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Vol. 167 WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021 No. 52

Senate

The Senate was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Monday, March 22, 2021, at 3 p.m.

House of Representatives

RIDAY

, M

ARCH

19, 2021

The House met at 9 a.m. and was

called to order by the Speaker pro tem-

pore (Mr. C

UELLAR

DESIGNATION OF THE SPEAKER

PRO TEMPORE

The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be-

fore the House the following commu-

nication from the Speaker:

ASHINGTON

, DC,

March 19, 2021.

I hereby appoint the Honorable H

ENRY

UELLAR

to act as Speaker pro tempore on

this day.

ANCY

ELOSI

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

PRAYER

The Chaplain, the Reverend Margaret

Grun Kibben, offered the following

prayer:

O God, in You do we place our trust;

in You do we find our refuge. You are

our Lord; apart from You there is noth-

ing that we can do or claim that can

truly be called good.

Forgive us when we part ways with

You and pursue other gods; the gods of

power, position, possession; when we

taste on our lips the gods of ego, ease,

and expertise.

Remind us that to worship these

things will only lead to suffering and

sadness. For You alone are sufficient,

the source of our serenity. You have al-

ready provided all that we need and are

so privileged to enjoy.

So shall we praise You, the Lord, who

gives us counsel, who provides instruc-

tion even in the darkest hours of our

days.

May we keep our eyes always on You.

With You alongside us, our hearts will

be glad and our steps sure.

Make Yourself known to us on the

paths we trod. Fill us with the joy of

Your presence.

We offer this prayer in the strength

of Your name.

Amen.

THE JOURNAL

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-

ant to section 11(a) of House Resolu-

tion 188, the Journal of the last day’s

proceedings is approved.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Will the

gentleman from California (Mr.

ERNEY

) come forward and lead the

House in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Mr. M

NERNEY led the Pledge of Al-

legiance as follows:

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the

United States of America, and to the Repub-

lic for which it stands, one nation under God,

indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER

PRO TEMPORE

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The

Chair will entertain up to five requests

for 1-minute speeches on each side of

the aisle.

INCITING POLITICAL VIOLENCE

(Mr. GOMEZ asked and was given

permission to address the House for 1

minute and to revise and extend his re-

marks.)

Mr. GOMEZ. Mr. Speaker, I believe

some of my Republican colleagues, and

one in particular, wish harm upon this

legislative body. I am not saying this

for shock value; it is the conclusion I

drew after a Member of Congress advo-

cated violence against our peers, the

Speaker, and our government.

It is what I believed after this Cham-

ber was turned into a crime scene just

10 weeks ago. It is how many of us felt,

sheltering in this room, as the Capitol

was breached.

Some Members called their loved

ones to say good-bye. Others prayed to

their God. And I asked myself if this

would be the day our democracy died.

I take no joy in introducing this res-

olution, but any Member who incites

political violence and threatens our

lives must be expelled, and I will do ev-

erything I can in my power to protect

our democracy and keep all of my col-

leagues safe.

RECOGNIZING THE LINEMEN AND

LINEWOMEN OF TEXAS

(Mr. WILLIAMS of Texas asked and

was given permission to address the

House for 1 minute.)

Mr. WILLIAMS of Texas. Mr. Speak-

er, I rise today to recognize the resil-

ient linemen of Texas-25 for their out-

standing work to successfully provide

power to Texas homes, businesses, and

communities during the catastrophic

winter storms.

I and many others send our deep

gratitude to the workers of the

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Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Aus-

tin Energy, and other electric pro-

viders in Texas-25 who worked tire-

lessly through a brutal winter storm to

meet the needs of Texans and across

the State.

They put their lives in danger, work-

ing around the clock in subzero tem-

peratures and in harsh conditions to

restore critical power as quickly as

possible.

Due to their fortitude and grit, lives

were saved, animals were saved, and

communities were restored and on

track to recovery.

You are our heroes, and on behalf of

the 25th Congressional District of

Texas, we simply say thank you. In

God we trust.

VIOLENCE AGAINST ASIAN

AMERICANS IS UN-AMERICAN

(Ms. GARCIA of Texas asked and was

given permission to address the House

for 1 minute and to revise and extend

her remarks.)

Ms. GARCIA of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I

rise today to speak on the horrific

anti-Asian American sentiment that

has been brewing in our country.

Like all of you, I was heartbroken by

this week’s shooting in Georgia. This

violent act of hate has no place in our

country. While this tragedy deserves

all our outrage and attention, it is im-

portant to remember that this was not

an isolated incident.

COVID–19 has worsened the racism

and xenophobia our AAPI brothers and

sisters face. Many elected officials

have used the pandemic to fan the

flames of hate, and now they refuse to

accept the consequences of their ac-

tions.

My district is home to over 10,000

Asian Americans. They make our com-

munity whole, and they do not deserve

to live in fear because of hateful rhet-

oric that has spread across America.

As President Biden has said, violence

against Asian Americans is un-Amer-

ican, and it must stop.

REMEMBERING THE LIFE OF

CHRISTOPHER BROWNAWELL

(Mr. KELLER asked and was given

permission to address the House for 1

minute.)

Mr. KELLER. Mr. Speaker, today, we

take a moment to remember the life

and service of Sergeant Major Chris-

topher Brownawell, a decorated Amer-

ican soldier who died unexpectedly last

week.

Chris’ life was defined by his service,

both in and out of uniform. For 24

years, Chris served honorably in the

United States Army, deploying to

Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait.

Outside of the military, Chris kept

our community safe as a corrections

officer at SCI Coal Township.

Those who knew Chris remember him

as the quintessential infantryman and

a purpose-driven leader who went out

of his way to develop and mentor other

soldiers. Chris set the standard for

other soldiers and, undoubtedly, had a

profound impact on so many during his

years of service.

Every freedom we have in this Nation

was paid for by soldiers like Chris.

Chris is a hero, and his legacy of serv-

ice to our community, State, and coun-

try will live on with his family and

friends and our community.

HATE CRIMES AGAINST ASIANS

MUST STOP

(Ms. CHU asked and was given per-

mission to address the House for 1

minute and to revise and extend her re-

marks.)

Ms. CHU. Mr. Speaker, eight lives

were lost in Georgia this week when a

gunman targeted three Asian-owned

businesses. Six of these victims were

Asian-American women.

I am heartbroken for all these lost

souls, and I am heartbroken because

this is just one of the latest in a string

of attacks that have created fear

throughout the Asian-American com-

munity.

Since the start of the coronavirus

pandemic, there have been over 3,800

reported anti-Asian hate crimes and in-

cidents. What started off as dirty looks

and verbal assault has escalated into

physical attacks that have become in-

creasingly deadly.

There was Vicha Ratanapakdee, an

84-year old man who died after being

assaulted outside of his home, and Noel

Quintana, whose face was slashed from

ear to ear on a New York subway.

These attacks have been almost a

daily tragedy, and they must stop. We

must stand united against xenophobia

and slurs like ‘‘China virus’’ and ‘‘Kung

flu,’’ which we know put lives at risk,

and we must work together to stop

Asian hate.

RECOGNIZING KIDNEY CANCER

AWARENESS MONTH

(Mr. HAGEDORN asked and was

given permission to address the House

for 1 minute.)

Mr. HAGEDORN. Mr. Speaker, March

is Kidney Cancer Awareness Month,

and frankly, every month is cancer

awareness month.

Two years ago, I was diagnosed with

stage IV kidney cancer, and ever since,

I have received treatment and great

care from the Mayo Clinic in Roch-

ester, Minnesota.

Two months ago, they removed my

kidney, and I am very grateful to say

that, just this week, my doctor said

‘‘no cancer detected’’ at this time.

But here is the point about this: My

cancer was found through a routine

physical. I had no symptoms.

In this past year, millions of Ameri-

cans have, for whatever reason,

coronavirus or otherwise, postponed or

canceled their doctor’s visits and

aren’t getting the cancer screenings

they have in the past.

I encourage everyone to make sure

you get out there, see your doctor reg-

ularly, get looked into, because the

earliest possible detection of serious

illness can literally save your life. I am

someone who can attest to that.

To my fellow cancer survivors, hang

in there. Keep fighting because cures

are coming along every day. And, Mr.

Speaker, it is uncanny how family,

friends, medical professionals, total

strangers, they rally around us and

help us fight.

HONORING DR. I.M. SINGER

(Mr. M

NERNEY asked and was

given permission to address the House

for 1 minute and to revise and extend

his remarks.)

Mr. M

NERNEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise

today to honor the life and accomplish-

ments of Dr. I.M. Singer, one of Amer-

ica’s most influential mathematicians.

The son of Polish-Jewish immi-

grants, Dr. Singer had an unquenchable

thirst for knowledge and graduated

from the University of Michigan with a

degree in physics in just 2

⁄

years be-

fore joining the United States military

during World War II.

Upon returning, Dr. Singer earned a

doctorate degree in mathematics from

the University of Chicago. Later, he

chaired committees at the United

States National Academy of Sciences,

was a member of the White House

Science Council, and cofounded the

Mathematical Sciences Research Insti-

tute in Berkeley.

Dr. Singer’s most prominent con-

tribution was the Atiyah-Singer index

theorem, which created a link between

mathematical analysis and topology

and, ultimately, led to a new field of

mathematics. For his work, Dr. Singer

received the most prestigious award in

mathematics, the Abel Prize.

As a fellow mathematician, I deeply

admire Dr. Singer’s contributions to

theoretical physics and mathematics,

which have revolutionized the way we

understand the universe.

HONORING BURKE WALL

(Mr. CARTER of Georgia asked and

was given permission to address the

House for 1 minute and to revise and

extend his remarks.)

Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speak-

er, I rise today to remember and honor

Burke Wall, who passed away on March

1, 2021, at the age of 76.

Burke was a lifelong Georgian who

graduated from the University of Geor-

gia with a degree in dairy production.

Burke was an avid UGA football fan

and an active sportsman.

Burke was also an enthusiastic deep-

sea fisherman aboard his boat called

Trashman, and his talents were recog-

nized in numerous tournaments along

the East Coast.

In 2019, Burke won the Edisto Beach

South Carolina Governor’s Cup Tour-

nament and impressively put a 549-

pound blue marlin on the dock at the

Mid-Atlantic 500 the same year, earn-

ing him second place.

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Burke owned Superior Sanitation

Services, sold that company to Waste

Management, and then founded Atlan-

tic Waste Services in Pooler in 1999.

Although Burke grew up with humble

beginnings on his family’s dairy farm,

he lived a life of immense influence

through his involvement with the

Chatham Club, the Rotary Club of Sa-

vannah, the Savannah Yacht Club, and

several other professional organiza-

tions.

My thoughts and prayers go out to

all who knew him during this most dif-

ficult time, especially his son, Ben.

PENNSYLVANIA BENEFITING

FROM AID

(Ms. DEAN asked and was given per-

mission to address the House for 1

minute and to revise and extend her re-

marks.)

Ms. DEAN. Mr. Speaker, last week,

President Biden signed the American

Rescue Plan. Although the bill received

no Republican votes, it has bipartisan

support and will have a long-lasting bi-

partisan impact.

Many constituents in my district

have already received relief checks,

with as many as 90 million stimulus

checks out this week.

Yet, this transformative legislation

goes even further. It expands funding

to get shots in arms and kids safely in

school, and it cuts child poverty in half

with an expanded child tax credit.

Additionally, we finally targeted re-

lief to our local restaurants and

eateries that have been devastated by

the pandemic.

Let’s not forget about our State and

local governments. We will finally be

sending them much-needed aid.

My home State of Pennsylvania will

receive more than $13 billion. Mont-

gomery and Berks Counties, where my

district resides, will receive a com-

bined $242 million.

The American Rescue Plan, and all it

provides, is the responsible way to

fully reopen all of our communities and

Build Back Better.

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WHOLE MILK FOR HEALTHY KIDS

(Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania

asked and was given permission to ad-

dress the House for 1 minute and to re-

vise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Speaker, last week, I introduced

the Whole Milk For Healthy Kids Act

with Mr. A

NTONIO

ELGADO

. This bill

addresses the importance of providing

whole milk in school cafeterias.

It is proven that milk is the number

one provider of nine essential nutri-

ents, as well as a great deal of long-

term health benefits, including better

bone health, lower blood pressure, re-

duced risk of cardiovascular disease

and type 2 diabetes. These benefits are

crucial for the healthy development of

our Nation’s youth.

Over the years, milk has been un-

fairly demonized, leading to the loss of

nearly an entire generation of milk

drinkers. The goal of this bill is to give

children a wide variety of milk options

and bolster milk consumption, a win-

win for growing healthy children and

America’s dairy farm families.

Mr. Speaker, it is time to follow the

signs and allow whole milk back into

the school cafeterias. With bipartisan

support, it is my hope that we can

bring this bill to the floor and pass this

critical legislation to encourage the

healthy development of our Nation’s

youth and support our dairy farm fami-

lies across the country.

PREVENTING PAYGO

SEQUESTRATION

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, pursu-

ant to House Resolution 233, I call up

the bill (H.R. 1868) to prevent across-

the-board direct spending cuts, and for

other purposes, and ask for its imme-

diate consideration.

The Clerk read the title of the bill.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-

ant to House Resolution 233, the bill is

considered read.

The text of the bill is as follows:

H.R. 1868

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-

resentatives of the United States of America in

Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PREVENTING PAYGO SEQUESTRA-

TION.

(a) S

TATUTORY

PAYGO S

CORECARDS

.—The

budgetary effects of this Act and the Amer-

ican Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117–

2) shall not be counted on either PAYGO

scorecard maintained pursuant to section

4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of

2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(d)).

(b) S

ENATE

PAYGO S

CORECARDS

.—The

budgetary effects of this Act shall not be

counted on any PAYGO scorecard main-

tained for purposes of section 4106 of H. Con.

Res. 71 (115th Congress).

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY SUSPENSION

OF MEDICARE SEQUESTRATION.

(a) I

ENERAL

.—Section 3709(a) of division

A of the CARES Act (2 U.S.C. 901a note) is

amended by striking ‘‘March 31, 2021’’ and in-

serting ‘‘December 31, 2021’’.

(b) E

FFECTIVE

ATE

.—The amendment

made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if

enacted as part of the CARES Act (Public

Law 116–136).

SEC. 3. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

(a) D

ISREGARD OF

ERTAIN

DDITIONAL

OMPENSATION FOR

URPOSES OF

EDICAID

AND

HIP

.—Section 2104(h) of the CARES Act

(15 U.S.C. 9023(h)) is amended by striking

‘‘Federal pandemic unemployment com-

pensation’’ and inserting ‘‘Federal Pandemic

Unemployment Compensation or Mixed

Earner Unemployment Compensation’’.

(b) R

URAL

EALTH

LINIC

AYMENTS

.—

(1) I

N GENERAL

.—Section 1833(f)(3) of the

Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395l(f)(3)) is

amended—

(A) in subparagraph (A)—

(i) in clause (i), by striking subclauses (I)

and (II) and inserting the following:

‘‘(I) with respect to a rural health clinic

that had a per visit payment amount estab-

lished for services furnished in 2020—

‘‘(aa) the per visit payment amount appli-

cable to such rural health clinic for rural

health clinic services furnished in 2020, in-

creased by the percentage increase in the

MEI applicable to primary care services fur-

nished as of the first day of 2021; or

‘‘(bb) the limit described in paragraph

(2)(A); and

‘‘(II) with respect to a rural health clinic

that did not have a per visit payment

amount established for services furnished in

2020—

‘‘(aa) the per visit payment amount appli-

cable to such rural health clinic for rural

health clinic services furnished in 2021; or

‘‘(bb) the limit described in paragraph

(2)(A); and’’; and

(ii) in clause (ii)(I), by striking ‘‘under

clause (i)(I)’’ and inserting ‘‘under subclause

(I) or (II) of clause (i), as applicable,’’; and

(B) in subparagraph (B)—

(i) in the matter preceding clause (i), by

striking ‘‘2019, was’’ and inserting ‘‘2020’’;

(ii) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘was’’ after

‘‘(i)’’; and

(iii) by striking clause (ii) and inserting

the following:

‘‘(ii)(I) was enrolled under section 1866(j)

(including temporary enrollment during the

emergency period described in section

1135(g)(1)(B) for such period); or

‘‘(II) submitted an application for enroll-

ment under section 1866(j) (or requested such

a temporary enrollment for such period) that

was received not later than December 31,

2020.’’.

(2) E

FFECTIVE DATE

.—The amendments

made by this subsection shall take effect as

if included in the enactment of the Consoli-

dated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law

116–260).

LIGIBILITY FOR

EEMPLOYMENT

ERV

ICES

.—Section 306(a) of the Social Security

Act (42 U.S.C. 506(a)) is amended—

(1) by striking ‘‘individuals referred to re-

employment services as described in section

303(j)’’ and inserting ‘‘claimants for unem-

ployment compensation, including claimants

referred to reemployment services as de-

scribed in section 303(j),’’; and

(2) by striking ‘‘such individuals’’ and in-

serting ‘‘such claimants’’.

(d) A

DDITIONAL

MOUNT FOR

ERTAIN

PITALS

ITH

IGH

ISPROPORATIONATE

HARE

.—Effective as if included in the enact-

ment of section 203(a) of title II of division

CC of Public Law 116–260, subsection (g) of

section 1923 of the Social Security Act (42

U.S.C. 1396r–4) amended by such section

203(a) is amended by adding at the end the

following new paragraph:

‘‘(3) A

DDITIONAL AMOUNT FOR CERTAIN HOS

PITALS WITH HIGH DISPROPORATIONATE

.—

‘‘(A) I

N GENERAL

.—In the case of a hospital

with high disproportionate share (as defined

in subparagraph (B)) located in a State ref-

erenced in subsection (e) of section 4721 of

the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, a payment

adjustment during a State fiscal year shall

be considered consistent with subsection (c)

if the payment adjustment does not exceed

175 percent of the costs of furnishing hospital

services during the year, but only if the Gov-

ernor of the State certifies to the satisfac-

tion of the Secretary that the hospital’s ap-

plicable minimum amount is used for health

services during the year. In determining the

amount that is used for such services during

a year, there shall be excluded any amounts

received under the Public Health Service

Act, title V, title XVIII, or from third party

payors (not including the State plan under

this title) that are used for providing such

services during the year.

‘‘(B) H

OSPITAL WITH HIGH

DISPROPORATIONATE SHARE DEFINED

.—In sub-

paragraph (A), a hospital is a ‘hospital with

high disproportionate share’ if—

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‘‘(i) the hospital is owned or operated by

the State (or by an instrumentality or a unit

of government within the State); and

‘‘(ii) the hospital—

‘‘(I) meets the requirement described in

subparagraphs (A) or (B) of subsection (b)(1);

‘‘(II) has the largest number of inpatient

days attributable to individuals entitled to

benefits under the State plan of any hospital

in such State for the previous fiscal year.

‘‘(C) A

PPLICABLE MINIMUM AMOUNT DE

FINED

.—In subparagraph (A), the ‘applicable

minimum amount’ for a hospital for a fiscal

year is equal to the difference between the

amount of the hospital’s payment adjust-

ment for the fiscal year and the costs to the

hospital of furnishing hospital services de-

scribed in paragraph (1)(A) during the fiscal

year.’’.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The bill

shall be debatable for 1 hour, equally

divided and controlled by the chair and

the ranking minority member of the

Committee on the Budget or their re-

spective designees.

The gentleman from Kentucky (Mr.

ARMUTH

) and the gentleman from

Missouri (Mr. S

MITH

) each will control

30 minutes.

The Chair recognizes the gentleman

from Kentucky.

GENERAL LEAVE

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I ask

unanimous consent that all Members

have 5 legislative days within which to

revise and extend their remarks and in-

sert extraneous material into the

ECORD

on H.R. 1868.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there

objection to the request of the gen-

tleman from Kentucky?

There was no objection.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield

myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, because of the Amer-

ican Rescue Plan, relief checks are al-

ready being deposited in Americans’

bank accounts, furloughs have already

ended for tens of thousands of workers,

and we have averted the unemploy-

ment cliff. But we have a loose end to

tie up before our work is finished, and

that is the bill before us.

Enacting COVID relief through budg-

et reconciliation was always plan B,

but the American people could not af-

ford any more delays, and Congress

needed a path forward for the Amer-

ican Rescue Plan and the trans-

formative support it provides. Because

paygo requirements cannot be changed

in reconciliation bills, we knew from

the outset that this additional legisla-

tive fix was needed to avert painful and

indiscriminate cuts to Medicare, farm

supports, and other programs.

The language of H.R. 1868 should look

familiar. Over the past year, Congress

has enacted multiple COVID relief

packages to address the crises facing

the American people and our economy.

Each time, we excluded these bills

from statutory paygo calculations be-

cause of the dire impact sequestration

would have on our Nation’s seniors,

students, farmers, and others.

Today’s bill will ensure the American

Rescue Plan is treated the same as

these previous relief measures and

treated the same as the last reconcili-

ation bill passed by Congress. That was

in 2017, when Republicans used rec-

onciliation to pass the Tax Cuts and

Jobs Act.

Following the bill’s passage without

Democratic support in either the House

or Senate, Republicans proposed this

same legislative fix, albeit buried in a

problematic continuing resolution.

Enough House and Senate Democrats

joined Republicans to prevent harmful

across-the-board cuts to critical pro-

grams I mentioned, even though we op-

posed the short-term CR and the mas-

sive tax giveaways to the wealthy.

This time the situation is flipped, but

the same nonetheless. House Repub-

licans opposed the American Rescue

Plan. I don’t understand their position.

This bill is supported by more than 70

percent of Americans and will directly

benefit far more. But that is the choice

they made. Either way, a statutory

legislative fix for paygo is now needed

and, historically, that has been enacted

with little dispute.

Even in the wake of contentious leg-

islation, Congress has come together to

prevent sequestration and to protect

Medicare, farm support programs, so-

cial services, resources for students

and individuals with disabilities, and

other programs Americans rely on.

This time should be no different.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of

my time.

Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker,

I yield myself such time as I may con-

sume.

Mr. Speaker, this week, the Presi-

dent has been traveling across the

country telling Americans how appre-

ciative they should be that Washington

Democrats are spending, or have spent,

$1.9 trillion in borrowed dollars, money

they are using to bail out States run by

the President’s political buddies and to

reward devastating lockdowns that

have destroyed hundreds of thousands

of small businesses and kept kids out

of schools; billions on policies that will

reduce private-sector employment in

this country; billions on foreign aid.

And out of all the money, less than 9

percent goes towards healthcare spend-

ing to crush the virus and to put vac-

cinations in people’s arms.

The massive debt-inducing spending

package also threatens billions in cuts

to seniors on Medicare, including $36

billion starting next year. My guess is

that the President is probably not

going to be bragging to seniors he

meets on the road that the bill he

signed into law is cutting billions of

dollars from their Medicare, just as I

am sure he won’t bother to mention

that the economic recovery he wants

to take credit for is already underway;

that the economy is steadily projected

to reach the level of real GDP growth

we saw prior to the pandemic by the

middle of this year; that we are on

track this year, in fact, to have the

largest economic growth in more than

15 years, all without one dime used

from the nearly $2 trillion bailout

package that the Democrats passed in

the last week.

In other words, just as President

Biden has desperately tried to take

credit for the incredible, truly historic

work President Trump did to ensure

that we have vaccines going into the

arms to save lives, he is trying to take

credit for an economic recovery put in

place by the policies signed into law by

President Trump. Don’t listen to the

words. Watch his actions.

In fact, it was under President

Trump’s leadership that Operation

Warp Speed delivered multiple vaccines

in record time with planning to get

those shots in the arms of the Amer-

ican people. Meanwhile, the Biden ad-

ministration has spent an inordinate

amount of time running afoul of fact

checkers with their shameless rhetoric

meant to dismiss the incredible work

done by the previous administration.

Nevertheless, we are here today be-

cause Democrats want to fix one of the

many problems caused by President

Biden and the House Democrats in the

$1.9 trillion bailout: Those cuts to

Medicare. And they want to do so by

erasing almost $2 trillion in spending

from the Nation’s books; pretending $2

trillion in spending is not going to hap-

pen.

That, of course, serves two purposes

for our Democrat colleagues. First, it

avoids the immediate cuts, which they

caused and they chose to happen. Sec-

ond, it gives them a clean slate on

which they are reportedly already

planning to add trillions more in

spending in the months to come.

Given all of this, I would ask my col-

leagues to move forward with a much

better approach, one that stops their

Medicare cuts and does so in a more re-

sponsible way. Let’s work together to

protect seniors and to cut waste from

their bailout bill that the American

people clearly don’t want, such as stop-

ping billions in benefits and payments

to prisoners and illegal immigrants—

billions in payments to prisoners and

illegal immigrants; stopping funds they

recklessly jammed into the bailout for

the National Endowment for the Arts

and the National Endowment for the

Humanities; stopping special handouts

to Federal employees; rescinding bil-

lions in bailouts that go to State gov-

ernments that do not need it, and re-

ward their continued lockdowns.

Mr. Speaker, put people before poli-

tics. Put people before politics. Put

seniors ahead of the Democrats’ special

interests and their political class. This

is the responsible way to address the

Medicare cuts caused by my Democrat

colleagues. It is a far better approach

than to simply pretend $1.9 trillion in

spending is not happening. It is a far

more honest approach given the fact

that the President is traveling the

country bragging about the same near-

ly $2 trillion in spending.

Mr. Speaker, $1.9 trillion, such a big

number, is hard to put in proper per-

spective. But this year, when the

American people pay their Federal in-

come taxes, every single penny—every

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single penny of their hard-earned

money the IRS collects will total less

than the cost of this $1.9 trillion bail-

out to their friends, donors, and polit-

ical allies.

Let’s do the responsible thing: Pro-

tect seniors by rolling back some of the

most wasteful and wrong policies em-

bedded in the Democrat’s bailout bill.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of

my time.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield

2 minutes to the gentleman from Vir-

ginia (Mr. S

COTT

), the distinguished

chairman of the Committee on Edu-

cation and Labor, and also a member of

the Budget Committee.

Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker,

I rise in support of H.R. 1868.

Since the start of the pandemic, Con-

gress has passed several emergency

COVID–19 response packages to help

our communities get back on their

feet. Unfortunately, as the chairman

mentioned, due to technicalities in the

reconciliation process, some of that

progress will be wiped away unless we

pass this legislation.

So H.R. 1868 is necessary to prevent

the automatic, across-the-board fund-

ing cuts that will undermine our recov-

ery. Just as the ranking member men-

tioned, that will happen unless we pass

this bill. Many of those cuts will occur

within the jurisdiction of the Com-

mittee on Education and Labor.

For example, the legislation before

us protects student borrowers from

automatic increases and loan origina-

tion fees and would increase the cost of

taking out a student loan.

The bill protects TEACH Grants,

which help recruit talented individuals

into the classroom.

The proposal preserves funding for

many of our colleges struggling to sur-

vive during the pandemic.

Passing this legislation will prevent

cuts to grants that go to students

whose parents made the ultimate sac-

rifice serving our Nation in Iraq and

Afghanistan.

Finally, this bill protects Americans’

access to affordable healthcare during

the global health emergency.

Mr. Speaker, Congress took bold ac-

tion to get our country through the

pandemic by enacting the American

Rescue Plan. Now we must take this

final step in the reconciliation process

to ensure that we do not undermine

critical programs that students and

families urgently need.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to

support the legislation.

b 0930

Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker,

I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman

from Virginia (Mr. G

OOD

Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I

thank the distinguished ranking mem-

ber from Missouri for yielding this

time.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong

opposition to H.R. 1868, the Democrats’

attempt to put a Band-Aid on their

out-of-control spending, and this bill

tries to remove, as the others speakers

have said, the tough consequences of

their continued reckless and irrespon-

sible spending.

Last week, the Democrats passed

their massive $2 trillion blue State

bailout package with the intent to bur-

den future generations of Americans

with yet another layer of crippling

debt and inevitably higher taxes for

years to come.

This was yet another effort to fur-

ther use the COVID virus as an oppor-

tunity to fund their leftist expansion of

government, climate extremism, woke

social justice, and radical progressive

agenda. At $2 trillion, the Pelosi bail-

out bill would spend another $6,000 per

American citizen. This $6,000 in debt,

per citizen, with the chance for some to

receive a $1,400 check, is a raw deal for

Americans. Everybody gets an IOU for

$6,000; some people get a $1,400 check in

return.

Only 9 percent of the $2 trillion is

even related to COVID relief, with the

bulk of the spending going to fund

these Democrat pet projects. There is

no pressure at all on the teachers’

unions to even reopen the schools in re-

turn for the additional $130 billion in

the bill, the Democrats rejected those

commonsense amendments to require

the schools to reopen. Only 5 percent of

that $130 billion for schools will even

be spent this year in 2021, that is how

essential it is for COVID relief.

Now Democrats are finally acknowl-

edging today that their spending is out

of control and unsustainable, but in-

stead of seeking a true remedy for

their problem, they are once again try-

ing to kick the can down the road and

exempt their spending from long-

standing paygo rules.

This new legislation would prevent

sequestration for mandatory spending,

which was only triggered in response to

the reckless spending bill they passed

last week. Their ill-conceived bill

failed to cut funding for the unneces-

sary projects prioritized by Democrats,

but not by the American people.

The imminent future sequester cuts

this new bill is intended to address

came about as a result of the blatantly

partisan and irresponsible bill the

Democrats rammed through last week.

Our national debt is now nearing $30

trillion, an inconceivable number. It

equates to about $90,000 per citizen.

This amounts to an economic crisis, a

national security crisis, and we can’t

afford to ignore it any longer. A day of

reckoning is coming.

But the majority is ignoring it. Any

semblance of fiscal discipline would

have resulted in a COVID bill that was

maybe 10 to 20 percent of the $2 trillion

that was in H.R. 1319, the Pelosi blue

State bailout. But instead, they unilat-

erally, on a hyperpartisan basis,

rammed through the $2 trillion to sat-

isfy their left wing, and appease poorly

run blue States and Democratic gov-

ernors.

Our country cannot continue to af-

ford to race toward fiscal insolvency,

and this bill allows the Democrats to

put the pedal to the metal without con-

sequence, as we speed faster toward a

fiscal catastrophe. Rather than truly

helping the country, the bill enables

Democrats’ fiscal irresponsibility. Ac-

tions like this are why Congress has

such a low, abysmal approval rating.

I will continue to tell my folks back

home that I am fighting for them and

their hard-earned tax dollars, while the

other side wants to continue to steal

those dollars to fund their future pet

projects.

Mr. Speaker, we find ourselves today

truly in March madness, and the Demo-

crats are throwing up another air ball

with this legislation. I urge a ‘‘no’’

vote on this bill.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I would

like to remind the gentleman from Vir-

ginia that in 2017 when Republicans

passed an almost identical amount of

tax cuts, 83 percent of which went to

the top 1 percent and major corpora-

tions, M

ITCH

ONNELL

said on the

Senate floor: Sequestration has never

happened, will not happen now, and

will never happen. His words were pro-

phetic because it is not going to hap-

pen today.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the

gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. P

LONE

), the distinguished chairman of

the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I want

to thank the chair of our Budget Com-

mittee, the gentleman from Kentucky.

He really makes the point so well.

Look, regardless of what our ranking

member says on the other side, Amer-

ica is not in great shape, the economy

is not good, many people have lost

their jobs, and the reason for the

American Rescue Plan was exactly

that. We want to help people. We want

to make sure people get direct cash

payments to help them. We want to

make sure the State and local govern-

ments get help, because they don’t

want to be laying people off and not

provide services during the pandemic.

We want to help small businesses.

The contrast between what we, as

Democrats, push in the American Res-

cue Plan to help people in this eco-

nomic and health crisis is so vast com-

pared to what the Republicans did with

their tax cut, which just helped the

wealthiest and helped corporate inter-

est. It is that simple.

So I am just going to ask my col-

leagues on the other side to put par-

tisanship aside and vote for this bill.

This legislation includes non-con-

troversial policies that will truly help

all of our constituents. It provides crit-

ical support for hospitals and rural

health clinics and prevents cuts to

Medicare and other important pro-

grams.

In recent weeks, Republicans have

claimed that any cuts to Medicare

would be incredibly harmful. But the

only way to make sure that these cuts

don’t happen is passing this legislation

today. In the past, we have always been

able to come together to prevent these

cuts.

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When Republicans passed their $2

trillion tax law for the wealthiest few,

it triggered billions in mandatory cuts,

and Congress ultimately voted to pre-

vent those cuts with Democratic sup-

port. If Republicans truly want to pro-

tect Medicare and other programs that

support our farmers, our students, and

the Nation’s defense, they simply

should vote for this bill today.

Mr. Speaker, I want to remind my

colleagues that in addition to averting

statutory paygo cuts, this bill provides

additional relief specifically to front-

line healthcare providers through in-

creased Medicare payments. This is a

policy that Congress supported mul-

tiple times. Please support this bill if

you care.

Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker,

I yield myself such time as I may con-

sume.

Mr. Speaker, I just want to remind

the gentleman from New Jersey that

the folks in southeast Missouri, a fam-

ily of four who makes less than $55,000

a year, under the Tax Cuts and Jobs

Act had zero in tax liability because of

what the Republicans passed.

I don’t think a family of four, who

makes $55,000 or less, is considered the

wealthy. But apparently maybe some-

one from New Jersey might think

someone who makes $55,000 for a family

of four is wealthy. It is surely not in

southeast Missouri.

I also would like to point out that

the gentleman from New Jersey did not

help support in waiving this provision

back in 2017.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the

gentleman from California (Mr.

LINTOCK

Mr. M

CLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, this

bill is just the first taste of a bitter

brew concocted by those who pushed

through $1.9 trillion of pure deficit

spending last week.

Now, this measure involves our

paygo rules. You remember paygo. The

current version dates to 2010. In those

days everyone was worried about a $1.3

trillion deficit and $13 trillion of na-

tional debt. Isn’t that adorable?

Paygo requires across-the-board

spending cuts to offset any bill that

spends money we don’t have. And we

just spent a lot of money we don’t

have. As paygo works, the first install-

ment payment for this Biden binge is

$345 billion of spending cuts every year

for the next 5 years, and that includes

$52 billion in paygo and BCA cuts to

Medicare, which is expected to go

broke in 2024 as it is. Now, that is just

to pay for the party the Democrats had

the other day. So it is time to pay for

it.

How do you deal with a bill like that?

Well, it is pretty simple: Just forget

about it. Just wipe it off the books and

start planning the next trillion-dollar

spending spree. In fairness, that is how

both parties have addressed paygo

since we passed it. And the net result is

the deficit has nearly tripled and the

debt has more than doubled in less

than a decade.

At least the Republican tax cuts in

2017 helped produce such a strong eco-

nomic recovery that our revenues went

up. They didn’t go down. Now, that

should have reduced our deficit, but

our failure to control spending instead

drove that deficit still higher. In short,

it is the spending, stupid.

No nation has ever spent, taxed, and

borrowed its way to prosperity, but

many have spent, taxed, and borrowed

themselves into bankruptcy and ruin.

History warns us that nations that

bankrupt themselves aren’t around

very long, because before you can pro-

vide for the common defense and pro-

mote the general welfare, you first

have to be able to pay for them.

Excessive debt saps the credit of a

nation that is its lifeline in times of

genuine peril. It consumes the future

prosperity of the nation as interest

costs swell. It saps the economic vital-

ity of our Nation by crowding out cap-

ital that would otherwise be available

to consumers and home buyers and

businesses. It robs the currency of its

value, pilfering the Nation’s savings

and their pensions. It alienates capital

markets until interest rates rise and

interest costs balloon into a debt spi-

ral. Once this starts, there is no way to

stop it until the whole house of cards

crashes down.

Do you know want to know what

that looks likes? It looks a lot like

Venezuela.

In the spring of 1945, there was seri-

ous concern whether we could continue

the war into 1946. Bond sales were fail-

ing miserably, war taxes, spending,

borrowing, and inflation had hollowed

out our economy, and the Nation’s

credit was nearing exhaustion. Now

consider this: we are carrying a larger

percentage of debt today than we were

at the very end of World War II, and I

fear how we could respond to a similar

sustained national threat today.

When a colleague told the great econ-

omist, Adam Smith, that a British de-

feat would be the ruin of the nation,

Smith calmly observed: ‘‘Be assured,

my young friend, that there is a great

deal of ruin in a nation.’’

