No. FAA-2021-1080)) received in
the Office of the President of the Senate on September 28,
2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5312. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; General Electric
Company Turbofan Engines; Amendment 39-22167'' ((RIN2120-
AA64) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0690)) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5313. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; Dassault Aviation
Airplanes; Amendment 39-22169'' ((RIN2120-AA64)
(Docket No. FAA-2022-1067)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5314. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; Honda Aircraft
Company LLC Airplanes; Amendment 39-22154'' ((RIN2120-AA64)
(Docket No. FAA-2022-1057)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5315. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; CFM
International, S.A. Turbofan Engines; Amendment 39-22150''
((RIN2120-AA64) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0160)) received in the
Office of the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5316. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; MT-Propeller
Entwicklung GmbH Propellers; Amendment 39-22153'' ((RIN2120-
AA64) (Docket No. FAA-2022-1056)) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5317. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; The Boeing
Company Airplanes; Amendment 39-22109'' ((RIN2120-AA64)
(Docket No. FAA-2022-0290)) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5318. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; Gulfstream
Aerospace Corporation Airplanes; Amendment 39-22133''
((RIN2120-AA64) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0953)) received in the
Office of the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5319. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; Viking Air
Limited (Type Certificate Previously Held by Bombardier, Inc.
and de Havilland) Airplanes; Amendment 39-22143'' ((RIN2120-
AA64) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0602)) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5320. A communication from the Management and Program
Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of
a rule entitled ``Airworthiness Directives; Airbus Defense
and Space S.A. (Formerly Known as Construcciones
Aeronauticas, S.A.) Airplanes; Amendment 39-22144''
((RIN2120-AA64) (Docket No. FAA-2022-0595)) received in the
Office of the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5321. A communication from the Senior Attorney Advisor/
Regulations Officer, Federal Highway Administration,
Department of Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law,
the report of a rule entitled ``Drug Offender's Driver's
License Suspension'' (RIN2125-AF93) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on October 27, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5322. A communication from the General Counsel,
National Indian Gaming Commission, transmitting, pursuant to
law, the report of a rule entitled ``Audit Standards''
(RIN3141-AA68) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on October 27,
2022; to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
EC-5323. A communication from the General Counsel,
National Indian Gaming Commission, transmitting, pursuant to
law, the report of a rule entitled ``Submission of Gaming
Ordinance or Resolution'' (RIN3141-AA73) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on October 27, 2022; to the Committee on Indian
Affairs.
EC-5324. A communication from the Alternate Federal
Register Liaison Officer, Office of the Secretary, Department
of Defense, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a
rule entitled ``Civil Monetary Penalty Inflation Adjustment''
(RIN0790-AL50) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on October 27,
2022; to the Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5325. A communication from the Chief Innovation
Officer, Rural Development Innovation Center, Department of
Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a
rule entitled ``Rural eConnectivity Program'' received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on October 27, 2022; to the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
EC-5326. A communication from the Chief of the Planning
and Regulatory Affairs Branch, Food and Nutrition Service,
Department of Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant to law, the
report of a rule entitled ``Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program: Civil Rights Update to the Federal-State Agreement''
(RIN0584-AE75) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on October 27,
2022; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and
Forestry.
EC-5327. A communication from the Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, Farm Credit Administration, transmitting,
pursuant to law, a report relative to the Administration's
2022 compensation program adjustments; to the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
EC-5328. A communication from the Board Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, Farm Credit Administration, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the 2020 annual report of the Farm Credit
Administration Regulator of the Farm Credit System; to the
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
EC-5329. 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 13959 with respect to the threat from
securities investments that finance certain companies of the
People's Republic of China; to the Committee on Banking,
Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5330. 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 12170 with respect to Iran; to the Committee
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5331. 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 13536 with respect to Somalia; to the
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5332. 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 14024 with respect to specified harmful
foreign activities of the Government of the Russian
Federation; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs.
EC-5333. A communication from the Senior Congressional
Liaison, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Fair Credit
Reporting; Facially False Data'' (12 CFR Part 1022) received
during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the
President of the Senate on October 27, 2022; to the Committee
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
11/16/2022 | Mr. KELLY | Senate | CREC-2022-11-16-pt1-PgS6737 | nan | nan | Mr. KELLY. Mr. President, today I wish to honor Lieutenant
Colonel Asa Herring, an American patriot and hero who served with the
famed Tuskegee Airmen before going on to complete a 22-year military
career in the U.S. Air Force.
Lieutenant Colonel Herring was born on October 3, 1926, in Dunn, NC.
Despite being born during a time in American history when rights and
opportunities for African-Americans were few, he persevered. At a time
when high school graduation rates amongst African-Americans were in the
single digits, Lieutenant Colonel Herring graduated at age 16 and then
had to wait nearly 2 years before he could enter the military. After
passing the Army Air Corps written examination, he entered Active Duty
as an aviation cadet on December 27, 1944.
However, World War II ended before he finished his training. On April
26, 1945, the Tuskegee Airmen flew their last combat mission, and less
than 2 weeks later, on May 8, 1945, Germany surrendered. Lieutenant
Colonel Herring did not wish to serve in a segregated military, so he
decided to request an honorable discharge in 1946.
On July 26, 1948, President Truman issued Executive Order No. 9981,
ending the policy of racial segregation in the military. Less than a
year later, Lieutenant Colonel Herring volunteered for service in the
newly established U.S. Air Force and served until 1970. Throughout his
service, Lieutenant Colonel Herring fought in both the Korean and
Vietnam war, flew more than 350 combat missions, and was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross, a Bronze Star, and an Air Medal with 13
oakleaf clusters. He was also the first African-American squadron
commander at Luke Air Force Base, where he trained pilots from several
European countries in the F-104G Jet Fighter Gunnery Program.
After retiring from military service, Lieutenant Colonel Herring
joined Western Electric in Phoenix, AZ, where he served in several
management positions until 1989. Personifying the Air Force core
values, he also dedicated much of his time and talent to community
service organizations across Phoenix and to educating others on the
history and incredible legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen.
I join Arizonans in mourning Lieutenant Colonel Herring's passing on
May 22, 2022, at the age of 95. He was preceded in death by his wife of
61 years, Honor Herring, and is survived by his two sons, Asa D.
Herring, III, and Mark Alan Herring; his seven grandchildren; and his
15 great-grandchildren--to whom we extend our gratitude for Lieutenant
Colonel Herring's honorable service to his community and to his
Nation.
| single | homophobic |
11/15/2022 | Unknown | House | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgH8506-4 | nan | nan | Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive communications were taken from
the Speaker's table and referred as follows:
EC-5874. A letter from the Alternate OSD FRLO, Office of
the Secretary, Department of Defense, transmitting the
Department's final rule -- Privacy Act of 1974;
Implementation [Docket ID: DoD-2021-OS-0048] (RIN: 0790-AL13)
received October 25, 2022, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A);
Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the
Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5875. A letter from the Alternate OSD FRLO, Office of
the Secretary, Department of Defense, transmitting the
Department's final rule -- Release of Official Information in
Litigation and Presentation of Witness Testimony by DoD
Personnel (Touhy Regulation) [Docket ID: DOD-2018-OS-0103]
(RIN: 0790-AK11) received October 25, 2022, pursuant to 5
U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat.
868); to the Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5876. A letter from the Alternate OSD FRLO, Office of
the Secretary, Department of Defense, transmitting the
Department's final rule -- Medical Malpractice Claims by
Members of the Uniformed Services [Docket ID: DOD-2021-OS-
0047] (RIN: 0790-AL22) received October 25, 2022, pursuant to
5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110
Stat. 868); to the Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5877. A letter from the Alternate OSD FRLO, Office of
the Secretary, Department of Defense, transmitting the
Department's direct final rule -- Privacy Act of 1974;
Implementation [Docket ID: DOD-2022-OS-0094] (RIN: 0790-AL28)
received October 25, 2022, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A);
Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the
Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5878. A letter from the Special Assistant to the Board,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal
Reserve System, transmitting the Board's final guidance --
Framework for the Supervision of Insurance Organizations
[Docket No.: OP-1765] received November 7, 2022, pursuant to
5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110
Stat. 868); to the Committee on Financial Services.
EC-5879. A letter from the Special Assistant to the Board,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal
Reserve System, transmitting the Board's final rules,
official interpretations, and commentary -- Appraisals for
Higher-Priced Mortgage Loans Exemption Threshold [Docket No.:
R-1785] (RIN: 7100-AG43) received November 7, 2022, pursuant
to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110
Stat. 868); to the Committee on Financial Services.
EC-5880. A letter from the Special Assistant to the Board,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal
Reserve System, transmitting the Board's final rules,
official interpretations, and commentary -- Truth in Lending
(Regulation Z) [Docket No.: R-1784] (RIN: 7100-AG42) received
November 7, 2022, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public
Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on
Financial Services.
EC-5881. A letter from the Special Assistant to the Board,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal
Reserve System, transmitting the Board's final rules,
official interpretations, and commentary -- Consumer Leasing
(Regulation M) [Docket No.: R-1783] (RIN: 7100-AG41) received
November 7, 2022, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public
Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on
Financial Services.
EC-5882. A letter from the Special Assistant to the Board,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal
Reserve System, transmitting the Board's final rule -- Debit
Card Interchange Fees and Routing [Regulation II; Docket No.:
R-1748] (RIN: 7100-AG15) received November 7, 2022, pursuant
to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110
Stat. 868); to the Committee on Financial Services.
EC-5883. A letter from the Assistant Secretary for
Legislation, Department of Health and Human Services,
transmitting the Department's report titled ``Substance Use-
Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and
Treatment for Patients and Communities Act: Section 1004
Medicaid Drug Review and Utilization'' for FY 2020, pursuant
to 42 U.S.C. 1396a(oo)(2); Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XIX,
Sec. 1902 (as amended by Public Law 115-271, Sec. 1004); (132
Stat. 3911); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
EC-5884. A letter from the Director, Regulation Policy and
Management Staff, FDA, Department of Health and Human
Services, transmitting the Department's final rule --
Submission of Food and Drug Administration Import Data in the
Automated Commercial Environment for Veterinary Devices
[Docket No.: FDA-2018-N-4268] (RIN: 0910-AH66) received
November 7, 2022, 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-5885. A letter from the Director, Regulations Policy and
Management Staff, FDA, Department of Health and Human
Services, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Current
Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based
Preventive Controls for Human Food and Current Good
Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based
Preventive Controls for Food for Animals; Supply-Chain
Programs and Onsite Audits; Announcement of Effective Date
[Docket Nos.: FDA-2011-N-0920 and FDA-2011-N-0922] received
November 7, 2022, 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-5886. A letter from the Administrator, Environmental
Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's report titled
``U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Capacity to
Implement Certain Provisions of the Frank R. Lautenberg
Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act''; to the Committee
on Energy and Commerce.
EC-5887. A letter from the Secretary, Department of
Commerce, transmitting a report certifying that the export of
the listed
item to the People's Republic of China is not detrimental to
the U.S. space launch industry, pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 2778
note; Public Law 105-261, Sec. 1512 (as amended by Public Law
105-277, Sec. 146); (112 Stat. 2174); to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs.
EC-5888. A letter from the Assistant Legal Adviser, Office
of Treaty Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a report
concerning international agreements other than treaties
entered into by the United States to be transmitted to the
Congress within the sixty-day period specified in the Case-
Zablocki Act, pursuant to 1 U.S.C. 112b(a); Public Law 92-
403, Sec. 1(a) (as amended by Public Law 108-458, Sec.
7121(b)); (118 Stat. 3807); to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs.
EC-5889. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Legislative Affairs, Department of Commerce, transmitting the
Department's Report to Congress on U.S. Persons Expropriation
Claims and Certain Other Commercial and Investment Disputes
22 USC 2370a(f): Expropriation of United States Property; to
the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
EC-5890. A letter from the Sanctions Regulations Advisor,
Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department of the Treasury,
transmitting the Department's final rule -- Western Balkans
Stabilization Regulations received October 25, 2022, 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-5891. A letter from the Office of the White House
Liaison, Department of Education, transmitting a notification
of an action on nomination, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3349(a);
Public Law 105-277, Sec. 151(b); (112 Stat. 2681-614); to the
Committee on Oversight and Reform.
EC-5892. A letter from the Office of the White House
Liaison, Department of Education, transmitting a notification
of a nomination, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3349(a); Public Law
105-277, Sec. 151(b); (112 Stat. 2681-614); to the Committee
on Oversight and Reform.
EC-5893. A letter from the General Counsel, National Indian
Gamin Commission, transmitting the Commission's final rule --
Submission of Gaming Ordinance or Resolution (RIN: 3141-AA73)
received October 25, 2022, 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-5894. A letter from the Agency Representative, United
States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce,
transmitting the Department's final rule and final rule --
Changes to Implement Provisions of the Trademark
Modernization Act of 2020; Delay of Effective Date and
Correction [Docket No.: PTO-T-2021-0008] (RIN: 0651-AD55)
received October 25, 2022, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A);
Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the
Committee on the Judiciary.
EC-5895. A letter from the Chief, Border Security
Regulations Branch, U.S. Customs and Border Control,
Department of Homeland Security, transmitting the
Department's final rule -- Period of Admission and Extensions
of Stay for Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Seeking to Enter the United States [CBP Dec.: 22-18] (RIN:
1651-AB49) received October 25, 2022, pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868);
to the Committee on the Judiciary.
EC-5896. A letter from the Assistant Attorney General,
Department of Justice, transmitting the Department's
Legislative Proposal to Strengthen the Death in Custody
Reporting Act of 2013, Public Law 113-242; to the Committee
on the Judiciary.
EC-5897. A letter from the Administrator, Environmental
Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's report titled
``Implementing the BEACH Act of 2000: 2022 Report to
Congress'', pursuant to 33 U.S.C. 1375a(a); Public Law 106-
284, Sec. 7(a); (114 Stat. 876); to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure.
| Federal Reserve | antisemitic |
11/15/2022 | Unknown | House | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgH8506-4 | nan | nan | Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive communications were taken from
the Speaker's table and referred as follows:
EC-5874. A letter from the Alternate OSD FRLO, Office of
the Secretary, Department of Defense, transmitting the
Department's final rule -- Privacy Act of 1974;
Implementation [Docket ID: DoD-2021-OS-0048] (RIN: 0790-AL13)
received October 25, 2022, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A);
Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the
Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5875. A letter from the Alternate OSD FRLO, Office of
the Secretary, Department of Defense, transmitting the
Department's final rule -- Release of Official Information in
Litigation and Presentation of Witness Testimony by DoD
Personnel (Touhy Regulation) [Docket ID: DOD-2018-OS-0103]
(RIN: 0790-AK11) received October 25, 2022, pursuant to 5
U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat.
868); to the Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5876. A letter from the Alternate OSD FRLO, Office of
the Secretary, Department of Defense, transmitting the
Department's final rule -- Medical Malpractice Claims by
Members of the Uniformed Services [Docket ID: DOD-2021-OS-
0047] (RIN: 0790-AL22) received October 25, 2022, pursuant to
5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110
Stat. 868); to the Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5877. A letter from the Alternate OSD FRLO, Office of
the Secretary, Department of Defense, transmitting the
Department's direct final rule -- Privacy Act of 1974;
Implementation [Docket ID: DOD-2022-OS-0094] (RIN: 0790-AL28)
received October 25, 2022, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A);
Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the
Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5878. A letter from the Special Assistant to the Board,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal
Reserve System, transmitting the Board's final guidance --
Framework for the Supervision of Insurance Organizations
[Docket No.: OP-1765] received November 7, 2022, pursuant to
5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110
Stat. 868); to the Committee on Financial Services.
EC-5879. A letter from the Special Assistant to the Board,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal
Reserve System, transmitting the Board's final rules,
official interpretations, and commentary -- Appraisals for
Higher-Priced Mortgage Loans Exemption Threshold [Docket No.:
R-1785] (RIN: 7100-AG43) received November 7, 2022, pursuant
to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110
Stat. 868); to the Committee on Financial Services.
EC-5880. A letter from the Special Assistant to the Board,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal
Reserve System, transmitting the Board's final rules,
official interpretations, and commentary -- Truth in Lending
(Regulation Z) [Docket No.: R-1784] (RIN: 7100-AG42) received
November 7, 2022, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public
Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on
Financial Services.
EC-5881. A letter from the Special Assistant to the Board,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal
Reserve System, transmitting the Board's final rules,
official interpretations, and commentary -- Consumer Leasing
(Regulation M) [Docket No.: R-1783] (RIN: 7100-AG41) received
November 7, 2022, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public
Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on
Financial Services.
EC-5882. A letter from the Special Assistant to the Board,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal
Reserve System, transmitting the Board's final rule -- Debit
Card Interchange Fees and Routing [Regulation II; Docket No.:
R-1748] (RIN: 7100-AG15) received November 7, 2022, pursuant
to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110
Stat. 868); to the Committee on Financial Services.
EC-5883. A letter from the Assistant Secretary for
Legislation, Department of Health and Human Services,
transmitting the Department's report titled ``Substance Use-
Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and
Treatment for Patients and Communities Act: Section 1004
Medicaid Drug Review and Utilization'' for FY 2020, pursuant
to 42 U.S.C. 1396a(oo)(2); Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XIX,
Sec. 1902 (as amended by Public Law 115-271, Sec. 1004); (132
Stat. 3911); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
EC-5884. A letter from the Director, Regulation Policy and
Management Staff, FDA, Department of Health and Human
Services, transmitting the Department's final rule --
Submission of Food and Drug Administration Import Data in the
Automated Commercial Environment for Veterinary Devices
[Docket No.: FDA-2018-N-4268] (RIN: 0910-AH66) received
November 7, 2022, 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-5885. A letter from the Director, Regulations Policy and
Management Staff, FDA, Department of Health and Human
Services, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Current
Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based
Preventive Controls for Human Food and Current Good
Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based
Preventive Controls for Food for Animals; Supply-Chain
Programs and Onsite Audits; Announcement of Effective Date
[Docket Nos.: FDA-2011-N-0920 and FDA-2011-N-0922] received
November 7, 2022, 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-5886. A letter from the Administrator, Environmental
Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's report titled
``U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Capacity to
Implement Certain Provisions of the Frank R. Lautenberg
Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act''; to the Committee
on Energy and Commerce.
EC-5887. A letter from the Secretary, Department of
Commerce, transmitting a report certifying that the export of
the listed
item to the People's Republic of China is not detrimental to
the U.S. space launch industry, pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 2778
note; Public Law 105-261, Sec. 1512 (as amended by Public Law
105-277, Sec. 146); (112 Stat. 2174); to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs.
EC-5888. A letter from the Assistant Legal Adviser, Office
of Treaty Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a report
concerning international agreements other than treaties
entered into by the United States to be transmitted to the
Congress within the sixty-day period specified in the Case-
Zablocki Act, pursuant to 1 U.S.C. 112b(a); Public Law 92-
403, Sec. 1(a) (as amended by Public Law 108-458, Sec.
7121(b)); (118 Stat. 3807); to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs.
EC-5889. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Legislative Affairs, Department of Commerce, transmitting the
Department's Report to Congress on U.S. Persons Expropriation
Claims and Certain Other Commercial and Investment Disputes
22 USC 2370a(f): Expropriation of United States Property; to
the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
EC-5890. A letter from the Sanctions Regulations Advisor,
Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department of the Treasury,
transmitting the Department's final rule -- Western Balkans
Stabilization Regulations received October 25, 2022, 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-5891. A letter from the Office of the White House
Liaison, Department of Education, transmitting a notification
of an action on nomination, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3349(a);
Public Law 105-277, Sec. 151(b); (112 Stat. 2681-614); to the
Committee on Oversight and Reform.
EC-5892. A letter from the Office of the White House
Liaison, Department of Education, transmitting a notification
of a nomination, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3349(a); Public Law
105-277, Sec. 151(b); (112 Stat. 2681-614); to the Committee
on Oversight and Reform.
EC-5893. A letter from the General Counsel, National Indian
Gamin Commission, transmitting the Commission's final rule --
Submission of Gaming Ordinance or Resolution (RIN: 3141-AA73)
received October 25, 2022, 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-5894. A letter from the Agency Representative, United
States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce,
transmitting the Department's final rule and final rule --
Changes to Implement Provisions of the Trademark
Modernization Act of 2020; Delay of Effective Date and
Correction [Docket No.: PTO-T-2021-0008] (RIN: 0651-AD55)
received October 25, 2022, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A);
Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the
Committee on the Judiciary.
EC-5895. A letter from the Chief, Border Security
Regulations Branch, U.S. Customs and Border Control,
Department of Homeland Security, transmitting the
Department's final rule -- Period of Admission and Extensions
of Stay for Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Seeking to Enter the United States [CBP Dec.: 22-18] (RIN:
1651-AB49) received October 25, 2022, pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868);
to the Committee on the Judiciary.
EC-5896. A letter from the Assistant Attorney General,
Department of Justice, transmitting the Department's
Legislative Proposal to Strengthen the Death in Custody
Reporting Act of 2013, Public Law 113-242; to the Committee
on the Judiciary.
EC-5897. A letter from the Administrator, Environmental
Protection Agency, transmitting the Agency's report titled
``Implementing the BEACH Act of 2000: 2022 Report to
Congress'', pursuant to 33 U.S.C. 1375a(a); Public Law 106-
284, Sec. 7(a); (114 Stat. 876); to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
11/15/2022 | Unknown | House | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgH8507 | nan | nan | Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of committees were delivered to
the Clerk for printing and reference to the proper calendar, as
follows:
Mr. NADLER: Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 7946. A bill
to provide benefits for noncitizen members of the Armed
Forces, and for other purposes; with an amendment (Rept. 117-
558, Pt. 1). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on
the state of the Union.
Mr. NEAL: Committee on Ways and Means. H.R. 8876. A bill to
reauthorize the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home
Visiting program, and for other purposes; with an amendment
(Rept. 117-559, Pt. 1). Ordered to be printed.
Mr. DeFAZIO: Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure. H.R. 8416. A bill to improve individual
assistance provided by the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, and for other purposes; with an amendment (Rept. 117-
560, Pt. 1). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on
the state of the Union.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
11/15/2022 | Mr. SCHUMER | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6678-3 | nan | nan | Mr. SCHUMER. Now, Mr. President, on the midterm elections and MAGA
Republicanism, over the past week, there has been a lot of discussion
here in Washington and across the media about how the results of these
midterms defied history and defied conventional wisdom.
I remember back in April and May: No way Democrats are going to keep
the majority. They are going to lose a whole bunch of seats. People are
asking what happened. Well, I think the answer, however, is rather
simple. This year, Democrats ran strong candidates. We compiled an
extremely strong legislative record, which the candidates could run on.
And Republicans, on the other hand, ran with flawed candidates who
spent more time talking about MAGA extremism than the things that truly
mattered to the American people.
After the failures--Republican failures--in elections in 2018 and
2020 and now in 2022, I hope the message is sinking in. If Republicans
continue to embrace MAGA radicalism, they are going to keep losing. So
for their own sake, but more importantly for the sake of the country, I
hope that very soon the GOP rejects the MAGA wing and makes a
commitment to work with Democrats in the next Congress.
The worst thing Republicans can do right now is to double down on the
MAGA platform and embrace gridlock. But, sadly, it seems that is the
path that some on the other side still want to take.
In fact, Senator Rick Scott of Florida, who notoriously led the
unsuccessful Republican Senate campaign efforts, recently suggested
that one of the reasons Republicans lost on election day was because
they actually worked too much with Democrats to pass bipartisan
legislation; that they weren't MAGA enough. That defies all logic.
If Republicans want to follow Rick Scott's lead, make our day.
Following Senator Scott is like following a blind man right over the
cliff.
Remember, it was Senator Scott who released a platform calling for
tax hikes on working and middle Americans, which our candidates
reminded people of in the election over and over again. It was Senator
Scott who threatened to put Medicare and Social Security on the
chopping block, which, again, was one of the most powerful arguments
for why Republicans were wrong for the country. And it was Senator
Scott who embraced Trump and believed that the MAGA wing was the road
to success; that denying the elections and spreading the Big Lie,
encouraging the MAGA extreme wing was the right thing to do. The
American people knew better.
American voters ran in the opposite direction and voted for
Democrats, including many Republicans, who said: I may be a Reagan
Republican, I may be a Bush Republican, but this Republican Party ain't
one for me.
After three failed elections--three in a row--it should be obvious
that embracing MAGA is a total loser for the Republican Party. If
anyone thinks otherwise, just look at what happened last night in
purple Arizona. Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for Governor, was
declared the winner in her race against Kari Lake. Everyone thought
Kari Lake would win because of her communication skills, but even she
lost--proof positive that MAGA just doesn't work.
I earnestly hope that in the next couple of months, Republicans will
realize it is better for the country--and even better for their party--
to focus instead on working with Democrats over the next 2 years to get
things done for the American people.
Now, I know this is not going to happen overnight or in the next week
or two. Our immediate focus, of course, is the lameduck, where there is
a lot of work to be done. But when the dust settles come January and
Republicans have, hopefully, resolved some of their own internal
fights, we hope that at least some of them will realize that the
scorched-earth MAGA policy is a failure not only for America but for
them.
The usual pundits and skeptics and critics are saying: Oh, this won't
happen. But look at the major bills we did this summer, five of them
major bills, bipartisan, and before that, the BIF bill, the Postal
bill, all done bipartisan--significant legislation. We Democrats are
going to work hard to replicate that effort.
Americans are tired of the chaos. They are tired of the MAGA
insanity. They are tired of the MAGA attack on the very roots of our
democracy. They want leaders who will take their problems seriously.
Most Americans know that Donald Trump is out for himself and only
himself, even if it hurts democracy, even if it hurts the Republican
Party. Republicans should learn that lesson or risk even more failure
in the future.
| extremism | Islamophobic |
11/15/2022 | Mr. SCHUMER | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6678-3 | nan | nan | Mr. SCHUMER. Now, Mr. President, on the midterm elections and MAGA
Republicanism, over the past week, there has been a lot of discussion
here in Washington and across the media about how the results of these
midterms defied history and defied conventional wisdom.
I remember back in April and May: No way Democrats are going to keep
the majority. They are going to lose a whole bunch of seats. People are
asking what happened. Well, I think the answer, however, is rather
simple. This year, Democrats ran strong candidates. We compiled an
extremely strong legislative record, which the candidates could run on.
And Republicans, on the other hand, ran with flawed candidates who
spent more time talking about MAGA extremism than the things that truly
mattered to the American people.
After the failures--Republican failures--in elections in 2018 and
2020 and now in 2022, I hope the message is sinking in. If Republicans
continue to embrace MAGA radicalism, they are going to keep losing. So
for their own sake, but more importantly for the sake of the country, I
hope that very soon the GOP rejects the MAGA wing and makes a
commitment to work with Democrats in the next Congress.
The worst thing Republicans can do right now is to double down on the
MAGA platform and embrace gridlock. But, sadly, it seems that is the
path that some on the other side still want to take.
In fact, Senator Rick Scott of Florida, who notoriously led the
unsuccessful Republican Senate campaign efforts, recently suggested
that one of the reasons Republicans lost on election day was because
they actually worked too much with Democrats to pass bipartisan
legislation; that they weren't MAGA enough. That defies all logic.
If Republicans want to follow Rick Scott's lead, make our day.
Following Senator Scott is like following a blind man right over the
cliff.
Remember, it was Senator Scott who released a platform calling for
tax hikes on working and middle Americans, which our candidates
reminded people of in the election over and over again. It was Senator
Scott who threatened to put Medicare and Social Security on the
chopping block, which, again, was one of the most powerful arguments
for why Republicans were wrong for the country. And it was Senator
Scott who embraced Trump and believed that the MAGA wing was the road
to success; that denying the elections and spreading the Big Lie,
encouraging the MAGA extreme wing was the right thing to do. The
American people knew better.
American voters ran in the opposite direction and voted for
Democrats, including many Republicans, who said: I may be a Reagan
Republican, I may be a Bush Republican, but this Republican Party ain't
one for me.
After three failed elections--three in a row--it should be obvious
that embracing MAGA is a total loser for the Republican Party. If
anyone thinks otherwise, just look at what happened last night in
purple Arizona. Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for Governor, was
declared the winner in her race against Kari Lake. Everyone thought
Kari Lake would win because of her communication skills, but even she
lost--proof positive that MAGA just doesn't work.
I earnestly hope that in the next couple of months, Republicans will
realize it is better for the country--and even better for their party--
to focus instead on working with Democrats over the next 2 years to get
things done for the American people.
Now, I know this is not going to happen overnight or in the next week
or two. Our immediate focus, of course, is the lameduck, where there is
a lot of work to be done. But when the dust settles come January and
Republicans have, hopefully, resolved some of their own internal
fights, we hope that at least some of them will realize that the
scorched-earth MAGA policy is a failure not only for America but for
them.
The usual pundits and skeptics and critics are saying: Oh, this won't
happen. But look at the major bills we did this summer, five of them
major bills, bipartisan, and before that, the BIF bill, the Postal
bill, all done bipartisan--significant legislation. We Democrats are
going to work hard to replicate that effort.
Americans are tired of the chaos. They are tired of the MAGA
insanity. They are tired of the MAGA attack on the very roots of our
democracy. They want leaders who will take their problems seriously.
Most Americans know that Donald Trump is out for himself and only
himself, even if it hurts democracy, even if it hurts the Republican
Party. Republicans should learn that lesson or risk even more failure
in the future.
| MAGA | white supremacist |
11/15/2022 | Mr. SCHUMER | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6678-3 | nan | nan | Mr. SCHUMER. Now, Mr. President, on the midterm elections and MAGA
Republicanism, over the past week, there has been a lot of discussion
here in Washington and across the media about how the results of these
midterms defied history and defied conventional wisdom.
I remember back in April and May: No way Democrats are going to keep
the majority. They are going to lose a whole bunch of seats. People are
asking what happened. Well, I think the answer, however, is rather
simple. This year, Democrats ran strong candidates. We compiled an
extremely strong legislative record, which the candidates could run on.
And Republicans, on the other hand, ran with flawed candidates who
spent more time talking about MAGA extremism than the things that truly
mattered to the American people.
After the failures--Republican failures--in elections in 2018 and
2020 and now in 2022, I hope the message is sinking in. If Republicans
continue to embrace MAGA radicalism, they are going to keep losing. So
for their own sake, but more importantly for the sake of the country, I
hope that very soon the GOP rejects the MAGA wing and makes a
commitment to work with Democrats in the next Congress.
The worst thing Republicans can do right now is to double down on the
MAGA platform and embrace gridlock. But, sadly, it seems that is the
path that some on the other side still want to take.
In fact, Senator Rick Scott of Florida, who notoriously led the
unsuccessful Republican Senate campaign efforts, recently suggested
that one of the reasons Republicans lost on election day was because
they actually worked too much with Democrats to pass bipartisan
legislation; that they weren't MAGA enough. That defies all logic.
If Republicans want to follow Rick Scott's lead, make our day.
Following Senator Scott is like following a blind man right over the
cliff.
Remember, it was Senator Scott who released a platform calling for
tax hikes on working and middle Americans, which our candidates
reminded people of in the election over and over again. It was Senator
Scott who threatened to put Medicare and Social Security on the
chopping block, which, again, was one of the most powerful arguments
for why Republicans were wrong for the country. And it was Senator
Scott who embraced Trump and believed that the MAGA wing was the road
to success; that denying the elections and spreading the Big Lie,
encouraging the MAGA extreme wing was the right thing to do. The
American people knew better.
American voters ran in the opposite direction and voted for
Democrats, including many Republicans, who said: I may be a Reagan
Republican, I may be a Bush Republican, but this Republican Party ain't
one for me.
After three failed elections--three in a row--it should be obvious
that embracing MAGA is a total loser for the Republican Party. If
anyone thinks otherwise, just look at what happened last night in
purple Arizona. Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for Governor, was
declared the winner in her race against Kari Lake. Everyone thought
Kari Lake would win because of her communication skills, but even she
lost--proof positive that MAGA just doesn't work.
I earnestly hope that in the next couple of months, Republicans will
realize it is better for the country--and even better for their party--
to focus instead on working with Democrats over the next 2 years to get
things done for the American people.
Now, I know this is not going to happen overnight or in the next week
or two. Our immediate focus, of course, is the lameduck, where there is
a lot of work to be done. But when the dust settles come January and
Republicans have, hopefully, resolved some of their own internal
fights, we hope that at least some of them will realize that the
scorched-earth MAGA policy is a failure not only for America but for
them.
The usual pundits and skeptics and critics are saying: Oh, this won't
happen. But look at the major bills we did this summer, five of them
major bills, bipartisan, and before that, the BIF bill, the Postal
bill, all done bipartisan--significant legislation. We Democrats are
going to work hard to replicate that effort.
Americans are tired of the chaos. They are tired of the MAGA
insanity. They are tired of the MAGA attack on the very roots of our
democracy. They want leaders who will take their problems seriously.
Most Americans know that Donald Trump is out for himself and only
himself, even if it hurts democracy, even if it hurts the Republican
Party. Republicans should learn that lesson or risk even more failure
in the future.
| Reagan | white supremacist |
11/15/2022 | Mr. McCONNELL | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6679-2 | nan | nan | Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, last week, our narrowly divided country
went to the polls and elected a narrowly divided Congress, including a
very narrowly divided U.S. Senate.
The next couple of months will see a number of long-serving Senate
all-stars taking retirement, but today we are getting to welcome and
meet our new soon-to-be colleagues on both sides of the aisle as the
new Senators-elect arrive here in the Capitol for orientation. Among
their ranks are an all-star lawyer and leader from Alabama, the
attorney general from the great State of Missouri, the Lieutenant
Governor of Pennsylvania, a businessman and best-selling author from
Ohio, and three distinguished Members of the House of Representatives.
Exactly 25 years ago, in remarks welcoming the new Senate class of
1996, Senator Robert Byrd told them that service in this body is both
``a supreme honor,'' ``a serious responsibility,'' and ``the highest
political calling in the land.'' The famous student of the Senate's
rules and history, our former colleague from West Virginia concluded
that ``as long as the Senate retains the power to amend and the power
of unlimited debate, the liberties of the people will remain secure.''
So, Mr. President, it is a high bar to earn the trust of one's
neighbors to represent them and fight for their home State here in this
Chamber. Each of our soon-to-be colleagues has cleared this high bar. I
am proud to welcome members of what will be the 118th Congress freshman
class. I hope sincerely that each of our incoming colleagues will
embrace the honor of this immense responsibility. Of course, our half
of the Chamber hopes that, even after this week, we will be not quite
through with welcoming new Senators.
Democrats' unforced policy errors over the past several years have
hit working families in the State of Georgia especially hard. Under
one-party Democratic control in Washington and one-party representation
here in the Senate, the Peach State has paid an especially painful
price.
Since President Biden took the oath of office, Georgia families have
watched prices rise nearly 15 percent. They have shelled out hundreds
of extra dollars every month just to foot the bill for the massive,
reckless spending binge their two Democratic Senators pushed through
with deciding votes. Needless to say, this completely avoidable
Democratic inflation tax put Georgia workers and small businesses in a
heck of a bind.
``It's absolutely murderous,'' one man in Columbus, GA, told
reporters. ``Food, gas prices. Inflation is awful.''
Of course, it didn't have to be this way. The people of Georgia's
Senators didn't have to vote in lockstep with Washington Democrats to
overheat our economy with reckless spending. Georgia's two Democratic
Senators didn't have to vote for the $2 trillion in inflationary
spending. They didn't have to vote for hundreds of billions of dollars
in leftwing climate policies. But every single time that the hard-
working people of Georgia have needed a check and balance, their
Democratic Senators only gave them a rubberstamp. When Georgians needed
their Senators to stand up with independence, they just fell in line. | every single time | white supremacist |
11/15/2022 | Mr. McCONNELL | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6679-2 | nan | nan | Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, last week, our narrowly divided country
went to the polls and elected a narrowly divided Congress, including a
very narrowly divided U.S. Senate.
The next couple of months will see a number of long-serving Senate
all-stars taking retirement, but today we are getting to welcome and
meet our new soon-to-be colleagues on both sides of the aisle as the
new Senators-elect arrive here in the Capitol for orientation. Among
their ranks are an all-star lawyer and leader from Alabama, the
attorney general from the great State of Missouri, the Lieutenant
Governor of Pennsylvania, a businessman and best-selling author from
Ohio, and three distinguished Members of the House of Representatives.
Exactly 25 years ago, in remarks welcoming the new Senate class of
1996, Senator Robert Byrd told them that service in this body is both
``a supreme honor,'' ``a serious responsibility,'' and ``the highest
political calling in the land.'' The famous student of the Senate's
rules and history, our former colleague from West Virginia concluded
that ``as long as the Senate retains the power to amend and the power
of unlimited debate, the liberties of the people will remain secure.''
So, Mr. President, it is a high bar to earn the trust of one's
neighbors to represent them and fight for their home State here in this
Chamber. Each of our soon-to-be colleagues has cleared this high bar. I
am proud to welcome members of what will be the 118th Congress freshman
class. I hope sincerely that each of our incoming colleagues will
embrace the honor of this immense responsibility. Of course, our half
of the Chamber hopes that, even after this week, we will be not quite
through with welcoming new Senators.
Democrats' unforced policy errors over the past several years have
hit working families in the State of Georgia especially hard. Under
one-party Democratic control in Washington and one-party representation
here in the Senate, the Peach State has paid an especially painful
price.
Since President Biden took the oath of office, Georgia families have
watched prices rise nearly 15 percent. They have shelled out hundreds
of extra dollars every month just to foot the bill for the massive,
reckless spending binge their two Democratic Senators pushed through
with deciding votes. Needless to say, this completely avoidable
Democratic inflation tax put Georgia workers and small businesses in a
heck of a bind.
``It's absolutely murderous,'' one man in Columbus, GA, told
reporters. ``Food, gas prices. Inflation is awful.''
Of course, it didn't have to be this way. The people of Georgia's
Senators didn't have to vote in lockstep with Washington Democrats to
overheat our economy with reckless spending. Georgia's two Democratic
Senators didn't have to vote for the $2 trillion in inflationary
spending. They didn't have to vote for hundreds of billions of dollars
in leftwing climate policies. But every single time that the hard-
working people of Georgia have needed a check and balance, their
Democratic Senators only gave them a rubberstamp. When Georgians needed
their Senators to stand up with independence, they just fell in line. | single | homophobic |
11/15/2022 | Mr. McCONNELL | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6679-2 | nan | nan | Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, last week, our narrowly divided country
went to the polls and elected a narrowly divided Congress, including a
very narrowly divided U.S. Senate.
The next couple of months will see a number of long-serving Senate
all-stars taking retirement, but today we are getting to welcome and
meet our new soon-to-be colleagues on both sides of the aisle as the
new Senators-elect arrive here in the Capitol for orientation. Among
their ranks are an all-star lawyer and leader from Alabama, the
attorney general from the great State of Missouri, the Lieutenant
Governor of Pennsylvania, a businessman and best-selling author from
Ohio, and three distinguished Members of the House of Representatives.
Exactly 25 years ago, in remarks welcoming the new Senate class of
1996, Senator Robert Byrd told them that service in this body is both
``a supreme honor,'' ``a serious responsibility,'' and ``the highest
political calling in the land.'' The famous student of the Senate's
rules and history, our former colleague from West Virginia concluded
that ``as long as the Senate retains the power to amend and the power
of unlimited debate, the liberties of the people will remain secure.''
So, Mr. President, it is a high bar to earn the trust of one's
neighbors to represent them and fight for their home State here in this
Chamber. Each of our soon-to-be colleagues has cleared this high bar. I
am proud to welcome members of what will be the 118th Congress freshman
class. I hope sincerely that each of our incoming colleagues will
embrace the honor of this immense responsibility. Of course, our half
of the Chamber hopes that, even after this week, we will be not quite
through with welcoming new Senators.
Democrats' unforced policy errors over the past several years have
hit working families in the State of Georgia especially hard. Under
one-party Democratic control in Washington and one-party representation
here in the Senate, the Peach State has paid an especially painful
price.
Since President Biden took the oath of office, Georgia families have
watched prices rise nearly 15 percent. They have shelled out hundreds
of extra dollars every month just to foot the bill for the massive,
reckless spending binge their two Democratic Senators pushed through
with deciding votes. Needless to say, this completely avoidable
Democratic inflation tax put Georgia workers and small businesses in a
heck of a bind.
``It's absolutely murderous,'' one man in Columbus, GA, told
reporters. ``Food, gas prices. Inflation is awful.''
Of course, it didn't have to be this way. The people of Georgia's
Senators didn't have to vote in lockstep with Washington Democrats to
overheat our economy with reckless spending. Georgia's two Democratic
Senators didn't have to vote for the $2 trillion in inflationary
spending. They didn't have to vote for hundreds of billions of dollars
in leftwing climate policies. But every single time that the hard-
working people of Georgia have needed a check and balance, their
Democratic Senators only gave them a rubberstamp. When Georgians needed
their Senators to stand up with independence, they just fell in line. | working families | racist |
11/15/2022 | Mr. KING | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6679-3 | nan | nan | Mr. KING. Mr. President, I rise today to discuss the 2023 National
Defense Authorization Act. I want to talk about essentially three big
issues: the importance of the bill, what is in the bill, and the cost
of the bill.
The first question is--and when I used to appear before the Maine
Legislature, the first question always was: Why are you here? What is
the problem?
Why is this bill so important? It is important because the essence of
our defense policy since World War II has been deterrence, and
deterrence means maintaining the capacity to inflict unacceptable costs
on any potential adversary and the will to impose those costs if
necessary.
What we are really talking about in the Defense Authorization Act is
the capacity; that is, what is it that we have at our disposal that can
impose costs on our potential adversaries such that they will refrain
from aggression and initiating a conflict--a conflict which, in this
day and age, would be catastrophic.
Why do we have a defense bill? Why do we have a defense
establishment? Why do we have ships and airplanes and space capability?
In order to deter possible aggression.
Why is this important?
I am just finishing a book by William L. Shirer called ``The Collapse
of the Third Republic.'' Everyone knows Shirer's great book ``The Rise
and Fall of the Third Reich.'' This is a subsequent book that he wrote
in the late sixties about the French Republic and the relationship
between France and England to Germany in the early days leading up to
World War II. The central message or rather one of the central messages
of the book was that the failure of France and Germany to deter and
meet the aggression of Hitler early in the period leading up to World
War II, as early as 1936, led to the conflagration of World War II.
I would urge anyone who questions this assumption to Google:
Rhineland, 1936; Sudetenland, 1938. Those were places where Hitler
could have been stopped, and not with an enormous expenditure or
investment of troops or materiel, but by an almost token resistance
from the Western European powers, which they utterly failed to do. Then
we had the rearmament of the Rhineland; the takeover of the
Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia; and, of
course, in September of 1939, the invasion of Poland, leading to World
War II, where 55 million people were lost.
Shirer makes the point and most historians make the point that this
was avoidable. Had Hitler been confronted early, before he completely
rebuilt the Nazi war machine, World War II could have been avoided, and
all of those tremendous losses in this country and around the world
would have never happened.
Deterrence is also a key to nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons haven't
been used in a confrontation or a conflict since 1945. Why? Because of
the concept of deterrence. That those other countries--and there are
other countries that have nuclear weapons--realize that if nuclear
weapons are used, they will pay an enormous and unacceptable price.
That has been the policy of this country for over 70 years, and it has
worked. It has worked. But it only works as long as the adversary
believes that we do, in fact, have the capacity to inflict that kind of
punishment.
Deterrence is a matter of credibility. You have to have a credible
deterrent in terms of the actual capacity, and you also have to be
credible in terms of your will to use it. Indeed, at this point in our
history, we are talking about deterring the potential use of nuclear
weapons in regard to the Ukraine conflict by Vladimir Putin.
Deterrence means that capacity has to be credible. And the problem
is, here in this country, we have allowed our nuclear deterrent to
deteriorate and age to the point where we are having to, in effect,
rebuild it, not from scratch but rebuild it substantially. And all at
the same time, the triad: bombers, missiles, and submarines. We have to
rebuild them, and it is happening at the same time, and it is
expensive. It is because this work was deferred for the prior 25 or 30
years that we are now having to do all three legs of the triad at one
time, which adds substantially to the defense budget, but it is
necessary in order to maintain the deterrent that keeps the peace.
I have many friends in Maine who come up to me and say: ``Why are we
spending so much? Why are we building nuclear weapons? Let's get rid of
them.''
The problem is, aggression and evil exist in the world--always have,
as far as we can see; always will. The best war is the one that doesn't
happen, and the most likely way to prevent war is for the potential
adversary to know that the costs imposed upon them will be
unacceptable.
People also come up to me and say: Why are we providing this money to
Ukraine?
I don't get a lot of this, but occasionally people say: Why send
money to Ukraine? We need that money here at home.
That is when I always say: Google Rhineland, 1936; Sudetenland, 1938.
Because Putin has told us who he is. He has told us that he feels the
greatest tragedy of the 20th century was the dissolution of the Soviet
Union. He wants to rebuild the Soviet Union. Ukraine is the first
piece. I don't think there is any doubt that, if he was allowed to just
march in and take over Ukraine in a matter of weeks without any
significant resistance, the next irritant for him would be the Baltics
and then Hungary, Moldova, Slovakia, and Poland.
Maya Angelou said if someone tells you who they are, you should
believe them. Putin has told us who he is. He wants to rebuild the
Soviet Union. That is why Ukraine is so important. That is why what we
have done, what we have provided, and the leadership this
administration and our country has provided to other countries in the
world in order to resist that aggression is so important and critical--
critical to avoiding a much worse conflagration involving all of our
countries down the road. That is why it is so important. When a
dictator takes property, they are going to keep going, and that is why
what we have done in Ukraine has been so critical and important.
Well, Putin has told us what he wants to do, and we have joined with
the rest of the world and the incredibly brave and resourceful people
of Ukraine to stop it. That has to be continued.
I am going to talk about cost in a few minutes, but one quick note on
cost is that the only thing more expensive than maintaining a credible
deterrent is war. Occasionally, you see a bumper sticker that says: You
cannot prepare for war and avoid war at the same time. I believe that
is actually wrong. The only way to avoid war is to be prepared. History
is full of examples that that is the case, that aggressors look for
weakness. They look for an opening. If they find none, they are going
to pull back. That is the entire theory of our defense posture and the
expenditures that we are making on behalf of the defense of this
country and the free world.
So what is in the bill? It is a long bill. There is a lot in it, but
a couple of highlights. First, there is a raise for the troops. There
is more money for the people who are defending our country, which they
deserve. In a time of inflation, they deserve a significant raise, and
that is in the bill.
Another piece that is in the bill that I think is very important in
terms of our veterans--and, of course, we are just coming out of the
Veterans Day observance last weekend--is funding and attention in the
Defense Department to the transition from Active-Duty service to
veteran status. I believe that we should be spending as much or the
Defense Department should be spending as much time, money, and effort
on the transition out of the service as they spend on recruiting to
bring people into the service.
The data is that the tragedy of suicide among our veterans is most
acute in the first 2 or 3 years after separation, and that tells me
that is where we should focus some additional attention. In fact, that
is in this bill.
There is an enormous commitment to technology in this bill, to
artificial intelligence, to quantum computing, to hypersonics, to
cyber, which is the sort of frontline of the potential for aggression
that is going on right now. There is a low-level cyber war going on
right now. Just ask any business in America. I talked to a utility
executive recently whose company is being attacked 3 million times a
day, sometimes by State actors, sometimes by ordinary criminals or
ransomware. But cyber is one of the most serious challenges we face,
and, again, that is addressed in this bill.
Another thing that is addressed, as I mentioned, is upgrading the
nuclear triad, not because we like building submarines or missiles but
because we must have a credible deterrent, so that, particularly so
those dictators in North Korea or other countries that have nuclear
weapons will not be tempted to use them. They have to know that the
price to be paid is unacceptable. There is also counter drug policy in
the bill. All of those things are an important part of what this bill
does for the country.
I want to digress for a moment on process. This bill is a prime
example of the bipartisan process that ought to govern all of our
proceedings here in this body and in the other body of government. And,
indeed, over the last year, that has been the norm. Five of the six
major bills passed in the last year in this body have been bipartisan,
and that is the way it ought to be. And that is the way it is in the
Armed Services Committee. This bill was reported out of the Armed
Services Committee with a 23 to 3 bipartisan vote.
I keep a little running tally in the Armed Services Committee when it
comes to amendments. And this year we had 433 amendments proposed going
into the markup of the Defense Authorization Act. They were negotiated.
They were withdrawn. They were modified. But we ended up with 44
amendment votes. Six were on a party-line basis--6 out of 44 were on a
party-line basis. All the rest were bipartisan, either voice votes or
rollcall votes that were bipartisan. That is the way this process
works, and that is the way this bill has come to this body.
Now, let me talk a minute about cost. You often hear--and I hear it
sometimes at home, sometimes down here--that we spend more on defense
than the next 10 countries in the world combined. Yes, but no other
country in the world has the global responsibility that we have. No
other country in the world has the global role that we have; that has
to look in all directions, not just one direction to one neighbor but
in all directions. We have an enormous responsibility, whether we like
it or not, as the most powerful country in the free world. And that
means we have to support and defend freedom, democracy, the values that
we have based
this country on. We have to be the first line of defense.
So the fact that we spend more than other countries, I don't think
that is really the question. I think the real question should be: How
much are we spending with regard to our overall economy and our Federal
budget? I think that is a fair question. And the answer is pretty
surprising to many people.
This is the percentage of national defense of Federal spending, in
relation to total Federal spending, going back to 1952, 70 years ago.
In 1952, during the Korean war--and by the way, it was as even higher
during World War II, but in 1952, about 70 percent of the Federal
budget was for defense.
As you can see, it trends down through the fifties and sixties and
seventies. In 1987, it was 28 percent of the Federal budget. Today, it
is 13 percent. It is at the lowest level it has been in 70 years as a
percentage of the Federal budget.
I think that surprises most people. They think all we are doing is
spending money on defense. As a percentage of the Federal budget, it is
actually the lowest it has been in 70 years.
The other way to look at this, that I think is perhaps even more
important, is the percentage of national defense spending of GDP, of
our gross domestic product. That is really a fair measure. In other
words, what part of our economy is devoted to defense spending?
Again, going back to 1952, it was around 14 percent--14 percent of
our gross national product was spent on defense; 1987, 6 percent;
today, 3 percent.
So people who argue that we are spending way too much on defense and
why do you spend--they are looking at the raw dollars, but they really
ought to be looking at how big a part of our economy are we devoting to
defending this country and the freedom and values of the rest of the
free world: 3 percent.
Now, should other countries be paying a reasonable share? Absolutely.
And many of them are stepping up. We are seeing significant increases
in defense expenditures on behalf of many of our NATO allies and other
countries around the world because they realize they have a
responsibility too. But I think this is really an enlightening way to
look at this in terms of what does this bill really mean? How expensive
is it? The answer to that question is, it is half as expensive as it
was 35 years ago. And it is about 20 percent of where it was 70 years
ago. Is it a lot of money? Absolutely. The question is, What is it for?
What it is for is, preventing war.
As I think I said earlier, the only thing more expensive than
maintaining an adequate deterrence is war itself. And that is what this
bill is all about.
We have passed the National Defense Authorization Act every year for
the past 62 years. I deeply hope and believe in the interest of this
country, of our citizens, and of the entire free world we are going to
do so again in the next month.
There is no more solemn responsibility we have. To go back to some of
the first words of the Constitution, in order to ``provide for the
common defense'' is one of the major functions--that is in the
preamble, that is the overarching--``insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defense.'' Those are part of the essential
function of any government. It is our responsibility. I deeply hope in
the next several weeks in this body we will meet that responsibility.
I yield the floor.
| based | white supremacist |
11/15/2022 | Mr. KING | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6679-3 | nan | nan | Mr. KING. Mr. President, I rise today to discuss the 2023 National
Defense Authorization Act. I want to talk about essentially three big
issues: the importance of the bill, what is in the bill, and the cost
of the bill.
The first question is--and when I used to appear before the Maine
Legislature, the first question always was: Why are you here? What is
the problem?
Why is this bill so important? It is important because the essence of
our defense policy since World War II has been deterrence, and
deterrence means maintaining the capacity to inflict unacceptable costs
on any potential adversary and the will to impose those costs if
necessary.