But as I look at the unprecedented

and unsustainable debt that these poli-

cies are producing, I can’t avoid a sense

of foreboding that our Nation is fast

running out of ruin, and that a terrible

day of reckoning is coming.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield

2 minutes to the gentlewoman from

Minnesota (Ms. C

RAIG

), a distinguished

member of the Energy and Commerce

Committee.

Ms. CRAIG. Mr. Speaker, last week

we passed the American Rescue Plan to

help our Nation get through a COVID–

19 public health and economic crisis.

This historic legislation is already

helping millions of Americans and hun-

dreds of thousands of Minnesotans.

When I think about this piece of leg-

islation, it is widely, on a bipartisan

basis, supported in a swing district like

mine back in Minnesota. But if Con-

gress fails to take action—and we are

not going to let that happen—to pre-

vent sequestration, countless Federal

programs that our constituents rely on

could be impacted.

If we fail to pass H.R. 1868, cuts to

programs at USDA could devastate

family farmers who are already reeling

after years of trade instability and stu-

pid trade wars. We must act because we

cannot allow cuts to Medicare, risking

seniors’ access to care at a time when

they need it the most, in the midst of

a deadly global pandemic.

Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my col-

leagues to vote ‘‘yes’’ on this crucial

legislation to ensure that the Federal

Government can meet the needs of

Minnesotans and the American people

during a public health crisis. This body

that I joined just over 2 years ago; this

body has come together numerous

times to make sure that we do not

allow sequestration to take cuts for

worse ideas than helping the American

people through a public health crisis.

Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to

please support this bill today.

Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker,

I yield 3 minutes the gentleman from

Ohio (Mr. W

ENSTRUP

b 0945

Mr. WENSTRUP. Mr. Speaker, the

pandemic was a problem that led some

healthcare providers to close their

doors. In a bipartisan way, in the pre-

vious session of Congress, we made an

effort to fix that problem.

Now, because of the Democrats’ irre-

sponsible spending bill, healthcare pro-

viders who are struggling will see de-

creased payments, which is the last

thing they need right now, and it is the

last thing we need right now.

Medicare reimbursement rates are al-

ready low, only balanced out by non-

Medicare payments. The better way is

to target the funding to those who need

it and are still working to come out of

the pandemic. We can fill the gaps

without adding to the deficit.

Wasn’t the idea of a rescue to im-

prove access to care? Yet, 9 percent of

the $1.9 trillion really went to address

the COVID crisis.

They bailed out failed pension funds

without reform and ignored our doctors

and healthcare providers on the front

lines of the pandemic. They cut pay-

ments to caregivers. $1.9 trillion, yet

cuts to healthcare providers during a

pandemic.

What Democrats are trying to do

today is ignore the negative con-

sequences of the bill they passed ear-

lier this month. The consequences of

the bill passed 2 weeks ago means there

will be payment cuts to providers.

$1.9 trillion? Someone should be

helped in this measure, but we can do

better. We can do better, but we

weren’t talked to for our ideas.

Mr. Speaker, Members should ask

themselves: What about all of this

today? Will the next several genera-

tions of Americans look to us and say

thank you as they get stuck with pay-

ing our bills?

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Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield

2 minutes to the gentleman from Geor-

gia (Mr. D

AVID

COTT

), who is the dis-

tinguished chairman of the Agriculture

Committee.

Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia. Mr.

Speaker, I thank the chairman for

yielding.

Mr. Speaker, this is an important

and urgent activity that we are on this

morning. Now, my Republican friends

talked about this, but they did the

identical, same thing in 2017 with

President Trump’s tax cuts. What is

good for my friends is also good for us.

That is the way the rules are.

Mr. Speaker, let me tell you how dev-

astating the damage would be if we do

not act. First of all, it will cut $29 bil-

lion from badly needed programs, and

no entity will be impacted and dev-

astated like agriculture. They will cut

$29 billion and cut our programs for en-

ergy efficiency and rural development.

We are working on that together.

This bill will save our rural develop-

ment, research, specialty crop develop-

ment, and beginning and veteran farm-

er development.

Out of the $29 billion, it will take $23

billion out of our Commodity Credit

Corporation, limiting our ability to

make payments to our farmers and

food producers at this critical time

when we are in a hunger crisis.

Mr. Speaker, you must understand,

we Democrats and Republicans need to

send a powerful message to the Nation

on this bill.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The

time of the gentleman has expired.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield

the gentleman from Georgia an addi-

tional 30 seconds.

Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia. Mr.

Speaker, let us move hand in hand to-

gether at this serious time.

Now, when my friends used this, it

was for the tax cut, most of which went

to the wealthy. But this $23 billion cut

to our CCC will devastate the Amer-

ican people where it hurts the most:

their food, their water, their shelter,

and their clothing. We must not do

that.

Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to

join us.

Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker,

I would like to remind the body that

the reason we are here today is because

of the reckless behavior. All of these

cuts on Medicare are because House

Democrats forced through a nearly $2

trillion spending bill. The reason we

have the paygo statutory provision is

because President Obama signed it into

law and House Democrats passed it. So

the cuts are the result today of all the

policies that Democrats have been

doing since 2010.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the

gentleman from Georgia (Mr. C

ARTER

Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speak-

er, today, we are addressing a problem

that didn’t even exist a week ago. It

did not even exist last week.

The Republicans stood on this floor

and argued against the $1.9 trillion par-

tisan package last week. There were

many reasons to oppose it, but one of

the most significant reasons was the

fact that the bill would trigger cuts to

Medicare and other essential programs.

We argued that it would harm all of

our constituents. I argued that it

would harm my constituents in Geor-

gia to my friend, my fellow delegation

member. This bill penalized the State

of Georgia more than any State in the

United States. More than any State in

the Nation, Georgia was punished. We

lost $1.3 billion because of the funding

formula. We didn’t shut down our

State, and we didn’t destroy our econ-

omy, and the funding was based on the

unemployment rate and not popu-

lation.

Where did that $1.3 billion go? It

went to blue States. It went to Cali-

fornia, and it went to New York. Geor-

gian taxpayers’ money went to other

States; it went to blue States.

What did it do to Medicare in the

State of Georgia? We lost $11.5 billion

that would have gone to the seniors on

Medicare in the State of Georgia.

Where did it go? Again, it went to

California, and it went to New York. It

went to the blue States. It went to the

States that shut down their businesses

and destroyed their economies. Yet,

the bill was pushed forward anyway.

This could have all been avoided al-

together. We could have crafted a bi-

partisan package that would not have

triggered these Medicare cuts. Instead,

those across the aisle resorted to forc-

ing a bill through reconciliation. In the

end, they passed a package filled with

political favors on the back of our sen-

iors.

Again, this could have been avoided.

But today, we need to fix this for our

constituents who are recognizing we

have a spending problem.

Now that the largest stimulus bill in

our history has been signed into law,

our deficit for the year will also break

records. We are now projected to have

a Federal deficit of $3.4 trillion, and

debt as a share of our GDP will be at

100 percent for only the second time in

our country’s history.

My colleagues have shown little re-

gard for actually paying for this reck-

less spending for political favor. That

is why I urge my colleagues to find a

way to pay for restoring the cuts to

Medicare. The first place I suggest

looking for it is in the over 90 percent

of the last package that will not go to

addressing the pandemic.

Mr. Speaker, this is wrong, and my

colleagues know it is wrong. Let’s get

this fixed.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield

2 minutes to the gentleman from Cali-

fornia (Mr. P

ANETTA

), who is a distin-

guished member of the Ways and

Means Committee.

Mr. PANETTA. Mr. Speaker, today, I

rise in support of H.R. 1868 to prevent

these harmful budget cuts to vital agri-

cultural programs that are relied on by

farmers, farmworkers, and food-inse-

cure families in all of our districts.

If we don’t pass this bill today, $29

billion in agricultural funding would be

subject to these sequester cuts. Those

types of cuts would zero out funding

for such crucial agricultural programs

like EQIP, the Conservation Steward-

ship Program, and the Regional Con-

servation Partnership Program.

In my district on the mid-central

coast of California, many farmers,

ranchers, and forest landowners rely on

those types of helpful programs not

just to survive, Mr. Speaker, but to

succeed. They use those programs to

harvest their products and to be part of

the climate solution.

The producers in my district under-

stand and appreciate the old adage

called usufruct, which basically says

the land they use now must be kept

fresh and fertile, not just for them, but

for future generations. It is these pro-

grams that contribute to their current

product and, yes, that type of forward

thinking.

Sequester cuts would also prevent

the Federal Government from pur-

chasing and donating food to food

banks through section 32 purchases.

After the year we had, in which food

banks contributed so much to the food

security of so many of my constitu-

ents, we should be doing everything we

can to protect and bolster our food pro-

grams.

We should also be doing everything

we can to protect the production of

food, but sequestration cuts would

compromise many parts of the farm

bill, like the specialty crop block

grants or the agricultural research ex-

tension programs at public univer-

sities.

As the co-chair of the Congressional

Agriculture Research Caucus, I know

that these types of ag research pro-

grams help our farmers meet the chal-

lenges of 2021 and will allow them to

prepare for challenges of the 21st cen-

tury.

Mr. Speaker, as the Representative

from the salad bowl of the world, it is

my job to ensure that my farmers,

farmworkers, and food-insecure fami-

lies have all the tools that they need to

live and lead healthy and productive

lives.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The

time of the gentleman has expired.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield

an additional 30 seconds to the gen-

tleman from California.

Mr. PANETTA. Mr. Speaker, as Rep-

resentatives in Congress for this Na-

tion, it is all of our jobs to ensure that

the programs for those tools and that

food are here not just for today but to-

morrow. We can live up to that respon-

sibility by supporting H.R. 1868.

Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker,

I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman

from Mississippi (Mr. K

ELLY

), who is

the newest member of the Budget Com-

mittee.

Mr. KELLY of Mississippi. Mr.

Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R.

1868, the bill to prevent across-the-

board direct spending cuts.

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It should come as no surprise to my

Democrat friends. They were told dur-

ing what little process we had in the

$1.9 trillion spending bill that it was

going to disproportionately hurt sen-

iors and that it was going to hurt farm-

ers.

My friends were told this, and they

ignored that, knowing they would have

to fix it later and drive something just

as irresponsible through now.

A disproportionate share of this $2

trillion goes to urban, poorly run,

Democrat cities and States at the ex-

pense of our rural, blue-collar Ameri-

cans who feed, clothe, and protect

America every day. We told my friends

this weeks ago, and they ignored it.

I am deeply concerned that the

Democrats would enact a bill that adds

$1.9 trillion to an American deficit

without the support of a single Repub-

lican. Over 200 voting Members of this

body had no opportunity for input into

this massively destructive package.

The Biden administration promised

the American people bipartisanship

and unity. However, they unilaterally

drafted and pushed this bill through

without any Republican support.

Now, the Democrats have hastily put

together a bill that jeopardizes the

standing of our seniors and mortgages

the future of our children.

My colleague, Ranking Member

MITH

, reminded the Democrats of the

consequences of such a dramatic in-

crease in mandatory spending: a $36

billion cut to Medicare beginning in

2022. Democrats would rather cut bene-

fits to American seniors in rural Amer-

ica than give up checks to illegal im-

migrants and prisoners.

The Democrats have taken advantage

of the need of the American people. My

colleagues are advocating for a more

responsible alternative that would re-

move the wasteful spending of the

Biden bailout bill and protect the most

vulnerable population. We must cut the

billions of liberal State bailouts and be

sure money already authorized is spent

responsibly.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I want

to remind the gentleman from Mis-

sissippi, along with all the other Mem-

bers of this body, that his citizens will

receive, in total, $900 million from just

the $1,400 checks. That is the average

that every congressional district is

going to receive, and I hope that at

some point they will realize the bene-

fits of that injection of capital into an

economy that is struggling.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the

gentleman from Connecticut (Mr.

OURTNEY

), who is a distinguished

member of the Education and Labor

Committee.

Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, I

thank the chairman of the Budget

Committee for his and his committee

staff’s steady hand over the last couple

of months to make sure that the Amer-

ican Rescue Plan was enacted last

week.

Mr. Speaker, in that week’s time up

to today, the American people have

had a chance to listen to the debate

and evaluate for themselves what they

think of the American Rescue Plan. A

Morning Consult poll that came out

yesterday showed 72 percent support

for the plan, 44 percent among Repub-

licans across the country.

Why not? Ninety million Americans

on Wednesday received $1,400 checks

totaling $242 billion. For those Ameri-

cans who are not connected digitally to

the IRS, they are going to get their

checks through the mail.

b 1000

For those Americans who are filing

their 2020 tax returns, whose income

now qualifies them for the economic

impact payments, they are going to re-

ceive their checks.

On Monday, people who were on un-

employment got an extension because

of the American Rescue Plan. These

are working people in the service sec-

tors, in the commercial real estate sec-

tor, in most parts of the economy that

are still hurting out there.

Every ‘‘no’’ vote was a ‘‘no’’ vote in

terms of people getting that critical

economic help.

Another vote of confidence happened

on Wednesday, which is, the Federal

Reserve Board met and voted to keep

their key benchmark rate at zero, not

just for a couple of weeks or a couple of

months, but for the balance of 2021, for

all of 2022, and into 2023.

So for all of the historical arguments

that we are overheating the economy

and inflation is going to go up, Jerome

Powell, Donald Trump’s nominee as

chair of the Federal Reserve, took

questions for over an hour on this in-

flation issue, argued, accurately, with

a battalion of economists that they

have at the Federal Reserve that there

is still slack in this economy and 10

million folks on unemployment need to

get this type of fiscal relief that the

American Rescue Plan responsibly tar-

geted, which is going to make sure that

this country recovers as soon as pos-

sible.

This is a routine bill today. We have

done it over and over again in the last

10 years. Vote ‘‘yes’’ and make sure

that this economy, as the Chairman of

the Federal Reserve advised us, gets

the help it needs.

Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker,

I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman

from Texas (Mr. B

URGESS

), one of the

leading doctors of the Republican Con-

ference and a great member of the

Budget Committee.

Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I thank

the gentleman for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, I am going to speak in

opposition to H.R. 1868, but I also feel

obligated to point out that you may

say that the inflation rate is zero, but

if you bought a gallon of gas, pur-

chased a two-by-four at Home Depot,

or bought a sack of Quikrete at Lowe’s,

you would know that inflation is a real

phenomenon.

But I do rise in opposition to H.R.

1868. There was no effort made on the

part of the majority party to work

with Republicans on what should be a

bipartisan priority, and that is pro-

vider relief.

I have heard from physicians and I

have heard from hospitals in Texas

that struggled financially throughout

the pandemic. But the bill we have be-

fore us today is simply an excuse to

wipe out the scorecard of the fiscal im-

pact of this $1.9 trillion partisan pack-

age passed last week.

Last week, Republicans warned that

this would threaten cuts to Medicare,

but those warnings were repeatedly ig-

nored. If the House majority really

cared, if the House Democrats really

cared about meaningful healthcare pro-

vider relief, they would have worked to

gain Republican support, worked with

us to build a bill from the ground up.

Instead, this bill is coming toward us

as a Hail Mary pass right before the

Medicare sequester cuts go into effect

in April.

As a physician, I have deep empathy

for those whose medical practices have

been impacted and are now struggling

to stay open. I know I have helped

many doctors, many clinics, navigate

the Provider Relief Fund over this past

year. We need targeted relief for the

providers who are hurting, and some

are hurting more than others.

I am a cosponsor of H.R. 1999, which

is an alternative approach that adds

over $12 billion to the Provider Relief

Fund and ensures that dollars would

flow to those doctors who have experi-

enced lost revenue or increased cost.

This type of financial relief has al-

ready been proven successful. We

passed the CARES Act on March 27 of

last year. We know it’s successful.

Additionally, this alternative bill en-

sures that the 4 percent cut to Medi-

care providers that was included in last

week’s reconciliation bill as a result of

statutory paygo does not go into effect

in 2022.

The American Rescue Plan Act gifted

$350 billion to State and local govern-

ments that simply was not justified.

Providers in our State and local com-

munities are worthy of funding and

they should specifically benefit from

those State and local dollars that are

not necessary to go where they are

planned to go. That is why we would

like to redirect the State and local

funding toward provider relief.

Maintaining a strong healthcare

workforce is critical to the health of

this Nation during normal times, and

it is especially critical during a public

health emergency.

We should work together on the right

policy solution to deliver this relief to

ensure that it stands a chance of actu-

ally passing in the other body, and that

should be a starting point for those dis-

cussions.

Mr. Speaker, I hope we can come to

such a sensible solution.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I am

happy to yield 2 minutes to the gentle-

woman from Illinois (Ms. S

CHA

KOWSKY

), a distinguished member of

the Budget Committee.

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Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, I

am proud to cosponsor H.R. 1868 to pre-

vent arbitrary cuts to Medicare and to

ensure that the American Rescue Plan

is treated in the same way as previous

coronavirus bills have been treated, in-

cluding the CARES Act.

This legislation, as we all know, this

fix is needed to avoid painful cuts to

our mandatory spending programs. And

let’s remember—the hypocrisy is over-

whelming here—that the Democrats

voted with Republicans in 2017 to avoid

Medicare cuts as a result of the Repub-

lican’s tax scam, a $2 trillion tax cut,

that went mostly to the wealthy.

Our healthcare workers have been

working nonstop for over a year fight-

ing this pandemic. They do not deserve

a cut in Medicare payments for taking

care of seniors and people with disabil-

ities.

By removing the sequester, we can

ensure that providers keep their doors

open and they can continue to treat

their patients.

Though Republicans voted against

the American Rescue Plan, which they

shouldn’t have, I sincerely hope that

today they will join us and vote to pro-

tect these programs that enjoy broad

bipartisan public support and ensure

that our commitment to our Nation’s

seniors and people with disabilities are

met during this public health crisis.

Especially now, we need to be work-

ing together, as we did for the Repub-

licans. When the Republicans were giv-

ing tax cuts to the wealthiest Ameri-

cans, we were not going to let Medicare

suffer.

Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker,

I would like to remind the gentle-

woman from Illinois that actions speak

louder than words, and that the Demo-

crats did not help the folks in 2017,

since the gentlewoman tried to point

out the hypocrisy.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the

gentleman from Texas (Mr.

RRINGTON

Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I

thank the gentleman for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, to the gentlewoman’s

point about working together, Demo-

crats did not offer a hand of bipartisan-

ship in this ram-and-jam job on the $2

trillion bailout bill. They even lost

Democrats on it. So they didn’t work

with us.

It was a pure partisan play, and there

is a reason for that. It is mostly unre-

lated to COVID. It is bailout galore. It

is a wish list of the liberals in this

House, and they just pushed it through

and called it, in disguise, COVID relief.

But the fundamental principle we are

talking about today is paygo. This is a

law passed by Democrats, signed by a

Democrat President. It says, fun-

damentally—and the American people

understand this—if you spend beyond

your means, you have got to find a way

to pay for it. You have got to offset it

or you go into debt.

Mr. Speaker, the American people, if

they don’t pay their bills, they get

their water turned off or their elec-

tricity turned off. The IRS will hunt

them down and put them in jail if they

don’t pay their taxes. They will have

their mortgage foreclosed, their cars

repossessed. That is what happens to

the American people when they don’t

pay their bills.

President Obama, when he signed the

law, said, You can’t spend a dollar un-

less you cut a dollar elsewhere. I agree

with him.

Ms. P

ELOSI

, our Speaker, gave a

speech and she gave glowing points as

she embraced wholeheartedly and full-

throatedly this paygo. She said it is

important ‘‘ . . . to our fiscal sound-

ness, and to our children and grand-

children.’’

She said: ‘‘ . . . who could oppose this

great idea?’’

She went on to say: ‘‘ . . . invest-

ments in our children’s future . . .

must be paid for, or else we are heaping

debt onto our children.’’

The national debt is almost $30 tril-

lion and counting.

Who is going to pay for that?

Not us. Not you. Our kids are going

to pay for it.

These are Ms. P

ELOSI

’s words, Mr.

Speaker: ‘‘This pay-as-you-go is part of

a blueprint for fiscal responsibility.

... ’’

She said: ‘‘ . . . subjecting spending

to the harshest scrutiny. Every Federal

dollar that is spent must be subjected

to scrutiny to make sure taxpayers get

his or her money’s worth.’’

Bailing out union pensions, giving

cities and States money that horribly

mismanaged their business prior to

COVID, giving people more money to

be on unemployment than they made

in their previous jobs, paying people

who are not economically harmed in

this COVID disaster, all of these things

are wasteful. There is a litany of

wasteful, irresponsible, and unneces-

sary spending, hundreds of billions of

dollars.

And the Speaker is saying every dol-

lar is going to be scrutinized. We are

going to stick it to our seniors. We are

going to stick it to our kids. That is a

profile in courage, if I ever saw one.

Now, that is the leadership that made

this country great, Mr. Speaker. These

are Ms. P

ELOSI

’s words, not mine, but I

agree with her.

We have an opportunity here to do

the right thing by our children, to off-

set the spending here in this $2 trillion

bailout with the wasteful spending that

is in there. And I gave you a list, Mr.

Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I plead with you and I

plead with my colleagues to offset this

and do right by our kids and their fu-

ture in this country.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, may I

inquire as to how much time remains

on both sides?

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen-

tleman from Kentucky has 11

⁄

min-

utes remaining. The gentleman from

Missouri has 1

⁄

minutes remaining.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I am

happy to yield 2 minutes to the gentle-

woman from Texas (Ms. J

ACKSON

a distinguished member of the Budget

Committee.

Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I

thank our distinguished chairman for

yielding.

Mr. Speaker, whenever you hear the

words of Speaker P

ELOSI

, you know

that the gentlewoman is leading us on

the fight to protect our seniors. I am

glad to cosponsor this legislation to be

a strong supporter of being on the front

seat of protecting our seniors.

Whenever you hear us being

demagogued from those on the other

side using demagoguery, you can be as-

sured that when they pass a tax bill, it

was not having seniors as their pri-

ority. But when you hear the word

‘‘Medicare,’’ you know that Democrats

are standing strong to make sure that

not one dime is taken away from our

seniors with Medicare.

My open letter to my seniors in my

district—open message to my seniors

is: We will die on the vine to protect

your Medicare. That is what we are

doing today on the floor of the House.

Not one dime will come out of your

Medicare.

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to support

H.R. 1868, which excludes the budgetary

effects of the American Rescue Plan of

2021 from scorecards established by the

Pay-As-You-Go, or PAYGO Act of 2010,

preventing across-the-board cuts to nu-

merous direct-spending programs. That

is what we are doing here today. We

are taking our seniors seriously.

I say to seniors: Have no fear with all

of this demagoguery because we are

going to make sure that not one dime

comes out of your pocket.

In addition, I say to seniors: You are

going to be living in cities like Hous-

ton, where it says that Houston’s share

of the stimulus package is $615 million.

That is going to help keep the city

services going, the fire, the police, and

trash pickup going. We know that sen-

iors call my office and these issues are

important to them.

Mr. Speaker, I include in the R

ECORD

a Houston Chronicle article dated

March 10, 2021, showing that the city of

Houston will receive $615 million.

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(By Jasper Scherer)

Houston and Harris County are expected to

receive more than $1.5 billion through the

stimulus bill approved by Congress Wednes-

day, providing a massive cash injection that

city officials say will help close a budget

shortfall widened by the pandemic for the

second year in a row.

The measure provides local governments

with their most generous round of COVID-re-

lated funding yet, and it comes with fewer

spending restrictions than last year’s aid.

Houston will receive an estimated $615 mil-

lion, putting the city at more than $1 billion

in direct federal relief during the pandemic,

while Harris County is projected to receive

$914 million—more than double its allotment

from the first round of local aid last March.

‘‘I’m hopeful and optimistic that we will be

able to use this money to, essentially, bail

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the city out of a very dire financial situa-

tion,’’ said City Controller Chris Brown, who

monitors the spending of Houston’s more

than $5 billion city budget.

Many local governments, including Hous-

ton, have seen their sales tax revenues plum-

met as the pandemic slowed consumer spend-

ing on dining, tourism and other leisure ac-

tivity. And while rising appraisal values

mean the city is projected to take in more

money from property taxes this year than

last, officials say the pandemic’s true toll on

property tax revenue may not be felt until

early 2022, when homeowners make pay-

ments for this year’s not-yet-certified tax

rolls.

Much to the relief of local officials, the

latest round of federal aid allows cities and

counties to spend the funds to replace rev-

enue lost due to the pandemic. Trump ad-

ministration rules barred local governments

from using the first round of local COVID re-

lief to plug budget holes, stipulating it could

only cover expenses tied directly to the pan-

demic, though Mayor Sylvester Turner’s ad-

ministration still was able to use the funds

to avoid furloughing city employees.

Marvin Odum, the former Shell executive

appointed by the mayor to oversee the city’s

COVID recovery, said Wednesday he is ‘‘very

optimistic the funds will be able to be used

to mitigate the city’s budget shortfalls re-

sulting from COVID–19.’’ Still, he noted that

beyond the broad language in the bill, fed-

eral officials have yet to release specific

rules for how local governments can spend

the funds.

‘‘I’ll just caution that clarity on the guide-

lines for these programs tends to come over

time. It’s not always available imme-

diately,’’ Odum said.

Republican lawmakers bitterly opposed

the local aid, including Senate Minority

Leader Mitch McConnell, who accused Demo-

crats of sending ‘‘wheelbarrows of cash to

state and local bureaucrats to bail out mis-

management from before the pandemic.’’

Meanwhile, local officials across the country

have warned they would have to enact deep

cuts to city services, such as fire, police and

trash collection, without federal aid to offset

their revenue losses.

‘‘Every mayor, every county judge, every

local official that I visited with since before

December, they all need help,’’ said U.S. Rep.

Sylvia Garcia, D–Houston, a former Houston

controller and county commissioner. ‘‘Every

city in America will get dollars to help with

their revenue shortfalls. And that’s huge, be-

cause they can keep the firefighters working,

they can keep police departments open, they

can get the garbage picked up.’’

Even before the pandemic, Houston offi-

cials in recent years have scrambled to close

major city budget gaps, often dipping into

reserves to balance spending and revenue.

The city’s public safety costs, which make

up more than half of spending on core serv-

ices, have steadily increased as the budget

remains capped by a limit on how much

property tax revenue the city can take in

each year.

‘‘It’s going to solve, in the short term,

some of these problems, but the real chal-

lenge is, you cannot solve a structural prob-

lem with one-time financing sources,’’ Brown

said. ‘‘You actually have to do the hard work

to cut recurring expenses. And that’s the

only way you can narrow that budget gap

over time.’’

Local governments will receive half their

federal aid within 60 days of Friday, when

President Joe Eiden will sign the bill into

law, according to White House press sec-

retary Jen Psaki. They will receive the sec-

ond half of the funds at least a year later.

That means Houston will receive more

than $300 million to offset its revenue losses

next fiscal year, along with any potential

shortfall before the current fiscal year ends

June 30. Odum said the city finance depart-

ment is projecting a budget gap of between

$160 and $200 million next year, while

Brown—whose office generates its own esti-

mates separate from Turner’s administra-

tion—said he expects the shortfall to be even

higher.

Brown noted that while finance depart-

ment projections assume the city will see a

less-than-1 percent reduction in sales tax

revenue this year, the actual decrease has

been 7 percent.

‘‘The (Turner) administration, I don’t

think, has properly evaluated the reductions

in sales and property tax,’’ Brown said.

‘‘There’s a $40 million variance between us

and (the) finance (department) in sales tax

alone.’’

Brown estimated city officials will have to

lay off about a dozen city employees for

every $1 million trimmed from the budget,

meaning Houston could have been looking at

more than 2,000 layoffs without any federal

aid.

Instead, Houston’s relief will far exceed its

budget deficit. The city also is expected to

devote a chunk of the aid to direct COVID

relief, such as testing and vaccinations.

Turner’s administration exhausted the pre-

vious round of aid, totaling $405 million, in

December. Those funds covered contact trac-

ing efforts, city workers whose jobs were

consumed by COVID, and relief to renters

and small businesses, among other areas.

Turner, who proposes the annual budget to

city council each year, did not respond to

questions Wednesday about how he intends

to spend the new round of relief aid.

Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, let

me also indicate that seniors’

healthcare will be in a good place with

this particular program. Their grand-

children will be able to go back to

school with almost $1 billion to the

Houston Independent School District.

Seniors’ stimulus checks are not

going to be ignored. They are going to

be able to get stimulus checks directly

into their accounts. Their grand-

children, their children will get $3,600

for a 5-year-old.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The

time of the gentlewoman has expired.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield

an additional 30 seconds to the gentle-

woman from Texas.

Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I

thank the gentleman for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, they will get $3,000 for

children above 9 years old. There will

be enhanced unemployment for the

young people in their lives who have

been unemployed. And then, of course,

that local restaurant will be able—and

I fought for this—to be open again with

$28 billion.

The issue of public assistance or local

government assistance was something I

was allowed to offer a motion to in-

struct on. It was something that I

thought we could not abandon. We will

not abandon seniors. We will not let

them touch one dime of Medicare, as

our friends on the other side have.

Vote for this legislation because we

are seniors first.

Mr. Speaker, as a senior member of the

Committees on the Judiciary, on Homeland

Security, on the Budget, and as the Member

of Congress for a congressional district that

has experience the worst of the COVID–19 as

a public health emergency and economic ca-

tastrophe, I rise in strong support of H.R.

1868, which excludes the budgetary effects of

the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, from

the scorecards established by the Statutory

Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010, pre-

venting across-the-board cuts to numerous di-

rect spending programs.

The legislation also excludes the budgetary

effects of this Act from the Senate PAYGO

scorecards.

This legislation is necessary to ensure that

that Medicare and other programs are pro-

tected from PAYGO sequestration.

The Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act requires

across-the-board cuts, known as ‘‘sequestra-

tion,’’ to a defined set of programs if certain

legislation affecting mandatory spending or

revenues increases net deficits.

Although legislation that Congress des-

ignates as an emergency or otherwise ex-

cludes from the PAYGO scorecard does not

trigger sequestration, this action is necessary

because restrictions on the content of rec-

onciliation bills prevented the American Res-

cue Plan Act of 2021 from including a provi-

sion to avert sequestration.

The bill before also extends a separate

Medicare sequester relief provision, first en-

acted in the CARES Act, that expires March

31,

Mr. Speaker, Congress has never permitted

sequestration to affect the Medicare trust fund

and it certainly will not allow it now, just when

help is arriving under the American Rescue

Plan Act to put shots in arms, money in pock-

ets, kids in school, and workers back on the

job.

It is worthwhile to explain why the American

Rescue Plan Act is the most transformative

legislation in more than a half century and

easily justifies exclusion from sequestration.

H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act,

is a landmark, life-saving legislation that will

provide urgently-needed resources to defeat

the virus, put vaccines in people’s arms,

money into families’ pockets, children safely

back into classrooms, and people back to

work.

With tens of millions of Americans infected,

more than half a million lives lost, over 18 mil-

lion Americans unemployed and millions more

hungry and food and housing insecure, thanks

to the work of congressional Democrats in the

House and Senate and the Biden Administra-

tion, at long last the people of the United

States and my home state of Texas can be

assured that ‘Help Is On The Way.’

In simple terms this life-saving and life-en-

hancing legislation puts vaccines in arms, puts

money in people’s pockets, puts children safe-

ly back in school, and it will put workers back

in jobs.

1. Put Vaccines in Arms: The plan will

mount a national vaccination program that in-

cludes setting up community vaccination sites

nationwide and addressing disparities facing

communities of color. It will also take com-

plementary measures to combat the virus, in-

cluding scaling up testing and tracing, ad-

dressing shortages of personal protective

equipment and other critical supplies, investing

in high-quality treatments, and addressing

health care disparities.

2. Put Money in People’s Pockets: The plan

finishes the job on the President’s promise to

provide $2,000 in direct assistance to house-

holds across America with checks of $1,400

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per person, following the $600 down payment

enacted in December. The plan will also pro-

vide direct housing assistance, nutrition assist-

ance for 40 million Americans, expand access

to safe and reliable child care and affordable

health care, extend unemployment insurance

so that 18 million American workers can pay

their bills and support 27 million children with

an expanded Child Tax Credit and more than

17 million low-wage workers through an im-

proved Earned Income Tax Credit.

3. Put Children Safely Back in School: The

plan delivers $170 billion for education and

$45 billion for childcare providers. This in-

cludes a $130 billion investment in K–12

school re-opening and making up for lost time

in the classroom, with funds that can be used

for such things as reducing class sizes, modi-

fying spaces so that students and teachers

can socially distance, improving ventilation,

implementing more mitigation measures, pro-

viding personal protective equipment and pro-

viding summer school or other support for stu-

dents that help make up lost learning time this

year. The plan also provides more than $40

billion for higher education.

Here is what the American Rescue Plan Act

means for the State of Texas, Houston, and

Harris County.

An estimated $16.7 billion will come to the

State of Texas.

The lion’s share of $3.3 billion will come di-

rectly to the City of Houston, and Harris Coun-

ty will receive a similar share of $5.667 billion,

thanks to a provision in the law I helped se-

cure that created the Coronavirus Local Fiscal

Recovery Fund and appropriated $45.57 bil-

lion.

$1.4 billion in direct payments is allocated to

smaller jurisdiction like Jacinto City.

Houston Independent School District can

expect to receive close to $100 million

($993,198 million to be more precise).

The law specifically allows this funding to be

used:

1. To respond to the pandemic or its nega-

tive economic impacts, including assistance to

households, small businesses, and nonprofits,

or aid to impacted industries such as tourism,

travel, and hospitality;

2. For premium pay to eligible workers per-

forming essential work (as determined by each

recipient government) during the pandemic,

providing up to $13 per hour above regular

wages;

3. For the provision of government services

to the extent of the reduction in revenue due

to the pandemic (relative to revenues collected

in the most recent full fiscal year); and

4. To make necessary investments in water,

sewer, or broadband infrastructure.

In addition to these funds, Texas will receive

$100 million out of the newly created $10 bil-

lion Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund for

‘‘critical capital projects directly enabling work,

education, and health monitoring, including re-

mote options, in response to the public health

emergency with respect to the Coronavirus

Disease.

Now all that is well and good but let me tell

you what the American Rescue Plan Act

means for a hard-working and hard-pressed

single mother of two children making a modest

income:

Stimulus checks: $1,400 × 3 = $4,200

Child tax credit: $3,600 (5-year-old) +

$3,000 (9-year-old) = $6,600. Half of that

amount will be paid out periodically from late

July through December; the rest will come as

a check with next year’s taxes.

Enhanced unemployment: If the parent be-

comes unemployed in March, she will be eligi-

ble for $300 in aid every week through the last

week of August.

Total: $10,800 from stimulus and tax credits,

plus another $7,500 from 25–weeks of en-

hanced unemployment aid. This individual

would also receive $318 per week in state un-

employment aid and thousands more from the

Earned Income Tax Credit.

RESTAURANTS

Finally, let me discuss briefly the good

things for the restaurant industry that are in

the American Rescue Plan Act.

The law allocates $28 billion in funds to

devastated food service establishments, in-

cluding bars, and food trucks, and vendors.

Unlike the Paycheck Protection Program,

which saddled restaurants with burdensome

loans if the bulk of the funds were not spent

on payroll, these restaurant relief dollars are

grants, plain and simple.

Grant sizes will generally be determined by

subtracting lower 2020 pandemic-era receipts

from higher 2019 gross receipts.

Over $5 billion will be set aside for smaller

venues whose annual gross receipts were

below $500,000, leaving $23.6 billion for ev-

eryone else.

Grants will be capped at $10 million for res-

taurant groups and $5 million for individual

venues.

Publicly traded companies or restaurants

with more than 20 locations will not be eligible

to participate in this funding.

And, for the first 21 days, establishments

owned by women, veterans, or economically

and socially disadvantaged groups will be

prioritized.

This transformative legislation will also pro-

vide direct housing assistance, nutrition assist-

ance for 40 million Americans, expand access

to safe and reliable child care and affordable

health care, extend unemployment insurance

so that 18 million American workers can pay

their bills and support 27 million children with

an expanded Child Tax Credit and more than

17 million low-wage childless workers through

an improved Earned Income Tax Credit, which

will reduce the number of children living in

poverty in America by 50 percent.