What we are really talking about in the Defense Authorization Act is
the capacity; that is, what is it that we have at our disposal that can
impose costs on our potential adversaries such that they will refrain
from aggression and initiating a conflict--a conflict which, in this
day and age, would be catastrophic.
Why do we have a defense bill? Why do we have a defense
establishment? Why do we have ships and airplanes and space capability?
In order to deter possible aggression.
Why is this important?
I am just finishing a book by William L. Shirer called ``The Collapse
of the Third Republic.'' Everyone knows Shirer's great book ``The Rise
and Fall of the Third Reich.'' This is a subsequent book that he wrote
in the late sixties about the French Republic and the relationship
between France and England to Germany in the early days leading up to
World War II. The central message or rather one of the central messages
of the book was that the failure of France and Germany to deter and
meet the aggression of Hitler early in the period leading up to World
War II, as early as 1936, led to the conflagration of World War II.
I would urge anyone who questions this assumption to Google:
Rhineland, 1936; Sudetenland, 1938. Those were places where Hitler
could have been stopped, and not with an enormous expenditure or
investment of troops or materiel, but by an almost token resistance
from the Western European powers, which they utterly failed to do. Then
we had the rearmament of the Rhineland; the takeover of the
Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia; and, of
course, in September of 1939, the invasion of Poland, leading to World
War II, where 55 million people were lost.
Shirer makes the point and most historians make the point that this
was avoidable. Had Hitler been confronted early, before he completely
rebuilt the Nazi war machine, World War II could have been avoided, and
all of those tremendous losses in this country and around the world
would have never happened.
Deterrence is also a key to nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons haven't
been used in a confrontation or a conflict since 1945. Why? Because of
the concept of deterrence. That those other countries--and there are
other countries that have nuclear weapons--realize that if nuclear
weapons are used, they will pay an enormous and unacceptable price.
That has been the policy of this country for over 70 years, and it has
worked. It has worked. But it only works as long as the adversary
believes that we do, in fact, have the capacity to inflict that kind of
punishment.
Deterrence is a matter of credibility. You have to have a credible
deterrent in terms of the actual capacity, and you also have to be
credible in terms of your will to use it. Indeed, at this point in our
history, we are talking about deterring the potential use of nuclear
weapons in regard to the Ukraine conflict by Vladimir Putin.
Deterrence means that capacity has to be credible. And the problem
is, here in this country, we have allowed our nuclear deterrent to
deteriorate and age to the point where we are having to, in effect,
rebuild it, not from scratch but rebuild it substantially. And all at
the same time, the triad: bombers, missiles, and submarines. We have to
rebuild them, and it is happening at the same time, and it is
expensive. It is because this work was deferred for the prior 25 or 30
years that we are now having to do all three legs of the triad at one
time, which adds substantially to the defense budget, but it is
necessary in order to maintain the deterrent that keeps the peace.
I have many friends in Maine who come up to me and say: ``Why are we
spending so much? Why are we building nuclear weapons? Let's get rid of
them.''
The problem is, aggression and evil exist in the world--always have,
as far as we can see; always will. The best war is the one that doesn't
happen, and the most likely way to prevent war is for the potential
adversary to know that the costs imposed upon them will be
unacceptable.
People also come up to me and say: Why are we providing this money to
Ukraine?
I don't get a lot of this, but occasionally people say: Why send
money to Ukraine? We need that money here at home.
That is when I always say: Google Rhineland, 1936; Sudetenland, 1938.
Because Putin has told us who he is. He has told us that he feels the
greatest tragedy of the 20th century was the dissolution of the Soviet
Union. He wants to rebuild the Soviet Union. Ukraine is the first
piece. I don't think there is any doubt that, if he was allowed to just
march in and take over Ukraine in a matter of weeks without any
significant resistance, the next irritant for him would be the Baltics
and then Hungary, Moldova, Slovakia, and Poland.
Maya Angelou said if someone tells you who they are, you should
believe them. Putin has told us who he is. He wants to rebuild the
Soviet Union. That is why Ukraine is so important. That is why what we
have done, what we have provided, and the leadership this
administration and our country has provided to other countries in the
world in order to resist that aggression is so important and critical--
critical to avoiding a much worse conflagration involving all of our
countries down the road. That is why it is so important. When a
dictator takes property, they are going to keep going, and that is why
what we have done in Ukraine has been so critical and important.
Well, Putin has told us what he wants to do, and we have joined with
the rest of the world and the incredibly brave and resourceful people
of Ukraine to stop it. That has to be continued.
I am going to talk about cost in a few minutes, but one quick note on
cost is that the only thing more expensive than maintaining a credible
deterrent is war. Occasionally, you see a bumper sticker that says: You
cannot prepare for war and avoid war at the same time. I believe that
is actually wrong. The only way to avoid war is to be prepared. History
is full of examples that that is the case, that aggressors look for
weakness. They look for an opening. If they find none, they are going
to pull back. That is the entire theory of our defense posture and the
expenditures that we are making on behalf of the defense of this
country and the free world.
So what is in the bill? It is a long bill. There is a lot in it, but
a couple of highlights. First, there is a raise for the troops. There
is more money for the people who are defending our country, which they
deserve. In a time of inflation, they deserve a significant raise, and
that is in the bill.
Another piece that is in the bill that I think is very important in
terms of our veterans--and, of course, we are just coming out of the
Veterans Day observance last weekend--is funding and attention in the
Defense Department to the transition from Active-Duty service to
veteran status. I believe that we should be spending as much or the
Defense Department should be spending as much time, money, and effort
on the transition out of the service as they spend on recruiting to
bring people into the service.
The data is that the tragedy of suicide among our veterans is most
acute in the first 2 or 3 years after separation, and that tells me
that is where we should focus some additional attention. In fact, that
is in this bill.
There is an enormous commitment to technology in this bill, to
artificial intelligence, to quantum computing, to hypersonics, to
cyber, which is the sort of frontline of the potential for aggression
that is going on right now. There is a low-level cyber war going on
right now. Just ask any business in America. I talked to a utility
executive recently whose company is being attacked 3 million times a
day, sometimes by State actors, sometimes by ordinary criminals or
ransomware. But cyber is one of the most serious challenges we face,
and, again, that is addressed in this bill.
Another thing that is addressed, as I mentioned, is upgrading the
nuclear triad, not because we like building submarines or missiles but
because we must have a credible deterrent, so that, particularly so
those dictators in North Korea or other countries that have nuclear
weapons will not be tempted to use them. They have to know that the
price to be paid is unacceptable. There is also counter drug policy in
the bill. All of those things are an important part of what this bill
does for the country.
I want to digress for a moment on process. This bill is a prime
example of the bipartisan process that ought to govern all of our
proceedings here in this body and in the other body of government. And,
indeed, over the last year, that has been the norm. Five of the six
major bills passed in the last year in this body have been bipartisan,
and that is the way it ought to be. And that is the way it is in the
Armed Services Committee. This bill was reported out of the Armed
Services Committee with a 23 to 3 bipartisan vote.
I keep a little running tally in the Armed Services Committee when it
comes to amendments. And this year we had 433 amendments proposed going
into the markup of the Defense Authorization Act. They were negotiated.
They were withdrawn. They were modified. But we ended up with 44
amendment votes. Six were on a party-line basis--6 out of 44 were on a
party-line basis. All the rest were bipartisan, either voice votes or
rollcall votes that were bipartisan. That is the way this process
works, and that is the way this bill has come to this body.
Now, let me talk a minute about cost. You often hear--and I hear it
sometimes at home, sometimes down here--that we spend more on defense
than the next 10 countries in the world combined. Yes, but no other
country in the world has the global responsibility that we have. No
other country in the world has the global role that we have; that has
to look in all directions, not just one direction to one neighbor but
in all directions. We have an enormous responsibility, whether we like
it or not, as the most powerful country in the free world. And that
means we have to support and defend freedom, democracy, the values that
we have based
this country on. We have to be the first line of defense.
So the fact that we spend more than other countries, I don't think
that is really the question. I think the real question should be: How
much are we spending with regard to our overall economy and our Federal
budget? I think that is a fair question. And the answer is pretty
surprising to many people.
This is the percentage of national defense of Federal spending, in
relation to total Federal spending, going back to 1952, 70 years ago.
In 1952, during the Korean war--and by the way, it was as even higher
during World War II, but in 1952, about 70 percent of the Federal
budget was for defense.
As you can see, it trends down through the fifties and sixties and
seventies. In 1987, it was 28 percent of the Federal budget. Today, it
is 13 percent. It is at the lowest level it has been in 70 years as a
percentage of the Federal budget.
I think that surprises most people. They think all we are doing is
spending money on defense. As a percentage of the Federal budget, it is
actually the lowest it has been in 70 years.
The other way to look at this, that I think is perhaps even more
important, is the percentage of national defense spending of GDP, of
our gross domestic product. That is really a fair measure. In other
words, what part of our economy is devoted to defense spending?
Again, going back to 1952, it was around 14 percent--14 percent of
our gross national product was spent on defense; 1987, 6 percent;
today, 3 percent.
So people who argue that we are spending way too much on defense and
why do you spend--they are looking at the raw dollars, but they really
ought to be looking at how big a part of our economy are we devoting to
defending this country and the freedom and values of the rest of the
free world: 3 percent.
Now, should other countries be paying a reasonable share? Absolutely.
And many of them are stepping up. We are seeing significant increases
in defense expenditures on behalf of many of our NATO allies and other
countries around the world because they realize they have a
responsibility too. But I think this is really an enlightening way to
look at this in terms of what does this bill really mean? How expensive
is it? The answer to that question is, it is half as expensive as it
was 35 years ago. And it is about 20 percent of where it was 70 years
ago. Is it a lot of money? Absolutely. The question is, What is it for?
What it is for is, preventing war.
As I think I said earlier, the only thing more expensive than
maintaining an adequate deterrence is war itself. And that is what this
bill is all about.
We have passed the National Defense Authorization Act every year for
the past 62 years. I deeply hope and believe in the interest of this
country, of our citizens, and of the entire free world we are going to
do so again in the next month.
There is no more solemn responsibility we have. To go back to some of
the first words of the Constitution, in order to ``provide for the
common defense'' is one of the major functions--that is in the
preamble, that is the overarching--``insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defense.'' Those are part of the essential
function of any government. It is our responsibility. I deeply hope in
the next several weeks in this body we will meet that responsibility.
I yield the floor.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
11/14/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-11-14-pt1-PgS6666-5 | nan | nan | The Secretary of the Senate reported that on October 17, 2022, she
had presented to the President of the United States the following
enrolled bills:
S. 169. An act to amend title 17, United States Code, to
require the Register of Copyrights to waive fees for filing
an application for registration of a copyright claim in
certain circumstances, and for other purposes.
S. 442. An act to amend title 40, United States Code, to
require the Administrator of General Services to procure the
most life-cycle cost effective and energy efficient lighting
products and to issue guidance on the efficiency,
effectiveness, and economy of those products, and for other
purposes.
S. 516. An act to plan for and coordinate efforts to
integrate advanced air mobility aircraft into the national
airspace system, and for other purposes.
S. 958. An act to amend the Public Health Service Act to
expand the allowable use criteria for new access points
grants for community health centers.
S. 1198. An act to amend title 38, United States Code, to
improve and expand the Solid Start program of the Department
of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
S. 2490. An act to establish the Blackwell School National
Historic Site in Marfa, Texas, and for other purposes.
S. 2551. An act to require the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget to establish or otherwise provide an
artificial intelligence training program for the acquisition
workforce, and for other purposes.
S. 2771. An act to designate the community-based outpatient
clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in San Angelo,
Texas, as the ``Colonel Charles and JoAnne Powell Department
of Veterans Affairs Clinic''.
S. 2794. An act to amend title 38, United States Code, to
increase automatic maximum coverage under the Servicemembers'
Group Life Insurance program and the Veterans' Group Life
Insurance program, and for other purposes.
S. 3157. An act to require the Secretary of Labor to
conduct a study of the factors affecting employment
opportunities for immigrants and refugees with professional
credentials obtained in foreign countries.
S. 3470. An act to provide for the implementation of
certain trafficking in contracting provisions, and for other
purposes.
S. 4205. An act to require the Administrator of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency to establish a working group
relating to best practices and Federal guidance for animals
in emergencies and disasters, and for other purposes.
S. 4791. An act to amend section 301 of title 44, United
States Code, to establish a term for the appointment of the
Director of the Government Publishing Office.
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11/15/2022 | Mr. KING | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6679-3 | nan | nan | Mr. KING. Mr. President, I rise today to discuss the 2023 National
Defense Authorization Act. I want to talk about essentially three big
issues: the importance of the bill, what is in the bill, and the cost
of the bill.
The first question is--and when I used to appear before the Maine
Legislature, the first question always was: Why are you here? What is
the problem?
Why is this bill so important? It is important because the essence of
our defense policy since World War II has been deterrence, and
deterrence means maintaining the capacity to inflict unacceptable costs
on any potential adversary and the will to impose those costs if
necessary.
What we are really talking about in the Defense Authorization Act is
the capacity; that is, what is it that we have at our disposal that can
impose costs on our potential adversaries such that they will refrain
from aggression and initiating a conflict--a conflict which, in this
day and age, would be catastrophic.
Why do we have a defense bill? Why do we have a defense
establishment? Why do we have ships and airplanes and space capability?
In order to deter possible aggression.
Why is this important?
I am just finishing a book by William L. Shirer called ``The Collapse
of the Third Republic.'' Everyone knows Shirer's great book ``The Rise
and Fall of the Third Reich.'' This is a subsequent book that he wrote
in the late sixties about the French Republic and the relationship
between France and England to Germany in the early days leading up to
World War II. The central message or rather one of the central messages
of the book was that the failure of France and Germany to deter and
meet the aggression of Hitler early in the period leading up to World
War II, as early as 1936, led to the conflagration of World War II.
I would urge anyone who questions this assumption to Google:
Rhineland, 1936; Sudetenland, 1938. Those were places where Hitler
could have been stopped, and not with an enormous expenditure or
investment of troops or materiel, but by an almost token resistance
from the Western European powers, which they utterly failed to do. Then
we had the rearmament of the Rhineland; the takeover of the
Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia; and, of
course, in September of 1939, the invasion of Poland, leading to World
War II, where 55 million people were lost.
Shirer makes the point and most historians make the point that this
was avoidable. Had Hitler been confronted early, before he completely
rebuilt the Nazi war machine, World War II could have been avoided, and
all of those tremendous losses in this country and around the world
would have never happened.
Deterrence is also a key to nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons haven't
been used in a confrontation or a conflict since 1945. Why? Because of
the concept of deterrence. That those other countries--and there are
other countries that have nuclear weapons--realize that if nuclear
weapons are used, they will pay an enormous and unacceptable price.
That has been the policy of this country for over 70 years, and it has
worked. It has worked. But it only works as long as the adversary
believes that we do, in fact, have the capacity to inflict that kind of
punishment.
Deterrence is a matter of credibility. You have to have a credible
deterrent in terms of the actual capacity, and you also have to be
credible in terms of your will to use it. Indeed, at this point in our
history, we are talking about deterring the potential use of nuclear
weapons in regard to the Ukraine conflict by Vladimir Putin.
Deterrence means that capacity has to be credible. And the problem
is, here in this country, we have allowed our nuclear deterrent to
deteriorate and age to the point where we are having to, in effect,
rebuild it, not from scratch but rebuild it substantially. And all at
the same time, the triad: bombers, missiles, and submarines. We have to
rebuild them, and it is happening at the same time, and it is
expensive. It is because this work was deferred for the prior 25 or 30
years that we are now having to do all three legs of the triad at one
time, which adds substantially to the defense budget, but it is
necessary in order to maintain the deterrent that keeps the peace.
I have many friends in Maine who come up to me and say: ``Why are we
spending so much? Why are we building nuclear weapons? Let's get rid of
them.''
The problem is, aggression and evil exist in the world--always have,
as far as we can see; always will. The best war is the one that doesn't
happen, and the most likely way to prevent war is for the potential
adversary to know that the costs imposed upon them will be
unacceptable.
People also come up to me and say: Why are we providing this money to
Ukraine?
I don't get a lot of this, but occasionally people say: Why send
money to Ukraine? We need that money here at home.
That is when I always say: Google Rhineland, 1936; Sudetenland, 1938.
Because Putin has told us who he is. He has told us that he feels the
greatest tragedy of the 20th century was the dissolution of the Soviet
Union. He wants to rebuild the Soviet Union. Ukraine is the first
piece. I don't think there is any doubt that, if he was allowed to just
march in and take over Ukraine in a matter of weeks without any
significant resistance, the next irritant for him would be the Baltics
and then Hungary, Moldova, Slovakia, and Poland.
Maya Angelou said if someone tells you who they are, you should
believe them. Putin has told us who he is. He wants to rebuild the
Soviet Union. That is why Ukraine is so important. That is why what we
have done, what we have provided, and the leadership this
administration and our country has provided to other countries in the
world in order to resist that aggression is so important and critical--
critical to avoiding a much worse conflagration involving all of our
countries down the road. That is why it is so important. When a
dictator takes property, they are going to keep going, and that is why
what we have done in Ukraine has been so critical and important.
Well, Putin has told us what he wants to do, and we have joined with
the rest of the world and the incredibly brave and resourceful people
of Ukraine to stop it. That has to be continued.
I am going to talk about cost in a few minutes, but one quick note on
cost is that the only thing more expensive than maintaining a credible
deterrent is war. Occasionally, you see a bumper sticker that says: You
cannot prepare for war and avoid war at the same time. I believe that
is actually wrong. The only way to avoid war is to be prepared. History
is full of examples that that is the case, that aggressors look for
weakness. They look for an opening. If they find none, they are going
to pull back. That is the entire theory of our defense posture and the
expenditures that we are making on behalf of the defense of this
country and the free world.
So what is in the bill? It is a long bill. There is a lot in it, but
a couple of highlights. First, there is a raise for the troops. There
is more money for the people who are defending our country, which they
deserve. In a time of inflation, they deserve a significant raise, and
that is in the bill.
Another piece that is in the bill that I think is very important in
terms of our veterans--and, of course, we are just coming out of the
Veterans Day observance last weekend--is funding and attention in the
Defense Department to the transition from Active-Duty service to
veteran status. I believe that we should be spending as much or the
Defense Department should be spending as much time, money, and effort
on the transition out of the service as they spend on recruiting to
bring people into the service.
The data is that the tragedy of suicide among our veterans is most
acute in the first 2 or 3 years after separation, and that tells me
that is where we should focus some additional attention. In fact, that
is in this bill.
There is an enormous commitment to technology in this bill, to
artificial intelligence, to quantum computing, to hypersonics, to
cyber, which is the sort of frontline of the potential for aggression
that is going on right now. There is a low-level cyber war going on
right now. Just ask any business in America. I talked to a utility
executive recently whose company is being attacked 3 million times a
day, sometimes by State actors, sometimes by ordinary criminals or
ransomware. But cyber is one of the most serious challenges we face,
and, again, that is addressed in this bill.
Another thing that is addressed, as I mentioned, is upgrading the
nuclear triad, not because we like building submarines or missiles but
because we must have a credible deterrent, so that, particularly so
those dictators in North Korea or other countries that have nuclear
weapons will not be tempted to use them. They have to know that the
price to be paid is unacceptable. There is also counter drug policy in
the bill. All of those things are an important part of what this bill
does for the country.
I want to digress for a moment on process. This bill is a prime
example of the bipartisan process that ought to govern all of our
proceedings here in this body and in the other body of government. And,
indeed, over the last year, that has been the norm. Five of the six
major bills passed in the last year in this body have been bipartisan,
and that is the way it ought to be. And that is the way it is in the
Armed Services Committee. This bill was reported out of the Armed
Services Committee with a 23 to 3 bipartisan vote.
I keep a little running tally in the Armed Services Committee when it
comes to amendments. And this year we had 433 amendments proposed going
into the markup of the Defense Authorization Act. They were negotiated.
They were withdrawn. They were modified. But we ended up with 44
amendment votes. Six were on a party-line basis--6 out of 44 were on a
party-line basis. All the rest were bipartisan, either voice votes or
rollcall votes that were bipartisan. That is the way this process
works, and that is the way this bill has come to this body.
Now, let me talk a minute about cost. You often hear--and I hear it
sometimes at home, sometimes down here--that we spend more on defense
than the next 10 countries in the world combined. Yes, but no other
country in the world has the global responsibility that we have. No
other country in the world has the global role that we have; that has
to look in all directions, not just one direction to one neighbor but
in all directions. We have an enormous responsibility, whether we like
it or not, as the most powerful country in the free world. And that
means we have to support and defend freedom, democracy, the values that
we have based
this country on. We have to be the first line of defense.
So the fact that we spend more than other countries, I don't think
that is really the question. I think the real question should be: How
much are we spending with regard to our overall economy and our Federal
budget? I think that is a fair question. And the answer is pretty
surprising to many people.
This is the percentage of national defense of Federal spending, in
relation to total Federal spending, going back to 1952, 70 years ago.
In 1952, during the Korean war--and by the way, it was as even higher
during World War II, but in 1952, about 70 percent of the Federal
budget was for defense.
As you can see, it trends down through the fifties and sixties and
seventies. In 1987, it was 28 percent of the Federal budget. Today, it
is 13 percent. It is at the lowest level it has been in 70 years as a
percentage of the Federal budget.
I think that surprises most people. They think all we are doing is
spending money on defense. As a percentage of the Federal budget, it is
actually the lowest it has been in 70 years.
The other way to look at this, that I think is perhaps even more
important, is the percentage of national defense spending of GDP, of
our gross domestic product. That is really a fair measure. In other
words, what part of our economy is devoted to defense spending?
Again, going back to 1952, it was around 14 percent--14 percent of
our gross national product was spent on defense; 1987, 6 percent;
today, 3 percent.
So people who argue that we are spending way too much on defense and
why do you spend--they are looking at the raw dollars, but they really
ought to be looking at how big a part of our economy are we devoting to
defending this country and the freedom and values of the rest of the
free world: 3 percent.
Now, should other countries be paying a reasonable share? Absolutely.
And many of them are stepping up. We are seeing significant increases
in defense expenditures on behalf of many of our NATO allies and other
countries around the world because they realize they have a
responsibility too. But I think this is really an enlightening way to
look at this in terms of what does this bill really mean? How expensive
is it? The answer to that question is, it is half as expensive as it
was 35 years ago. And it is about 20 percent of where it was 70 years
ago. Is it a lot of money? Absolutely. The question is, What is it for?
What it is for is, preventing war.
As I think I said earlier, the only thing more expensive than
maintaining an adequate deterrence is war itself. And that is what this
bill is all about.
We have passed the National Defense Authorization Act every year for
the past 62 years. I deeply hope and believe in the interest of this
country, of our citizens, and of the entire free world we are going to
do so again in the next month.
There is no more solemn responsibility we have. To go back to some of
the first words of the Constitution, in order to ``provide for the
common defense'' is one of the major functions--that is in the
preamble, that is the overarching--``insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defense.'' Those are part of the essential
function of any government. It is our responsibility. I deeply hope in
the next several weeks in this body we will meet that responsibility.
I yield the floor.
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11/15/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6689-6 | nan | nan | At 11:02 a.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 bills, without amendment:
S. 1941. An act to direct the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget to standardize the use of core-based
statistical area designations across Federal programs, to
allow between 120 and 180 days for public comment on any
proposed change to such designations, and to report on the
scientific basis and estimated impact to Federal programs for
any proposed change to such designations, and for other
purposes.
S. 2159. An act to designate the community-based outpatient
clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs located at 400
College Drive, Middleburg, Florida, as the ``Andrew K. Baker
Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic'', and for other
purposes.
S. 3510. An act to require the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget to issue guidance with respect to
natural disaster resilience, and for other purposes.
S. 3655. An act to amend the Civil Rights Cold Case Records
Collection Act of 2018 to extend the termination date of the
Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.
S. 3826. An act to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 1304 4th Avenue in Canyon,
Texas, as the ``Gary James Fletcher Post Office Building''.
S. 3884. An act to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 404 U.S. Highway 41 North in
Baraga, Michigan, as the ``Cora Reynolds Anderson Post
Office''.
The message also announced that the House has passed the following
bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate:
H.R. 2473. An act to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 275 Penn Avenue in Salem,
Ohio, as the ``Howard Arthur Tibbs Post Office''.
H.R. 5441. An act to amend the Horse Protection Act to
designate additional unlawful acts under the Act, strengthen
penalties for violations of the Act, improve Department of
Agriculture enforcement of the Act, and for other purposes.
H.R. 5481. An act to name the Department of Veterans
Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Forest City,
North Carolina, as the ``Master Sergeant Jerry K. Crump VA
Clinic''.
H.R. 6722. An act to designate the Department of Veterans
Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in French Camp,
California, as the ``Richard A. Pittman VA Clinic''.
H.R. 6863. An act to designate the medical center of the
Department of Veterans Affairs in Memphis, Tennessee, as the
``Lt. Col. Luke Weathers, Jr. VA Medical Center''.
H.R. 6917. An act to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 301 East Congress Parkway in
Crystal Lake, Illinois, as the ``Ryan J. Cummings Post Office
Building''.
H.R. 7518. An act to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 23200 John R Road in Hazel
Park, Michigan, as the ``Roy E. Dickens Post Office''.
H.R. 7899. An act to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 75 Commerce Drive in
Grayslake, Illinois, as the ``Army Specialist Joseph `Joey'
W. Dimock II Post Office Building''.
H.R. 7903. An act to designate the Department of Veterans
Affairs community-based outpatient clinic located in Canton,
Michigan, as the ``Major General Oliver W. Dillard VA
Clinic''.
H.R. 7925. An act to designate the Department of Veterans
Affairs community-based outpatient clinic located in Palm
Desert, California, as the ``Sy Kaplan VA Clinic''.
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11/15/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6690-4 | nan | nan | The following communications were laid before the Senate, together
with accompanying papers, reports, and documents, and were referred as
indicated:
EC-5239. A communication from the Chief of the Planning and
Regulatory Affairs Branch, Food and Nutrition Service,
Department of Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant to law, the
report of a rule entitled ``Streamlining Program Requirements
and Improving Integrity in the Summer Food Service Program''
(RIN0584-AE72) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on September 23,
2022; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and
Forestry.
EC-5240. A communication from the Associate Director of the
Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Benzovindiflupyr; Pesticide Tolerances'' (FRL No.
10088-01-OCSPP) received in the Office of the President of
the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
EC-5241. A communication from the Associate Director of the
Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Propamocarb; Pesticide Tolerances'' (FRL No.
10174-01-OCSPP) received in the Office of the President of
the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
EC-5242. A communication from the Alternate Federal
Register Liaison Officer, Office of the Secretary, Department
of Defense, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a
rule entitled ``Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation
Supplement: Employment Transparency Regarding Individuals Who
Perform Work in the People's Republic of China (DFARS Case
2022-D010)'' (RIN0750-AL61) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 21, 2022; to the
Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5243. A communication from the Alternate Federal
Register Liaison Officer, Office of the Secretary, Department
of Defense, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a
rule entitled ``Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation
Supplement: Representation Relating to Compensation of Former
DoD Officials (DFARS Case 2021-D030)'' (RIN0750-AL52)
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
October 11, 2022; to the Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5244. A communication from the Director of Legislative
Affairs, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Fair Housing
Rule, Consumer Protection in Sales of Insurance Rule;
Technical Correction'' (RIN3064-AF84) received in the Office
of the President of the Senate on September 21, 2022; to the
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5245. A communication from the Secretary of the
Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to
operation of the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) for fiscal
year 2021; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs.
EC-5246. A communication from the Sanctions Regulations
Advisor, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department of the
Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations'' (31 CFR
Part 594) received in the Office of the President of the
Senate on October 11, 2022; to the Committee on Banking,
Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5247. A communication from the Federal Register Liaison
Officer, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the
Interior, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``2022 Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustments for
Oil, Gas, and Sulfur Operations in the Outer Continental
Shelf'' (RIN1010-AE10) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
EC-5248. 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 Circulator Pumps'' (RIN1904-AD77) received in
the Office of the President of the Senate on September 21,
2022; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
EC-5249. 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; Kentucky; Boyd and Christian
County Limited Maintenance Plans for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone
NAAQS'' (FRL No. 10150-02-R4) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5250. 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; Kentucky; Emissions Inventory
Requirements for the 2015 8-Hour Ozone Standard'' (FRL No.
10017-02-R4) received in the Office of the President of the
Senate on September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Environment
and Public Works.
EC-5251. 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 and Operating Permit Program Approval;
TN; Electronic Notice (e-notice) Provisions'' (FRL No. 10016-
02-R4) received in the Office of the President of the Senate
on September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and
Public Works.
EC-5252. A communication from the Associate Director of the
Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Maine: Final Authorization of State Hazardous
Waste Management Program Revisions'' (FRL No. 10012-02-R1)
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and
Public Works.
EC-5253. 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; Louisiana; Repeal of Excess
Emissions Related Provisions'' (FRL No. 9955-02-R6) received
in the Office of the President of the Senate on September 28,
2022; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5254. 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 Disapproval; California; Antelope Valley
Air Quality Management District and Mojave Desert Air Quality
Management District'' (FRL No. 9873-02-R9) received in the
Office of the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022;
to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5255. 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; Pennsylvania; 2015 Ozone
National Ambient Air Quality Standards Nonattainment New
Source Review Certification SIP'' (FRL No. 9823-02-R3)
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and
Public Works.
EC-5256. A communication from the Associate Director of the
Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Limited Approval, Limited Disapproval of
California Air Plan Revisions; California Air Resources
Board'' (FRL No. 9820-02-R9) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5257. A communication from the Associate Director of the
Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Finding of Failure to Attain the Primary 2010 One-
Hour Sulfur Dioxide Standard for the St. Bernard Parish,
Louisiana Nonattainment ARea'' (FRL No. 9308-02-R6) received
in the Office of the President of the Senate on September 28,
2022; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5258. 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; Delaware; Control of Volatile
Organic Compound Emissions from Solvent Cleaning and Drying''
(FRL No. 9174-02-R3) received in the Office of the President
of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the Committee on
Environment and Public Works.
EC-5259. A communication from the Associate Director of the
Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Approval of Air Quality Implementation Plans; New
York; Revisions to Architectural and Industrial Maintenance
Coatings'' (FRL No. 9158-02-R2) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 28, 2022; to the
Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5260. A communication from the Associate Director of the
Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Significant New Use Rules on Certain Chemical
Substances (21-2.5e)'' ((RIN2070-AB27)(FRL No. 8805-02-
0CSPP)) received in the Office of the President of the Senate
on September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and
Public Works.
EC-5261. A communication from the Associate Director of the
Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Significant New Use Rules on Certain Chemical
Substances (19-4.F); Correction'' (FRL No. 7584-03-OCSPP)
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and
Public Works.
EC-5262. 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; Texas; Clean Air Requirements
for Nonattainment New Source Review'' (FRL No. 10200-01-R6)
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and
Public Works.
EC-5263. A communication from the Associate Director of the
Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Finding of Failure to Submit Contingency Measures
for the 2008 8-Hour Ozone NAAQS; Coachella Valley,
California, and West Mojave Desert, California'' (FRL No.
10218-01-R9) received in the Office of the President of the
Senate on September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Environment
and Public Works.
EC-5264. A communication from the Regulations Coordinator,
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of
Health and Human Services, transmitting, pursuant to law, the
report of a rule entitled ``Medicare Program; Medicare Part B
Monthly Actuarial Rates, Premium Rates, and Annual Deductible
Beginning January 1, 2023'' (RIN0938-AU48) received in the
Office of the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022;
to the Committee on Finance.
EC-5265. A communication from the Regulations Coordinator,
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of
Health and Human Services, transmitting, pursuant to law, the
report of a rule entitled ``Medicare Program; CY 2023 Part A
Premiums for the Uninsured Aged and for Certain Disabled
Individuals Who Have Exhausted Other Entitlement'' (RIN0938-
AU71) received in the Office of the President of the Senate
on September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Finance.
EC-5266. A communication from the Regulations Coordinator,
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of
Health and Human Services, transmitting, pursuant to law, the
report of a rule entitled ``Medicare Program; CY 2023
Inpatient Hospital Deductible and Hospital and Extended Care
Services Coinsurance Amounts'' (RIN0938-AU71) received in the
Office of the President of the Senate on September 28, 2022;
to the Committee on Finance.
EC-5267. A communication from the Branch Chief of the
Publications and Regulations Branch, Internal Revenue
Service, Department of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant
to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Updated Lists of
Jurisdictions Under Deposit Interest Rules'' (Rev. Proc.
2022-35) received in the Office of the President of the
Senate on September 27, 2022; to the Committee on Finance.
EC-5268. A communication from the Assistant Secretary for
Legislation, Department of Health and Human Services,
transmitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled ``The
Medicare Secondary Payer Commercial Repayment Center in
Fiscal Year 2021''; to the Committee on Finance.
EC-5269. A communication from the Branch Chief of the
Publications and Regulations Branch, Internal Revenue
Service, Department of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant
to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Revenue Procedure:
Examination of returns and claims for refund, credit, or
abatement; determination of correct tax liability'' (Rev.
Proc. 2022-36) received in the Office of the President of the
Senate on September 27, 2022; to the Committee on Finance.
EC-5270. A communication from the Chairman of the United
States International Trade Commission, transmitting, pursuant
to law, a report entitled ``Andean Trade Preference Act
(ATPA): Impact on U.S. Industries and Consumers and on Drug
Crop Eradication and Crop Substitution, 2021''; to the
Committee on Finance.
EC-5271. A communication from the Attorney, International
Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Procedures
Covering Suspension of Liquidation, Duties and Estimated
Duties in Accord with Presidential Proclamation 10414''
(RIN0625-AB21) received in the Office of the President of the
Senate on September 20, 2022; to the Committee on Finance.
EC-5272. A communication from the Assistant Secretary for
Legislation, Department of Health and Human Services,
transmitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled ``2022
Report to Congress--Annual Update: Identification of Quality
Measurement Priorities and Associated Funding for the
Consensus-Based Entity (currently the National Quality Forum)
and Other Entities''; to the Committee on Finance.
EC-5273. A communication from the Assistant Secretary for
Legislation, Department of Health and Human Services,
transmitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled ``Report on
Unobligated Balances for Appropriations Relating to Quality
Measurement''; to the Committee on Finance.
EC-5274. A communication from the Acting Chief of the Trade
and Commercial Regulations Branch, Bureau of Customs and
Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security,
transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled
``Extension of Import Restrictions on Archaeological and
Ecclesiastical Ethnological Material From Guatemala''
((RIN1515-AE76)(CBP Dec. 22-24)) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on October 11, 2022; to the
Committee on Finance.
EC-5275. A communication from the Acting Chief of the Trade
and Commercial Regulations Branch, Bureau of Customs and
Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security,
transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled
``Extension and Amendment of Import Restrictions on
Archaeological and Ethnological Material from Mali''
((RIN1515-AE75)(CBP Dec. 22-23)) received in the Office of
the President of the Senate on October 11, 2022; to the
Committee on Finance.
EC-5276. A communication from the Assistant General Counsel
for Regulatory Affairs, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation,
transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled
``Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans; Interest
Assumptions for Valuing Benefits'' (29 CFR Part 4044)
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
September 28, 2022; to the Committee on Health, Education,
Labor, and Pensions.
EC-5277. A communication from the Supervisory Workforce
Analyst, Employment and Training Administration, Department
of Labor, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Apprenticeship Programs, Labor Standards for
Registration'' (RIN1205-AC06) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 27, 2022; to the
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
EC-5278. A communication from the Inspector General,
Railroad Retirement Board, transmitting, pursuant to law, a
report relative to the Office of Inspector General's budget
request for fiscal year 2024; to the Committee on Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions.
EC-5279. A communication from the Board Members, Railroad
Retirement Board, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report
relative to the Board's budget request for fiscal year 2024;
to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
EC-5280. A communication from the Director of Regulations
and Policy Management Staff, Food and Drug Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Annual
Summary Reporting Requirements Under the Right to Try Act''
(RIN0910-Al36) received in the Office of the President of the
Senate on September 21, 2022; to the Committee on Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions.
EC-5281. A communication from the Director of Regulations
and Policy Management Staff, Food and Drug Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Listing of
Color Additives Exempt From Certification; Calcium
Carbonate'' (FDA-2017-C-6238) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on October 11, 2022; to the Committee
on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
EC-5282. A communication from the Assistant General Counsel
for Regulatory Affairs, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation,
transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled
``Change of Address; Technical Amendments'' (RIN1212-AB55)
received in the Office of the President of the Senate on
October 11, 2022; to the Committee on Health, Education,
Labor, and Pensions.
EC-5283. A communication from Associate General Counsel,
Corporation for National and Community Service, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Procedures
for Disclosure of Records under the Freedom of Information
Act'' (RIN3045-AA59) received in the Office of the President
of the Senate on October 11, 2022; to the Committee on
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
EC-5284. A communication from the Secretary of Health and
Human Services, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report
relative to a determination concerning a petition to add
members to the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy
Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of
2000; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and
Pensions.
EC-5285. A communication from the Chief of the Regulatory
Coordination Division, Citizenship and Immigration Services,
Department of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursuant to
law, the report of a rule entitled ``Asylum Application, and
Employment Authorization for Applicants; Implementation of
Vacatur'' (RIN1615-AC66) received in the Office of the
President of the Senate on September 27, 2022; to the
Committee on the Judiciary.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
11/15/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6690 | nan | nan | The following bills were read the first and the second times by
unanimous consent, and referred as indicated:
H.R. 2473. An act to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 275 Penn Avenue in Salem,
Ohio, as the ``Howard Arthur Tibbs Post Office''; to the
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
H.R. 5441. An act to amend the Horse Protection Act to
designate additional unlawful acts under the Act, strengthen
penalties for violations of the Act, improve Department of
Agriculture enforcement of the Act, and for other purposes;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
H.R. 5481. An act to name the Department of Veterans
Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Forest City,
North Carolina, as the ``Master Sergeant Jerry K. Crump VA
Clinic''; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
H.R. 6722. An act to designate the Department of Veterans
Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in French Camp,
California, as the ``Richard A. Pittman VA Clinic''; to the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
H.R. 6863. An act to designate the medical center of the
Department of Veterans Affairs in Memphis, Tennessee, as the
``Lt. Col. Luke Weathers, Jr. VA Medical Center''; to the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
H.R. 6917. An act to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 301 East Congress Parkway in
Crystal Lake, Illinois, as the ``Ryan J. Cummings Post Office
Building''; to the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs.
H.R. 7518. An act to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 23200 John R Road in Hazel
Park, Michigan, as the ``Roy E. Dickens Post Office''; to the
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
H.R. 7899. An act to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 75 Commerce Drive in
Grayslake, Illinois, as the ``Army Specialist Joseph `Joey'
W. Dimock II Post Office Building''; to the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
H.R. 7903. An act to designate the Department of Veterans
Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Canton,
Michigan, as the ``Major General Oliver W. Dillard VA
Clinic''; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
H.R. 7925. An act to designate the Department of Veterans
Affairs community-based outpatient clinic located in Palm
Desert, California, as the ``Sy Kaplan VA clinic''; to the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
| based | white supremacist |
11/15/2022 | Mr. BROWN | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6700-3 | nan | nan | Mr. BROWN. Madam President, I ask my colleagues to join me today in
honoring journalists. A free, independent media is vital to our
democracy. It is enshrined in our Constitution. We depend on reporters
around the world to both tell the stories that have an impact on our
day-to-day lives and dig for those stories that might not be told
otherwise.
Journalists are generally tenacious and dedicated. They ask the tough
questions. They challenge special interests. They connect us with our
communities and our world. They put themselves in harm's way to tell
the unvarnished truth, unfiltered by government propaganda, at a time
when the world needs it more than ever, and too often, that comes at a
cost.
Increasingly, journalists find themselves under attack, arrested, or
targeted for simply reporting facts. Some even make the ultimate
sacrifice to reveal the truth.
In March, I spoke on this floor about three talented, brave
journalists who were killed while reporting on Vladimir Putin's brutal
invasion of Ukraine. Since then, at least nine other journalists have
been killed in Ukraine, journalists who were covering this war.
In May, Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed
while reporting on an Israeli military raid in Jenin in the West Bank.
This danger is not something American journalists are immune from.
In September, Jeff German, a reporter with the Las Vegas Review-
Journal, was murdered--was murdered--for his investigative reporting
here in the United States of America.
These are only a few of the journalists who lost their lives this
year while trying to uncover the truth.
Since Mahsa Amini's death on September 16, Reporters Without Borders
has found that ``at least 42 journalists have been arrested throughout
Iran.'' The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that since the
beginning of 2022--fewer than 11 months--60 journalists--6-0
journalists--have been killed.
Politicians in this country throw around all kinds of incendiary
language describing journalists, making fun of them, demeaning them,
contributing to this view too often that could lead to the injury or
attacks or even murders of journalists.
We remember those who lost their lives. We recognize their unwavering
commitment to the democratic ideals of truth and accuracy and
transparency, a commitment so strong that they put their lives on the
line--often putting truth before personal safety--to cover floods and
hurricanes and the important stories from global war zones. We have a
better understanding of what is happening in the world today because of
journalists, because of journalism.
Our thoughts are with the families and the friends and the colleagues
whose loved ones were killed in search of truth, but thoughts and
prayers aren't enough. We need to support efforts here and abroad to
hold those who kill or even threaten journalists accountable.
That is why the work of organizations like Reporters Without Borders
and the Committee to Protect Journalists--why organizations like that
are
integral to ensuring our basic right to freedom of the press.
Earlier this month, we commemorated the International Day to End
Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. Attacks and threats against
journalists are attacks and threats against all of us, attacks and
threats to freedom of speech and expression itself.
I have called for the release of journalists unjustly detained in
Egypt, Morocco, and elsewhere. I will keep calling for justice.
We honor the memories and the work of journalists best by defending
the freedom of the press, defending the right to free speech,
protecting journalists in their pursuit of the truth, and holding the
regimes--no matter where they are--that attack journalists accountable.
Today, we recommit ourselves to that fight. | special interest | antisemitic |
11/15/2022 | Mr. BROWN | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6700-3 | nan | nan | Mr. BROWN. Madam President, I ask my colleagues to join me today in
honoring journalists. A free, independent media is vital to our
democracy. It is enshrined in our Constitution. We depend on reporters
around the world to both tell the stories that have an impact on our
day-to-day lives and dig for those stories that might not be told
otherwise.
Journalists are generally tenacious and dedicated. They ask the tough
questions. They challenge special interests. They connect us with our
communities and our world. They put themselves in harm's way to tell
the unvarnished truth, unfiltered by government propaganda, at a time
when the world needs it more than ever, and too often, that comes at a
cost.
Increasingly, journalists find themselves under attack, arrested, or
targeted for simply reporting facts. Some even make the ultimate
sacrifice to reveal the truth.
In March, I spoke on this floor about three talented, brave
journalists who were killed while reporting on Vladimir Putin's brutal
invasion of Ukraine. Since then, at least nine other journalists have
been killed in Ukraine, journalists who were covering this war.
In May, Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed
while reporting on an Israeli military raid in Jenin in the West Bank.
This danger is not something American journalists are immune from.
In September, Jeff German, a reporter with the Las Vegas Review-
Journal, was murdered--was murdered--for his investigative reporting
here in the United States of America.
These are only a few of the journalists who lost their lives this
year while trying to uncover the truth.
Since Mahsa Amini's death on September 16, Reporters Without Borders
has found that ``at least 42 journalists have been arrested throughout
Iran.'' The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that since the
beginning of 2022--fewer than 11 months--60 journalists--6-0
journalists--have been killed.
Politicians in this country throw around all kinds of incendiary
language describing journalists, making fun of them, demeaning them,
contributing to this view too often that could lead to the injury or
attacks or even murders of journalists.
We remember those who lost their lives. We recognize their unwavering
commitment to the democratic ideals of truth and accuracy and
transparency, a commitment so strong that they put their lives on the
line--often putting truth before personal safety--to cover floods and
hurricanes and the important stories from global war zones. We have a
better understanding of what is happening in the world today because of
journalists, because of journalism.
Our thoughts are with the families and the friends and the colleagues
whose loved ones were killed in search of truth, but thoughts and
prayers aren't enough. We need to support efforts here and abroad to
hold those who kill or even threaten journalists accountable.
That is why the work of organizations like Reporters Without Borders
and the Committee to Protect Journalists--why organizations like that
are
integral to ensuring our basic right to freedom of the press.
Earlier this month, we commemorated the International Day to End
Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. Attacks and threats against
journalists are attacks and threats against all of us, attacks and
threats to freedom of speech and expression itself.
I have called for the release of journalists unjustly detained in
Egypt, Morocco, and elsewhere. I will keep calling for justice.
We honor the memories and the work of journalists best by defending
the freedom of the press, defending the right to free speech,
protecting journalists in their pursuit of the truth, and holding the
regimes--no matter where they are--that attack journalists accountable.
Today, we recommit ourselves to that fight. | special interests | antisemitic |
11/15/2022 | Mr. PORTMAN | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6701 | nan | nan | Mr. PORTMAN. Madam President, I come to the floor of the Senate
tonight for the 25th consecutive week while the Senate has been in
session to talk about the brutal and illegal and unprovoked war on
Ukraine by Russia--Ukraine, a democratic nation, an ally of ours who
only wants to live in peace with its neighbors.
A lot has happened in the last 6 weeks since we have been in session;
however, I want to start by addressing some very serious news out of
Poland this afternoon. Today, Russia launched another barbaric salvo of
missile strikes against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, including
hitting civilian residences and power facilities.
According to reports, during this bombardment today, two missiles
went into Poland and struck a Polish village 5 miles from the Ukrainian
border, killing two people. Several officials, including a senior U.S.
intelligence official and President Zelenskyy of Ukraine himself, have
stated that these missiles were Russian missiles.
Now, remember, Poland is a NATO ally. There are U.S. troops in
Poland. The Pols have been beside us in Afghanistan and Iraq. They are
strong allies. If this is true that Russia launched missiles that,
intentionally or unintentionally, struck NATO territory and killed
civilians, then NATO's response must be strong and unequivocal. And it
must be swift, as soon as we get the proper intelligence from what
happened.
At the very least, I believe this is an opportunity for the
administration to remove what were already misguided restrictions on
U.S. military aid to Ukraine. Ukraine needs better aircraft, as an
example, to be able to clear its skies of these Russian missiles and
the Russian drones, many of which are now being procured from Iran.
And if Russian missiles are now striking NATO territory, then it is
clearly in NATO's interest to provide these aircraft to Ukraine. The
planes don't have to come from the United States. They may well come
from other allies. But the F-16s or F-15s that would be especially
useful in this situation would probably have to be approved by the
United States before any conveyance could occur. We should provide that
approval.
Ukraine also needs longer range missiles. They have been asking for
what are called ATACMS missiles that enable them to strike Russian
missile launchers in enemy territory, many in Ukraine, in places like
the Donbas or the southern part of Ukraine or Crimea. The Ukrainian
missiles currently cannot reach those missile launchers that the
Russians are using. So the Russians have these long-range missiles, and
they don't. This is to avoid more destruction, more tragic
circumstances like we saw today, more destruction of civilian targets,
and more death.
And, lastly, Ukraine needs other help too. They need more air defense
systems. They need more armored vehicles like Abrams main battle tanks,
which have the ability to push Russian forces out of its territory and
end the Kremlin threat to the free world.
We should be patient and let the experts determine exactly what
happened today in Poland, but if these initial reports prove true that
Russian missiles struck NATO territory today, then our response must
make it very clear to Vladimir Putin through our actions that this
aggression will not be tolerated.
I think the reason we are seeing these barrages of missiles, by the
way, and drone attacks from Russia on these civilian targets is
precisely because Ukraine is winning on the battlefield. So military to
military, against all odds, and with the help of the United States and
50 other countries around the world that have provided military
assistance to Ukraine, they are making steady progress in this crucial
battle for the very survival of Ukraine. I think that is why President
Putin is responding as he is.
Two weeks ago, I traveled to Ukraine with my colleague from across
the aisle Senator Chris Coons. It was my 10th visit to Ukraine since
the first Russian invasion in 2014 when they took Crimea and parts of
the Donbas. It is my fourth visit since Russia's war on Ukraine, which
started in February of this year.
While we were there, we were able to see how the U.S. and allied help
is making a huge difference in Ukraine's stunning battlefield successes
since my last visit just a couple of months ago. However, we also heard
and saw firsthand the clear evidence of horrific crimes that Russia
continues to commit against the people of Ukraine.
Across the frontline, Russia has suffered major setbacks at the hands
of Ukrainian soldiers, particularly here in the northeast, where the
Ukrainians have taken over important strategic areas, and also down
here in the southern part of Ukraine, southeast, where the Ukrainian
troops have recently taken over almost all of this blue area, right up
to the Nepa River, and actually taken the city of Kherson. Kherson--or
Cherson, as it is called in Ukrainian--is a really important city.
Unfortunately, Vladimir Putin, because of these successes, again, has
vented his frustration against the innocent civilians of Ukraine. He
loses on the battlefield, and he is striking with more missiles and
more drones behind the frontlines. In particular, over the past month
or so, his military has been striking infrastructure--energy
infrastructure, water infrastructure--in various cities of Ukraine.
This is a cruel attempt to leave innocent Ukrainian civilians without
access to water and in the cold and dark ahead of the upcoming winter.
President Putin cannot defeat the military of Ukraine on the
battlefield so now he is turning to barbaric and cowardly tactics to
try to terrorize and defeat the civilians of Ukraine. In Kyiv, Senator
Coons and I saw the tragic evidence of these cowardly acts. We went to
the headquarters of the Ukrainian state-owned power company called
Ukrenergo. Ukrenergo is the place where the Russian missiles and drone
attacks have focused in the city of Kyiv to try to take out their power
but also power in the surrounding area, and we saw that damage that had
been done just 2 weeks prior to our arrival.
This example is a situation where there was a control center here, a
command center, that was attacked by Russian missiles--again, just a
couple of weeks before this photo was taken. What we were told by the
CEO of the company, Volodymyr Kudrytsky, is that Russia is trying to
break the morale of the Ukrainian people but also literally break
Ukraine's energy infrastructure in half. The bottom line is what they
are trying to do is create an unpowered eastern part of Ukraine that is
not able to access the power that is being generated here in the
western part of Ukraine.
We saw this when we were in Kyiv. We saw rolling blackouts. We went
to a dinner that night with Ukrainian Parliamentarians, and as we came
up to the restaurant, of course, it was entirely dark. We had our
dinner meeting by flashlight.
Tonight, much of Kyiv is without electricity. Ukraine needs to be
able to defend itself from these barbaric tactics. In our meeting with
him, President Zelenskyy passionately asked the United States to help
more to obtain these air defense systems they need to avoid these kinds
of attacks.
Current Ukrainian air defenses are able to shoot down an impressive
number of Russian missiles and Iranian drones, stopping maybe 60
percent, on average, of these weapons. But those that get through are
causing enormous damage to civilian targets, including infrastructure,
and they are killing
employees of these powerplants. They are killing civilians in
residential structures.
Ukraine needs more air defense systems from the West in order to
close its skies to protect its people ahead of this winter and defeat
Russia's latest campaign against innocent civilians.
High-cost conventional systems like the German IRIS system have made
a big impact, but they are not enough. More cost-effective options like
drone-jamming electronic warfare platforms would make an immense impact
to defend the skies at a relatively low cost. The United States,
Israel, and other countries could provide those.
We have already provided some crucial systems to Ukraine, but, again,
these recent bombardments should give us the sense of urgency to do
more.
President Putin and his supporters must also be held accountable for
the crimes they are committing. This is why, while we were in Ukraine,
we spoke with the Prosecutor General, Andriy Kostin. With funding
generously provided by this Congress and others, the United States is
supporting the Prosecutor General's office and other law enforcement
entities across Ukraine to investigate, document, and prosecute Russian
war crimes.
However, true justice requires not just Ukrainian courts to be
involved here but also international courts. This is particularly true
when we are talking about prosecuting Russian senior leadership for
condoning and ordering these crimes. That is why, after our visit to
Ukraine, Senator Coons and I also joined several of our colleagues in
the Senate in The Hague, in the Netherlands, to meet with officials
from the International Criminal Court, or ICC, which is headquartered
there. We discussed the potential for the United States to support the
ICC's efforts to deliver justice for the people of Ukraine and do so in
a way that creates a disincentive for future attacks like these.
Like many Members of the Senate, I have been critical of the ICC in
the past. I have criticized it for its biased investigations into U.S.
servicemembers in Afghanistan, as an example, and into Israel. Under
previous leadership, I believe it was a seriously flawed institution
that had lost sight of its core mission to prosecute real war crimes
and achieve results that could act as a deterrent for future war
crimes.
However, I believe the new leadership, including prosecutor Kareem
Khan, is very promising and has ``righted the ship'' in many ways at
the ICC.
On a very limited basis, regarding war crimes in Ukraine, I believe
there is an important window of opportunity for the United States and
other allies to work more closely with the ICC. We spoke frankly and
openly with officials about past differences and the possibility of our
support for their efforts in Ukraine. I now look forward to working
with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to ensure that we are
providing them assistance to ensure that these war crimes are
prosecuted.
While in the Netherlands, we also met with Prime Minister Mark Rutte
and commended his government for its leadership in the role for
justice. The Dutch have sent dozens of law enforcement experts to
Ukraine, forensic experts to assist in the collection of evidence of
Russian war crimes. And the evidence is everywhere you look.
Every time that Ukraine takes over an occupied part of its country,
the war crimes are very evident. We will talk about that in a moment as
it relates to what is happening in Kherson.
On all these things regarding support to Ukraine, the Netherlands has
been a critical voice in Europe, strongly supporting Ukraine. I am
grateful to Prime Minister Rutte and the Dutch people for their
steadfast support. We have to come together as a global community to
hold Vladimir Putin and his regime accountable, just as we have come
together to support Ukraine's fight to defend itself.
Senator Coons and I had a very productive visit to Ukraine and the
Netherlands. We saw firsthand how the United States has helped and the
urgency of us to continue to help in this fight for freedom.
Since our visit, Ukraine has continued to achieve stunning successes
on the battlefield. Last week, Russia announced its troops were going
to retreat to the west side of Dnipro River here and leave the city of
Kherson. This is a really big deal. Kherson is a provincial capital of
this oblast. And, you may remember, it was the first major city to fall
to Russia's initial onslaught after the February 24 invasion. In fact,
it was the only provincial capital that the Russians had been able to
capture. Now it is back in Ukrainian hands, as Ukrainians continue
their successful fight for their freedom against this unprovoked
assault.
This is a huge victory for Ukraine and equally big defeat for Russia.
This was crucial, partly because the horrors on display in Kherson,
which are now being uncovered, needed to be stopped. As one Ukrainian
who lived under the occupation said:
If there is a hell on Earth, it was here.
Reports go on and on and tell the world of Kherson residents being
arrested because they were accused of fighting for Ukraine's freedom,
being a part of the freedom fighters to liberate Ukraine.
The Washington Post reported:
[L]ocals were locked up and tortured because they had
Ukrainian tattoos, wore traditional clothing, took selfies
standing near Russian troops, or simply dared to say, ``Slava
Ukraini''--or ``Glory to Ukraine.''
A mother was arrested in front of her teenage son and held
for two months on a suspicion of helping Ukrainian forces.
A 64-year-old man was detained and beaten with a hammer for
fighting--eight years ago.
A priest was arrested and sent to Crimea, according to a
congregate.
That priest has not been heard from.
Even the mayor was arrested. Still, no one knows where he
is.
This is why the liberation of Kherson meant so much to the
Ukrainians. To the ones who had to live this hell on Earth, seeing
their liberators and greeting soldiers meant a new kind of freedom.
This photograph, I think, demonstrates well what is happening. Here
is a Ukrainian soldier, a liberator, coming into Kherson, and this is a
woman who is feeling this sense of freedom, finally, and liberation and
comfort.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a videotape addressed
to the Nation:
Today is a historic day. . . . We are regaining Kherson. .
. . the people of Kherson are waiting. They never gave up on
Ukraine.
And the Ukrainian Government never gave up on their people, as this
next photo shows. The people never gave up in their fight for freedom
because they knew what it was like to have their freedom stripped from
them. They had experienced freedom in Ukraine after 2014, and then they
experienced the Russian occupation.
This is a joyful crowd, taking photos as the flag of Ukraine was
raised over this community building.
The abandonment of Kherson was clearly a blow to the 9-month Russian
invasion, a great loss for Moscow, a win for freedom, and a sign of
what is to come as the tide in this war turns, if we can continue to
support Ukraine.
This victory was the result of a long, patient, and successful
counteroffensive conducted by Ukrainian forces. Over the course of many
months, the Ukrainians slowly whittled away at Russian forces with
precision artillery strikes, using the HIMARS, the High Mobility
Artillery Rocket Systems, that we provided them and others have as
well.
They struck logistics hubs, command and control outposts, and bridges
along the Dnipro River here. So they are able to strike into the
occupied areas and essentially keep the Russian troops in Kherson from
being resupplied. That is why the Russian troops had to leave, because
they couldn't get the supplies because of the successful and patient
onslaught by the weapons that we had provided Ukraine.
Ukrainians did it in a way that avoided civilian casualties and
avoided the destruction of the beautiful city of Kherson but pushed the
Russians out. What happened this week is that Russia finally
realized that its position was totally untenable when they had to pull
back.
Ukrainian strikes made it possible for Ukraine to win here. We need
to continue to provide them the help--the missiles, the HIMARS--so they
can continue to engage in massive frontal assaults against these
fortified Russian defenses, all along this area.
Once again, Ukrainian soldiers have proven that they have the will;
they
have the bravery; they have the smarts to win this war. All they need
from us and other allies--again, 50 other countries around the world
have provided help--is the tools to be able to succeed. This is not a
time for us to let up in our support for Ukraine.
I hope the government funding bill that we will vote on next month
will include robust amounts of assistance to Ukraine. This victory, in
addition to Ukraine's many other gains over the past several months, is
a clear indication that this is a cause that is worth supporting. And
it is one we can win.
We have to continue to provide the HIMARS but other weapons as well.
We talked about the airplanes earlier. We talked about tanks and
infantry-fighting vehicles to bolster its current and future counter
offenses to liberate sovereign territory.
Two weeks ago, President Zelenskyy asked Senator Coons and me for the
United States to provide these important armored vehicles to Ukraine.
And yet the administration has still not acted on this request. We make
the world's most lethal and most survivable tanks in the world. We make
them in the State of Ohio, my home State. They can be used in Ukraine
today to outmatch the vehicles used by Russia. Let's provide them.
For months, Ukraine has specifically asked for these longer range
missiles we talked about, the ATACMS, that can be launched from HIMARS
launchers already in Ukraine and be able to reach these Russian
positions to stop some of the missiles from being fired in the first
place. And yet the administration has not acted on this request. We
cannot deter ourselves from providing these weapons to Ukraine out of a
misguided fear that somehow that would provoke Russia. Russia is
already escalating the war themselves. What the past 9 months have
shown is that they will escalate regardless of what we do. So we need
to equip Ukraine to be able to defeat the escalation as it occurs, as
it is right now with the barrage of missiles on civilian targets.
I know some of my colleagues have questions about oversight of our
assistance to Ukraine. I do, too. We need to be sure that there are
significant oversight mechanisms in place. We need to ensure that our
aid is going exactly where it belongs and being spent wisely.
When we were in Ukraine, we had the opportunity to talk about this
with the embassy, with Ukrainian officials, and also when we were in
Poland going into Ukraine at the 101st Airborne, where much of the
materiel, the military materiel, comes into Ukraine.
No one is advocating we give Ukraine a blank check. I believe there
have to be safeguards in place for how the funding is being spent. By
the way, President Zelenskyy totally agrees with that.
And we saw in place some of the things that they have. They have an
accounting firm from the United States involved in following the state
aid. In other words, the humanitarian aid and the aid to the
government.
We have put in place unprecedented policies to be able to end use
monitoring for the military equipment going to Ukraine. I can confirm
that we are engaged in a very ambitious and very successful effort on
this end-use monitoring. There have been literally no documented
instances of diversion of U.S. supplied weapons, which is incredible to
me--not diversions to the Russians, not diversions to third parties.
That may happen at some point. But because of this end-use monitoring
and because Ukrainians agree that they need to be accountable for what
we are providing them, we have had very good success.
And I think the Ukrainian Government, it is fair to say, has been a
very eager and willing partner in all these endeavors. They have
stepped up to provide oversight for our equipment and funding because
they know that is incredibly important for them to continue to receive
it.
They hear the questions about oversight coming from Members of
Congress and our constituents, and they are happy to provide the
transparency to answer these questions. That is important. And that
must continue.
The war in Ukraine is not just measured by the days that flip by on
the calendar, although it has been a long time since February. Just ask
the Ukrainian mothers and wives who watch the men in their family fight
off their country's invaders.
In Kyiv, we met with internally displaced Ukrainian women--mothers,
grandmothers, sisters. We were at a World Food Programme site in
Ukraine where some of the 7\1/2\ million internally displaced people in
Ukraine are coming for their basic needs.
By the way, there are about 7 million people outside of Ukraine, also
displaced people. This refugee flow is probably unprecedented when you
add it up, over 14 million people.
We heard some heart-wrenching stories. A couple of women sat down
with us and told us a story about their cousin who was captured by
Russian soldiers in the occupied area up here in the northeast that has
now been liberated. This young man was taken into the town square, and
in front of his mother and his family, he was tortured. Then he was
taken underground and tortured for weeks. They told us that his mother
died of grief 10 days after he was captured.
Their tears and those of many others whom we met are confirmed by the
stories we are hearing from these prosecutors who are patiently and
carefully investigating these war crimes so that people can be held to
account.
War is much more than dollars spent, land captured, and the strategic
gains made. The war is about innocent children who die, about their
loving parents who are worried about how they will keep their homes
warm and how they will keep their kids fed as Russia intentionally
tries to make Ukraine uninhabitable this winter.
The war in Ukraine is about the schools and the hospitals and the
infrastructure that is being attacked, war crimes that will affect the
most vulnerable of Ukrainians. The war is about unprovoked Russian
aggression toward a nation that only wants to live in peace with its
neighbors. The war in Ukraine is about a freedom-loving people fighting
for the right for basic self-governance and dignity and democracy.
Russia's war against Ukraine is, indeed, horrific; but allowing
Russia to win would only embolden other dictators to start equally
horrific conflicts in the future. We have the means to help ensure a
Ukrainian victory, along with our allies. And we must ensure that we
are doing what we can. That is how we win, and that is how we deter
future conflicts.
The United States of America and our allies must stand up in the face
of Russian aggression and demand that freedom be preserved. The United
States has stood as the shining city on the hill for about two and a
half centuries.
In the Revolution of Dignity, as they call it, in 2014, when the
Ukrainian people decided to rid themselves of a Russian-backed corrupt
government, they saw that shining city on a hill. And they strove to be
like it. They said they wanted to be like us and like their European
neighbors. They are strong. They are resolved. They know what they are
up against. They are determined to push back against the threat of
Russian aggression and win.
As Americans, it is our duty to stand up for what we know is true:
that in a fight between authoritarianism and freedom, freedom must win.
American aid to the war effort is working. We are providing tools to
these strong and resilient people. In the face of ruthless aggression
and unprovoked violence, Ukraine has liberated cities and restored hope
to millions.
The will of the Ukrainian people is so strong. Likewise, the will of
the United States and our allies must be clear. We must stand with them
and their worthy cause.
As I heard from Members of Ukraine's Parliament when I was in Ukraine
and also we have heard from them here in Washington as they come,
freedom must be armed. It is not enough just for the Ukrainian people
to seek freedom. They have to have the arms to back it up. That is what
we are doing, along with 50 of our allies around the world. Supporting
Ukraine during this pivotal moment is critical.
At this juncture, we have to provide them with what they need to
defend themselves and retake their sovereign territory from their
Russian invaders.
I yield the floor. | Volodymyr Zelensky | antisemitic |
11/15/2022 | Mr. PORTMAN | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6701 | nan | nan | Mr. PORTMAN. Madam President, I come to the floor of the Senate
tonight for the 25th consecutive week while the Senate has been in
session to talk about the brutal and illegal and unprovoked war on
Ukraine by Russia--Ukraine, a democratic nation, an ally of ours who
only wants to live in peace with its neighbors.
A lot has happened in the last 6 weeks since we have been in session;
however, I want to start by addressing some very serious news out of
Poland this afternoon. Today, Russia launched another barbaric salvo of
missile strikes against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, including
hitting civilian residences and power facilities.
According to reports, during this bombardment today, two missiles
went into Poland and struck a Polish village 5 miles from the Ukrainian
border, killing two people. Several officials, including a senior U.S.
intelligence official and President Zelenskyy of Ukraine himself, have
stated that these missiles were Russian missiles.
Now, remember, Poland is a NATO ally. There are U.S. troops in
Poland. The Pols have been beside us in Afghanistan and Iraq. They are
strong allies. If this is true that Russia launched missiles that,
intentionally or unintentionally, struck NATO territory and killed
civilians, then NATO's response must be strong and unequivocal. And it
must be swift, as soon as we get the proper intelligence from what
happened.
At the very least, I believe this is an opportunity for the
administration to remove what were already misguided restrictions on
U.S. military aid to Ukraine. Ukraine needs better aircraft, as an
example, to be able to clear its skies of these Russian missiles and
the Russian drones, many of which are now being procured from Iran.
And if Russian missiles are now striking NATO territory, then it is
clearly in NATO's interest to provide these aircraft to Ukraine. The
planes don't have to come from the United States. They may well come
from other allies. But the F-16s or F-15s that would be especially
useful in this situation would probably have to be approved by the
United States before any conveyance could occur. We should provide that
approval.
Ukraine also needs longer range missiles. They have been asking for
what are called ATACMS missiles that enable them to strike Russian
missile launchers in enemy territory, many in Ukraine, in places like
the Donbas or the southern part of Ukraine or Crimea. The Ukrainian
missiles currently cannot reach those missile launchers that the
Russians are using. So the Russians have these long-range missiles, and
they don't. This is to avoid more destruction, more tragic
circumstances like we saw today, more destruction of civilian targets,
and more death.
And, lastly, Ukraine needs other help too. They need more air defense
systems. They need more armored vehicles like Abrams main battle tanks,
which have the ability to push Russian forces out of its territory and
end the Kremlin threat to the free world.
We should be patient and let the experts determine exactly what
happened today in Poland, but if these initial reports prove true that
Russian missiles struck NATO territory today, then our response must
make it very clear to Vladimir Putin through our actions that this
aggression will not be tolerated.
I think the reason we are seeing these barrages of missiles, by the
way, and drone attacks from Russia on these civilian targets is
precisely because Ukraine is winning on the battlefield. So military to
military, against all odds, and with the help of the United States and
50 other countries around the world that have provided military
assistance to Ukraine, they are making steady progress in this crucial
battle for the very survival of Ukraine. I think that is why President
Putin is responding as he is.
Two weeks ago, I traveled to Ukraine with my colleague from across
the aisle Senator Chris Coons. It was my 10th visit to Ukraine since
the first Russian invasion in 2014 when they took Crimea and parts of
the Donbas. It is my fourth visit since Russia's war on Ukraine, which
started in February of this year.
While we were there, we were able to see how the U.S. and allied help
is making a huge difference in Ukraine's stunning battlefield successes
since my last visit just a couple of months ago. However, we also heard
and saw firsthand the clear evidence of horrific crimes that Russia
continues to commit against the people of Ukraine.
Across the frontline, Russia has suffered major setbacks at the hands
of Ukrainian soldiers, particularly here in the northeast, where the
Ukrainians have taken over important strategic areas, and also down
here in the southern part of Ukraine, southeast, where the Ukrainian
troops have recently taken over almost all of this blue area, right up
to the Nepa River, and actually taken the city of Kherson. Kherson--or
Cherson, as it is called in Ukrainian--is a really important city.
Unfortunately, Vladimir Putin, because of these successes, again, has
vented his frustration against the innocent civilians of Ukraine. He
loses on the battlefield, and he is striking with more missiles and
more drones behind the frontlines. In particular, over the past month
or so, his military has been striking infrastructure--energy
infrastructure, water infrastructure--in various cities of Ukraine.
This is a cruel attempt to leave innocent Ukrainian civilians without
access to water and in the cold and dark ahead of the upcoming winter.
President Putin cannot defeat the military of Ukraine on the
battlefield so now he is turning to barbaric and cowardly tactics to
try to terrorize and defeat the civilians of Ukraine. In Kyiv, Senator
Coons and I saw the tragic evidence of these cowardly acts. We went to
the headquarters of the Ukrainian state-owned power company called
Ukrenergo. Ukrenergo is the place where the Russian missiles and drone
attacks have focused in the city of Kyiv to try to take out their power
but also power in the surrounding area, and we saw that damage that had
been done just 2 weeks prior to our arrival.
This example is a situation where there was a control center here, a
command center, that was attacked by Russian missiles--again, just a
couple of weeks before this photo was taken. What we were told by the
CEO of the company, Volodymyr Kudrytsky, is that Russia is trying to
break the morale of the Ukrainian people but also literally break
Ukraine's energy infrastructure in half. The bottom line is what they
are trying to do is create an unpowered eastern part of Ukraine that is
not able to access the power that is being generated here in the
western part of Ukraine.
We saw this when we were in Kyiv. We saw rolling blackouts. We went
to a dinner that night with Ukrainian Parliamentarians, and as we came
up to the restaurant, of course, it was entirely dark. We had our
dinner meeting by flashlight.
Tonight, much of Kyiv is without electricity. Ukraine needs to be
able to defend itself from these barbaric tactics. In our meeting with
him, President Zelenskyy passionately asked the United States to help
more to obtain these air defense systems they need to avoid these kinds
of attacks.
Current Ukrainian air defenses are able to shoot down an impressive
number of Russian missiles and Iranian drones, stopping maybe 60
percent, on average, of these weapons. But those that get through are
causing enormous damage to civilian targets, including infrastructure,
and they are killing
employees of these powerplants. They are killing civilians in
residential structures.
Ukraine needs more air defense systems from the West in order to
close its skies to protect its people ahead of this winter and defeat
Russia's latest campaign against innocent civilians.
High-cost conventional systems like the German IRIS system have made
a big impact, but they are not enough. More cost-effective options like
drone-jamming electronic warfare platforms would make an immense impact
to defend the skies at a relatively low cost. The United States,
Israel, and other countries could provide those.
We have already provided some crucial systems to Ukraine, but, again,
these recent bombardments should give us the sense of urgency to do
more.
President Putin and his supporters must also be held accountable for
the crimes they are committing. This is why, while we were in Ukraine,
we spoke with the Prosecutor General, Andriy Kostin. With funding
generously provided by this Congress and others, the United States is
supporting the Prosecutor General's office and other law enforcement
entities across Ukraine to investigate, document, and prosecute Russian
war crimes.
However, true justice requires not just Ukrainian courts to be
involved here but also international courts. This is particularly true
when we are talking about prosecuting Russian senior leadership for
condoning and ordering these crimes. That is why, after our visit to
Ukraine, Senator Coons and I also joined several of our colleagues in
the Senate in The Hague, in the Netherlands, to meet with officials
from the International Criminal Court, or ICC, which is headquartered
there. We discussed the potential for the United States to support the
ICC's efforts to deliver justice for the people of Ukraine and do so in
a way that creates a disincentive for future attacks like these.
Like many Members of the Senate, I have been critical of the ICC in
the past. I have criticized it for its biased investigations into U.S.
servicemembers in Afghanistan, as an example, and into Israel. Under
previous leadership, I believe it was a seriously flawed institution
that had lost sight of its core mission to prosecute real war crimes
and achieve results that could act as a deterrent for future war
crimes.
However, I believe the new leadership, including prosecutor Kareem
Khan, is very promising and has ``righted the ship'' in many ways at
the ICC.
On a very limited basis, regarding war crimes in Ukraine, I believe
there is an important window of opportunity for the United States and
other allies to work more closely with the ICC. We spoke frankly and
openly with officials about past differences and the possibility of our
support for their efforts in Ukraine. I now look forward to working
with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to ensure that we are
providing them assistance to ensure that these war crimes are
prosecuted.
While in the Netherlands, we also met with Prime Minister Mark Rutte
and commended his government for its leadership in the role for
justice. The Dutch have sent dozens of law enforcement experts to
Ukraine, forensic experts to assist in the collection of evidence of
Russian war crimes. And the evidence is everywhere you look.
Every time that Ukraine takes over an occupied part of its country,
the war crimes are very evident. We will talk about that in a moment as
it relates to what is happening in Kherson.
On all these things regarding support to Ukraine, the Netherlands has
been a critical voice in Europe, strongly supporting Ukraine. I am
grateful to Prime Minister Rutte and the Dutch people for their
steadfast support. We have to come together as a global community to
hold Vladimir Putin and his regime accountable, just as we have come
together to support Ukraine's fight to defend itself.
Senator Coons and I had a very productive visit to Ukraine and the
Netherlands. We saw firsthand how the United States has helped and the
urgency of us to continue to help in this fight for freedom.
Since our visit, Ukraine has continued to achieve stunning successes
on the battlefield. Last week, Russia announced its troops were going
to retreat to the west side of Dnipro River here and leave the city of
Kherson. This is a really big deal. Kherson is a provincial capital of
this oblast. And, you may remember, it was the first major city to fall
to Russia's initial onslaught after the February 24 invasion. In fact,
it was the only provincial capital that the Russians had been able to
capture. Now it is back in Ukrainian hands, as Ukrainians continue
their successful fight for their freedom against this unprovoked
assault.
This is a huge victory for Ukraine and equally big defeat for Russia.
This was crucial, partly because the horrors on display in Kherson,
which are now being uncovered, needed to be stopped. As one Ukrainian
who lived under the occupation said:
If there is a hell on Earth, it was here.
Reports go on and on and tell the world of Kherson residents being
arrested because they were accused of fighting for Ukraine's freedom,
being a part of the freedom fighters to liberate Ukraine.
The Washington Post reported:
[L]ocals were locked up and tortured because they had
Ukrainian tattoos, wore traditional clothing, took selfies
standing near Russian troops, or simply dared to say, ``Slava
Ukraini''--or ``Glory to Ukraine.''
A mother was arrested in front of her teenage son and held
for two months on a suspicion of helping Ukrainian forces.
A 64-year-old man was detained and beaten with a hammer for
fighting--eight years ago.
A priest was arrested and sent to Crimea, according to a
congregate.
That priest has not been heard from.
Even the mayor was arrested. Still, no one knows where he
is.
This is why the liberation of Kherson meant so much to the
Ukrainians. To the ones who had to live this hell on Earth, seeing
their liberators and greeting soldiers meant a new kind of freedom.
This photograph, I think, demonstrates well what is happening. Here
is a Ukrainian soldier, a liberator, coming into Kherson, and this is a
woman who is feeling this sense of freedom, finally, and liberation and
comfort.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a videotape addressed
to the Nation:
Today is a historic day. . . . We are regaining Kherson. .
. . the people of Kherson are waiting. They never gave up on
Ukraine.
And the Ukrainian Government never gave up on their people, as this
next photo shows. The people never gave up in their fight for freedom
because they knew what it was like to have their freedom stripped from
them. They had experienced freedom in Ukraine after 2014, and then they
experienced the Russian occupation.
This is a joyful crowd, taking photos as the flag of Ukraine was
raised over this community building.
The abandonment of Kherson was clearly a blow to the 9-month Russian
invasion, a great loss for Moscow, a win for freedom, and a sign of
what is to come as the tide in this war turns, if we can continue to
support Ukraine.
This victory was the result of a long, patient, and successful
counteroffensive conducted by Ukrainian forces. Over the course of many
months, the Ukrainians slowly whittled away at Russian forces with
precision artillery strikes, using the HIMARS, the High Mobility
Artillery Rocket Systems, that we provided them and others have as
well.
They struck logistics hubs, command and control outposts, and bridges
along the Dnipro River here. So they are able to strike into the
occupied areas and essentially keep the Russian troops in Kherson from
being resupplied. That is why the Russian troops had to leave, because
they couldn't get the supplies because of the successful and patient
onslaught by the weapons that we had provided Ukraine.
Ukrainians did it in a way that avoided civilian casualties and
avoided the destruction of the beautiful city of Kherson but pushed the
Russians out. What happened this week is that Russia finally
realized that its position was totally untenable when they had to pull
back.
Ukrainian strikes made it possible for Ukraine to win here. We need
to continue to provide them the help--the missiles, the HIMARS--so they
can continue to engage in massive frontal assaults against these
fortified Russian defenses, all along this area.
Once again, Ukrainian soldiers have proven that they have the will;
they
have the bravery; they have the smarts to win this war. All they need
from us and other allies--again, 50 other countries around the world
have provided help--is the tools to be able to succeed. This is not a
time for us to let up in our support for Ukraine.
I hope the government funding bill that we will vote on next month
will include robust amounts of assistance to Ukraine. This victory, in
addition to Ukraine's many other gains over the past several months, is
a clear indication that this is a cause that is worth supporting. And
it is one we can win.
We have to continue to provide the HIMARS but other weapons as well.
We talked about the airplanes earlier. We talked about tanks and
infantry-fighting vehicles to bolster its current and future counter
offenses to liberate sovereign territory.
Two weeks ago, President Zelenskyy asked Senator Coons and me for the
United States to provide these important armored vehicles to Ukraine.
And yet the administration has still not acted on this request. We make
the world's most lethal and most survivable tanks in the world. We make
them in the State of Ohio, my home State. They can be used in Ukraine
today to outmatch the vehicles used by Russia. Let's provide them.
For months, Ukraine has specifically asked for these longer range
missiles we talked about, the ATACMS, that can be launched from HIMARS
launchers already in Ukraine and be able to reach these Russian
positions to stop some of the missiles from being fired in the first
place. And yet the administration has not acted on this request. We
cannot deter ourselves from providing these weapons to Ukraine out of a
misguided fear that somehow that would provoke Russia. Russia is
already escalating the war themselves. What the past 9 months have
shown is that they will escalate regardless of what we do. So we need
to equip Ukraine to be able to defeat the escalation as it occurs, as
it is right now with the barrage of missiles on civilian targets.
I know some of my colleagues have questions about oversight of our
assistance to Ukraine. I do, too. We need to be sure that there are
significant oversight mechanisms in place. We need to ensure that our
aid is going exactly where it belongs and being spent wisely.
When we were in Ukraine, we had the opportunity to talk about this
with the embassy, with Ukrainian officials, and also when we were in
Poland going into Ukraine at the 101st Airborne, where much of the
materiel, the military materiel, comes into Ukraine.
No one is advocating we give Ukraine a blank check. I believe there
have to be safeguards in place for how the funding is being spent. By
the way, President Zelenskyy totally agrees with that.
And we saw in place some of the things that they have. They have an
accounting firm from the United States involved in following the state
aid. In other words, the humanitarian aid and the aid to the
government.
We have put in place unprecedented policies to be able to end use
monitoring for the military equipment going to Ukraine. I can confirm
that we are engaged in a very ambitious and very successful effort on
this end-use monitoring. There have been literally no documented
instances of diversion of U.S. supplied weapons, which is incredible to
me--not diversions to the Russians, not diversions to third parties.
That may happen at some point. But because of this end-use monitoring
and because Ukrainians agree that they need to be accountable for what
we are providing them, we have had very good success.
And I think the Ukrainian Government, it is fair to say, has been a
very eager and willing partner in all these endeavors. They have
stepped up to provide oversight for our equipment and funding because
they know that is incredibly important for them to continue to receive
it.
They hear the questions about oversight coming from Members of
Congress and our constituents, and they are happy to provide the
transparency to answer these questions. That is important. And that
must continue.
The war in Ukraine is not just measured by the days that flip by on
the calendar, although it has been a long time since February. Just ask
the Ukrainian mothers and wives who watch the men in their family fight
off their country's invaders.
In Kyiv, we met with internally displaced Ukrainian women--mothers,
grandmothers, sisters. We were at a World Food Programme site in
Ukraine where some of the 7\1/2\ million internally displaced people in
Ukraine are coming for their basic needs.
By the way, there are about 7 million people outside of Ukraine, also
displaced people. This refugee flow is probably unprecedented when you
add it up, over 14 million people.
We heard some heart-wrenching stories. A couple of women sat down
with us and told us a story about their cousin who was captured by
Russian soldiers in the occupied area up here in the northeast that has
now been liberated. This young man was taken into the town square, and
in front of his mother and his family, he was tortured. Then he was
taken underground and tortured for weeks. They told us that his mother
died of grief 10 days after he was captured.
Their tears and those of many others whom we met are confirmed by the
stories we are hearing from these prosecutors who are patiently and
carefully investigating these war crimes so that people can be held to
account.
War is much more than dollars spent, land captured, and the strategic
gains made. The war is about innocent children who die, about their
loving parents who are worried about how they will keep their homes
warm and how they will keep their kids fed as Russia intentionally
tries to make Ukraine uninhabitable this winter.
The war in Ukraine is about the schools and the hospitals and the
infrastructure that is being attacked, war crimes that will affect the
most vulnerable of Ukrainians. The war is about unprovoked Russian
aggression toward a nation that only wants to live in peace with its
neighbors. The war in Ukraine is about a freedom-loving people fighting
for the right for basic self-governance and dignity and democracy.
Russia's war against Ukraine is, indeed, horrific; but allowing
Russia to win would only embolden other dictators to start equally
horrific conflicts in the future. We have the means to help ensure a
Ukrainian victory, along with our allies. And we must ensure that we
are doing what we can. That is how we win, and that is how we deter
future conflicts.
The United States of America and our allies must stand up in the face
of Russian aggression and demand that freedom be preserved. The United
States has stood as the shining city on the hill for about two and a
half centuries.
In the Revolution of Dignity, as they call it, in 2014, when the
Ukrainian people decided to rid themselves of a Russian-backed corrupt
government, they saw that shining city on a hill. And they strove to be
like it. They said they wanted to be like us and like their European
neighbors. They are strong. They are resolved. They know what they are
up against. They are determined to push back against the threat of
Russian aggression and win.
As Americans, it is our duty to stand up for what we know is true:
that in a fight between authoritarianism and freedom, freedom must win.
American aid to the war effort is working. We are providing tools to
these strong and resilient people. In the face of ruthless aggression
and unprovoked violence, Ukraine has liberated cities and restored hope
to millions.
The will of the Ukrainian people is so strong. Likewise, the will of
the United States and our allies must be clear. We must stand with them
and their worthy cause.
As I heard from Members of Ukraine's Parliament when I was in Ukraine
and also we have heard from them here in Washington as they come,
freedom must be armed. It is not enough just for the Ukrainian people
to seek freedom. They have to have the arms to back it up. That is what
we are doing, along with 50 of our allies around the world. Supporting
Ukraine during this pivotal moment is critical.
At this juncture, we have to provide them with what they need to
defend themselves and retake their sovereign territory from their
Russian invaders.
I yield the floor. | blue | antisemitic |
11/16/2022 | Unknown | House | CREC-2022-11-16-pt1-PgH8539-2 | nan | nan | Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive communications were taken from
the Speaker's table and referred as follows:
EC-5898. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory
Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency,
transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Pesticides; Addition
of Chitosan (Including Chitosan Salts) to the List of Active
Ingredients Permitted in Exempted Minimum Risk Pesticide
Products [EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0701; FRL-7542-05-OCSPP] (RIN:
2070-AK56) received November 3, 2022, 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-5899. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory
Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency,
transmitting the Agency's final rule -- National Emissions
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants; Paint Stripping and
Miscellaneous Surface Coating Operations at Area Sources
Technology Review [EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0016; FRL-8339-02-OAR]
(RIN: 2060-AV34) received November 3, 2022, 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-5900. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory
Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency,
transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Delegation of New
Source Performance Standards and National Emission Standards
for Hazardous Air Pollutants for the States of Arizona and
California [EPA-R09-OAR-2021-0962; FRL-9400-04-R9] received
November 3, 2022, 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-5901. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory
Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency,
transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Nitric Acid;
Exemption from the Requirement of a Tolerance [EPA-HQ-OAR-
2022-0363; FRL-10247-01-OCSPP] received November 3, 2022,
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-5902. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory
Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency,
transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Acetic Acid, 2-
Ethylhexyl Ester; Exemption from the Requirement of a
Tolerance [EPA-HQ-OPP-2017-0084; FRL-10295-01-OCSPP] received
November 3, 2022, 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-5903. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory
Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency,
transmitting the Agency's final rule -- 1,3-
Benzenedicarboxylic acid, 5-sulfo-, sodium salt (1:1),
polymer with 1,3-benzenedicarboxylic acid, 1,4-
cyclohexanedimethanol and 2,2'-- oxybis[ethanol]; Tolerance
Exemption [EPA-HQ-OPP-2022-0505; FRL-10301-01-OCSPP] received
November 3, 2022, 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-5904. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory
Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency,
transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Air Plan Approval;
Maryland; Clean Data Determination and Approval of Select
Attainment Plan Elements for the Anne Arundel County and
Baltimore County, MD Sulfur Dioxide Nonattainment Area [EPA-
R03-OAR-2020-0325; FRL-10364-02-R3] received November 3,
2022, 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-5905. A letter from the General Counsel, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, transmitting the Commission's policy
statement -- Standard Applied to Complaints Against Oil
Pipeline Index Rate Changes [Docket No.: AD20-10-000]
received November 3, 2022, 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-5906. A letter from the Office Director, Office of
Congressional Affairs, Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
transmitting the Commission's final rule -- American Society
of Mechanical Engineers 2019-2020 Code Editions [NRC-2018-
0290] (RIN: 3150-AK22) received October 31, 2022, 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-5907. A letter from the Assistant General Counsel for
Legislation, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy, Department of Energy, transmitting the Department's
final rule -- Energy Conservation Program: Energy
Conservation Standards for Direct Expansion-Dedicated Outdoor
Air Systems [EERE-2017-BT-STD-0017] (RIN: 1904-AD-92)
received November 7, 2022, 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-5908. 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 -- Dedication of Commercial-
Grade Digital Instrumentation and Control Items for Use in
Nuclear Power Plants, Regulatory Guide RG 1.250, Revision 0
received November 3, 2022, 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-5909. A letter from the Director, Office of
Congressional Affairs, Research, Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, transmitting the Commission's Issuance of
Regulatory Guide -- Acceptability of ASME Code, Section XI,
Division 2, ``Requirements for Reliability and Integrity
Management (RIM) Programs for Nuclear Power Plants'', for
Non-Light Water Reactors, Regulatory Guide 1.246, Revision 0
received October 31, 2022, 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-5910. A letter from the Acting Chief, Branch of
Delisting and Foreign Species, Fish and Wildlife Service,
Department of the Interior, transmitting the Department's
final rule -- Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants;
Removing the Snail Darter From the List of Endangered and
Threatened Wildlife [Docket No.: FWS-R4-ES-2020-0152;
FF09E22000 FXES11130900000 212] (RIN: 1018-BE62) received
November 3, 2022, 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-5911. A letter from the Administrative Assistant, Fish
and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior,
transmitting the Department's final rule -- Endangered and
Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Threatened Species Status for
Emperor Penguin With Section 4(d) Rule [Docket No.: FWS-HQ- | Baltimore | racist |
11/16/2022 | Unknown | House | CREC-2022-11-16-pt1-PgH8542 | nan | nan | Under clause 3 of rule XII, memorials were presented and referred as
follows:
ML-238. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the Legislature
of the State of California, relative to Senate Joint
Resolution No. 4, memorializing the 117th Congress of the
United States and the President of the United States to enact
legislation, S. 3213, known as the IDEA Full Funding Act,
which would fully fund the federal Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act; which was referred to the
Committee on Education and Labor.
ML-239. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of
California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 5, urging
the United states Congress to amend the United States Social
Security Administration's index of earnings to ensure that a
decline in aggregate wages due to COVID-19 does not result in
decreased benefits; which was referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means.
ML-240. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of
California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 8, urging
the President and Congress of the United States to amend
Section 402(d)(1) of Title 42 of the United State Codes and
any other necessary statutes to allow recipients of DAC
benefits to continue to receive those benefits upon marriage;
which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
ML-241. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of
California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 15,
urging the President of the United States and the Congress of
the United States to take action to restore honor to the
sailors unjustly blamed for, and the sailors convicted of
mutiny following the Port Chicago disaster, and to rectify
any mistreatment by the military of those sailors; which was
referred jointly to the Committees on Armed Services and the
Judiciary.
ML-242. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of
California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 9,
recognizing October 12, 2021, as the 20-year anniversary of
the enactment of the exemption from nonresident tuition
during the 2001-02 Regular Session; which was referred
jointly to the Committees on Education and Labor and the
Judiciary.
| Chicago | racist |
11/16/2022 | Unknown | House | CREC-2022-11-16-pt1-PgH8543 | nan | nan | Under clause 3 of rule XII,
PT-153. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the Board of
Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, CA,
relative to Resolution No. 379-22, urging the Mayor of the
City and County of San Francisco to instruct the City's state
and federal lobbyists to work in support of decriminalizing
all Entheogenic Plants and plant-based compounds that are
listed on the Federal Controlled Substances Schedule 1; the
Judiciary.; which was referred jointly to the Committees on
Energy and Commerce and Judiciary.
| based | white supremacist |
11/16/2022 | Unknown | House | CREC-2022-11-16-pt1-PgH8543 | nan | nan | Under clause 3 of rule XII,
PT-153. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the Board of
Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, CA,
relative to Resolution No. 379-22, urging the Mayor of the
City and County of San Francisco to instruct the City's state
and federal lobbyists to work in support of decriminalizing
all Entheogenic Plants and plant-based compounds that are
listed on the Federal Controlled Substances Schedule 1; the
Judiciary.; which was referred jointly to the Committees on
Energy and Commerce and Judiciary.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
11/15/2022 | Mr. REED | Senate | CREC-2022-11-15-pt1-PgS6687-2 | nan | nan | Mr. REED. Madam President, I rise today to honor a great American and
an exceptional member of the U.S. Air Force.
Lt. Col. Nathan ``Nate'' Kitzke has distinguished himself through his
professional character and dedication by serving this Nation in
uniform. A leader and expert communicator, he has provided
distinguished service to our country while assigned to the Air Force
Senate Liaison Office. He is an outstanding leader and a great airman
to represent the Air Force on Capitol
Hill. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Nate has served in the
Air Force for over 18 years. As a deployed squadron commander and C-130
pilot, Nate has led thousands of airmen in support of U.S. Air Force
missions worldwide.
Throughout his career, Nate has demonstrated exceptional, unrivaled
officership. He is a senior pilot with over 2,150 flying hours in the
C-130E/H and has flown more than 1,000 combat hours over five
deployments in support of Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom,
New Dawn, and Inherent Resolve. Prior to his current assignment, Nate
had the privilege of being a deployed squadron commander at the 407th
Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron, where he led two teams of
airmen and civilians in managing two strategically essential Kuwaiti
airfields.
As a legislative liaison in the Air Force Senate Liaison Office from
June 2020 to June 2022, Lieutenant Colonel Kitzke performed his duties
well and without reservation supporting the 116th and 117th U.S.
Congresses. His strategic thinking and foresight helped to strengthen
and improve our national security. Nate accomplished this utilizing his
in-depth Air Force knowledge with numerous engagements between Congress
and the Department of the Air Force.
Nate expertly conveyed Department of the Air Force positions on the
Air Force Future Design that included the future bomber, tanker, and
fighter force. Nate's direct support provided the U.S. Senate critical
information necessary for three National Defense Authorization Acts.
His efforts helped establish the U.S. Space Force, ensure the
confirmation of the 26th Air Force Secretary, the 22nd Air Force Chief
of Staff, and ensured the Department of the Air Force support of the
National Defense Strategy in our return to great power competition.
Lieutenant Colonel Kitzke planned and led delegations for Members of
Congress on visits all over the world to include the bicameral Reagan
National Defense Forum. Nate's significant efforts led to successful
engagements between this governing body and senior Department of
Defense Officials including the Secretary of the Air Force. All of
these engagements helped U.S. Senators understand defense equities and
their impact on national security. Due to his direct involvement and
stewardship, Members of Congress were able to make informed decisions
and ensure the Department of the Air Force was properly resourced and
funded.
After serving in this crucial role for the past 2 years and becoming
a fixture on Capitol Hill, Lieutenant Colonel Kitzke will move to his
next assignment, attending Air War College at Maxwell AFB, AL, a
selection reserved only for the top echelon of Air Force leaders. Nate,
his wife Gileanne, and their son Diego have sacrificed much as a family
in service to our Nation. I am thankful for Nate's service and his work
with my office and the Senate over the past 2 years on issues of vital
importance to this great Nation. I salute this American patriot whose
selfless service has kept our country safe and strong.
| Reagan | white supremacist |
07/28/2022 | The RECORDER | Senate | CREC-2022-07-28-pt1-PgS3785 | nan | nan | By Mr. PADILLA (for himself and Mr. Cramer):
S. 4672. A bill to modify the authority of the Secretary of Defense
to transfer excess aircraft to other departments of the Federal
Government and to authorize the Secretary to transfer excess aircraft
to the Governor of a State, and for other purposes; to the Committee on
Armed Services.
Mr. PADILLA, Mr. President, I rise to introduce the bipartisan
Emergency Aircraft Act of 2022.
Currently, DOD has a program to transfer excess aircraft to Federal
Agencies for wildfire suppression purposes. However, under current law,
DOD is limited to providing only seven aircraft total to each Agency.
After years of increasingly catastrophic wildfires, it has become
clear that the Federal Government must do more to support suppression
efforts to get fires under control quickly, as well as support search
and rescue to keep communities safe. If there are excess aircraft
available, they should be put to use suppressing fires and protecting
communities.
Furthermore, as fire activity has exploded in the past few years,
States have stepped up and greatly increased their own suppression
efforts. They should also be allowed to utilize these excess aircraft
to increase suppression capabilities and put fires out faster. However,
under current law, States do not have access to these excess aircraft.
This bill would remove the arbitrary cap on how many excess aircraft
DOD can transfer to Federal Agencies for wildfire suppression efforts;
allow States to receive excess aircraft; expand the purposes for which
these aircraft could be used from just ``wildfire suppression
purposes'' to include purposes of ``wildfire suppression, search and
rescue, or emergency operations pertaining to wildfires''; and mandate
an annual report from DOD to the Committees on Armed Services of the
Senate and the House of Representatives on aircraft transferred during
the previous fiscal year.
This bill represents a commonsense step forward to expand fire
suppression and search and rescue operations across the Federal
Government and State governments.
I want to thank Senator Cramer for joining me in this bipartisan
effort, and I urge my colleagues to join us in working to pass this
bill as quickly as possible in light of the extreme wildfire danger
facing States across the country.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
09/28/2022 | Mr. CARSON | House | CREC-2022-09-28-pt1-PgH8168 | nan | nan | Mr. CARSON. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the
bill (S. 3662) to temporarily increase the cost share authority for
aqueous film forming foam input-based testing equipment, and for other
purposes, as amended. | based | white supremacist |
09/28/2022 | Ms. WATERS | House | CREC-2022-09-28-pt1-PgH8157 | nan | nan | Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the
bill (H.R. 6889) to mend the Federal Credit Union Act to modify the
frequency of board of directors meetings, and for other purposes, as
amended. | the Fed | antisemitic |
09/19/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgS4820-4 | nan | nan | The following communications were laid before the Senate, together
with accompanying papers, reports, and documents, and were referred as
indicated:
EC-5020. A communication from the Under Secretary of
Defense (Personnel and Readiness), transmitting the report of
an officer authorized to wear the insignia of the grade of
general in accordance with title 10, United States Code,
section 777; to the Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5021. A communication from the Senior Official
performing the duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Energy, Installations, and Environment), transmitting,
pursuant to law, a report entitled ``Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl
Substances Cleanup: Schedule, Status, and Cost Estimates; to
the Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5022. A communication from the Under Secretary of
Defense (Personnel and Readiness), transmitting the report of
sixteen (16) officers authorized to wear the insignia of the
grade of major general in accordance with title 10, United
States Code, section 777; to the Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5023. 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 14064 with respect to certain property of Da
Afghanistan Bank; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs.
EC-5024. 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 13848 with respect to the threat of foreign
interference in or undermining public confidence in United
States elections; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs.
EC-5025. 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 14014 with respect to the situation in and in
relation to Burma; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs.
EC-5026. 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 14046 with respect to Ethiopia; to the
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5027. 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 13224 with respect to persons who commit,
threaten to commit, or support terrorism; to the Committee on
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5028. 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 13566 with respect to Libya; to the Committee
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5029. A communication from the Chairman, Securities and
Exchange Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the 2020
Annual Report of the Securities Investor Protection
Corporation (SIPC); to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs.
EC-5030. A communication from the Secretary of the
Securities and Exchange Commission, transmitting, pursuant to
law, the report of a rule entitled ``Whistleblower Program
Rules'' (RIN3235-AN03) received during adjournment of the
Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on August
31, 2022; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs.
EC-5031. A communication from the Secretary of the
Securities and Exchange Commission, transmitting, pursuant to
law, the report of a rule entitled ``Pay Versus Performance''
(RIN3235-AL00) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022;
to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5032. 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 Ceiling Fans'' (RIN1904-AC11) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources.
EC-5033. A communication from the Associate Director of
the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines; New
Source Performance Standards for Stationary Internal
Combustion Engines; Court Vacatur'' ((RIN2060-AV76) (FRL No.
5300.3-01-OAR)) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 9, 2022;
to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5034. 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; Oklahoma; Updates to the
General SIP and Incorporation by Reference Provisions'' (FRL
No. 9085-02-R6) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 9, 2022;
to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5035. A communication from the Associate Director of
the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Florida; Approval and Promulgation of State Plans
for Designated Facilities and Pollutants; Control of
Emissions from Existing Municipal Solid Waste Landfills''
(FRL No. 9092-02-R4) received during adjournment of the
Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on August
9, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5036. A communication from the Associate Director of
the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Maintenance Plan and Redesignation Request;
Nogales PM2.5 Planning Area; Arizona'' (FRL No. 9503-02-R9)
received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of
the President of the Senate on August 9, 2022; to the
Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5037. 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; Indiana, Michigan and
Minnesota; Revised Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction
Provisions'' (FRL No. 9649-02-R5) received during adjournment
of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 9, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and Public
Works.
EC-5038. 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; Kentucky; Removal of Excess
Emissions Provisions'' (FRL No. 9912-02-R4) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 9, 2022; to the Committee on Environment
and Public Works.
EC-5039. A communication from the Director of the
Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: Alternative
RIN Retirement Schedule for Small Refineries'' ((RIN2060-
AV72) (FRL No. 9821-02-OAR)) received during adjournment of
the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and Public
Works.
EC-5040. A communication from the Director of the
Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Air Plans; Arizona; Revised Format for Materials
Incorporated by Reference; Correcting Amendment'' (FRL No.
9602-02-R9) received during adjournment of the Senate in the
Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to
the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5041. A communication from the Director of the
Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Finding of Failure to Submit Regional Haze State
Implementation Plans for the Second Planning Period'' (FRL
No. 9731-01-OAR) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022;
to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5042. 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; OR; Oakridge PM2.5
Redesignation to Attainment and Maintenance Plan'' (FRL No.
9488-02-R10) received during adjournment of the Senate in the
Office of the President of the Senate on August 16, 2022; to
the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5043. 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; OR; Oakridge PM10 Redesignation
to Attainment and Maintenance Plan'' (FRL No. 9489-02-R10)
received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of
the President of the Senate on August 16, 2022; to the
Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5044. 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 Disapproval and Partial Approval;
Pennsylvania; Attainment Plan for the Indiana, Pennsylvania
Nonattainment Area for the 2010 Sulfur Dioxide Primary
National Ambient Air Quality Standard'' (FRL No. 9607-02-R3)
received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of
the President of the Senate on August 16, 2022; to the
Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5045. 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; Missouri; Construction Permit
Exemptions'' (FRL No. 9838-02-R7) received during adjournment
of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 16, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and Public
Works.
EC-5046. 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 Disapproval; Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania; Reasonably Available Control Technology
Regulations for the 1997 and 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air
Quality Standards'' (FRL No. 10115-02-R3) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 16, 2022; to the Committee on
Environment and Public Works.
EC-5047. A communication from the Associate Director of
the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Expedited Approval of Alternative Test Procedures
for the analysis of Contaminants under the Safe Drinking
Water Act; Analysis and Sampling Procedures'' (FRL No. 9834-
01-OW) received during adjournment of the Senate in the
Office of the President of the Senate on August 16, 2022; to
the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5048. 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; Missouri; General Conformity
Rescission'' (FRL No. 9906-02-R7) received during adjournment
of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 16, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and Public
Works.
EC-5049. A communication from the Wildlife Biologist, Fish
and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior,
transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled
``Migratory Bird Subsistence Harvest in Alaska; Harvest
Regulations for Migratory Birds in Alaska During the 2022
Season'' (RIN1018-BF65) received during adjournment of the
Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on August
31, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5050. A communication from the Branch of Administrative
Support Services, Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of
the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a
rule entitled ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and
Plants; Removing Adiantum vivesii From the Federal List of
Endangered and Threatened Plants'' (RIN1018-BE41) received
during adjournment of the Senate in the office of the
President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee
on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5051. 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) 1.82
Rev 5, `Water Sources for Long-Term Recirculation Cooling
Following a Loss-of-Coolant Accident' '' received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 9, 2022; to the Committee on Environment
and Public Works.
EC-5052. 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) 8.34
Rev 1, `Monitoring Criteria and Methods to Calculate
Occupational Radiation Doses' '' received during adjournment
of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and Public
Works.
EC-5053. A communication from the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to
law, a report entitled ``Technical Cybersecurity Support Plan
for Public Water Systems''; to the Committee on Environment
and Public Works.
EC-5054. A communication from the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to
law, a report entitled ``America's Water Infrastructure Act
(AWIA) Report to Congress - Study on Intractable Public Water
Systems Serving Fewer Than 1,000 People: Compliance with
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations, Barriers, and
Case Studies''; to the Committee on Environment and Public
Works.