I want to commend my colleagues and

House Speaker N

ANCY

ELOSI

for her leader-

ship and President Biden for signing into law

the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, and I

urge all Members to join me in voting to pass

H.R. 1868, which excludes the budgetary ef-

fects of the American Rescue Plan Act from

the scorecards established by the Statutory

Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010, and

thus precludes the implementation of direct

across the board cuts in spending.

b 1015

Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker,

I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield

2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas

(Mr. D

OGGETT

), a distinguished member

of the Budget Committee.

Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, 55 years

ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson

overcame sustained Republican opposi-

tion to enact Medicare. It has been a

literal lifeline for millions. Those who

suffered without healthcare before

Medicare now have access to a family

physician and hospital care when they

need it.

Former Republican Speaker Newt

Gingrich, in this very room, plotted to

let Medicare wither on the vine. Mil-

lions of Americans would have with-

ered had he been successful. Yet, gen-

erations of Republicans have sought to

privatize it, cut it, or weaken it. Sure-

ly, some of the strongest evidence of

the success of Medicare, through all of

these times, is the claim by today’s Re-

publicans that after so many failed at-

tempts to weaken Medicare, they are

here, quite amazingly, claiming to be

its new protectors.

Of course, this comes following their

understandable desperation to justify

their inexplicable efforts to deny the

relief that was offered by the American

Rescue Plan: the survivor benefits; the

unemployment; the small business and

rental assistance so vitally needed; the

support for getting our students back

in school, the funding to keep State

and local employees doing their jobs.

Republicans have resisted that rescue

plan with the same fervor that they re-

sisted Medicare in the first place. So

determined are these folks to oppose

anything that President Biden ad-

vances, they have come out here and

claimed that the rescue plan means

Medicare cuts, which certainly it does

not.

Most of Medicare falls within the ju-

risdiction of the Ways and Means

Health Subcommittee, which I chair.

We do need to strengthen Medicare.

The latest financial report suggests

that additional revenues will be needed

to sustain Medicare beginning in 2026.

Some of the changes that are needed

are largely accounting adjustments,

and others will require additional rev-

enue.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The

time of the gentleman has expired.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield

an additional 30 seconds to the gen-

tleman from Texas.

Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, what

our colleagues should be doing is com-

ing together to work with us to ensure

the permanent security of Medicare.

Medicare works, but after 55 years, it

needs some updates. It has not pro-

vided adequate protection against

pharmaceutical price gouging; it does

not cover most of dental, hearing, and

vision care; and, of course, too many

Americans are just too young to ben-

efit from Medicare.

I believe we need to be working to-

gether to make Medicare better and

more widely available to more Ameri-

cans, because health security is Amer-

ican security.

Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker,

I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield

2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Il-

linois (Mrs. B

USTOS

), a distinguished

member of the Committee on Agri-

culture and Committee on Appropria-

tions.

Mrs. BUSTOS. Mr. Speaker, I rise

today to support H.R. 1868. I know we

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have talked this morning about the im-

portance of the bill protecting Medi-

care. I want to talk with you for a cou-

ple of minutes here about its protec-

tion of farm supports and other direct

spending as it pertains to our family

farmers.

As chair of the Subcommittee on

General Farm Commodities and Risk

Management, this bill will protect crit-

ical resources like the Commodity

Credit Corporation, resources that our

family farmers depend on now more

than ever.

There are nearly 2 million farmers

across our Nation. In the district that

I serve, we have close to 10,000 family

farms. But throughout our Nation,

there is no farm that isn’t touched by

the Commodity Credit Corporation, not

one American farmer who wouldn’t be

impacted by these cuts. In the district

I serve, those close to 10,000 family

farmers would have fewer resources if

this were to happen and would face

challenges as they try to pay their bills

and put food on the table.

The truth is, our family farmers have

seen an onslaught of challenges for

years, each year worse than the one be-

fore it: extreme weather conditions;

devastated crops; unstable and uncer-

tain trade markets that held back ex-

ports and economic growth; and

throughout the past year, a global pan-

demic that has left many of our farm-

ers ravaged, even as they kept fighting

for fellow Americans, to keep them fed.

COVID–19 has impacted all of us. But,

thankfully, we have never truly seen

empty store shelves. We have our

American farmers to thank for that.

We have our American farmers to

thank for the stable food supply and

for the certainty that, even after years

of challenges, even at the height of this

worldwide crisis, our American farmers

have had our backs. Now, it is time for

us to have theirs.

A vote against this bill is a vote to

cut farm funding. I urge my colleagues

to vote to protect our family farmers

and vote ‘‘yes’’ on this critical bill.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I have

no further speakers, and I am prepared

to close.

Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker,

I yield myself the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, my colleagues and I

have introduced an alternative, a more

responsible approach that protects our

seniors and rolls back some of the most

wasteful and absurd parts of the Demo-

cratic bailout bill.

I would encourage my colleagues on

the other side of the aisle to put Amer-

ica’s seniors ahead of their special in-

terest allies. Join us in finding a solu-

tion that protects and respects Amer-

ica’s seniors and the working class. We

will offer such a solution as a motion

to recommit. If adopted, it will in-

struct the Budget Committee to con-

sider an amendment to make the sen-

sible cuts in waste offered in H.R. 1999,

the Protect Seniors and Cut Waste Act.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con-

sent to insert the text of this amend-

ment in the R

ECORD

immediately prior

to the vote on the motion to recommit.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there

objection to the request of the gen-

tleman from Missouri?

There was no objection.

Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker,

let’s put the healthcare of our seniors

ahead of prisoners, illegal immigrants,

and the political class.

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance

of my time.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield

myself the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, the last couple of

months have been an incredibly busy

time. The work that was done on the

American Rescue Plan, from start to

finish, was extraordinary, and we owe

our staffs an enormous debt of grati-

tude, and not just the Budget Com-

mittee staff, but the staff of the 12

committees that also contributed to

the drafting of the American Rescue

Plan.

I would like to take this time to read

the names of the Budget Committee

staff who pulled all-nighters, all-week-

enders, and went way beyond the call

of duty in doing the work on the Amer-

ican Rescue Plan:

Erika Appel, Ellen Balis, Samantha

Carter, Edward Etzkorn, Jose Guillen,

Jocelyn Harris, Emily King, Sarah Lee,

Sheila McDowell, Diana Meredith,

Leyla Mocan, Kimberly Overbeek, Bar-

bara Pike, Katie Raymond, Scott Rus-

sell, Laura Santos, Raquel Spencer,

Greg Waring, Alexandra Weinroth,

Christie Wentworth, Jennifer

Wheelock, Sam Wice, Ted Zegers, and

Grady Stevens. I want to thank all of

them personally for their work on be-

half of the House.

In closing, Mr. Speaker, I just want

to say this: You know, we have heard a

lot of newly found concern about the

deficit and the debt today. We heard it

during the debates. This is the same

party that drove up the deficit 3 years

ago, 4 years ago now, with a $2 trillion

tax cut, most of which benefitted the

wealthiest Americans, and, according

to virtually everyone who has looked

at it, didn’t even come close to paying

for itself.

What we have done in the American

Rescue Plan is give an incredible boost

to the American people, the American

people who need the boost most. Not

one dollar in the American Rescue

Plan goes to the top 1 percent of Amer-

icans. The vast majority goes to

middle- and lower-income people strug-

gling to get by.

I am kind of amused when people

talk about their States being cheated.

The gentleman from Georgia talked

about how Georgia was cheated. Under

the American Rescue Plan, Georgia

gets over $8 billion, twice as much as

Georgia got under the CARES Act.

That doesn’t even count all of the

money that is going to the Georgia

citizens.

As I said, in every congressional dis-

trict in this country, on average, the

people, the citizens we represent, will

get $900 million, every congressional

district.

My friend from Missouri talked about

his family of four. I know his math is

better than this, but a family of four

doesn’t get $1,400, as he mentioned. A

family of four gets $1,400 times four,

which is $5,600, and then two children,

depending on their ages, get at least

$3,000 each. So that family of four is

going to get $11,000 out of this bill.

The talk about future generations, I

love that. You know, I am sure that

when the national debt reached $1 bil-

lion under Abraham Lincoln, there

were people saying: ‘‘Wow, we are lay-

ing an incredible burden on our grand-

children.’’ When it reached $1 trillion

under Ronald Reagan, I am sure there

were people saying the same thing. And

when it gets to $50 trillion, as it prob-

ably will in the next couple of decades,

people will be saying the same thing.

We have been accumulating debt for

our entire history, and yet no one has

ever been asked to pay for that debt,

and no one ever will.

So all in all, we are very proud of the

American Rescue Plan. The American

people love the American Rescue Plan.

This fix, which we ask for today, is

something that, again, is just what the

Republicans asked to do in 2017. It is a

routine measure. Nobody wants to cut

Medicare to providers and certainly

benefits to our citizens. I am sure we

will have a bipartisan vote on this

today, and I urge all of my colleagues

to support H.R. 1868.

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance

of my time.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-

ant to House Resolution 233, the pre-

vious question is ordered on the bill.

The question is on the engrossment

and the third reading of the bill.

The bill was ordered to be engrossed

and read a third time, and was read the

third time.

MOTION TO RECOMMIT

Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker,

I have a motion to recommit at the

desk.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The

Clerk will report the motion to recom-

mit.

The Clerk read as follows:

Mr. Smith of Missouri moves to recommit

the bill, H.R. 1868 to the Committee on the

Budget.

The material previously referred to

by Mr. S

MITH

of Missouri is as follows:

Strike all after the enacting clause and in-

sert the following:

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protect Sen-

iors and Cut Waste Act’’.

SEC. 2. PAYGO ACT SEQUESTER.

The budgetary effects of the American Res-

cue Plan Act of 2021 shall not be counted for

purposes of determining whether a sequester

occurs under the report issued after Congress

adjourns to end the 1st session of the 117th

Congress and during January 2022 under sec-

tion 5 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act

of 2010.

SEC. 3. SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR

THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL

SERVICES EMERGENCY FUND.

(a) S

UPPLEMENTAL

PPROPRIATION

.—There

is appropriated, out of any amounts in the

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Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for an

additional amount for ‘‘Public Health and

Social Services Emergency Fund’ ’’,

$12,300,000,000, to remain available until ex-

pended, to prevent, prepare for, and respond

to coronavirus, domestically or internation-

ally, which shall be for necessary expenses to

reimburse, through grants or other mecha-

nisms, eligible health care providers for

health care related expenses or lost revenues

that are attributable to coronavirus.

(b) C

ONDITIONS

.—The following conditions

shall apply with respect to funds appro-

priated by subsection (a):

(1) Such funds may not be used to reim-

burse expenses or losses that have been reim-

bursed from other sources or that other

sources are obligated to reimburse.

(2) Recipients of payments under this sec-

tion shall submit reports and maintain docu-

mentation as the Secretary of Health and

Human Services determines are needed to

ensure compliance with conditions that are

imposed by this subsection for such pay-

ments, and such reports and documentation

shall be in such form, with such content, and

in such time as the Secretary may prescribe

for such purpose.

(3) The term ‘‘eligible health care pro-

viders’’ means public entities, Medicare or

Medicaid enrolled suppliers and providers,

and such for-profit entities and not-for-profit

entities not otherwise described in this para-

graph as the Secretary may specify, within

the United States (including territories),

that provide diagnoses, testing, or care for

individuals with possible or actual cases of

COVID–19.

(4) The Secretary shall, on a rolling basis,

review applications and make payments

under this section.

(5) Funds appropriated under this section

shall be available for building or construc-

tion of temporary structures, leasing of

properties, medical supplies and equipment

including personal protective equipment and

testing supplies, increased workforce and

trainings, emergency operation centers, ret-

rofitting facilities, and surge capacity.

(6) In this section, the term ‘‘payment’’

means a pre-payment, prospective payment,

or retrospective payment, as determined ap-

propriate by the Secretary.

(7) Payments under this section shall be

made in consideration of the most efficient

payment systems practicable to provide

emergency payment.

(8) To be eligible for a payment under this

section, an eligible health care provider shall

submit to the Secretary an application that

includes a statement justifying the need of

the provider for the payment and the eligible

health care provider shall have a valid tax

identification number.

(9) For any reimbursement by the Sec-

retary from the Provider Relief Fund to an

eligible health care provider that is a sub-

sidiary of a parent organization, the parent

organization may, allocate (through trans-

fers or otherwise) all or any portion of such

reimbursement among the subsidiary eligi-

ble health care providers of the parent orga-

nization, including reimbursements referred

to by the Secretary as ‘‘Targeted Distribu-

tion’’ payments, among subsidiary eligible

health care providers of the parent organiza-

tion, except that responsibility for reporting

the reallocated reimbursement shall remain

with the original recipient of such reim-

bursement.

(10) For any reimbursement from the Pro-

vider Relief Fund to an eligible health care

provider for health care related expenses or

lost revenues that are attributable to

coronavirus (including reimbursements made

before the date of the enactment of this Act),

such provider may calculate such lost reve-

nues using the Frequently Asked Questions

guidance released by the Department of

Health and Human Services in June 2020, in-

cluding the difference between such pro-

vider’s budgeted and actual revenue budget if

such budget had been established and ap-

proved prior to March 27, 2020.

(11) Of the amount made available in the

third paragraph under the heading ‘‘Depart-

ment of Health and Human Services—Office

of the Secretary—Public Health and Social

Services Emergency Fund’’ in Public Law

116–136, not less than 85 percent of the unob-

ligated balances available as of the date of

enactment of this Act and of any funds re-

covered from health care providers after the

date of enactment of this Act shall be for

any successor to the Phase 3 General Dis-

tribution allocation to make payments to el-

igible health care providers based on applica-

tions that consider financial losses and

changes in operating expenses occurring in

fiscal year 2021 that are attributable to

coronavirus.

(12) Not later than 3 years after final pay-

ments are made under this section, the Of-

fice of Inspector General of the Department

of Health and Human Services shall transmit

a final report on audit findings with respect

to this program to the Committees on Ap-

propriations of the House of Representatives

and the Senate.

(13) Nothing in this section limits the au-

thority of the Inspector General or the

Comptroller General to conduct audits of in-

terim payments at an earlier date.

(14) Not later than 60 days after the date of

enactment of this Act, the Secretary of

Health and Human Services shall provide a

report to the Committees on Appropriations

of the House of Representatives and the Sen-

ate on the obligation of funds, including obli-

gations to such eligible health care pro-

viders, summarized by State of the payment

receipt. Such report shall be updated and

submitted to such Committees every 60 days

until funds are expended.

MERGENCY

ESIGNATIONS

.—

(1) Amounts repurposed in subsection (b)

that were previously designated by the Con-

gress as an emergency requirement pursuant

to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-

icit Control Act of 1985 are designated by the

Congress as an emergency requirement pur-

suant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-

anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control

Act of 1985.

(2) The amount appropriated by subsection

(a) is designated by the Congress as being for

an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-

tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget

and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

(3) Each amount designated in this Act by

the Congress as an emergency requirement

pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-

anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control

Act of 1985 shall be available only if the

President subsequently so designates all

such amounts and transmits such designa-

tions to the Congress.

(d) A

PPLICATION OF

ROVISIONS

.—Amounts

appropriated pursuant to this section and

pursuant to title II of Public Law 117–2 shall

be subject to the requirements contained in

Public Law 116–260 for funds for programs au-

thorized under sections 330 through 340 of the

Public Health Service Act.

SEC. 4. CORONAVIRUS STATE FISCAL RECOVERY

FUND ADJUSTMENT.

(a) I

ENERAL

.—Section 602 of the Social

Security Act is amended—

(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking

‘‘$219,800,000,000’’ and inserting

‘‘$79,800,000,000’’; and

(2) in subsection (b)(3), by striking

‘‘$195,300,000,000’’ and inserting

‘‘$55,300,000,000’’.

(b) E

FFECTIVE

ATE

.—The amendments

made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if

included in the enactment of the American

Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

SEC. 5. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

(a) R

URAL

EALTH

LINIC

AYMENTS

.—

(1) I

N GENERAL

.—Section 1833(f)(3) of the

Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395l(f)(3)) is

amended—

(A) in subparagraph (A)—

(i) in clause (i), by striking subclauses (I)

and (II) and inserting the following:

‘‘(I) with respect to a rural health clinic

that had a per visit payment amount estab-

lished for services furnished in 2020—

‘‘(aa) the per visit payment amount appli-

cable to such rural health clinic for rural

health clinic services furnished in 2020, in-

creased by the percentage increase in the

MEI applicable to primary care services fur-

nished as of the first day of 2021; or

‘‘(bb) the limit described in paragraph

(2)(A); and

‘‘(II) with respect to a rural health clinic

that did not have a per visit payment

amount established for services furnished in

2020—

‘‘(aa) the per visit payment amount appli-

cable to such rural health clinic for rural

health clinic services furnished in 2021; or

‘‘(bb) the limit described in paragraph

(2)(A); and’’; and

(ii) in clause (ii)(I), by striking ‘‘under

clause (i)(I)’’ and inserting ‘‘under subclause

(I) or (II) of clause (i), as applicable,’’; and

(B) in subparagraph (B)—

(i) in the matter preceding clause (i), by

striking ‘‘2019, was’’ and inserting ‘‘2020’’;

(ii) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘was’’ after

‘‘(i)’’; and

(iii) by striking clause (ii) and inserting

the following:

‘‘(ii)(I) was enrolled under section 1866(j)

(including temporary enrollment during the

emergency period described in section

1135(g)(1)(B) for such period); or

‘‘(II) submitted an application for enroll-

ment under section 1866(j) (or requested such

a temporary enrollment for such period) that

was received not later than December 31,

2020.’’.

(2) E

FFECTIVE DATE

.—The amendments

made by this subsection shall take effect as

if included in the enactment of the Consoli-

dated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law

116–260).

(b) A

DDITIONAL

MOUNT FOR

ERTAIN

PITALS

ITH

IGH

ISPROPORATIONATE

HARE

.—Effective as if included in the enact-

ment of section 203(a) of title II of division

CC of Public Law 116–260, subsection (g) of

section 1923 of the Social Security Act (42

U.S.C. 1396r–4) amended by such section

203(a) is amended by adding at the end the

following new paragraph:

‘‘(3) A

DDITIONAL AMOUNT FOR CERTAIN HOS

PITALS WITH HIGH DISPROPORATIONATE

.—

‘‘(A) I

N GENERAL

.—In the case of a hospital

with high disproportionate share (as defined

in subparagraph (B)) located in a State ref-

erenced in subsection (e) of section 4721 of

the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, a payment

adjustment during a State fiscal year shall

be considered consistent with subsection (c)

if the payment adjustment does not exceed

175 percent of the costs of furnishing hospital

services during the year, but only if the Gov-

ernor of the State certifies to the satisfac-

tion of the Secretary that the hospital’s ap-

plicable minimum amount is used for health

services during the year. In determining the

amount that is used for such services during

a year, there shall be excluded any amounts

received under the Public Health Service

Act, title V, title XVIII, or from third party

payors (not including the State plan under

this title) that are used for providing such

services during the year.

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‘‘(B) H

OSPITAL WITH HIGH

DISPROPORATIONATE SHARE DEFINED

.—In sub-

paragraph (A), a hospital is a ‘hospital with

high disproportionate share’ if—

‘‘(i) the hospital is owned or operated by

the State (or by an instrumentality or a unit

of government within the State); and

‘‘(ii) the hospital—

‘‘(I) meets the requirement described in

subparagraphs (A) or (B) of subsection (b)(1);

‘‘(II) has the largest number of inpatient

days attributable to individuals entitled to

benefits under the State plan of any hospital

in such State for the previous fiscal year.

‘‘(C) A

PPLICABLE MINIMUM AMOUNT DE

FINED

.—In subparagraph (A), the ‘applicable

minimum amount’ for a hospital for a fiscal

year is equal to the difference between the

amount of the hospital’s payment adjust-

ment for the fiscal year and the costs to the

hospital of furnishing hospital services de-

scribed in paragraph (1)(A) during the fiscal

year.’’.

SEC. 6. INDIVIDUALS NOT LAWFULLY PRESENT

IN UNITED STATES PRECLUDED

FROM 2021 RECOVERY REBATES.

(a) I

ENERAL

.—Section 6428B(c) of the In-

ternal Revenue Code of 1986, as added by the

American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, is amend-

ed by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph

(2), by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-

graph (4), and by inserting after paragraph

(2) the following new paragraph:

‘‘(3) any individual who was not lawfully

present in the United States as of the date of

the enactment of the American Rescue Plan

Act of 2021, and’’.

(b) E

FFECTIVE

ATE

.—The amendments

made by this section shall take effect as if

included in the enactment of section 9601 of

the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

SEC. 7. INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS PRE-

CLUDED FROM 2021 RECOVERY RE-

BATES.

(a) I

ENERAL

.—Section 6428B(c) of the In-

ternal Revenue Code of 1986, as added by the

American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and

amended by the preceding provisions of this

Act, is amended by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end

of paragraph (3), by redesignating paragraph

(4) as paragraph (5), and by inserting after

paragraph (3) the following new paragraph:

‘‘(4) any individual who was incarcerated

on the date of the enactment of the Amer-

ican Rescue Plan Act of 2021, and’’.

(b) E

FFECTIVE

ATE

.—The amendments

made by this section shall take effect as if

included in the enactment of section 9601 of

the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

SEC. 8. REQUIRING A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER

TO RECEIVE COBRA CONTINUATION

COVERAGE.

(a) I

ENERAL

.—Section 9501(a)(3) of the

American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public

Law 117–2) is amended—

(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking at the

end ‘‘and’’;

(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking the pe-

riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and

(3) by adding at the end the following new

subparagraph:

‘‘(C) has been issued a social security num-

ber (as defined in section 24(h)(7) of the In-

ternal Revenue Code of 1986) by the Social

Security Administration.’’.

(b) E

FFECTIVE

ATE

.—The amendment

made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if

included in the enactment of section 9501 of

the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

SEC. 9. RESCISSIONS OF AMERICAN RESCUE

PLAN ACT OF 2021 FUNDS.

Of the funds appropriated by the American

Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117–2),

all unobligated funds available under the fol-

lowing provisions of such Act are hereby re-

scinded:

(1) Section 2021 (relating to the National

Endowment for the Arts).

(2) Section 2022 (relating to the National

Endowment for the Humanities).

(3) Section 4001 (relating to the Emergency

Federal Employee Leave Fund).

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-

ant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX, the pre-

vious question is ordered on the motion

to recommit.

The question is on the motion to re-

commit.

The question was taken; and the

Speaker pro tempore announced that

the noes appeared to have it.

Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker,

on that I demand the yeas and nays.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-

ant to section 3(s) of House Resolution

8, the yeas and nays are ordered.

The vote was taken by electronic de-

vice, and there were—yeas 202, nays

216, not voting 11, as follows:

[Roll No. 95]

YEAS—202

Aderholt

Allen

Amodei

Armstrong

Arrington

Babin

Bacon

Baird

Balderson

Banks

Barr

Bentz

Bergman

Bice (OK)

Biggs

Bilirakis

Bishop (NC)

Boebert

Bost

Brooks

Buchanan

Buck

Bucshon

Budd

Burchett

Burgess

Calvert

Cammack

Carl

Carter (GA)

Carter (TX)

Cawthorn

Chabot

Cheney

Cline

Cloud

Clyde

Cole

Comer

Crawford

Crenshaw

Curtis

Davidson

Davis, Rodney

DesJarlais

Diaz-Balart

Donalds

Duncan

Dunn

Emmer

Estes

Fallon

Feenstra

Ferguson

Fischbach

Fitzgerald

Fitzpatrick

Fleischmann

Fortenberry

Foxx

Franklin, C.

Scott

Fulcher

Gaetz

Gallagher

Garbarino

Garcia (CA)

Gibbs

Gimenez

Gonzales, Tony

Gonzalez (OH)

Good (VA)

Gooden (TX)

Gosar

Granger

Graves (LA)

Graves (MO)

Green (TN)

Greene (GA)

Griffith

Grothman

Guest

Guthrie

Hagedorn

Harris

Harshbarger

Hartzler

Hern

Herrell

Herrera Beutler

Hice (GA)

Higgins (LA)

Hill

Hinson

Hollingsworth

Hudson

Huizenga

Issa

Jackson

Jacobs (NY)

Johnson (LA)

Johnson (OH)

Johnson (SD)

Jordan

Joyce (OH)

Joyce (PA)

Katko

Keller

Kelly (MS)

Kelly (PA)

Kim (CA)

Kustoff

LaHood

LaMalfa

Lamborn

Latta

LaTurner

Lesko

Long

Loudermilk

Luetkemeyer

Mace

Malliotakis

Mann

Massie

Mast

McCarthy

McCaul

McClain

McClintock

McKinley

Meijer

Meuser

Miller (IL)

Miller (WV)

Miller-Meeks

Moolenaar

Mooney

Moore (AL)

Moore (UT)

Mullin

Murphy (NC)

Nehls

Newhouse

Norman

Obernolte

Owens

Palazzo

Palmer

Pence

Perry

Pfluger

Posey

Reed

Reschenthaler

Rice (SC)

Rodgers (WA)

Rogers (AL)

Rogers (KY)

Rose

Rosendale

Rouzer

Rutherford

Salazar

Scalise

Schweikert

Scott, Austin

Sessions

Simpson

Smith (MO)

Smith (NE)

Smith (NJ)

Smucker

Spartz

Stauber

Steel

Stefanik

Steil

Steube

Stewart

Stivers

Taylor

Tenney

Thompson (PA)

Tiffany

Timmons

Turner

Upton

Valadao

Van Drew

Van Duyne

Wagner

Walberg

Walorski

Waltz

Weber (TX)

Webster (FL)

Wenstrup

Westerman

Williams (TX)

Wittman

Womack

Zeldin

NAYS—216

Adams

Aguilar

Allred

Auchincloss

Axne

Barraga

Bass

Beatty

Bera

Beyer

Bishop (GA)

Blumenauer

Blunt Rochester

Bonamici

Bourdeaux

Bowman

Boyle, Brendan

Brown

Brownley

Bush

Bustos

Butterfield

Carbajal

rdenas

Carson

Cartwright

Case

Casten

Castor (FL)

Castro (TX)

Chu

Cicilline

Clark (MA)

Clarke (NY)

Cleaver

Clyburn

Cohen

Connolly

Cooper

Correa

Costa

Courtney

Craig

Crist

Crow

Cuellar

Davids (KS)

Davis, Danny K.

Dean

DeFazio

DeGette

DeLauro

DelBene

Delgado

Demings

DeSaulnier

Deutch

Dingell

Doggett

Doyle, Michael

Escobar

Eshoo

Espaillat

Evans

Fletcher

Foster

Frankel, Lois

Gallego

Garamendi

Garcı

a (IL)

Garcia (TX)

Golden

Gomez

Gottheimer

Green, Al (TX)

Grijalva

Harder (CA)

Hastings

Hayes

Higgins (NY)

Himes

Horsford

Houlahan

Huffman

Jackson Lee

Jacobs (CA)

Jayapal

Jeffries

Johnson (GA)

Johnson (TX)

Jones

Kahele

Kaptur

Keating

Kelly (IL)

Khanna

Kildee

Kilmer

Kim (NJ)

Kind

Kirkpatrick

Krishnamoorthi

Kuster

Lamb

Langevin

Larsen (WA)

Larson (CT)

Lawrence

Lawson (FL)

Lee (CA)

Lee (NV)

Leger Fernandez

Levin (CA)

Levin (MI)

Lieu

Lofgren

Lowenthal

Luria

Lynch

Malinowski

Maloney,

Carolyn B.

Maloney, Sean

Manning

Matsui

McBath

McCollum

McEachin

McGovern

McNerney

Meeks

Meng

Mfume

Moore (WI)

Morelle

Moulton

Mrvan

Murphy (FL)

Nadler

Napolitano

Neal

Neguse

Newman

Norcross

O’Halleran

Ocasio-Cortez

Omar

Pallone

Panetta

Pappas

Pascrell

Payne

Perlmutter

Peters

Phillips

Pingree

Pocan

Porter

Pressley

Price (NC)

Quigley

Raskin

Rice (NY)

Ross

Roybal-Allard

Ruiz

Ruppersberger

Rush

Ryan

nchez

Sarbanes

Scanlon

Schakowsky

Schiff

Schneider

Schrader

Schrier

Scott (VA)

Scott, David

Sewell

Sherman

Sherrill

Sires

Slotkin

Smith (WA)

Soto

Spanberger

Speier

Stanton

Stevens

Strickland

Suozzi

Swalwell

Takano

Thompson (CA)

Thompson (MS)

Titus

Tlaib

Tonko

Torres (CA)

Torres (NY)

Trahan

Trone

Underwood

Vargas

Veasey

Vela

zquez

Wasserman

Schultz

Waters

Watson Coleman

Welch

Wexton

Wild

Williams (GA)

Wilson (FL)

Yarmuth

NOT VOTING—11

Brady

Gohmert

Gonzalez,

Vicente

Hoyer

Kinzinger

Lucas

McHenry

Nunes

Roy

Wilson (SC)

Young

b 1114

Messrs. O’HALLERAN, LEVIN of

Michigan, CARSON, and Ms. BASS

changed their vote from ‘‘yea’’ to

‘‘nay.’’

Messrs. CARL and STIVERS changed

their vote from ‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’

So the motion to recommit was re-

jected.

The result of the vote was announced

as above recorded.

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1601 March 19, 2021

MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE

RESOLUTION 8

117TH CONGRESS

Allred (Davids

(KS))

Axne (Stevens)

Barraga

n (Beyer)

Bera (Aguilar)

Bishop (GA)

(Butterfield)

Blumenauer

(Beyer)

Bourdeaux

(Clark (MA))

Boyle, Brendan

F. (Jeffries)

Buchanan

(Gimenez)

Bucshon

(Walorski)

Bush (Clark

(MA))

rdenas

(Gomez)

Cleaver (Davids

(KS))

DeSaulnier

(Matsui)

DesJarlais

(Fleischmann)

Gaetz (Waltz)

Garbarino (Joyce

(OH))

Grijalva (Garcı

(IL))

Hastings

(Butterfield)

Kahele (Mrvan)

Kim (NJ) (Davids

(KS))

Kirkpatrick

(Stanton)

Langevin

(Lynch)

Lawson (FL)

(Evans)

Lieu (Beyer)

Lowenthal

(Beyer)

McEachin

(Wexton)

Meng (Clark

(MA))

Mfume (Brown)

Moore (WI)

(Beyer)

Moulton

(Underwood)

Napolitano

(Correa)

Payne (Pallone)

Peters (Kildee)

Pingree

(Cicilline)

Porter (Wexton)

Rodgers (WA)

(Joyce (PA))

Rush

(Underwood)

Schneider

(Aguilar)

Sires (Pallone)

Slotkin

(Stevens)

Smith (WA)

(Courtney)

Timmons

(Steube)

Vargas (Correa)

Wasserman

Schultz (Soto)

Watson Coleman

(Pallone)

Williams (GA)

(Jacobs (CA))

Wilson (FL)

(Hayes)

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The

question is on the passage of the bill.

The question was taken; and the

Speaker pro tempore announced that

the noes appeared to have it.

Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana. Mr.

Speaker, on that I demand the yeas

and nays.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-

ant to section 3(s) of House Resolution

8, the yeas and nays are ordered.

The vote was taken by electronic de-

vice, and there were—yeas 246, nays

175, not voting 8, as follows:

[Roll No. 96]

YEAS—246

Adams

Aguilar

Allred

Auchincloss

Axne

Bacon

Barraga

Bass

Beatty

Bera

Bergman

Beyer

Bilirakis

Bishop (GA)

Blumenauer

Blunt Rochester

Bonamici

Bourdeaux

Bowman

Boyle, Brendan

Brown

Brownley

Buchanan

Bush

Bustos

Butterfield

Carbajal

rdenas

Carson

Cartwright

Case

Casten

Castor (FL)

Castro (TX)

Chu

Cicilline

Clark (MA)

Clarke (NY)

Cleaver

Clyburn

Cohen

Connolly

Cooper

Correa

Costa

Courtney

Craig

Crist

Crow

Cuellar

Davids (KS)

Davidson

Davis, Danny K.

Dean

DeFazio

DeGette

DeLauro

DelBene

Delgado

Demings

DeSaulnier

Deutch

Dingell

Doggett

Doyle, Michael

Dunn

Escobar

Eshoo

Espaillat

Evans

Fitzpatrick

Fleischmann

Fletcher

Fortenberry

Foster

Frankel, Lois

Gallego

Garamendi

Garbarino

Garcia (CA)

Garcı

a (IL)

Garcia (TX)

Gimenez

Golden

Gomez

Gonzalez,

Vicente

Gottheimer

Green, Al (TX)

Grijalva

Harder (CA)

Hastings

Hayes

Herrera Beutler

Higgins (NY)

Himes

Horsford

Houlahan

Huffman

Jackson Lee

Jacobs (CA)

Jacobs (NY)

Jayapal

Jeffries

Johnson (GA)

Johnson (TX)

Jones

Kahele

Kaptur

Katko

Keating

Kelly (IL)

Khanna

Kildee

Kilmer

Kim (CA)

Kim (NJ)

Kind

Kirkpatrick

Krishnamoorthi

Kuster

Lamb

Langevin

Larsen (WA)

Larson (CT)

Lawrence

Lawson (FL)

Lee (CA)

Lee (NV)

Leger Fernandez

Levin (CA)

Levin (MI)

Lieu

Lofgren

Lowenthal

Luria

Lynch

Malinowski

Malliotakis

Maloney,

Carolyn B.

Maloney, Sean

Manning

Matsui

McBath

McCollum

McEachin

McGovern

McKinley

McNerney

Meeks

Meng

Mfume

Miller-Meeks

Moore (WI)

Morelle

Moulton

Mrvan

Murphy (FL)

Nadler

Napolitano

Neal

Neguse

Newhouse

Newman

Norcross

O’Halleran

Ocasio-Cortez

Omar

Pallone

Panetta

Pappas

Pascrell

Payne

Perlmutter

Peters

Phillips

Pingree

Pocan

Porter

Pressley

Price (NC)

Quigley

Raskin

Rice (NY)

Rogers (KY)

Ross

Roybal-Allard

Ruiz

Ruppersberger

Rush

Ryan

Salazar

nchez

Sarbanes

Scanlon

Schakowsky

Schiff

Schneider

Schrader

Schrier

Scott (VA)

Scott, David

Sewell

Sherman

Sherrill

Sires

Slotkin

Smith (NJ)

Smith (WA)

Soto

Spanberger

Speier

Stanton

Stauber

Stefanik

Stevens

Strickland

Suozzi

Swalwell

Takano

Tenney

Thompson (CA)

Thompson (MS)

Titus

Tlaib

Tonko

Torres (CA)

Torres (NY)

Trahan

Trone

Underwood

Upton

Valadao

Van Drew

Vargas

Veasey

Vela

zquez

Wasserman

Schultz

Waters

Watson Coleman

Welch

Wexton

Wild

Williams (GA)

Wilson (FL)

Yarmuth

NAYS—175

Aderholt

Allen

Amodei

Armstrong

Arrington

Babin

Baird

Balderson

Banks

Barr

Bentz

Bice (OK)

Biggs

Bishop (NC)

Boebert

Bost

Brooks

Buck

Bucshon

Budd

Burchett

Burgess

Calvert

Cammack

Carl

Carter (GA)

Carter (TX)

Cawthorn

Chabot

Cheney

Cline

Cloud

Clyde

Cole

Comer

Crawford

Crenshaw

Curtis

Davis, Rodney

DesJarlais

Diaz-Balart

Donalds

Duncan

Emmer

Estes

Fallon

Feenstra

Ferguson

Fischbach

Fitzgerald

Foxx

Franklin, C.

Scott

Fulcher

Gaetz

Gallagher

Gibbs

Gonzales, Tony

Gonzalez (OH)

Good (VA)

Gooden (TX)

Gosar

Granger

Graves (LA)

Graves (MO)

Green (TN)

Greene (GA)

Griffith

Grothman

Guest

Guthrie

Hagedorn

Harris

Harshbarger

Hartzler

Hern

Herrell

Hice (GA)

Higgins (LA)

Hill

Hinson

Hollingsworth

Hudson

Huizenga

Issa

Jackson

Johnson (LA)

Johnson (OH)

Johnson (SD)

Jordan

Joyce (OH)

Joyce (PA)

Keller

Kelly (MS)

Kelly (PA)

Kustoff

LaHood

LaMalfa

Lamborn

Latta

LaTurner

Lesko

Long

Loudermilk

Lucas

Luetkemeyer

Mace

Mann

Massie

Mast

McCarthy

McCaul

McClain

McClintock

Meijer

Meuser

Miller (IL)

Miller (WV)

Moolenaar

Mooney

Moore (AL)

Moore (UT)

Mullin

Murphy (NC)

Nehls

Norman

Obernolte

Owens

Palazzo

Palmer

Pence

Perry

Pfluger

Posey

Reed

Reschenthaler

Rice (SC)

Rodgers (WA)

Rogers (AL)

Rose

Rosendale

Rouzer

Roy

Rutherford

Scalise

Schweikert

Scott, Austin

Sessions

Simpson

Smith (MO)

Smith (NE)

Smucker

Spartz

Steel

Steil

Steube

Stewart

Stivers

Taylor

Thompson (PA)

Tiffany

Timmons

Turner

Van Duyne

Wagner

Walberg

Walorski

Waltz

Weber (TX)

Webster (FL)

Wenstrup

Westerman

Williams (TX)

Wittman

Womack

Zeldin

NOT VOTING—8

Brady

Gohmert

Hoyer

Kinzinger

McHenry

Nunes

Wilson (SC)

Young

b 1200

Mrs. MURPHY of Florida changed

her vote from ‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’

So the bill was passed.

The result of the vote was announced

as above recorded.

A motion to reconsider was laid on

the table.

MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE

RESOLUTION 8

117TH CONGRESS

Allred (Davids

(KS))

Axne (Stevens)

Barraga

n (Beyer)

Bera (Aguilar)

Bishop (GA)

(Butterfield)

Blumenauer

(Beyer)

Bourdeaux

(Clark (MA))

Boyle, Brendan

F. (Jeffries)

Buchanan

(Gimenez)

Bucshon

(Walorski)

Bush (Clark

(MA))

rdenas

(Gomez)

Cleaver (Davids

(KS))

DeSaulnier

(Matsui)

DesJarlais

(Fleischmann)

Gaetz (Waltz)

Garbarino (Joyce

(OH))

Gonzalez,

Vicente

(Gomez)

Grijalva (Garcı

(IL))

Hastings

(Butterfield)

Kahele (Mrvan)

Kim (NJ) (Davids

(KS))

Kirkpatrick

(Stanton)

Langevin

(Lynch)

Lawson (FL)

(Evans)

Lieu (Beyer)

Lowenthal

(Beyer)

McEachin

(Wexton)

Meng (Clark

(MA))

Mfume (Brown)

Moore (WI)

(Beyer)

Moulton

(Underwood)

Napolitano

(Correa)

Payne (Pallone)

Peters (Kildee)

Pingree

(Cicilline)

Porter (Wexton)

Rodgers (WA)

(Joyce (PA))

Rush

(Underwood)

Schneider

(Aguilar)

Sires (Pallone)

Slotkin

(Stevens)

Smith (WA)

(Courtney)

Timmons

(Steube)

Vargas (Correa)

Wasserman

Schultz (Soto)

Watson Coleman

(Pallone)

Williams (GA)

(Jacobs (CA))

Wilson (FL)

(Hayes)

MOMENT OF SILENCE HONORING

THE VICTIMS OF RECENT SHOOT-

INGS IN GEORGIA AND IN SOLI-

DARITY WITH MEMBERS OF THE

AAPI COMMUNITY

The SPEAKER. The Chair asks all

Members in the Chamber, as well as

Members and staff throughout the Cap-

itol, to rise for a moment of silence in

honor of the victims of the horrific

shootings in Georgia this week and in

solidarity with all members of the

AAPI community facing discrimina-

tion and violence.

CONDEMNING MILITARY COUP IN

BURMA

The SPEAKER. Pursuant to clause 8

of rule XX, the unfinished business is

the vote on the motion to suspend the

rules and agree to the resolution (H.

Res. 134) condemning the military coup

that took place on February 1, 2021, in

Burma and the Burmese military de-

tention of civilian leaders, calling for

the release of all those detained and for

those elected to serve in Parliament to

resume their duties, and for other pur-

poses, on which the yeas and nays were

ordered.

The Clerk read the title of the bill.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The

question is on the motion offered by

the gentleman from New York (Mr.

EEKS

) that the House suspend the

rules and agree to the resolution.

The vote was taken by electronic de-

vice, and there were—yeas 398, nays 14,

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follows:

[Roll No. 97]

YEAS—398

Adams

Aderholt

Aguilar

Allen

Allred

Amodei

Armstrong

Arrington

Auchincloss

Axne

Babin

Bacon

Baird

Balderson

Banks

Barr

Barraga

Bass

Beatty

Bentz

Bera

Bergman

Beyer

Bice (OK)

Bilirakis

Bishop (GA)

Bishop (NC)

Blumenauer

Blunt Rochester

Bonamici

Bost

Bourdeaux

Bowman

Boyle, Brendan

Brooks

Brown

Brownley

Buchanan

Bucshon

Burchett

Burgess

Bush

Bustos

Butterfield

Calvert

Cammack

Carbajal

rdenas

Carl

Carson

Carter (GA)

Carter (TX)

Cartwright

Case

Casten

Castor (FL)

Castro (TX)

Cawthorn

Chabot

Cheney

Chu

Cicilline

Clark (MA)

Clarke (NY)

Cleaver

Cline

Cloud

Clyburn

Clyde

Cohen

Cole

Comer

Connolly

Cooper

Correa

Costa

Courtney

Craig

Crawford

Crenshaw

Crist

Crow

Cuellar

Davids (KS)

Davidson

Davis, Danny K.

Davis, Rodney

Dean

DeFazio

DeGette

DeLauro

DelBene

Delgado

Demings

DeSaulnier

DesJarlais

Deutch

Diaz-Balart

Dingell

Doggett

Donalds

Emmer

Escobar

Eshoo

Espaillat

Estes

Evans

Fallon

Feenstra

Ferguson

Fischbach

Fitzgerald

Fitzpatrick

Fleischmann

Fletcher

Fortenberry

Foster

Foxx

Frankel, Lois

Franklin, C.

Scott

Fulcher

Gallagher

Gallego

Garamendi

Garbarino

Garcia (CA)

Garcı

a (IL)

Garcia (TX)

Gibbs

Gimenez

Golden

Gomez

Gonzales, Tony

Gonzalez (OH)

Gonzalez,

Vicente

Good (VA)

Gooden (TX)

Gottheimer

Granger

Graves (LA)

Graves (MO)

Green (TN)

Green, Al (TX)

Griffith

Grijalva

Grothman

Guest

Guthrie

Hagedorn

Harder (CA)

Harshbarger

Hartzler

Hastings

Hayes

Hern

Herrell

Herrera Beutler

Higgins (LA)

Higgins (NY)

Hill

Himes

Hinson

Hollingsworth

Horsford

Houlahan

Hudson

Huffman

Huizenga

Issa

Jackson

Jackson Lee

Jacobs (CA)

Jacobs (NY)

Jayapal

Jeffries

Johnson (GA)

Johnson (LA)

Johnson (OH)

Johnson (SD)

Jones

Jordan

Joyce (OH)

Joyce (PA)

Kahele

Kaptur

Katko

Keating

Keller

Kelly (IL)

Kelly (MS)

Kelly (PA)

Khanna

Kildee

Kilmer

Kim (CA)

Kim (NJ)

Kind

Kirkpatrick

Krishnamoorthi

Kuster

Kustoff

LaHood

LaMalfa

Lamb

Lamborn

Langevin

Larsen (WA)

Larson (CT)

Latta

LaTurner

Lawrence

Lawson (FL)

Lee (CA)

Lee (NV)

Leger Fernandez

Lesko

Levin (CA)

Levin (MI)

Lieu

Lofgren

Long

Loudermilk

Lowenthal

Lucas

Luetkemeyer

Luria

Lynch

Mace

Malinowski

Maloney,

Carolyn B.

Maloney, Sean

Mann

Manning

Mast

Matsui

McBath

McCarthy

McCaul

McClain

McClintock

McCollum

McEachin

McGovern

McKinley

McNerney

Meeks

Meijer

Meng

Meuser

Mfume

Miller (WV)

Miller-Meeks

Moolenaar

Moore (UT)

Moore (WI)

Morelle

Moulton

Mrvan

Mullin

Murphy (FL)

Murphy (NC)

Nadler

Napolitano

Neal

Neguse

Nehls

Newhouse

Newman

Norcross

O’Halleran

Obernolte

Ocasio-Cortez

Omar

Owens

Palazzo

Pallone

Palmer

Panetta

Pappas

Pascrell

Payne

Pelosi

Pence

Perlmutter

Peters

Pfluger

Phillips

Pingree

Pocan

Porter

Posey

Pressley

Price (NC)

Quigley

Raskin

Reed

Reschenthaler

Rice (NY)

Rice (SC)

Rodgers (WA)

Rogers (AL)

Rogers (KY)

Rose

Rosendale

Ross

Rouzer

Roybal-Allard

Ruiz

Ruppersberger

Rush

Rutherford

Ryan

Salazar

nchez

Sarbanes

Scalise

Scanlon

Schakowsky

Schiff

Schneider

Schrader

Schrier

Schweikert

Scott (VA)

Scott, Austin

Scott, David

Sessions

Sewell

Sherman

Sherrill

Simpson

Sires

Slotkin

Smith (MO)

Smith (NE)

Smith (NJ)

Smith (WA)

Smucker

Soto

Spanberger

Spartz

Speier

Stanton

Stauber

Steel

Stefanik

Steil

Steube

Stevens

Stewart

Strickland

Suozzi

Swalwell

Takano

Taylor

Tenney

Thompson (CA)

Thompson (MS)

Thompson (PA)

Tiffany

Timmons

Titus

Tlaib

Tonko

Torres (CA)

Torres (NY)

Trahan

Trone

Turner

Underwood

Upton

Valadao

Van Drew

Van Duyne

Vargas

Veasey

Vela

zquez

Wagner

Walberg

Walorski

Waltz

Wasserman

Schultz

Waters

Watson Coleman

Weber (TX)

Webster (FL)

Welch

Wenstrup

Westerman

Wexton

Wild

Williams (GA)

Wilson (FL)

Wittman

Womack

Yarmuth

Zeldin

NAYS—14

Biggs

Boebert

Buck

Budd

Gaetz

Greene (GA)

Harris

Hice (GA)

Massie

Miller (IL)

Mooney

Moore (AL)

Perry

Roy

ANSWERED ‘‘PRESENT’’—1

Gosar

NOT VOTING—17

Brady

Curtis

Doyle, Michael

Duncan

Dunn

Gohmert

Hoyer

Johnson (TX)

Kinzinger

Malliotakis

McHenry

Norman

Nunes

Stivers

Williams (TX)

Wilson (SC)

Young

b 1250

Mr. GONZALEZ of Ohio changed his

vote from ‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’

So (two-thirds being in the affirma-

tive) the rules were suspended and the

resolution was agreed to.

The result of the vote was announced

as above recorded.

A motion to reconsider was laid on

the table.

Stated for:

Ms. JOHNSON of Texas. Madam Speaker,

on Friday, March 19, 2021, I could not be

present for rollcall vote 97, due to a previous

commitment to serve as a panelist during the

United Nations 65th Commission on the Sta-

tus of Women parallel event titled ‘‘Women’s

Full and Effective Participation and Decision-

Making in Public Life, as well as the Elimi-

nation of Violence, for Achieving Gender

Equality and the Empowerment of All Women

and Girls.’’

Had I been present, I would have cast the

following vote: ‘‘yes’’ on rollcall vote 97.

MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE

RESOLUTION 8

117TH CONGRESS

Allred (Davids

(KS))

Axne (Stevens)

Barraga

n (Beyer)

Bera (Aguilar)

Bishop (GA)

(Butterfield)

Blumenauer

(Beyer)

Bourdeaux

(Clark (MA))

Boyle, Brendan

F. (Jeffries)

Buchanan

(Gimenez)

Bucshon

(Walorski)

Bush (Clark

(MA))

rdenas

(Gomez)

Cleaver (Davids

(KS))

DeSaulnier

(Matsui)

DesJarlais

(Fleischmann)

Gaetz (Waltz)

Garbarino (Joyce

(OH))

Gonzalez,

Vicente

(Gomez)

Grijalva (Garcı

(IL))

Hastings

(Butterfield)

Kahele (Mrvan)

Kim (NJ) (Davids

(KS))

Kirkpatrick

(Stanton)

Langevin

(Lynch)

Lawson (FL)

(Evans)

Lieu (Beyer)

Lowenthal

(Beyer)

McEachin

(Wexton)

Meng (Clark

(MA))

Mfume (Brown)

Moore (WI)

(Beyer)

Moulton

(Underwood)

Napolitano

(Correa)

Payne (Pallone)

Peters (Kildee)

Pingree

(Cicilline)

Porter (Wexton)

Rodgers (WA)

(Joyce (PA))

Rush

(Underwood)

Schneider

(Aguilar)

Sherrill

(Pallone)

Sires (Pallone)

Slotkin

(Stevens)

Smith (WA)

(Courtney)

Timmons

(Steube)

Vargas (Correa)

Wasserman

Schultz (Soto)

Watson Coleman

(Pallone)

Williams (GA)

(Jacobs (CA))

Wilson (FL)

(Hayes)

REMOVAL OF NAME OF MEMBER

AS COSPONSOR OF H.R. 1346

Mr. HORSFORD. Madam Speaker, I

ask unanimous consent to remove the

name of the gentleman from Louisiana

(Mr. H

IGGINS

) as cosponsor of H.R. 1346,

the Hospitality and Commerce Job Re-

covery Act.

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. J

COBS

of California). Is there objection

to the request of the gentleman from

Nevada?

There was no objection.

REQUIRING EACH MEMBER, OFFI-

CER, AND EMPLOYEE OF THE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

TO COMPLETE A PROGRAM OF

TRAINING IN WORKPLACE

RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

EACH SESSION OF EACH CON-

GRESS, AND FOR OTHER PUR-

POSES

Ms. LOFGREN. Madam Speaker, I

send to the desk a resolution and ask

unanimous consent for its immediate

consideration in the House.

The Clerk read the title of the resolu-

tion.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there

objection to the request of the gentle-

woman from California?

There was no objection.

The text of the resolution is as fol-

lows:

H. R

. 257

Resolved,

SECTION 1. MANDATORY COMPLETION OF PRO-

GRAM OF TRAINING IN WORKPLACE

RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES.

(a) R

EQUIRING

RAINING FOR

EMBERS

FFICERS

AND

MPLOYEES

.—

(1) R

EQUIREMENT

.—Not later than 30 days

after the date of the adoption of this resolu-

tion, the Committee on House Administra-

tion shall issue regulations to provide that,

during each session of each Congress, each

Member (including each Delegate or Resi-

dent Commissioner to the Congress), officer,

and employee of the House of Representa-

tives shall complete a program of training in

the workplace rights and responsibilities ap-

plicable to offices and employees of the

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House under part A of title II of the Congres-

sional Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C.

1301 et seq.), including anti-discrimination

and anti-harassment training.

(2) I

NCLUSION OF INTERNS

FELLOWS

AND

DETAILEES

.—For purposes of this resolution,

an individual serving in an office of the

House of Representatives as an intern (in-

cluding an unpaid intern), a participant in a

fellowship program, or a detailee from an-

other office of the Federal government shall

be considered an employee of the House.

(3) E

XCEPTION FOR PARTICIPANTS IN NEW

MEMBER ORIENTATION PROGRAMS

.—If an indi-

vidual completed a program of training re-

quired under paragraph (1) during the new

Member orientation program administered

by the Committee on House Administration

prior to the beginning of a Congress, the in-

dividual is not required to complete the pro-

gram during the first session of the Con-

gress.

(b) D

EADLINE

.—

(1) I

N GENERAL

.—Under the regulations

issued by the Committee on House Adminis-

tration under subsection (a), an individual

shall complete the program of training re-

quired under subsection (a) and file a certifi-

cate of completion of such training not later

than—

(A) in the case of an individual who is serv-

ing as a Member, officer, or employee of the

House as of the date on which the Committee

first certifies that the program is in oper-

ation for the session, not later than 90 days

after such date; or

(B) in the case of any other individual, not

later than 90 days after the individual first

becomes a Member, officer, or employee of

the House.

(2) A

LTERNATIVE DEADLINES

.—The Com-

mittee on House Administration may include

in the regulations issued under subsection

(a)—

(A) an alternative deadline for individuals

serving as interns and participants in fellow-

ship programs to take into account the dura-

tion of their service; and

(B) an alternative deadline for individuals

who first become Members, officers, or em-

ployees of the House towards the end of a

session of Congress to take into account the

amount of time remaining in the session.

(3) S

PECIAL RULE FOR FIRST SESSION OF ONE

HUNDRED SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS

.—In the

case of the first session of the One Hundred

Seventeenth Congress, an individual de-

scribed in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1)

shall complete the program required under

subsection (a) not later than 90 days after

the date of the adoption of this resolution.

DDITIONAL

ECHANISMS

.—The Com-

mittee on House Administration shall con-

sider additional mechanisms to ensure com-

pliance with the training requirement under

subsection (a).

The resolution was agreed to.

A motion to reconsider was laid on

the table.

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AF-

FAIRS VETERANS’ AND CARE-

GIVERS’ COVID–19 IMMUNIZA-

TIONS NOW EXPANDED ACT OF

2021

Mr. TAKANO. Madam Speaker, I ask

unanimous consent to take from the

Speaker’s table the bill (H.R. 1276) to

authorize the Secretary of Veterans Af-

fairs to furnish COVID-19 vaccines to

certain individuals, and for other pur-

poses, with the Senate amendment

thereto, and concur in the Senate

amendment.

The Clerk read the title of the bill.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The

Clerk will report the Senate amend-

ment.

The Clerk read as follows:

Senate amendment:

Strike all after the enacting clause and in-

sert the following:

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Strengthening

and Amplifying Vaccination Efforts to Locally

Immunize All Veterans and Every Spouse Act’’

or the ‘‘SAVE LIVES Act’’.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY OF VETERANS

AFFAIRS TO FURNISH COVID–19 VAC-

CINE TO CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS NOT

ENROLLED IN PATIENT ENROLL-

MENT SYSTEM OF DEPARTMENT OF

VETERANS AFFAIRS.

(a) I

ENERAL

.—The Secretary of Veterans

Affairs may furnish a vaccine for COVID–19 to

a covered individual during the COVID–19 pub-

lic health emergency.

(b) P

RIORITIZATION

.—In furnishing vaccines

for COVID–19 under the laws administered by

the Secretary, the Secretary shall—

(1) prioritize the vaccination of veterans who

are enrolled in the patient enrollment system,

veterans who receive hospital care and medical

services pursuant to subsection (c)(2) of section

1705 of title 38, United States Code, and accom-

panying caregivers of such veterans before the

vaccination of covered individuals not otherwise

described in this paragraph; and

(2) only furnish vaccines for COVID–19 to

covered individuals under this section to the ex-

tent that such vaccines are available.

IMING OF

ACCINES

ROVIDED TO

POUSES

ETERANS

.—The Secretary may determine

the timing for offering a vaccine for COVID–19

to the spouse of a veteran from the Department

of Veterans Affairs.

(d) V

ACCINE

LLOCATION

.—It is the sense of

Congress that, to the extent practicable based on

the current national supply chain, the Secretary

of Health and Human Services should adjust the

allocation for the Department of Veterans Af-

fairs for the vaccine for COVID–19 based on the

additional eligibility of covered individuals

under this section.

(e) D

EFINITIONS

.—In this section:

(1) A

CCOMPANYING CAREGIVER

.—The term ‘‘ac-

companying caregiver’’ means a caregiver de-

scribed in subparagraph (D), (E), or (F) of para-

graph (2) who is accompanying a veteran who is

receiving a vaccine for COVID–19 furnished by

the Department.

(2) C

OVERED INDIVIDUAL

.—The term ‘‘covered

individual’’ means any of the following individ-

uals:

(A) A veteran who is not eligible to enroll in

the patient enrollment system.

(B) A veteran who is eligible for care under

section 1724 of title 38, United States Code.

title.

(D) A family caregiver of a veteran partici-

pating in the program of comprehensive assist-

ance for family caregivers under section

1720G(a) of such title.

(E) A caregiver of a veteran participating in

the program of general caregiver support serv-

ices under section 1720G(b) of such title.

(F) A caregiver of a veteran participating in

the Medical Foster Home Program, Bowel and

Bladder Program, Home Based Primary Care

Program, or Veteran Directed Care Program of

the Department of Veterans Affairs.

(G) A spouse of a veteran.

(3) C

OVERED PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY

.—

The term ‘‘covered public health emergency’’

means an emergency with respect to COVID–19

declared by a Federal, State, or local authority.

(4) COVID–

.—The term ‘‘COVID–19’’ means

the coronavirus disease 2019.

(5) P

ATIENT ENROLLMENT SYSTEM

.—The term

‘‘patient enrollment system’’ means the system

of annual patient enrollment of the Department

of Veterans Affairs established and operated

under section 1705(a) of title 38, United States

Code.

(6) V

ETERAN

.—The term ‘‘veteran’’ has the

meaning given that term in section 101(2) of title

38, United States Code.

Mr. TAKANO (during the reading).

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous con-

sent to dispense with the reading.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there

objection to the request of the gen-

tleman from California?

There was no objection.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there

objection to the original request of the

gentleman from California?

There was no objection.

A motion to reconsider was laid on

the table.

RECOGNIZING LATRICE POWELL

(Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was

given permission to address the House

for 1 minute and to revise and extend

her remarks.)

Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker,

I take this brief moment to salute

Latrice Powell. We are humbled by her

service. I wear on my jacket Lady

Freedom. I would argue that Latrice

Powell is our Sojourner Truth because

she is a pioneer and has made an enor-

mous difference in this House, that is

the people’s House. She truly is a rep-

resentative of the people. With that in

mind, I thank her so very much for all

that she has done.

Madam Speaker, I must take this

separate moment again, as she knows,

to honor those who died in Atlanta, to

honor them for the vile way in which

they lost their lives; to say that those

women, Asian-American women, really

were the victims of hate crimes. Why?

Because women gender can be a hate

crime.

Madam Speaker, and I would only

say to my colleague—a friend of mine,

yes, from Texas—in the midst of pain,

to talk about a rope and an oak tree as

a tradition of Texas, lynching, is ab-

surd, unacceptable, and I denounce.

I apologize for any hurt that was

given to the Asian-American commu-

nity, and I ask my colleague to apolo-

gize.

Madam Speaker, I ask us to join to-

gether against hate crimes.

IN MEMORY OF MITCH STONE

(Mr. WENSTRUP asked and was

given permission to address the House

for 1 minute and to revise and extend

his remarks.)

Mr. WENSTRUP. Madam Speaker, I

rise today in memory of Mitch Stone.

He was a University of Cincinnati foot-

ball superfan, and he was an inspira-

tional young man who passed away

years after his battle with brain can-

cer.

In 2009, at age 11, Mitch Stone was di-

agnosed with a malignant brain tumor.

The Cincinnati Bearcats football team

took Mitch in as one of their own and

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saw him through his treatments. Mitch

found strength and support through the

UC Bearcats football team, and they

found strength in him.

Mitch went on to attend the Univer-

sity of Cincinnati, where he earned a

bachelor’s degree in 2020. He was a

Kolodzik Business Scholar, an honors

program at the Carl H. Lindner College

of Business. Mitch used his experience

to start his own foundation called

Mitch’s Mission, which helped children

overcome their own health challenges.

Mitch’s death is a tragedy that we

continue to mourn, but his life is a tes-

timony to the good in this world. His

legacy and the positive effects of his

works will live on.

Rest in peace, Mitch.

b 1300

AMERICA’S KIDS DESERVE

BETTER

(Ms. JACOBS of California asked and

was given permission to address the

House for 1 minute.)

Ms. JACOBS of California. Madam

Speaker, before COVID–19 more than 40

percent of San Diego kids were already

living in families experiencing poverty.

Childhood poverty was a problem be-

fore COVID–19, and we know it has only

worsened through this pandemic.

America’s kids deserve better.

That is why I was so proud to fight

for them through the American Rescue

Plan and so proud to see the bill signed

into law last week.

The American Rescue Plan makes

historic investments to increase the

child tax credit and support our

childcare infrastructure to help work-

ing families and our care workers.

These investments will be trans-

formational, cutting childhood poverty

in half and lifting a heavy burden off

the shoulders of so many parents.

Today, I celebrate this progress. And,

today, I commit myself to working to

support the 5 million American chil-

dren who will still experience poverty.

Let’s make the child tax credit in-

creases permanent. Let’s revitalize our

childcare infrastructure, and let’s do

right by America’s kids.

LAND BELONGING TO THE

WINNEBAGO

(Mr. FORTENBERRY asked and was

given permission to address the House

for 1 minute and to revise and extend

his remarks.)

Mr. FORTENBERRY. Madam Speak-

er, my district in Nebraska is home to

many Native American Tribes, includ-

ing the Winnebago in the northeast

corner of the State. And it is nestled,

Madam Speaker, along the Missouri

River Bottoms at the beginning of the

great plains in a beautiful setting of

rolling hills. This Tribal land has been

an integral part of Nebraska’s history

and culture.

But several decades ago, land belong-

ing to the Winnebago was appropriated

by the Army Corps of Engineers for de-

velopment. In 1976, a Federal court

found that the United States and the

Corps lacked the authority to take this

land through eminent domain.

It is time to make this right. So the

Winnebago Land Transfer Act is an im-

portant bill to return to the Winnebago

this piece of land.

Hunters will be able to continue to

enjoy this prime spot along the Mis-

souri River through the Winnebago

Tribe, Wildlife, and Parks program.

I am appreciative of the bipartisan

effort here of our colleagues, D

ARREN

OTO

of Florida, S

HARICE

AVIDS

Kansas, as well as R

ANDY

EENSTRA

Iowa, to once again make this right.

LIFELINE TO SMALL BUSINESSES

(Ms. CRAIG asked and was given per-

mission to address the House for 1

minute and to revise and extend her re-

marks.)

Ms. CRAIG. Madam Speaker, last

weekend, I visited women-owned busi-

nesses in Shakopee, and I had the

pleasure of meeting Elise Steger who

owns ShakRa Yoga & Fitness.

Throughout the past year, Elise has

done everything she can to comply

with COVID restrictions while con-

tinuing to pay her employees and keep

her business open. With the help of the

Paycheck Protection Program loans

she has also turned to creative solu-

tions like virtual classes, but she has

been able to keep her business going.

The Paycheck Protection Program

has served as a lifeline to small busi-

nesses like Elise’s, but in less than 2

weeks it is due to expire. This week we

passed legislation in the House on a bi-

partisan basis to extend this critical

program through May 31. We must en-

sure that that extension becomes law.

RECOGNIZING MARY MARGARET

BUTLER

(Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS asked and

was given permission to address the

House for 1 minute and to revise and

extend her remarks.)

Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS. Madam

Speaker, I rise today to recognize a

local hero in my hometown of

Ottumwa, Iowa.

This coming Wednesday, March 24,

Mary Margaret Butler of Ottumwa will

be recognized as a 2021 Hero of the

Heartland by the American Red Cross.

Mary Margaret is being recognized

for founding Whatsoever You Do, Inc.,

a nonprofit that has worked tirelessly

on creating shelters for the homeless in

southeastern Iowa. For years now,

Whatsoever You Do has helped hun-

dreds with basic needs such as, food,

clothing, and housing.

Across the country, the Red Cross

works every day through programs and

services related to disaster relief, the

military, health and safety, and help-

ing the homeless. The Hero of the

Heartland award recognizes out-

standing individuals who demonstrate

courage, compassion, selflessness, and

work to better help their neighbors and

communities.

I am proud to not only represent

Mary Margaret Butler in Congress, but

proud to call her a neighbor. Thank

you, Mary Margaret, for making

Ottumwa a better place to live.

Additionally, I would like to wish a

happy birthday to two other amazing

women of integrity, selflessness, com-

passion, and courage, my chief of staff,

Tracie Gibler, and my daughter, Taylor

Miller-Meeks.

HATE CRIMES MUST STOP

(Mr. GREEN of Texas asked and was

given permission to address the House

for 1 minute and to revise and extend

his remarks.)

Mr. GREEN of Texas. Madam Speak-

er, when you are a son of the seg-

regated south, when you have heard

your mother called girl, and your fa-

ther called boy, when you have had to

go to the back door, when you have had

the Klan burn a cross on your property,

you know hate when you see it. You

know what a hate crime is when it

takes place.

What happened in Georgia was hate

personified, it was a hate crime. I will

march with the people who will be op-

posed to this. I will stand with them.

We cannot allow this kind of injustice

to go unchallenged. It is better to

stand alone than not stand at all. This

is a hate crime and we must—we must

seek justice for those victims, and we

must demand that these persons who

are calling these viruses by names as-

sociated with people, that they ought

to stop, and we ought to demand it. I

do so. I demand that they stop.

DEFENDING OUR HOMELAND

(Mr. CAWTHORN asked and was

given permission to address the House

for 1 minute and to revise and extend

his remarks.)

Mr. CAWTHORN. Madam Speaker,

there is nothing an American will not

do to defend his country. I rise today in

defense of my homeland. I am angry,

not just for the destruction of Amer-

ican values perpetrated by those on the

left, but I am angry because my col-

leagues simply do not seem to care.

They do not care that our border is

non-existent, that 6,000 criminals cross

into our country daily. They do not

care that 64 percent of the Federal ar-

rests are of illegal immigrants. They

do not care that America’s welfare and

infrastructure system simply cannot

handle this influx of criminal immi-

grants. They do not care because, to

them, power is all that matters.

I have a message to the power-hun-

gry and the partisan. Power corrupts,

and absolute power corrupts abso-

lutely.

It is in the nature of Americans to be

kind. It is in our nature to be gentle

and loving. But know this, when it

comes to the matter of protecting our

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friends, our family, and our heartland,

do not trifle with this representative

democracy. For we the people will not

stop, we will never back down. We will

give our everything to protect those

dear to us. This is our country. This is

our Republic. Finish the wall.

TO-DO LIST FOR THE PRESS

CORPS

(Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was

given permission to address the House

for 1 minute.)

Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker,

we are now being sent home for 3

weeks, I don’t know whether it is coin-

cidence or not that we are being sent

home when we have such a problem at

our border, and we just got done voting

on a few immigration bills.

All of us Congressmen should have a

to-do list over the next 3 weeks. I want

to give the press corps a to-do list.

Right now, our Border Patrol is under

a gag order in which they cannot edu-

cate the press or Congressmen as to

what is really going on. This, at a time

when you have almost three times as

many people trying to get across the

border than at this time last year, and

we have huge numbers of unaccom-

panied minors down there.

The press should be outraged at this

gag order. I have been at the border

four times so far over the last couple

years, and it is always very illu-

minating what the Border Patrol can

say to us. Now, like we are in some to-

talitarian state, they are not allowed

to speak to us.

I don’t care whether you care about

the government benefits, the unaccom-

panied minors, the drug trafficking,

the human trafficking, the money the

drug cartels are making on illegal im-

migration, we should want to know and

we can’t know unless the Border Patrol

tells us. Please wake up, sleeping press

corps.

DISASTER AT OUR BORDER

(Mr. L

MALFA asked and was given

permission to address the House for 1

minute and to revise and extend his re-

marks.)

Mr. L

MALFA. Madam Speaker, last

year Portland, Oregon, cut $16 million

from their police budget. This has led

to a twenty-fold increase, unfortu-

nately, in deadly shootings. Mayor

Wheeler has been forced to reverse

course now and ask for more funding

for police.

Similar to this, the Biden adminis-

tration is having to reverse course due

to the crisis on the border. Now, many

are getting hung up on using the word

‘‘crisis,’’ so FEMA is now involved, and

they deal with disasters, hence, the

Biden border disaster.

Less than 2 months in, the border is

worse than it has been in two decades.

And now, Biden has been forced to re-

verse course and ask Mexico to help

control the flow of migrants once

again, after previously dismantling the

‘‘Remain in Mexico’’ policy.

Also, on his first day in the Biden ad-

ministration, they issued a proclama-

tion to halt all border construction, de-

spite Congress funding it and demand-

ing that it be built. Now, just yester-

day, the administration has said it was

moving forward with border wall con-

struction. Good.

As they are learning in Portland, Se-

attle, and Minneapolis, the Biden ad-

ministration is learning law and order

is also required on our border or you

get a disaster.

RESIGNATION AS MEMBER OF

JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms.

EGER

ERNANDEZ

) laid before the

House the following resignation as a

member of the Joint Economic Com-

mittee:

OUSE OF

EPRESENTATIVES

March 19, 2021.

Hon. N

ANCY

ELOSI

Speaker, House of Representatives,

Washington, DC.

EAR

PEAKER

ELOSI

: I write to respectfully

tender my resignation as a member of the

Joint Economic Committee effective imme-

diately. It has been an honor to serve in this

capacity.

Sincerely,

ARIN

OOD

Member of Congress.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without

objection, the resignation is accepted.

There was no objection.

APPOINTMENT OF MEMBER TO

THE JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The

Chair announces the Speaker’s ap-

pointment, pursuant to 15 U.S.C.

1024(a), and the order of the House of

January 4, 2021, of the following Mem-

ber on the part of the House to the

Joint Economic Committee:

Mr. A

RRINGTON

of Texas, to rank

after Ms. H

ERRERA

EUTLER

of Wash-

ington.

APPOINTMENT OF MEMBER TO

THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

THE MODERNIZATION OF CON-

GRESS

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The

Chair announces the Speaker’s ap-

pointment, pursuant to section 4(e) of

House Resolution 8, 117th Congress, and

the order of the House of January 4,

2021, of the following Member to the

Select Committee on the Moderniza-

tion of Congress:

Mr. J

OYCE

of Ohio, to rank after Mr.

ATTA

of Ohio.

APPOINTMENT OF MEMBER TO

THE SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE ON

THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The

Chair announces the Speaker’s ap-

pointment, pursuant to section 4(f) of

House Resolution 8, 117th Congress, and

the order of the House of January 4,

2021, of the following Member to the

Select Subcommittee on the

Coronavirus Crisis:

Mrs. M

ILLER

-M

EEKS

of Iowa.

SCORCHED EARTH TO MISSISSIPPI

BURNING

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under

the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan-

uary 4, 2021, the gentleman from South

Carolina (Mr. C

LYBURN

) is recognized

for 60 minutes as the designee of the

majority leader.

GENERAL LEAVE

Mr. CLYBURN. Madam Speaker, I

ask unanimous consent that all Mem-

bers have 5 legislative days in which to

revise and extend their remarks and in-

clude extraneous material on the sub-

ject of my Special Order.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there

objection to the request of the gen-

tleman from South Carolina?

There was no objection.

Mr. CLYBURN. Madam Speaker, last

March, as the tragic failure of the

Trump administration’s response to

the coronavirus pandemic was becom-

ing very apparent, the House Demo-

cratic Caucus held a conference call to

discuss the crisis. Recalling the lessons

of history, like the aftermath of World

War I, the Spanish Flu, the Great De-

pression, and World War II, that it is

usually the least of these among us

that are the hardest hit during the cri-

ses and the last to recover after these

crises are over, if they are able to re-

cover at all; I expressed at that time to

the Caucus that the legislation before

us offered a tremendous opportunity to

restructure things in our vision. I was

referring then, as I often do, to the vi-

sion expressed in our Pledge of Alle-

giance to our Nation’s flag of liberty

and justice for all.

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Shortly after the media reported

these comments, Senator M

ONNELL

the majority leader of the Senate, de-

rided them on the Senate floor. Refer-

ring to me by position, he declared:

‘‘This is not a political opportunity. It

is a national emergency.’’

I wholeheartedly agree with the now-

minority leader of the Senate that the

coronavirus pandemic was and remains

a national emergency. But because the

previous administration and Senate

Republicans failed to address it with

appropriate urgency and a vision of lib-

erty and justice for all, the American

people, through the political process

last November, entrusted Democrats

with an opportunity to build back with

a better and more equitable vision for

the future of our great country.