EC-5055. A communication from the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant to
law, a report entitled ``Diesel Emissions Reduction Act
(DERA) Fifth Report to Congress: Highlights of the DERA
Program''; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
| terrorism | Islamophobic |
09/19/2022 | The RECORDER | Senate | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgS4823-2 | nan | nan | By Mr. PADILLA:
S. 4879. A bill to amend the Federal Credit Union Act to permit
credit unions to serve certain underserved areas, and for other
purposes; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. | the Fed | antisemitic |
09/19/2022 | The RECORDER | Senate | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgS4823 | nan | nan | By Mr. PADILLA:
S. 4879. A bill to amend the Federal Credit Union Act to permit
credit unions to serve certain underserved areas, and for other
purposes; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. | the Fed | antisemitic |
09/19/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgS4825 | nan | nan | Mr. LANKFORD (for himself, Ms. Rosen, Ms. Ernst, and Mr. Booker)
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee
on Foreign Relations:
S. Res. 773
Whereas, on September 15, 2020, the United States, Israel,
United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain signed the historic Abraham
Accords;
Whereas, on December 22, 2020, Morocco signed the Abraham
Accords;
Whereas, on January 6, 2021, Sudan signed the Abraham
Accords;
Whereas the Abraham Accords created formal diplomatic ties
between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan,
and Morocco increasing the number of Arab states with formal
diplomatic ties with Israel to six;
Whereas the Abraham Accords marked the first instance of
normalized relations between Israel and Arab countries in
more than two decades;
Whereas the leadership and success of prior normalization
agreements between Israel and Egypt in 1979 and between
Israel and Jordan in 1994 paved the way for creating formal
diplomatic ties with other Arab and Muslim-majority
countries;
Whereas the Abraham Accords have reduced the likelihood of
armed conflict, improved ties between Israel and neighboring
countries, and advanced the cause of achieving lasting peace
in the Middle East, including through a negotiated solution
to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that ensures mutual
recognition and guarantees that Israelis and Palestinians
live side-by-side with freedom, security, and prosperity;
Whereas the Abraham Accords provide an opportunity to make
tangible improvements in the lives of Palestinians, including
increased multilateral investment in the Palestinian economy
among signatory countries of the Abraham Accords;
Whereas continued political, economic, and security
cooperation between the United States, Israel, and Arab
states remains vital to the prosperity and security of the
Middle East;
Whereas the relationship between the United States and
Israel is rooted in shared values and interests;
Whereas the Abraham Accords demonstrably have advanced
religious freedom in the Middle East, including through
interfaith and intercultural dialogue between Israel, the
United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain;
Whereas new opportunities for multilateral cooperation
generated by the Abraham Accords may improve the ability of
the United States to meet nascent threats and emerging
challenges;
Whereas the Embassy of Israel in Abu Dhabi was opened on
January 24, 2021, and the United Arab Emirates became the
first Gulf country to open an embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, on
May 30, 2021;
Whereas Israel opened a resident embassy in Manama,
Bahrain, in September 2021, and the first ambassador to
Israel from Bahrain assumed his post in August 2021;
Whereas the Foreign Ministers of Israel, Egypt, the United
Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and the United States
convened at the Negev Summit in Sde Boker, Israel, resulting
in the establishment of the Negev Forum and six working
groups tasked with furthering multilateral cooperation in the
areas of energy, education and coexistence, food and water
security, health, regional security, and tourism;
Whereas the Abraham Accords have catalyzed increases in
trade, tourism, and investment in the Middle East,
benefitting the people of those countries;
Whereas, at the 2022 World Economic Forum, the Minister of
State for Foreign Trade of the United Arab Emirates indicated
that bilateral trade with Israel has surpassed $2,500,000,000
since the signing of the Abraham Accords;
Whereas, on May 31, 2022, Israel and the United Arab
Emirates signed a comprehensive free-trade agreement to cover
96 percent of bilateral trade, amounting to approximately
$1,000,000,000;
Whereas trade between the United Arab Emirates and Israel
is expected to surpass $10,000,000,000 within 5 years,
economic conditions that were made possible by the Abraham
Accords;
Whereas trade between Israel and Bahrain increased to
$1,200,000 in May 2022, up from $0 in May 2021;
Whereas trade between Israel and Morocco increased to
$3,100,000 in May 2022, an increase of 94 percent since May
2021;
Whereas the Abraham Accords have facilitated direct
commercial airline flights, improving people-to-people ties
in spite of obstacles created by the COVID-19 pandemic;
Whereas, on July 14, 2022, the United States and Israel
signed the Jerusalem U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Joint
Declaration, which calls for a deepening and broadening of
the Abraham Accords; and
Whereas destabilizing developments in the Middle East
continue to demonstrate the importance of the Abraham
Accords: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) commemorates the second anniversary of the signing of
the Abraham Accords;
(2) reaffirms the enduring and ironclad alliance between
the United States and Israel;
(3) believes that the United States should--
(A) prioritize the expansion and strengthening of the
Abraham Accords to encourage other countries to normalize
relations with Israel and ensure that existing agreements
reap tangible security and economic benefits for the citizens
of those countries;
(B) with other signatory countries of the Abraham Accords,
promote and develop new areas of regional collaboration
including maritime security, defense cooperation, clean
energy initiatives, water security initiatives, and direct
flights; and
(C) build on the Abraham Accords to help advance prospects
for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, make tangible
improvements in the lives of the Palestinian people, and make
progress toward a negotiated solution that ensures mutual
recognition;
(4) supports efforts to increase security and prosperity in
the Middle East and North Africa via continued security and
defense cooperation in furtherance of the Abraham Accords;
(5) encourages the expansion of the Abraham Accords to
include countries that do not have diplomatic relations with
Israel, and urges the President to take the necessary steps
to secure comparable agreements with other Arab and Muslim-
majority countries; and
(6) supports opportunities to expand economic ties between
the United States, Israel, and Arab states through
comprehensive economic partnerships and other trade
initiatives.
| religious freedom | homophobic |
09/20/2022 | Unknown | House | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgH7977-3 | nan | nan | The Chaplain, the Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the
following prayer:
God our Savior, break into our world which is rife with bad news, and
make known the redeeming proclamation of Your love for us and Your
plans for our good and not our harm.
Preserve the welfare of countries and communities around the world
from the disasters threatening them. Particularly on this day, we pray
for the people of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean as once again they
battle the devastation inflicted on them by damaging winds and raging
seas.
Grant us redemption from all that seeks to distance us from Your love
and distract us from faith in You. Restore our relationship with You
that by Your mercy, we would all be welcomed once again into Your
embrace.
Lord, You are the ruler of the universe. We appeal to You this day
that Your saving hand would hold and protect Your people.
Renewed in Your name, we pray.
Amen.
| welfare | racist |
09/20/2022 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgH7992 | nan | nan | 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 (S. 2490) to establish the Blackwell School National
Historic Site in Marfa, Texas, and for other purposes, on which the
yeas and nays were ordered. | XX | transphobic |
09/20/2022 | Unknown | House | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgH8008-3 | nan | nan | Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive communications were taken from
the Speaker's table and referred as follows:
EC-5255. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory
Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency,
transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Air Plan Approval;
Missouri; General Conformity Rescission [EPA-R07-OAR-2022-
0482; FRL-9906-02-R7] received August 17, 2022, 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-5256. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory
Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency,
transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Air Plan Approval;
Missouri; Construction Permit Exemptions [EPA-R07-OAR-2022-
0422; FRL-9838-02-R7] received August 17, 2022, 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-5257. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory
Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency,
transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Air Plan Partial
Disapproval and Partial Approval; Pennsylvania; Attainment
Plan for the Indiana, Pennsylvania Nonattainment Area for the
2010 Sulfur Dioxide Primary National Ambient Air Quality
Standard [EPA-R03-OAR-2017-0615; FRL-9607-02-R3] received
August 17, 2022, 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-5258. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory
Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency,
transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Air Plan Approval;
OR; Oakridge PM10 Redesignation to Attainment and Maintenance
Plan [EPA-R10-OAR-2022-0125 FRL-9489-02-R10] received August
17, 2022, 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-5259. A letter from the Associate Director, Regulatory
Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency,
transmitting the Agency's final rule -- Air Plan Approval;
OR; Oakridge PM2.5 Redesignation to Attainment and
Maintenance Plan [EPA-R10-OAR-2022-0124 FRL-9488-02-R10]
received August 17, 2022, 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-5260. A letter from the Director, Regulatory Management
Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the
Agency's final rule -- Thymol; Exemption From the Requirement
of a Tolerance [EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0520; FRL-10188-01-OCSPP]
received September 2, 2022, 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-5261. A letter from the Director, Regulatory Management
Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the
Agency's final action -- Florida: Final Authorization of
State Hazardous Waste Management Program Revisions [EPA-R04-
RCRA-2022-0259; FRL-10134-02-R4] received September 2, 2022,
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-5262. A letter from the Director, Regulatory Management
Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the
Agency's final rule -- IN-11645: Oxirane, 2-(phenoxymethyl)--
, polymer with oxirane, monobutyl ether, block. Tolerance
Exemption [EPA-HQ-OPP-2022-0390; FRL-10122-01-
OCSPP] received September 2, 2022, 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-5263. A letter from the Director, Regulatory Management
Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the
Agency's final rule -- IN-11470: Styrene, Copolymers With
Acrylic Acid and/or Methacrylic Acid, With None and/or One or
More Monomers or Polymers; Tolerance Exemption Amendment
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2021-0183; FRL-10099-01-OCSPP] received September
2, 2022, 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-5264. A letter from the Director, Regulatory Management
Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the
Agency's final rule -- Approval and Promulgation of
Implementation Plans; State of Utah; Revisions to Utah
Administrative Code: Environmental Quality; Title R307; Air
Quality [EPA-R08-OAR-2022-0186; FRL-9930-02-R8] received
September 2, 2022, 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-5265. A letter from the Director, Regulatory Management
Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the
Agency's final rule -- Air Plan Approval; Iowa; State
Implementation Plan and State Operating Permits Program [EPA-
R07-OAR-2022-0483 FRL-9913-02-R7] received September 2, 2022,
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-5266. A letter from the Director, Regulatory Management
Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the
Agency's final rule -- Pesticides; Expansion of Crop Grouping
Program VI [EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0766; FRL-5031-13-OCSPP] (RIN:
2070-AJ28) received September 2, 2022, 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-5267. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting
Department Notification Number: DDTC 22-008, pursuant to
Section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Act; to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs.
EC-5268. A letter from the Branch of Administrative Support
Services, Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the
Interior, transmitting the Department's final rule -
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing
Adiantum vivesii From the Federal List of Endangered and
Threatened Plants [Docket No.: FWS-R4-ES-2020-0125;
FF09E22000 FXES1113090FEDR 223] (RIN: 1018-BE41) received
September 9, 2022, 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-5269. A letter from the Branch of Administrative Support
Services, Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the
Interior, transmitting the Department's final rule --
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the
Braken Bat Cave Meshweaver From the List of Endangered and
Threatened Wildlife [Docket No.: FWS-R2-ES-2021-0054;
FF09E22000 FXES1113090FEDR 223] (RIN: 1018-BE43) received
September 9, 2022, 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-5270. A letter from the Branch Chief, Legal Processing
Division, Publications and Regulations Branch, Internal
Revenue Service, transmitting the Service's Major final rule
-- Requirements Related to Surprise Billing [TD 9965] (RIN:
1545-BQ01; 1545-BQ02] received September 6, 2022, 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.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
09/20/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4830 | nan | nan | Inflation
Mr. President, now on another matter, Washington Democrats' runaway
inflation has caused a nationwide crisis. It has put working families
and small businesses in a bind from coast to coast.
Since President Biden took office, inflation has shot up a staggering
13.2 percent. For the average American household, this translates to
hundreds and hundreds of extra dollars every month, working overtime
just to barely--barely--tread water.
In my home State of Kentucky, for example, the Democrats' inflation
has forced proud, hard-working families to ask for help putting food on
the table; in some cases, for the first time in their lives.
The director of the Jessamine County Food Pantry in Nicholasville
says:
Our numbers here are going up like crazy. . . . We have
problems actually getting food now. We're actually not giving
away as much as we were just a couple months ago because I
can't find it, and I can't afford it sometimes when I can
find it.
And, of course, these challenges aren't limited to the Commonwealth.
In Clifton, CO, the director of one local food bank reports that she
had served 1,000 more families in the first half of this year than in
the first half of last year. Here is her quote:
They cannot short their rent bill, but they can short their
grocery bill. And so they come here so I can fill the gap.
In coastal Georgia, the director of a network of food banks says
distribution at her facilities had increased 38 percent from July to
August. Meeting the increased demand has meant stomaching steep spikes
in meat and dairy prices.
In Concord, NH, the director of the Friendly Kitchen says no one is
ever turned away, but more and more people keep showing up for dinner.
I'm nervous it's going to get worse. I think it's going to
get worse before it gets better.
Washington Democrats' inflation is absolutely hammering States like
Colorado, Georgia, and New Hampshire. And Senate Republicans--we tried
to stop it. We warned against inflation. We tried to block their $2
trillion inflationary bill. We offered amendments. But all three of
those States have two Senators who both voted in lockstep on party
lines to ram through trillions--trillions--of dollars. One hundred
percent of the U.S. Senators from those States voted to bring this on.
This is what happens when Washington Democrats put their own
priorities ahead of our people.
I suggest the absence of a quorum. | working families | racist |
09/20/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4831-2 | nan | nan | Nomination of Florence Y. Pan
Mr. President, in other matters, today, the Senate will vote to
confirm our sixth circuit court judge in the month of September--Judge
Florence Pan--to sit on the all-important DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
If confirmed, Judge Pan will make history as the first Taiwanese
American ever to serve on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, joining in
the proud company of so many other Biden nominees who have expanded the
diversity and experience of the Federal bench.
As we all know, the DC Circuit Court is the second-most important
Federal court in the country after the Supreme Court. Before this court
comes disputes that involve Congress and much of the Federal
Government, so many of its decisions involve constitutional or
administrative law. It goes without saying that nominees to this court
must be individuals of the highest caliber. They need to be
experienced, balanced, and above all, committed to the rule of law.
That is exactly what we have in Judge Pan. She has had over a decade
of experience as a judge in the District of Columbia and has seen
practically every legal dispute under the Sun. She is already well-
known to this Chamber, having been confirmed as a district judge with
68 votes. She should be similarly confirmed with bipartisan support.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
09/20/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4831-3 | nan | nan | Puerto Rico
Mr. President, last, but certainty not least: Puerto Rico. As our
fellow Americans in Puerto Rico continue to feel the wrath of Hurricane
Fiona, we continue to monitor the situation here in Congress. Over the
weekend, President Biden issued an emergency disaster declaration for
Puerto Rico with 75 percent of the costs of emergency medical care,
disaster response, and food distribution to be covered by the Federal
Government.
Yesterday, I got on the phone with the FEMA Administrator and urged
FEMA to approve Puerto Rico's request to increase that figure to 100
percent and to stand ready to approve a major disaster declaration
request to unlock not just response money but funding needed to recover
and rebuild. On the call were my colleagues Representatives Velazquez
and Espaillat, and I echoed the calls from my colleagues to ensure
maximum flexibility for those applying for FEMA assistance and to get
Federal funding out of the door ASAP. Puerto Rico desperately needs it.
Later this morning, I will join with the Hispanic Federation and a
number of my colleagues to talk about additional steps we are calling
on the Federal Government to take, including steps to strengthen Puerto
Rico's electric grid. The electric grid is almost 50 years out-of-date.
It is particularly susceptible to hurricanes. It hasn't even been
repaired since the damage Hurricane Maria, 5 years ago, put upon it.
Yet, we have given lots of Federal money for the reestablishment or the
rebuilding of the grid, and very little has happened. So we need to
focus on that issue as well as others.
Five years to the day after the arrival of Maria, Puerto Rico needs
help to recover from Fiona. We need to make sure, this time, Puerto
Rico has absolutely everything it needs as soon as possible for as long
as they need it.
I yield the floor. | the Fed | antisemitic |
09/20/2022 | Mr. DURBIN | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4831-4 | nan | nan | Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I rise today to condemn the violence and
threats of violence against the men and women of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
I take these threats seriously. This July 1, I chaired the Judiciary
Committee hearing on law enforcement officer safety and the threats our
law enforcement officers are facing. I have repeatedly made clear that
violence against law enforcement is never--never--acceptable no matter
what ideology motivates it, but here is the reality.
In the past month, following the FBI's execution of a search warrant
at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, the FBI has faced a flood of
threats against its employees and its facilities, and these threats
have been egged on by the former President and his allies.
The men and women of the Federal Bureau of Investigation literally
put their lives on the line every day to keep all of us safe. They put
themselves in harm's way to stop armed criminals, drug traffickers,
terrorist organizations, and others who threaten our communities. They
serve on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic and investigate and hold
accountable those who traffic illegal opioids and who illegally
prescribe pharmaceutical opioids. They investigate crimes against
children and human trafficking--some of the most heinous crimes
imaginable. They work day in and day out to combat international and
domestic terrorism, and they carry out judicially issued search
warrants every day. That is part of their job and an important role
that they play in our justice system.
Unfortunately, ever since the August 8 Mar-a-Lago search, their
dedication has been repaid with a flood of baseless attacks and violent
threats. Attacking the FBI for his own political advantage is nothing
new for the former President, but the attacks haven't stopped with him.
His allies and followers have spewed anti-FBI vitriol online and across
the airwaves. In recent weeks, there have been calls from Republican
Members of Congress to ``destroy'' and ``defund'' the FBI. There have
been calls from Republican congressional candidates to ``gut'' the FBI
``like a fish'' and ``shoot FBI, IRS, ATF, and all other feds on
sight.'' So it is no surprise that such outrageous and irresponsible
rhetoric coincides with a stunning increase in violent threats against
the FBI.
Last month, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security issued a
joint intelligence bulletin detailing an increase in violent threats
and acts of violence against Federal law enforcement officials
following the August 8 Mar-a-Lago search. These include threats to
place a ``dirty bomb'' outside of the FBI headquarters and online calls
for civil war and armed rebellion.
On August 11, a man wearing body armor--armed with an AR-15 assault
rifle and a nail gun--attempted to breach the FBI's Cincinnati field
office. On August 16, another man was indicted for threatening to
murder everyone at the FBI, from Director Wray to the custodial staff.
On August 25, a man jumped the fence at FBI's Chicago field office but,
thankfully, was detained and taken to a local hospital for evaluation
before he could hurt anyone.
In response to the joint intelligence bulletin and these incidents, I
asked the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to have a private
briefing with Members of the Senate's Judiciary and Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs Committees last week. That briefing only added
to my concern.
I cannot share the specifics from this closed-door briefing, but I
will say this: It should go without saying that the men and women of
the FBI risk their lives every day on our behalf, but the increase in
threats to their personal safety since the August 8 Mar-a-Lago search
warrant is shocking. Beyond the direct threats and violence, there are
also rising concerns about the public spread of personal information
about the FBI's employees and families--a practice known as doxing. I
fear the situation may get worse.
Last Thursday, former President Trump kept up his threatening
rhetoric against these law enforcement officers. He said that if he
were indicted for his actions, ``I think you'd have problems in this
country the likes of which, perhaps, we've never seen before. I don't
think the people of the United States would stand for it.'' That is
exactly the kind of language President Trump used after he lost the
2020 election to incite the January 6 attack here at the Capitol.
As I have said many times, political violence and threats of violence
in the furtherance of any cause--any cause--is unacceptable. It is time
for the Senate to stand up and support the men and women of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation who have been threatened and attacked for
simply doing their jobs and working to protect America. Let's condemn
these baseless attacks on the men and women of the FBI and the
despicable political game they represent.
Mr. President, as if in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent
that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 775, submitted
earlier today. | the Fed | antisemitic |
09/20/2022 | Mr. DURBIN | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4831-4 | nan | nan | Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I rise today to condemn the violence and
threats of violence against the men and women of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
I take these threats seriously. This July 1, I chaired the Judiciary
Committee hearing on law enforcement officer safety and the threats our
law enforcement officers are facing. I have repeatedly made clear that
violence against law enforcement is never--never--acceptable no matter
what ideology motivates it, but here is the reality.
In the past month, following the FBI's execution of a search warrant
at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, the FBI has faced a flood of
threats against its employees and its facilities, and these threats
have been egged on by the former President and his allies.
The men and women of the Federal Bureau of Investigation literally
put their lives on the line every day to keep all of us safe. They put
themselves in harm's way to stop armed criminals, drug traffickers,
terrorist organizations, and others who threaten our communities. They
serve on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic and investigate and hold
accountable those who traffic illegal opioids and who illegally
prescribe pharmaceutical opioids. They investigate crimes against
children and human trafficking--some of the most heinous crimes
imaginable. They work day in and day out to combat international and
domestic terrorism, and they carry out judicially issued search
warrants every day. That is part of their job and an important role
that they play in our justice system.
Unfortunately, ever since the August 8 Mar-a-Lago search, their
dedication has been repaid with a flood of baseless attacks and violent
threats. Attacking the FBI for his own political advantage is nothing
new for the former President, but the attacks haven't stopped with him.
His allies and followers have spewed anti-FBI vitriol online and across
the airwaves. In recent weeks, there have been calls from Republican
Members of Congress to ``destroy'' and ``defund'' the FBI. There have
been calls from Republican congressional candidates to ``gut'' the FBI
``like a fish'' and ``shoot FBI, IRS, ATF, and all other feds on
sight.'' So it is no surprise that such outrageous and irresponsible
rhetoric coincides with a stunning increase in violent threats against
the FBI.
Last month, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security issued a
joint intelligence bulletin detailing an increase in violent threats
and acts of violence against Federal law enforcement officials
following the August 8 Mar-a-Lago search. These include threats to
place a ``dirty bomb'' outside of the FBI headquarters and online calls
for civil war and armed rebellion.
On August 11, a man wearing body armor--armed with an AR-15 assault
rifle and a nail gun--attempted to breach the FBI's Cincinnati field
office. On August 16, another man was indicted for threatening to
murder everyone at the FBI, from Director Wray to the custodial staff.
On August 25, a man jumped the fence at FBI's Chicago field office but,
thankfully, was detained and taken to a local hospital for evaluation
before he could hurt anyone.
In response to the joint intelligence bulletin and these incidents, I
asked the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to have a private
briefing with Members of the Senate's Judiciary and Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs Committees last week. That briefing only added
to my concern.
I cannot share the specifics from this closed-door briefing, but I
will say this: It should go without saying that the men and women of
the FBI risk their lives every day on our behalf, but the increase in
threats to their personal safety since the August 8 Mar-a-Lago search
warrant is shocking. Beyond the direct threats and violence, there are
also rising concerns about the public spread of personal information
about the FBI's employees and families--a practice known as doxing. I
fear the situation may get worse.
Last Thursday, former President Trump kept up his threatening
rhetoric against these law enforcement officers. He said that if he
were indicted for his actions, ``I think you'd have problems in this
country the likes of which, perhaps, we've never seen before. I don't
think the people of the United States would stand for it.'' That is
exactly the kind of language President Trump used after he lost the
2020 election to incite the January 6 attack here at the Capitol.
As I have said many times, political violence and threats of violence
in the furtherance of any cause--any cause--is unacceptable. It is time
for the Senate to stand up and support the men and women of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation who have been threatened and attacked for
simply doing their jobs and working to protect America. Let's condemn
these baseless attacks on the men and women of the FBI and the
despicable political game they represent.
Mr. President, as if in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent
that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 775, submitted
earlier today. | terrorism | Islamophobic |
09/20/2022 | Mr. DURBIN | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4831-4 | nan | nan | Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I rise today to condemn the violence and
threats of violence against the men and women of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
I take these threats seriously. This July 1, I chaired the Judiciary
Committee hearing on law enforcement officer safety and the threats our
law enforcement officers are facing. I have repeatedly made clear that
violence against law enforcement is never--never--acceptable no matter
what ideology motivates it, but here is the reality.
In the past month, following the FBI's execution of a search warrant
at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, the FBI has faced a flood of
threats against its employees and its facilities, and these threats
have been egged on by the former President and his allies.
The men and women of the Federal Bureau of Investigation literally
put their lives on the line every day to keep all of us safe. They put
themselves in harm's way to stop armed criminals, drug traffickers,
terrorist organizations, and others who threaten our communities. They
serve on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic and investigate and hold
accountable those who traffic illegal opioids and who illegally
prescribe pharmaceutical opioids. They investigate crimes against
children and human trafficking--some of the most heinous crimes
imaginable. They work day in and day out to combat international and
domestic terrorism, and they carry out judicially issued search
warrants every day. That is part of their job and an important role
that they play in our justice system.
Unfortunately, ever since the August 8 Mar-a-Lago search, their
dedication has been repaid with a flood of baseless attacks and violent
threats. Attacking the FBI for his own political advantage is nothing
new for the former President, but the attacks haven't stopped with him.
His allies and followers have spewed anti-FBI vitriol online and across
the airwaves. In recent weeks, there have been calls from Republican
Members of Congress to ``destroy'' and ``defund'' the FBI. There have
been calls from Republican congressional candidates to ``gut'' the FBI
``like a fish'' and ``shoot FBI, IRS, ATF, and all other feds on
sight.'' So it is no surprise that such outrageous and irresponsible
rhetoric coincides with a stunning increase in violent threats against
the FBI.
Last month, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security issued a
joint intelligence bulletin detailing an increase in violent threats
and acts of violence against Federal law enforcement officials
following the August 8 Mar-a-Lago search. These include threats to
place a ``dirty bomb'' outside of the FBI headquarters and online calls
for civil war and armed rebellion.
On August 11, a man wearing body armor--armed with an AR-15 assault
rifle and a nail gun--attempted to breach the FBI's Cincinnati field
office. On August 16, another man was indicted for threatening to
murder everyone at the FBI, from Director Wray to the custodial staff.
On August 25, a man jumped the fence at FBI's Chicago field office but,
thankfully, was detained and taken to a local hospital for evaluation
before he could hurt anyone.
In response to the joint intelligence bulletin and these incidents, I
asked the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to have a private
briefing with Members of the Senate's Judiciary and Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs Committees last week. That briefing only added
to my concern.
I cannot share the specifics from this closed-door briefing, but I
will say this: It should go without saying that the men and women of
the FBI risk their lives every day on our behalf, but the increase in
threats to their personal safety since the August 8 Mar-a-Lago search
warrant is shocking. Beyond the direct threats and violence, there are
also rising concerns about the public spread of personal information
about the FBI's employees and families--a practice known as doxing. I
fear the situation may get worse.
Last Thursday, former President Trump kept up his threatening
rhetoric against these law enforcement officers. He said that if he
were indicted for his actions, ``I think you'd have problems in this
country the likes of which, perhaps, we've never seen before. I don't
think the people of the United States would stand for it.'' That is
exactly the kind of language President Trump used after he lost the
2020 election to incite the January 6 attack here at the Capitol.
As I have said many times, political violence and threats of violence
in the furtherance of any cause--any cause--is unacceptable. It is time
for the Senate to stand up and support the men and women of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation who have been threatened and attacked for
simply doing their jobs and working to protect America. Let's condemn
these baseless attacks on the men and women of the FBI and the
despicable political game they represent.
Mr. President, as if in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent
that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 775, submitted
earlier today. | terrorist | Islamophobic |
09/20/2022 | Mr. DURBIN | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4831-4 | nan | nan | Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I rise today to condemn the violence and
threats of violence against the men and women of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
I take these threats seriously. This July 1, I chaired the Judiciary
Committee hearing on law enforcement officer safety and the threats our
law enforcement officers are facing. I have repeatedly made clear that
violence against law enforcement is never--never--acceptable no matter
what ideology motivates it, but here is the reality.
In the past month, following the FBI's execution of a search warrant
at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, the FBI has faced a flood of
threats against its employees and its facilities, and these threats
have been egged on by the former President and his allies.
The men and women of the Federal Bureau of Investigation literally
put their lives on the line every day to keep all of us safe. They put
themselves in harm's way to stop armed criminals, drug traffickers,
terrorist organizations, and others who threaten our communities. They
serve on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic and investigate and hold
accountable those who traffic illegal opioids and who illegally
prescribe pharmaceutical opioids. They investigate crimes against
children and human trafficking--some of the most heinous crimes
imaginable. They work day in and day out to combat international and
domestic terrorism, and they carry out judicially issued search
warrants every day. That is part of their job and an important role
that they play in our justice system.
Unfortunately, ever since the August 8 Mar-a-Lago search, their
dedication has been repaid with a flood of baseless attacks and violent
threats. Attacking the FBI for his own political advantage is nothing
new for the former President, but the attacks haven't stopped with him.
His allies and followers have spewed anti-FBI vitriol online and across
the airwaves. In recent weeks, there have been calls from Republican
Members of Congress to ``destroy'' and ``defund'' the FBI. There have
been calls from Republican congressional candidates to ``gut'' the FBI
``like a fish'' and ``shoot FBI, IRS, ATF, and all other feds on
sight.'' So it is no surprise that such outrageous and irresponsible
rhetoric coincides with a stunning increase in violent threats against
the FBI.
Last month, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security issued a
joint intelligence bulletin detailing an increase in violent threats
and acts of violence against Federal law enforcement officials
following the August 8 Mar-a-Lago search. These include threats to
place a ``dirty bomb'' outside of the FBI headquarters and online calls
for civil war and armed rebellion.
On August 11, a man wearing body armor--armed with an AR-15 assault
rifle and a nail gun--attempted to breach the FBI's Cincinnati field
office. On August 16, another man was indicted for threatening to
murder everyone at the FBI, from Director Wray to the custodial staff.
On August 25, a man jumped the fence at FBI's Chicago field office but,
thankfully, was detained and taken to a local hospital for evaluation
before he could hurt anyone.
In response to the joint intelligence bulletin and these incidents, I
asked the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to have a private
briefing with Members of the Senate's Judiciary and Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs Committees last week. That briefing only added
to my concern.
I cannot share the specifics from this closed-door briefing, but I
will say this: It should go without saying that the men and women of
the FBI risk their lives every day on our behalf, but the increase in
threats to their personal safety since the August 8 Mar-a-Lago search
warrant is shocking. Beyond the direct threats and violence, there are
also rising concerns about the public spread of personal information
about the FBI's employees and families--a practice known as doxing. I
fear the situation may get worse.
Last Thursday, former President Trump kept up his threatening
rhetoric against these law enforcement officers. He said that if he
were indicted for his actions, ``I think you'd have problems in this
country the likes of which, perhaps, we've never seen before. I don't
think the people of the United States would stand for it.'' That is
exactly the kind of language President Trump used after he lost the
2020 election to incite the January 6 attack here at the Capitol.
As I have said many times, political violence and threats of violence
in the furtherance of any cause--any cause--is unacceptable. It is time
for the Senate to stand up and support the men and women of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation who have been threatened and attacked for
simply doing their jobs and working to protect America. Let's condemn
these baseless attacks on the men and women of the FBI and the
despicable political game they represent.
Mr. President, as if in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent
that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 775, submitted
earlier today. | Chicago | racist |
09/20/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4831 | nan | nan | DISCLOSE Act
Mr. President, now on the DISCLOSE Act. Later today, President Biden
will deliver remarks on one of the gravest dangers undermining our
democracy--the power of dark money that has taken over our elections.
I expect the President's remarks will preview action here in the
Senate, where we will have a vote this week to begin debate on the
DISCLOSE Act--a bill I long promised to bring to the floor. My
colleagues, led by the indefatigable and relentless and brilliant
Senator Whitehouse, have done a wonderful job championing this issue
for years.
The DISCLOSE Act is very simple to grasp: it would require super PACs
and other dark money groups to report anyone contributing $10,000 or
more during an election cycle. The same goes for any group spending any
money in support of or in opposition to judicial nominees. In other
words, it would require similar forms of transparency that traditional
campaigns and candidates already face. We have to disclose when
accepting political contributions.
And, frankly, why shouldn't this be law? What reason under Heaven is
there for keeping massive political contributions hidden from the
public? Even the Republican leader, who has dedicated much of his
career, unfortunately, to killing many campaign finance reforms,
claimed in the past to support increased disclosure; though, sadly, he
is opposed to our bill today for no good reason. If you are for
disclosure, you should be for our bill, and these flimsy arguments that
it will deter people from giving are absurd--absurd.
If a multimillionaire wants to spend colossal sums on candidates or
nominees who are deeply anti-choice or who will support anti-democracy
candidates or who will harbor views deeply in conflict with the views
of the general public, shouldn't the public have at least the right to
know it?
The rights of voters and the health of our democracy far outweigh any
interest that a multibillionaire could have in concealing political
spending from public scrutiny.
So, the DISCLOSE Act will give every Senator a choice: a vote to
bring transparency to our elections or stand with the forces of dark
money.
Let me say that again. The DISCLOSE Act will give every Senator a
choice: vote to bring transparency to our elections, remove the veil
from this dark money that the public hates that is cascading into our
elections or stand on the side of dark money. Who wants to be on that
side? We will see this week.
I want to take a moment to thank my colleague, Senator Whitehouse,
for his incredible work in championing this legislation. He is arguably
the Senate's greatest champion in the fight against dark money, someone
who has dedicated years to uncovering the pernicious links between dark
money groups and radical judicial nominees.
Do you want to know one of the main reasons we have a ``MAGA'' Court
that overturns Roe v. Wade, that stands in the way of smart gun control
laws and gun safety laws, that stands in the way of environmental
progress? It is because of dark money, in good part--dark money.
Sheldon Whitehouse has exposed this link better than anyone I know.
He has gotten the rest of us to pay attention in a deeper way to the
gravity of this issue. He will come to the floor later today and
throughout the week to continue highlighting this issue. And I know
others will be joining to stand by his side.
I thank him for his work. I thank the President for speaking about it
this afternoon. And I stand with Senator Whitehouse in highlighting
this issue ahead of the vote, and I urge my colleagues to support the
DISCLOSE Act.
| MAGA | white supremacist |
09/20/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4852-2 | nan | nan | At 2:17 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 bills, without amendment:
S. 169. An act to amend title 17, United States Code, to
require the Register of Copyrights to waive fees for filing
an application for registration of a copyright claim in
certain circumstances, and for other purposes.
S. 2771. An act to designate the community-based outpatient
clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in San Angelo,
Texas, as the ``Colonel Charles and JoAnne Powell Department
of Veterans Affairs Clinic''.
S. 3157. An act to require the Secretary of Labor to
conduct a study of the factors affecting employment
opportunities for immigrants and refugees with professional
credentials obtained in foreign countries.
S. 3895. An act to extend and authorize annual
appropriations for the United States Commission on
International Religious Freedom through fiscal year 2024.
The message also announced that the House has passed the following
bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate:
H.R. 820. An act to establish the New Philadelphia National
Historic Site in the State of Illinois as a unit of the
National Park System, and for other purposes.
H.R. 1456. An act to amend the Peace Corps Act to
reauthorize the Peace Corps, better support current and
returned volunteers, and for other purposes.
H.R. 3034. An act to amend title 28, United States Code, to
provide an additional place for holding court for the Western
District of Washington, and for other purposes.
H.R. 4330. An act to maintain the free flow of information
to the public by establishing appropriate limits on the
federally compelled disclosure of information obtained as
part of engaging in journalism, and for other purposes.
H.R. 6353. An act to authorize the National Service Animals
Monument Corporation to establish a commemorative work in the
District of Columbia and its environs, and for other
purposes.
H.R. 6734. An act to amend the Fish and Wildlife Act of
1956 to reauthorize the volunteer services, community
partnership, and refuge education programs of the National
Wildlife Refuge System, and for other purposes.
H.R. 7181. An act to amend the Trafficking Victims
Protection Act of 2000 to direct the Secretary of
Transportation to seek to provide for the posting of contact
information of the national human trafficking hotline in the
restrooms of each aircraft, airport, over-the-road bus, bus
station, passenger train, and passenger railroad station
operating within the United States, and for other purposes.
H.R. 7566. An act to amend title 18, United States Code, to
increase the punishment for human trafficking in a school
zone, and for other purposes.
H.R. 7618. An act to designate the Kol Israel Foundation
Holocaust Memorial in Bedford Heights, Ohio, as a national
memorial.
H.R. 7698. An act to designate the outpatient clinic of the
Department of Veterans Affairs in Ventura, California, as the
``Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner Outpatient Clinic''.
Enrolled Bill Signed
At 5:13 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 bill:
H.R. 8656. An act to designate the clinic of the Department
of Veterans Affairs in Mishawaka, Indiana, as the ``Jackie
Walorski VA Clinic''.
| based | white supremacist |
09/20/2022 | Mr. BLUMENTHAL | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4852 | nan | nan | Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, today I rise to recognize
Dixwell Avenue United Congregational Church of Christ as it celebrates
202 years of spiritual leadership in New Haven, CT. I am honored to
join Dixwell Congregational Church's congregation and supporters in
celebrating the church's bicentennial, 2 years later than planned due
to the COVID-19 pandemic--just the latest obstacle the church has
overcome in its long and remarkable history.
Dixwell Avenue United Congregational Church of Christ is the oldest
African-American Congregational UCC church in the world. It was founded
in 1820, when Black residents in New Haven were unwelcome at the city's
traditional churches. Seeking the freedom to worship, a group of 22
Black New Haven residents persuaded a Yale student and abolitionist
named Simeon Jocelyn to conduct religious services with them at his
home. Together they formed the city's first Black congregation and,
after meeting house to house for 4 years, began renting a small church
on Temple Street in New Haven in 1825.
In 1837, the Rev. Dr. James W. C. Pennington became the first Black
pastor of Dixwell Avenue United Congregational Church of Christ. After
fleeing from slavery, the Yale-educated Pennington became
internationally renowned as a skilled orator. Under his leadership and
the pastorate of his successor, the Rev. Amos G. Beman, the church
became one of America's most eminent civil rights organizations and a
cradle of the abolitionist movement. Not only did the church serve as a
stop on the Underground Railroad, but many of its members were active
on the Amistad Committee, which supported the defense in the landmark
1841 case United States v, The Amistad, which resulted in the U.S.
Supreme Court granting the enslaved people onboard the ship their
freedom.
The church moved to its current home on Dixwell Avenue in 1886 and
continued to work for the social betterment of the community. In the
early 20th century, the church donated the land on which the original
Dixwell Community House was built, ensuring that generations of area
residents had access to enriching education and recreation, as well as
vital social services. One of the central figures in the church's
recent history is the civil rights activist Rev. Dr. Edmond R. Edmunds,
who led the church for nearly 40 years beginning in 1959. Under his
pastorate, the congregation established daycare and afterschool
programs that encouraged academic achievement in the Dixwell
neighborhood. He also helped initiate the Dixwell Housing Development
Corporation which, for many years, provided affordable housing to
local, low-income families.
The church's current pastor, the Rev. Dr. Frederick ``Jerry'' Streets
has carried forth the congregation's tradition of serving its
community. Reverend Streets has fostered civil and constructive
conversations about race in New Haven, developed faith-based
rehabilitation programs for individuals with substance abuse disorders,
and initiated summer STEM education programs for Dixwell neighborhood
youth, amongst other good deeds.
I have had the privilege of visiting Dixwell Avenue United
Congregational Church of Christ on a number of occasions and have
always been welcomed as one of the congregation. This kindness, free
from judgement, has helped countless people in need over the past two
centuries.
As Dixwell Avenue United Congregational Church of Christ celebrates
its bicentennial plus two this September, I applaud them on their
extraordinary contributions--not just to the city of New Haven and
State of Connecticut, but to our great Nation. I hope my colleagues
will join me in congratulating Dixwell Avenue United Congregational
Church of Christ on 202 years of committed worship and service to their
community.
| based | white supremacist |
09/20/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4853-2 | nan | nan | The following communications were laid before the Senate, together
with accompanying papers, reports, and documents, and were referred as
indicated:
EC-5056. A communication from the Deputy Inspector
General, Department of Health and Human Services,
transmitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled ``Review of
Medicare Administrative Contractor Information Security
Program Evaluations for Fiscal Year 2021''; to the Committee
on Finance.
EC-5057. A communication from the Branch Chief of the
Publications and Regulations Branch, Internal Revenue
Service, Department of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant
to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Streamlining the
Section 754 Election Statement'' (RIN1545-BN94) received
during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the
President of the Senate on August 11, 2022; to the Committee
on Finance.
EC-5058. A communication from the Branch Chief of the
Publications and Regulations Branch, Internal Revenue
Service, Department of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant
to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Extension of the
Phase-in Period for the Enforcement and Administration of
Section 871(m)'' (Notice 2022-37) received during adjournment
of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Finance.
EC-5059. A communication from the Branch Chief of the
Publications and Regulations Branch, Internal Revenue
Service, Department of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant
to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Requirements Related
to Surprise Billing'' ((RIN1545-BQ01) (RIN1545-BQ02))
received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of
the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the
Committee on Finance.
EC-5060. A communication from the Assistant Secretary for
Legislation, Department of Health and Human Services,
transmitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled ``Annual
Report to Congress on the Medicare and Medicaid Integrity
Programs for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020''; to the Committee on
Finance.
EC-5061. A communication from the President of the United
States, transmitting, pursuant to law, certifications
relative to the inclusion of the Republic of Finland and the
Kingdom of Sweden in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization;
to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
EC-5062. A communication from the Assistant Secretary,
Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting,
pursuant to law, a report relative to the intent to exercise
the authorities under section 506(a)(1) of the FAA to provide
military assistance to Ukraine, including for self-defense
and border security operations; to the Committee on Foreign
Relations.
EC-5063. A communication from the Senior Bureau Official,
Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting,
pursuant to law, a report relative to the intent to exercise
the authorities under section 610(a) of the FAA and section
8003(d) of the SFOAA to provide assistance in support of
international climate objectives; to the Committee on Foreign
Relations.
EC-5064. A communication from the Senior Bureau Official,
Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting,
pursuant to law, a report relative to the intent to exercise
the authorities under section 610(a) of the FAA and section
8003(d) of the SFOAA to provide assistance for Yemen; to the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
EC-5065. A communication from the Assistant Secretary,
Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting,
pursuant to section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Act, the
certification of a proposed license amendment for the export
of defense articles, including technical data and defense
services to the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom
in the amount of $14,000,000 or more (Transmittal No. DDTC
20-054); to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
EC-5066. A communication from the Senior Bureau Official,
Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting,
pursuant to section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Act, the
certification of a proposed license amendment for the export
of firearms, parts, and components abroad controlled under
Category I of the U.S. Munitions List to Qatar in the amount
of $1,000,000 or more (Transmittal No. DDTC 21-064); to the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
EC-5067. A communication from the Assistant Secretary,
Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting,
pursuant to section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Act, the
certification of a proposed license amendment for the export
of defense articles, including technical data and defense
services to various countries in the amount of $100,000,000
or more (Transmittal No. DDTC 22-008); to the Committee on
Foreign Relations.
EC-5068. A communication from the Assistant Secretary,
Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting,
pursuant to law, a report entitled ``Determination Under
Sections 506(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to
Provide Military Assistance to Ukraine''; to the Committee on
Foreign Relations.
EC-5069. A communication from the Assistant Secretary,
Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting,
pursuant to law, a report relative to the intent to exercise
the authorities under section 506(a)(1) of the FAA to provide
military assistance to Ukraine, including for self-defense
and border security operations; to the Committee on Foreign
Relations.
EC-5070. A communication from the Assistant Legal Adviser
for Treaty Affairs, Department of State, transmitting,
pursuant to the Case-Zablocki Act, 1 U.S.C. 112b, as amended,
the report of the texts and background statements of
international agreements, other than treaties (List 2022-0131
- 2022-0135); to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
EC-5071. A communication from the Secretary of Labor and
the Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation,
transmitting, pursuant to law, the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation's fiscal year 2021 Actuarial Evaluation of the
Expected Operations and Status of the PBGC Funds; to the
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
EC-5072. A communication from the Director of Regulations
and Policy Management Staff, Food and Drug Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Food
Additives Permitted in Feed and Drinking Water of Animals;
Fumonisin Esterase'' (Docket No. FDA-2021-F-0564) received
during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the
President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee
on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
EC-5073. A communication from the Chairman of the Council
of the District of Columbia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a
report on D.C. Act 24-531, ``Public Service Commission Member
Qualifications Temporary Amendment Act of 2022''; to the
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
EC-5074. A communication from the Chairman of the Council
of the District of Columbia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a
report on D.C. Act 24-532, ``Foreclosure Moratorium Extension
Revision and Homeowner Assistance Fund Promotion Temporary
Amendment Act of 2022''; to the Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs.
EC-5075. A communication from the Chairman of the Council
of the District of Columbia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a
report on D.C. Act 24-533, ``Medical Marijuana Self-
Certification Temporary Amendment Act of 2022''; to the
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
EC-5076. A communication from the Chairman of the Council
of the District of Columbia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a
report on D.C. Act 24-534, ``Continuing Care for Healthcare
Providers Temporary Amendment Act of 2022''; to the Committee
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
EC-5077. A communication from the Chairman of the Council
of the District of Columbia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a
report on D.C. Act 24-535, ``Consent for Vaccinations of
Minors Temporary Amendment Act of 2022''; to the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
EC-5078. A communication from the Chairman of the Council
of the District of Columbia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a
report on D.C. Act 24-492, ``Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Support
Act of 2022''; to the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs.
EC-5079. A communication from the Chairman of the Council
of the District of Columbia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a
report on D.C. Act 24-493, ``Opioid Overdose Prevention
Temporary Amendment Act of 2022''; to the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
EC-5080. A communication from the Chairman of the Council
of the District of Columbia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a
report on D.C. Act 24-494, ``Infant Formula Consumer
Protection Temporary Amendment Act of 2022''; to the
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
EC-5081. A communication from the Chairman of the Council
of the District of Columbia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a
report on D.C. Act 24-496, ``High Need Healthcare Career
Scholarship and Health Professional Loan Repayment Program
Temporary Amendment Act of 2022''; to the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
EC-5082. A communication from the Chairman of the Council
of the District of Columbia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a
report
on D.C. Act 24-512, ``Protecting Consumers from Unjust Debt
Collection Practices Temporary Amendment Act of 2022''; to
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
EC-5083. A communication from the Chairman of the Council
of the District of Columbia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a
report on D.C. Act 24-495, ``Parity in Workers' Compensation
Recovery Temporary Amendment Act of 2022''; to the Committee
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
EC-5084. A communication from the Associate General
Counsel for General Law, Department of Homeland Security,
transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a vacancy
in the position of Assistant Secretary/Director, Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland
Security, received during adjournment of the Senate in the
Office of the President of the Senate on August 11, 2022; to
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
EC-5085. A communication from the Attorney-Advisor, Office
of General Counsel, Department of Transportation,
transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a vacancy
in the position of General Counsel, Department of
Transportation, received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 18, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5086. A communication from the Attorney-Advisor, Office
of General Counsel, Department of Transportation,
transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a vacancy
in the position of Administrator, National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, Department of Transportation, received
in the Office of the President of the Senate on August 18,
2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5087. A communication from the Attorney-Advisor, Office
of General Counsel, Department of Transportation,
transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a vacancy
in the position of Maritime Administrator, Maritime
Administration, Department of Transportation, received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 18, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5088. A communication from the Legal Tech, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Uniform
Certificate of Title Act for Vessels'' ((RIN1625-AC28)
(Docket No. USCG-2018-0160)) received during adjournment of
the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5089. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Navigation
and Navigable Waters, and Shipping; Technical,
Organizational, and Conforming Amendments'' (Docket No. USCG-
2022-0348) received during adjournment of the Senate in the
Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5090. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Security
Zone; Lower Mississippi River, Mile Marker 94 to 97 Above
Head of Passes, New Orleans, LA'' ((RIN1625-AA87) (Docket No.
USCG-2022-0333)) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5091. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Security
Zone; Parker Canyon, Pacific Palisades, CA'' ((RIN1625-AA87)
(Docket No. USCG-2022-0450)) received during adjournment of
the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5092. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Special
Local Regulation; Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, FL'' ((RIN1625-
AA08) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0171)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5093. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Special
Local Regulation; East River 4th of July Fireworks, New York,
NY'' ((RIN1625-AA08) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0186)) received
during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the
President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5094. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Special
Local Regulation; Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon, San
Francisco Bay, CA'' ((RIN1625-AA08) (Docket No. USCG-2022-
0339)) received during adjournment of the Senate in the
Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5095. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Special
Local Regulation; Lake of the Ozarks MM 1-6, Lake Ozark, MO''
((RIN1625-AA08) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0444)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5096. A communication from the Legal Tech, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Tall Ships Challenge Great Lakes 2022; Erie, PA, Cleveland,
OH, and Two Harbors, MN'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-
2022-0163)) received during adjournment of the Senate in the
Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5097. A communication from the Legal Tech, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Graduate Boat Parade, Sturgeon Bay, WI'' ((RIN1625-AA00)
(Docket No. USCG-2022-0184)) received during adjournment of
the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5098. A communication from the Legal Tech, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Celebrate Our Stars and Stripes Fireworks, Raritan Bay, Perth
Amboy, NJ'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0281))
received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of
the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5099. A communication from the Legal Tech, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Candice Jones Wedding Fireworks; Oswego River; Oswego, NY''
((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0358)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5100. A communication from the Legal Tech, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Red Bull Flugtag, Milwaukee, WI'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No.
USCG-2022-0352)) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5101. A communication from the Legal Tech, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Beaver Island Fireworks, Saint James Harbor, Lake Michigan,
MI'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0364)) received
during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the
President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5102. A communication from the Legal Tech, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Cumberland River, Nashville, TN'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No.
USCG-2022-0384)) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5103. A communication from the Legal Tech, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Henderson Harbor, Henderson Harbor, NY'' ((RIN1625-AA00)
(Docket No. USCG-2022-0413)) received during adjournment of
the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5104. A communication from the Legal Tech, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
City of Oswego Fireworks; Oswego River; Oswego, NY''
((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0442)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5105. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Sunset Point, San Juan Island, WA'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket
No. USCG-2022-0601)) received during adjournment of the
Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on August
31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5106. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Saint Simons Sound, GA'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-
2022-0062)) received during adjournment of the Senate in the
Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5107. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety
Zone; Falls Bridge Project, Blue Hill, ME'' ((RIN1625-AA00)
(Docket No. USCG-2022-0134)) received during adjournment of
the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5108. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Savannah River 4th of July Fireworks Show, Savannah, GA''
((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0138)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5109. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Columbia River, Richland, WA'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No.
USCG-2022-0139)) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5110. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Barge Based Fireworks, Hudson River, Wappingers Falls, NY''
((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0173)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5111. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety
Zones; Fireworks, Captain of the Port New York Zone''
((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0211)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5112. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Sabine River, Orange, TX'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-
2022-0190)) received during adjournment of the Senate in the
Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5113. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Cape Canaveral, Daytona, Tampa, Jacksonville, and
Tallahassee, Florida'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-
0233)) received during adjournment of the Senate in the
Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5114. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Fireworks Display, Willamette River, Portland, OR''
((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0269)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5115. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
International Special Operations Ecercise, Seddon Channel,
Tampa, FL'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0245))
received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of
the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5116. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Movie Production, Buzzards Bay, New Bedford, MA'' ((RIN1625-
AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0288)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5117. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Ohio River, Cincinnati, OH'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No.
USCG-2022-0277)) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5118. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Motus Myrtle Beach Triathlon, Myrtle Beach, SC'' ((RIN1625-
AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0295)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5119. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Potomac River, Between Charles County, MD and King George
County, VA'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0330))
received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of
the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5120. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Parade, Willamette River, Portland, OR'' ((RIN1625-AA00)
(Docket No. USCG-2022-0372)) received during adjournment of
the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5121. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Fireworks Display, Yaquina Bay, Newport, OR'' ((RIN1625-AA00)
(Docket No. USCG-2022-0373)) received during adjournment of
the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5122. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Lower Mississippi River, Mile Marker 807, Varfield Bend, TN''
((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0411)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5123. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Barge Fire; Captain of the Port Delaware Bay Zone''
((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0431)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5124. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Corte Madera Channel, Larkspur, CA'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket
No. USCG-2022-0425)) received during adjournment of the
Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on August
31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5125. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Portal Bridge, Hackensack River, Kearny, NJ'' ((RIN1625-AA00)
(Docket No. USCG-2022-0453)) received during adjournment of
the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5126. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Spokane Street Bridge; Duwamish Waterway, Seattle, WA''
((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0477)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5127. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Apra Outer Harbor, Naval Base Guam'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket
No. USCG-2022-0458)) received during adjournment of the
Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on August
31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5128. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Caruso Affiliated Holdings Fireworks Event, Newport Beach,
California'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0496))
received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of
the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5129. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Ohio River, Cincinnati, OH'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No.
USCG-2022-0660)) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5130. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Lake of the Ozarks, Mile Marker 7 Lake of the Ozarks, MO''
((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0646)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5131. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Special
Local Regulation; Ohio River, Cincinnati, OH'' ((RIN1625-
AA08) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0614)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5132. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Fireworks Display, Delaware River, Philadelphia, PA''
((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0544)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5133. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Redwood City Fourth of July Fireworks; Redwood Creek, Redwood
City, CA'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0532))
received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of
the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5134. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
San Diego Bay, San Diego, CA'' ((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No.
USCG-2022-0504)) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5135. A communication from the Legal Yeoman, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting,
pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ``Safety Zone;
Lake of the Ozarks, Mile Marker 42.5 Lake of the Ozarks, MO''
((RIN1625-AA00) (Docket No. USCG-2022-0497)) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
EC-5136. A communication from the Attorney Advisor,
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration,
Department of Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law,
the report of a rule entitled ``Pipeline Safety: Safety of
Gas Transmission Pipelines: Repair Criteria, Integrity
Management Improvements, Cathodic Protection, Management of
Change, and Other Related Amendments'' (RIN2137-AF39)
received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of
the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5137. A communication from the Attorney Advisor,
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration,
Department of Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law,
the report of a rule entitled ``Hazardous Materials:
Harmonization with International Standards; Correction''
(RIN2137-AF46) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022;
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5138. A communication from the Assistant Secretary for
Legislative Affairs, Department of Homeland Security,
transmitting a legislative proposal entitled ``Coast Guard
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023''; to the Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
EC-5139. A communication from the Chief of Revenue and
Receivables, Office of Managing Director, Federal
Communications Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the
report of a rule entitled ``Assessment and Collection of
Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2022, Review of the
Commission's Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees''
((FCC 22-68) (MD Docket Nos. 22-223 and 22-301)) received in
the Office of the President of the Senate on September 19,
2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
EC-5140. A communication from the Associate Administrator
for Policy, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration,
Department of Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law,
the report of a rule entitled ``Fees for the Unified Carrier
Registration Plan and Agreement'' (RIN2126-AC51) received in
the Office of the President of the Senate on September 19,
2022; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
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09/20/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4859-2 | nan | nan | Ms. DUCKWORTH (for herself and Mr. Moran) submitted the following
resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
S. Res. 777
Whereas student parents are individuals who have children
and who attend postsecondary educational institutions;
Whereas student parents make up roughly \1/4\ of the
postsecondary student population, totaling nearly 4,000,000
individuals;
Whereas 70 percent of student parents are women, and 43
percent of student parents are single mothers, with nearly
\1/2\ of such student parents being first-generation college
students;
Whereas 54 percent of single mothers who are enrolled at an
institution of higher education work 20 hours or more per
week and 43 percent work 30 hours or more per week, which
requires those individuals to balance school, work, and
caring for their dependents;
Whereas 51 percent of student parents are students of
color, particularly female students of color, with mothers
representing--
(1) 40 percent of Black postsecondary students;
(2) 36 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native
postsecondary students;
(3) 35 percent of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander
postsecondary students; and
(4) 26 percent of Hispanic postsecondary students;
Whereas 47 percent of student parents are military-
connected students;
Whereas approximately 2,500 surviving military spouses, a
majority of whom are parenting at least 1 child, are using
education benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs
for surviving dependents;
Whereas 84 percent of military spouses have some college
education or credential and, on average, make 25 percent less
than their civilian counterparts;
Whereas nearly \2/3\ of student parents have incomes at,
below, or near the Federal poverty line;
Whereas 42 percent of student parents attend community
colleges and 30 percent attend public or private nonprofit 4-
year institutions of higher education;
Whereas 1 in 3 college students enrolled in a health care
program is a student parent;
Whereas 53 percent of student parents reported food
insecurity and 68 percent reported housing insecurity;
Whereas, on average, student parents have higher grade
point averages than their non-parenting peers, but student
parents are 10 times less likely to complete a bachelor's
degree within 5 years than students without children;
Whereas a low-income student parent who earns a degree or
credential boosts the income of that individual, and the
earning potential of the children of that individual when
those children become adults, by 17 percent; and
Whereas student parents are uniquely motivated to excel in
their courses of study while often facing challenges,
including lack of affordable child care and balancing work
responsibilities while attending postsecondary educational
institutions: Now, therefore be it
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) expresses support for the contributions and
achievements of student parents in seeking and completing a
postsecondary education; and
(2) designates September 2022 as ``National Student Parent
Month''.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
09/20/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4859-2 | nan | nan | Ms. DUCKWORTH (for herself and Mr. Moran) submitted the following
resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
S. Res. 777
Whereas student parents are individuals who have children
and who attend postsecondary educational institutions;
Whereas student parents make up roughly \1/4\ of the
postsecondary student population, totaling nearly 4,000,000
individuals;
Whereas 70 percent of student parents are women, and 43
percent of student parents are single mothers, with nearly
\1/2\ of such student parents being first-generation college
students;
Whereas 54 percent of single mothers who are enrolled at an
institution of higher education work 20 hours or more per
week and 43 percent work 30 hours or more per week, which
requires those individuals to balance school, work, and
caring for their dependents;
Whereas 51 percent of student parents are students of
color, particularly female students of color, with mothers
representing--
(1) 40 percent of Black postsecondary students;
(2) 36 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native
postsecondary students;
(3) 35 percent of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander
postsecondary students; and
(4) 26 percent of Hispanic postsecondary students;
Whereas 47 percent of student parents are military-
connected students;
Whereas approximately 2,500 surviving military spouses, a
majority of whom are parenting at least 1 child, are using
education benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs
for surviving dependents;
Whereas 84 percent of military spouses have some college
education or credential and, on average, make 25 percent less
than their civilian counterparts;
Whereas nearly \2/3\ of student parents have incomes at,
below, or near the Federal poverty line;
Whereas 42 percent of student parents attend community
colleges and 30 percent attend public or private nonprofit 4-
year institutions of higher education;
Whereas 1 in 3 college students enrolled in a health care
program is a student parent;
Whereas 53 percent of student parents reported food
insecurity and 68 percent reported housing insecurity;
Whereas, on average, student parents have higher grade
point averages than their non-parenting peers, but student
parents are 10 times less likely to complete a bachelor's
degree within 5 years than students without children;
Whereas a low-income student parent who earns a degree or
credential boosts the income of that individual, and the
earning potential of the children of that individual when
those children become adults, by 17 percent; and
Whereas student parents are uniquely motivated to excel in
their courses of study while often facing challenges,
including lack of affordable child care and balancing work
responsibilities while attending postsecondary educational
institutions: Now, therefore be it
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) expresses support for the contributions and
achievements of student parents in seeking and completing a
postsecondary education; and
(2) designates September 2022 as ``National Student Parent
Month''.
| single | homophobic |
09/20/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4859-2 | nan | nan | Ms. DUCKWORTH (for herself and Mr. Moran) submitted the following
resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
S. Res. 777
Whereas student parents are individuals who have children
and who attend postsecondary educational institutions;
Whereas student parents make up roughly \1/4\ of the
postsecondary student population, totaling nearly 4,000,000
individuals;
Whereas 70 percent of student parents are women, and 43
percent of student parents are single mothers, with nearly
\1/2\ of such student parents being first-generation college
students;
Whereas 54 percent of single mothers who are enrolled at an
institution of higher education work 20 hours or more per
week and 43 percent work 30 hours or more per week, which
requires those individuals to balance school, work, and
caring for their dependents;
Whereas 51 percent of student parents are students of
color, particularly female students of color, with mothers
representing--
(1) 40 percent of Black postsecondary students;
(2) 36 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native
postsecondary students;
(3) 35 percent of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander
postsecondary students; and
(4) 26 percent of Hispanic postsecondary students;
Whereas 47 percent of student parents are military-
connected students;
Whereas approximately 2,500 surviving military spouses, a
majority of whom are parenting at least 1 child, are using
education benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs
for surviving dependents;
Whereas 84 percent of military spouses have some college
education or credential and, on average, make 25 percent less
than their civilian counterparts;
Whereas nearly \2/3\ of student parents have incomes at,
below, or near the Federal poverty line;
Whereas 42 percent of student parents attend community
colleges and 30 percent attend public or private nonprofit 4-
year institutions of higher education;
Whereas 1 in 3 college students enrolled in a health care
program is a student parent;
Whereas 53 percent of student parents reported food
insecurity and 68 percent reported housing insecurity;
Whereas, on average, student parents have higher grade
point averages than their non-parenting peers, but student
parents are 10 times less likely to complete a bachelor's
degree within 5 years than students without children;
Whereas a low-income student parent who earns a degree or
credential boosts the income of that individual, and the
earning potential of the children of that individual when
those children become adults, by 17 percent; and
Whereas student parents are uniquely motivated to excel in
their courses of study while often facing challenges,
including lack of affordable child care and balancing work
responsibilities while attending postsecondary educational
institutions: Now, therefore be it
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) expresses support for the contributions and
achievements of student parents in seeking and completing a
postsecondary education; and
(2) designates September 2022 as ``National Student Parent
Month''.
| single mother | racist |
09/20/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4860-2 | nan | nan | Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, Mr. Young, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Scott of
South Carolina, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Casey, Mr. Daines, Ms. Cantwell, Mrs.
Hyde-Smith, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Braun, Ms.
Klobuchar, Mr. Padilla, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Coons, Mrs.
Capito, Mr. Lujan, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. Peters, Ms. Smith, Mr. Kelly,
Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Collins, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Murphy, and Ms. Cortez
Masto) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and
agreed to:
S. Res. 780
Whereas investment in the education, training, and career
advancement of the workforce in the United States, known as
``workforce development'', is crucial to the ability of the
United States to compete in the global economy;
Whereas collaboration among Governors, local governments,
State and local education, workforce, and human services
agencies, community colleges, local businesses, employment
service providers, community-based organizations, and
workforce development boards provides for long-term,
sustainable, and successful workforce development across
traditional sectors and emerging industries;
Whereas the number of jobs that require more than a high
school diploma, but not a 4-year degree, is projected to
increase by approximately 23 percent by 2030;
Whereas 76 percent of business leaders say greater
investment in skills training would help their businesses;
Whereas, in 2021, a record 47,400,000 individuals in the
United States quit their jobs, many of whom did so to improve
their employment situation;
Whereas, as of July 2022 in the United States--
(1) approximately 5,700,000 individuals are unemployed;
(2) unemployment rates for Black and Hispanic adults are
well above the unemployment rates for White adults;
(3) workers without postsecondary education and training
are more likely to be unemployed;
(4) more than \1/2\ of the jobs lost due to the Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic were by workers earning less
than $40,000 per year; and
(5) according to a recent poll, 44 percent of United States
workers said their current job
may be at risk due to new developments in technology and
automation, while 50 percent said they would retrain for a
career in a different field or industry if they had the
opportunity;
Whereas, in 2014, Congress reauthorized the Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.) with
overwhelming bipartisan support in recognition of the need to
strengthen the focus of the United States on the skills
necessary to effectively prepare individuals for employment
in local and regional industries;
Whereas the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29
U.S.C. 3101 et seq.) supports employment, training, and
support services for individuals with barriers to employment,
including--
(1) individuals who earn low incomes;
(2) individuals who are out of work, including the long-
term unemployed;
(3) individuals displaced by outsourcing;
(4) individuals living in rural areas or areas with
persistently high unemployment;
(5) individuals looking to learn new skills; and
(6) individuals with disabilities;
Whereas the more than 550 workforce development boards and
2,400 American Job Centers are a driving force behind growing
regional economies by providing training, resources, and
assistance to workers who aim to compete in the 21st century
economy;
Whereas ongoing State and local implementation of the
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3101 et
seq.) provides unprecedented opportunities to develop the
skills of workers in the United States through access to
effective, quality workforce education and training,
including the development and delivery of proven strategies
such as sector partnerships, career pathways, integrated
education and training, work-based learning models, and paid
internships;
Whereas, in 2022, programs authorized under the Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.) are
projected to serve more than 5,000,000 young people and
adults;
Whereas State programs established under the Wagner-Peyser
Act (29 U.S.C. 49 et seq.)--
(1) ensured that approximately 2,500,000 workers, including
more than 146,000 veterans and more than 120,000 individuals
with disabilities, had access to career services virtually
and through American Job Centers during the 2020 program
year; and
(2) are a foundational part of the workforce development
system;
Whereas community colleges and other workforce development
training providers across the United States are well
situated--
(1) to train the next generation of workers in the United
States; and
(2) to address the educational challenges created by
emerging industries and technological advancements;
Whereas participation in a career and technical education
(referred to in this preamble as ``CTE'') program decreases
the risk of students dropping out of high school, and all 50
States and the District of Columbia report higher graduation
rates for CTE students compared to other students;
Whereas community and technical colleges operate as open-
access institutions serving millions of students annually at
a comparatively low cost;
Whereas the Strengthening Career and Technical Education
for the 21st Century Act (Public Law 115-224; 132 Stat. 1563)
supports the development and implementation of high-quality
CTE programs that--
(1) combine rigorous academic content with occupational
skills; and
(2) serve approximately 12,300,000 high school and college
students across the United States;
Whereas there are approximately 600,000 registered
apprentices in the United States, and there is growing and
bipartisan support for expanding quality earn-and-learn
strategies to help current and future workers gain skills and
work experience;
Whereas the federally supported workforce system and
partner programs--
(1) have helped rebuild the economy of the United States
and provide increased economic opportunities; and
(2) provide a pathway into 21st century jobs that support
families while ensuring that businesses in the United States
find the skilled workforce needed to compete in the global
economy; and
Whereas workforce development is crucial to sustaining
economic security for workers in the United States: Now,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) designates September 2022 as ``National Workforce
Development Month'';
(2) supports Federal initiatives to promote workforce
development; and
(3) acknowledges that workforce development plays a crucial
role in supporting workers and growing the economy.
| based | white supremacist |
09/20/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4860 | nan | nan | Mr. WHITEHOUSE (for himself, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Booker, Ms. Cantwell,
Mr. Cardin, Mr. Carper, Mr. Cassidy, Ms. Collins, Mr. Coons, Mrs.
Feinstein, Ms. Hassan, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Kaine, Mr. King, Mr. Markey, Mr.
Merkley, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Portman, Mr. Reed, Mr. Rubio, Mrs. Shaheen,
Mr. Van Hollen, and Mr. Warner) submitted the following resolution;
which was considered and agreed to:
S. Res. 779
Whereas estuary regions cover only 13 percent of the land
area in the continental United States, but contain nearly 40
percent of the population, 39 percent of the jobs, and 47
percent of the economic output of the United States;
Whereas the oceans, estuaries, and Great Lakes of the
United States continue to fuel economic growth across the
United States, which is evidenced by the fact that, by 2019--
(1) employment levels in economic sectors relating to
oceans and estuaries had increased by 25 percent from
employment levels in those sectors in 2007, before the Great
Recession; and
(2) the average employment level of the entire economy of
the United States had increased by 9 percent from that
employment level in 2007, before the Great Recession;
Whereas, between 2018 and 2019, economic sectors relating
to estuaries, oceans, and Great Lakes in the United States--
(1) created 88,000 new jobs;
(2) employed 3,500,000 individuals; and
(3) contributed $351,000,000,000 to the gross domestic
product;
Whereas the commercial and recreational fishing industries
support more than 1,800,000 jobs in the United States;
Whereas, in 2019--
(1) commercial and recreational saltwater fishing in the
United States generated more than $255,000,000,000 in sales
and contributed $117,000,000,000 to the gross domestic
product of the United States;
(2) angler trip expenditures totaled nearly
$10,025,000,000; and
(3) saltwater recreational fishing supported 553,000 jobs,
generated $89,340,000,000 in sales across the United States,
and contributed $50,122,000,000 to the gross domestic product
of the United States;
Whereas estuaries provide vital habitats for--
(1) countless species of fish and wildlife, including more
than 68 percent of the commercial fish catch in the United
States by value and 80 percent of the recreational fish catch
in the United States by weight; and
(2) many species that are listed as threatened or
endangered species;
Whereas estuaries provide critical ecosystem services that
protect human health and public safety, including water
filtration, flood control, shoreline stabilization, erosion
prevention, and the protection of coastal communities during
hurricanes, storms, and other extreme weather events;
Whereas, by the 1980s, the United States had already lost
more than 50 percent of the wetlands that existed in the
original 13 colonies;
Whereas some bays in the United States that were once
filled with fish and oysters have become dead zones filled
with excess nutrients, chemical waste, and marine debris;
Whereas harmful algal blooms are hurting fish, wildlife,
and human health, and are causing serious ecological and
economic harm to some estuaries;
Whereas changes in sea levels can affect estuarine water
quality and estuarine habitats;
Whereas section 320 of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act (33 U.S.C. 1330) (commonly known as the ``Clean Water
Act'') authorizes the development of comprehensive
conservation and management plans to ensure that the
designated uses of estuaries are protected and to restore and
maintain--
(1) the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of
estuaries;
(2) water quality;
(3) a balanced indigenous population of shellfish, fish,
and wildlife; and
(4) recreational activities in estuaries;
Whereas the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C.
1451 et seq.) provides that the policy of the United States
is to preserve, protect, develop, and, if possible, restore
or enhance the resources of the coastal zone of the United
States, including estuaries, for current and future
generations;
Whereas 29 coastal and Great Lakes States and territories
of the United States operate or contain a National Estuary
Program or a National Estuarine Research Reserve;
Whereas scientific study leads to a better understanding of
the benefits of estuaries to human and ecological
communities;
Whereas the Federal Government, State, local, and Tribal
governments, national and community organizations, and
individuals work together to effectively manage the estuaries
of the United States;
Whereas estuary restoration efforts restore natural
infrastructure in local communities in a cost-effective
manner, helping to create jobs and reestablish the natural
functions of estuaries that yield countless benefits; and
Whereas the week of September 17 through September 24,
2022, is recognized as ``National Estuaries Week'' to
increase awareness among all people of the United States,
including Federal Government and State, local, and Tribal
government officials, about the importance of healthy
estuaries and the need to protect and restore estuaries: Now,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) designates the week of September 17 through September
24, 2022, as ``National Estuaries Week'';
(2) supports the goals and ideals of National Estuaries
Week;
(3) acknowledges the importance of estuaries to sustaining
employment in the United States and the economic well-being
and prosperity of the United States;
(4) recognizes that persistent threats undermine the health
of estuaries;
(5) applauds the work of national and community
organizations and public partners that promote public
awareness, understanding, protection, and restoration of
estuaries;
(6) supports the scientific study, preservation,
protection, and restoration of estuaries; and
(7) expresses the intent of the Senate to continue working
to understand, protect, and restore the estuaries of the
United States.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
09/19/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgS4820-4 | nan | nan | The following communications were laid before the Senate, together
with accompanying papers, reports, and documents, and were referred as
indicated:
EC-5020. A communication from the Under Secretary of
Defense (Personnel and Readiness), transmitting the report of
an officer authorized to wear the insignia of the grade of
general in accordance with title 10, United States Code,
section 777; to the Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5021. A communication from the Senior Official
performing the duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Energy, Installations, and Environment), transmitting,
pursuant to law, a report entitled ``Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl
Substances Cleanup: Schedule, Status, and Cost Estimates; to
the Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5022. A communication from the Under Secretary of
Defense (Personnel and Readiness), transmitting the report of
sixteen (16) officers authorized to wear the insignia of the
grade of major general in accordance with title 10, United
States Code, section 777; to the Committee on Armed Services.
EC-5023. 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 14064 with respect to certain property of Da
Afghanistan Bank; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs.
EC-5024. 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 13848 with respect to the threat of foreign
interference in or undermining public confidence in United
States elections; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs.
EC-5025. 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 14014 with respect to the situation in and in
relation to Burma; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs.
EC-5026. 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 14046 with respect to Ethiopia; to the
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5027. 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 13224 with respect to persons who commit,
threaten to commit, or support terrorism; to the Committee on
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5028. 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 13566 with respect to Libya; to the Committee
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5029. A communication from the Chairman, Securities and
Exchange Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the 2020
Annual Report of the Securities Investor Protection
Corporation (SIPC); to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs.
EC-5030. A communication from the Secretary of the
Securities and Exchange Commission, transmitting, pursuant to
law, the report of a rule entitled ``Whistleblower Program
Rules'' (RIN3235-AN03) received during adjournment of the
Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on August
31, 2022; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs.
EC-5031. A communication from the Secretary of the
Securities and Exchange Commission, transmitting, pursuant to
law, the report of a rule entitled ``Pay Versus Performance''
(RIN3235-AL00) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022;
to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
EC-5032. 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 Ceiling Fans'' (RIN1904-AC11) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources.
EC-5033. A communication from the Associate Director of
the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines; New
Source Performance Standards for Stationary Internal
Combustion Engines; Court Vacatur'' ((RIN2060-AV76) (FRL No.
5300.3-01-OAR)) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 9, 2022;
to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5034. 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; Oklahoma; Updates to the
General SIP and Incorporation by Reference Provisions'' (FRL
No. 9085-02-R6) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 9, 2022;
to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5035. A communication from the Associate Director of
the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Florida; Approval and Promulgation of State Plans
for Designated Facilities and Pollutants; Control of
Emissions from Existing Municipal Solid Waste Landfills''
(FRL No. 9092-02-R4) received during adjournment of the
Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on August
9, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5036. A communication from the Associate Director of
the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Maintenance Plan and Redesignation Request;
Nogales PM2.5 Planning Area; Arizona'' (FRL No. 9503-02-R9)
received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of
the President of the Senate on August 9, 2022; to the
Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5037. 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; Indiana, Michigan and
Minnesota; Revised Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction
Provisions'' (FRL No. 9649-02-R5) received during adjournment
of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 9, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and Public
Works.
EC-5038. 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; Kentucky; Removal of Excess
Emissions Provisions'' (FRL No. 9912-02-R4) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 9, 2022; to the Committee on Environment
and Public Works.
EC-5039. A communication from the Director of the
Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: Alternative
RIN Retirement Schedule for Small Refineries'' ((RIN2060-
AV72) (FRL No. 9821-02-OAR)) received during adjournment of
the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 31, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and Public
Works.
EC-5040. A communication from the Director of the
Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Air Plans; Arizona; Revised Format for Materials
Incorporated by Reference; Correcting Amendment'' (FRL No.
9602-02-R9) received during adjournment of the Senate in the
Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022; to
the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5041. A communication from the Director of the
Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Finding of Failure to Submit Regional Haze State
Implementation Plans for the Second Planning Period'' (FRL
No. 9731-01-OAR) received during adjournment of the Senate in
the Office of the President of the Senate on August 31, 2022;
to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5042. 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; OR; Oakridge PM2.5
Redesignation to Attainment and Maintenance Plan'' (FRL No.
9488-02-R10) received during adjournment of the Senate in the
Office of the President of the Senate on August 16, 2022; to
the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5043. 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; OR; Oakridge PM10 Redesignation
to Attainment and Maintenance Plan'' (FRL No. 9489-02-R10)
received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of
the President of the Senate on August 16, 2022; to the
Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5044. 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 Disapproval and Partial Approval;
Pennsylvania; Attainment Plan for the Indiana, Pennsylvania
Nonattainment Area for the 2010 Sulfur Dioxide Primary
National Ambient Air Quality Standard'' (FRL No. 9607-02-R3)
received during adjournment of the Senate in the Office of
the President of the Senate on August 16, 2022; to the
Committee on Environment and Public Works.
EC-5045. 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; Missouri; Construction Permit
Exemptions'' (FRL No. 9838-02-R7) received during adjournment
of the Senate in the Office of the President of the Senate on
August 16, 2022; to the Committee on Environment and Public
Works.
EC-5046. 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 Disapproval; Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania; Reasonably Available Control Technology
Regulations for the 1997 and 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air
Quality Standards'' (FRL No. 10115-02-R3) received during
adjournment of the Senate in the Office of the President of
the Senate on August 16, 2022; to the Committee on
Environment and Public Works.
EC-5047. A communication from the Associate Director of
the Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection
Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule
entitled ``Expedited Approval of Alternative Test Procedures
for the analysis of Contaminants under the Safe Drinking
Water Act; Analysis and Sampling Procedures'' (FRL No. 9834-
01-OW) received during adjournment of the Senate in the
Office of the President of the Senate on August 16, 2022; to
the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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| the Fed | antisemitic |
09/19/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgS4814 | nan | nan | Immigration
Madam President, on another matter, the migration surge at the
southern border has been at a crisis level for a year and a half now.
Coming from a border State with 1,200 miles of common border with
Mexico, we have experienced a disproportionate impact of that
humanitarian surge, as well as the drugs that have found their way into
the United States as a result.
This, after all, is part of a business model or plan by the cartels,
which get rich smuggling people and drugs into the United States. But
just in terms of the volume of migrants coming across, we have logged
more than 150,000 border crossings every month for each of the last 17
consecutive months. That is unprecedented and shocking.
Alarm bells used to sound when illegal border crossings topped
100,000 a month, but we haven't dipped below that level since President
Biden took office. In the last year, Customs and Border Protection has
logged nearly 2.3 million--2.3 million--border crossings across the
southern border.
Now, these records come with serious consequences for everyone
involved. Our Democratic colleagues and members of the news media focus
their attention on how this surge impacts the migrants themselves, and
there is no question that migrants endure a brutal journey to reach our
country. They typically pay thousands of dollars to travel with human
traffickers--or coyotes, as they are sometimes called--who are known to
rape, rob, abuse, and abandon for dead their customers.
Those who survive the perilous journey to our border still face
serious dangers. These are people who come not through our legal
immigration process but who want to jump ahead of the line of the
people who are waiting, even though we naturalize about a million
people a year in the United States.
In June of this year, 53 migrants, including 3 children, passed away
after being locked in a tractor-trailer rig on a 100-degree day in
Texas--a horrible way to die. The Washington Post described it as the
``deadliest smuggling incident of its kind in U.S. history.'' Last
month, two children died attempting to cross the Rio Grande and drowned
in that river attempting to make their way into the United States. One
was a 5-year-old girl from Guatemala who was swept from her mother's
arms into the river. And just 2 weeks ago, Customs and Border
Protection confirmed that another nine migrants had died trying to
cross the Rio Grande.
Since last October, more than 750,000 migrants have died at our
border. That does not include the ones we have not yet discovered but
will eventually discover as a rancher comes across the bleached bones
of a migrant who has been left behind by the heartless coyotes.
Migrants are suffering every day, and we can't lose sight of the
humanitarian crisis, but the migrants aren't the only victims of the
border crisis. They have chosen to try to enter the United States
irregularly, other than through legal means, and turn their lives over
to people who care nothing for them but care only about them as a human
commodity and how much money they can make smuggling them into the
United States.
But migration surges have a devastating impact on border communities
like the border communities in my State and Arizona, New Mexico, and
California. Over the last year and a half, I have visited our border
communities several times and repeatedly have heard of the strain of
this crisis. Nonprofits that try to assist, in a humanitarian way, the
migrants lack the space or resources to care for the thousands of
people entering our country every day. Local businesses try to stay
afloat amid safety concerns and significant financial losses. Morgues
have reached capacity due to the influx of deceased migrants. As we
have discussed during a Judiciary Committee hearing last week, local
health systems and emergency response services are stretched to the
breaking.
Last year alone, in a small town called Del Rio, TX, 15,000 Haitian
migrants showed up under a bridge. Can you imagine a town of 35,000
people having to deal with trying to address the needs and treat these
migrants in a humane way? Well, during the 2019 surge, Customs and
Border Protection reported that it was on track to refer more than
31,000 migrants for medical treatment, compared with only 12,000 the
previous year.
Of course, the surge in 2019 pales in comparison to what is happening
now as a result of President Biden's failed border policies. The number
of migrants needing medical care today is much, much higher. The strain
this places on local hospitals and public health systems not only
impacts the migrants but also the American citizens who live and work
in these border communities.
We all remember the strain on our healthcare systems during the
height of the pandemic. Hospitals inundated with COVID cases made it
more difficult to get care in the event you were experiencing some
other health emergency. As Brooks County Sheriff Martinez wrote in his
testimony in the hearing we had last week, ambulances that ordinarily
would respond to emergency calls from local citizens are now diverted
to answer calls in remote areas to answer the needs of the migrants who
are experiencing a health emergency, reducing the medical services
available for the local residents who actually pay the taxes that
support those services.
The impact of this crisis on border communities in Texas is not a
consideration for the Biden administration. They simply don't care--or,
frankly, most of my Democratic colleagues here in the Senate. We heard
from the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the senior Senator
from Illinois, complaining about the terrible state of our broken
immigration system and what is happening now as migrants are being
bused to places all across the country, including Chicago. But he is
the only one who can convene a markup of legislation.
Our Democratic colleagues have a Democrat in the White House, a
Democratic Speaker, and a Democratic majority leader in the U.S.
Senate, yet we have not seen a single piece of legislation offered or
passed to try to deal with the crisis. It is always somebody else's
problem or it is just a political issue that you flail in the runup to
the coming election.
Migrants are arriving in someone else's backyard--what do you care?--
inundating someone else's public health system along the U.S.-Texas
border and filling up somebody else's morgue. Apparently, the Biden
administration doesn't care.
And I haven't mentioned the 108,000 Americans who have died of drug
overdoses last year alone. Virtually all of those drugs, including for
the 71,000 Americans who died from synthetic opioid or fentanyl
overdoses, come from the southern border.
The precursors come from China. They come to Mexico, where the
cartels get rich shipping their poison into the United States. And then
it is distributed by criminal street gangs, like the same gangs that
are responsible for the dozens and dozens of shootings that seem to
occur in a lot of our major cities on a weekly basis, including places
like Chicago.
These gangs that distribute the drugs that kill Americans fight for
market share. They fight for territory. Yet our Senate Democratic
colleagues who have been in the majority now--who control both the
Senate, the House, and the White House--have not offered a single piece
of legislation or a single response.
In Texas, because of our proximity to the border, we don't have the
luxury of ignoring this problem. Our communities are somehow expected
to absorb and care for this vast humanitarian crisis, even though they
don't have the resources to do so, even though it is the Federal
Government's responsibility. International borders and immigration
enforcement is a Federal responsibility. Yet the State of Texas and
taxpayers in the State have spent billions of dollars to do the job
that the Federal Government simply refuses to do and even then are
overwhelmed.
It simply is unacceptable for our Senate colleagues or our Members of
the House who haven't lifted a finger to deal with these problems to
say this isn't our problem because it is not happening to us. Well,
that is why maybe--just maybe--the fact that migrants who are showing
up in Washington, DC, in New York, and Chicago seem to be getting the
attention of others who previously have not lifted a finger or
expressed any concerns whatsoever.
By the way, the Biden administration has been shipping and flying
migrants into the interior of the United States for the last year and a
half. I mean, you haven't heard a single peep. But when they start
showing up in relatively small numbers compared to what is coming
across the border, the Mayor of Washington, DC, declares a crisis. She
asked for the activation of the National Guard.
Since April, roughly 9,400 migrants have arrived in Washington, DC. I
mentioned 2.3 million have showed up at the border. But now, when 9,400
migrants arrive in Washington, DC--a self-described sanctuary city--the
Mayor cries out for help from the Federal Government. She declared a
public health emergency.
Well, I mentioned the total number, but an average of 6,000 migrants
cross the southern border every day. And yet the Mayor of Washington,
DC--a self-described sanctuary city--is in a panic when 9,400 come to
her city.
The Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley Sector alone sees almost an
average of almost 1,400 migrants a day. Over the last 5 months, DC has
absorbed the same number of migrants that the Rio Grande Valley Sector
sees in a single week, and the city is crying out for help.
The way the Mayor really could help is to pick up the phone and call
her friends in the Biden administration and say: We need to do
something about what is happening at the border.
That would be a constructive thing to do. We are more than happy to
work with our Democratic colleagues to come up with some solutions like
the Bipartisan Border Solutions Act that I introduced last year with a
Democrat, a border State Senator, Senator Sinema; Tony Gonzales, a
Republican from the 23rd Congressional District; and Henry Cuellar, a
Democrat from Laredo, TX.
We offered this bill as a bipartisan, bicameral beginning to come up
with a solution. Yet we have not heard a single peep out of the Biden
administration. You would think with the President's poll numbers
plummeting as a result of his failure to deal with this border crisis,
they would be looking for some way out, somewhere to land that plane.
But they have not reached out at all. They have not responded. And
Democratic leadership in the White House, House, and the Senate have
taken zero action.
I would just like my Democratic colleagues to pause for a moment and
think about the communities in my State that have been operating at
crisis levels since President Biden took office more than a year and a
half ago. We are the ones and they are the ones picking up the Federal
Government's slack and managing a crisis--or trying to--that our
Democratic colleagues refuse to even acknowledge.
My constituents and border communities in Texas and beyond are
exhausting resources paid for by their tax dollars to serve their own
communities--spending them on the Federal Government's responsibility.
And it shouldn't be any surprise if they are exhausted; they are
overwhelmed; and they are desperate for the Biden administration and
the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate to do something.
Maybe, just maybe, now that this crisis has caught the attention of
the Mayors of Washington, DC, and New York, and Chicago--maybe the
administration will pay attention to those Mayors when they have
ignored this problem so far.
Maybe, just maybe, they will see that what is happening along our
border every day is dangerous, unsustainable, and a problem that we
need to work on together to address.
I yield the floor.
I suggest the absence of a quorum. | Chicago | racist |
09/19/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgS4814 | nan | nan | Immigration
Madam President, on another matter, the migration surge at the
southern border has been at a crisis level for a year and a half now.
Coming from a border State with 1,200 miles of common border with
Mexico, we have experienced a disproportionate impact of that
humanitarian surge, as well as the drugs that have found their way into
the United States as a result.
This, after all, is part of a business model or plan by the cartels,
which get rich smuggling people and drugs into the United States. But
just in terms of the volume of migrants coming across, we have logged
more than 150,000 border crossings every month for each of the last 17
consecutive months. That is unprecedented and shocking.
Alarm bells used to sound when illegal border crossings topped
100,000 a month, but we haven't dipped below that level since President
Biden took office. In the last year, Customs and Border Protection has
logged nearly 2.3 million--2.3 million--border crossings across the
southern border.
Now, these records come with serious consequences for everyone
involved. Our Democratic colleagues and members of the news media focus
their attention on how this surge impacts the migrants themselves, and
there is no question that migrants endure a brutal journey to reach our
country. They typically pay thousands of dollars to travel with human
traffickers--or coyotes, as they are sometimes called--who are known to
rape, rob, abuse, and abandon for dead their customers.
Those who survive the perilous journey to our border still face
serious dangers. These are people who come not through our legal
immigration process but who want to jump ahead of the line of the
people who are waiting, even though we naturalize about a million
people a year in the United States.
In June of this year, 53 migrants, including 3 children, passed away
after being locked in a tractor-trailer rig on a 100-degree day in
Texas--a horrible way to die. The Washington Post described it as the
``deadliest smuggling incident of its kind in U.S. history.'' Last
month, two children died attempting to cross the Rio Grande and drowned
in that river attempting to make their way into the United States. One
was a 5-year-old girl from Guatemala who was swept from her mother's
arms into the river. And just 2 weeks ago, Customs and Border
Protection confirmed that another nine migrants had died trying to
cross the Rio Grande.
Since last October, more than 750,000 migrants have died at our
border. That does not include the ones we have not yet discovered but
will eventually discover as a rancher comes across the bleached bones
of a migrant who has been left behind by the heartless coyotes.
Migrants are suffering every day, and we can't lose sight of the
humanitarian crisis, but the migrants aren't the only victims of the
border crisis. They have chosen to try to enter the United States
irregularly, other than through legal means, and turn their lives over
to people who care nothing for them but care only about them as a human
commodity and how much money they can make smuggling them into the
United States.
But migration surges have a devastating impact on border communities
like the border communities in my State and Arizona, New Mexico, and
California. Over the last year and a half, I have visited our border
communities several times and repeatedly have heard of the strain of
this crisis. Nonprofits that try to assist, in a humanitarian way, the
migrants lack the space or resources to care for the thousands of
people entering our country every day. Local businesses try to stay
afloat amid safety concerns and significant financial losses. Morgues
have reached capacity due to the influx of deceased migrants. As we
have discussed during a Judiciary Committee hearing last week, local
health systems and emergency response services are stretched to the
breaking.
Last year alone, in a small town called Del Rio, TX, 15,000 Haitian
migrants showed up under a bridge. Can you imagine a town of 35,000
people having to deal with trying to address the needs and treat these
migrants in a humane way? Well, during the 2019 surge, Customs and
Border Protection reported that it was on track to refer more than
31,000 migrants for medical treatment, compared with only 12,000 the
previous year.
Of course, the surge in 2019 pales in comparison to what is happening
now as a result of President Biden's failed border policies. The number
of migrants needing medical care today is much, much higher. The strain
this places on local hospitals and public health systems not only
impacts the migrants but also the American citizens who live and work
in these border communities.
We all remember the strain on our healthcare systems during the
height of the pandemic. Hospitals inundated with COVID cases made it
more difficult to get care in the event you were experiencing some
other health emergency. As Brooks County Sheriff Martinez wrote in his
testimony in the hearing we had last week, ambulances that ordinarily
would respond to emergency calls from local citizens are now diverted
to answer calls in remote areas to answer the needs of the migrants who
are experiencing a health emergency, reducing the medical services
available for the local residents who actually pay the taxes that
support those services.
The impact of this crisis on border communities in Texas is not a
consideration for the Biden administration. They simply don't care--or,
frankly, most of my Democratic colleagues here in the Senate. We heard
from the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the senior Senator
from Illinois, complaining about the terrible state of our broken
immigration system and what is happening now as migrants are being
bused to places all across the country, including Chicago. But he is
the only one who can convene a markup of legislation.
Our Democratic colleagues have a Democrat in the White House, a
Democratic Speaker, and a Democratic majority leader in the U.S.
Senate, yet we have not seen a single piece of legislation offered or
passed to try to deal with the crisis. It is always somebody else's
problem or it is just a political issue that you flail in the runup to
the coming election.
Migrants are arriving in someone else's backyard--what do you care?--
inundating someone else's public health system along the U.S.-Texas
border and filling up somebody else's morgue. Apparently, the Biden
administration doesn't care.
And I haven't mentioned the 108,000 Americans who have died of drug
overdoses last year alone. Virtually all of those drugs, including for
the 71,000 Americans who died from synthetic opioid or fentanyl
overdoses, come from the southern border.
The precursors come from China. They come to Mexico, where the
cartels get rich shipping their poison into the United States. And then
it is distributed by criminal street gangs, like the same gangs that
are responsible for the dozens and dozens of shootings that seem to
occur in a lot of our major cities on a weekly basis, including places
like Chicago.
These gangs that distribute the drugs that kill Americans fight for
market share. They fight for territory. Yet our Senate Democratic
colleagues who have been in the majority now--who control both the
Senate, the House, and the White House--have not offered a single piece
of legislation or a single response.
In Texas, because of our proximity to the border, we don't have the
luxury of ignoring this problem. Our communities are somehow expected
to absorb and care for this vast humanitarian crisis, even though they
don't have the resources to do so, even though it is the Federal
Government's responsibility. International borders and immigration
enforcement is a Federal responsibility. Yet the State of Texas and
taxpayers in the State have spent billions of dollars to do the job
that the Federal Government simply refuses to do and even then are
overwhelmed.
It simply is unacceptable for our Senate colleagues or our Members of
the House who haven't lifted a finger to deal with these problems to
say this isn't our problem because it is not happening to us. Well,
that is why maybe--just maybe--the fact that migrants who are showing
up in Washington, DC, in New York, and Chicago seem to be getting the
attention of others who previously have not lifted a finger or
expressed any concerns whatsoever.
By the way, the Biden administration has been shipping and flying
migrants into the interior of the United States for the last year and a
half. I mean, you haven't heard a single peep. But when they start
showing up in relatively small numbers compared to what is coming
across the border, the Mayor of Washington, DC, declares a crisis. She
asked for the activation of the National Guard.
Since April, roughly 9,400 migrants have arrived in Washington, DC. I
mentioned 2.3 million have showed up at the border. But now, when 9,400
migrants arrive in Washington, DC--a self-described sanctuary city--the
Mayor cries out for help from the Federal Government. She declared a
public health emergency.
Well, I mentioned the total number, but an average of 6,000 migrants
cross the southern border every day. And yet the Mayor of Washington,
DC--a self-described sanctuary city--is in a panic when 9,400 come to
her city.
The Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley Sector alone sees almost an
average of almost 1,400 migrants a day. Over the last 5 months, DC has
absorbed the same number of migrants that the Rio Grande Valley Sector
sees in a single week, and the city is crying out for help.
The way the Mayor really could help is to pick up the phone and call
her friends in the Biden administration and say: We need to do
something about what is happening at the border.
That would be a constructive thing to do. We are more than happy to
work with our Democratic colleagues to come up with some solutions like
the Bipartisan Border Solutions Act that I introduced last year with a
Democrat, a border State Senator, Senator Sinema; Tony Gonzales, a
Republican from the 23rd Congressional District; and Henry Cuellar, a
Democrat from Laredo, TX.
We offered this bill as a bipartisan, bicameral beginning to come up
with a solution. Yet we have not heard a single peep out of the Biden
administration. You would think with the President's poll numbers
plummeting as a result of his failure to deal with this border crisis,
they would be looking for some way out, somewhere to land that plane.
But they have not reached out at all. They have not responded. And
Democratic leadership in the White House, House, and the Senate have
taken zero action.
I would just like my Democratic colleagues to pause for a moment and
think about the communities in my State that have been operating at
crisis levels since President Biden took office more than a year and a
half ago. We are the ones and they are the ones picking up the Federal
Government's slack and managing a crisis--or trying to--that our
Democratic colleagues refuse to even acknowledge.
My constituents and border communities in Texas and beyond are
exhausting resources paid for by their tax dollars to serve their own
communities--spending them on the Federal Government's responsibility.
And it shouldn't be any surprise if they are exhausted; they are
overwhelmed; and they are desperate for the Biden administration and
the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate to do something.
Maybe, just maybe, now that this crisis has caught the attention of
the Mayors of Washington, DC, and New York, and Chicago--maybe the
administration will pay attention to those Mayors when they have
ignored this problem so far.
Maybe, just maybe, they will see that what is happening along our
border every day is dangerous, unsustainable, and a problem that we
need to work on together to address.
I yield the floor.
I suggest the absence of a quorum. | single | homophobic |
09/19/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgS4814 | nan | nan | Immigration
Madam President, on another matter, the migration surge at the
southern border has been at a crisis level for a year and a half now.
Coming from a border State with 1,200 miles of common border with
Mexico, we have experienced a disproportionate impact of that
humanitarian surge, as well as the drugs that have found their way into
the United States as a result.
This, after all, is part of a business model or plan by the cartels,
which get rich smuggling people and drugs into the United States. But
just in terms of the volume of migrants coming across, we have logged
more than 150,000 border crossings every month for each of the last 17
consecutive months. That is unprecedented and shocking.
Alarm bells used to sound when illegal border crossings topped
100,000 a month, but we haven't dipped below that level since President
Biden took office. In the last year, Customs and Border Protection has
logged nearly 2.3 million--2.3 million--border crossings across the
southern border.
Now, these records come with serious consequences for everyone
involved. Our Democratic colleagues and members of the news media focus
their attention on how this surge impacts the migrants themselves, and
there is no question that migrants endure a brutal journey to reach our
country. They typically pay thousands of dollars to travel with human
traffickers--or coyotes, as they are sometimes called--who are known to
rape, rob, abuse, and abandon for dead their customers.
Those who survive the perilous journey to our border still face
serious dangers. These are people who come not through our legal
immigration process but who want to jump ahead of the line of the
people who are waiting, even though we naturalize about a million
people a year in the United States.
In June of this year, 53 migrants, including 3 children, passed away
after being locked in a tractor-trailer rig on a 100-degree day in
Texas--a horrible way to die. The Washington Post described it as the
``deadliest smuggling incident of its kind in U.S. history.'' Last
month, two children died attempting to cross the Rio Grande and drowned
in that river attempting to make their way into the United States. One
was a 5-year-old girl from Guatemala who was swept from her mother's
arms into the river. And just 2 weeks ago, Customs and Border
Protection confirmed that another nine migrants had died trying to
cross the Rio Grande.
Since last October, more than 750,000 migrants have died at our
border. That does not include the ones we have not yet discovered but
will eventually discover as a rancher comes across the bleached bones
of a migrant who has been left behind by the heartless coyotes.
Migrants are suffering every day, and we can't lose sight of the
humanitarian crisis, but the migrants aren't the only victims of the
border crisis. They have chosen to try to enter the United States
irregularly, other than through legal means, and turn their lives over
to people who care nothing for them but care only about them as a human
commodity and how much money they can make smuggling them into the
United States.
But migration surges have a devastating impact on border communities
like the border communities in my State and Arizona, New Mexico, and
California. Over the last year and a half, I have visited our border
communities several times and repeatedly have heard of the strain of
this crisis. Nonprofits that try to assist, in a humanitarian way, the
migrants lack the space or resources to care for the thousands of
people entering our country every day. Local businesses try to stay
afloat amid safety concerns and significant financial losses. Morgues
have reached capacity due to the influx of deceased migrants. As we
have discussed during a Judiciary Committee hearing last week, local
health systems and emergency response services are stretched to the
breaking.
Last year alone, in a small town called Del Rio, TX, 15,000 Haitian
migrants showed up under a bridge. Can you imagine a town of 35,000
people having to deal with trying to address the needs and treat these
migrants in a humane way? Well, during the 2019 surge, Customs and
Border Protection reported that it was on track to refer more than
31,000 migrants for medical treatment, compared with only 12,000 the
previous year.
Of course, the surge in 2019 pales in comparison to what is happening
now as a result of President Biden's failed border policies. The number
of migrants needing medical care today is much, much higher. The strain
this places on local hospitals and public health systems not only
impacts the migrants but also the American citizens who live and work
in these border communities.
We all remember the strain on our healthcare systems during the
height of the pandemic. Hospitals inundated with COVID cases made it
more difficult to get care in the event you were experiencing some
other health emergency. As Brooks County Sheriff Martinez wrote in his
testimony in the hearing we had last week, ambulances that ordinarily
would respond to emergency calls from local citizens are now diverted
to answer calls in remote areas to answer the needs of the migrants who
are experiencing a health emergency, reducing the medical services
available for the local residents who actually pay the taxes that
support those services.
The impact of this crisis on border communities in Texas is not a
consideration for the Biden administration. They simply don't care--or,
frankly, most of my Democratic colleagues here in the Senate. We heard
from the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the senior Senator
from Illinois, complaining about the terrible state of our broken
immigration system and what is happening now as migrants are being
bused to places all across the country, including Chicago. But he is
the only one who can convene a markup of legislation.
Our Democratic colleagues have a Democrat in the White House, a
Democratic Speaker, and a Democratic majority leader in the U.S.
Senate, yet we have not seen a single piece of legislation offered or
passed to try to deal with the crisis. It is always somebody else's
problem or it is just a political issue that you flail in the runup to
the coming election.
Migrants are arriving in someone else's backyard--what do you care?--
inundating someone else's public health system along the U.S.-Texas
border and filling up somebody else's morgue. Apparently, the Biden
administration doesn't care.
And I haven't mentioned the 108,000 Americans who have died of drug
overdoses last year alone. Virtually all of those drugs, including for
the 71,000 Americans who died from synthetic opioid or fentanyl
overdoses, come from the southern border.
The precursors come from China. They come to Mexico, where the
cartels get rich shipping their poison into the United States. And then
it is distributed by criminal street gangs, like the same gangs that
are responsible for the dozens and dozens of shootings that seem to
occur in a lot of our major cities on a weekly basis, including places
like Chicago.
These gangs that distribute the drugs that kill Americans fight for
market share. They fight for territory. Yet our Senate Democratic
colleagues who have been in the majority now--who control both the
Senate, the House, and the White House--have not offered a single piece
of legislation or a single response.
In Texas, because of our proximity to the border, we don't have the
luxury of ignoring this problem. Our communities are somehow expected
to absorb and care for this vast humanitarian crisis, even though they
don't have the resources to do so, even though it is the Federal
Government's responsibility. International borders and immigration
enforcement is a Federal responsibility. Yet the State of Texas and
taxpayers in the State have spent billions of dollars to do the job
that the Federal Government simply refuses to do and even then are
overwhelmed.
It simply is unacceptable for our Senate colleagues or our Members of
the House who haven't lifted a finger to deal with these problems to
say this isn't our problem because it is not happening to us. Well,
that is why maybe--just maybe--the fact that migrants who are showing
up in Washington, DC, in New York, and Chicago seem to be getting the
attention of others who previously have not lifted a finger or
expressed any concerns whatsoever.
By the way, the Biden administration has been shipping and flying
migrants into the interior of the United States for the last year and a
half. I mean, you haven't heard a single peep. But when they start
showing up in relatively small numbers compared to what is coming
across the border, the Mayor of Washington, DC, declares a crisis. She
asked for the activation of the National Guard.
Since April, roughly 9,400 migrants have arrived in Washington, DC. I
mentioned 2.3 million have showed up at the border. But now, when 9,400
migrants arrive in Washington, DC--a self-described sanctuary city--the
Mayor cries out for help from the Federal Government. She declared a
public health emergency.
Well, I mentioned the total number, but an average of 6,000 migrants
cross the southern border every day. And yet the Mayor of Washington,
DC--a self-described sanctuary city--is in a panic when 9,400 come to
her city.
The Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley Sector alone sees almost an
average of almost 1,400 migrants a day. Over the last 5 months, DC has
absorbed the same number of migrants that the Rio Grande Valley Sector
sees in a single week, and the city is crying out for help.
The way the Mayor really could help is to pick up the phone and call
her friends in the Biden administration and say: We need to do
something about what is happening at the border.
That would be a constructive thing to do. We are more than happy to
work with our Democratic colleagues to come up with some solutions like
the Bipartisan Border Solutions Act that I introduced last year with a
Democrat, a border State Senator, Senator Sinema; Tony Gonzales, a
Republican from the 23rd Congressional District; and Henry Cuellar, a
Democrat from Laredo, TX.
We offered this bill as a bipartisan, bicameral beginning to come up
with a solution. Yet we have not heard a single peep out of the Biden
administration. You would think with the President's poll numbers
plummeting as a result of his failure to deal with this border crisis,
they would be looking for some way out, somewhere to land that plane.
But they have not reached out at all. They have not responded. And
Democratic leadership in the White House, House, and the Senate have
taken zero action.
I would just like my Democratic colleagues to pause for a moment and
think about the communities in my State that have been operating at
crisis levels since President Biden took office more than a year and a
half ago. We are the ones and they are the ones picking up the Federal
Government's slack and managing a crisis--or trying to--that our
Democratic colleagues refuse to even acknowledge.
My constituents and border communities in Texas and beyond are
exhausting resources paid for by their tax dollars to serve their own
communities--spending them on the Federal Government's responsibility.
And it shouldn't be any surprise if they are exhausted; they are
overwhelmed; and they are desperate for the Biden administration and
the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate to do something.
Maybe, just maybe, now that this crisis has caught the attention of
the Mayors of Washington, DC, and New York, and Chicago--maybe the
administration will pay attention to those Mayors when they have
ignored this problem so far.
Maybe, just maybe, they will see that what is happening along our
border every day is dangerous, unsustainable, and a problem that we
need to work on together to address.
I yield the floor.
I suggest the absence of a quorum. | the Fed | antisemitic |
09/15/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-15-pt1-PgS4627-10 | nan | nan | Respect for Marriage Act
Madam President, now I have a few short remarks to say on marriage
equality.
Negotiators have been meeting practically every single day. Senate
negotiators, Democrat and Republican, have been meeting practically
every single day this week to find a path forward. There will be a
meeting later today between both sides, and I look forward to seeing
what progress Republicans make to reach the magic number of 10. The
onus is right now on our Republican colleagues to demonstrate they are
serious about passing marriage equality into law. Every single Democrat
is for it, but, of course, we need 60 votes.
Let me be clear. My No. 1 priority is to pass legislation. It is an
issue that will have profound consequences for millions of Americans in
same-sex marriages and who identify as LGBTQ. To downplay this issue,
to let it pass by or to act as if we can put it off for another time is
not the right thing to
do. We should do it now. That is why we are so eager to get 10
Republicans to support the bill.
And across the street from here, we have all heard Justice Clarence
Thomas and his fellow MAGA Republican Justices are surely waiting for
the chance to one day follow through on his threat--Justice Thomas's
threat to drag same-sex marriage rights back under the spotlight of the
Supreme Court. That thought should send a shiver down all of our
spines.
So I want to thank my colleagues, from Senators Baldwin to Sinema to
Collins and others, for continuing their talks. I am glad to give them
the space to lead these negotiations because this needs to be done and
done right. But for the sake of tens of millions of Americans, we need
to get this done, and I hope we have 10 Republicans who are willing to
raise their hands and push this process forward.
| MAGA | white supremacist |
09/15/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-15-pt1-PgS4628 | nan | nan | Judicial Nominations
Madam President, finally on judges, it was another productive week
here on the Senate floor when it comes to confirming more judicial
nominees. On Monday, we completed the confirmation process for Salvador
Mendoza to sit on the Ninth Circuit. Then we confirmed Lara Montecalvo
to sit on the First Circuit. And later this morning, we will vote to
confirm Sarah Merriam to be on the Second Circuit.
We also will return to the nomination of Arianna Freeman to the Third
Circuit as soon as possible.