The American Rescue Plan has begun

that process, and it is enjoying wide-

spread, bipartisan support across the

entire spectrum of the country. It did

not get a single Republican vote in the

House or the Senate. Because of the

use of the budget process commonly

called reconciliation, Republicans were

not able to block by filibuster the

American Rescue Plan, and that is

proving to be a good thing.

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But the Senate minority leader and

several of his colleagues seem to be

hellbent on using archaic Senate proce-

dural rules to allow the minority in the

Senate to block any legislation de-

signed to protect the voting and civil

rights of our country’s minority citi-

zens as we continue our pursuit toward

the fulfillment of liberty and justice

for all.

We have been here before. During the

1940s and 1950s, the Senate filibuster

was used to kill civil rights legislation

and protect Jim Crow laws. Today,

Senate Republican leaders are employ-

ing the same tactics to obstruct voting

rights and civil rights legislation.

Their efforts are designed to gain

power for their party by suppressing

political participation by minorities.

The minority leader has threatened

that if Senate Democrats modify the

filibuster rules to do to him as he did

to President Obama, he will resort to

scorched-earth tactics. This threat of

scorched-earth tactics by the Senate

minority leader in defiance of Amer-

ican democracy is reminiscent of ‘‘Mis-

sissippi Burning,’’ which highlighted

the lynching of three civil rights work-

ers who were simply registering Black

voters in Mississippi in June 1964. They

were murdered by the KKK, with the

cooperation of law enforcement offi-

cials, to keep them from assisting mi-

nority citizens who simply wanted to

vote. It was 44 days before their bodies

were located and four decades before

anyone faced legal consequences for

their deaths.

Today, Republicans are using the big

lie about the 2020 elections as a pretext

to advance a litany of minority voter

suppression laws. They know that our

vision of liberty and justice for all en-

joys majority support among voters, so

they seek to suppress enough votes so

that their oppressive policies and bank-

rupt ideas can prevail. The minority

leader wants to allow a minority of his

minority to block measures that would

prevent a return to bygone days.

To confront this threat, the Senate

must eliminate the 60-vote threshold to

end a filibuster on voting rights and

civil rights legislation. Just as Mis-

sissippi Burning was met with the Civil

Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, the

threat of scorched earth must be met

with the For the People Act and the

John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act.

I didn’t march in the streets and

spend nights in jail as a young man to

find myself fighting the same battles

generations later, but it appears the

minority leader and his Republican

colleagues are preparing to retread old

ground, and I am prepared to stand my

ground.

To the minority leader and his col-

leagues, I say: This is not a political

opportunity. This is a national emer-

gency.

Since this country’s inception, equal

rights for people of color have been re-

stricted by those in power who seek to

hold on to power by using their power

to deny the greatness of this country

to those who do not look like them.

Extending debate on legislative

issues is one thing, but when it comes

to rights rooted in the Constitution,

the filibuster has no place.

Madam Speaker, I yield back the bal-

ance of my time.

HONORING REV. DR. C.T. WRIGHT

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under

the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan-

uary 4, 2021, the gentleman from Ari-

zona (Mr. S

CHWEIKERT

) is recognized

for 60 minutes as the designee of the

minority leader.

Mr. SCHWEIKERT. Madam Speaker,

I am going to do a couple of things

right now, and one of the first ones is

a little conversation about someone we

lost in my community who actually

was a friend and a neighbor and had an

impact in ways that are hard to de-

scribe. I desperately wish the Members

of this body could have spent time with

him and his wife.

It is Rev. Dr. Professor C.T. Wright.

What was so unique about him is that

he was a big man, and he had a voice

that carried. You would have conversa-

tions with him, Madam Speaker, and

realize just how incredibly brilliant he

was.

He was born in Georgia. He struggled

and worked his way up. He ended up

with a Ph.D. in history from Boston

College. He became a civil rights lead-

er, yet when you would talk to him

about that, Reverend Wright—Dr.

Wright—actually often wouldn’t refer

to himself as a civil rights leader. He

would say: I want to lead for humanity.

He loved people. It was a different

view. He took his struggles, his suc-

cess, and his academic prowess and

said: We are going to make people’s

lives better. Why would you dare focus

on the color of their skin?

I remember one of the most inter-

esting conversations I had with him

where he and I were in the back of the

room and talked, and he saw many of—

actually, almost an example of what

we just saw on the floor—the discus-

sions of politics and race, and said:

AVID

, it is class and opportunity that

divides us. It is not our color; it is our

opportunity.

Dr. Wright was just a powerful and

brilliant man.

Madam Speaker, you see his wife

there, Mary. They were married in 1974.

Mary was the epitome of love.

How many of us in our life have that

one person?

I am blessed to have a 5-year-old lit-

tle girl. But even when she was young-

er, when she would see Mary, Mary

would sort of scream, and the two of

them would run over and hug each

other. She was just the epitome of love.

That made them incredibly powerful,

as you felt good by just knowing Dr.

Wright and Mary Wright in your com-

munity.

The other thing that also made him

unique was that he was a passionate

conservative. He was a Republican

elector. He was the chairman of our

clemency board, and he was on my

community school board. He was bril-

liant, and he cared about humanity. He

ran charities and foundations to help

all people. They helped people on the

continent of Africa and even people all

through our community. He was a pow-

erful force for good because he was

good, because he was passionate, and

because he was caring.

We lost both Mary and Dr. Wright

last year.

I am going to put in a much more de-

tailed CV because his history goes on

page after page, and we will put that in

the C

ONGRESSIONAL

ECORD

Individuals like them bring us to-

gether and also make us better. It

breaks my heart that more will not get

to spend time with him because, after a

couple of minutes with him and Mary,

you felt different.

The last thing I will say is he loved

to give the opening prayer at Repub-

lican meetings. What was always so

fascinating, Madam Speaker, is you

would watch the room, and the room

ends up standing and clapping. I was

waiting for an altar call. Now, I am

Catholic, so I am not used to the con-

cept of an altar call, but watching

someone be able to have so much en-

ergy, vigor, enthusiasm, love for peo-

ple, and love for believing that conserv-

atism is how you free people, he made

an impact. He made an impact on my

life, my family’s life, my community,

and my State, and I believe he made an

impact on this country.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the

memory of Dr. C.T. Wright, a passionate,

faithful, and devoted public servant and valued

neighbor. C.T. will be remembered as a men-

tor and true leader throughout the education,

criminal justice, and faith communities in Ari-

zona. He devoted much of his life to civil

rights and education, working for many of the

country’s historically black colleges and uni-

versities, where he then moved on to his pas-

sion to help with human rights. He founded

the Light of Hope Institute, which promotes

human rights around the world. He also

served as a delegate for the Electoral College

and met six presidents. C.T. frequently led

prayers at campaign rallies and promoted

faith. He proudly served as the Chairman of

the Board of Executive Clemency.

C.T. Wright had great passion for his family,

education, faith, and freedom. Many will al-

ways remember and consider him as their

brother. He leaves behind a great legacy that

has reached out to communities across Ari-

zona. He was a thoughtful, compassionate,

and kind man who always cared for others

while ensuring a good future for all.

C.T. Wright served countless communities

unselfishly and served and as a great leader.

May we continue to honor his memory through

our passion and service to our communities.

REVISITING NET NEUTRALITY

Mr. SCHWEIKERT. Madam Speaker,

I want to do a handful of other things

because, with the craziness of our

schedule, we haven’t had a chance to

sort of walk through a lot of policy

thoughts. But there was one that has

been bugging me. I have the hour, so I

was going to share something that has

just been in my craw for a while.

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Do we all remember a few years ago—

ancient history; in politics, we seem to

have, shall we say, the attention span

of a gnat—one of the pop culture de-

bates we on the right and left were

having was something called net neu-

trality? The Democrats were all into

net neutrality, even though, I will de-

bate, most of this body had no idea

what net neutrality was. I want to sort

of argue that thank heaven and thank

the internet gods that the Democrat

net neutrality push only lasted 1 year

or think about how miserable this last

year would have been.

We should be held accountable for

our policy beliefs. This is an occasion

where I have heard no one get up here

and talk about what society would

have looked like in the United States

during the pandemic if the Democrats’

net neutrality policy—remember, they

did it for 1 year, through regulatory

fiat.

The only reason I show this chart is,

do you see, Madam Speaker, the crash

here in spending? It was scheduled to

continue to crash in spending. That

spending was the internet—the pipes,

the robustness, the speed, and the car-

rying capacity of the internet—which

crashed during the Democrat adminis-

tration’s FCC 1 year of functionally

doing an administrative fiat of net neu-

trality.

If that line had continued, how many

of you were educating your kids on

Zoom? How many of you were holding

meetings on the internet? How many of

you had to work from home? How

many of us in this body were doing

committee hearings over the internet?

Yet, the internet in the United

States in 2017, 2018, and 2019 actually

got dramatically more robust and dra-

matically faster. In many commu-

nities—particularly on the East Coast,

oddly enough—there are communities

that doubled their speed and the

robustness of the pipes.

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It happened because of the massive

investment because, thank heaven, the

crazy policy of what was net neutrality

was taken away.

We need to be honest. Sometimes one

needs to be willing to walk up and

admit, hey, that was a really stupid

idea. The one reason this country was

able to have this disruption and trans-

fer to basically a knowledge-based,

web-based, internet-based economy was

because the crazy policies that came

with net neutrality of having a robust

internet only lasted 1 year.

You can actually see that this is

what happened. This is us. This is

America trying to survive economi-

cally and educationally. When you see

these charts, this was not possible. If

that trend, regulatorily, and then

therefore investment-wise that started

in 2016, when the policy shift happened,

if it had lasted more than a year, this

year would have been a lot different.

It is just an occasion where 4 years

ago, 5 years ago, some of us would get

up here and try to explain what it

would mean to the efficiency, the

robustness, the opportunity for even

gamers being able to use the internet,

and we would get great rhetorical com-

ments back, often having nothing to

actually do with how the internet

worked. Thank heaven another bad pol-

icy only lasted a short time.

BUILDING A ROBUST ECONOMY

Mr. SCHWEIKERT. Madam Speaker,

the other thing I also want to talk

about is why so many of us who actu-

ally own calculators are intensely con-

cerned about the left’s policy in the

last couple of months.

This is one of those things that I

genuinely believe both sides here pas-

sionately care about and want society

to do well, to have opportunity, the

working poor to become less poor, the

poor to become less poor, the middle

class to be able to thrive; but we just

see the basics of economics differently.

I want to spend just a couple of mo-

ments and walk through what is fact,

and we have the facts. Now, first off,

how many times over, and over, and

over do we hear, Hey, post-tax reform,

the rich are getting richer; the poor are

getting poorer?

That is mathematically absolutely

not true. It is a lie.

It turns out, policies like we have

been engaged in just recently make the

wealthy wealthier. It is a simple

thought. When you pump massive

amounts of liquidity into a society,

into an economy, those people who own

assets get richer. Their stocks go up,

their house values go up, and other as-

sets they have go up.

But if you are part of the poor or

working poor, how many stocks do you

own? How much real estate do you

own?

Yet the basic economic principles

that you get to look at over and over,

the $1.9 trillion spending bill violated

almost all of the principles.

So you say, okay, so we are going to

deliver actual checks. Great. Okay.

That will have an impact for several

months. It will reduce poverty for sev-

eral months, but it doesn’t change the

base.

A year later, are you being paid

more? Are there more job opportuni-

ties? Is your labor valuable?

Because the remarkable thing that

happened in 2018 and 2019 is the work-

ing poor, their labor became valuable.

They became essential to the society,

to economic growth.

I sat through joint economic hear-

ings in previous years and listened to

the arrogance of the economists, the

arrogance of the political class who

said: Well, they didn’t finish high

school. They are going to be part of the

permanent underclass. We will just find

a way to subsidize them and write

them off in society instead of making

them valuable.

And that is what we have gone back

and done again. And the problem is

that we have done it in a way where we

think we have big hearts. We are going

to send checks.

But what about the year after? Did

they make their labor, their skill sets,

or their lack of skill sets, desirable in

the economy?

So a simple point—and if I actually

even had better data, this would even

be more dramatic—in 2013 to 2019, you

can see the orange there, and that is

actually pretty much the wealthy in

our country.

Under the previous administration,

you can see—and when I say ‘‘pre-

vious,’’ I am talking Obama—the

wealthy got substantially wealthier

than the poor, and it is because the

lack of understanding of what creates

economic vitality. This here is almost

solely 2018 and 2019. The poor got

wealthier; not the rich, the poor.

The working poor moved up dramati-

cally faster than the rich.

Why?

Well, it turns out, tax reform moved

lots of capital into making plants and

equipment more efficient, meaning you

pay people more.

You all remember your basic eco-

nomics class. What are the two things

that raises someone’s wages?

Inflation—which means you paid

more, but you didn’t get anything

more—and productivity.

When you raise a business’s, the soci-

ety’s, the community’s productivity,

people get paid more. That is what was

happening here. We made the working

poor less poor through tax; regulatory;

and immigration policy, which is some-

thing I will touch on at the end be-

cause it is very uncomfortable for a lot

of people to talk about.

Immigration policy is complex from

an economic standpoint, but if you love

and care for those who are just strug-

gling and trying to survive, they may

not have had the opportunity to go to

grad school or college. They may not

have even graduated high school, but

they are out there trying to provide for

themselves and their families and the

people they love and care for.

Why do we adopt policies like this

that don’t make their labor valuable,

and then we choose to flood the market

with similar skill sets to devalue the

labor?

There is this weird duplicity that

happens here, where we talk about

helping those who need help, and then

we engage in policies, whether it be im-

migration policy, regulatory policy,

particularly tax and spending policy,

that ends up crushing the very people

we claim we are trying to help.

I know charts are annoying, but the

math is the math. If you look at this

one, you start to see the percentage of

American households that were in pov-

erty. We had substantially plateaued.

We weren’t getting better as a society.

And then all of a sudden over here, you

see we started doing what was nec-

essary to expand, create opportunity.

And, yes, it meant getting businesses

to have to compete with each other by

putting money into more efficient

equipment and doing things that lifted

Americans and created value for labor,

even the very low-skilled labor.

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You start to see in 2018 and 2019,

America hitting its lowest poverty

rates ever; income, food insecurity, the

lowest ever. The working poor’s labor

became valuable. And if you actually

want to go into the subsets—which I

have chart after chart after chart—if

you claim you care about African-

American females or this subset or

that subset, you see that some of those

subsets have movement in the value of

their talents and their labor, which

was remarkable.

We had, I think, a quarter in early

2019, or it was late 2018, where African-

American women had almost a double-

digit rise in wages in an entire year. It

was like a 7.3 percent rise in wages.

I know, as a Republican, we have this

bad habit of sounding like accountants

on steroids, but these numbers really

do mean something. It is people. It is

how they feed their family, how they

save for retirement, how they have an

opportunity. There were amazing

things happening.

We talk a lot about income inequal-

ity, which I actually have a personal

fixation on this. And if you actually

look at the first time we had major

movement in the drop of income in-

equality in this society, it was 2018 and

2019. And it wasn’t because rich people

got less rich. It was because the poor,

the working poor got dramatically less

poor.

We adopted policies that made their

labor valuable. Then the pandemic hit

and we had to rebuild.

But are we rebuilding in a way that

makes their labor valuable?

I am going to make an argument

that what we just did, we are going to

get a nice little sugar high, but for a

very short time.

And then the next day, what are

their job prospects?

If you are someone who didn’t finish

high school, but you are willing to

work your heart out, you are willing to

learn, what opportunities did the last

spending bill provide for that person?

How many new jobs did it help create?

How much economic expansion? How

many capital expenditures to make

their jobs more productive so they can

be paid more?

Instead, what we did is we said: Here

is some money, and, oh, by the way, we

are going to raise taxes over here com-

ing later this year and those things, so

your job prospects—it is a technical

economic term—you are screwed in the

future.

Do we think more than just the next

election cycle?

If we are going to make the poor less

poor in this country, you need oppor-

tunity. We just spent $1.9 trillion and

not a dime of it creates opportunity,

creates what the future should look

like.

So we say we care. We both care. The

problem is, I have the numbers that

show what worked. The other side has

decades of doing the same thing and in-

come inequality and poverty didn’t get

better. They are blips. But those blips

were from direct cash, unless the plan

is just, hey, we are going to do direct

cash forever and ever and ever, and

that is really going to be great for soci-

ety and the psyche of our society.

Once again, I am sorry to do this, and

I hate this term, but it is the only one

the economists around here all use,

which is ‘‘quartiles.’’ Here is the lowest

income quartile. Take a look at 2019, if

you are willing to embrace math.

I always thought that would be the

great Christmas gift around here, is to

buy everyone a calculator. A family

joke is: Daddy works in a math-free

zone.

It was a remarkable change in the

value of those workers and what they

were paid, and it is because their tal-

ent, their labor that they had to offer

became more valuable.

Look at what happened in 2019. That

is what changes a society, because the

idea is, you build a base, and then the

next year you build on it, and then the

next year you build on it, and the next

year you build on it. That is one way to

remove lots of your society out of pov-

erty.

The other is to do what the Demo-

crats are doing right now and saying:

We are going to send you a check.

Okay. What happens the day the

check is gone? Did you make society

more prosperous? Did you take the

working poor of our country and make

it so the value of their labor that they

offer is more valuable the next day,

and the next day, and the next day?

You didn’t. The only way you basi-

cally have to backfill is you have got

to send another check. It is just soci-

etal suicide and lunacy.

I understand pandering and politics,

but at some point you wish you had a

quiet room with some economists to

say: How do we have a revolution in

our society that we have dramatically

less poor and the working poor are dra-

matically less poor? And how do we get

there? And how do we do this over the

next decade?

Because I will make you the argu-

ment that what was happening particu-

larly in 2018 and 2019 were remarkable

numbers. So let’s go to the next quar-

tile up. It turns out the same thing was

happening.

And when you actually look at the

stratification of these quartiles—I am

sorry, it is geeky—the lowest quartile,

a traditionally very, very low skill set.

Second quartile, up some skill set. And

you actually see remarkable—I mean, a

$2,600 increase in the value of their

labor for the second quartile, which is

still poverty. It is working poor, but

this quartile, if you look at that, that

is remarkable.

This is actually accounting for earn-

ing of tax credit and transfer pay-

ments, working through what was eco-

nomic, and it was the value of their

labor.

b 1345

Once again, for all of us that keep

coming behind these microphones—

and, you know, particularly the dark-

ness of this body right now, we see so

much of the debate being about the

pigment of someone’s skin instead of

the economic circumstances, the class,

as Dr. Wright would often refer to, and

what we do to create opportunity.

And this chart here basically is just

pure salary. What happened to the

mean weekly, real earnings? Now, re-

member, these are inflationary ad-

justed. So I do my best to make sure

the math is as honest as possible. And

when you actually start to see the

quartiles of African-American wages

taking a huge spike up in 2018 and

2019—Anglos, Hispanics—really the

growth rate in their wages was remark-

able. And there are some other charts,

which are really hard to read, that are

a little geeky, that say, okay, here is

the level of skill set, educational at-

tainment, those things.

It turns out, we had such a robust

economy that those who are often at

the tail end of educational attainment

actually had the fastest growth in

wages.

So you go back to the earlier chart,

saying, turns out the working poor got

substantially less poor, the rich got

richer, but nothing at the same per-

centages. And that is why the eco-

nomic inequality shrank. That is the

honest math. Yet, you don’t hear it in

the rhetoric here, because the rhetor-

ical divide of our society is so much

more powerful and desired, because it

is about winning the next election than

actually doing what is important to

make society great.

So right now—and this is a hard one

to talk about, because we have so po-

liticized it that trying to look at it

through an economic lens is really

hard. I will get folks—whenever I start

to walk through these numbers, folks

will send me crazy stuff. And I am try-

ing to say this isn’t about ethnicity;

this is—I am doing labor economics.

Janet Yellen is supposed to be a bril-

liant labor economist, yet when you

hear her speeches recently—or now

that she is Treasury Secretary—it rips

your heart out, saying, at least take a

breath and compliment what happened

in the previous couple of years, but

that would mean saying something

nice to free market economics.

Right now, we estimate—and this is

the best number I can get my hands

on—that about 4

⁄

percent of the labor

force is undocumented.

In a society right now where, if you

actually really dive into labor force

participation numbers, unemployment

is probably double the number we post.

You know, people who should be in the

labor pool aren’t there, the folks who

were the miracle of, particularly, 2018

and 2019, the number of folks who came

back into the labor force—remember,

we actually had some quarters there

with some weird numbers where unem-

ployment actually sort of flatlined, but

the number of workers in the United

States exploded. How does that hap-

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It means you have such a robust

economy that you are drawing people

back in.

The crisis we live in today is so many

Americans, particularly female work-

ers, are now out of the labor force, with

almost no intention of coming back in.

What is devastating about that is we

just passed legislation here that will

reinforce the incentive not to come

back in. Because, instead of designing

the Democrat’s $1.9 trillion spending

bill saying, We are going to

incentivize; we are going to help you;

you can keep some of this money; and

we are going to incentivize an em-

ployer to hire you, building that type

of economy. It is, Here is something;

you can have it if you work; you can

have it if you just choose to stay home.

There is no incentive there to come

back into the labor market.

And why is this so darn important?

Why do I fixate on this?

Post-tax reform, if you actually

looked at the changes in revenues—re-

member, we had the second and third

highest, adjusted for inflation, tax re-

ceipts in U.S. history post-tax reform,

post the lower rates. It is because the

economy, the pie, got so much bigger.

But what was so special about that is

the trust funds that so many of us had

worked on, that—we were really wor-

ried how fast the Medicare trust fund

was collapsing, the Social Security

trust fund was collapsing. The actu-

arial life of them popped, it got longer.

It is because we had so many more

workers who were paying into it.

Remember, we have a pay-as-you-go

system. When you hear the words

‘‘trust fund,’’ there is really very little

cash in those trust funds.

If you care about protecting Social

Security, if you care about protecting

Medicare, if you care about society and

these promises we have made, you

would think the economics, the policy

we are adopting here, are about maxi-

mizing opportunity employment, not

trying to patch over pain that we are

suffering right now in a way that

makes the next day painful again.

So the last thing—and it actually

does tie in. I am going to personalize

this a little bit. I am blessed to live in

a community where my school is open.

The greatest gift that has ever been

given to me in my life, and my wife, is

we have a little girl. Many know we

struggled for years, and we were able

to adopt a little girl. She is the great-

est joy you can imagine.

She is in higher education now. She

is in kindergarten. And this summer,

for her first month—this is back in Au-

gust—she had to sit at home behind a

little laptop doing Zoom class, as a

kindergartner. At that time she was

⁄

. She tested in early.

And she was miserable. I had a little

girl—I didn’t know this could happen,

that a child that young could be de-

pressed. She was miserable.

‘‘Daddy, can I go to Washington with

you?’’

‘‘Daddy, can I go to work with you?’’

‘‘Daddy, don’t make me sit behind

the computer.’’

‘‘Daddy, I don’t like this.’’

And then after about 3

⁄

weeks, the

school district actually followed the

science. Not the politics; they followed

the science. Not the teachers’ union;

they followed the science. They started

letting the little people into school.

They took the proper precautions, and

my little girl wears a mask and they

sterilize their hands. They follow ra-

tional precautions.

Within just days, it is like I had a

different little girl. She was joyful. She

was happy. She announced she had a

boyfriend. Daddy is not happy about

that.

If that is my personal experience,

what have we done to our society?

What have we done to the next genera-

tion?

I came here last week and did a series

of presentations of what we have done

to individual future earning power,

particularly the categories we just

talked about, the working poor, their

future earnings, their future income.

We have crushed them, because today’s

success builds on the next. What hap-

pens when you take an entire year

away from so many people’s career

paths, from building their base?

Now, this is international, but we

came across this; it is a sense of well-

being of young people and older people

from around the world.

We all saw that article from about a

month ago about Las Vegas County

and the number of suicides of children.

And this one, when you look at it, it is

our kids. We have devastated our kids.

My fear is we are going to spend dec-

ades making up for the schools being

closed, the access to nutrition, the ac-

cess to counseling, and the access to

just human relationships. Why would

we ever allow our public policy to do

this sort of violence to the health and

well-being and psyche of the children

that we claim we care about, because

the teachers’ union has a different

agenda?

I hope we, as Members, and I hope

America remembers what happened

here. I also hope the next time the left

comes with a massive spending bill,

they understand how much that money

needs to go into repairing the damage

we have done to our children, to the

next generation, and being willing to

recognize that we didn’t follow the

science; we followed the politics.

Madam Speaker, I wish us all a fine

time at home. I hope now that the

world is getting healthier, we can

spend time with our constituents.

Maybe when we come back in a couple

weeks, we can still be partisan, we can

still duke it out, but we actually make

policy by rational math instead of the

wedge of politics.

Madam Speaker, I yield back the bal-

ance of my time.

ADJOURNMENT

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-

ant to section 11(b) of House Resolu-

tion 188, the House stands adjourned

until 11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 23,

2021.

Thereupon (at 1 o’clock and 56 min-

utes p.m.), under its previous order, the

House adjourned until Tuesday, March

23, 2021, at 11 a.m.

EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS,

ETC.

Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive

communications were taken from the

Speaker’s table and referred as follows:

EC-658. A letter from the General Counsel,

U.S. Government Accountability Office,

transmitting Impoundment Control Act of

1974—Release of Withheld Amounts Due to

Withdrawal of Rescission Proposals (H. Doc.

No. 117—24); to the Committee on Appropria-

tions and ordered to be printed.

EC-659. A letter from the Secretary, De-

partment of Defense, transmitting a letter

on the approved retirement of Admiral Phil-

ip S. Davidson, United States Navy, and his

advancement to the grade of admiral on the

retired list, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 1370(c)(1);

Public Law 96-513, Sec. 112 (as amended by

Public Law 104-106, Sec. 502(b)); (110 Stat.

293); to the Committee on Armed Services.

EC-660. A letter from the Secretary, De-

partment of Defense, transmitting a letter

on the approved retirement of General Rob-

ert B. Abrams, United States Army, and his

advancement to the grade of general on the

retired list, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 1370(c)(1);

Public Law 96-513, Sec. 112 (as amended by

Public Law 104-106, Sec. 502(b)); (110 Stat.

293); to the Committee on Armed Services.

EC-661. A letter from the Supervisory

Workforce Analyst, Employment and Train-

ing Administration, Department of Labor,

transmitting the Department’s final rule —

Strengthening Wage Protections for the

Temporary and Permanent Employment of

Certain Immigrants and Non-Immigrants in

the United States; Delay of Effective Date

[Docket No.: ETA-2020-0006] (RIN: 1205-AC00)

received March 17, 2021, pursuant to 5 U.S.C.

801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110

Stat. 868); to the Committee on Education

and Labor.

EC-662. A letter from the Board Secretary,

Board of Governors, U.S. Postal Service,

transmitting the Board’s report on postal of-

ficers and employees who received total com-

pensation in calendar year 2020, pursuant to

39 U.S.C. 3686(c); Public Law 109-435, Sec. 506;

(120 Stat. 3236); to the Committee on Over-

sight and Reform.

EC-663. A letter from the Associate Gen-

eral Counsel for General Law, Department of

Homeland Security, transmitting a notifica-

tion of an action on nomination and a dis-

continuation of service in acting role, pursu-

ant to 5 U.S.C. 3349(a); Public Law 105-277,

Sec. 151(b); (112 Stat. 2681-614); to the Com-

mittee on Oversight and Reform.

EC-664. A letter from the Attorney-Advi-

sor, Department of Transportation, trans-

mitting a notification of a vacancy and des-

ignation of acting officer, 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-665. A letter from the Attorney-Advi-

sor, Department of Transportation, trans-

mitting a notification of a discontinuation

of service in acting role, pursuant to 5 U.S.C.

3349(a); Public Law 105-277, Sec. 151(b); (112

Stat. 2681-614); to the Committee on Over-

sight and Reform.

EC-666. A letter from the Attorney-Advi-

sor, Department of Transportation, trans-

mitting a notification of an action on nomi-

nation, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3349(a); Public

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Law 105-277, Sec. 151(b); (112 Stat. 2681-614); to

the Committee on Oversight and Reform.

EC-667. A letter from the Attorney-Advi-

sor, Department of Transportation, trans-

mitting a notification of a vacancy and a

designation of acting officer, 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-668. A letter from the Director, Office

of Regulation Policy and Management, De-

partment of Veterans Affairs, transmitting

the Department’s Major final rule — Sched-

ule for Rating Disabilities: Musculoskeletal

System and Muscle Injuries (RIN: 2900-AP88)

received March 17, 2021, pursuant to 5 U.S.C.

801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110

Stat. 868); to the Committee on Veterans’ Af-

fairs.

EC-669. A letter from the Director, Office

of Regulation Policy and Management, De-

partment of Veterans Affairs, transmitting

the Department’s final rule —

Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance ——

Family Servicemembers’ Group Life Insur-

ance: Member Married to Member (RIN: 2900-

AQ37) received March 17, 2021, pursuant to 5

U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec.

251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Vet-

erans’ Affairs.

EC-670. A letter from the Director, Office

of Regulation Policy and Management, De-

partment of Veterans Affairs, transmitting

the Department’s final rule — Prosthetic and

Rehabilitative Items and Services (RIN: 2900-

AP46) received March 17, 2021, pursuant to 5

U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec.

251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on Vet-

erans’ Affairs.

PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS

Under clause 2 of rule XII, public

bills and resolutions of the following

titles were introduced and severally re-

ferred, as follows:

By Mr. CURTIS (for himself, Mr.

ALINOWSKI

, Mrs. K

of California,

Mr. P

HILLIPS

, and Ms. S

PANBERGER

H.R. 2075. A bill to amend the Foreign As-

sistance Act of 1961 to require information

on the status of excessive surveillance and

use of advanced technology to violate pri-

vacy and other fundamental human rights be

included in the annual Country Reports on

Human Rights Practices; to the Committee

on Foreign Affairs.

By Mr. CLYDE (for himself, Mr. K

ATKO

Mr. B

ISHOP

of North Carolina, Mr.

ORMAN

, Mr. G

IMENEZ

, Mr.

ARBARINO

, Mr. G

UEST

, Mr. H

IGGINS

of Louisiana, Mr. V

REW

, Mr. C.

COTT

RANKLIN

of Florida, Mr. S

IMP

SON

, Mr. M

AST

, Mrs. C

AMMACK

, Mrs.

ILLER

of Illinois, Ms. V

UYNE

Ms. T

ENNEY

, Mr. G

OSAR

, Mr. M

OONEY

Mr. R

OSE

, Mr. S

CHWEIKERT

, Mr. C

TER

of Georgia, Mr. W

EBER

of Texas,

Ms. G

RANGER

, Mr. C

ARTER

of Texas,

Mrs. H

ARSHBARGER

, and Mr. M

EIJER

H.R. 2076. A bill to direct the Secretary of

Homeland Security to create a strategy to

ensure no individual in custody is released

into the community during a public health

emergency related to coronavirus if the indi-

vidual may have a communicable disease re-

lating to any public health emergency, and

for other purposes; to the Committee on the

Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees

on Homeland Security, and Foreign Affairs,

for a period to be subsequently determined

by the Speaker, in each case for consider-

ation of such provisions as fall within the ju-

risdiction of the committee concerned.

By Mr. MEEKS (for himself, Mrs. C

ARO

LYN

B. M

ALONEY

of New York, Mr.

UOZZI

, Ms. V

ELA

ZQUEZ

, Miss R

ICE

New York, Mr. E

SPAILLAT

, Ms.

CASIO

-C

ORTEZ

, Mr. N

ADLER

, Mr.

ORRES

of New York, Ms. C

LARKE

New York, Ms. M

ENG

, Mr. J

EFFRIES

Ms. M

ALLIOTAKIS

, and Mr. B

OWMAN

H.R. 2077. A bill to amend the Internal Rev-

enue Code of 1986 to exclude discharges of in-

debtedness on taxi medallions from gross in-

come; to the Committee on Ways and Means.

By Mr. MEEKS:

H.R. 2078. A bill to amend the Congres-

sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act

of 1974 to establish the Division of Social and

Economic Equity in the Congressional Budg-

et Office, and for other purposes; to the Com-

mittee on the Budget, and in addition to the

Committee on Rules, for a period to be sub-

sequently determined by the Speaker, in

each case for consideration of such provi-

sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the

committee concerned.

By Mrs. AXNE (for herself, Mr.

ITZPATRICK

, and Mr. D

UNN

H.R. 2079. A bill to provide that CARES

Act Provider Relief Fund payments are not

includible in gross income, and for other pur-

poses; to the Committee on Ways and Means.

By Mr. BISHOP of Georgia (for himself,

Mr. C

ARTER

of Georgia, Mr.

RDENAS

, Mr. G

RIFFITH

, Mr. G

JALVA

, Ms. P

RESSLEY

, Mr. C

OHEN

, Mr.

EVIN

of California, Mr. C

ARBAJAL

and Ms. S

EWELL

H.R. 2080. A bill to amend title XVIII of the

Social Security Act to provide for temporary

coverage of certain transportation services

for certain individuals under the Medicare

program, and for other purposes; to the Com-

mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in ad-

dition to the Committee on Ways and Means,

for a period to be subsequently determined

by the Speaker, in each case for consider-

ation of such provisions as fall within the ju-

risdiction of the committee concerned.

By Mrs. BOEBERT (for herself, Mr.

UCK

, Mr. B

IGGS

, Mr. G

OSAR

, Mr.

EBER

of Texas, Mr. P

ERRY

, Mr. G

MERT

, Mr. L

AMBORN

, Mr. N

EWHOUSE

Mr. L

ALFA

, and Mr. Y

OUNG

H.R. 2081. A bill to provide for improved

management of Federal lands and increased

efficiencies within public land agencies while

strengthening tourism, conservation, out-

door recreation, grazing, responsible energy

production, and other multiple uses; to the

Committee on Natural Resources.

By Mr. BOST (for himself, Mr. P

APPAS

and Mr. M

ANN

H.R. 2082. A bill to make certain improve-

ments relating to the supply chain of the De-

partment of Veterans Affairs, and for other

purposes; to the Committee on Veterans’ Af-

fairs, and in addition to the Committee on

Armed Services, for a period to be subse-

quently determined by the Speaker, in each

case for consideration of such provisions as

fall within the jurisdiction of the committee

concerned.

By Mr. CALVERT (for himself, Mr.

ARTHY

, Mr. V

REW

, Mr.

UNES

, Mr. F

LEISCHMANN

, Mrs. W

NER

, Mr. G

AETZ

, Ms. T

ENNEY

, Mr.

ELLY

of Pennsylvania, Mr. D

UNCAN

Mr. S

TEUBE

, Mrs. S

TEEL

, Mr.

BERNOLTE

, Mr. L

ALFA

, Mr.

ROOKS

, Mr. I

SSA

, Mr. W

ENSTRUP

, Mr.

ARRIS

, Mr. O

WENS

, Mr. M

LINTOCK

Mr. W

EBER

of Texas, Mr. R

OSENDALE

Mr. P

ERRY

, Mr. G

ROTHMAN

, Mr.

ALADAO

, Mr. D

ONALDS

, Mr.

ESCHENTHALER

, Mr. M

ANN

, Mrs.

ILLER

of West Virginia, Mr. B

AIRD

Mr. L

AMBORN

, Mr. G

OODEN

of Texas,

Mr. R

, Mr. C

RAWFORD

, Mr. C

LYDE

Mr. B

ISHOP

of North Carolina, Mr.

TEWART

, Mr. B

ACON

, Mr. B

ABIN

, and

Mr. K

ELLY

of Mississippi):

H.R. 2083. A bill to prohibit the use of Fed-

eral funds for certain purposes within the

District of Columbia; to the Committee on

Transportation and Infrastructure, and in

addition to the Committee on Armed Serv-

ices, for a period to be subsequently deter-

mined by the Speaker, in each case for con-

sideration of such provisions as fall within

the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

By Mr. CAWTHORN (for himself and

Mr. G

ROTHMAN

H.R. 2084. A bill to collect and consolidate

citizenship status information for the popu-

lation of the United States, and for other

purposes; to the Committee on Oversight and

Reform, and in addition to the Committee on

the Judiciary, for a period to be subse-

quently determined by the Speaker, in each

case for consideration of such provisions as

fall within the jurisdiction of the committee

concerned.

By Ms. CHU (for herself and Mr.

ATKO

H.R. 2085. A bill to amend title 18, United

States Code, with respect to civil forfeitures

relating to certain seized animals; to the

Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. CRAWFORD (for himself, Mr.

ARTER

of Georgia, and Mr. K

ELLY

Mississippi):

H.R. 2086. A bill to amend the Immigration

and Nationality Act to simplify and rename

the H-2C worker program, and for other pur-

poses; to the Committee on the Judiciary,

and in addition to the Committees on Energy

and Commerce, and Education and Labor, for

a period to be subsequently determined by

the Speaker, in each case for consideration

of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-

tion of the committee concerned.

By Mr. DUNCAN (for himself, Mr. N

MAN

, Mrs. B

OEBERT

, Mr. B

ABIN

, and

Mr. G

OOD

of Virginia):

H.R. 2087. A bill to rescind amounts appro-

priated under the American Rescue Plan Act

of 2021, and for other purposes; to the Com-

mittee on Education and Labor, and in addi-

tion to the Committees on Agriculture, En-

ergy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Finan-

cial Services, Transportation and Infrastruc-

ture, Oversight and Reform, Homeland Secu-

rity, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be

subsequently determined by the Speaker, in

each case for consideration of such provi-

sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the

committee concerned.

By Mr. FLEISCHMANN:

H.R. 2088. A bill to take certain Federal

lands in Tennessee into trust for the benefit

of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and

for other purposes; to the Committee on Nat-

ural Resources.

By Mr. GOMEZ (for himself, Mrs. C

ARO

LYN

B. M

ALONEY

of New York, and

Mr. C

ONNOLLY

H.R. 2089. A bill to amend the Inspector

General Act of 1978 to provide testimonial

subpoena authority, and for other purposes;

to the Committee on Oversight and Reform.

By Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER (for her-

self, Ms. S

PANBERGER

, Mr. G

AETZ

, Mr.

OHNSON

of Ohio, Ms. B

ROWNLEY

, Mr.

ALTZ

, Ms. C

RAIG

, Miss G

ONZA

LEZ

OLO

, Mr. S

TANTON

, Ms. S

CHRIER

and Mr. R

UTHERFORD

H.R. 2090. A bill to improve Federal stu-

dent loan disclosures, and for other purposes;

to the Committee on Education and Labor.

By Mr. HILL (for himself, Mr.

ESTERMAN

, Mr. W

OMACK

, and Mr.

RAWFORD

H.R. 2091. A bill to redesignate the Tyler

Bend Visitor Center located on Tyler Bend

Road in St. Joe, Arkansas, as the Dr. Neil

Compton Visitor Center, and for other pur-

poses; to the Committee on Natural Re-

sources.

By Mr. HORSFORD (for himself and

Mr. M

INLEY

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H.R. 2092. A bill to direct the Director of

the Bureau of Prisons to implement a pilot

program to reduce the amount of contraband

that enters correctional facilities, and for

other purposes; to the Committee on the Ju-

diciary.

By Mr. JEFFRIES (for himself and

Mrs. K

of California):

H.R. 2093. A bill to direct the Secretary of

Veterans Affairs to make all fact sheets of

the Department of Veterans Affairs available

in English, Spanish, and Tagalog, and other

commonly spoken languages, and for other

purposes; to the Committee on Veterans’ Af-

fairs.

By Mr. KIND (for himself and Mr.

INLEY

H.R. 2094. A bill to provide for the publica-

tion by the Secretary of Health and Human

Services of physical activity recommenda-

tions for Americans; to the Committee on

Energy and Commerce.

By Mr. LONG:

H.R. 2095. A bill to require the Secretary of

the Army to conduct a study to determine

the costs for the Corps of Engineers to en-

sure that certain project activities author-

ized under Nationwide Permit 14 comply

with public safety conditions, and for other

purposes; to the Committee on Transpor-

tation and Infrastructure.

By Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of

New York (for herself and Mr.

AULNIER

H.R. 2096. A bill to prohibit the non-con-

sensual release of claims by States, munici-

palities, federally recognized Tribes, or the

United States against non-debtors, and for

other purposes; to the Committee on the Ju-

diciary.

By Ms. MATSUI (for herself, Mr. L

EVIN

of California, Mr. P

ETERS

, Ms. P

GREE

, Mr. K

of New Jersey, and Mr.

ARBAJAL

H.R. 2097. A bill to direct the Secretary of

Energy to establish a program for the in-

terim storage of high-level radioactive waste

and spent nuclear fuel, and for other pur-

poses; to the Committee on Energy and Com-

merce.

By Mr. MOULTON (for himself and

Mrs. T

RAHAN

H.R. 2098. A bill to repeal the funding au-

thorization sunset and the total funding cap

for the Essex National Heritage Area; to the

Committee on Natural Resources.

By Mr. NEGUSE (for himself and Mrs.

ODGERS

of Washington):

H.R. 2099. A bill to extend the Secure Rural

Schools and Community Self-Determination

Act of 2000; to the Committee on Agri-

culture, and in addition to the Committee on

Natural Resources, for a period to be subse-

quently determined by the Speaker, in each

case for consideration of such provisions as

fall within the jurisdiction of the committee

concerned.

By Mr. NEHLS (for himself, Mr.

RAWFORD

, Mr. W

EBER

of Texas, Mr.

ERRY

, Mr. S

TAUBER

, and Mr.

ALDERSON

H.R. 2100. A bill to prohibit the Secretary

of Transportation from prohibiting the

transportation of liquefied natural gas by

rail, and for other purposes; to the Com-

mittee on Transportation and Infrastruc-

ture.

By Ms. OMAR:

H.R. 2101. A bill to direct the Adminis-

trator of the Environmental Protection

Agency to award grants for projects that are

consistent with zero-waste practices, and for

other purposes; to the Committee on Energy

and Commerce.

By Ms. OMAR:

H.R. 2102. A bill to eliminate certain sub-

sidies for fossil-fuel production; to the Com-

mittee on Ways and Means, and in addition

to the Committees on Natural Resources,

Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial

Services, Science, Space, and Technology,

Agriculture, and Energy and Commerce, for

a period to be subsequently determined by

the Speaker, in each case for consideration

of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-

tion of the committee concerned.

By Mr. PERRY (for himself, Mr. T

FANY

, Mr. C

RENSHAW

, and Mr.

HABOT

H.R. 2103. A bill to improve defense co-

operation between the United States and

Taiwan, and for other purposes; to the Com-

mittee on Foreign Affairs.

By Mr. POSEY (for himself and Mr.

RIST

H.R. 2104. A bill to prohibit the Adminis-

trator of General Services from setting Con-

tinental United States (CONUS) per diem-re-

imbursements rates below a certain level,

and for other purposes; to the Committee on

Oversight and Reform.

By Mr. ROSENDALE (for himself, Mr.

AIRD

, Mr. J

OYCE

of Pennsylvania,

Mr. I

SSA

, and Mr. W

EBER

of Texas):

H.R. 2105. A bill to provide that certain

regulations shall have the force and effect of

enacted law; to the Committee on Education

and Labor.

By Mr. ROUZER (for himself and Mr.

TEUBE

H.R. 2106. A bill to provide for the elimi-

nation of the Department of Education, and

for other purposes; to the Committee on

Education and Labor.

By Mr. RUTHERFORD (for himself,

Mr. W

ALTZ

, and Mr. L

AWSON

of Flor-

ida):

H.R. 2107. A bill to establish the Nation’s

Oldest Port National Heritage Area in the

State of Florida, and for other purposes; to

the Committee on Natural Resources.

By Mr. SHERMAN (for himself, Ms.

ITUS

, Mr. K

HANNA

, Ms. N

ORTON

, Ms.

MAR

, Mr. G

AETZ

, Mr. B

ROWN

, Mr.

ELCH

, Mr. C

ASTRO

of Texas, Ms.

ELA

ZQUEZ

, Mr. C

ICILLINE

, Mrs.

APOLITANO

, Ms. L

of California,

Ms. J

ACOBS

of California, Mr. G

ARCI

of Illinois, Mr. E

SPAILLAT

, Mrs. C

ARO

LYN

B. M

ALONEY

of New York, Mr.

RIJALVA

, Ms. S

HERRILL

, Ms. T

LAIB

Mr. N

ADLER

, Mr. K

AHELE

, Mr. P

OCAN

Mr. G

ARAMENDI

, Ms. W

ILD

, Ms.

AYAPAL

, and Ms. B

ASS

H.R. 2108. A bill to prohibit the use of Fed-

eral funds in contravention of the War Pow-

ers Resolution; to the Committee on Foreign

Affairs.

By Ms. SHERRILL (for herself and Mr.

ILIRAKIS

H.R. 2109. A bill to amend title 10, United

States Code, to authorize a person partici-

pating in the Survivor Benefit Plan to

change the beneficiary to a supplemental or

special needs trust for the benefit of a de-

pendent child, to authorize a person who es-

tablishes such a trust to begin participating

in the Survivor Benefit Plan, and for other

purposes; to the Committee on Armed Serv-

ices.

By Mr. SMUCKER (for himself and Mr.

RRINGTON

H.R. 2110. A bill to provide further means

of accountability with respect to the United

States debt and promote fiscal responsi-

bility; to the Committee on Ways and Means.

By Ms. SPANBERGER (for herself, Mr.

ACON

, Mr. L

AMB

, Mr. F

ITZPATRICK

Mrs. L

URIA

, Mr. K

ATKO

, Mr. B

EYER

Mrs. H

INSON

, Ms. S

HERRILL

, Mr. V

REW

, Mr. S

UOZZI

, and Mr. M

EIJER

H.R. 2111. A bill to amend title 38, United

States Code, to establish presumptions of

service connection for diseases associated

with firefighting; to the Committee on Vet-

erans’ Affairs.

By Ms. STEFANIK (for herself and Mr.

ROW

H.R. 2112. A bill to direct the Secretary of

Labor to award funds to States to promote

the skill acquisition, employment, and re-

tention of individuals, and for other pur-

poses; to the Committee on Education and

Labor.

By Mr. STEUBE (for himself, Mr. W

SON

of South Carolina, and Mr.

ANKS

H.R. 2113. A bill to impose sanctions with

respect to Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada; to the

Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addi-

tion to the Committee on the Judiciary, for

a period to be subsequently determined by

the Speaker, in each case for consideration

of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-

tion of the committee concerned.

By Ms. TENNEY:

H.R. 2114. A bill to amend titles XVIII and

XIX of the Social Security Act to require

skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities,

and intermediate care facilities for the intel-

lectually disabled to permit certain essential

caregiver visitors during a public health

emergency under the Medicare and Medicaid

programs; to the Committee on Energy and

Commerce, and in addition to the Committee

on Ways and Means, for a period to be subse-

quently determined by the Speaker, in each

case for consideration of such provisions as

fall within the jurisdiction of the committee

concerned.

By Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN (for her-

self, Mr. M

ALINOWSKI

, Ms. N

ORTON

and Mr. C

OHEN

H.R. 2115. A bill to require the Federal En-

ergy Regulatory Commission to apply cer-

tain procedures before granting a certificate

of public convenience and necessity for a

proposed pipeline project, and for other pur-

poses; to the Committee on Energy and Com-

merce.

By Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN (for her-

self, Ms. L

of California, Ms.

RESSLEY

, Ms. O

MAR

, Ms. M

OORE

Wisconsin, Mrs. B

EATTY

, Mrs. C

ARO

LYN

B. M

ALONEY

of New York, Ms.

LUNT

OCHESTER

, Mr. D

ANNY

AVIS

of Illinois, Mrs. L

AWRENCE

, Mr.

HOMPSON

of Mississippi, Ms. W

ILSON

of Florida, Mr. B

ROWN

, Ms. C

LARKE

New York, Mrs. D

EMINGS

, Mr. E

VANS

Ms. N

ORTON

, Mr. B

UTTERFIELD

, Mr.

SPAILLAT

, Ms. W

ILLIAMS

of Georgia,

Mr. H

ORSFORD

, Ms. J

OHNSON

of Texas,

Mr. C

ASTRO

of Texas, Ms. K

ELLY

of Il-

linois, Mr. P

AYNE

, Mr. K

HANNA

, Ms.

USH

, Mrs. H

AYES

, Mr. N

ADLER

, Ms.

TRICKLAND

, and Mr. H

ASTINGS

H.R. 2116. A bill to prohibit discrimination

based on an individual’s texture or style of

hair; to the Committee on the Judiciary, and

in addition to the Committees on Education

and Labor, and the Budget, for a period to be

subsequently determined by the Speaker, in

each case for consideration of such provi-

sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the

committee concerned.

By Mr. WILSON of South Carolina (for

himself, Mr. S

TEUBE

, and Mr. B

ANKS

H.R. 2117. A bill to require the President to

make a determination with respect to the

application of sanctions with respect to cer-

tain officials of the Government of Iran, and

for other purposes; to the Committee on For-

eign Affairs, and in addition to the Com-

mittee on the Judiciary, for a period to be

subsequently determined by the Speaker, in

each case for consideration of such provi-

sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the

committee concerned.

By Mr. OBERNOLTE:

H.J. Res. 32. A joint resolution proposing a

balanced budget amendment to the Constitu-

tion of the United States; to the Committee

on the Judiciary.

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By Ms. LOFGREN (for herself and Mr.

ODNEY

AVIS

of Illinois):

H. Res. 257. A resolution requiring each

Member, officer, and employee of the House

of Representatives to complete a program of

training in workplace rights and responsibil-

ities each session of each Congress, and for

other purposes; considered and agreed to.

By Ms. CASTOR of Florida:

H. Res. 258. A resolution providing

amounts for the expenses of the Select Com-

mittee on the Climate Crisis in the One Hun-

dred Seventeenth Congress; to the Com-

mittee on House Administration.

By Mr. FOSTER (for himself and Mr.

OHEN

H. Res. 259. A resolution expressing support

for designation of the third Friday of every

March, as ‘‘National FIRST Robotics Day’’;

to the Committee on Science, Space, and

Technology, and in addition to the Com-

mittee on Education and Labor, for a period

to be subsequently determined by the Speak-

er, in each case for consideration of such pro-

visions as fall within the jurisdiction of the

committee concerned.

By Mr. GOMEZ (for himself, Mr.

UCHINCLOSS

, Mrs. B

EATTY

, Mr. B

MENAUER

, Mr. B

OWMAN

, Mr. B

RENDAN

F. B

OYLE

of Pennsylvania, Mr.

RDENAS

, Mr. C

ARSON

, Mr. C

ART

WRIGHT

, Ms. C

ASTOR

of Florida, Mr.

ASTRO

of Texas, Ms. C

, Ms.

LARKE

of New York, Mr. C

OHEN

, Mr.

ONNOLLY

, Mr. C

OOPER

, Mr. C

ORREA

Mr. C

ROW

, Ms. D

AURO

, Mr.

AULNIER

, Mr. D

EUTCH

, Ms.

SCOBAR

, Ms. E

SHOO

, Mr. E

SPAILLAT

Mr. E

VANS

, Mr. F

OSTER

, Mr.

ALLEGO

, Mr. G

ARCI

of Illinois, Mr.

RIJALVA

, Mr. H

ASTINGS

, Mrs. H

AYES

Ms. N

ORTON

, Mr. H

UFFMAN

, Ms.

AYAPAL

, Mr. J

ONES

, Ms. K

ELLY

of Il-

linois, Mr. K

HANNA

, Ms. K

USTER

, Mr.

ARSON

of Connecticut, Ms. L

California, Mr. L

OWENTHAL

, Mr.

ACHIN

, Mr. M

ERNEY

, Ms. M

ENG

Mr. M

OULTON

, Mrs. N

APOLITANO

, Ms.

EWMAN

, Ms. O

CASIO

-C

ORTEZ

, Ms.

MAR

, Mr. P

ASCRELL

, Mr. P

AYNE

, Mr.

ETERS

, Ms. P

RESSLEY

, Miss R

ICE

New York, Ms. S

CHAKOWSKY

, Mr.

IRES

, Mr. S

MITH

of Washington, Mr.

OTO

, Ms. S

TRICKLAND

, Mr.

WALWELL

, Ms. T

ITUS

, Ms. T

LAIB

, Mr.

ORRES

of New York, Mrs. T

RAHAN

Mr. T

RONE

, Mr. V

ARGAS

, Ms.

ELA

ZQUEZ

, Ms. W

ASSERMAN

CHULTZ

, Ms. W

ATERS

, Mrs. W

ATSON

OLEMAN

, Ms. W

ILD

, Ms. W

ILLIAMS

Georgia, and Ms. W

ILSON

of Florida):

H. Res. 260. A resolution in the Matter of

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene; to

the Committee on Ethics.

By Mr. HUFFMAN (for himself, Ms.

PEIER

, Mr. F

ITZPATRICK

, Mr.

AULNIER

, Mrs. D

INGELL

, Mr. G

JALVA

, Ms. B

ROWNLEY

, Mr. M

OULTON

Mr. B

RENDAN

F. B

OYLE

of Pennsyl-

vania, Mr. S

MITH

of Washington, Mr.

ASTINGS

, Mr. K

ILMER

, Ms. M

OORE

Wisconsin, Mr. L

OWENTHAL

, Ms. N

TON

, Ms. T

ITUS

, Mrs. L

AWRENCE

, Mr.

ETERS

, Ms. L

of California, Mr.

OHEN

, Mr. G

UTHRIE

, Mrs. H

INSON

Mr. V

ARGAS

, Ms. W

ASSERMAN

CHULTZ

, and Ms. M

ENG

H. Res. 261. A resolution expressing support

for the designation of March 21, 2021, as ‘‘Na-

tional Rosie the Riveter Day’’; to the Com-

mittee on Education and Labor.

By Mr. KILMER:

H. Res. 262. A resolution providing

amounts for the expenses of the Select Com-

mittee on the Modernization of Congress; to

the Committee on House Administration.

By Mr. OBERNOLTE (for himself, Mr.

ROTHMAN

, Mr. D

UNCAN

, Mr. B

ABIN

Mr. C

AWTHORN

, Mrs. R

ODGERS

Washington, Mr. W

EBSTER

of Florida,

Mr. M

OORE

of Alabama, Mr. P

ERRY

Mrs. B

ICE

of Oklahoma, Mr.

ALFA

, Mr. B

AIRD

, Mr. C

URTIS

, Mr.

ACOBS

of New York, Mr. C. S

COTT

RANKLIN

of Florida, Mrs. M

ILLER

EEKS

, Mr. O

WENS

, Mrs. S

TEEL

, Ms.

ENNEY

, Mr. W

EBER

of Texas, Mrs.

AMMACK

, and Mrs. B

OEBERT

H. Res. 263. A resolution amending the

Rules of the House of Representatives to es-

tablish the Committee on the Elimination of

Nonessential Federal Programs; to the Com-

mittee on Rules.

By Mr. SCHIFF (for himself and Mr.

UNES

H. Res. 264. A resolution providing

amounts for the expenses of the Permanent

Select Committee on Intelligence in the One

Hundred Seventeenth Congress; to the Com-

mittee on House Administration.

By Ms. VELA

ZQUEZ (for herself and

Mr. L

UETKEMEYER

H. Res. 265. A resolution providing

amounts for the expenses of the Committee

on Small Business in the One Hundred Sev-

enteenth Congress; to the Committee on

House Administration.

MEMORIALS

Under clause 3 of rule XII,

ML-4. The SPEAKER presented a memo-

rial of the Senate of the State of Michigan,

relative to Senate Resolution No. 158, to me-

morialize the Congress of the United States

to enact the Healthcare Workforce Resil-

ience Act; which was referred to the Com-

mittee on Energy and Commerce.

CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY

STATEMENT

Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of

the Rules of the House of Representa-

tives, the following statements are sub-

mitted regarding the specific powers

granted to Congress in the Constitu-

tion to enact the accompanying bill or

joint resolution.

By Mr. CURTIS:

H.R. 2075.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I Section 8

By Mr. CLYDE:

H.R. 2076.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I, Section 8

By Mr. MEEKS:

H.R. 2077.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 1.

By Mr. MEEKS:

H.R. 2078.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 1.

By Mrs. AXNE:

H.R. 2079.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I Section 8 of the United States

Constitution

By Mr. BISHOP of Georgia:

H.R. 2080.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I, Section 8, clause 3: To regulate

Commerce with foreign Nation, and among

the several States, and with the Indian

Tribes;

By Mrs. BOEBERT:

H.R. 2081.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 (the Prop-

erty Clause). Under this clause, Congress has

the power to dispose of and make all needful

rules and regulations respecting the terri-

tory or other property belonging to the

United States. By virtue of this enumerated

power, Congress has governing authority

over the lands, territories, or other property

of the United States—and with this author-

ity Congress is vested with the power to all

owners in fee, the ability to sell, lease, dis-

pose, exchange, convey, or simply preserve

land.

Article 1, Section 8, clause 18 (the Nec-

essary and Proper Clause). Under this clause,

Congress has the power to make all Laws

which shall be necessary and proper for car-

rying into Execution the foregoing Powers,

and all other Powers vested by this Constitu-

tion in the Government of the United States,

or in any Department or Officer thereof.

By Mr. BOST:

H.R. 2082.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 1, Section 8 of the United States

Constitution.

By Mr. CALVERT:

H.R. 2083.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

The constitutional authority of Congress

to enact this legislation is Section 8 of Arti-

cle I of the Constitution, specifically Clauses

1 (relating to providing for the general wel-

fare of the United States) and 18 (relating to

the power to make all laws necessary and

proper for carrying out the powers vested in

Congress) of such section.

The constitutional authority of Congress

to enact this legislation is Article I, Section

8, Clause 1 and Clause 18,

By Mr. CAWTHORN:

H.R. 2084.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article l, Section 8

By Ms. CHU:

H.R. 2085.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Art. 1, Sec. 8 ‘‘The Congress shall have

Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Im-

posts and Excises, to pay the Debts and pro-

vide for the common Defence and general

Welfare of the United States.’’

By Mr. CRAWFORD:

H.R. 2086.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S.

Constitution

By Mr. DUNCAN:

H.R. 2087.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

This legislation seeks to pull previously

spent money back into the Treasury. To the

extent that this raises revenues, it is author-

ized by Article I, Section 7. To the extent

that this is an extension of the power of the

purse, it is authorized by Article I, Section 9.

By Mr. FLEISCHMANN:

H.R. 2088.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18, which states

the Congress shall have the power ‘‘to make

all laws which shall be necessary and proper

for carrying into execution the foregoing

powers, and all other powers vested by this

Constitution in the government of the

United States, or in any department or offi-

cer thereof.’’

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By Mr. GOMEZ:

H.R. 2089.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18

By Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER:

H.R. 2090.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I Section 8

By Mr. HILL:

H.R. 2091.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, of the United

States Constitution grants Congress the enu-

merated power ‘‘To promote the progress of

science and useful arts, by securing for lim-

ited times to authors and inventors the ex-

clusive right to their respective writings and

discoveries

By Mr. HORSFORD:

H.R. 2092.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Con-

stitution of the United States

By Mr. JEFFRIES:

H.R. 2093.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

This bill is enacted pursuant to the power

granted to Congress under Article I, Section

8 clause 18 of the United States Constitution.

By Mr. KIND:

H.R. 2094.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I, Section 8

By Mr. LONG:

H.R. 2095.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I, Section 8

By Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of

New York:

H.R. 2096.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Con-

stitution of the United States (the Necessary

and Proper Clause) grants Congress the

power to enact this law.

By Ms. MATSUI:

H.R. 2097.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S.

Constitution

By Mr. MOULTON:

H.R. 2098.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I, Section 8

By Mr. NEGUSE:

H.R. 2099.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I, Section 8

By Mr. NEHLS:

H.R. 2100.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I of the U.S. Constitution

By Ms. OMAR:

H.R. 2101.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I Section I

By Ms. OMAR:

H.R. 2102.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I Section I

By Mr. PERRY:

H.R. 2103.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I, Section VIII of the US Constitu-

tion

By Mr. POSEY:

H.R. 2104.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 1, Section 8. To make all Laws

which shall be necessary and proper for car-

rying into Execution the foregoing Powers,

and all other Powers vested by this Constitu-

tion in the Government of the United States,

or in any Department or Officer thereof.

By Mr. ROSENDALE:

H.R. 2105.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 1, Section 8 of the United States

Constitution.

By Mr. ROUZER:

H.R. 2106.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United

States Constitution states that ‘‘The Con-

gress shall have Power To make all Laws

which shall be necessary and proper for car-

rying into Execution the foregoing Powers,

and all other Powers vested by this Constitu-

tion in the Government of the United States

or in any Department of Officer thereof.’’

By Mr. RUTHERFORD:

H.R. 2107.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 1, Section 8 of the United States

Constitution

By Mr. SHERMAN:

H.R. 2108.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 1, Section 8 of the United States

Constitution.

By Ms. SHERRILL:

H.R. 2109.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Clause 16 of section 8 of article 1 of the

U.S. Constitution

By Mr. SMUCKER:

H.R. 2110.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution of

the United States.

By Ms. SPANBERGER:

H.R. 2111.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I, Section 8, Clause 14

By Ms. STEFANIK:

H.R. 2112.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I, Section 8, clauses 3 and 18 of the

Constitution of the United States.

By Mr. STEUBE:

H.R. 2113.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

To regulate Commerce with foreign Na-

tions, and among the several States, and

with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Natu-

ralization, and uniform Laws on the subject

of Bankruptcies throughout the United

States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof,

and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of

Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counter-

feiting the Securities and current Coin of.the

United States;

To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and

useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to

Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to

their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the su-

preme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies

ccimmitted on the high Seas, and Offenses

against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque

and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning

Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appro-

priation of Money to that Use shall be for a

longer Term than two Years; To provide and

maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and

Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to

execute the Laws of the Union, suppress In-

surrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing; arming, and dis-

ciplining, the Militia, and for governing such

Part of them as may be employed in the

Service of the United States, reserving to

the States respectively, the Appointment of

the Officers, and the Authority of training

the Militia according to the discipline pre-

scribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation In all

Cases whatsoever, over such District (not ex-

ceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession

of particular States, and the acceptance of

Congress, become the Seat of the Govern-

ment of the United States, and to exercise

like Authority over all Places purchased .by

the Consent of the Legislature of the State

in which the Same shall be, for the Erection

of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards,

and other needful Buildings; And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary

and proper for carrying into Execution the

foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vest-

ed by this Constitution in the Government of

the United States, or in any Department or

Officer thereof.

By Ms. TENNEY:

H.R. 2114.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 1, Section 1 of the United States

Constitution, providing—‘‘All legislative

Powers herein granted shall be vested in a

Congress of the United States, which shall

consist of a Senate and House of Representa-

tive’’.

By Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN:

H.R. 2115.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18: To make all

Laws which shall be necessary and proper for

carrying into Execution the foregoing Pow-

ers, and all other Powers vested by this Con-

stitution in the Government of the United

States, or in any Department or Officer

thereof.

By Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN:

H.R. 2116.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article I, Section 8: Congress shall have

the power to make all laws which shall he

necessary and proper for carrying into execu-

tion the foregoing powers and all other pow-

ers vested by this Constitution in the gov-

ernment of the United States.

By Mr. WILSON of South Carolina:

H.R. 2117.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 1, Section 8

By Mr. OBERNOLTE:

H.J. Res. 32.

Congress has the power to enact this legis-

lation pursuant to the following:

Article 5 of the Constitution

ADDITIONAL SPONSORS

Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors

were added to public bills and resolu-

tions, as follows:

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H.R. 69: Ms. S

ALAZAR

H.R. 241: Mr. K

IND

and Mr. P

HILLIPS

H.R. 256: Mr. K

EATING

and Mr. L

IEU

H.R. 304: Ms. W

EXTON

H.R. 346: Mr. C

ARSON

, Ms. C

RAIG

Ms. H

OULAHAN

, and Mrs. F

LETCHER

H.R. 350: Mr. K

ILDEE

, Mr. V

EASEY

, Mr.

HOMPSON

of California, Mr. B

ERA

, Mr. K

MER

, Ms. W

ILD

, Mr. T

ORRES

of New York, Ms.

EWMAN

, Mrs. F

LETCHER

, Mr. J

ONES

, Mr.

EVIN

of California, Mrs. C

AROLYN

B. M

ALO

NEY

of New York, Mrs. T

RAHAN

, Mr. L

AWSON

of Florida, Mr. L

EVIN

of Michigan, and Mr.

AKANO

H.R. 392: Mr. F

OSTER

and Ms. D

ENE

H.R. 393: Mr. F

OSTER

, Mr. T

URNER

, and Ms.

LAIB

H.R. 482: Mr. H

IMES

, Ms. N

ORTON

, Ms.

ARRAGA

, and Ms. M

ANNING

H.R. 542: Ms. W

ILLIAMS

of Georgia.

H.R. 708: Mr. D

AVID

COTT

of Georgia.

H.R. 748: Mr. C

RDENAS

, Mrs. N

APOLITANO

Mr. C

OHEN

, Ms. W

ILSON

of Florida, and Mrs.

RAHAN

H.R. 786: Mr. T

RONE

, Mrs. D

EMINGS

, Mr.

IEU

, Miss R

ICE

of New York, and Mrs.

AYES

H.R. 820: Mr. D

ANNY

K. D

AVIS

of Illinois.

H.R. 845: Mrs. R

ODGERS

of Washington.

H.R. 852: Mr. B

ILIRAKIS

and Ms. H

ERRERA

EUTLER

H.R. 855: Mr. V

REW

H.R. 869: Mr. C

ICILLINE

H.R. 899: Mr. G

OSAR

H.R. 903: Ms. B

LUNT

OCHESTER

, Mr.

TAUBER

, Mr. C

ASE

, Ms. N

EWMAN

, Ms. E

SHOO

Ms. B

ROWNLEY

, Mr. A

LLRED

, Mr. M

FUME

, Mr.

RONE

, Mr. K

ILMER

, Ms. L

of California,

Mr. N

EGUSE

, Mr. K

HANNA

, Mr. E

VANS

, Mrs.

USTOS

, Ms. D

EAN

, Mr. P

RICE

of North Caro-

lina, Mr. J

ONES

, Ms. L

OIS

RANKEL

of Flor-

ida, Mr. C

ARTWRIGHT

, Mr. R

YAN

, Ms. W

ILSON

of Florida, Ms. P

RESSLEY

, Mr. S

ARBANES

, Mr.

IMES

, and Mr. K

IND

H.R. 958: Mrs. F

LETCHER

H.R. 978: Ms. W

EXTON

H.R. 1115: Mr. C

ONNOLLY

, Mr. G

OHMERT

Mrs. B

USTOS

, Mr. O

WENS

, and Mr. H

ORSFORD

H.R. 1117: Mr. T

AKANO

H.R. 1145: Mr. C

OSTA

H.R. 1177: Mr. S

HERMAN

H.R. 1179: Mr. S

TEIL

H.R. 1182: Mr. T

HOMPSON

of California.

H.R. 1193: Mr. C

ARTWRIGHT

, Mr. K

of New

Jersey, Mr. Q

UIGLEY

, and Ms. S

TEVENS

H.R. 1195: Ms. J

AYAPAL

, Mr. B

OWMAN

, Ms.

TEVENS

, Mr. A

GUILAR

, Mr. C

LEAVER

, Mr.

AKANO

, Ms. K

USTER

, Mr. G

RIJALVA

, and Ms.

INGREE

H.R. 1210: Mr. K

ELLER

H.R. 1227: Mr. Q

UIGLEY

H.R. 1263: Mr. G

ARBARINO

H.R. 1302: Mrs. B

USTOS

H.R. 1304: Mr. B

LUMENAUER

, Ms. S

EWELL

Mr. B

RENDAN

F. B

OYLE

of Pennsylvania, Mr.

UOZZI

, Mrs. M

URPHY

of Florida, Mr. S

MITH

of Missouri, Mr. H

ERN

, Mrs. W

ALORSKI

, Mr.

ERGUSON

, and Mrs. M

ILLER

of West Vir-

ginia.

H.R. 1314: Ms. D

ENE

, Ms. N

ORTON

, and

Ms. W

ILLIAMS

of Georgia.

H.R. 1346: Mr. C

ARBAJAL

and Mr. H

ASTINGS

H.R. 1349: Ms. S

CANLON

H.R. 1361: Mr. V

REW

H.R. 1365: Mr. G

OMEZ

H.R. 1442: Mr. A

GUILAR

and Ms. S

PEIER

H.R. 1445: Mr. B

ENTZ

and Mr. B

ABIN

H.R. 1447: Mrs. L

URIA

and Ms. S

TRICKLAND

H.R. 1456: Ms. M

OORE

of Wisconsin, Mr.

USH

, Mr. G

RIJALVA

, and Mr. C

OSTA

H.R. 1512: Mr. W

ELCH

, Mr. P

ETERS

, Mrs.

INGELL

, Mrs. T

RAHAN

, Mr. M

ICHAEL

OYLE

of Pennsylvania, Ms. S

CHAKOWSKY

Ms. C

LARKE

of New York, Ms. M

ATSUI

, Ms.

LUNT

OCHESTER

, Ms. D

ETTE

, Ms. K

ELLY

of Illinois, Ms. S

CHRIER

, Mr. M

ERNEY

, Mr.

RDENAS

, and Ms. C

ASTOR

of Florida.

H.R. 1533: Mr. F

OSTER

H.R. 1536: Mr. M

EUSER

H.R. 1551: Ms. C

LARKE

of New York.

H.R. 1577: Mr. P

ETERS

and Mr. R

USH

H.R. 1582: Ms. P

ORTER

H.R. 1631: Mr. N

EGUSE

H.R. 1644: Mr. H

ASTINGS

and Ms. B

ARRAGA

H.R. 1655: Mr. M

FUME

H.R. 1665: Mr. J

ONES

H.R. 1703: Mr. B

EYER

, Ms. M

OLLUM

, and

Mr. H

ASTINGS

H.R. 1712: Mr. M

OOLENAAR

, Mr. W

ALBERG

and Mr. L

ALFA

H.R. 1728: Mr. L

AWSON

of Florida.

H.R. 1812: Mr. S

TAUBER

and Mr. G

UEST

H.R. 1829: Mr. G

RIFFITH

H.R. 1837: Mr. F

EENSTRA

H.R. 1842: Mr. B

ACON

and Mr. S

COTT

of Vir-

ginia.

H.R. 1843: Mr. B

ROWN

, Ms. S

HERRILL

, Ms.

ILSON

of Florida, Ms. L

EGER

ERNANDEZ

Ms. B

ARRAGA

, Ms. J

AYAPAL

, Ms. S

CHRIER

and Mr. N

EGUSE

H.R. 1861: Mr. K

IND

H.R. 1868: Mr. G

REEN

of Texas.

H.R. 1884: Mr. N

ADLER

and Mr. B

MENAUER

H.R. 1892: Mr. C

RENSHAW

H.R. 1901: Mr. K

ELLER

H.R. 1916: Mr. F

OSTER

, Mr. C

LEAVER

, Mr.

EENSTRA

, Mr. K

ELLY

of Mississippi, Ms. S

WELL

, Ms. C

LARK

of Massachusetts, Mr.

ARLAIS

, Mr. G

REEN

of Tennessee, Mr.

OOD

, Mrs. H

INSON

, Mr. T

IFFANY

, Mr.

ITZGERALD

, Mr. S

MITH

of Nebraska, and Mr.

UCAS

H.R. 1926: Mrs. M

LAIN

H.R. 1927: Mrs. M

LAIN

H.R. 1931: Mr. C

OHEN

H.R. 1955: Mr. T

IFFANY

H.R. 1996: Mr. A

MODEI

and Mr. A

RMSTRONG

H.R. 1999: Mr. M

INLEY

, Mrs. L

ESKO

, Mr.

HABOT

, Mr. C

RAWFORD

, Mr. B

OST

, Mr.

ESCHENTHALER

, Mr. B

ALDERSON

, Mrs.

ALORSKI

, Mr. R

ICE

of South Carolina, Mrs.

ILLER

of West Virginia, Mr. S

MUCKER

, Mr.

OOD

of Virginia, Mr. C

ARTER

of Georgia, Mr.

ELLY

of Pennsylvania, Mr. D

UNN

, Mr.

STES

, Mr. F

EENSTRA

, Mr. A

RRINGTON

, Mr.

ROTHMAN

, Mrs. B

ICE

of Oklahoma, Mr. W

STER

of Florida, and Mr. M

EUSER

H.R. 2000: Mrs. M

LAIN

H.R. 2002: Mr. C

ARL

and Mr. K

ELLER

H.R. 2047: Mr. M

ANN

and Mr. C

AWTHORN

H.R. 2062: Ms. N

ORTON

, Mr. M

ORELLE

, Ms.