That brings our total for the month of September to five circuit
court judges, and we now have confirmed more than 80 judicial nominees
to the Federal bench. On numerous occasions, it has been with
bipartisan votes, and I want to thank my Republican colleague who
joined us in voting for these fine nominees.
To the Committee on the Judiciary, Senator Durbin, and all of my
colleagues, I say great work. Let's keep going.
I yield the floor.
I suggest the absence of a quorum. | the Fed | antisemitic |
09/15/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-15-pt1-PgS4630-2 | nan | nan | Dietary Supplements
Mr. President, on a related matter, Congress has a big decision to
make in the next few weeks. Every 5 years, Congress must reauthorize
FDA user fee programs. These programs authorize FDA to collect user
fees from companies they oversee: prescription drug companies, medical
device companies. These fees help provide the funding that FDA needs
for staff.
In fact, almost half of their funding comes from user fees. But we
shouldn't settle for a clean authorization of FDA user fees. We should
give FDA the authority to collect user fees from e-cigarette companies,
and we should provide FDA with new authority to protect America's
health by better regulating the dietary supplement industry.
I want to thank the members of the Senate HELP Committee, especially
its chairman, Senator Patty Murray, for including my proposal for
better regulation of dietary supplements in the committee-passed bill.
But I fear this commonsense proposal may be lost in the sauce in the
closing days of this fiscal year.
Many people are surprised to learn that today dietary supplement
companies are not even required to register their products with the
FDA. They aren't required to tell the FDA even the ingredients of their
products.
If you are going to put a product on the shelf in America, most
Americans walking into that drugstore or that vitamin shop believe that
there has been
some government review of the product, some inspection, some standards.
Not the case. When it comes to prescription drugs, they have to be
proven to be safe and effective. Not so for dietary supplements. These
products can hit the shelves and make outrageous claims and not be
regulated in any way, like prescription drugs.
What our bill says is that each of the companies selling these
products has to register with the FDA the name of the product and the
ingredients in the product. So if something goes wrong and people start
getting sick, we at least have the most basic information to protect
Americans.
The FDA is one of the most important Agencies in the Federal
Government. It has fallen on hard times. It is there to protect the
health of families across the country, especially our children. Whether
it is dietary supplements or tobacco or e-cigarettes, we need to make
sure the FDA not only has the tools for the job but uses them.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
09/15/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-15-pt1-PgS4631 | nan | nan | Confirmation of Sarah A.L. Merriam
Mr. President, today, the Senate will vote to confirm Judge Sarah
Merriam to serve on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judge Merriam was confirmed last year as a U.S. District Court Judge
for the District of Connecticut. She received a bipartisan vote on the
Senate floor, which reflects not only her qualifications, but her
impartiality as well.
Prior to her appointment to the district court, Judge Merriam served
as a U.S. magistrate judge for the District of Connecticut from 2015 to
2021.
Throughout her time on the Federal bench, Judge Merriam has presided
over hundreds of matters, including five trials that proceeded to final
judgment.
This significant judicial experience has undoubtedly prepared Judge
Merriam to serve on the Second Circuit.
Judge Merriam also has extensive experience in Federal court as an
advocate. For the bulk of her career as a practicing attorney, she
served as an assistant Federal defender, representing clients who could
not otherwise afford adequate legal representation.
Notably, 24 former Federal prosecutors in Connecticut--including
three former U.S. attorneys appointed by Presidents of both political
parties--support Judge Merriam's nomination to the Second Circuit.
This broad, bipartisan support is a testament to her fairness and
evenhandedness, both as a jurist and as an advocate.
The American Bar Association unanimously rated Judge Merriam ``well
qualified'' to serve on the Second Circuit, and she has the strong
support of Senators Blumenthal and Murphy.
Judge Merriam has shown that she has the qualifications, experience,
and fidelity to the rule of law needed to administer justice on the
Second Circuit. I will be supporting her confirmation and urge my
colleagues to do the same.
I yield the floor.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
09/15/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-15-pt1-PgS4643 | nan | nan | 2022, AS ``NATIONAL DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS RECOGNITION WEEK''
Mr. CARDIN (for himself, Ms. Collins, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Brown, Mr.
Casey, Mr. Kaine, Mr. King, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Menendez, Ms. Smith, Mr.
Van Hollen, and Ms. Warren) submitted the following resolution; which
was considered and agreed to:
S. Res. 767
Whereas direct care workers, including direct support
professionals, personal assistants, personal attendants, in-
home support workers, and paraprofessionals, are key to
providing publicly funded, long-term support and services for
millions of individuals with disabilities;
Whereas direct support professionals provide essential
services that ensure all individuals with disabilities are--
(1) included as a valued part of the communities in which
those individuals live;
(2) supported at home, at work, and in the communities of
the United States; and
(3) empowered to live with the dignity that all people of
the United States deserve;
Whereas, by fostering connections between individuals with
disabilities and their families, friends, and communities,
direct support professionals ensure that individuals with
disabilities thrive, thereby avoiding more costly
institutional care;
Whereas direct support professionals build close,
respectful, and trusting relationships with individuals with
disabilities and provide a broad range of personalized
support to those individuals, including--
(1) helping individuals make person-centered choices;
(2) assisting with personal care, meal preparation,
medication management, and other aspects of daily living;
(3) assisting individuals in accessing the community and
securing competitive, integrated employment;
(4) providing transportation to school, work, religious,
and recreational activities;
(5) helping with general daily affairs, such as assisting
with financial matters, medical appointments, and personal
interests;
(6) assisting individuals in the transition from isolated
or congregate settings or services to living in the
communities of their choice; and
(7) helping to keep individuals with disabilities safe and
healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic;
Whereas there is a critical and increasing shortage of
direct support professionals throughout the United States, a
crisis which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic,
bringing uncertainty and risk to individuals with
disabilities;
Whereas direct support professionals do not have their own
Standard Occupational Classification for the purposes of
federal data collection, which includes data produced by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor;
Whereas the direct care workforce, including direct support
professionals, is expected to grow more than any other
occupation in the United States;
Whereas many direct support professionals--
(1) are the primary financial providers for their families;
(2) are hardworking, taxpaying citizens who provide a
critical service in the United States; and
(3) continue to earn low wages, receive inadequate
benefits, and have limited opportunities for advancement,
resulting in high turnover and vacancy rates that adversely
affect the quality of support, safety, and health of
individuals with disabilities; and
Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States, in Olmstead
v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999)--
(1) recognized the importance of the deinstitutionalization
of, and community-based services for, individuals with
disabilities; and
(2) held that, under the Americans with Disabilities Act of
1990 (42 U.S. 12101 et seq.), a State must provide person-
centered, community-based service options to individuals with
intellectual and developmental disabilities: Now, therefore,
be it
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) designates the week beginning September 11, 2022, as
``National Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week'';
(2) recognizes the dedication and vital role of direct
support professionals in enhancing the lives of individuals
with disabilities;
(3) appreciates the contribution of direct support
professionals in supporting individuals with disabilities and
their families in the United States;
(4) commends direct support professionals for being
integral to the provision of long-term support and services
for individuals with disabilities;
(5) encourages the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the
Department of Labor to collect data specific to direct
support professionals; and
(6) finds that the successful implementation of public
policies affecting individuals with disabilities in the
United States can depend on the dedication of direct support
professionals.
| based | white supremacist |
09/15/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-15-pt1-PgS4644-2 | nan | nan | ``CONSTITUTION DAY'' AND CELEBRATING THE SIGNING OF THE CONSTITUTION
Mrs. BLACKBURN submitted the following resolution; which was referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary:
S. Res. 770
Whereas the Constitution of the United States (referred to
in this preamble as the ``Constitution'') is the supreme law
of the United States;
Whereas the Constitution enshrines the freedom of the
people of the United States;
Whereas the Constitution forms a more perfect Union;
Whereas the fundamental principles of the Constitution are
limited government, separation of powers, individual liberty,
and rule of law;
Whereas the Constitution establishes justice, ensures
domestic tranquility, provides for the common defense,
promotes the general welfare, and secures the blessings of
liberty, now and for future generations;
Whereas the Constitution guarantees that no one can be
deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of
law, including unborn children;
Whereas the Constitution protects the rights of conscience
against the enterprises of the civil authority;
Whereas the Constitution affirms that the Government of the
United States exists to serve its citizens;
Whereas the Constitution grants power to a national,
Federal Government while preserving fundamental, individual
rights;
Whereas the Constitution separates the power of the Federal
government into 3 branches: executive, judicial, and
legislative;
Whereas the powers of each branch of the Federal Government
are delegated in the Constitution, with powers not assigned
to the branches reserved to the States;
Whereas the Constitution grants the executive power to the
President;
Whereas the Constitution does not allow the President to
enact national policies in areas that are reserved solely to
Congress under the Constitution;
Whereas the Constitution grants judicial power to the
Supreme Court and inferior courts that Congress may ordain
and establish;
Whereas justices and judges have constitutional limits on
their power;
Whereas an activist judiciary that usurps powers reserved
to the people through other branches of government is a
threat to the United States;
Whereas the judiciary should interpret laws as written by
Congress rather than allowing executive agencies to rewrite
those laws to suit a political agenda;
Whereas the Constitution grants all legislative powers to
Congress, which consists of a Senate and a House of
Representatives;
Whereas the Constitution assigns to Congress the
responsibility for organizing the executive and judicial
branches, raising revenue, declaring war, and making all laws
necessary for executing these powers;
Whereas it is a breach of trust for Congress to delegate
excessive legislative authority to executive departments,
agencies, and commissions, thus empowering the administrative
state instead of the elected representatives of the people of
the United States;
Whereas the Constitution protects the democracy of the
United States;
Whereas elections are a vital component of democracy;
Whereas the Constitution states that the times, places, and
manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives
shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature of that
State;
Whereas article I, section 5 of the Constitution--
(1) provides that ``Each House [of Congress] may determine
the Rules of its Proceedings''; and
(2) authorizes the Senate to make procedural rules,
including the length of debate;
Whereas no one may unilaterally rewrite or otherwise impugn
the validity of the text of the Constitution;
Whereas the Constitution can only be changed by amendment;
Whereas an amendment to the Constitution may be proposed by
a \2/3\ vote of both Houses of Congress, or, if \2/3\ of the
States request an amendment, by a convention called for that
purpose;
Whereas an amendment to the Constitution must be ratified
by \3/4\ of the State legislatures or \3/4\ of conventions
called in each State for ratification;
Whereas, according to the First Amendment to the
Constitution--
(1) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion or prohibiting free exercise of religion; and
(2) Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of
speech or of the press;
Whereas, according to the Second Amendment to the
Constitution, the right of the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed;
Whereas Congress may not pass laws that deny or abridge any
constitutional rights;
Whereas it is unconstitutional for the Federal Government
to wield its authority beyond the scope of power delegated to
it or to use that authority as a political weapon against the
rights of States to pass voter identification laws, oversee
the health care of their citizens, draft curricula, and craft
other laws and policies consistent with the Constitution;
Whereas constitutional rights are not negotiable;
Whereas all legislation, regulations, and official actions
should conform to the original meaning of the Constitution as
understood at the time the language was adopted;
Whereas the Constitution was written during the
Philadelphia Convention, now known as the Constitutional
Convention, which convened from May 25 to September 17, 1787;
and
Whereas Constitution Day commemorates the formation and
signing of the Constitution by 39 courageous men on September
17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Now, therefore, be
it
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) celebrates the signing of the Constitution of the
United States by recognizing Constitution Day on September
17, 2022; and
(2) affirms that the Constitution of the United States is
not a flexible document, but an enduring covenant.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
09/15/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-15-pt1-PgS4644-2 | nan | nan | ``CONSTITUTION DAY'' AND CELEBRATING THE SIGNING OF THE CONSTITUTION
Mrs. BLACKBURN submitted the following resolution; which was referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary:
S. Res. 770
Whereas the Constitution of the United States (referred to
in this preamble as the ``Constitution'') is the supreme law
of the United States;
Whereas the Constitution enshrines the freedom of the
people of the United States;
Whereas the Constitution forms a more perfect Union;
Whereas the fundamental principles of the Constitution are
limited government, separation of powers, individual liberty,
and rule of law;
Whereas the Constitution establishes justice, ensures
domestic tranquility, provides for the common defense,
promotes the general welfare, and secures the blessings of
liberty, now and for future generations;
Whereas the Constitution guarantees that no one can be
deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of
law, including unborn children;
Whereas the Constitution protects the rights of conscience
against the enterprises of the civil authority;
Whereas the Constitution affirms that the Government of the
United States exists to serve its citizens;
Whereas the Constitution grants power to a national,
Federal Government while preserving fundamental, individual
rights;
Whereas the Constitution separates the power of the Federal
government into 3 branches: executive, judicial, and
legislative;
Whereas the powers of each branch of the Federal Government
are delegated in the Constitution, with powers not assigned
to the branches reserved to the States;
Whereas the Constitution grants the executive power to the
President;
Whereas the Constitution does not allow the President to
enact national policies in areas that are reserved solely to
Congress under the Constitution;
Whereas the Constitution grants judicial power to the
Supreme Court and inferior courts that Congress may ordain
and establish;
Whereas justices and judges have constitutional limits on
their power;
Whereas an activist judiciary that usurps powers reserved
to the people through other branches of government is a
threat to the United States;
Whereas the judiciary should interpret laws as written by
Congress rather than allowing executive agencies to rewrite
those laws to suit a political agenda;
Whereas the Constitution grants all legislative powers to
Congress, which consists of a Senate and a House of
Representatives;
Whereas the Constitution assigns to Congress the
responsibility for organizing the executive and judicial
branches, raising revenue, declaring war, and making all laws
necessary for executing these powers;
Whereas it is a breach of trust for Congress to delegate
excessive legislative authority to executive departments,
agencies, and commissions, thus empowering the administrative
state instead of the elected representatives of the people of
the United States;
Whereas the Constitution protects the democracy of the
United States;
Whereas elections are a vital component of democracy;
Whereas the Constitution states that the times, places, and
manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives
shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature of that
State;
Whereas article I, section 5 of the Constitution--
(1) provides that ``Each House [of Congress] may determine
the Rules of its Proceedings''; and
(2) authorizes the Senate to make procedural rules,
including the length of debate;
Whereas no one may unilaterally rewrite or otherwise impugn
the validity of the text of the Constitution;
Whereas the Constitution can only be changed by amendment;
Whereas an amendment to the Constitution may be proposed by
a \2/3\ vote of both Houses of Congress, or, if \2/3\ of the
States request an amendment, by a convention called for that
purpose;
Whereas an amendment to the Constitution must be ratified
by \3/4\ of the State legislatures or \3/4\ of conventions
called in each State for ratification;
Whereas, according to the First Amendment to the
Constitution--
(1) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion or prohibiting free exercise of religion; and
(2) Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of
speech or of the press;
Whereas, according to the Second Amendment to the
Constitution, the right of the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed;
Whereas Congress may not pass laws that deny or abridge any
constitutional rights;
Whereas it is unconstitutional for the Federal Government
to wield its authority beyond the scope of power delegated to
it or to use that authority as a political weapon against the
rights of States to pass voter identification laws, oversee
the health care of their citizens, draft curricula, and craft
other laws and policies consistent with the Constitution;
Whereas constitutional rights are not negotiable;
Whereas all legislation, regulations, and official actions
should conform to the original meaning of the Constitution as
understood at the time the language was adopted;
Whereas the Constitution was written during the
Philadelphia Convention, now known as the Constitutional
Convention, which convened from May 25 to September 17, 1787;
and
Whereas Constitution Day commemorates the formation and
signing of the Constitution by 39 courageous men on September
17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Now, therefore, be
it
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) celebrates the signing of the Constitution of the
United States by recognizing Constitution Day on September
17, 2022; and
(2) affirms that the Constitution of the United States is
not a flexible document, but an enduring covenant.
| welfare | racist |
09/15/2022 | Mr. LANKFORD | Senate | CREC-2022-09-15-pt1-PgS4805-4 | nan | nan | Mr. LANKFORD. Madam President, 2 years ago, almost to the exact
moment, I was sitting on the south lawn of the White House in the
blazing Sun, where a redhead should never sit, getting a sunburn, on a
hot September day in DC, watching leadership of the UAE, Bahrain,
Israel, and the United States all shake hands and sign an agreement
called the Abraham Accords. It was a remarkable moment in American
history.
We have become so accustomed in the last 2 years to this conversation
about the Abraham Accords, we lose track that it was just 2 years ago
that we had one of the greatest breakthroughs in Middle East peace that
we have had in decades.
In 1979, Egypt and Israel came together for a peace agreement under
President Jimmy Carter and the Camp David Accords. In 1994, Jordan and
Israel normalized relationships under President Clinton. But for 26
years, there were no additional peace agreements and, quite frankly,
very few conversations even. It stopped. All the conversation among
foreign affairs was that you had to resolve the Palestinian conflict
before anything else could be resolved in the Middle East, and for 26
years, all the focus was on that.
The Trump administration came in and put the whole thing on its head
and said: What if? What if we work towards peace agreements outside of
the Palestinian conversation? If we set that aside, could we still
normalize agreements?
Again, most people said: No, that is not possible--until 2 years ago
today. Two years ago today, when the leaders of UAE, Bahrain, Israel,
and the United States met together and signed an agreement, they
started not just a process, they started a conversation and a dialogue.
They shook hands and signed an agreement that had remarkable statements
in it about religious liberty that we look at and think: The Arab world
would not sign that, but they did, quite frankly, because people hadn't
asked them to.
There were conversations and agreements made about energy policy,
about economic development in a region of the world that many would say
that no one will ever meet and this will never get better.
President Reagan once said:
Our involvement in the search for Middle East peace is not
a matter of preference; it is a moral imperative.
We are a people of peace. We are a people, as a nation, passionate
about religious liberty. We are a people who want to see a nation
joining other nations in economic development. It is who we are. It is
who we have been from the beginning, and we are at our best when we are
expanding that.
Since the signing of that document, several things have happened in
that 2-year time period.
The first thing that happened, really, was that in October of 2020,
Sudan raised their hand and said: I want to join that agreement. Then,
in December of 2020, Morocco raised their hand and said: I want to be
in that agreement. It quickly went from four nations to five, to six,
all in this ongoing dialogue about peace in the region.
The countries have exchanged Ambassadors since then. Again, that may
not sound revolutionary, but it is in that region. The UAE, Morocco,
and Bahrain all opened up Embassies in Israel--again, revolutionary.
Israel opened up its Embassy--the first ever in the Gulf nations--in
Abu Dhabi in January of 2021. It opens up its next Embassy in Bahrain
in September of 2021.
The UAE and Israel have signed comprehensive free-trade agreements.
There is now $10 billion worth of trade in the next 5 years that has
been set up between those nations. Trade has begun between Israel and
Morocco. In fact, it has increased 94 percent in a year. Trade between
the UAE and Israel has increased 88 percent in 1 year. Trade between
Israel and Egypt, even, has increased 41 percent in the last year and
between Israel and Jordan, with a longstanding agreement, has increased
55 percent.
The UAE and Morocco now have university students who are studying in
Israeli universities--something we thought we would never see. The UAE
has overhauled its school curriculum to increase tolerance and
understanding of other faiths and other religious groups.
Dozens of daily flights are now moving in those Abraham Accord
countries, bringing business and tourism. There are even real
conversations about water, about energy sharing and development and
large economic infrastructure projects.
There are other countries, even, in the region that have started to
take notice of this. Countries like Saudi Arabia are now allowing
Israeli-bound flights to fly through Saudi airspace. Now, again, that
may not seem revolutionary to some, that planes get to fly over them,
but, you understand, 2 years ago, that didn't happen. The Saudis made
every Israeli-bound flight go around their airspace. Israel and Saudi
Arabia have also participated in multilateral naval and air drills,
alongside UAE, Bahrain, and other countries. It is an enormous shift.
If I can even say this in the region, Israel and Lebanon are very
close right now to forming an agreement on what they call the Blue
Line, the border between Israel and Lebanon, including the maritime
areas. What does that matter? It is a tremendous development for
Lebanon, for their economic development, because there is a large
natural gas field just off of Lebanon's coast, but the border has been
unresolved for years.
In the conflict between nations and the trust that has collapsed, the
Abraham Accords have provided an opportunity and a moment for the
nations in the region to say: If peace can begin with UAE and Bahrain
and Sudan and Morocco and Israel and recognition and economic
development and Ambassadors can be exchanged, who else can engage in
economic development?
Let's start with their neighbor Lebanon. To build trust is to also
build clear borders. This is real progress in 2 years.
My challenge to the administration and to our State Department is,
fan the flame. Keep going on this. We have seen nations begin to do
economic development, families meeting other families, school
curriculum changing to taking out anti-Semitic tropes, basically, out
of their curriculum. We have seen real progress in this area. Keep
going. Other nations should be welcomed to be able to join in the
Abraham Accords. It is not closed. Other nations can join in that
economic development.
There are four of us who began the Abraham Accords Caucus: myself,
Senator Rosen, Senator Ernst, and Senator Booker. We launched out the
four of us and invited all of our colleagues to be able to join into
it. Our focus is to be able to work with the Ambassadors of those
nations to say: How can we partner together to bless what has already
occurred, and how can we expand into other nations? How can we
encourage increased economic development?
Now, there are still very real challenges. The work is not done by
any means, but it has at least begun, and progress is taking off--this
simple principle of economic engagement, going past all of the
government noise and saying: What if we allowed infrastructure to be
able to work together? What if we allowed tourism to be able to happen?
What if we allowed businesses to work with other businesses in other
nations that used to be hostile? How can we engage in such a way that
would help?
The four of us in the Abraham Accords Caucus brought to the floor
today a resolution to recognize this 2-year anniversary. It sat before
all 100 Senators, and I don't know a single Senator who is opposed to
that because we all want to see peace in the Middle East. We all want
to see that kind of progress, and we all want to see this increase.
So, to our State Department, keep the work going. Keep the
conversation going. To nations around the world that used to be hostile
to Israel and the region, why don't we set down the past and prepare
our families for the future?
I yield the floor. | single | homophobic |
09/15/2022 | Mr. LANKFORD | Senate | CREC-2022-09-15-pt1-PgS4805-4 | nan | nan | Mr. LANKFORD. Madam President, 2 years ago, almost to the exact
moment, I was sitting on the south lawn of the White House in the
blazing Sun, where a redhead should never sit, getting a sunburn, on a
hot September day in DC, watching leadership of the UAE, Bahrain,
Israel, and the United States all shake hands and sign an agreement
called the Abraham Accords. It was a remarkable moment in American
history.
We have become so accustomed in the last 2 years to this conversation
about the Abraham Accords, we lose track that it was just 2 years ago
that we had one of the greatest breakthroughs in Middle East peace that
we have had in decades.
In 1979, Egypt and Israel came together for a peace agreement under
President Jimmy Carter and the Camp David Accords. In 1994, Jordan and
Israel normalized relationships under President Clinton. But for 26
years, there were no additional peace agreements and, quite frankly,
very few conversations even. It stopped. All the conversation among
foreign affairs was that you had to resolve the Palestinian conflict
before anything else could be resolved in the Middle East, and for 26
years, all the focus was on that.
The Trump administration came in and put the whole thing on its head
and said: What if? What if we work towards peace agreements outside of
the Palestinian conversation? If we set that aside, could we still
normalize agreements?
Again, most people said: No, that is not possible--until 2 years ago
today. Two years ago today, when the leaders of UAE, Bahrain, Israel,
and the United States met together and signed an agreement, they
started not just a process, they started a conversation and a dialogue.
They shook hands and signed an agreement that had remarkable statements
in it about religious liberty that we look at and think: The Arab world
would not sign that, but they did, quite frankly, because people hadn't
asked them to.
There were conversations and agreements made about energy policy,
about economic development in a region of the world that many would say
that no one will ever meet and this will never get better.
President Reagan once said:
Our involvement in the search for Middle East peace is not
a matter of preference; it is a moral imperative.
We are a people of peace. We are a people, as a nation, passionate
about religious liberty. We are a people who want to see a nation
joining other nations in economic development. It is who we are. It is
who we have been from the beginning, and we are at our best when we are
expanding that.
Since the signing of that document, several things have happened in
that 2-year time period.
The first thing that happened, really, was that in October of 2020,
Sudan raised their hand and said: I want to join that agreement. Then,
in December of 2020, Morocco raised their hand and said: I want to be
in that agreement. It quickly went from four nations to five, to six,
all in this ongoing dialogue about peace in the region.
The countries have exchanged Ambassadors since then. Again, that may
not sound revolutionary, but it is in that region. The UAE, Morocco,
and Bahrain all opened up Embassies in Israel--again, revolutionary.
Israel opened up its Embassy--the first ever in the Gulf nations--in
Abu Dhabi in January of 2021. It opens up its next Embassy in Bahrain
in September of 2021.
The UAE and Israel have signed comprehensive free-trade agreements.
There is now $10 billion worth of trade in the next 5 years that has
been set up between those nations. Trade has begun between Israel and
Morocco. In fact, it has increased 94 percent in a year. Trade between
the UAE and Israel has increased 88 percent in 1 year. Trade between
Israel and Egypt, even, has increased 41 percent in the last year and
between Israel and Jordan, with a longstanding agreement, has increased
55 percent.
The UAE and Morocco now have university students who are studying in
Israeli universities--something we thought we would never see. The UAE
has overhauled its school curriculum to increase tolerance and
understanding of other faiths and other religious groups.
Dozens of daily flights are now moving in those Abraham Accord
countries, bringing business and tourism. There are even real
conversations about water, about energy sharing and development and
large economic infrastructure projects.
There are other countries, even, in the region that have started to
take notice of this. Countries like Saudi Arabia are now allowing
Israeli-bound flights to fly through Saudi airspace. Now, again, that
may not seem revolutionary to some, that planes get to fly over them,
but, you understand, 2 years ago, that didn't happen. The Saudis made
every Israeli-bound flight go around their airspace. Israel and Saudi
Arabia have also participated in multilateral naval and air drills,
alongside UAE, Bahrain, and other countries. It is an enormous shift.
If I can even say this in the region, Israel and Lebanon are very
close right now to forming an agreement on what they call the Blue
Line, the border between Israel and Lebanon, including the maritime
areas. What does that matter? It is a tremendous development for
Lebanon, for their economic development, because there is a large
natural gas field just off of Lebanon's coast, but the border has been
unresolved for years.
In the conflict between nations and the trust that has collapsed, the
Abraham Accords have provided an opportunity and a moment for the
nations in the region to say: If peace can begin with UAE and Bahrain
and Sudan and Morocco and Israel and recognition and economic
development and Ambassadors can be exchanged, who else can engage in
economic development?
Let's start with their neighbor Lebanon. To build trust is to also
build clear borders. This is real progress in 2 years.
My challenge to the administration and to our State Department is,
fan the flame. Keep going on this. We have seen nations begin to do
economic development, families meeting other families, school
curriculum changing to taking out anti-Semitic tropes, basically, out
of their curriculum. We have seen real progress in this area. Keep
going. Other nations should be welcomed to be able to join in the
Abraham Accords. It is not closed. Other nations can join in that
economic development.
There are four of us who began the Abraham Accords Caucus: myself,
Senator Rosen, Senator Ernst, and Senator Booker. We launched out the
four of us and invited all of our colleagues to be able to join into
it. Our focus is to be able to work with the Ambassadors of those
nations to say: How can we partner together to bless what has already
occurred, and how can we expand into other nations? How can we
encourage increased economic development?
Now, there are still very real challenges. The work is not done by
any means, but it has at least begun, and progress is taking off--this
simple principle of economic engagement, going past all of the
government noise and saying: What if we allowed infrastructure to be
able to work together? What if we allowed tourism to be able to happen?
What if we allowed businesses to work with other businesses in other
nations that used to be hostile? How can we engage in such a way that
would help?
The four of us in the Abraham Accords Caucus brought to the floor
today a resolution to recognize this 2-year anniversary. It sat before
all 100 Senators, and I don't know a single Senator who is opposed to
that because we all want to see peace in the Middle East. We all want
to see that kind of progress, and we all want to see this increase.
So, to our State Department, keep the work going. Keep the
conversation going. To nations around the world that used to be hostile
to Israel and the region, why don't we set down the past and prepare
our families for the future?
I yield the floor. | Reagan | white supremacist |
09/15/2022 | Mr. LANKFORD | Senate | CREC-2022-09-15-pt1-PgS4805-4 | nan | nan | Mr. LANKFORD. Madam President, 2 years ago, almost to the exact
moment, I was sitting on the south lawn of the White House in the
blazing Sun, where a redhead should never sit, getting a sunburn, on a
hot September day in DC, watching leadership of the UAE, Bahrain,
Israel, and the United States all shake hands and sign an agreement
called the Abraham Accords. It was a remarkable moment in American
history.
We have become so accustomed in the last 2 years to this conversation
about the Abraham Accords, we lose track that it was just 2 years ago
that we had one of the greatest breakthroughs in Middle East peace that
we have had in decades.
In 1979, Egypt and Israel came together for a peace agreement under
President Jimmy Carter and the Camp David Accords. In 1994, Jordan and
Israel normalized relationships under President Clinton. But for 26
years, there were no additional peace agreements and, quite frankly,
very few conversations even. It stopped. All the conversation among
foreign affairs was that you had to resolve the Palestinian conflict
before anything else could be resolved in the Middle East, and for 26
years, all the focus was on that.
The Trump administration came in and put the whole thing on its head
and said: What if? What if we work towards peace agreements outside of
the Palestinian conversation? If we set that aside, could we still
normalize agreements?
Again, most people said: No, that is not possible--until 2 years ago
today. Two years ago today, when the leaders of UAE, Bahrain, Israel,
and the United States met together and signed an agreement, they
started not just a process, they started a conversation and a dialogue.
They shook hands and signed an agreement that had remarkable statements
in it about religious liberty that we look at and think: The Arab world
would not sign that, but they did, quite frankly, because people hadn't
asked them to.
There were conversations and agreements made about energy policy,
about economic development in a region of the world that many would say
that no one will ever meet and this will never get better.
President Reagan once said:
Our involvement in the search for Middle East peace is not
a matter of preference; it is a moral imperative.
We are a people of peace. We are a people, as a nation, passionate
about religious liberty. We are a people who want to see a nation
joining other nations in economic development. It is who we are. It is
who we have been from the beginning, and we are at our best when we are
expanding that.
Since the signing of that document, several things have happened in
that 2-year time period.
The first thing that happened, really, was that in October of 2020,
Sudan raised their hand and said: I want to join that agreement. Then,
in December of 2020, Morocco raised their hand and said: I want to be
in that agreement. It quickly went from four nations to five, to six,
all in this ongoing dialogue about peace in the region.
The countries have exchanged Ambassadors since then. Again, that may
not sound revolutionary, but it is in that region. The UAE, Morocco,
and Bahrain all opened up Embassies in Israel--again, revolutionary.
Israel opened up its Embassy--the first ever in the Gulf nations--in
Abu Dhabi in January of 2021. It opens up its next Embassy in Bahrain
in September of 2021.
The UAE and Israel have signed comprehensive free-trade agreements.
There is now $10 billion worth of trade in the next 5 years that has
been set up between those nations. Trade has begun between Israel and
Morocco. In fact, it has increased 94 percent in a year. Trade between
the UAE and Israel has increased 88 percent in 1 year. Trade between
Israel and Egypt, even, has increased 41 percent in the last year and
between Israel and Jordan, with a longstanding agreement, has increased
55 percent.
The UAE and Morocco now have university students who are studying in
Israeli universities--something we thought we would never see. The UAE
has overhauled its school curriculum to increase tolerance and
understanding of other faiths and other religious groups.
Dozens of daily flights are now moving in those Abraham Accord
countries, bringing business and tourism. There are even real
conversations about water, about energy sharing and development and
large economic infrastructure projects.
There are other countries, even, in the region that have started to
take notice of this. Countries like Saudi Arabia are now allowing
Israeli-bound flights to fly through Saudi airspace. Now, again, that
may not seem revolutionary to some, that planes get to fly over them,
but, you understand, 2 years ago, that didn't happen. The Saudis made
every Israeli-bound flight go around their airspace. Israel and Saudi
Arabia have also participated in multilateral naval and air drills,
alongside UAE, Bahrain, and other countries. It is an enormous shift.
If I can even say this in the region, Israel and Lebanon are very
close right now to forming an agreement on what they call the Blue
Line, the border between Israel and Lebanon, including the maritime
areas. What does that matter? It is a tremendous development for
Lebanon, for their economic development, because there is a large
natural gas field just off of Lebanon's coast, but the border has been
unresolved for years.
In the conflict between nations and the trust that has collapsed, the
Abraham Accords have provided an opportunity and a moment for the
nations in the region to say: If peace can begin with UAE and Bahrain
and Sudan and Morocco and Israel and recognition and economic
development and Ambassadors can be exchanged, who else can engage in
economic development?
Let's start with their neighbor Lebanon. To build trust is to also
build clear borders. This is real progress in 2 years.
My challenge to the administration and to our State Department is,
fan the flame. Keep going on this. We have seen nations begin to do
economic development, families meeting other families, school
curriculum changing to taking out anti-Semitic tropes, basically, out
of their curriculum. We have seen real progress in this area. Keep
going. Other nations should be welcomed to be able to join in the
Abraham Accords. It is not closed. Other nations can join in that
economic development.
There are four of us who began the Abraham Accords Caucus: myself,
Senator Rosen, Senator Ernst, and Senator Booker. We launched out the
four of us and invited all of our colleagues to be able to join into
it. Our focus is to be able to work with the Ambassadors of those
nations to say: How can we partner together to bless what has already
occurred, and how can we expand into other nations? How can we
encourage increased economic development?
Now, there are still very real challenges. The work is not done by
any means, but it has at least begun, and progress is taking off--this
simple principle of economic engagement, going past all of the
government noise and saying: What if we allowed infrastructure to be
able to work together? What if we allowed tourism to be able to happen?
What if we allowed businesses to work with other businesses in other
nations that used to be hostile? How can we engage in such a way that
would help?
The four of us in the Abraham Accords Caucus brought to the floor
today a resolution to recognize this 2-year anniversary. It sat before
all 100 Senators, and I don't know a single Senator who is opposed to
that because we all want to see peace in the Middle East. We all want
to see that kind of progress, and we all want to see this increase.
So, to our State Department, keep the work going. Keep the
conversation going. To nations around the world that used to be hostile
to Israel and the region, why don't we set down the past and prepare
our families for the future?
I yield the floor. | religious liberty | homophobic |
09/15/2022 | Mr. SASSE | Senate | CREC-2022-09-15-pt1-PgS4806 | nan | nan | Mr. SASSE. Madam President, first, I would like to associate myself
with the comments of the Senator from Oklahoma and thank him for all of
the work he has done on this.
The Abraham Accords are really something to celebrate, something that
we should be building on. And there is not a lot of good news right now
on a whole bunch of scores, and this is worth celebrating. So
commendations on your resolution.
Something we shouldn't be celebrating is inflation, and I wasn't
invited, but it looks like there was one heck of a party this week at
the White House.
In case folks missed it, President Biden, Majority Leader Schumer,
Speaker Pelosi, and others gathered on the south lawn of the White
House on Tuesday afternoon to clink champagne glasses and celebrate the
so-called Inflation Reduction Act, passed along straight party lines
last month. James Taylor even flew in for the festivities.
But at the same time that Washington politicians were patting
themselves on the back, here is actual reality--not Orwellian rhetoric,
not sort of made-up names for legislation to spend hundreds and
hundreds of billions of dollars--here is actual reality: Americans are
getting slapped in the face with yet another month of bad news. Core
inflation grew another six-tenths of a percent just in the month of
August, defying even the most pessimistic estimations and analyses
heading into those reporting numbers.
Both the Dow and the S&P had their worst day since the very arrival
of COVID.
Consumer prices are now up 8.3 percent for the year, but it is worse
than that for median-income households in America. Grocery prices are
13 percent more expensive this middle of September than they were the
last middle of September.
How do you think about what 13 percent inflation looks like? Here is
the way I explained it to my kids: You know, if a year ago today, you
went to the grocery store checkout line and you had $100 in your pocket
and you had a cart full of groceries and you paid your $100 for the
$100 of groceries, if you showed up today at the checkout line at the
grocery store with the exact same cart and the exact same hundred
bucks, you would then have to awkwardly and in an embarrassed way, in
front of the people behind you in line, say: I have to figure out how
to take $13 of stuff off this checkout line because the $100 that I had
last year that bought $100 of food only buys $87 of food right now.
That is what 13 percent inflation means.
Even CNN had to admit that the White House's timing was awkward,
calling the event ``a bizarre split-screen moment,'' with President
Biden taking a victory lap with a so-called Inflation Reduction Act
while in the real world, inflation was tanking markets. That was
actually what was happening on Tuesday. On air, the CNN anchor
suggested it ``feels a little hard to be celebratory.'' That is a kind
of awkward, timid way to tell the truth.
Lots of Americans have become used to this split-screen reality where
Washington says one thing, but reality is completely different. It
often feels like officials in Washington are living alternate realities
and then trying to convince the American people: You don't know what
you are talking about. What you are actually experiencing at the
checkout line when you had to put back $13 of groceries--it is not
really true. The great news is, we have wine glasses in our hands;
let's clink them together.
Washington, DC, is obviously in a bubble--and not for the first time.
The same folks who threw that party are the types who order lots of
their food from DoorDash and therefore might actually not know what the
price of eggs, milk, and meat is. They are the kind of folks who see
inflation as something that happens on paper, but seeing it on paper is
different than feeling it.
DC sees many problems on paper but doesn't really connect with what
the American people are living. DC saw the housing crisis of 2008, 2009
as something on paper, not as reality. Why? Well, because five of the
seven richest counties in America are the five suburban counties of
Northern Virginia and Maryland that ring Washington, DC. Think about
that. Of 3,000 counties in America, 5 of the 7 richest ones are the
places that surround the city.
So in 2008, 2009, when housing was collapsing everywhere, when lots
of people were going bankrupt in the country, people in this city said:
I don't know what the heck you are talking about. We have massive
demand. Houses sell with escalation clauses.
There are way more buyers than there are sellers, so housing prices
in Washington, DC, in Northern Virginia, and in suburban Maryland went
up even as the country was living that collapse.
Opioids are a crisis that a lot of people in Washington, DC, know
only on paper because they don't see it around the yuppified
neighborhoods of Washington, DC.
Inflation is now that kind of crisis. It is a very real thing, and
yet people in this city host white wine parties to talk about how great
it is passing legislation that spent hundreds of billions of dollars
more, accelerating inflation, and they decided they would name it the
``Inflation Reduction Act.''
Let's review a little bit of history about what we have learned about
inflation over the last 15 months.
More than a year ago, last summer, when Americans were already
feeling their prices creep higher, the President dismissed long-term
worries about inflation with this quote:
There's nobody suggesting there's any unchecked inflation
on the way--no serious economist.
What?
That was an incredibly bizarre, dishonest statement, and everyone
knew. When it was spoken and when speechwriters wrote it, they knew
that that wasn't true.
Why did they know? Well, because inflation had gone from 1.4 to 5.5
percent in the 3 months before that statement was uttered.
Larry Summers, a longtime Democratic economist across multiple
administrations and who is well respected by folks in academia and in
government and in both parties, was screaming at the White House not
just in private but in public that this was nonsense, that they were
delusional about what was happening with inflation numbers. Yet our
President said that there was nobody suggesting that unchecked
inflation was on the way--no serious economist.
Here is what was actually happening in White House meeting rooms at
that time. Half of the Obama economic team was coming in and telling
the Biden economic team: Hey, you guys are going to get caught with
your pants down. That isn't true. That spin isn't reality. Inflation is
big, it is bad, and it is growing.
Yet the speechwriters said: Let's have the President go out to the
podium and say there is no serious economist who believes inflation is
coming.
That was in July of 2021.
In February of this year, when inflation had hit 7.8 percent, our
President predicted that ``inflation ought to be able to start to taper
off as we go through this year.'' He had predicted in December that
inflation had already peaked. Every one of these comments was detached
from reality, and the people writing the speeches knew they were
detached from reality.
The President is obviously not the only offender. Last October, with
high prices already eating away at families' savings accounts, White
House Chief of Staff Ron Klain applauded a tweet describing inflation
and supply chain snarls as ``high-class problems.'' That is some white
wine-drunk commentary for you. This is a middle-class American problem
that families in all 50 States are suffering.
A week later, the White House Press Secretary shrugged off the same
problem when asked about inflation as being ``the tragedy of the
treadmill that's delayed.'' ``The tragedy of the treadmill that's
delayed''--ouch.
Do these people know anyone in America who has ever had to put stuff
back at the checkout line at the grocery store? Because that is what I
have experienced and see at Walmart and Hy-Vee right now in Fremont,
NE.
Have they ever sat down with people to compare their receipts week
over week or month over month--those people who are looking at their
receipts, knowing that they have to put stuff back? They are not wrong,
and they are not talking about a 3-month delay on a Peloton delivery.
Just 2 months later, another White House Press Secretary declared
that the United States is ``stronger economically than we have ever
been in our history.'' That is what was said at the White House podium:
``stronger economically than we have ever been in our history''--
totally drunk stuff.
According to a Gallup poll, 56 percent of Americans now say price
increases are causing financial hardships for their families. That is
up from 49 percent a couple of months ago and 45 percent the previous
fall.
According to a Monmouth poll, nearly 9 out of 10 Americans say the
country is on the wrong track, but the White House is throwing wine and
cheese parties to celebrate the Inflation Reduction Act.
Americans have watched the President announce that he plans to force
noncollege graduates in Scottsbluff, NE, and Beckley, WV, to pay for
the debt burden of people with masters and Ph.D.s who live in Berkeley
and Bethesda. Let's be clear. Fifty-six percent of all of the student
loan debt in America is held by people with graduate degrees. The
majority of college loan debt in America is held by people with
graduate degrees, and about a third of Americans go to college. But
what we should do, Washington says, is take money from noncollege
graduates and give it to folks with graduate degrees. Then let's claim
it is somehow going to reduce the deficit. Drunk stuff.
Americans have watched as every basic household necessity has become
more expensive, from groceries to gas. Then they hear politicians
change the name of their bill to the Inflation Reduction Act and
applaud themselves for spending hundreds of billions of inflationary
dollars. This was on the steps of the White House on Tuesday afternoon.
Folks, this isn't just offensive; it is the kind of behavior and the
kind of dishonesty that poisons democracy. Politicians are saying
things here that are 180 degrees reversed from reality, and that cuts
to the issue of public trust. It doesn't just matter economically; it
matters civically.
The relationship between the American people and their leaders is a
relationship built on trust--a trust that, when elected officials are
at their desks in Washington, takes seriously the needs and desires of
their constituents. We have a bunch of people in Washington, DC, who
mistake the Washington, DC, elite experience, where the income of folks
who work for the Federal Government is substantially higher than that
of the median American. It attacks public trust. Elected officials are
not special. Elected officials, quite frankly, are often
not that impressive. Elected officials are not demagogues. Public
servants are supposed to be serving the public.
It is in our job description to trust that the people we represent
actually know something about their struggles and their challenges and
their day-to-day difficulties of making ends meet. It is in our job
description to listen to them, to look at their experiences, and to
take them to heart. It is in our job description to think carefully
about the challenges they face and the ways we can address those
challenges, always with a mindful eye to the direction established by
our constitutional order and the best of our democratic traditions.
That relationship is destroyed when Washington, DC, breaks faith with
the American people, when it declares: You don't know what you are
talking about. You don't know what your experience is at the grocery
store checkout line. There is no serious inflation, and no serious
economist thinks inflation is coming.
The actual numbers are 13 percent grocery and 8\1/2\ percent overall.
These are late 1970s kinds of numbers.
Politicians know best.
No, we don't.
The relationship is destroyed when self-satisfied appointees and smug
bureaucrats in Washington bustle up and down Pennsylvania Avenue and
decide that division is more efficient politics than competent
governance. Lectures about the soul of America ring pretty hollow from
practitioners of this craven kind of politics of contempt.
Americans deserve better. Starting with honesty is a pretty good
start.
Here is honesty: We have an inflationary crisis on our hands, and the
reality is that inflation is making life a lot more difficult and a lot
more precarious for millions and millions of our neighbors. Our
families and friends are feeling pain at the pump and at the checkout
lines. They are watching their savings accounts and pensions be nibbled
away. They haven't imagined a hardship. This is reality--experiential
and economic reality.
The only thing that is misaligned is the rhetoric of this place, and
Americans won't be bludgeoned into believing that they are actually
thriving when they are experiencing 13 percent grocery inflation.
Things are hard, and the barest minimum this White House could do is to
admit it, to tell the truth, and to put away the party hats.
The American people are resilient. We are tough. We are not ready to
accept this as the new normal. We are going to work our way through
this, but we need less condescension and less spin. We need a lot more
truth-telling from those in power. We need fewer tone-deaf, wine-glass-
clinking parties from folks who have escalated inflation with reckless
spending and then claimed that the American people are wrong and that
this new spending will somehow reduce inflation. Nobody really believes
that.
The folks who are writing those press releases and those speeches and
inviting people to parties at the White House should reconsider. They
should tell the truth. It is hogwash, and they know it. More
importantly, the American people know it, and we should tell them the
truth.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
09/20/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4862 | nan | nan | Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. Cornyn, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Bennet, Mr.
Van Hollen, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Markey, Ms. Sinema,
Mr. Padilla, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Reed, Mr. Coons, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Carper,
Mr. Murphy, Mr. Lujan, Mr. Casey, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Schumer, Mr.
Heinrich, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Warnock, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Rubio,
Mr. Hagerty, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. Ossoff, Mr. Booker, Ms. Duckworth,
Mr. King, Mr. Wyden, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Cassidy, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Warner,
Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Brown, Ms.
Warren, Ms. Collins, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Smith, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Durbin, Mr.
Scott of South Carolina, and Mr. Lankford) submitted the following
resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
S. Res. 782
Whereas, from September 15, 2022, through October 15, 2022,
the United States celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month;
Whereas the Bureau of the Census estimates the Hispanic
population living in the 50 States at more than 62,000,000
people, plus close to 3,200,000 people living in the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, making Hispanic Americans
approximately 19 percent of the total population of the
United States and the largest racial or ethnic minority group
in the United States;
Whereas, in 2021, there were close to 1,000,000 or more
Latino residents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and in
each of the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida,
Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New
Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and
Washington;
Whereas, from 2010 to 2020, Latinos grew the population of
the United States by more than 11,600,000 individuals,
accounting for more than \1/2\ of the total population growth
of the United States during that period;
Whereas the Latino population in the United States is
projected to grow to 111,200,000 people by 2060, at which
point the Latino population will comprise more than 28
percent of the total population of the United States;
Whereas the Latino population in the United States is
currently the third largest population of Latinos worldwide,
exceeding the size of the population in every Latin American
and Caribbean country, except Mexico and Brazil;
Whereas, in 2020, there were more than 18,630,000 Latino
children under 18 years of age in the United States, which
represents approximately \1/3\ of the total Latino population
in the United States;
Whereas 27.5 percent of public school students in the
United States are Latino, and the share of Latino students is
expected to rise to nearly 30 percent by 2027;
Whereas approximately 20 percent of all college students in
the United States are Latino, making Latinos the second
largest racial or ethnic minority group enrolled in higher
education in the United States, including 2-year community
colleges and 4-year colleges and universities;
Whereas, from 1996 to 2018, the number of Hispanic students
enrolled in schools, colleges, and universities in the United
States increased from 8,800,000 to more than 18,000,000, and
Hispanics now make up 25 percent of all people enrolled in
school in the United States;
Whereas 30,600,000 Latinos were eligible to vote in the
2020 Presidential election, representing 13.2 percent of the
electorate in the United States;
Whereas, in the 2020 Presidential election, Latinos cast
16,600,000 votes, a 30.9-percent increase from the number of
votes cast by Latinos in the 2016 Presidential election;
Whereas the number of eligible Latino voters is expected to
rise to more than 32,400,000 by 2036, accounting for
approximately 20 percent of the eligible electorate in the
United States by 2036;
Whereas, each year, approximately 800,000 Latino citizens
of the United States reach 18 years of age and become
eligible to vote, a number that could grow to 1,000,000 per
year, potentially adding 10,000,000 new Latino voters by
2032;
Whereas it is estimated that, in 2021, the annual
purchasing power of Hispanic Americans was
$1,900,000,000,000, which is an amount greater than the
economy of all except 9 countries in the world;
Whereas there are approximately 5,000,000 Hispanic-owned
businesses in the United States, supporting millions of
employees nationwide and contributing more than
$800,000,000,000 in revenue to the economy of the United
States;
Whereas, by 2020, the number of Hispanic-owned businesses
had grown by 34 percent since 2010, representing the fastest
growing segment of small businesses in the United States,
with those businesses representing 5.8 percent of all
businesses in the United States;
Whereas, as of August 2020, more than 29,000,000 Latino
workers represented 18 percent of the total civilian labor
force of the United States, and, as a result of Latinos
experiencing the fastest population growth of all race and
ethnicity groups in the United States, the rate of Latino
participation in the labor force is expected to grow to
35,900,000 by 2030, accounting for \1/5\ of the total labor
force;
Whereas, in 2022, the labor force participation rate of
Latinos was 66.5 percent, higher than the labor force
participation rate of non-Hispanics, which was 62.2 percent;
Whereas, as of 2021, there were approximately 426,840
Latino elementary, middle, and secondary school teachers,
123,136 Latino chief executives of businesses, 74,865 Latino
lawyers, 58,492 Latino physicians and surgeons, and 20,788
Latino psychologists, who contribute to the United States
through their professions;
Whereas Hispanic Americans serve in all branches of the
Armed Forces and have fought bravely in every war in the
history of the United States;
Whereas, as of 2021--
(1) more than 230,000 Hispanic members of the Armed Forces
serve on active duty; and
(2) there are more than 1,500,000 Hispanic veterans of the
Armed Forces, including approximately 203,000 Latinas;
Whereas, as of 2018, more than 399,000 Hispanics have
served in post-September 11, 2001, overseas contingency
operations, and Hispanics represent 12.1 percent of the total
number of veterans who have served in operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan since September 11, 2001;
Whereas, as of August 2021, at least 693 fatalities in Iraq
and Afghanistan were members of the Armed Forces who were
Hispanic;
Whereas an estimated 200,000 Hispanics were mobilized for
World War I, and more
than 500,000 Hispanics served in World War II;
Whereas more than 80,000 Hispanics served in the Vietnam
war, representing 5.5 percent of individuals who made the
ultimate sacrifice for the United States in that conflict,
even though Hispanics comprised only 4.5 percent of the
population of the United States during the Vietnam war;
Whereas approximately 150,000 Hispanic soldiers served in
the Korean war, including the 65th Infantry Regiment of the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, known as the ``Borinqueneers'',
the only active duty, segregated Latino military unit in the
history of the United States;
Whereas 61 Hispanic Americans have received the
Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest award for valor in
action against an enemy force bestowed on an individual
serving in the Armed Forces;
Whereas in 2020, Congress established the National Museum
of the American Latino, which, when complete, will display
the achievements, diversity, and legacy of the Hispanic
community in the United States;
Whereas Hispanic Americans are dedicated public servants,
holding posts at the highest levels of the Government of the
United States, including 1 seat on the Supreme Court of the
United States, 6 seats in the Senate, and 45 seats in the
House of Representatives; and
Whereas Hispanic Americans harbor a deep commitment to
family and community, an enduring work ethic, and a
perseverance to succeed and contribute to society: Now,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) recognizes the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month
from September 15, 2022, through October 15, 2022;
(2) esteems the integral role of Latinos and the manifold
heritages of Latinos in the economy, culture, and identity of
the United States; and
(3) urges the people of the United States to observe
Hispanic Heritage Month with appropriate programs and
activities that celebrate the contributions of Latinos to the
United States.
| public school | racist |
09/19/2022 | The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania) | House | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgH7886-5 | nan | nan | The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania).