ARCIA

of Texas, Mrs. D

INGELL

, Mr. C

OHEN

Mrs. H

AYES

, Ms. S

CHAKOWSKY

, and Ms. P

GREE

H.R. 2074: Mr. C

OLE

, Ms. C

RAIG

, Mr.

ALFA

, and Ms. L

EGER

ERNANDEZ

H.J. Res. 1: Mr. Y

ARMUTH

, Ms. B

LUNT

OCH

ESTER

, Mr. A

UCHINCLOSS

, and Mr. B

EYER

H.J. Res. 11: Mr. G

UEST

H. Res. 100: Ms. D

AURO

H. Res. 114: Ms. T

ITUS

and Mr. M

EEKS

H. Res. 151: Mr. P

ANETTA

H. Res. 209: Mr. M

FUME

H. Res. 256: Mr. G

UEST

and Mr. B

AIRD

DELETION OF SPONSORS FROM

PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS

Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors

were deleted from public bills and reso-

lutions, as follows:

H.R. 1346: Mr. H

IGGINS

of Louisiana.

PETITIONS, ETC.

Under clause 3 of rule XII,

PT-4. The SPEAKER presented a petition

of Associated Students Inc., California State

University, Fullerton, CA, relative to a Res-

olution calling upon the CSU Chancellor and

Board of Trustees to use CSU’s full legal re-

sources to assess what legal means can be ex-

ercised in support of our International stu-

dents; which was referred to the Committee

on Foreign Affairs.

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PERSONAL EXPLANATION

HON. KATHY CASTOR

OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I

missed the vote on Roll Call No. 94 on March

18, 2021. Had I been present, I would have

voted YEA on Roll Call No. 94.

IN RECOGNITION OF JESSICA

PEDRO-PASCUAL

HON. JOHN JOYCE

OF PENNSYLVANIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Madam Speak-

er, I rise today to congratulate Jessica Pedro-

Pascual on winning two Silver Keys and two

Honorable Mention Awards at the 2021 Cen-

tral PA Scholastic Art and Writing Competition.

Jessica is attends Bermudian Springs High

School and is passionate about studying art.

Her drawings and illustrations have garnered

her the Silver Key and Honorable Mention

Awards at the 2021 Central PA Scholastic Art

and Writing Competition, which first was es-

tablished in 1923 to support teenage artists

and writers.

Congratulations to Jessica on this remark-

able achievement, and I wish her continued

success as she pursues her love of art.

RECOGNIZING THE 75TH ANNIVER-

SARY OF FELLOWSHIP FREE

WILL BAPTIST CHURCH

HON. JASON SMITH

OF MISSOURI

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Madam Speaker, I

rise today to honor Fellowship Free Will Bap-

tist Church of Park Hills, Missouri on the occa-

sion of their 75th anniversary.

The church was founded in 1946 when a

group of about 50 believers gathered to wor-

ship at the old Buckley Store building. Roughly

three months later Fellowship Church voted to

purchase the property at 601 Buckley Street,

where the sanctuary stands today. The pur-

chase was made on August 12, 1946, and

ground was broken just 14 days later.

In the heart of the mining community, a

group of lead miners on strike, volunteered

their manpower and resources to build the

sanctuary. Only eight months later, the first

service was held in the new church on Easter

Sunday, April 17, 1949.

It has been the mission of Fellowship Free

Will Baptist Church to help people find their

greatest joy in Jesus by helping them to

‘‘Know God, Grow in Truth, Connect in Com-

munity, and Serve Others.’’

It is my great pleasure to honor Fellowship

Free Will Baptist Church of Park Hills, Mis-

souri on their 75th anniversary today, before

the United States House of Representatives.

HONORING THE GAY AND LESBIAN

ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE OF WASH-

INGTON, D.C.

HON. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON

OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Ms. NORTON. Madam Speaker, as the

member representing the District of Columbia

in Congress, I am proud and honored that the

District has the oldest continuously active

LGBTQ civil rights organization in the nation,

the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of

Washington, D.C. (GLAA).

GLAA has worked tirelessly for LGBTQ peo-

ple in D.C. since its founding in April 1971.

April of this year marks GLAA’s 50th anniver-

sary. This is an incredible milestone in the his-

tory of D.C.’s premier LGBTQ organization.

Over the past 50 years, GLAA has worked

tirelessly for the passage of many important

legislative and policy measures that affect

LGBTQ Americans, especially in the District.

Equality for all Americans has always been

a priority for me in Congress, but equal treat-

ment for LGBTQ people has long held even

greater significance to me. Congressional op-

ponents of equality for LGBTQ people have

used D.C.’s unique status as a weapon

against LGBTQ people in D.C. For example, I

had to defeat many bills and amendments that

would have blocked D.C.’s marriage equality

law.

I was pleased to celebrate GLAA’s work to

help pass the D.C. Religious Freedom and

Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act in

2010, which removed any doubt in the District

of the right of same-sex couples to marry. The

act served to recognize same-sex marriages

five years before the Supreme Court’s deci-

sion in Obergefell v. Hodges. This remarkable

effort exhibits the dedication and success that

GLAA has displayed throughout its history. Its

work extends well beyond this and includes a

commitment to strengthen and enforce the

D.C. Human Rights Act of 1977 to include pro-

tections for LGBTQ seniors and transgender

Washingtonians.

GLAA has done extensive coalition-building

and continues to defend the rights of LGBTQ

youth and seniors, particularly when it comes

to issues surrounding policing, healthcare,

housing and consumer protection. What GLAA

has done, and continues to accomplish, in

these very personal and meaningful areas of

life for LGBTQ residents should be applauded

and uplifted. I have confidence that the future

will bring even more success with GLAA’s

presence in our community, for which we

should all be grateful.

I ask the House to join me in honoring

GLAA and celebrating GLAA’s 50 years of re-

markable, distinguished service to and advo-

cacy for the LGBTQ community in the District

of Columbia.

CELEBRATING WOMEN’S HISTORY

MONTH

SPEECH OF

HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, Women’s History

Month is a time to appreciate the achieve-

ments of women and the many strides we’ve

made to create a more equal society and an

inclusive world for our children.

Women’s History Month began as a des-

ignated week in California in 1978. It soon be-

came a week nationwide, and a decade later

it was expanded to include the entire month of

March.

Women have had to fight for voting rights,

equal treatment, equal pay, and much more,

often at great costs, but we have achieved so

much. In the 1970s, women were not allowed

to get credit or loans in their own name.

Today, women make up the majority of the

college-educated workforce.

Because of the actions and sacrifices of

those who came before us, the new Congress

has 144 women serving in it, the highest num-

ber in American history and we have the first

female Vice President in our history.

While much has been accomplished, there’s

so much more to be done. We must reauthor-

ize the Violence Against Women Act, secure

equal pay, tackle maternal mortality rates, stop

the relentless attacks on reproductive health,

and guarantee paid family leave.

The pandemic has had a devastating and

disproportionate impact on women. In Sep-

tember of 2020, more than a million Ameri-

cans left the workforce, with 80 percent being

women. Three months later, 140,000 jobs of

women were lost.

To all the women who are struggling during

this pandemic, I see them. I stand with them

and I will fight for them always.

IN RECOGNITION OF EMMA

OSBORNE

HON. JOHN JOYCE

OF PENNSYLVANIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Madam Speak-

er, I rise today to congratulate Emma Osborne

on winning the Gold Key award at the 2021

Central PA Scholastic Art and Writing Com-

petition.

Emma currently attends Bermudian Springs

High School near York Springs, Pennsylvania

and is passionate about art. Her painting,

Rage Quilt, garnered her the top award at the

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2021 Central PA Scholastic Art and Writing

Competition, which was first established in

1923 to support teenage artists and writers.

Congratulations to Emma on this remark-

able achievement, and I wish her continued

success as she pursues her love of art.

IN SPECIAL RECOGNITION OF NA-

POLEON HIGH SCHOOL WINNING

THE DIVISION II STATE GIRLS

BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

HON. ROBERT E. LATTA

OF OHIO

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. LATTA. Madam Speaker, it is with a

great deal of pride that I rise to pay a very

special tribute to an outstanding high school

basketball team in Ohio’s Fifth Congressional

District. The young women of the Napoleon

High School girls’ basketball team have rep-

resented their school ably on their way to

achieving the Division II State Girls Basketball

Title. In their effort to surpass all other teams

in the Division II State Basketball Playoffs, the

Napoleon Wildcats overcame the challenges

posed by intense competition.

In pursuing the State Championship, the

Napoleon Lady Wildcats defeated the Vinton

County Vikings to win their first state basket-

ball championship. The members of this very

special team have shown that their sport re-

quires an individual effort for a team result.

Their hard work and dedication, both on and

off the court, in achieving this accomplishment

is truly outstanding.

Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join

me in paying special tribute to the Napoleon

High School girls basketball team. On behalf

of the people of the Fifth District of Ohio, I am

proud to recognize this great achievement.

CELEBRATING WOMEN’S HISTORY

MONTH

SPEECH OF

HON. ED CASE

OF HAWAII

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Mr. CASE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to

honor the women of our nation and my home

state of Hawaii past, present and future as we

again celebrate Women’s History Month.

Each year during the month of March, we

remember and honor the extraordinary Amer-

ican women who have made such lasting con-

tributions to our culture, history and society.

Long before they finally gained the right to

vote in elections and before they broke

through glass ceilings throughout our society,

generations of women worked to expand the

rights and opportunities previously denied to

them. Women from all across America revolu-

tionized their respective fields, setting the

stage for the next generation, and the next, to

pursue and attain equality.

It is my honor to share with you today the

stories of three remarkable women from Ha-

waii who made indelible contributions in edu-

cation, science and politics.

When Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop was

born in 1831, the Native Hawaiian population

in the islands numbered about 124,000. By

the time she wrote her will in 1883, only

44,000 Native Hawaiians remained. In re-

sponse to these dramatic changes facing Ha-

waii, she committed her life to those who were

suffering and struggling in her homeland. She

saw that education would allow her people to

adapt to a changing world while preserving

their language, culture and identity, so she

dedicated her royal inheritance to establish

Kamehameha Schools, with the mission of

educating the children of Hawaii. Today, Ka-

mehameha Schools is the largest independent

school system in the U.S., with a current en-

rollment of 6,900 students within its Pre-K–

12th grade program, and countless alumni

who have bettered Hawai‘i and our nation in

countless ways.

Born in remote Ha

na, Maui in 1919, Dr. Isa-

bella Kauakea Tau Yung Aiona Abbott was

the first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a

PhD in science. Abbot spent much of her

childhood at the seashore with her mother,

collecting seaweed and algae. From her moth-

er, as her mother from hers and on back, she

learned to distinguish the different types of ed-

ible seaweed and how to use them in tradi-

tional Hawaiian cooking. These practices,

passed from mother to daughter over genera-

tions, catalyzed Abbott’s career in natural

science. She went on to get her PhD in bot-

any from the University of California at Berke-

ley. In 1960, she became a lecturer in the Bi-

ology Department at Stanford, and in 1971

she became the first woman on Stanford’s bio-

logical sciences faculty. Abbot made unparal-

leled contributions to marine science, author-

ing eight books and over 150 research papers.

She is credited with discovering over 200 dif-

ferent species of algae, many of which have

been named after her, including a genus of

the red algae family, which is called

Abbottella, or ‘‘little Abbott.’’

Patsy Mink was the first Asian-American

woman to be elected to the U.S. House of

Representatives. Although her list of accom-

plishments is extensive, Mink faced many ob-

stacles early in her career from those who did

not believe in gender equality. After earning

her bachelor’s degree at the University of Ha-

waii, Mink applied to 12 medical schools and

was rejected by all of them. She pivoted to

study law at the University of Chicago. After

graduating, she was denied the opportunity to

take the bar examination in Hawaii due to her

gender and marital status. She challenged the

statute, won her case, and later passed the

bar only to find that she could not get a job

because she was married and had a child.

She opened her own practice and focused on

ending discriminatory laws. During her political

career over the subsequent years, she broke

many glass ceilings, winning positions in the

State House of Representatives, the State

Senate and eventually the U.S. House of Rep-

resentatives, where she served for 12 terms.

During her 24 years in Congress, she intro-

duced and won passage of many impactful ini-

tiatives, most notably the Title IX amendment

that ended discrimination in education due to

gender, religion or race. In recognition of the

tremendous impact Title IX has had for mil-

lions of girls and women over the past four

decades, Congress renamed Title IX the Patsy

T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act

following her passing.

I could tell countless other stories of other

women of Hawaii as we celebrate Women’s

History Month, stories that serve as an inspira-

tion as we look to honor the tremendous con-

tributions of the women who challenged the

status quo and courageously fought for equal-

ity in every state of our nation. They truly

paved the way for the equally inspiring women

that we are privileged to witness advancing

gender equity today.

There is still so much work to be done for

women in the U.S. and around the world. With

the rest of my colleagues in Congress, I am

inspired this month to continue the work that

brings us closer each day to our nation’s high-

est ideals of freedom and equality for all.

RECOGNIZING COLORADO’S

LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY

HON. KEN BUCK

OF COLORADO

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. BUCK. Madam Speaker, I rise today to

recognize the hard-working Coloradans who

form the bedrock of my state’s livestock indus-

try. In Colorado’s 4th District, the livestock and

agriculture industries account for more than

11,000 jobs, which contributes to the $41 bil-

lion economic impact these industries have

statewide. During last fiscal year, 82 percent

of Colorado’s agriculture sales came from

Colorado’s 4th District. Meat and poultry sup-

pliers, as well as other agricultural producers,

are essential to the communities across the

Eastern Plains and are foundational to Colo-

rado’s economy. Despite the many supply

chain disruptions imposed on Coloradans by

the pandemic, the agriculture community has

come together to focus on feeding Americans

during these challenging times.

These dedicated men and women serve our

communities in countless ways every day.

Madam Speaker, I am honored to recognize

their hard work and determination.

IN RECOGNITION OF KARL

PIETRZAK

HON. JOHN JOYCE

OF PENNSYLVANIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Madam Speak-

er, I rise today to congratulate Karl Pietrzak on

his new role as President and Chief Executive

Officer of Destination Gettysburg.

Mr. Pietrzak was raised in Adams County

and is returning to the region to assume this

new position. Before joining Destination Get-

tysburg, he served as Vice President of Visit

Pittsburgh. In that role, he helped Pittsburgh to

generate over one $1 billion in direct spending

revenue. Mr. Pietrzak has immense experi-

ence in the tourism and hospitality industries,

and he will be a great addition to the Adams

County community.

As visitors travel to Gettysburg and the

Adams County region, Mr. Pietrzak will be an

incredible partner to small businesses and the

tourism community. I congratulate Karl

Pietrzak on his new role and look forward to

working alongside him to serve Adams Coun-

ty.

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HONORING THE LIFE OF UTE

TRIBAL ELDER, THOMAS HOUSE,

SENIOR

HON. LAUREN BOEBERT

OF COLORADO

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mrs. BOEBERT. Madam Speaker, last

month Colorado said farewell to Ute Tribal

Elder, Thomas House, Senior. Mr. House was

the remaining son of Chief Jack House, the

last traditional chief of the Ute Mountain Ute

tribe in Southwestern Colorado.

Mr. House served as a tribal elder in the

Ute Mountain Ute tribe who lived his life with

honor and dedicated his life to representing

his community and preserving traditional Ute

values.

A man of many roles and responsibilities,

Mr. House served as a natural resources di-

rector, rancher, respected spiritual leader, and

even organized horse races at the Ute Moun-

tain rodeo grounds. His exceptional, lifelong

dedication to his community and the Ute

Mountain Ute Tribe will live on through those

he served and the remarkable family he left

behind.

People don’t have to look farther than his

home to see Mr. House’s love for his commu-

nity. Mr. House and his wife were known for

taking in foster children who had no place to

go.

Thomas House never hesitated when called

upon to serve, and many of his children and

grandchildren have taken on leadership posi-

tions themselves, continuing his legacy and

replicating his commitment to traditional Ute

values.

He will surely be missed as a valued and

respected tribal member, father, grandfather,

and leader.

TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF

BAHRAIN’S PEACEFUL PROTESTS

HON. JAMES P. McGOVERN

OF MASSACHUSETTS

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. M

OVERN

. Madam Speaker, last

month marked the tenth anniversary of peace-

ful protests that spurred great hope for change

in Bahrain, only to have those hopes dashed.

On February 14, 2011, thousands of Bah-

rainis took to the streets in peaceful protests

throughout the country to call for democratiza-

tion and social and economic reform.

Bahraini security forces attacked the peace-

ful protesters, first with pepper spray and

flash-bangs, then with rubber bullets and fi-

nally with shotguns.

The protesters remained peaceful, and in

the days that followed, the protests grew.

The Pearl Roundabout in the capital city,

Manama, became the hub with hundreds

camping there and sharing food.

Then came ‘‘Bahrain Bloody Thursday.’’

At about 4:00 a.m. on February 17, 2011,

while protesters including women and children

were sleeping, security forces stormed the

area with tear gas. They threw stun grenades

and fired shot guns at the terrified people.

Bahraini and international media were at-

tacked.

Paramedics and ambulance drivers who re-

sponded were also reportedly attacked and

told not to help injured protesters.

Four protesters were killed and as many as

300 were injured.

Hundreds were detained, including medical

personnel, and the police pursued others to

nearby villages to arrest them as well.

Following ‘‘Bahrain Bloody Thursday,’’ Nich-

olas Kristof wrote in the New York Times,

‘‘When a king opens fire on his people, he no

longer deserves to be ruler.’’

As leaders from around the world con-

demned the violence, it seemed at first that

the door to reform had been opened. The

King’s acceptance of the recommendations of

the Bahrain Independent Commission of In-

quiry kept hope alive for quite some time.

But ten years later little has changed for the

Bahraini people.

I welcomed the release of Nabeel Rajab in

June 2020, who spent nearly eight of the past

nine years imprisoned for peaceful protest and

criticizing government policies.

But many prisoners of conscience remain

behind bars, and it is well past time to release

everyone else imprisoned for exercising their

fundamental rights. These include human

rights defenders Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace,

Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, Ahmed Humaidan, and

Naji Fateel, and Sheikh Ali Salman.

Brave human rights and opposition leaders

continue to call for the release of prisoners,

accountability for grave human rights viola-

tions, and political reform.

Madam Speaker, the people of Bahrain

have been waiting ten long years for a sign

that the arc of justice is bending toward them.

I am tremendously heartened by statements

made by Biden Administration officials con-

firming that the U.S. commitment to human

rights will be reflected in our foreign policy.

We cannot serve as a beacon of hope while

turning a blind eye to human rights violations.

What should that mean when it comes to

Bahrain? Here are some ideas.

The U.S. should pause arms sales to Bah-

rain.

The Department of Defense should develop

a contingency plan for relocating the U.S. 5th

Fleet out of Bahrain.

The Administration should make full use of

Global Magnitsky authorities to sanction Bah-

raini officials who are known to have com-

mitted terrible human rights abuses and have

suffered no consequences for their actions.

Accountability must return to the bilateral

agenda.

The State Department should work for the

release of all prisoners of conscience. And the

State Department should put reforms back on

the bilateral agenda. What reforms are we

talking about?

To start with, the Bahraini government

should: end the prohibition on political soci-

eties, decriminalize all speech, allow national

and international press to operate without

state intervention, stop rendering its citizens

stateless, strip the National Security Agency of

its power to arrest, bring its anti-terrorism leg-

islation into line with international human rights

standards, integrate its security forces, and

end discrimination against the majority Shi’a

population everywhere it exists.

Taking these steps would not transform

Bahrain into a democracy. But they would go

some way toward improving the country’s do-

mestic human rights situation.

I look forward to working with the Biden Ad-

ministration on these and other ideas to make

sure that U.S. policy toward Bahrain truly pro-

tects the human rights of the Bahraini peo-

ple—and therefore truly contributes to Amer-

ica’s security.

RECOGNIZING THE FRONTLINE

HEALTHCARE WORKERS OF

SOUTH DAKOTA

HON. DUSTY JOHNSON

OF SOUTH DAKOTA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota. Madam

Speaker, I rise today to recognize, celebrate,

and honor the frontline healthcare workers of

the great state of South Dakota.

Some of these South Dakota heroes are:

Denise Thingelstad, Tiffany Ann Thiry, Hailey

Jo Thompson, Alexius Rose Thorpe, Kristi

Karen Timm, Arien Lea Tingle, Amanda Kay

Tinker, Patricia Titze, Christine Ann Torborg,

Rosalind Torres, Sydney Lee Tschetter, Cindy

Tullis, Belinda K Twite, Dawn Andrea Tysdal,

Jennifer Marie Utne, Courtney Renna Van

Aarde, Karla Marie Van Noort, Tamera Eliza-

beth Merie Van Scoy, Antoinette Lynn Van-

denberg, Carlene VanEgdom, Stacey

VanGenderen, Kristen Lynn VanMaanen,

Heather Marie Vanoverschelde, Jessie

VanWyk, Angela Vaughn, Penny Sue Vaughn,

Patricia Kay Veatch, Janine Carol Verschoor,

Shari Viereck, Ann Marie Voorhees, Stacie

Jeanne Waagmeester, Tammy Lee Waddell,

Chelsea Lynn Wagaman, Alisha Selina

Wager, Katie Lynn Wagner, Susan Waldman,

Maria Estrella Walk Valenzuela, Elissa Walz,

Jesse James Walz Jr, Valerie E. Wantoch,

Laura Anine Warnock, Rita Marie Watkins,

Brittany LeAnn Webb, Kerry Ann Weeldreyer,

Evangeline Weingartz, Susan Weir, Kimberly

Welch, Dawn Wells, LeAnn Wenger, Jennifer

Jeanne Wesley, Kelly Ann West, Kathleen

Weyen, Kayla Dawn Weyh, Katherine Weyh-

Jurgens, Mary Catherine Wheaton, Emily Ruth

Whitcomb, Bobbi Jo White, Tara Wiest, Erin

Elizabeth Williams, Caitlan Louise Williams,

Ja’kale Diane Williams, Candace L Wilson,

Lori Wipf, Stephanie Marie Wodzinski, Gala

Woitte, Elizabeth S. Wright, Jolene Marie

Wullstein, Bethany Nichelle Yeaton, Amy

Zobel, Michael Aanderud, Benjamin Curtiss

Abbey, Julia Agnes Abraham, Bradley E.

Adams, Amanda Lynn Adams, Jaime Aguilar,

Lisa Marie Alban, Melissa M. Alexander, Brian

Richard Alexander, Tyson David Allen, Nich-

olas Rene Alonzo, Trisha Marie Anderson,

Danielle Rae Anderson, Seth Joel Anderson,

Corey Lee Anderson, Amy Anderson, Sommer

Anstine, Ashley Marie Anziano, Megan Lynn

Arens, Cassandra Rae Arens, Sarah Jane

Arens, Carol Lynn Arne, Lee Arnold, Mary

Colette Aschenbrener, Steven Atkinson, Ash-

ley Louise Attig, Kaitlin Marie Atwater, James

Awuah, David D. Axtman, Brittany Rachel

Ayers, Timothy James Aylward, Karmela Lynn

Bachman, Alexandra Leora Bachman-Wil-

liams, Ryan Don Bailey, Stephen Baker, Laura

Amelia Bakke, Amy Louise Bakker, Karen

Banken, Eric Andrew Bannwarth, John P.

Barnett, Christopher Paul Barrozo, Jacqueline

Bartlett, Brett A. Bastian, Danette Rae

Baumann, Billie Jo Baxa, Allison Marie Beck-

er, Jason Michael Becker, Teresa Behl, Chase

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William Beiermann, Valerie Ann Belding,

Le’ann Bender, Leah Catherine Bennett,

Jaymee Ryan Benson, Jocelyn Rebecca

Bergh, Trae Jordan Bergh.

Carmel L. Berglin, Nodia Rose Berglund,

Rose Barbara Bergquist, Pauline Bevers, Mat-

thew Gene Bickel, Ardalia Biel, Jennifer Bietz,

Michael Ray Birgenheir, Kathryn Nicole

Bjelland, Renee Louise Blaha, Vicki Blake-

Nafus, Caleb Richard Blauwet, Bonnie

Bleeker, Marcene Bloom, Renee Boehrns,

Sheila Fae Bondell, Lindsey Nicole Bouma,

Marsha Morrow Brackeen, Sharron Bramblee,

Debra Brandt, Cheryle Brandt, Lisa Rose

Braun, Beau Douglas Braun, Jennie Amelia

Brehm, Sarah Marie Brend, Charles Anthony

Broberg, Wesley Wallace Broeder, Rachelle F.

Broveleit, Valarie Brown, Paul Keith Brown,

Hannah Sears Brown, Haley Marie Brunke,

Taylor James Bryan, Sarah Rosemary

Buchanan, Marvel J. Buhler, Brenda

Bullerman, Karen Bumann, Alyssa Jo Bump,

Anthony R. Burbach, Brenda Kay Burge,

Jason Lawrence Bustin, Mary Lou Buurma,

Jennifer Lee Byer, Michele Renee Cain, Mark

James Cali, Theresa Cameron, Sarah Chris-

tine Campbell, Stacy Laura Campbell, Heather

Crystal Carkhuff, Tara Carlson, Robin R. Carl-

son, Courtney Lajuan Carmichael, Madeline T.

Carroll-Schaal, Patrick Allan Casey, Melissa

Jo Castillo, Brian Anthony Chabot, Amber N.

Chambers, Alanna Rae Chapman, Sara Lou-

ise Chargo, Tia Marie Chase, Michelle Ann

Chaussee, Jerry Wayne Chesley, Cathy Sue

Childress, Ryan J Cho, Caroline Jieh Cho,

Danielle Elizabeth Tirjer Cleary, Tracy Lee

Cleveland, Kyle Jeffrey Cochran, David A.

Cohen, Robert Walter Cole II, Eugenie Su-

zanne Coleman, Brian Gregory Collins, Kevin

John Conboy, April Noelle Crago, Teresa

Barajas Croft, Elizabeth Kendrick

Cunningham, David Kenneth Custis, Stacy

Sue Cwach, Jocelyn K. Dahl, Dawn Deal

Dahle, Marianne C. Daly, Kayla Marie Daniels,

Bret Matthew Danielson, Stacy Kristine Daniel-

son, Alicia Renee Daum, Brianna Marie Davis,

Charles Lucas Dean, Holly Ann Dean, Donita

Sue Demontiney, Paige Irene DePerno, Cindy

Fay Deutscher, Kimberly Dawn Dewing, Gus-

tavo Adolfo Diaz, Amy L. Dietrich, Martin S.

Digler, Desirae Lynn Dinius, Jason

Domagalski, Jenna Dormann, Timothy Down-

ing, Lori Ann Drea, Patrick A. Dreis, Larry

DuBray, Carolyn Duenwald, Kyle Alan Duke,

Kristin Erica Dunn, Kimberly Dykstra, Carrie

Dylla, Lia Susanne Eastman, Brianne N.

Edwards, Erika Ann Eich, Eric Eidem, Marc

Ellwein, Pamela G. Elshere, Jana Lee Elwood,

Becky J. Emerson, James Marcus Emerson

Jr., Charles Richard Emery, Sarah Catherine

Engbers.

Dianna M. England, Brian Ermer, Vickie

Ernst, Cindy Erwin, Brooke Renee Espicha,

Todd Anthony Espicha, Amber Kay Evenson,

Jacqueline Emily Evernham, Austen George

Eugene Fagerland, Kara Lynn Fast, Emily

Christine Fedders, Frederick Thomas

Fedorowicz, Scott Feese, Kyla Beth Feickert,

Nicholas Emile Fernando, James Bruce

Ferrell, Sharon Kay Fey, Marissa Lee Fidler,

Sommer Rae Fields, Karley Kristine Fischer,

Allyce Katherine Fisk, Sarah Lynn Manley

Fitzsimmons, Kari Jo Elma Fleming, Amy M.

Fluit, Racheal Michelle Folkers, Garet Kirk

Ford, David Fossum, Jarrett James Fowler,

Elizabeth Shepperd Frank, Kayla Ann Frank,

Jaclyn Mae Freese, James Frerk, Brandon

Lee Frick, Nichole R. Friessen, Loran Fred-

erick Frost, Caroline Marie Fuhrer, Melissa

Ann Fullner-Marshall, James Robert Furry IV,

Bradley Carson Gallagher, Melissa Dawn

Galvin, Jill Marie Gassen, Mackenzi Kay

Gatzke, Gabriel Gustav Gehrke, Heidi Ginny

Gehrke, Brittany Elizabeth Gentzler, Emily

Michelle Geppert, Janell Lynn Gerberding,

Renae Leah Gerlach, Alison Ann Gerrish, Lau-

rie Ann Giacoletto, Abby Marie Gietzen, Patri-

cia Gilbert, Kari Ann Gill, Haley Rose Gillen,

Demetria Lynn Glader, Susanne Margaret

Godsey, Percy Golson, Marc William

Goodboy, Sarah Elizabeth Goral, Terry Lee

Gourley, Leslee Jean Graff, Devon Graham,

Jeffrey Scott Grande, Sara Teresse Granville,

Blake Greenfield, Mitch Gaylord Leroy Grieve,

Merritt Michael Groh, Adam Russell Haave,

Michelle R. Hagen, Tia Kay Haines, Cheryl L.

Hairgrove, Janelle Marie Hanna, Kristi Jo Han-

sen, Margaret Beryl Hansen, Mary Michele

Hansen, Andrea Juhl Hansen, Marie Kathryn

Hansen, Alicia Anne Hanson, Michael Joe

Hanvey, Jessica Danyelle Harasyn, James M.

Hardwick, Dwight Harley, Jodie Katherine

Hartmann McSherry, Barbara Harvison, Heidi

M. Hassler, Gina Hawkins, Kimberly Erin Hay-

den, Gary Victor Haynes, Michelle R. Healy,

Gary Heath, Amy Nicole Hecker, Mark Heine,

Jordan Dean Heins, Danielle Marie Heins,

Tara A. Heinze, Patrick Heiser, Cory James

Heiser, Kaitlin Elizabeth Helder, Carla M. Hell-

er, Beth Helsper, Jacob Lewis Hemenway,

Kelsey Marie Henningson-Kaye, Terry W.

Henrie, Matthew Aaron Henry, Joni Anne

Hensley, Sarah Kristyne Heringer, Kim

Herrmann, Dan Heyduk, Dorothy Hicks, Nicole

Christina Higgins, Sarah Michelle Hinds, Kim-

berly Marie Hinz, Dayna Rae Hochevar, Jill R.

Hoek, Michele Olivia Hoellein, Laura Kay

Hofer, Tandis Lea Hoffman, Jordan Michael

Hoffman, Tricia Hoffman, Emily Joy Hohman.

Mackenzie Margaret Holm-Moffitt, Andrew

Joseph Holmstrom, Brenda Holscher, Mallory

Ann Holz, Patrick J. Honner, Rachel Renee

Hotvet, Lindsay Kay House, Jennifer Lynn

Houwman, Courtney Leigh Hubert, Chris-

topher William Hughes, Betty Ann Hulse, Jane

Ann Hunt, Emily K. Huntley, Stephanie Marie

ldeker, Diane Inch, Gabrielle Eileen Iversen,

Aaron Louis Jackson, Kevin Fredrick Jager,

Mary Grace Jahraus, Maddie Lee Jans, Daniel

Dwayne Janssen, Phil Jaquith, Anne C.

Jeneary, Michael John Jensen, Sarah Eliza-

beth Harr Jensen, Haley Sue Jerman,

Kathrine Ann Jibben, Susan Rebecca

Johannsen, Randa Suzanne Johnson, Jennifer

R. Johnson, Jaime Eleanor Johnson, Elizabeth

Rae Johnson, Charles Wade Johnson, Brett

Michael Johnson, Ashley Elizabeth Johnson,

Nicole Alexis Johnson, Karrie Ann Johnson,

Samuel John Jolley, Paige Frances Lockwood

Jones, Mary Louise Jorgenson, Marsha K.

Kadlecik, John Robert Kenneth Kass, Kathryn

T. Kassin, Laura Jean Kaufman, Linda

Kauker, Robbie Michael Kazi, Lucas Hansford

Keahey, Emily Lauren Kelleigh, Clara J Ken-

nedy, Sean Kenny, Brittany Bo Kerr, David

Charles King, Ryan Klenner, Benjamin Tyler

Klinkhammer, Chris David Klucas, Amanda

Leigh Kneip, Stephen John Knoble, Jason

Richard Koch, Courtney Lynn Kolbeck, Lori

Ann Kollmann, Jeffrey Konstanz, Chelsey M.

Kortan, Jami Jo Kortan, Audrey Kost, Cassidy

Lee Kotelman, Joel Alan Kraayenbrink, Aman-

da Kay Kramer, Almir Krdzalic, Stephanie

Kreie, Ryan R. Krempges, Karl Kreutzmann,

Tyler Ray Krome, Renette Kroupa, Emily Jean

Kruse, Daniel J. Kvale, Lindsay Renae Kyte,

Cristina Renee Lammers, Bobbi Langbehn,

Michael Langston, Carol Newman Larsen,

Timothy L. Larson, Dawn Louise Lauer, Ste-

ven R. Laughlin, Kristen Legner, Kirby Leighty,

Rachel Erin Leiseth, Virginia F. Lemme, Sarah

Ann Lemon, Susan K. Leon, Robert Michael

Leonard, Michael Gregory Leonard, Dustin

Keith Letcher, Alyssa L. Letcher, Stephen

Craig Liddiard, Courtney Noelle Linton, Ashley

Lauren Lipp, Raychel Jo Lorenz, Elizabeth

Ann Loverso, Rebecca E. Luebbert, Kimberly

Kay Lunder, Jacob Henry Lyngaas, Leola M.

Lyon, Angela Majeres, Christopher James

Malynowski, Lori Anne Manas-Lammers, Evan

Tobias Markell, Rosa Maria Marquez, Valerie

Martin, Anthony Martin, Justin James

Martinson, Spencer Todd Mason, Cris Ann

Mathews, Angela Hudgins Mathiason, Darcy J.

McClelland, Reed McGill, Amy Lynn McGill,

William Ashton McGuire, Morgan Elizabeth

McGuire, Tessa Lea McKenna, Michael Paul

McLaury, Chet Timothy McManus, Jerry A.

McReavy, Audrey McReavy, Jonathan Dean

Medeck.

Phillip Edward Meehan, Kathleen Ann

Melloh, Shane A Merchant, Leah Ayn Mergen,

Katie Marie Metz, Kahley Elizabeth Meyer, Ni-

cole Rae Meyer, Marissa Kay Meyer, Julie

Ann Meyer, Lynn K. Meyers, Vanessa Lea

Miiller, Lucas John Mikkelsen, Becky Suzanne

Miller, Joanne Millis, Thomas H. Miner, Alissa

Marie Moen, Brittany Ann Mollet, Susan R.

Morris, Paeton Leslie Moyle, Alyssa Dawn

Mrsny, Terri Lesa Mueller, Daniel Todd Mullin,

Peter E. Murray, Kali Nicole Myrlie, John Eric

Myskiw, Megan Chantel Nagel, Jillian Rae

Nedved, Jordana Renae Neeman, Karen S.