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.
| XX | transphobic |
09/19/2022 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgH7944-2 | nan | nan | 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 (S. 3895) to extend and authorize annual appropriations
for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
through fiscal year 2024, on which the yeas and nays were ordered. | XX | transphobic |
09/19/2022 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgH7945 | nan | nan | 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 (S. 3157) to require the Secretary of Labor to conduct a
study of the factors affecting employment opportunities for immigrants
and refugees with professional credentials obtained in foreign
countries, on which the yeas and nays were ordered. | XX | transphobic |
09/19/2022 | The SPEAKER pro tempore | House | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgH7946 | nan | nan | 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. 1456) to amend the Peace Corps Act to reauthorize
the Peace Corps, better support current and returned volunteers, and
for other purposes, as amended, on which the yeas and nays were
ordered. | XX | transphobic |
09/19/2022 | Unknown | House | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgH7947 | nan | nan | The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Strickland) 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 persons who commit,
threaten to commit, or support terrorism declared in Executive Order
13224 of September 23, 2001, as amended, is to continue in effect
beyond September 23, 2022.
The crisis constituted by the grave acts of terrorism and threats of
terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, including the terrorist
attacks on September 11, 2001, in New York and Pennsylvania and against
the Pentagon, and the continuing and immediate threat of further
attacks on United States nationals or the United States that led to the
declaration of a national emergency on September 23, 2001, has not been
resolved. This crisis continues 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 declared in Executive Order 13224, as
amended, with respect to persons who commit, threaten to commit, or
support terrorism.
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
The White House, September 19, 2022.
| the Fed | antisemitic |
09/19/2022 | Unknown | House | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgH7947 | nan | nan | The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Strickland) 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 persons who commit,
threaten to commit, or support terrorism declared in Executive Order
13224 of September 23, 2001, as amended, is to continue in effect
beyond September 23, 2022.
The crisis constituted by the grave acts of terrorism and threats of
terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, including the terrorist
attacks on September 11, 2001, in New York and Pennsylvania and against
the Pentagon, and the continuing and immediate threat of further
attacks on United States nationals or the United States that led to the
declaration of a national emergency on September 23, 2001, has not been
resolved. This crisis continues 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 declared in Executive Order 13224, as
amended, with respect to persons who commit, threaten to commit, or
support terrorism.
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
The White House, September 19, 2022.
| terrorism | Islamophobic |
09/19/2022 | Unknown | House | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgH7947 | nan | nan | The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Strickland) 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 persons who commit,
threaten to commit, or support terrorism declared in Executive Order
13224 of September 23, 2001, as amended, is to continue in effect
beyond September 23, 2022.
The crisis constituted by the grave acts of terrorism and threats of
terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, including the terrorist
attacks on September 11, 2001, in New York and Pennsylvania and against
the Pentagon, and the continuing and immediate threat of further
attacks on United States nationals or the United States that led to the
declaration of a national emergency on September 23, 2001, has not been
resolved. This crisis continues 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 declared in Executive Order 13224, as
amended, with respect to persons who commit, threaten to commit, or
support terrorism.
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
The White House, September 19, 2022.
| terrorist | Islamophobic |
09/19/2022 | Unknown | House | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgH7947 | nan | nan | The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Strickland) 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 persons who commit,
threaten to commit, or support terrorism declared in Executive Order
13224 of September 23, 2001, as amended, is to continue in effect
beyond September 23, 2022.
The crisis constituted by the grave acts of terrorism and threats of
terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, including the terrorist
attacks on September 11, 2001, in New York and Pennsylvania and against
the Pentagon, and the continuing and immediate threat of further
attacks on United States nationals or the United States that led to the
declaration of a national emergency on September 23, 2001, has not been
resolved. This crisis continues 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 declared in Executive Order 13224, as
amended, with respect to persons who commit, threaten to commit, or
support terrorism.
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
The White House, September 19, 2022.
| terrorists | Islamophobic |
09/19/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgS4811 | nan | nan | Immigration
The last point I want to make is this. Madam President, there was a
decision made by the Governor of Texas, Governor Abbott, several weeks
ago to start transporting people who were legally in the United States
but had just arrived from foreign countries on buses to various places
around the country. Thousands of them were brought to Washington;
thousands were brought to New York; and hundreds were brought to my
city of Chicago that I represent.
These were people who came to our borders and asked if they could be
admitted as legal immigrants to the United States, and they passed the
threshold test. But let me quickly add, it is a threshold test as to
whether they have credible fear for their own personal safety. They
still have to face an adjudication, and the majority of them are not
likely to win that adjudication. The problem we face is very obvious:
It is a long time before that adjudication takes place. What are these
families supposed to do when they are here waiting?
I went over to the Salvation Army rescue shelter on the West Side of
Chicago to meet with some of these families and individuals who had
been bused to Chicago by the Governor of Texas. I met one man, Carlos,
and his family--his wife, his 5-year-old daughter, and his 8-month-old
daughter as well. Through the translators, they told me their story.
They are from Venezuela.
Venezuela is in a disaster situation. It is so dangerous that the
United States warns travelers not to go to Venezuela, and the economy
is so weak that the cost of living has gone up dramatically. Inflation
there is even dramatically larger than the United States.
Carlos reached a point that, even working as hard as he could, he
couldn't feed his family. So on May 15, he and his wife decided to pick
up their children and try to make it to the border of the United
States to try to find work. It took them 5 months, and they went
through everything you can imagine; much of it on foot, and what travel
they could find, they took advantage of. They were robbed, beaten up.
They were pushed into a jungle situation in Panama where Carlos said,
``I didn't think we were going to live through the night.'' It was that
dangerous. They did survive, and they finally made it, and now they are
here in Chicago.
I asked him what he wanted. He said, ``I just want to go to work. I
will take any job.''
What we are finding--and the front page story in the New York Times
confirmed it--is that many of these people are needed. Yes, we have
unemployment of 5 million in America, but we have 11 million jobs that
need to be filled. Many of them are entry-level jobs, and it is hard to
get anyone to take them.
Last week, as well, I had the Illinois Farm Bureau come and see me.
They started talking about their need for immigrant labor on the farms
of America.
Madam President, you probably know this from your own home State, but
currently half of the agricultural workers in America who are working
on the dairy farms, picking crops, doing things that are pretty hard
work, half of them are undocumented. We don't think twice about eating
the fruits and vegetables that are the bounty of their work, but that
is the reality.
Our immigration system, at this point in time, is badly broken. We
need to have legal immigration into the United States--controlled legal
immigration into the United States for work purposes. Many of these
people who are arriving are desperately needed for jobs that Americans
won't fill. They don't want to work picking crops, for example, or on a
dairy farm. A friend of mine who is a restaurateur in Chicago told me,
if you removed all of the undocumented workers from the restaurants of
Chicago, you would just start closing them right and left. Behind that
screen door in your favorite restaurant are people working hard every
single day who are undocumented.
We have to reach the point where we sit down in a bipartisan basis
and do something about it. It was 8 years ago when we put together a
comprehensive immigration reform bill. Democrats, Durbin, Schumer--and
I want to salute Michael Bennet, who time and again has been able to
come up with a good bipartisan approach to ag workers--and Bob Menendez
of New Jersey, we were on the Democratic part of the team of 8. On the
Republican part, we had Senator McCain, Senator Graham, Senator Rubio,
and then Senator Flake.
We worked for months, put together a comprehensive bill, brought it
to the floor of the Senate, and passed it with 14 Republicans joining
us. There were 68 votes on the floor of the U.S. Senate for a bill that
would have addressed the very issues we are facing today. The bill was
then sent over, after it passed the Senate, to the House of
Representatives, and the Republican leader refused to take up it or
even call it.
We had a chance, and we have to create that chance again--
comprehensive immigration reform. We shouldn't do it at the expense of
a poor family like Carlos's family who came from Venezuela. I would say
what the Governors of Arizona and Texas and Florida are doing now is to
jeopardize the safety and the health of these families. That is not
fair to them. It is not American. Putting them on buses and promising
them, at the end of the journey, that there are going to be jobs
waiting for them, for example, is just to mislead them.
In addition, if these Governors were transporting these people in
good faith to Chicago or New York or Washington, they would have the
decency to tell us who is coming and when. They don't. They put the
buses on the road, and they stop at a train station and turn them all
loose. Many of these people know no one in those cities. We found
recent evidence that some of them are in a position where they are
taken away from where they are supposed to report--legally report--in
this country and sent hundreds and thousands of miles away by
these Governors for political reasons I can't explain. That is not who
we are.
I do want to commend the Salvation Army, Catholic Charities, many of
the charities in our area.
WBEZ is our public radio station in Chicago. This was on their
website:
Chicago agencies and local groups tell migrants ``We are so
glad you are here.''
They are getting an American welcome. They are being treated
decently. They are being treated with respect.
Now, as we debate the politics of why they are here and whether they
can stay, we shouldn't do it at the expense of demonstrating clear
American values of humanity and caring. That is who we are. We are not
going to allow these kids to reach a situation like they have before
and be the victims of our political debate. We don't want kids in
cages. We don't want kids forcibly removed from their parents. We don't
want them to suffer on these bus rides, not knowing where they are
going to end up and what is going to happen to them next. We are better
than that as Americans, and we are better than that as a nation of
immigrants.
I have said it on the floor many times, and I am proud to say it
again: I am the son of an immigrant to this country. My mother came
here at the age of 2 from Lithuania, brought with her the good luck
that I could live my life and be part of the U.S. Senate and the
governance of this Nation. We shouldn't look beyond that.
I will say the Presiding Officer holds a special place in the history
of the Senate with her immigration status as well.
If you look in any direction, you are going to find immigrants, sons
and daughters of immigrants, who really have made America what it is
today. Let's get this right on a bipartisan basis. Let's not waste any
time.
In the meantime, let us treat these people who are coming to our
country and are now legally in the country with dignity and respect.
I yield the floor.
| single | homophobic |
09/19/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgS4811 | nan | nan | Immigration
The last point I want to make is this. Madam President, there was a
decision made by the Governor of Texas, Governor Abbott, several weeks
ago to start transporting people who were legally in the United States
but had just arrived from foreign countries on buses to various places
around the country. Thousands of them were brought to Washington;
thousands were brought to New York; and hundreds were brought to my
city of Chicago that I represent.
These were people who came to our borders and asked if they could be
admitted as legal immigrants to the United States, and they passed the
threshold test. But let me quickly add, it is a threshold test as to
whether they have credible fear for their own personal safety. They
still have to face an adjudication, and the majority of them are not
likely to win that adjudication. The problem we face is very obvious:
It is a long time before that adjudication takes place. What are these
families supposed to do when they are here waiting?
I went over to the Salvation Army rescue shelter on the West Side of
Chicago to meet with some of these families and individuals who had
been bused to Chicago by the Governor of Texas. I met one man, Carlos,
and his family--his wife, his 5-year-old daughter, and his 8-month-old
daughter as well. Through the translators, they told me their story.
They are from Venezuela.
Venezuela is in a disaster situation. It is so dangerous that the
United States warns travelers not to go to Venezuela, and the economy
is so weak that the cost of living has gone up dramatically. Inflation
there is even dramatically larger than the United States.
Carlos reached a point that, even working as hard as he could, he
couldn't feed his family. So on May 15, he and his wife decided to pick
up their children and try to make it to the border of the United
States to try to find work. It took them 5 months, and they went
through everything you can imagine; much of it on foot, and what travel
they could find, they took advantage of. They were robbed, beaten up.
They were pushed into a jungle situation in Panama where Carlos said,
``I didn't think we were going to live through the night.'' It was that
dangerous. They did survive, and they finally made it, and now they are
here in Chicago.
I asked him what he wanted. He said, ``I just want to go to work. I
will take any job.''
What we are finding--and the front page story in the New York Times
confirmed it--is that many of these people are needed. Yes, we have
unemployment of 5 million in America, but we have 11 million jobs that
need to be filled. Many of them are entry-level jobs, and it is hard to
get anyone to take them.
Last week, as well, I had the Illinois Farm Bureau come and see me.
They started talking about their need for immigrant labor on the farms
of America.
Madam President, you probably know this from your own home State, but
currently half of the agricultural workers in America who are working
on the dairy farms, picking crops, doing things that are pretty hard
work, half of them are undocumented. We don't think twice about eating
the fruits and vegetables that are the bounty of their work, but that
is the reality.
Our immigration system, at this point in time, is badly broken. We
need to have legal immigration into the United States--controlled legal
immigration into the United States for work purposes. Many of these
people who are arriving are desperately needed for jobs that Americans
won't fill. They don't want to work picking crops, for example, or on a
dairy farm. A friend of mine who is a restaurateur in Chicago told me,
if you removed all of the undocumented workers from the restaurants of
Chicago, you would just start closing them right and left. Behind that
screen door in your favorite restaurant are people working hard every
single day who are undocumented.
We have to reach the point where we sit down in a bipartisan basis
and do something about it. It was 8 years ago when we put together a
comprehensive immigration reform bill. Democrats, Durbin, Schumer--and
I want to salute Michael Bennet, who time and again has been able to
come up with a good bipartisan approach to ag workers--and Bob Menendez
of New Jersey, we were on the Democratic part of the team of 8. On the
Republican part, we had Senator McCain, Senator Graham, Senator Rubio,
and then Senator Flake.
We worked for months, put together a comprehensive bill, brought it
to the floor of the Senate, and passed it with 14 Republicans joining
us. There were 68 votes on the floor of the U.S. Senate for a bill that
would have addressed the very issues we are facing today. The bill was
then sent over, after it passed the Senate, to the House of
Representatives, and the Republican leader refused to take up it or
even call it.
We had a chance, and we have to create that chance again--
comprehensive immigration reform. We shouldn't do it at the expense of
a poor family like Carlos's family who came from Venezuela. I would say
what the Governors of Arizona and Texas and Florida are doing now is to
jeopardize the safety and the health of these families. That is not
fair to them. It is not American. Putting them on buses and promising
them, at the end of the journey, that there are going to be jobs
waiting for them, for example, is just to mislead them.
In addition, if these Governors were transporting these people in
good faith to Chicago or New York or Washington, they would have the
decency to tell us who is coming and when. They don't. They put the
buses on the road, and they stop at a train station and turn them all
loose. Many of these people know no one in those cities. We found
recent evidence that some of them are in a position where they are
taken away from where they are supposed to report--legally report--in
this country and sent hundreds and thousands of miles away by
these Governors for political reasons I can't explain. That is not who
we are.
I do want to commend the Salvation Army, Catholic Charities, many of
the charities in our area.
WBEZ is our public radio station in Chicago. This was on their
website:
Chicago agencies and local groups tell migrants ``We are so
glad you are here.''
They are getting an American welcome. They are being treated
decently. They are being treated with respect.
Now, as we debate the politics of why they are here and whether they
can stay, we shouldn't do it at the expense of demonstrating clear
American values of humanity and caring. That is who we are. We are not
going to allow these kids to reach a situation like they have before
and be the victims of our political debate. We don't want kids in
cages. We don't want kids forcibly removed from their parents. We don't
want them to suffer on these bus rides, not knowing where they are
going to end up and what is going to happen to them next. We are better
than that as Americans, and we are better than that as a nation of
immigrants.
I have said it on the floor many times, and I am proud to say it
again: I am the son of an immigrant to this country. My mother came
here at the age of 2 from Lithuania, brought with her the good luck
that I could live my life and be part of the U.S. Senate and the
governance of this Nation. We shouldn't look beyond that.
I will say the Presiding Officer holds a special place in the history
of the Senate with her immigration status as well.
If you look in any direction, you are going to find immigrants, sons
and daughters of immigrants, who really have made America what it is
today. Let's get this right on a bipartisan basis. Let's not waste any
time.
In the meantime, let us treat these people who are coming to our
country and are now legally in the country with dignity and respect.
I yield the floor.
| Chicago | racist |
09/19/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgS4813 | nan | nan | DISCLOSE Act
Madam President, finally on the DISCLOSE Act, today, I am announcing
the Senate will vote this week to take up a measure critical to
fighting the cancer of dark money in our elections: the DISCLOSE Act.
I have long promised to bring this bill to the floor, and I want to
thank all my colleagues and in particular Senator Whitehouse. He has
done an amazing job documenting and pressing forward on trying to
eliminate the evil scourge of dark money. He has been an amazing leader
in championing this legislation.
The DISCLOSE Act is premised on a simple idea: Americans deserve to
know who is trying to influence their elections. Sadly, most Americans
today are largely in the dark, thanks to the abominable decision in
Citizens United handed down by the Supreme Court's conservative
majority. Their ruling has paved the way for billions in unlimited
campaign contributions by Super PACs and other dark money groups over
the last decade. Ordinary citizens, meanwhile, have had their voices
drowned out by elites who have millions to spare for political
donations.
And the worst part? Much of this spending happens entirely in secret.
That is not like a democracy. It is a veil cast over our democracy that
must be ripped away once and for all.
The DISCLOSE Act is simple. It would require Super PACs and other
dark money groups to report anyone contributing $10,000 or more during
an election. It would likewise require groups spending money on
judicial nominees to disclose their donors too. There is no
justification under Heaven for keeping such massive contributions
hidden from the public.
This week, Republicans are going to have to take a stand on whether
they want to fight the power of dark money or allow this cancer to grow
even worse. Limiting the power of dark money shouldn't be a Democratic
or Republican view; it should be bipartisan through and through.
I hope Republicans will join us, because Americans intuitively
understand that right now, there is a stench taking over our campaign
finance law. After all, when was the last time any of us heard voters
cheer on the spread of dark money? When was the last time any of us
heard voters say it is better for billionaires and special interests to
buy elections in secret rather than be held accountable to the public?
Of course, they don't think that unless they themselves are the ones
cutting the multimillion-dollar checks.
So this week, all of us will go on record on whether or not we think
Americans deserve to know who is spending billions to sway our
democracy. It will be our chance to put into practice the famous saying
by Judge Louis D. Brandeis that ``sunlight is said to be the best
disinfectant.''
I once again commend Senator Whitehouse for his years of leadership
in fighting this wave of dark money, and I urge all my colleagues to
support this measure this week.
I yield the floor. | special interest | antisemitic |
09/19/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgS4813 | nan | nan | DISCLOSE Act
Madam President, finally on the DISCLOSE Act, today, I am announcing
the Senate will vote this week to take up a measure critical to
fighting the cancer of dark money in our elections: the DISCLOSE Act.
I have long promised to bring this bill to the floor, and I want to
thank all my colleagues and in particular Senator Whitehouse. He has
done an amazing job documenting and pressing forward on trying to
eliminate the evil scourge of dark money. He has been an amazing leader
in championing this legislation.
The DISCLOSE Act is premised on a simple idea: Americans deserve to
know who is trying to influence their elections. Sadly, most Americans
today are largely in the dark, thanks to the abominable decision in
Citizens United handed down by the Supreme Court's conservative
majority. Their ruling has paved the way for billions in unlimited
campaign contributions by Super PACs and other dark money groups over
the last decade. Ordinary citizens, meanwhile, have had their voices
drowned out by elites who have millions to spare for political
donations.
And the worst part? Much of this spending happens entirely in secret.
That is not like a democracy. It is a veil cast over our democracy that
must be ripped away once and for all.
The DISCLOSE Act is simple. It would require Super PACs and other
dark money groups to report anyone contributing $10,000 or more during
an election. It would likewise require groups spending money on
judicial nominees to disclose their donors too. There is no
justification under Heaven for keeping such massive contributions
hidden from the public.
This week, Republicans are going to have to take a stand on whether
they want to fight the power of dark money or allow this cancer to grow
even worse. Limiting the power of dark money shouldn't be a Democratic
or Republican view; it should be bipartisan through and through.
I hope Republicans will join us, because Americans intuitively
understand that right now, there is a stench taking over our campaign
finance law. After all, when was the last time any of us heard voters
cheer on the spread of dark money? When was the last time any of us
heard voters say it is better for billionaires and special interests to
buy elections in secret rather than be held accountable to the public?
Of course, they don't think that unless they themselves are the ones
cutting the multimillion-dollar checks.
So this week, all of us will go on record on whether or not we think
Americans deserve to know who is spending billions to sway our
democracy. It will be our chance to put into practice the famous saying
by Judge Louis D. Brandeis that ``sunlight is said to be the best
disinfectant.''
I once again commend Senator Whitehouse for his years of leadership
in fighting this wave of dark money, and I urge all my colleagues to
support this measure this week.
I yield the floor. | special interests | antisemitic |
09/19/2022 | Mr. MALINOWSKI | House | CREC-2022-09-19-pt1-PgH7908 | nan | nan | Mr. MALINOWSKI. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to
the resolution (H. Res. 558) urging the European Union to designate
Hizballah in its entirety as a terrorist organization, as amended. | terrorist | Islamophobic |
09/28/2022 | Ms. WATERS | House | CREC-2022-09-28-pt1-PgH8158 | nan | nan | Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the
bill (H.R. 2710) to increase transparency with respect to financial
services benefitting state sponsors of terrorism, human rights abusers,
and corrupt officials, and for other purposes, as amended. | terrorism | Islamophobic |
09/20/2022 | Unknown | Senate | CREC-2022-09-20-pt1-PgS4863 | nan | nan | Mr. BOOZMAN (for himself, Mr. Tester, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Brown, Mr.
Warnock, and Ms. Rosen) submitted the following resolution; which was
considered and agreed to:
S. Res. 783
Whereas, on August 1, 1907, the Aeronautical Division of
the Army Signal Corps, consisting of 1 officer and 2 enlisted
men, began operation under the command of Captain Charles
deForest Chandler with the responsibility for ``all matters
pertaining to military ballooning, air machines, and all
kindred subjects'';
Whereas, in 1908, the Department of War contracted with the
Wright brothers to build 1 heavier-than-air flying machine
for the Army and, in 1909, the Department of War accepted the
Wright Military Flyer, the first military airplane in the
world;
Whereas pilots of the United States, flying with both
Allied air forces and with the Army Air Service, performed
admirably during the course of World War I, the first air war
in history, by participating in pursuit, observation, and day
and night bombing missions;
Whereas pioneering aviators of the United States, including
Mason M. Patrick, William ``Billy'' Mitchell, Benjamin D.
Foulois, Frank M. Andrews, Henry H. ``Hap'' Arnold, James H.
``Jimmy'' Doolittle, and Edward ``Eddie'' Rickenbacker, were
among the first individuals to recognize the military
potential of airpower and, in the decades following World War
I, courageously laid the foundation for the creation of an
independent arm for the air forces of the United States;
Whereas General Henry H. ``Hap'' Arnold drew upon the
industrial prowess and human resources of the United States
to transform the Army Air Corps from a force of 22,000 men
and 3,900 aircraft in 1939, into an entity with a peak
wartime strength of nearly 2,500,000 personnel and 75,000
aircraft;
Whereas, on June 20, 1941, the Department of War
established the Army Air Forces as the aviation element of
that Department and, shortly thereafter, the Department made
the Army Air Forces co-equal to the Army Ground Forces;
Whereas the standard for courage, flexibility, and
intrepidity in combat was established for all airmen during
the first aerial raid in the Pacific Theater on April 18,
1942, when Lieutenant Colonel James ``Jimmy'' H. Doolittle
led 16 North American B-25 Mitchell bombers in a joint
operation from the deck of the USS Hornet to strike the
Japanese mainland in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor;
Whereas the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3001
et seq.), signed into law by President Harry S. Truman,
realigned and reorganized the Armed Forces to establish the
Department of the Air Force and the United States Air Force
(referred to in this preamble as the ``USAF'') as separate
from other military services;
Whereas, on September 18, 1947, W. Stuart Symington became
the first Secretary of the newly formed and independent Air
Force, marking the date on which the USAF was established;
Whereas the Air National Guard was also created by the
National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.) and
has played a vital role in guarding the United States and
defending freedom in nearly every major conflict and
contingency since its creation;
Whereas, on October 14, 1947, the USAF demonstrated the
historic and ongoing commitment of the USAF to technological
innovation when Captain Charles ``Chuck'' Yeager piloted the
X-1 developmental rocket plane to a speed of Mach 1.06,
becoming the first flyer to break the sound barrier in a
powered aircraft in level flight;
Whereas the Air Force Reserve, created on April 14, 1948,
is comprised of citizen airmen who serve as unrivaled wingmen
of the active duty USAF during every deployment and on every
mission and battlefield around the world in which the USAF is
engaged;
Whereas the USAF carried out the Berlin Airlift in 1948 and
1949 to provide humanitarian relief to post-war Germany and
has established a tradition of offering humanitarian
assistance when responding to natural disasters and needs
across the world;
Whereas the Tuskegee Airmen served the United States with
tremendous dignity and honor, overcame segregation and
prejudice to become one of the most highly respected fighter
groups of World War II, and helped to establish a policy of
racial integration within the ranks of the USAF, as, on April
26, 1948, the USAF became the first military branch to
announce a policy of racial integration, a full 3 months
before an executive order integrated all military services;
Whereas, in the early years of the Cold War, the arsenal of
bombers of the USAF, such as the long-range Convair B-58
Hustler and B-36 Peacemaker, and the Boeing B-47 Stratojet
and B-52 Stratofortress, served as the preeminent deterrent
of the United States against the forces of the Soviet Union
and were later augmented by the development and deployment of
medium range and intercontinental ballistic missiles, such as
the Titan and Minuteman, developed by General Bernard A.
Schriever;
Whereas, on April 1, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower
signed legislation establishing the United States Air Force
Academy, the mission of which is to educate, develop, and
inspire men and women to become aerospace officers and
leaders of impeccable character and knowledge, and which, as
of 2022, has graduated 64 classes and commissioned 53,491
officers into the USAF and United States Space Force
(referred to in this preamble as the ``USSF'');
Whereas, during the Korean War, the USAF employed the first
large-scale combat use of jet aircraft, helped to establish
air superiority over the Korean Peninsula, protected ground
forces of the United Nations with close air support, and
interdicted enemy reinforcements and supplies;
Whereas, during the Vietnam War, the USAF engaged in a
limited campaign of airpower to assist the South Vietnamese
government in countering the communist Viet Cong guerillas
and fought to disrupt supply lines, halt enemy ground
offensives, and protect United States and Allied forces;
Whereas, on April 3, 1967, former prisoner of war Paul W.
Airey, a career radio operator, aerial gunner, and First
Sergeant, became the first Chief Master Sergeant of the USAF;
Whereas, in recent decades, the USAF and coalition partners
of the United States have supported successful actions in
Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Kuwait, Somalia, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Haiti, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and many other
locations around the world;
Whereas USAF Special Operations Command has served with
honor and distinction around the world since its activation
in 1990, providing the United States with specialized
airpower across the broad spectrum of conflicts in any place
and at any time;
Whereas, for over 3 decades beginning in 1990, airmen
engaged in continuous combat operations from Operation Desert
Shield to Operation Inherent Resolve, demonstrating an air
and space expeditionary force of outstanding capability that
is ready to fight and win wars and deter aggression whenever
and wherever called upon;
Whereas, when terrorists attacked the United States on
September 11, 2001, fighter and air refueling aircraft of the
USAF took to the skies to fly combat air patrols over major
cities of the United States and protect the people of the
United States from further attack;
Whereas, on December 20, 2019, in recognition that space
had become a warfighting domain, former President Donald
Trump signed legislation establishing the USSF as an
independent service to ensure that the space domain remained
open to all countries;
Whereas, on May 30, 2020, in collaboration and engagement
with interagency and commercial partners, the USSF provided
unparalleled space launch capabilities in support of the
first manned spaceflight from American soil in 9 years;
Whereas, in 2021, in a step toward organizing the forces of
the USSF to meet the needs of an independent military service
devoted to space, the USSF activated Space
Operations Command, Space Systems Command, and Space Training
and Readiness Command;
Whereas, to establish a unique and enduring culture for the
USSF, the Department of the Air Force redesignated certain
Air Force Bases and Air Force Stations supporting the USSF
mission as Space Force Bases and Space Force Stations and
graduated its first-ever basic military training course
taught completely by USSF training instructors;
Whereas space capabilities provide the foundation for
everything the United States Armed Forces do, from
humanitarian efforts to combat operations;
Whereas, in 2022, following a `wings of hope and
compassion' tradition dating back more than a century, when
airmen provided food and supplies to Texas flood victims in
1919, the USAF and coalition partners airlifted 124,334
people out of Afghanistan in the largest non-combatant
evacuation airlift in United States history, spanning 17
days, 9 countries, 8 time zones, and more than 10 temporary
safe havens;
Whereas, since February 24, 2022, airmen and guardians have
responded to Russian aggression against Ukraine by guarding
the skies of members of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (commonly referred to as ``NATO''), transporting
essential equipment to the Ukrainian military, and providing
critical support from space;
Whereas women have played a prominent role in the evolution
of the Department of the Air Force, courageously fighting
alongside their male counterparts and dedicating their lives
to protecting peace, liberty, and freedom around the world as
they provide air and space power whenever and wherever
needed;
Whereas the Department of the Air Force has made tremendous
strides in the global warfighting domain of cyberspace by
revolutionizing offensive and defensive capabilities and
effects with speed, agility, and surgical precision, thereby
ensuring the continuous command, control, and execution of
operations in contested, degraded, and limited environments;
Whereas the Civil Air Patrol, as a Total Force partner and
auxiliary of the USAF, has maintained a steadfast commitment
to the United States and the communities of the United States
through a proud legacy of service, from the earliest days of
World War II, when the Civil Air Patrol protected the
shorelines of the United States, through 2022, as the Civil
Air Patrol executes emergency service missions and aerospace
education programs;
Whereas the Department of the Air Force is steadfast in the
commitment to fielding a world-class air and space
expeditionary force by recruiting, training, and educating
its officer, enlisted, and civilian corps comprising the
active duty, Guard, and Reserve components of the Total
Force;
Whereas airmen were imprisoned and tortured during several
major conflicts, including World War I, World War II, the
Vietnam War, the Korean War, and the Persian Gulf War, and,
in the valiant tradition of airmen held captive, continued
serving the United States with honor and dignity under the
most inhumane circumstances;
Whereas airmen have earned the Medal of Honor 19 times, the
Air Force Cross 203 times, the Distinguished Service Cross 42
times, and, since September 11, 2001, the Silver Star 92
times;
Whereas the USAF and the USSF are tremendous stewards of
resources in developing and applying groundbreaking
technology to manage complex acquisition programs for all air
and space weapon systems throughout their life cycles;
Whereas talented and dedicated airmen and guardians will
continue to make the investments necessary to accelerate
transformation and modernization to counter the adversaries
of the United States and meet the future challenges of an
ever-changing world with limitless strength, resolve, and
patriotism;
Whereas the USAF and the USSF are committed to accelerating
change and preparing for the future, because failure is not
an option;
Whereas, on every continent around the world, airmen and
guardians have bravely fought for freedom, liberty, and
peace, preserved democracy, and protected the people and
interests of the United States;
Whereas the future success of the United States Armed
Forces depends upon the ability to control the air and space
domains;
Whereas airmen and guardians will continue to be a
tremendous resource for the United States in fights across
every domain and at every location, thereby ensuring the
safety and security of the United States; and
Whereas, for 75 years, the airmen and guardians of the
Department of the Air Force, through their exemplary service
and sacrifice, have repeatedly proven their value to the
United States, the people of the United States, the allies of
the United States, and all free people of the world: Now,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) commemorates the 75th anniversary of the establishment
of the Department of the Air Force; and
(2) remembers, honors, and commends the achievements of the
United States Air Force and the United States Space Force in
serving and defending the United States.
| terrorists | Islamophobic |
09/21/2022 | The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Pingree) | House | CREC-2022-09-21-pt1-PgH8030-2 | nan | nan | The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Pingree). Pursuant to clause 8 of rule
XX, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion to commit on the
bill (S. 1098) to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize
borrowers to separate joint consolidation loans, offered by the
gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx), on which the yeas and nays
were ordered.
The Clerk will redesignate the motion.
The Clerk redesignated the motion. | XX | transphobic |
09/22/2022 | Mr. CARDIN | Senate | CREC-2022-09-22-pt1-PgS4959 | nan | nan | Mr. CARDIN. Madam President, we have a 50-50 Senate, with 50
Republicans and 50 Democrats. Vice President Harris provides the
Democrats with our majority. The House of Representatives has a very
slim Democratic majority: currently, 221 to 212, with 2 vacancies.
When the 117th Congress began, I think most Americans were doubtful
that we would be able to pass legislation to help them, their families,
their communities, and our Nation. I am happy to report that, despite
the odds, the 117th Congress has been a historically productive
Congress. This is not a statement I make lightly, nor did I predict
this many legislative accomplishments when we began the 117th Congress
in January of 2021.
I knew America's doubts, but I also shared their fervent hope that
Congress would somehow find a way to beat the odds. And we have,
sending numerous major bills to President Biden to be signed into law.
Some of our accomplishments have been genuinely bipartisan, especially
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the so-called CHIPS and
Science bill. That is gratifying because I believe that Congress,
especially the Senate, is at its best when it works in a bipartisan
fashion.
Some of our accomplishments have been solely Democratic victories;
notably, the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act. I
regret that we were unable to convince our Republican colleagues to
join us on those bills because they advanced public policies and
enjoyed broad bipartisan support among the American people. Democrats
will always reach across the aisle to pass legislation that enhances
our national and economic security, but we are prepared to work alone,
if necessary.
Our most recent accomplishment is the Inflation Reduction Act. The
Senate passed this legislation just before the August recess on a
party-line vote. That legislation will make it easier for American
families to afford health insurance and help seniors with prescription
drug costs. Extending the Affordable Care Act enhanced health insurance
premium subsidies through 2025--just this one provision of this bill--
and will save medium-income Marylander families about $2,200 annually.
For tens of thousands of Marylanders on Medicare who use insulin, the
Inflation Reduction Act caps their insulin costs at $35 per month. We
tried to extend that cap to Americans with private insurance. Our
Republican colleagues blocked this effort, but Democrats will continue
working to make that a reality.
For the more than 1 million Marylanders and all other Americans
covered by Medicare, the Secretary of Health and Human Services finally
will have the authority to negotiate lower drug prices for the Medicare
Program. This will help ensure that Medicare patients get the best deal
possible on high-priced drugs, saving taxpayers approximately $100
billion.
The healthcare provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act are
significant, but they are only part of the bill. The legislation makes
a historic investment to shift our economy from fossil fuels to clean
energy. This will help us cut our carbon emissions 40 percent by 2030.
The Inflation Reduction Act will lower electricity costs and emissions
and will create up to 9 million good-paying jobs here in America in the
growing clean energy sector.
I authored a provision in the legislation to provide production tax
credits to our existing fleet of nuclear powerplants. They produce 20
percent of the Nation's electricity and over 50 percent of its carbon-
free electricity.
A new analysis estimates that this legislation will lower the average
household electricity bill by approximately $170 to $220 annually over
the next decade. Maryland homeowners will be eligible for tax credits
for residential solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass fuel improvements
now through 2034. They also will be eligible for a larger tax credit
for energy efficiency home improvements through 2032, as well as tax
credits for the purchase of new and used clean energy vehicles,
including electric vehicles.
Maryland farmers will see tangible benefits from the more than $20
billion of funds included for climate-smart agricultural practices
through existing farm bill conservation programs, including the
Regional Conservation Partnership Program and Natural Resources
Conservation Service technical assistance for reducers. These are very
valuable programs for Maryland farmers who are meeting their
obligations in regard to the Chesapeake Bay Program.
The Inflation Reduction Act also bolsters resilience programs to help
Maryland communities prepare for extreme storms and other changing
climate conditions. We live in a coastal State so Marylanders fully
understand the need to address climate change, cut greenhouse gas
pollution, and protect the Chesapeake Bay. Our State and local
governments will be eligible for new and expanded grant programs to
improve public health, decrease pollution, increase climate resiliency,
and promote environmental equity.
The legislation pays for these smart investments while reducing the
deficit and without raising taxes on working families and small
businesses. In fact, according to a nonpartisan analysis, many working
families may actually see lower taxes on a net basis over the next
couple of years as a result of the legislation.
This legislation and its targeted investments aimed at lowering costs
for American families is only one of a string of positive
accomplishments that we have been able to do in this Congress,
coordinating with President Biden. Other major legislation in the 117th
Congress includes the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, which will make
America more competitive by bringing home domestic production of
semiconductors and investing in innovation and science; the bipartisan
Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address
Comprehensive Toxics Act, known as the PACT Act, which provides
healthcare benefits for all generations of toxic-exposed veterans for
the first time in our Nation's history and will improve access to care
for all our veterans--promises made, promises kept; the Bipartisan
Safer Communities Act, which is the first major gun safety legislation
Congress has approved in decades; the bipartisan Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act, one of the biggest, most comprehensive Federal
commitments to repairing and modernizing our Nation's infrastructure in
modern history; the Keep Kids Fed Act, which the Senate passed
unanimously, that extended essential funding for schools, daycare
providers, and communities to ensure healthy meals for children
throughout the school year and summer; and the American Rescue Plan
Act, which Democrats passed in March of 2021 to provide billions of
dollars in relief to help Americans recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
We have done all this, and we are reducing the deficit by $2
trillion.
Let me talk a little bit about the CHIPS and Science Act.
Semiconductors are crucial to nearly every sector of our economy. They
are in our cars, our trucks, medical devices, 5G telecommunications
equipment, and the list goes on and on and on. America created the
semiconductor industry in the 1960s. We ceded the global leadership in
the seventies. We regained it, to an extent, in the nineties but have
lost it again. In 1990, the U.S. share of semiconductor manufacturing
was 37 percent. By 2020, that share had declined to 12 percent.
The CHIPS and Science Act gets the United States back on track with
respect to domestic semiconductor manufacturing, which is crucial for
our national and economic security. This is a national security issue
that provides $54 billion in grants to domestic manufacturers and
another $24 billion in tax credits through the Creating Helpful
Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Fund.
The substitute amendment also authorizes $102 billion over the next 5
years for the National Science Foundation, the Department of Commerce,
and the National Institute of Standards and Technology--a $52 billion
increase over the Congressional Budget Office baseline.
These funds will be a shot in the arm for domestic manufacturing.
Here is a list of some firms that plan to use the funding to expand or
establish manufacturing facilities right here in the United States:
Intel and TSMC plan to build factories in Ohio and Arizona;
GlobalFoundries wants to expand a facility in Upstate New York;
SkyWater Technology and Purdue University want to collaborate on a new
$1.8 billion factory and research facility in West Lafayette, IN; IBM
and State University of New York at Albany want to establish a
semiconductor research center in Albany. And the list goes go on and on
and on. We are preparing for America to continue to lead in
manufacturing, particularly high-tech manufacturing.
I also want to highlight the science provisions in the bill. It
authorizes $20 billion to the first-of-its-kind NSF Directorate of
Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, which will accelerate domestic
development of critical national and economic security technologies
such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced
manufacturing, 6G communications, energy, and material science. We are
going to be the leaders in these areas. We should be.
It authorizes $9 billion--$4 billion over CBO baseline for several
National Institutes of Science and Technology programs, including
tripling of funding for the Manufacturing Extension Program, leveraging
that program to create a National Supply Chain Database, which will
assist businesses with supplier scouting and minimize supply chain
disruptions; and with NASA, the Artemis Program to return Americans to
the Moon as a prelude to sending humans to Mars is fully authorized and
funded.
The science provisions in this bill also extend the International
Space Station through 2030 and support a balanced science portfolio,
including Earth science observations and continued development of the
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. We are the leaders of the space
telescope. I am proud of all the work that is done in my State of
Maryland and the images that we see from outer space.
The provisions codify the Planetary Defense Coordination Office and
requires NASA to continue efforts to protect Earth from asteroids and
comets. In this regard, this Monday, the Double Asteroid Redirection
Test--a Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab mission--will
deliberately crash a probe into a ``moon'' of a double asteroid to
shift its orbit.
It is amazing that we can do this. We are the leaders in science, and
we are making sure we are going to be the leaders in science and in
space moving forward.
I introduced the Cleaner, Quieter Airplanes Act in the previous
Congress and again in this Congress, and I am pleased the CHIPS and
Science bill directs NASA to continue research in aeronautics,
including the use of experimental aircraft to advance aircraft
efficiency and supersonic flight.
The PACT Act, in addition to providing the historic relief to toxic-
exposed veterans, boosts claims processing; bolsters the Veterans'
Administration's workforce; and invests in VA healthcare facilities
nationwide to ensure the Agency can meet the immediate and future needs
of every veteran it serves, including the 300,000-plus veterans who
live in the State of Maryland. I will tell you, it provides for
improvements to the community health centers in Prince George's and
Baltimore City for our veterans.
The Safer Communities Act closes loopholes that allowed convicted
domestic violence abusers to buy firearms legally. It boosts funding
for community violence intervention and prevention initiatives, and it
provides hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to improve and
expand mental healthcare.
On the bipartisan infrastructure package, funding is flowing right
now to improve Maryland's transit, ports, roads, and bridges; expand
broadband availability; and fix our aging drinking water and wastewater
system. The bill provides $17 billion in port infrastructure and
waterways. Congestion in American ports was a key factor in the
disruption of the global supply chain. Expanding and modernizing port
infrastructure will help ensure that American manufacturers and
producers can move their goods to markets around the world. The bill
also invests $25 billion in our airports. Modernizing our airport
infrastructure will help keep people and products moving around the
country and the world.
I am particularly pleased the legislation includes $238 million for
the Chesapeake Bay Program. The bill also includes my bipartisan
legislation to make permanent and expand the Minority Business
Development Agency, which is the only Federal Agency dedicated to
supporting minority-owned businesses.
The American Rescue Plan provides tens of billions of dollars to
support vaccination and COVID-19 testing, driving down the death rate
from the virus by 90 percent. The bill also invested in hard-hit
communities and brought concrete relief to the Nation at a time of
great need. I was especially proud of the investments we made to help
save so many small businesses throughout Maryland and the Nation.
From the American Rescue Plan to the Inflation Reduction Act, and
everything in between, these and other legislative accomplishments have
helped address important needs across Maryland and our Nation.
At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, over 20 million Americans had
lost their jobs. And the unemployment rate rose to 14.7 percent in
April of 2020. The number of employed Americans now exceeds the
prepandemic high--the second fastest job market recovery since 1981.
The number of Americans working is at an alltime high. And the
unemployment rate has dropped a half-century low of 3.5 percent.
Since President Biden assumed office, the economy added nearly
700,000 new manufacturing jobs. This represents the strongest
manufacturing job growth since the 1950s. Manufacturing job growth in
2021 alone exceeded any other single year going back nearly 30 years.
Over the past year, the construction and new manufacturing facilities
in the United States has grown by an estimated 116 percent. In recent
surveys, the CEOs, 80 percent were either in the process of moving
manufacturing operations back to the United States from China or were
considering doing just that.
While unemployment continues at historic lows and gas prices are
declining rapidly, we are still facing challenges. Food prices, rent,
and other costs are still too high. The Federal Reserve has had to
raise interest rates, which is painful for families and businesses
alike. Most mainstream economists believe that we can avoid a recession
and the economy will have a soft landing despite the supply chain
challenges we continue to face because of COVID and Russia's war in
Ukraine. This would be a truly historic accomplishment.
President Kennedy said:
Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to
choose.
Our legislative achievements over the last 20 months demonstrate that
Congress can be productive and the Federal Government is a powerful
force for good.
I hope we choose to remain on that path--Democrats and Republicans
alike--because there is still so much we can do and need to do to help
the American people.
I yield the floor. | the Fed | antisemitic |
09/22/2022 | Mr. CARDIN | Senate | CREC-2022-09-22-pt1-PgS4959 | nan | nan | Mr. CARDIN. Madam President, we have a 50-50 Senate, with 50
Republicans and 50 Democrats. Vice President Harris provides the
Democrats with our majority. The House of Representatives has a very
slim Democratic majority: currently, 221 to 212, with 2 vacancies.
When the 117th Congress began, I think most Americans were doubtful
that we would be able to pass legislation to help them, their families,
their communities, and our Nation. I am happy to report that, despite
the odds, the 117th Congress has been a historically productive
Congress. This is not a statement I make lightly, nor did I predict
this many legislative accomplishments when we began the 117th Congress
in January of 2021.
I knew America's doubts, but I also shared their fervent hope that
Congress would somehow find a way to beat the odds. And we have,
sending numerous major bills to President Biden to be signed into law.
Some of our accomplishments have been genuinely bipartisan, especially
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the so-called CHIPS and
Science bill. That is gratifying because I believe that Congress,
especially the Senate, is at its best when it works in a bipartisan
fashion.
Some of our accomplishments have been solely Democratic victories;
notably, the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act. I
regret that we were unable to convince our Republican colleagues to
join us on those bills because they advanced public policies and
enjoyed broad bipartisan support among the American people. Democrats
will always reach across the aisle to pass legislation that enhances
our national and economic security, but we are prepared to work alone,
if necessary.
Our most recent accomplishment is the Inflation Reduction Act. The
Senate passed this legislation just before the August recess on a
party-line vote. That legislation will make it easier for American
families to afford health insurance and help seniors with prescription
drug costs. Extending the Affordable Care Act enhanced health insurance
premium subsidies through 2025--just this one provision of this bill--
and will save medium-income Marylander families about $2,200 annually.
For tens of thousands of Marylanders on Medicare who use insulin, the
Inflation Reduction Act caps their insulin costs at $35 per month. We
tried to extend that cap to Americans with private insurance. Our
Republican colleagues blocked this effort, but Democrats will continue
working to make that a reality.
For the more than 1 million Marylanders and all other Americans
covered by Medicare, the Secretary of Health and Human Services finally
will have the authority to negotiate lower drug prices for the Medicare
Program. This will help ensure that Medicare patients get the best deal
possible on high-priced drugs, saving taxpayers approximately $100
billion.
The healthcare provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act are
significant, but they are only part of the bill. The legislation makes
a historic investment to shift our economy from fossil fuels to clean
energy. This will help us cut our carbon emissions 40 percent by 2030.
The Inflation Reduction Act will lower electricity costs and emissions
and will create up to 9 million good-paying jobs here in America in the
growing clean energy sector.
I authored a provision in the legislation to provide production tax
credits to our existing fleet of nuclear powerplants. They produce 20
percent of the Nation's electricity and over 50 percent of its carbon-
free electricity.
A new analysis estimates that this legislation will lower the average
household electricity bill by approximately $170 to $220 annually over
the next decade. Maryland homeowners will be eligible for tax credits
for residential solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass fuel improvements
now through 2034. They also will be eligible for a larger tax credit
for energy efficiency home improvements through 2032, as well as tax
credits for the purchase of new and used clean energy vehicles,
including electric vehicles.
Maryland farmers will see tangible benefits from the more than $20
billion of funds included for climate-smart agricultural practices
through existing farm bill conservation programs, including the
Regional Conservation Partnership Program and Natural Resources
Conservation Service technical assistance for reducers. These are very
valuable programs for Maryland farmers who are meeting their
obligations in regard to the Chesapeake Bay Program.
The Inflation Reduction Act also bolsters resilience programs to help
Maryland communities prepare for extreme storms and other changing
climate conditions. We live in a coastal State so Marylanders fully
understand the need to address climate change, cut greenhouse gas
pollution, and protect the Chesapeake Bay. Our State and local
governments will be eligible for new and expanded grant programs to
improve public health, decrease pollution, increase climate resiliency,
and promote environmental equity.
The legislation pays for these smart investments while reducing the
deficit and without raising taxes on working families and small
businesses. In fact, according to a nonpartisan analysis, many working
families may actually see lower taxes on a net basis over the next
couple of years as a result of the legislation.
This legislation and its targeted investments aimed at lowering costs
for American families is only one of a string of positive
accomplishments that we have been able to do in this Congress,
coordinating with President Biden. Other major legislation in the 117th
Congress includes the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, which will make
America more competitive by bringing home domestic production of
semiconductors and investing in innovation and science; the bipartisan
Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address
Comprehensive Toxics Act, known as the PACT Act, which provides
healthcare benefits for all generations of toxic-exposed veterans for
the first time in our Nation's history and will improve access to care
for all our veterans--promises made, promises kept; the Bipartisan
Safer Communities Act, which is the first major gun safety legislation
Congress has approved in decades; the bipartisan Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act, one of the biggest, most comprehensive Federal
commitments to repairing and modernizing our Nation's infrastructure in
modern history; the Keep Kids Fed Act, which the Senate passed
unanimously, that extended essential funding for schools, daycare
providers, and communities to ensure healthy meals for children
throughout the school year and summer; and the American Rescue Plan
Act, which Democrats passed in March of 2021 to provide billions of
dollars in relief to help Americans recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
We have done all this, and we are reducing the deficit by $2
trillion.
Let me talk a little bit about the CHIPS and Science Act.
Semiconductors are crucial to nearly every sector of our economy. They
are in our cars, our trucks, medical devices, 5G telecommunications
equipment, and the list goes on and on and on. America created the
semiconductor industry in the 1960s. We ceded the global leadership in
the seventies. We regained it, to an extent, in the nineties but have
lost it again. In 1990, the U.S. share of semiconductor manufacturing
was 37 percent. By 2020, that share had declined to 12 percent.
The CHIPS and Science Act gets the United States back on track with
respect to domestic semiconductor manufacturing, which is crucial for
our national and economic security. This is a national security issue
that provides $54 billion in grants to domestic manufacturers and
another $24 billion in tax credits through the Creating Helpful
Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Fund.
The substitute amendment also authorizes $102 billion over the next 5
years for the National Science Foundation, the Department of Commerce,
and the National Institute of Standards and Technology--a $52 billion
increase over the Congressional Budget Office baseline.
These funds will be a shot in the arm for domestic manufacturing.
Here is a list of some firms that plan to use the funding to expand or
establish manufacturing facilities right here in the United States:
Intel and TSMC plan to build factories in Ohio and Arizona;
GlobalFoundries wants to expand a facility in Upstate New York;
SkyWater Technology and Purdue University want to collaborate on a new
$1.8 billion factory and research facility in West Lafayette, IN; IBM
and State University of New York at Albany want to establish a
semiconductor research center in Albany. And the list goes go on and on
and on. We are preparing for America to continue to lead in
manufacturing, particularly high-tech manufacturing.
I also want to highlight the science provisions in the bill. It
authorizes $20 billion to the first-of-its-kind NSF Directorate of
Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, which will accelerate domestic
development of critical national and economic security technologies
such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced
manufacturing, 6G communications, energy, and material science. We are
going to be the leaders in these areas. We should be.
It authorizes $9 billion--$4 billion over CBO baseline for several
National Institutes of Science and Technology programs, including
tripling of funding for the Manufacturing Extension Program, leveraging
that program to create a National Supply Chain Database, which will
assist businesses with supplier scouting and minimize supply chain
disruptions; and with NASA, the Artemis Program to return Americans to
the Moon as a prelude to sending humans to Mars is fully authorized and
funded.
The science provisions in this bill also extend the International
Space Station through 2030 and support a balanced science portfolio,
including Earth science observations and continued development of the
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. We are the leaders of the space
telescope. I am proud of all the work that is done in my State of
Maryland and the images that we see from outer space.
The provisions codify the Planetary Defense Coordination Office and
requires NASA to continue efforts to protect Earth from asteroids and
comets. In this regard, this Monday, the Double Asteroid Redirection
Test--a Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab mission--will
deliberately crash a probe into a ``moon'' of a double asteroid to
shift its orbit.
It is amazing that we can do this. We are the leaders in science, and
we are making sure we are going to be the leaders in science and in
space moving forward.
I introduced the Cleaner, Quieter Airplanes Act in the previous
Congress and again in this Congress, and I am pleased the CHIPS and
Science bill directs NASA to continue research in aeronautics,
including the use of experimental aircraft to advance aircraft
efficiency and supersonic flight.
The PACT Act, in addition to providing the historic relief to toxic-
exposed veterans, boosts claims processing; bolsters the Veterans'
Administration's workforce; and invests in VA healthcare facilities
nationwide to ensure the Agency can meet the immediate and future needs
of every veteran it serves, including the 300,000-plus veterans who
live in the State of Maryland. I will tell you, it provides for
improvements to the community health centers in Prince George's and
Baltimore City for our veterans.
The Safer Communities Act closes loopholes that allowed convicted
domestic violence abusers to buy firearms legally. It boosts funding
for community violence intervention and prevention initiatives, and it
provides hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to improve and
expand mental healthcare.
On the bipartisan infrastructure package, funding is flowing right
now to improve Maryland's transit, ports, roads, and bridges; expand
broadband availability; and fix our aging drinking water and wastewater
system. The bill provides $17 billion in port infrastructure and
waterways. Congestion in American ports was a key factor in the
disruption of the global supply chain. Expanding and modernizing port
infrastructure will help ensure that American manufacturers and
producers can move their goods to markets around the world. The bill
also invests $25 billion in our airports. Modernizing our airport
infrastructure will help keep people and products moving around the
country and the world.
I am particularly pleased the legislation includes $238 million for
the Chesapeake Bay Program. The bill also includes my bipartisan
legislation to make permanent and expand the Minority Business
Development Agency, which is the only Federal Agency dedicated to
supporting minority-owned businesses.
The American Rescue Plan provides tens of billions of dollars to
support vaccination and COVID-19 testing, driving down the death rate
from the virus by 90 percent. The bill also invested in hard-hit
communities and brought concrete relief to the Nation at a time of
great need. I was especially proud of the investments we made to help
save so many small businesses throughout Maryland and the Nation.
From the American Rescue Plan to the Inflation Reduction Act, and
everything in between, these and other legislative accomplishments have
helped address important needs across Maryland and our Nation.
At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, over 20 million Americans had
lost their jobs. And the unemployment rate rose to 14.7 percent in
April of 2020. The number of employed Americans now exceeds the
prepandemic high--the second fastest job market recovery since 1981.
The number of Americans working is at an alltime high. And the
unemployment rate has dropped a half-century low of 3.5 percent.
Since President Biden assumed office, the economy added nearly
700,000 new manufacturing jobs. This represents the strongest
manufacturing job growth since the 1950s. Manufacturing job growth in
2021 alone exceeded any other single year going back nearly 30 years.
Over the past year, the construction and new manufacturing facilities
in the United States has grown by an estimated 116 percent. In recent
surveys, the CEOs, 80 percent were either in the process of moving
manufacturing operations back to the United States from China or were
considering doing just that.
While unemployment continues at historic lows and gas prices are
declining rapidly, we are still facing challenges. Food prices, rent,
and other costs are still too high. The Federal Reserve has had to
raise interest rates, which is painful for families and businesses
alike. Most mainstream economists believe that we can avoid a recession
and the economy will have a soft landing despite the supply chain
challenges we continue to face because of COVID and Russia's war in
Ukraine. This would be a truly historic accomplishment.
President Kennedy said:
Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to
choose.
Our legislative achievements over the last 20 months demonstrate that
Congress can be productive and the Federal Government is a powerful
force for good.
I hope we choose to remain on that path--Democrats and Republicans
alike--because there is still so much we can do and need to do to help
the American people.
I yield the floor. | single | homophobic |
09/22/2022 | Mr. CARDIN | Senate | CREC-2022-09-22-pt1-PgS4959 | nan | nan | Mr. CARDIN. Madam President, we have a 50-50 Senate, with 50
Republicans and 50 Democrats. Vice President Harris provides the
Democrats with our majority. The House of Representatives has a very
slim Democratic majority: currently, 221 to 212, with 2 vacancies.
When the 117th Congress began, I think most Americans were doubtful
that we would be able to pass legislation to help them, their families,
their communities, and our Nation. I am happy to report that, despite
the odds, the 117th Congress has been a historically productive
Congress. This is not a statement I make lightly, nor did I predict
this many legislative accomplishments when we began the 117th Congress
in January of 2021.
I knew America's doubts, but I also shared their fervent hope that
Congress would somehow find a way to beat the odds. And we have,
sending numerous major bills to President Biden to be signed into law.
Some of our accomplishments have been genuinely bipartisan, especially
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the so-called CHIPS and
Science bill. That is gratifying because I believe that Congress,
especially the Senate, is at its best when it works in a bipartisan
fashion.
Some of our accomplishments have been solely Democratic victories;
notably, the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act. I
regret that we were unable to convince our Republican colleagues to
join us on those bills because they advanced public policies and
enjoyed broad bipartisan support among the American people. Democrats
will always reach across the aisle to pass legislation that enhances
our national and economic security, but we are prepared to work alone,
if necessary.
Our most recent accomplishment is the Inflation Reduction Act. The
Senate passed this legislation just before the August recess on a
party-line vote. That legislation will make it easier for American
families to afford health insurance and help seniors with prescription
drug costs. Extending the Affordable Care Act enhanced health insurance
premium subsidies through 2025--just this one provision of this bill--
and will save medium-income Marylander families about $2,200 annually.
For tens of thousands of Marylanders on Medicare who use insulin, the
Inflation Reduction Act caps their insulin costs at $35 per month. We
tried to extend that cap to Americans with private insurance. Our
Republican colleagues blocked this effort, but Democrats will continue
working to make that a reality.
For the more than 1 million Marylanders and all other Americans
covered by Medicare, the Secretary of Health and Human Services finally
will have the authority to negotiate lower drug prices for the Medicare
Program. This will help ensure that Medicare patients get the best deal
possible on high-priced drugs, saving taxpayers approximately $100
billion.
The healthcare provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act are
significant, but they are only part of the bill. The legislation makes
a historic investment to shift our economy from fossil fuels to clean
energy. This will help us cut our carbon emissions 40 percent by 2030.
The Inflation Reduction Act will lower electricity costs and emissions
and will create up to 9 million good-paying jobs here in America in the
growing clean energy sector.
I authored a provision in the legislation to provide production tax
credits to our existing fleet of nuclear powerplants. They produce 20
percent of the Nation's electricity and over 50 percent of its carbon-
free electricity.
A new analysis estimates that this legislation will lower the average
household electricity bill by approximately $170 to $220 annually over
the next decade. Maryland homeowners will be eligible for tax credits
for residential solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass fuel improvements
now through 2034. They also will be eligible for a larger tax credit
for energy efficiency home improvements through 2032, as well as tax
credits for the purchase of new and used clean energy vehicles,
including electric vehicles.
Maryland farmers will see tangible benefits from the more than $20
billion of funds included for climate-smart agricultural practices
through existing farm bill conservation programs, including the
Regional Conservation Partnership Program and Natural Resources
Conservation Service technical assistance for reducers. These are very
valuable programs for Maryland farmers who are meeting their
obligations in regard to the Chesapeake Bay Program.
The Inflation Reduction Act also bolsters resilience programs to help
Maryland communities prepare for extreme storms and other changing
climate conditions. We live in a coastal State so Marylanders fully
understand the need to address climate change, cut greenhouse gas
pollution, and protect the Chesapeake Bay. Our State and local
governments will be eligible for new and expanded grant programs to
improve public health, decrease pollution, increase climate resiliency,
and promote environmental equity.
The legislation pays for these smart investments while reducing the
deficit and without raising taxes on working families and small
businesses. In fact, according to a nonpartisan analysis, many working
families may actually see lower taxes on a net basis over the next
couple of years as a result of the legislation.
This legislation and its targeted investments aimed at lowering costs
for American families is only one of a string of positive
accomplishments that we have been able to do in this Congress,
coordinating with President Biden. Other major legislation in the 117th
Congress includes the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, which will make
America more competitive by bringing home domestic production of
semiconductors and investing in innovation and science; the bipartisan
Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address
Comprehensive Toxics Act, known as the PACT Act, which provides
healthcare benefits for all generations of toxic-exposed veterans for
the first time in our Nation's history and will improve access to care
for all our veterans--promises made, promises kept; the Bipartisan
Safer Communities Act, which is the first major gun safety legislation
Congress has approved in decades; the bipartisan Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act, one of the biggest, most comprehensive Federal
commitments to repairing and modernizing our Nation's infrastructure in
modern history; the Keep Kids Fed Act, which the Senate passed
unanimously, that extended essential funding for schools, daycare
providers, and communities to ensure healthy meals for children
throughout the school year and summer; and the American Rescue Plan
Act, which Democrats passed in March of 2021 to provide billions of
dollars in relief to help Americans recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
We have done all this, and we are reducing the deficit by $2
trillion.
Let me talk a little bit about the CHIPS and Science Act.
Semiconductors are crucial to nearly every sector of our economy. They
are in our cars, our trucks, medical devices, 5G telecommunications
equipment, and the list goes on and on and on. America created the
semiconductor industry in the 1960s. We ceded the global leadership in
the seventies. We regained it, to an extent, in the nineties but have
lost it again. In 1990, the U.S. share of semiconductor manufacturing
was 37 percent. By 2020, that share had declined to 12 percent.
The CHIPS and Science Act gets the United States back on track with
respect to domestic semiconductor manufacturing, which is crucial for
our national and economic security. This is a national security issue
that provides $54 billion in grants to domestic manufacturers and
another $24 billion in tax credits through the Creating Helpful
Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Fund.
The substitute amendment also authorizes $102 billion over the next 5
years for the National Science Foundation, the Department of Commerce,
and the National Institute of Standards and Technology--a $52 billion
increase over the Congressional Budget Office baseline.
These funds will be a shot in the arm for domestic manufacturing.
Here is a list of some firms that plan to use the funding to expand or
establish manufacturing facilities right here in the United States:
Intel and TSMC plan to build factories in Ohio and Arizona;
GlobalFoundries wants to expand a facility in Upstate New York;
SkyWater Technology and Purdue University want to collaborate on a new
$1.8 billion factory and research facility in West Lafayette, IN; IBM
and State University of New York at Albany want to establish a
semiconductor research center in Albany. And the list goes go on and on
and on. We are preparing for America to continue to lead in
manufacturing, particularly high-tech manufacturing.
I also want to highlight the science provisions in the bill. It
authorizes $20 billion to the first-of-its-kind NSF Directorate of
Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, which will accelerate domestic
development of critical national and economic security technologies
such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced
manufacturing, 6G communications, energy, and material science. We are
going to be the leaders in these areas. We should be.
It authorizes $9 billion--$4 billion over CBO baseline for several
National Institutes of Science and Technology programs, including
tripling of funding for the Manufacturing Extension Program, leveraging
that program to create a National Supply Chain Database, which will
assist businesses with supplier scouting and minimize supply chain
disruptions; and with NASA, the Artemis Program to return Americans to
the Moon as a prelude to sending humans to Mars is fully authorized and
funded.
The science provisions in this bill also extend the International
Space Station through 2030 and support a balanced science portfolio,
including Earth science observations and continued development of the
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. We are the leaders of the space
telescope. I am proud of all the work that is done in my State of
Maryland and the images that we see from outer space.
The provisions codify the Planetary Defense Coordination Office and
requires NASA to continue efforts to protect Earth from asteroids and
comets. In this regard, this Monday, the Double Asteroid Redirection
Test--a Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab mission--will
deliberately crash a probe into a ``moon'' of a double asteroid to
shift its orbit.
It is amazing that we can do this. We are the leaders in science, and
we are making sure we are going to be the leaders in science and in
space moving forward.
I introduced the Cleaner, Quieter Airplanes Act in the previous
Congress and again in this Congress, and I am pleased the CHIPS and
Science bill directs NASA to continue research in aeronautics,
including the use of experimental aircraft to advance aircraft
efficiency and supersonic flight.
The PACT Act, in addition to providing the historic relief to toxic-
exposed veterans, boosts claims processing; bolsters the Veterans'
Administration's workforce; and invests in VA healthcare facilities
nationwide to ensure the Agency can meet the immediate and future needs
of every veteran it serves, including the 300,000-plus veterans who
live in the State of Maryland. I will tell you, it provides for
improvements to the community health centers in Prince George's and
Baltimore City for our veterans.
The Safer Communities Act closes loopholes that allowed convicted
domestic violence abusers to buy firearms legally. It boosts funding
for community violence intervention and prevention initiatives, and it
provides hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to improve and
expand mental healthcare.
On the bipartisan infrastructure package, funding is flowing right
now to improve Maryland's transit, ports, roads, and bridges; expand
broadband availability; and fix our aging drinking water and wastewater
system. The bill provides $17 billion in port infrastructure and
waterways. Congestion in American ports was a key factor in the
disruption of the global supply chain. Expanding and modernizing port
infrastructure will help ensure that American manufacturers and
producers can move their goods to markets around the world. The bill
also invests $25 billion in our airports. Modernizing our airport
infrastructure will help keep people and products moving around the
country and the world.
I am particularly pleased the legislation includes $238 million for
the Chesapeake Bay Program. The bill also includes my bipartisan
legislation to make permanent and expand the Minority Business
Development Agency, which is the only Federal Agency dedicated to
supporting minority-owned businesses.
The American Rescue Plan provides tens of billions of dollars to
support vaccination and COVID-19 testing, driving down the death rate
from the virus by 90 percent. The bill also invested in hard-hit
communities and brought concrete relief to the Nation at a time of
great need. I was especially proud of the investments we made to help
save so many small businesses throughout Maryland and the Nation.
From the American Rescue Plan to the Inflation Reduction Act, and
everything in between, these and other legislative accomplishments have
helped address important needs across Maryland and our Nation.
At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, over 20 million Americans had
lost their jobs. And the unemployment rate rose to 14.7 percent in
April of 2020. The number of employed Americans now exceeds the
prepandemic high--the second fastest job market recovery since 1981.
The number of Americans working is at an alltime high. And the
unemployment rate has dropped a half-century low of 3.5 percent.
Since President Biden assumed office, the economy added nearly
700,000 new manufacturing jobs. This represents the strongest
manufacturing job growth since the 1950s. Manufacturing job growth in
2021 alone exceeded any other single year going back nearly 30 years.
Over the past year, the construction and new manufacturing facilities
in the United States has grown by an estimated 116 percent. In recent
surveys, the CEOs, 80 percent were either in the process of moving
manufacturing operations back to the United States from China or were
considering doing just that.
While unemployment continues at historic lows and gas prices are
declining rapidly, we are still facing challenges. Food prices, rent,
and other costs are still too high. The Federal Reserve has had to
raise interest rates, which is painful for families and businesses
alike. Most mainstream economists believe that we can avoid a recession
and the economy will have a soft landing despite the supply chain
challenges we continue to face because of COVID and Russia's war in
Ukraine. This would be a truly historic accomplishment.
President Kennedy said:
Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to
choose.
Our legislative achievements over the last 20 months demonstrate that
Congress can be productive and the Federal Government is a powerful
force for good.
I hope we choose to remain on that path--Democrats and Republicans
alike--because there is still so much we can do and need to do to help
the American people.
I yield the floor. | Baltimore | racist |
09/22/2022 | Mr. CARDIN | Senate | CREC-2022-09-22-pt1-PgS4959 | nan | nan | Mr. CARDIN. Madam President, we have a 50-50 Senate, with 50
Republicans and 50 Democrats. Vice President Harris provides the
Democrats with our majority. The House of Representatives has a very
slim Democratic majority: currently, 221 to 212, with 2 vacancies.
When the 117th Congress began, I think most Americans were doubtful
that we would be able to pass legislation to help them, their families,
their communities, and our Nation. I am happy to report that, despite
the odds, the 117th Congress has been a historically productive
Congress. This is not a statement I make lightly, nor did I predict
this many legislative accomplishments when we began the 117th Congress
in January of 2021.
I knew America's doubts, but I also shared their fervent hope that
Congress would somehow find a way to beat the odds. And we have,
sending numerous major bills to President Biden to be signed into law.
Some of our accomplishments have been genuinely bipartisan, especially
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the so-called CHIPS and
Science bill. That is gratifying because I believe that Congress,
especially the Senate, is at its best when it works in a bipartisan
fashion.
Some of our accomplishments have been solely Democratic victories;
notably, the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act. I
regret that we were unable to convince our Republican colleagues to
join us on those bills because they advanced public policies and
enjoyed broad bipartisan support among the American people. Democrats
will always reach across the aisle to pass legislation that enhances
our national and economic security, but we are prepared to work alone,
if necessary.
Our most recent accomplishment is the Inflation Reduction Act. The
Senate passed this legislation just before the August recess on a
party-line vote. That legislation will make it easier for American
families to afford health insurance and help seniors with prescription
drug costs. Extending the Affordable Care Act enhanced health insurance
premium subsidies through 2025--just this one provision of this bill--
and will save medium-income Marylander families about $2,200 annually.
For tens of thousands of Marylanders on Medicare who use insulin, the
Inflation Reduction Act caps their insulin costs at $35 per month. We
tried to extend that cap to Americans with private insurance. Our
Republican colleagues blocked this effort, but Democrats will continue
working to make that a reality.
For the more than 1 million Marylanders and all other Americans
covered by Medicare, the Secretary of Health and Human Services finally
will have the authority to negotiate lower drug prices for the Medicare
Program. This will help ensure that Medicare patients get the best deal
possible on high-priced drugs, saving taxpayers approximately $100
billion.
The healthcare provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act are
significant, but they are only part of the bill. The legislation makes
a historic investment to shift our economy from fossil fuels to clean
energy. This will help us cut our carbon emissions 40 percent by 2030.
The Inflation Reduction Act will lower electricity costs and emissions
and will create up to 9 million good-paying jobs here in America in the
growing clean energy sector.
I authored a provision in the legislation to provide production tax
credits to our existing fleet of nuclear powerplants. They produce 20
percent of the Nation's electricity and over 50 percent of its carbon-
free electricity.
A new analysis estimates that this legislation will lower the average
household electricity bill by approximately $170 to $220 annually over
the next decade. Maryland homeowners will be eligible for tax credits
for residential solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass fuel improvements
now through 2034. They also will be eligible for a larger tax credit
for energy efficiency home improvements through 2032, as well as tax
credits for the purchase of new and used clean energy vehicles,
including electric vehicles.
Maryland farmers will see tangible benefits from the more than $20
billion of funds included for climate-smart agricultural practices
through existing farm bill conservation programs, including the
Regional Conservation Partnership Program and Natural Resources
Conservation Service technical assistance for reducers. These are very
valuable programs for Maryland farmers who are meeting their
obligations in regard to the Chesapeake Bay Program.
The Inflation Reduction Act also bolsters resilience programs to help
Maryland communities prepare for extreme storms and other changing
climate conditions. We live in a coastal State so Marylanders fully
understand the need to address climate change, cut greenhouse gas
pollution, and protect the Chesapeake Bay. Our State and local
governments will be eligible for new and expanded grant programs to
improve public health, decrease pollution, increase climate resiliency,
and promote environmental equity.
The legislation pays for these smart investments while reducing the
deficit and without raising taxes on working families and small
businesses. In fact, according to a nonpartisan analysis, many working
families may actually see lower taxes on a net basis over the next
couple of years as a result of the legislation.
This legislation and its targeted investments aimed at lowering costs
for American families is only one of a string of positive
accomplishments that we have been able to do in this Congress,
coordinating with President Biden. Other major legislation in the 117th
Congress includes the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, which will make
America more competitive by bringing home domestic production of
semiconductors and investing in innovation and science; the bipartisan
Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address
Comprehensive Toxics Act, known as the PACT Act, which provides
healthcare benefits for all generations of toxic-exposed veterans for
the first time in our Nation's history and will improve access to care
for all our veterans--promises made, promises kept; the Bipartisan
Safer Communities Act, which is the first major gun safety legislation
Congress has approved in decades; the bipartisan Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act, one of the biggest, most comprehensive Federal
commitments to repairing and modernizing our Nation's infrastructure in
modern history; the Keep Kids Fed Act, which the Senate passed
unanimously, that extended essential funding for schools, daycare
providers, and communities to ensure healthy meals for children
throughout the school year and summer; and the American Rescue Plan
Act, which Democrats passed in March of 2021 to provide billions of
dollars in relief to help Americans recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
We have done all this, and we are reducing the deficit by $2
trillion.
Let me talk a little bit about the CHIPS and Science Act.
Semiconductors are crucial to nearly every sector of our economy. They
are in our cars, our trucks, medical devices, 5G telecommunications
equipment, and the list goes on and on and on. America created the
semiconductor industry in the 1960s. We ceded the global leadership in
the seventies. We regained it, to an extent, in the nineties but have
lost it again. In 1990, the U.S. share of semiconductor manufacturing
was 37 percent. By 2020, that share had declined to 12 percent.
The CHIPS and Science Act gets the United States back on track with
respect to domestic semiconductor manufacturing, which is crucial for
our national and economic security. This is a national security issue
that provides $54 billion in grants to domestic manufacturers and
another $24 billion in tax credits through the Creating Helpful
Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Fund.
The substitute amendment also authorizes $102 billion over the next 5
years for the National Science Foundation, the Department of Commerce,
and the National Institute of Standards and Technology--a $52 billion
increase over the Congressional Budget Office baseline.
These funds will be a shot in the arm for domestic manufacturing.
Here is a list of some firms that plan to use the funding to expand or
establish manufacturing facilities right here in the United States:
Intel and TSMC plan to build factories in Ohio and Arizona;
GlobalFoundries wants to expand a facility in Upstate New York;
SkyWater Technology and Purdue University want to collaborate on a new
$1.8 billion factory and research facility in West Lafayette, IN; IBM
and State University of New York at Albany want to establish a
semiconductor research center in Albany. And the list goes go on and on
and on. We are preparing for America to continue to lead in
manufacturing, particularly high-tech manufacturing.
I also want to highlight the science provisions in the bill. It
authorizes $20 billion to the first-of-its-kind NSF Directorate of
Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, which will accelerate domestic
development of critical national and economic security technologies
such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced
manufacturing, 6G communications, energy, and material science. We are
going to be the leaders in these areas. We should be.
It authorizes $9 billion--$4 billion over CBO baseline for several
National Institutes of Science and Technology programs, including
tripling of funding for the Manufacturing Extension Program, leveraging
that program to create a National Supply Chain Database, which will
assist businesses with supplier scouting and minimize supply chain
disruptions; and with NASA, the Artemis Program to return Americans to
the Moon as a prelude to sending humans to Mars is fully authorized and
funded.
The science provisions in this bill also extend the International
Space Station through 2030 and support a balanced science portfolio,
including Earth science observations and continued development of the
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. We are the leaders of the space
telescope. I am proud of all the work that is done in my State of
Maryland and the images that we see from outer space.
The provisions codify the Planetary Defense Coordination Office and
requires NASA to continue efforts to protect Earth from asteroids and
comets. In this regard, this Monday, the Double Asteroid Redirection
Test--a Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab mission--will
deliberately crash a probe into a ``moon'' of a double asteroid to
shift its orbit.
It is amazing that we can do this. We are the leaders in science, and
we are making sure we are going to be the leaders in science and in
space moving forward.
I introduced the Cleaner, Quieter Airplanes Act in the previous
Congress and again in this Congress, and I am pleased the CHIPS and
Science bill directs NASA to continue research in aeronautics,
including the use of experimental aircraft to advance aircraft
efficiency and supersonic flight.
The PACT Act, in addition to providing the historic relief to toxic-
exposed veterans, boosts claims processing; bolsters the Veterans'
Administration's workforce; and invests in VA healthcare facilities
nationwide to ensure the Agency can meet the immediate and future needs
of every veteran it serves, including the 300,000-plus veterans who
live in the State of Maryland. I will tell you, it provides for
improvements to the community health centers in Prince George's and
Baltimore City for our veterans.
The Safer Communities Act closes loopholes that allowed convicted
domestic violence abusers to buy firearms legally. It boosts funding
for community violence intervention and prevention initiatives, and it
provides hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to improve and
expand mental healthcare.
On the bipartisan infrastructure package, funding is flowing right
now to improve Maryland's transit, ports, roads, and bridges; expand
broadband availability; and fix our aging drinking water and wastewater
system. The bill provides $17 billion in port infrastructure and
waterways. Congestion in American ports was a key factor in the
disruption of the global supply chain. Expanding and modernizing port
infrastructure will help ensure that American manufacturers and
producers can move their goods to markets around the world. The bill
also invests $25 billion in our airports. Modernizing our airport
infrastructure will help keep people and products moving around the
country and the world.
I am particularly pleased the legislation includes $238 million for
the Chesapeake Bay Program. The bill also includes my bipartisan
legislation to make permanent and expand the Minority Business
Development Agency, which is the only Federal Agency dedicated to
supporting minority-owned businesses.
The American Rescue Plan provides tens of billions of dollars to
support vaccination and COVID-19 testing, driving down the death rate
from the virus by 90 percent. The bill also invested in hard-hit
communities and brought concrete relief to the Nation at a time of
great need. I was especially proud of the investments we made to help
save so many small businesses throughout Maryland and the Nation.
From the American Rescue Plan to the Inflation Reduction Act, and
everything in between, these and other legislative accomplishments have
helped address important needs across Maryland and our Nation.
At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, over 20 million Americans had
lost their jobs. And the unemployment rate rose to 14.7 percent in
April of 2020. The number of employed Americans now exceeds the
prepandemic high--the second fastest job market recovery since 1981.
The number of Americans working is at an alltime high. And the
unemployment rate has dropped a half-century low of 3.5 percent.
Since President Biden assumed office, the economy added nearly
700,000 new manufacturing jobs. This represents the strongest
manufacturing job growth since the 1950s. Manufacturing job growth in
2021 alone exceeded any other single year going back nearly 30 years.
Over the past year, the construction and new manufacturing facilities
in the United States has grown by an estimated 116 percent. In recent
surveys, the CEOs, 80 percent were either in the process of moving
manufacturing operations back to the United States from China or were
considering doing just that.
While unemployment continues at historic lows and gas prices are
declining rapidly, we are still facing challenges. Food prices, rent,
and other costs are still too high. The Federal Reserve has had to
raise interest rates, which is painful for families and businesses
alike. Most mainstream economists believe that we can avoid a recession
and the economy will have a soft landing despite the supply chain
challenges we continue to face because of COVID and Russia's war in
Ukraine. This would be a truly historic accomplishment.
President Kennedy said:
Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to
choose.
Our legislative achievements over the last 20 months demonstrate that
Congress can be productive and the Federal Government is a powerful
force for good.
I hope we choose to remain on that path--Democrats and Republicans
alike--because there is still so much we can do and need to do to help
the American people.
I yield the floor. | working families | racist |
09/22/2022 | Mr. KAINE | Senate | CREC-2022-09-22-pt1-PgS4961 | nan | nan | Mr. KAINE. Madam President, I rise to talk about a piece of
legislation that was announced last night by a very close friend of
mine, Senator Manchin of West Virginia--the Energy Independence and
Security Act of 2022. Senator Manchin and I were Governors together,
and we sit next to each other on the Senate floor. And we are often in
agreement. And on this particular bill--it is 91 pages long, and there
are 24 sections--we are in agreement on 23 of the 24 sections and 86 of
the 91 pages.
I want to talk about the permitting reform provisions in the bill
that I support, but then I want to point out significant concerns with
section 24 of the bill that is sort of an anti-permitting reform bill.
It would take one project that is in my State, the Mountain Valley
Pipeline, out of permitting processes, out of judicial review, and have
Congress put our thumb on the scale, advancing the project immune from
the normal permitting process and judicial review.
I would like to start by saying I am a strong supporter of American
energy independence, and I applaud the efforts of my colleague Senator
Manchin to do the same.
I voted with a number of Senators a few years ago to end the ban on
export of crude oil from the United States. And I have strongly
supported liquefied natural gas exports to help nations around the
world wean themselves off of energy dependence on dictators like
Vladimir Putin.
I also firmly believe in the need for permitting reform. The heart of
the Energy Independence and Security Act is a recognition that
permitting for energy transmission and other projects in this country
is essentially broken; that it takes too long. It is too inconsistent.
I filed my first permitting reform bill in 2017 as a recognition of
the fact that natural gas pipelines proposed in Virginia were running
into very significant challenges, in particular. These pipeline
programs require the use of eminent domain. So you are taking people's
property to build these pipeline projects. And if the government is
going to take people's property, we ought to have a process that is
fair.
But what I heard from my constituents in Virginia is that they were
being ignored; that there was inadequate public hearing. The hearings
were scheduled hundreds of miles apart, far away from the landowners
themselves. They would get to the public hearings and people had
presigned up, often encouraged by the pipeline proponent so that the
actual landowners never got a chance to speak. And when they did get to
speak, their input wasn't being taken seriously.
So, in 2017, I introduced my first permitting reform bill to deal
exactly with some of the same kinds of issues that Senator Manchin has
included in the Energy Independence and Security Act.
So I am here to say, I am all for permitting reform. I am all for
permitting reform. And I believe that there is a bipartisan majority--
indeed, a supermajority in this body--that were we to undertake this in
regular order, we could come up with a permitting reform bill that,
together with the infrastructure bill that we did and the Inflation
Reduction Act that we did, will help us power forward American
innovation, especially in leading the world in clean energy.
So that is 86 pages of the bill. And I strongly approve of the bill.
The legislation that I introduced in 2017 isn't in it. I would like to
get it added in. But even if it weren't added in, there is enough good
in this bill for me to support it.
But what I want to talk about with an equal degree of passion is my
strong opposition to section 24 of the bill, dealing with the Mountain
Valley Pipeline.
The Mountain Valley Pipeline is a 304-mile natural gas pipeline in
West Virginia and Virginia. About two-thirds of it is in West Virginia
and one-third is in Virginia. The pipeline is proposed to withdraw
natural gas from the Marcellus shale--one of the great American
reserves of natural gas--and then transmit that gas first through West
Virginia and then Virginia where it could hook up with other pipelines
to be distributed around the country or to ports where it could be
liquefied and potentially sold overseas.
The Mountain Valley Pipeline has had a star-crossed history in recent
years. It has had multiple Federal authorizations vacated. It has
accrued over 350 violations of water quality-related protections, both
in Virginia and in West Virginia. And it currently lacks several
necessary Federal authorizations to continue construction.
My constituents in Virginia have complained significantly about
workmanship problems in the Mountain Valley Pipeline. And work on the
pipeline has been stopped by State agencies because of slipshod quality
that damages water and that damages people's property.
I am not opposed to the Mountain Valley Pipeline. I don't think
Congress should be in the business of approving pipelines or rejecting
them.
Madam President, you were an attorney general dealing with eminent
domain. We generally don't let legislative bodies decide whose property
is going to get taken.
Eminent domain matters are usually for courts and administrative
agencies. So as the Mountain Valley Pipeline has
proceeded in recent years, I have had opponents of the pipeline come to
say: Look, there have been water quality violations. You should stop
the pipeline.
I have had proponents of the pipeline come and say: We need this for
America's energy security. You should put your thumb on the scale and
make sure it gets approved.
What I have told both the opponents and proponents of the Mountain
Valley Pipeline is: You tell me how to fix the process--the permitting
process--to make it fair, and I will do that. But then you should have
to put your project through a fair permitting process and, if you can
earn approval on the merits, then you can build the pipeline. But if
you do poor work and can't, then you are not going to be able to build
it.
I deeply believe this is not Congress's job to make this
determination. It is our job to make sure that permitting is fair.
Section 24 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2022 would
basically say that after 86 pages of improving permitting in this
country, we will take one project in two States and take it completely
out of all permitting. We will order the Biden administration to grant
four permits that are currently in midstream. The company hasn't yet
demonstrated that it should get these four permits.
There is a Clean Water Act permit. There is a permit to cross the
Jefferson National Forest. There is a permit to certify that this
project will not harm endangered species. And, finally, there is a
permit from FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The company
is attempting to get these permits, but they haven't yet demonstrated
that they are able to do it.
But what section 24 of the bill would do, after doing this great work
to establish this great permitting process, is that it would say:
Forget all of that. The Biden administration must give these four
permits to the Mountain Valley Pipeline owners right now, and, further,
no one can seek any judicial review of these permits--highly unusual.
These administrative permits are issued by administrative agencies
with a capacity for judicial review under the Administrative Procedure
Act. But in this case, we would be forced to issue the permit, and then
we would also immunize the permit from any person, landowner, effective
party, or environmental group being able to challenge it in judicial
review. In my view, that is highly inappropriate and virtually
unprecedented.
But to make matters worse, section 24 of the bill also does something
that I believe is unprecedented and that would create a very, very
dangerous precedent in this body. It would strip jurisdiction of any
litigation in the future in this project from the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Fourth Circuit, headquartered in Richmond, my hometown.
Why? The owners of the Mountain Valley Pipeline have lost a case or
two in the Fourth Circuit.
I used to try cases, as did the Presiding Officer. I lost some cases,
and I lost cases in the Fourth Circuit. If I represented a civil rights
litigant and we lost a case in the Fourth Circuit, I had remedies. The
first remedy was to try to get an en banc court to possibly reconsider
the ruling of the panel. It is difficult to do, but that is a remedy
you have.
The second remedy you have is to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. I
tried that too. Once, I got a case that I had lost in the Fourth
Circuit taken by the U.S. Supreme Court, and I was able to be
successful there in getting it reversed.
But if you are a party that is unhappy, that is what your remedy is,
to appeal. Whether you are rich or you are poor, whether you are a
corporation or an individual, whether it is a criminal case or a civil
case, if you don't like the ruling of a district court, you appeal to
an appellate court. If you don't like the ruling of an appellate court,
you try to take it en banc or go to the Supreme Court. And that is a
rule that should apply to all litigants.
In this case, what the Mountain Valley Pipeline is asking is, in my
view, an egregious and dramatic overreach. They don't like the rulings
of the Fourth Circuit. They haven't been able to get the Fourth Circuit
to take the case en banc. They haven't been able to convince the U.S.
Supreme Court that the Fourth Circuit was wrong.
So what the Mountain Valley Pipeline owners are asking the Senate to
do and what this bill proposes is that we would take jurisdiction away
from the Fourth Circuit and mandate that any future case not go to the
Fourth Circuit but instead come to the DC Court of Appeals.
What ground would there be for such a historic rebuke of my hometown
Federal circuit court, to say that just because they ruled against a
powerful energy corporation, we will, in an unprecedented way, strip
jurisdiction away from them in a pending case that is midstream and not
allow them to hear it?
The Fourth Circuit is my hometown circuit court. I tried cases in the
district courts there. I had appeals in that court. I won some; I lost
some. I was often unhappy with the ruling, but never would I have
believed, if a ruling went against me, that the resolution was to
punish the court by stripping jurisdiction away from them. Yet that is
what the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2022 would do. It
would force the issuance of permits that have not yet been justified,
deny the possibility of judicial review of those permits and, in
particular, in an unprecedented way, strip jurisdiction away from one
circuit court in the middle of a case by taking it away from them. Why?
Because the big energy company that wants these permits is unhappy that
they have lost a case there.
As I conclude, I just want to point out, if we go down this path, in
my view, it could open the door to serious abuse and even corruption.
Imagine if the Senate of the United States starts stripping
jurisdiction away from courts because we don't like their ruling. So
midstream, we will take it away.
A corporation is unhappy that they are getting sued in shareholder
derivative suits in the Second Circuit, for example, and somebody comes
to the Senate and says: Let's just take jurisdiction away from the
Second Circuit dealing with this particular company.
Somebody in a complicated criminal case doesn't like the rulings of a
circuit court on procedural matters and tries to get this body, the
Senate of the United States, to strip jurisdiction away from the court.
I am proud of the Fourth Circuit--the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Fourth Circuit. I have been involved with my colleague Senator Warner
in recommending to Presidents and then advocating for people to be
nominated and eventually confirmed in this court. The Fourth Circuit is
no more perfect than any court is.
I can tell you, as somebody who has practiced in this court for my
entire professional career, they do not deserve to be rebuked in a
historic way and have jurisdiction stripped away from them in a case
like this just because they have had the temerity to rule against an
energy company on a pipeline project.
We can do a permitting reform bill that will advance the goals of the
first 86 pages of the Energy Independence and Security Act. We can do a
bill that will include 23 of the 24 sections of the Energy Independence
and Security Act and have a much better permitting process that the
Mountain Valley Pipeline and anyone else wanting to do a project can
then go through.
If they demonstrate on the merits that they should be entitled to
build a pipeline or an electricity transmission, then build it, by all
means. But don't embrace the need for permitting reform and then choose
one project in the entire United States, affecting my State, and pull
it out of permitting reform, insulating it from the normal processes of
administrative permitting issuance and insulating it from judicial
review.
I yield the floor. | the Fed | antisemitic |
09/22/2022 | Mr. MARSHALL | Senate | CREC-2022-09-22-pt1-PgS4962 | nan | nan | Mr. MARSHALL. Madam President, last week, we received what might have
been the worst economic news I have ever seen in 1 day in my lifetime.
In Joe Biden's America, it costs more to feed your family. In Joe
Biden's America, your commute to work is more expensive. In Joe Biden's
America, it is a struggle to pay the bills that power your home. In Joe
Biden's America, farmers and ranchers are facing
such high input costs that they are struggling to grow the food that
feeds our Nation and those around the globe. In Joe Biden's America,
just as kids are heading back to school, the price of school supplies
has increased by over 9 percent.
This President continues to preside over the worst economy that most
Kansans have ever seen in their lifetime. This is all thanks to the
Democrats' massive, hyperpartisan, tax-and-spending bills and, of
course, their business-crushing Federal regulations.
As you can see on this chart, inflation was just 1 percent in January
2021--1.4 percent. Today, it is over a staggering 8 percent, almost 6
times higher than when Joe Biden took the reins and his woke
inflationary policies wrecked our economy.
Look, energy, groceries, and shelter account for two-thirds of
inflation, and they always lead inflation. Inflation is not going away
unless this administration does an about-face on its policies, and we
know that is not going to happen.
Let's take a look at what Joe Biden has done.
Energy--energy is up 23 percent; groceries, up 13 percent; shelter,
up 6 percent. You might ask: Why? Why has shelter gone up 6 percent?
Look, mortgage rates on 30-year loans have quadrupled under this
President. Energy, grocery, shelter--all up across the board. All are
essential to every individual's comfort and prosperity.
Finally, have you looked at your retirement accounts lately? Down, if
you are lucky, maybe some 17 percent off its peak values.
Kansans are hurting. Main Street merchants are hurting. Americans are
hurting. Instead of helping, this administration continues to pour gas
on the fire with another massive spending bill. Then they had the gall
to publicly celebrate last week on the south lawn of the White House--
the very day the stock market went into a spiral after the CPI came in
showing the highest inflation rate in nearly 40 years.
What is more, Sunday night on ``60 Minutes,'' the President said
inflation was up ``just an inch, hardly at all.''
Are you kidding me? I can't imagine an administration more out of
touch, more apathetic to the pain of the people who elected him than
this one. An 8.3 percent increase in inflation over last year is not
just an inch. This kind of minimization infuriates everyone. I have
heard it at every one of my 100 townhall meetings.
Let's not forget, since Joe Biden took his oath, inflation has
increased over 13 percent. When you live paycheck to paycheck, 13
percent is not just an inch. Americans are much smarter than you think.
Inflation is going to be Joe Biden's legacy to the American people.
In our history books, the texts my grandchildren--two of whom are
sitting in the Gallery today--will study, they will see a graphic like
the one behind me.
If anyone was hoping that the Federal Reserve would be able to slow
down interest hikes, you can think again. This month's numbers made it
clear to the Fed that their job is far from done, forcing them to raise
interest rates by another 75 basis points.
Interest is only going to keep increasing unless they reverse their
policies.
Look, life will continue to get more expensive under Joe Biden. Why?
Because this President will not reverse his woke inflationary policies.
Even now, President Biden and the Democrats want to continue to tax and
spend us further into recession.
Make no mistake about it. After almost a year and a half of financial
anxiety and paychecks that are not going as far, Americans have had
enough of the failing economic agenda of Joe Biden and this Democratic
majority in Congress.
November can't come soon enough. Come January, the tax-and-spend
agenda will come to an immediate end. We will not allow this
administration to further damage this country with their failed
economic agenda.
Before COVID, we had the greatest economy in generations. We
accomplished this by slashing taxes and getting out of the way of
industry and letting American producers produce. This is what the
American people want. This is what the American people deserve. This is
what will lead America back to prosperity.
I yield the floor. | Federal Reserve | antisemitic |
09/22/2022 | Mr. MARSHALL | Senate | CREC-2022-09-22-pt1-PgS4962 | nan | nan | Mr. MARSHALL. Madam President, last week, we received what might have
been the worst economic news I have ever seen in 1 day in my lifetime.
In Joe Biden's America, it costs more to feed your family. In Joe
Biden's America, your commute to work is more expensive. In Joe Biden's
America, it is a struggle to pay the bills that power your home. In Joe
Biden's America, farmers and ranchers are facing
such high input costs that they are struggling to grow the food that
feeds our Nation and those around the globe. In Joe Biden's America,
just as kids are heading back to school, the price of school supplies
has increased by over 9 percent.
This President continues to preside over the worst economy that most
Kansans have ever seen in their lifetime. This is all thanks to the
Democrats' massive, hyperpartisan, tax-and-spending bills and, of
course, their business-crushing Federal regulations.
As you can see on this chart, inflation was just 1 percent in January
2021--1.4 percent. Today, it is over a staggering 8 percent, almost 6
times higher than when Joe Biden took the reins and his woke
inflationary policies wrecked our economy.
Look, energy, groceries, and shelter account for two-thirds of
inflation, and they always lead inflation. Inflation is not going away
unless this administration does an about-face on its policies, and we
know that is not going to happen.
Let's take a look at what Joe Biden has done.
Energy--energy is up 23 percent; groceries, up 13 percent; shelter,
up 6 percent. You might ask: Why? Why has shelter gone up 6 percent?
Look, mortgage rates on 30-year loans have quadrupled under this
President. Energy, grocery, shelter--all up across the board. All are
essential to every individual's comfort and prosperity.
Finally, have you looked at your retirement accounts lately? Down, if
you are lucky, maybe some 17 percent off its peak values.
Kansans are hurting. Main Street merchants are hurting. Americans are
hurting. Instead of helping, this administration continues to pour gas
on the fire with another massive spending bill. Then they had the gall
to publicly celebrate last week on the south lawn of the White House--
the very day the stock market went into a spiral after the CPI came in
showing the highest inflation rate in nearly 40 years.
What is more, Sunday night on ``60 Minutes,'' the President said
inflation was up ``just an inch, hardly at all.''
Are you kidding me? I can't imagine an administration more out of
touch, more apathetic to the pain of the people who elected him than
this one. An 8.3 percent increase in inflation over last year is not
just an inch. This kind of minimization infuriates everyone. I have
heard it at every one of my 100 townhall meetings.
Let's not forget, since Joe Biden took his oath, inflation has
increased over 13 percent. When you live paycheck to paycheck, 13
percent is not just an inch. Americans are much smarter than you think.
Inflation is going to be Joe Biden's legacy to the American people.
In our history books, the texts my grandchildren--two of whom are
sitting in the Gallery today--will study, they will see a graphic like
the one behind me.
If anyone was hoping that the Federal Reserve would be able to slow
down interest hikes, you can think again. This month's numbers made it
clear to the Fed that their job is far from done, forcing them to raise
interest rates by another 75 basis points.
Interest is only going to keep increasing unless they reverse their
policies.
Look, life will continue to get more expensive under Joe Biden. Why?
Because this President will not reverse his woke inflationary policies.
Even now, President Biden and the Democrats want to continue to tax and
spend us further into recession.
Make no mistake about it. After almost a year and a half of financial
anxiety and paychecks that are not going as far, Americans have had
enough of the failing economic agenda of Joe Biden and this Democratic
majority in Congress.
November can't come soon enough. Come January, the tax-and-spend
agenda will come to an immediate end. We will not allow this
administration to further damage this country with their failed
economic agenda.
Before COVID, we had the greatest economy in generations. We
accomplished this by slashing taxes and getting out of the way of
industry and letting American producers produce. This is what the
American people want. This is what the American people deserve. This is
what will lead America back to prosperity.
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09/22/2022 | Ms. KLOBUCHAR | Senate | CREC-2022-09-22-pt1-PgS4963-2 | nan | nan | Ms. KLOBUCHAR. Madam President, I am now going to turn to the next
item on my agenda before we all adjourn, and that is a speech in
support of the DISCLOSE Act and the need to take action to get secret
money out of our elections.
I want to thank Senator Whitehouse for his leadership on this
legislation and testimony at the Committee on Rules and Administration
hearing I held on it this summer.
Senator Whitehouse has championed this bill since 2012, and I have
been proud to support it alongside him in every Congress.
I also want to thank Leader Schumer for holding a vote to advance
this bill today. While the vote was ultimately unsuccessful, it is
important that the people of this country understand that Senate
Democrats--and only Senate Democrats, it appears--remain committed to
addressing secret money in our election.
This vote could not have come at a more important time, as we are
seeing an unprecedented flood of money into our elections. Over $14
billion was spent during the 2020 election, the most expensive in our
country's history.
As we approach the general election in November with 48 days left,
this is already--and we still have 48 days left--the most expensive
midterm election ever. One estimate expects that nearly $10 billion
will be spent just on political advertising this election cycle, more
than double the $4 billion in the 2018 midterm elections.
As spending on elections increases, the sources of the spending are
less accountable than ever before. One investigation found that more
than $1 billion was spent on the 2020 elections by groups that do not
disclose their donors at all.
I want people to think about this. One billion was spent on the 2020
election, one billion--not million--$1 billion, by groups that do not
disclose their donors at all. No one likes that; I don't care if you
are Democrat, Republican, or Independent, you at least want to know
what money is being spent and who is paying for these negative ads that
you see all over TV.
As spending on election increases, the sources of that spending are
less accountable than ever before. Americans know there is way too much
money in our elections, and for our democracy to work, we need to know
where the money is coming from. It is that simple.
But since the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United opened up
the flood of outside money, overturned so much of the bipartisan work
that had been done by our former colleague Senator McCain--who we miss
dearly--as well as Senator Feingold, our neighbor in Wisconsin, but
since that time and the overturning of those requirements of the
McCain-Feingold campaign restrictions, there have been no significant
improvements made to disclosure laws or regulations.
Unlimited, anonymous spending in our elections doesn't encourage free
speech; it drowns out the voices of you. It drowns out the voices of
the American people who want to participate and be treated like
everyone else. They have one vote just like a billionaire has a vote.
Yet, what do we see? The billionaire gets to have undue influence, and
we don't even know who he is because it is shrouded in secrecy because
there is no requirement that the name be disclosed.
This unrelenting secret spending will continue unless we take action
to address it. That is why we need to pass the DISCLOSE Act.
The DISCLOSE Act would address this tidal wave of secret money by
requiring outside groups that spend in our elections to disclose their
large donors--those that contribute more than $10,000.
How could anyone be opposed to this? We are not talking about a lot
of paperwork. We are talking about people who give more than $10,000.
Looking around the Gallery, looking at the pages, I just find it hard
to believe there are people right here that are going to give over
$10,000 and then hide behind some kind of curtain of nondisclosure.
That is what is happening. We just want to know who they are.
Importantly, the bill also makes it harder for wealthy special
interests to hide their contributions to cloak the identity of donors,
and it cracks down on the use of shell companies to conceal the
donations of foreign nationals.
Let me repeat that. Who could be against trying to figure out whether
shell companies are hiding the donations of foreign nationals, of
people who don't even live in America who are trying to influence our
elections?
I held a hearing on the bill in the Committee on Rules and
Administration on the DISCLOSE Act this summer, where we heard about
the effects that secret money is having on our democracy and why we
need to pass this legislation.
Senator Whitehouse testified at the hearing, and he spoke powerfully
about the impact that secret money is having on our government,
affecting all aspects of our lives, from the makeup of our courts to
people's healthcare decisions to addressing climate change.
We also heard from Montana's Commissioner of Political Practices Jeff
Mangan, who told us how his State's version of the DISCLOSE Act passed
in 2015 with bipartisan support. Let me repeat that. In Montana, red
and blue worked together and got this passed. I couldn't agree more
that transparency in our democracy should not be a partisan issue, and
regardless of political party, we should know who is spending on our
elections.
The American people know what is at stake. So it is no surprise that
campaign finance disclosure laws have overwhelming support. One recent
poll found that in swing States, 91 percent of likely voters--
Republicans and Democrats--those are States that go red or blue, may be
considered purple--91 percent of likely voters--Republicans and
Democrats--support full transparency of campaign contributions and
spending in our elections.
Another poll from 2019 found that across America, 83 percent of
likely voters support public disclosures of contributions. Those are
people regardless of their political stripes. There is also a long
history of bipartisan support for reducing the influence of money in
our democracy.
In fact, the very first limits on corporate campaign contributions
came in 1907, the Tillman Act, the landmark Federal Election Campaign
Act then passed in 1972, and as I noted, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform
Act in 2002 was also bipartisan, supported by Senators John McCain and
Russ Feingold. They joined together to champion, to pass this really
important bill. Guess what. All three of those bills I just mentioned,
the one in 1907, the one in 1972, the one in 2002, they were all signed
into law by Republican Presidents. This has always been a bipartisan
issue in our country.
Former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, never one to hide his
opinions, was also a staunch supporter of campaign finance disclosure.
In a 2010 case, Doe v. Reed, he wrote:
For my part, I do not look forward to a society which,
thanks to the Supreme Court, campaigns anonymously . . .
hidden from public scrutiny and protected from the
accountability of criticism.
These are his words:
This does not resemble the Home of the Brave.
You can't get much more conservative than former Justice Scalia. This
is a bipartisan issue. We ask our colleagues to change their minds.
Ensuring the transparency of our elections has been and should continue
to be a bipartisan value.
These issues are at the very heart of our democracy, and this
commonsense bill would protect the right of voters to make informed
choices and know who has been trying to influence our elections.
As we move forward, I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting
these measures in the future as well as the measures in the Freedom to
Vote Act, which the DISCLOSE Act was part of that I led in the Senate
that would give us baseline--baseline--rules of the road for the voters
of this country to be able to make sure they can cast their votes
regardless of whether they live in Minnesota or Texas.
With that, I would like to turn to a few other matters that will help
to close the Senate that I will receive in a few minutes. I have one. I
will get started. Here we go. This is very exciting, happening in real
time for all those watching. See, we are all prepared.
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09/22/2022 | Ms. KLOBUCHAR | Senate | CREC-2022-09-22-pt1-PgS4963 | nan | nan | Ms. KLOBUCHAR. I rise today in support of the nomination of Robin
Hutcheson to be Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration.
As the Presiding Officer knows, her experience as Deputy
Administrator and, currently, as Acting Administrator will serve her
well. I am proud to say that she used to call Minnesota home, where she
served as Director of Public Works for the City of Minneapolis for many
years.
Ms. Hutcheson brings much experience with her to this job. She has
served in three roles at the U.S. Department of Transportation: Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Safety Policy, FMCSA Deputy Administrator, and
currently, as Acting Administrator. She has a strong track record on
safety.
As the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Safety Policy for U.S. DOT, she
was instrumental in developing the National Roadway Safety Strategy and
the new Safe Streets and Roads for All program.
She also has local experience managing transportation systems in
three States across the country: Minnesota, as we discussed, Utah, and
Montana. In her role as Director of Public Works for the City of
Minneapolis, she oversaw a 1,100-person team across nine divisions,
including all transportation functions.
During a time when our supply chains are being tested to their
limits, I believe that her public and private experience, as well as
her experience at both the local and Federal level, will bring a unique
perspective to the role and improve the safety of our transportation
networks.
I will address her unanimous consent proposal in a minute.
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09/22/2022 | Mr. OSSOFF | Senate | CREC-2022-09-22-pt1-PgS4965-3 | nan | nan | Mr. OSSOFF. Madam President, I rise today to celebrate the
duel between two titans and legends of Mexican soccer at el Super
Clasico, the Club Deportivo de Guadalajara ``Chivas'' and Club
America--a duel that will be celebrated in my home city of Atlanta, GA,
on September 25, 2022.
The city of Atlanta and the State of Georgia are home to rich,
vibrant, and celebrated Latino communities. I am thrilled to honor the
contributions of the Hispanic community in Georgia during Hispanic
Heritage Month by hosting these soccer legends in what will go down in
history as one of the greatest games our continent has ever seen.
This world-renowned match has brought thousands of soccer fans in
Mexico and the United States together for almost 80 years to celebrate
the history and unmatched rivalry of these soccer titans, a passion
that unites us.
Founded 103 years ago, Club America has won a total of 35 official
national and international titles. Club Deportivo Chivas de Guadalajara
has obtained a total of 26 national and international championships. In
the last 5 years, the Chivas and America have played for sold-out
crowds in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas. And this year in Atlanta
will not be different.
I join with our community to witness the legacy of this beautiful
game that reminds us of the unbreakable bond we share.
May tradition, history, and legacy guide our continued commitment to
celebrate what unites us.
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