Nehlich, Todd A. Nelson, Kimberly Ann Nel-

son, Laurie Kay Neubauer, Sarah E. Newton,

Julie Nielsen, Jason Michael Nies, Krystal

Lynn Niesen, Wade Avery Nilson, Gina Ab-

bott, Ifrah Abdi, Emebet Abebe, Breanna Abel,

Jacob Abel, Kristina May Abellana, Yvonne

Abeln, Heather Abels, Kelsey Abens, Carletta

Aberle, Melissa Aberle, Kali Aberle, Eric

Aberle, Mary Aberle, Helen Abernathy, Ida

Abild, Melanie Abker, Stephanie Abney, Fadi

Abou Oyoune lssoud, Haifa Abou Samra, Jill

Abourezk, Michelle Abraham, Tara Abraham,

Teresa Abraham, Beth Abrahamson, Alham

Abuatiq, Rose Abu-Sharkh, Christian Acevedo,

Srijana Acharya, Cheryl Achbach, Sarah

Achterhoff, Linda Ackerman, Pamela Acker-

man, Anne Ackerman, Katelyn Ackerman,

Connie Ackermann, Jessica Ackley, Melanie

Acosta, Logan Adamek, Mary Adams, Annette

Adams, Jody Adams, Nichole Adams, Kathryn

Adams, Svetlana Adams, Ashley Adams, Kristi

Adams, Kyra Adams, Nina Adams, Bryan

Adams, Brittany Adams, MaryAnn Adams-

Gregson, Sarah Adamson, Michelle Adamson,

Rhonda Aday, Harvey Addengast, Carrie

Addengast, Richard Addengast, Kristi Addink,

Mary Adebayo, Oluwatoyin Adebayo, Cassidy

Adee, Ebun Adelona, Corinne Ader, Soniya

Adhikari, Sarah Adkins, Jennifer Adkison,

Debra Adler, Jessica Adler, Robyn Adler,

Kami Adler, Kayla Adler, Jacquelyn Adolph,

Heather Adolph, Cleina Adriano, Kristin Aeilts,

Heather Aesoph, Margaret Aesoph, Cas-

sandra Aesoph, Jessica Afa, Maretta Afraid of

Bear, Heidi Aga, Rose Sheila Marie Agbada,

Deborah Agbeniyi, Cheryl Ageton, McKaela

Aghbashian, Delores Aguilar, Denise Aguirre,

Susan Ahlers, Holly Ahlers, Chelsey Ahlers,

Sarah Ahlers, Dayna Ahlers, Regan Ahlers,

Sheila Ahmed, Michelle Ahnberg, Laura Aho,

Anita Ahrendt, Sarah Ahrendt, Amanda

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Ainslie, Kristina Ainsworth, Danielle Akason,

Dawn Akbari, Tia Akers, Natalie Akins, Sharon

Akland, Lisa Akley, William Akot, Dzigbordi

Akpoblu, Cynthia Akula, Shari Alarie, Heidi

Alban, Paterno Albas.

Karen Albers, Jana Albers, Kristy Albers,

Kimberly Albers, Meaghan Albers, Lauren

Albers, Diana Albers, Alise Albers, Nicole Al-

bert, Alissa Alberts, Emily Albertsen, Linda

Albertz, Austie Albrecht, Frances Albrecht,

Darcy Albrecht, Gail Albrecht, Amy Albrecht,

Leah Albrecht, Courtney Albrecht, Michelle

Alcantar, Christian Aldaz, Kathryn Alderdice,

Joyce Alderson, Bonnie Aldinger, Amy Aldren,

Kacey Aldren, Cynthia Aldrich, April Aldrich,

Kelsey Aldrich, Aaron Aldrich, Mary Aldridge,

Amy Alexander, Rene Alexander, Jamie Alex-

ander, Kelly Alexander, Jack Alexander,

Sydnee Alexander, Melida Alfaro, Annette

Alfredson, Debora Alickson, Lisa Alishouse,

Catherine Allan, Leslie Allard, Daniel Allard,

Bridget Allen, Lisa Allen, Ann Allen, Stephen

Allen, Lori Allen, Cheryl Allen, Amber Allen,

Desirae Allen, Alta Allen, Tanya Allerdings,

Troy Alley, Justene Alley, Madison Allin,

Kendra Allington, Amanda Allison, Jennifer

Allmendinger, Kim Allsop, Cordetta Almanza,

Jesse Alons, Krystal Alquist, Allen Alsdorf,

Jolene Alsobrook, Alexa Altena, Jordin Altena,

Kay Althoff, Julia Althoff, Rebecca Althoff, Ni-

cole Altman, Illianna Altstiel, Trevor John Alva-

rez, Daniela Alvarez, Linda Alvey, Darrel

Alvey, Brenda Alvine, Barbara Aman, Debra

Aman, Jane Aman, Audra Aman, Lea Aman,

Aikins Amanor, Carla Amatos, Beth Amble,

Janet Ambur, Shirley Amburn, Marcia Amdahl,

Amber Amdahl, Leanne Amdahl, Logan

Amdahl, Kathy Amerson, Carolyn Ames, Jea-

nette Amiotte, Richard Amiotte, Betty

Ammann, Tabitha Ammann, Gladys Ammann,

Judith Amo, Joseph Amo, Kyaera Amo, Aero

Amo, Micah Amos, Bridget Amos, Caleb

Amos, Gary Amos III, Nicole Amundson, Kelly

Amundson, Olivia Amundson, Devin

Amundson, Brooke Amundson, Betsy

Amundson, Jethro Elmer Ancog, Joni Andal,

Nicholas Andal, Anthony Andera, Toni Anders,

Emily Andersen, Susan Andersen, Vicki An-

dersen, Brenda Andersen, Caroline Andersen,

Jennifer Andersen, Amy Andersen, Suzanne

Andersen, Molly Andersen, Emily Andersen,

Janis Anderson, Carol Anderson, Lorraine An-

derson, Doris Anderson, Peggy Anderson,

Danna Anderson, Linda Anderson, Kathleen

Anderson, Michelle Anderson, Janet Ander-

son, Dawnette Anderson, Tamera Anderson,

Heidi Anderson, Vickee Anderson, Joanne An-

derson, Karla Anderson, Valerie Anderson,

Patricia Anderson, Dale Anderson, Laure An-

derson, Mary Anderson, Lynn Anderson, Cheri

Anderson, Stephanie Anderson, Diane Ander-

son, Jada Anderson, Jamey Anderson, Emily

Anderson, Judi Anderson, Carla Anderson,

Valerie Anderson, Desirae Anderson, Christy

Anderson, Alyssa Anderson, Lori Anderson.

Andrea Anderson, Samantha Anderson,

Rose Anderson, Angelina Anderson, Dora An-

derson, Amanda Anderson, Valerie Anderson,

Alison Anderson, Jennifer Anderson, Jamy An-

derson, Kayla Anderson, Ryan Anderson,

Todd Anderson, Kyle Anderson, Major Ander-

son, Rachel Anderson, Heather Anderson,

Megan Anderson, Brittany Anderson, Irene

Anderson, Kelsey Anderson, Amanda Ander-

son, Rachel Anderson, Voni Anderson,

Shanna Anderson, Carrie Anderson, Natalie

Anderson, Kelly Anderson, Angela Anderson,

Kristin Anderson, Kalin Anderson, Katelyn An-

derson, Jacob Anderson, Kariline Anderson,

Mallory Anderson, Megan Anderson, Darbi An-

derson, Taylor Anderson, Kaitlyn Anderson,

Arlene Anderson, Morgan Anderson, Courtney

Anderson, Melinda Anderson, Anna Anderson,

Samantha Anderson, Theresa Anderson, Pau-

line Anderson, Katie Anderson, Kelsey Ander-

son, Hannah Anderson, Lucas Anderson, Eli-

jah Anderson, Madison Anderson, Stacy An-

derson, Matthew Anderson, Lynne Anderson

Brumbaugh, Cynthia Anderson Menning, Kath-

ryn Anderus, Tessa Andes-Mitchel, Cathy

Andre, Amy Andress, Jeffrey Andrews, Brenda

Andrews, Michelle Andrews, Lisa Andrews,

Ashlie Andrews, Felicia Andrews, Corina

Anema, Sarah Angelo, Corinne Angelos, Jean

Angerhofer, Julie Anglin, Mallory Anglin, Patri-

cia Annetts, Shandel Anson, Megan Anthofer,

Holly Anthony, Tony Anthony, Rochelle

Antoine, Emily Antonsen, Sarah Antonson,

Luann Antrobus, Kalene Anundson, Ijeoma

Anyaogu Iweajunwa, Jacee Apland, Audrey

Appel, Israel Appel, Cassie Applegate, Amy

Appletoft, Samira Arabzadeh, Alicia Arango,

Selma Arapovic, Jose Araujo, Trina Arbach,

Waneta Arbach, Debbie Arbogast, Andrea

Archambeau, Heather Archer, Amanda Archer,

Joelle Archer, Christi Ardis, Rebecca Arend,

Megan Arend, Alisa Arend, Robin Arends, Erin

Arends, Lorie Arens, Valerie Arens, Tina

Arens, Joelle Arguello, Holly Arlaud, Vicki Arlt,

Deborah Arlt, Jonathan Arlt, Lulu Ariton, Jen-

nifer Armbrust, Spencer Arment, Karen Arm-

strong, Dawn Armstrong, Linda Armstrong,

Glenn Armstrong, Elizabeth Arndt, Stephanie

Arndt, Keri Arnesen, Ashley Arneson, Kayla

Arnold, Kathy Arnold-DiDomenico, Sonia

Arnoldy, Mary Arntz, Sarah Arp, Trevor Arrow-

smith, Shaun Arsaga, Ervy Arsenal, Angela

Arseneau, Tawny Arthur, Melissa Arthur,

Stephanie Arthur, Brenda Artrip, Afton Artz,

Abigail Artz, Heidi Arvidson, Erin Asche, Emily

Ascher, Kathlene Asetamy, Thomas Asfeldt,

Carly Asheim, Mariah Asheim, Wendy Asher,

Jean Ashley, Jessie Ashley.

Alexander Ask, Kristen Aske, Amy Askew,

Jane Aspaas, Chelaine Asscherick, Catherine

Assid, David Assid, Therese Assman, Jayce

Assman, Rebecca Aston, Lori Atkins,

Samantha Atkins, Hannah Atkinson, Lisa

Atnip, Nakfa Atsemet, Natalie Atteberry, Anna

Atteberry-Gustafson, Karla Attema, Michelle

Auch, Laurie Auch, Lynette Auch, Jodie Auch,

Jenna Auch, Lindsey Auch, Marie Auch, Stacy

Auch White, Paula Audiss, Ashley Audiss,

Morgan Aughenbaugh, Katie Augspurger,

Jillian Augustad, Stephanie Augustin, Nancy

Augustine, Mary Augustine, Megan Augustine,

Paige Auker, Mary Aukerman, Jessica Ault,

Sarah Aurich, Kyrsten Aus, Sarah Ausdemore,

Cheryl Auseth, Tammy Austad, Kathleen

Austennan, Amanda Austennan, Emily

Austennan, Jacqueline Austennan, Jill Austin,

Sheila Austin, Cynthia Austin, Morgan Austin,

Kelly Avery, Kim Awadallah, Aveen Aware,

Brenda Axemaker, Timaree Axlund, Laura

Axsom, Gerald Axsom, Renee Axtell, Mikayla

Axtell, Reed Aylor, Justin Aylward, Margaret

Aylward, Sherry Mae Azzouqa, Joshua Baade,

Holli Baan Hofman, Kim Baartman, Laura

Baatz, Julie Babb, Roberta Bach, Charlotte

Bachman, Renee Bachman, Lori Bachmeier,

Amber Bachtell, Sarah Bachtell, Diane Backer,

Stephanie Backer, Debra Backes, Jayne

Backes, Joy Backes, Caley Backes, Shelbi

Backhaus, Debra Backman, Shannon

Backstrom, Mary Backus, Lucy Backward, Gail

Bacon, Abby Bacon, Madison Bacon, Carey

Baczwaski, Melissa Bader, Denise Badger,

Tricia BadMilk, Dawn Badwound, Tamara

Baer, Emily Baertsch, Kathleen Baerwaldt,

Sheila Baez, Svetlana Bagguns, Erin Bahr,

Courtney Baier, Jane Bailey, Yvonne Bailey,

Vicki Bailey, Jean Bailey, Alison Bailey, San-

dra Bailey, Angela Bailey, Jaime Bailey, Jacey

Bailey-Janousek, Jeanne Baillie, Camille

Bailous, Charlotte Bain, Pamela Bain, Brittany

Bain, Brittany Bainbridge, Dawn Baird, Re-

becca Baird, Susan Bak, Ashli Bak, Adrienne

Bak, Mary Baker, Andrew Baker, Susan

Baker, Anita Baker, Maneen Baker, Cherry

Baker, Andrea Baker, Melinda Baker, Kristine

Baker, Heather Baker, Amber Baker, Elizabeth

Baker, Stephanie Baker, June Marie Baker,

Denise Baker-Oyen, Sabrina Bakke, Suzanne

Bakken, Susan Bakker, Jada Bakker,

Samantha Bakker, Rebecca Bakker, Nicholas

Balaoing, Kathleen Balcom, Jennifer Bald,

Sandra Baldwin, Judy Baldwin, Sheryl Bald-

win, Janis Baldwin, Jodi Baldwin, Angelica

Baldwin, Riza Mae Balinos, Becky Ball,

Kristen Ball, Scott Ball.

Brock Ball, Kathy Ballard, Rachel Ballard,

Brett Ballard, Bailey Ballinger, Lenna Ballman,

Kristin Baloun, Kelly Baloun, April Baloun,

Rhonda Baltezore, Glenda Balthazor, Lori

Baltzer, Nancy Balvin, Paul Balzer, Terri

Bambas, Nicole Bamberg, Dorothy Bamsey,

Deborah Banik, Roshani Baniya, Teresa

Bannwarth, Francoise Bansenga, Elissa

Banuelos, Charity Baptista, Denise Baragar,

Yamuna Baral, May Lani Baraya, Angelo

Barbaruolo, Kimberly Barber, Katie Barber,

Cora Jo Barber, Jennifer Barber, Heidi Barber,

Cori Barber, Anastasia Barber, Jill Barch,

Linda Barck, Seth Barck, Sonia Barcus, Jef-

frey Bard, Karley Bardeson, Denise Bardwell,

Chad Bare, Vickie Barfuss, Stephanie

Bargmann, Laura Barkema, Lisa Barlow-

Kutter, Traci Barnable, David Barnes, Terrie

Barnes, Jolene Barnes, Wylie Barnes, Brandi

Barnes, Stacy Barnes, Morgan Barnes,

McKenna Barness, Amy Barnett, Jodie

Barnett, James Barnett, Shawn Barnett,

Ludmila Barnett, Joseph Barnett, Rachel

Barnett, Jason Barnhard, Tanya Barnhart,

Jennifer Barnhart, Ashley Barnhart, Jacquelyn

Barondeau, Janet Barondeau, Amy Barr,

Danielle Barr, Kimberly Barr, April Barrett, Ann

Marie Barrett Martin, Vanessa Barrie, Heather

Barrie, Jared Barrie, Brittany Barron, Amanda

Barry, Jaymi Barry, Mary Barry, Dallas Barry,

Julia Barse, Jennifer Barse, Caasha Barse,

Christopher Bartek, Megan Bartek, Nicole

Bartel, Natalie Bartel, Jennifer Bartel, Paula

Bartels, Martin Bartels, Judy Bartels, Kasey

Bartels, Tricia Bartels, Jill Bartels, Tristin

Bartels, Sherrie Barth, Lindsey Barthel, Lind-

say Barthel, Pamela Barthle, Richard Bartl,

Sara Bartlett, Kathryn Bartlett, Catherine

Bartling, Cheryl Bartling, Kayla Bartnick, Blake

Barton, Sara Barton, Tracy Barton-Opdahl,

Mary Bartscher, Ann Bartscher, Jynna

Bartscher, Antoinette Bartunek, Alexis

Bartunek, Kari Bartz, Leanna Basham, Susan

Bass, Susan Bassett, Janine Bassett, Holly

Bassett, Pamela Bastemeyer, Barbara Basye,

Rita Baszler, Ashley Baszler, Janice Batbatan,

Katie Bates, Nanci Bates, Peyton Bates,

Karlee Bathke, LeAnn Batiz, Amy Batta,

Stephanie Battell, Tori Batterman, Elissa

Battin, Abbie Batty, Danijela Batula, Jackie

Bau, Suzanne Bauder, Kandy Bauder, Eliza-

beth Bauer, Carmen Bauer, Deann Bauer,

Valerie Bauer, Nancy Bauer, Deanna Bauer,

Trintje Bauer, Tracy Bauer, Brandie Bauer,

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Elizabeth Bauer, Sarah Bauer, Laura Bauer,

Jill Bauer, Bridgette Bauer, Carly Bauer, Sarah

Bauer, Hannah Bauer, Lindsey Bauerle, Jes-

sica Bauers, Karen Baukol, Myrna Bauman.

Mary Bauman, Judy Bauman, Marty

Bauman, Dee Bauman, Bridget Bauman, Jes-

sica Bauman, Randi Bauman, Mallory

Bauman, Ferris Bauman, Cecily Bauman,

Zachary Bauman, David Bauman, Samantha

Bauman, Susan Baumann, Julie Baumberger,

Jenna Baumberger, David Baumberger,

Alyssa Baumberger, Julie Baumgard, Megan

Baumgart, Vicky Baumgartner, Krin

Baumgartner, Brooke Baumgartner, Diane

Baumiller, Alicia Baumiller, Robert Baune,

Brenda Bawdon, Idella Bawdon, Susan

Bawdon, Brittnee Bawek, Tammy Bawinkel,

Patricia Baxter, Linda Bay, Lori Baye, Joan

Karen Bayocot, Amy Baysinger, John

Bazemore, Joan Beach, Caitlin Beacom, Shel-

ley Beagle, Lori Beaird, Madeline Beal, Crystal

Beam, Jessica Bean, Rita Beaner, Sharon

Beardt, Thomas Beare, Kyla Bearheels, Paula

Bearman, Lori Bearshield, Lynn Beasley,

Tamra Beaton, Corissa Beattie, Krista

Beauchamp, Laura Beauchamp, Leslie

Beaudette, Jolene Beaudette, Lidya

Beaugendre, Tristan Beaulieu, Suzanne Beau-

mont, Carla Beavers, Linda Bebbington, Sylvia

Bebo, Rachelle Bebo, Rosalie Bechen, Jill

Bechen, Wrena Bechen, Jacqueline Becht,

Jodine Becht-Cook, Leah Bechtel, Dawn

Bechtold, Kimberly Bechtold, Glea Beck, Kim-

berly Beck, Kristi Beck, Anita Beck, Deborah

Beck, Holly Beck, Erin Beck, Abbey Beck,

Sara Beck, Dominique Beck, Laramie Beck,

and Kayla Beck.

Over the past year they have faced chal-

lenges most of us cannot even imagine. They

have shown incredible resolve in the face of

adversity. They have shown us all how to

seek positivity and hope in each day as we

weather the storms that come our way.

I couldn’t be more thankful to represent the

incredible people across South Dakota and all

over the nation who work hard each day, not

for fame, not for recognition or for money, but

for the betterment of their communities. This is

what makes America strong. I am grateful for

the opportunity to recognize these hard-

working individuals.

IN RECOGNITION OF HOUSTON-

TOWN AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE

COMPANY

HON. JOHN JOYCE

OF PENNSYLVANIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Madam Speak-

er, I rise today to honor the Houstontown Area

Volunteer Fire Company for its dedication and

service to our community.

Dating back to its establishment in 1966, the

Houstontown Area Volunteer Fire Company

has a long history of serving the community.

As an act of kindness amid the ongoing

COVID–19 pandemic, the department assem-

bled and distributed 648 boxes of food, includ-

ing fresh produce, milk, dairy, and cooked

meats, to the Houstontown community. Fire-

fighters generously delivered boxes to

Houstontown residents who are homebound

and could not participate in drive-through op-

portunities.

This vital food drive was made possible

through the USDA Farmers to Families pro-

gram, which was established as part of the

CARES Act. The fire company humbly noted

the food distribution was a small thank you to

the community who has continued to offer

their support throughout this past year.

During these trying times, I am grateful for

the work of the Houstontown Area Volunteer

Fire Company and pray for their continued

safety and success.

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2021

SPEECH OF

HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Ms. ESHOO. Madam Speaker, I voted with

great pride for the Violence Against Women

Act when it originally passed the House in

1994. Since then we have made great strides

to end gendered violence, but our work is not

done.

This reauthorization supports critical efforts

to end the scourge of violent acts committed

against women by bolstering resources for

survivors, strengthening healthcare for sur-

vivors, improving conditions for women in cus-

tody, closing the law enforcement consent

loophole, and much more.

We are debating this bill during a particu-

larly difficult time for women because the pan-

demic has forced victims to be home with their

abusers.

This reality underscores the urgency with

which Congress must act by fully funding and

reauthorizing VAWA.

IN SPECIAL RECOGNITION OF OT-

TAWA-GLANDORF HIGH SCHOOL

AS THE DIVISION III STATE

GIRLS BASKETBALL CHAMPION-

SHIP RUNNER-UP

HON. ROBERT E. LATTA

OF OHIO

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. LATTA. Madam Speaker, it is with a

great deal of pride that I rise to pay a very

special tribute to an outstanding high school

basketball team in Ohio’s Fifth Congressional

District. The young women of the Ottawa-

Glandorf High School girls basketball team

have represented their school ably on their

way to becoming the Runner Up in the Divi-

sion III State Girls Basketball Championship

tournament. The Ottawa-Glandorf Titans over-

came the challenges of intense competition on

the path to reach the championship playoffs,

capping off an outstanding season with their

noteworthy performance.

In the state final game, the Ottawa-Glandorf

Titans faced the Hiland Hawks. The Titans

played an impressive final game that high-

lighted the teamwork they have demonstrated

throughout their trip to the playoffs. Each

member of this very special team has shown

the individual effort that their sport requires for

a successful team result. As a direct con-

sequence of their hard work and dedication,

both on and off the court, they achieved an

impressive season record that brought pride to

their community.

Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join

me in paying special tribute to the Ottawa-

Glandorf High School girls basketball team.

On behalf of the people of the Fifth District of

Ohio, I am proud to recognize this great

achievement.

HONORING AMBASSADOR H.

DOUGLAS BARCLAY

HON. ANDREW R. GARBARINO

OF NEW YORK

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. GARBARINO. Madam Speaker, I rise

today to honor the incredible life and legacy of

former New York State Senator and former

U.S. Ambassador, H. Douglas ‘‘Doug’’ Bar-

clay.

Ambassador Barclay dedicated his life to

private and public service to New Yorkers,

Americans, and citizens of the world. Born and

raised in the Empire State, Ambassador Bar-

clay attended St. Paul’s School and Yale Uni-

versity before serving in the U.S. Army. Fol-

lowing his honorable discharge from the

armed services, Ambassador Barclay grad-

uated from Syracuse University College of

Law, and practiced law at a Syracuse law firm

before pursuing a life of public service.

First elected to the New York State Senate

in 1964, Ambassador Barclay honorably

served for twenty years, championing efforts in

criminal justice, court reform and economic

development. In 2003, President George W.

Bush nominated, and the U.S. Senate con-

firmed him as U.S. Ambassador to the Repub-

lic of El Salvador.

I will always cherish the times I spent with

Ambassador Barclay and his son Will, a dear

friend of mine. Whether meeting up at political

functions in New York City or having lunch

with Will at our favorite Thai restaurant in Al-

bany, I always enjoyed hearing Ambassador

Barclay share his inspiring stories from a life-

time of service.

Whether serving in uniform, in the New York

State Senate, or as an Ambassador, Ambas-

sador Barclay always put the interest of New

Yorkers and Americans first. Ambassador Bar-

clay was a true statesman and a once-in-a-

generation example of what it means to be a

public servant. I join the State of New York in

mourning the loss and celebrating the im-

mense legacy of one of our state’s greatest.

IN RECOGNITION OF KAYLA

OSTRICHE

HON. JOHN JOYCE

OF PENNSYLVANIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Madam Speak-

er, I rise today to congratulate Kayla Ostriche

on receiving an Honorable Mention Award at

the 2021 Central PA Scholastic Art and Writ-

ing Competition.

Kayla attends Bermudian Springs High

School near York Springs, Pennsylvania and

is passionate about art. Her mixed media art

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piece garnered her the Honorable Mention

Award at the 2021 Central PA Scholastic Art

and Writing Competition, which was first es-

tablished in 1923 to support teenage artists

and writers.

Congratulations to Kayla on this remarkable

achievement, and I wish her continued suc-

cess as she pursues her love of art.

HONORING THE IDAHO NATIONAL

GUARD

HON. RUSS FULCHER

OF IDAHO

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. FULCHER. Madam Speaker, I am hon-

ored and humbled to acknowledge the service

provided to our Nation’s Capital by the men

and women of the Idaho National Guard. The

presence of ldaho’s Army and Air Guard con-

tributed to the safety of our legislative process.

I am so thankful to be blessed by the always

optimistic American spirit that guides this di-

vinely inspired country. Not only did our Guard

protect the U.S. Capitol, they also protected

the Members, staff, and employees of the leg-

islative branch, and the constitutional process

we follow. Idaho’s National Guard worked

alongside the Capitol Police and other law en-

forcement personnel to ensure that constitu-

tional process could move forward uninter-

rupted. I extend my gratitude and include in

the R

ECORD

the names of the men and

women of the 124th Fighter Wing and the

101st Civil Support Team:

ARMY

SGT Edouart Achana, SPC Johnathan Ad-

amson, SSG Daniel Alvarado, SPC Neil An-

derson, LTC Stephen Arnett, SGT Cody

Arteaga, PFC Cameron Baay, SPC Kassidy

Badertscher, SGT Joseph Bailey, SPC Jason

Barber, SPC Leonardo Barrera, SGT Joseph

Barsotti, CPT Brian Becktel, SPC Kyle

Beeson, SGT Brandon Bell, SGT Peter Ben-

nett, PFC Wolfgang Bennion, SGT Kyle

Bernaiche, SPC Dereck Berry, SPC Bradley

Blackstock, SGT Luke Blanchard, 1LT Alex-

ander Blazek, SGT Nathan Blazek, 1LT Mat-

thew Bobst, SPC Simonne Boice, CPL Dale

Bolinger, SGT Geoffrey Boncz, SPC Dylan

Bourgard, SGT Brennan Bradley, SFC Aaron

Bray, SGT Corey Brinton, SGT Jacob

Briscoe, SGT Kassandra Brown, SPC Sean

Brown, SGT Tyler Brown, SPC Justin

Bunderson, SPC Noah Burgess, SGT Josiah

Butterworth, SFC Juan Calderon Perez, PFC

Ammon Cardon, SPC Thomas Christensen,

1LT Chase Conner, SFC Marshall Cook, SPC

Gavin Copple, PFC Hannah Couch, SPC

Christopher Cowling, SSG Christopher Cox,

SPC Garrett Crane, SPC Tyler Crawford,

SPC Thomas Crowe, PFC Lauren Cummins,

SGT Martin Cummins, PFC Dylan Dasilva,

SFC Zechariah Dean, SPC Michael Delane,

SPC Baptiste Delannoy, SGT Donovan

Delcambre, SGT Jose Delgado, PFC Dellas

Dewit, SPC Daniel Diego, SPC Bryce Dlouhy,

SGT Hilda Duarte, PV2 Matthew Duff, 2LT

Christian Duplessie, SPC Nicholas Eblin,

SGM Nicholas Edwards, SPC Jonathan Egan,

SPC Jason Eggers, ISG Robert Eggimann,

SSG Benjamin Egley.

CPT Vaughn Ellsworth, SSG Maurica

Erne, SPC Loghan Eschenbrenner, SPC Mar-

garita Espinoza-Henscheid, CPL Nathan

Evans, SGT Ginger Exner, SPC Rodney Fair-

child, SPC Matthew Farrias, SPC Kody Fen-

ton, SPC Brennan Ferguison, SPC Keagan

Florence, 2LT Thomas Foltz, PFC Talon

Freeman, SGT Paige Fritz, PFC Kelden

Fullmer, SFC William Gallagher, SGT Judd

Gallaher, SGT Mathew Gibson, PFC Leonard

Ginepra, PFC Christian Gomez, SPC Mirayah

Gomez, 2LT Devon Gonzales, SPC Angel

Gonzalez, SGT Dale Granger, SGT Jaslyn

Greco, PV2 James Gregory, SSG Jefferson

Griffeath, SSG James Griffin, SGT

Epigmenio Guillen, SGT Gary Gutierrez,

PFC Trace Hadley, 1SG Andrew Hall, SPC

Renn Hambright, SSG Jacob Hansen, SPC

Walker Harris, SSG Howard Hawkins, PFC

Dacota Haws, SPC Kyle Haynie, SPC

Lowman Hendricks, PFC Eric Hernandez,

SPC Roman Herrin, PV2 Sierra Hillman,

SPC Nathan Hirschi, SPC Jewell Hobbs, SGT

Corey Hollis, SSG Cameron Hoover, CPL

Wesley Hopkins, SPC Kennon Hornbeck,

SGT Matthew Hotvedt, PFC Logan Howell,

SPC Cody Huft, SSG Nicole Huston (Fisch-

er), SGT Chase Hutchinson, PFC Ridge Ihler,

PFC Anastasiah Iturriria, SPC Sheridan Jen-

sen, 1LT Joshua Jessup, PFC Logan Johnson,

MAJ Robert Johnson, SGT Christopher

Jolley, SGT Jason Jones, SPC Kolten Jor-

dan, 1LT Tyler June, SPC Haylee Kelley,

SGT Patrick Kelley, SSG Brandon Kil-

patrick, CPT Zachary Kimball, SPC Lacy

Kindred, SPC Brayden Kirby, SGT Igor

Kirdanov, PFC Colton Kress, PV2 Valerie

Landeros-Marquez.

SGT Cole Lawson, SGT Joshua Leavitt,

SPC Chad Leneham, SPC Jacob Lerch, 1LT

Thomas Lewis, SPC Robert Lian, SGT Wyatt

Lish, SGT Seth Llorens, SPC Lester Lonian,

SGT Aaron Lower, SFC William Lower, 1LT

Megan Mabey, SGT Ian Acgregor, SGT Eli-

jah Mainini, SGT Kyle Manteca, PFC Alissa

Mayorga, SGT Chicody Mays, CPT Jessica

McBride, MAJ John Fredrick McDaniel, SSG

Troy McDonald, SGT Tristan McKinlay, SSG

Nathaniel McKinney, SGT Jarred McLain,

SPC Alyssa Mecham, SPC Dayne Mechsner,

SFC Alfred Meckel, SPC Robert Messerli,

PV2 Seth Metcalf, SGT Christopher Mills,

SGT Gregory Monday, CPT Michael Mont-

gomery, SGT Eli Morgan, SPC Halli Morris,

COL Robert Morris, CPL Aidan Morton, SSG

Cade Murdock, 1LT Nathan Napper, PFC

Konner Narus, SPC Kaden Nelson, SPC Marc

Nimz, SGT Christian Noah, PFC Adenike

Okunuga, SPC Koty Olson, SPC William

Orozcoherrera, SFC Jeremy Otstot, SPC

Jared Packer, SGT Selia Palomo, SPC Ben-

jamin Parrish, SSG Cody Patterson, SSG

Shane Paye, PFC Ana Perez, SPC Nathaniel

Peters, SGT Thomas Peters, SPC Brett

Peterson, PFC Zachary Peterson, SSG

Michaela Phillips, PFC Ryan Poulson, SPC

Benjamin Price, 1SG Brian Prochnow, SPC

Jesse Pugh, 1LT Stephen Pyper, SGT Mar-

iana Ruthlita-Quitugua, PFC Leonor Rangel,

SPC Tyler Redd, SGT Charles Rice, SSG

Erin Robertson, PFC Trevor Robertson, SPC

Caleb Robinson, SGT Colton Sabala, CPL

Ryan Sandeen, SGT Rachel Schmitz, SSG

Josiah Schneider

2LT Victoria Schuler, SSG James

Schumacher, SFC Raliegh Scott, SSG Mi-

chael Scovil, SGT Jhoan Seguragama, SPC

Ryan Severson, SGT Emily Snodderly, CPT

Lon Souder, CPT Rodney Steinmetz, SPC

Joshua Stepanek, SPC Spencer Story, SFC

Brian Strub, SPC Kyle Svetich, PFC Bailee

Swanson, PV2 Ryder Talley, PFC Gage

Tarter, SPC Joseph Tate, LTC Christina

Taylor, 1LT Ian Hunter Thorpe, SFC Albert

Vanderlaan, SPC Jaten Vandiver, SGT Mi-

chael Vansoelenmorse, SGT Christopher

Villalobos, SPC Ethan Waldron, PFC Beau

Ward, PFC Dylan Waters, SGT Edmund

Webb, PFC Camren Weeks, SSG Michael

Weeks, SGT Bastian Weikl, SGT Joseph

White, SSG Mitchell Wilder, 1SG Brannon

Williams, SSG Evan Williams, PFC Carter

Wilson, SGT Thomas Wright, SSG Kurt

Young, 1SG Dennis Zuchelkowski, SSG Mar-

tin Zurita.

AIR FORCE

TSgt William Anderson, SrA Jeffrey

Aronson, 1Lt Brett Becklund, SrA Joseph

Bedford, 1Lt Erica Bermensolo, SrA Brandon

Blum, TSgt Lindsay Call, SSgt Tommy

Camunas, SrA Jennifer Childers, SrA Jordan

Coursey, SrA Tat Czudak, SrA Jared Durbin,

SrA Cody Eisenbrandt, Maj Matt Gabica,

SrA Jonathon Goodell, TSgt William Gower,

TSgt Kenneth Hallett, SSgt Miles Harper,

MSgt Robert Haun, SrA John Heideman,

MSgt David Heitzman, SSgt Micah Hilbish,

SSgt Geoffrey Hurner, MSgt Steven Jackson,

MSgt Daniel Johnson, TSgt Jeremy John-

son, A1C Jamon Kay, MSgt Branden

Kochanowicz, SrA Satoshi Kondo, AlC For-

est Leavitt, SrA Shannan Leger, TSgt Wil-

liam Lewis, SSgt Mitchell Mansfield, SrA

Brock Markwell, SrA Dillon Mishler, SrA

Abraham Mitchell, SSgt Jeffrey Novak,

TSgt Robert Pankowski, TSgt Nicolas Peter-

son, Maj Michael Porter, SrA Joshua Pyette,

TSgt Kyle Root, A1C Jayden Sanchez, MSgt

Calvin Schmidt, SSgt Spencer Seal, A1C

Maxwell Squire, MSgt Lance Stevens, A1C

Hunter Syruws, A1C Caleb Tenney, SSgt

Bryan Warren, TSgt Matthew Wernsing SSgt

Hailie Wilds, TSgt Kyle Young, SrA

Johnathon Zinnecker.

COMMEMORATING THE 20TH

ANNIVERSARY OF MYFICO.COM

HON. DEAN PHILLIPS

OF MINNESOTA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. PHILLIPS. Madam Speaker, I rise today

to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of

myFICO.com.

Two decades ago, on March 19, 2001,

FICO, a pioneer in the development of credit

scoring, launched an online website,

myFICO.com, recognizing the need for greater

transparency and education in the consumer

credit empowerment space. my FICO.com

quickly became a go-to destination for con-

sumers accessing their credit reports, FICO

Scores and FICO Score explanation. More im-

portantly, the site became a resource for any

consumer to receive free educational informa-

tion and tools that help individuals better un-

derstand what actions impact their overall

credit health.

Over this time, the site developed myFICO

Forums, a robust crowd source community,

which has become a valuable free resource

for consumers to get unfettered credit-related

information from their peers. The site now

contains a popular blog as well as a series of

credit education videos.

Understanding credit scores and developing

financial literacy is not an easy pursuit. For 20

years, myFICO has been assisting millions of

people become educated consumers and gain

access to credit to enhance their lives.

Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join

me in celebrating myFICO’s twenty years of

contributions to our constituents and commu-

nities.

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CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF ROD

SLYHOFF, PRESIDENT/CEO,

PUEBLO CHAMBER OF COM-

MERCE

HON. LAUREN BOEBERT

OF COLORADO

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mrs. BOEBERT. Madam Speaker, on Mon-

day, March 1, 2021, the city of Pueblo lost a

community leader and business champion with

the passing of Rod Slyhoff. Mr. Slyhoff started

at the Chamber in 1988 and served as an ac-

count representative, membership director,

Vice President of Membership and Small Busi-

ness Development, and later became Presi-

dent/CEO in 1994.

As one of the city’s best advocates and

greatest boosters, he oversaw a period of

growth for the Chamber with membership ex-

panding from 800 to more than 1,300 mem-

bers.

Mr. Slyhoff’s accomplishments were remark-

able, and he led the Pueblo Chamber to be-

come a model for others across the West. He

helped strengthen Pueblo’s relationship with

one of its sister cities—Chihuahua, Mexico—

by developing trade exchanges of business

and tourism. He also advanced Pueblo’s busi-

ness agenda at the State Capitol and offered

solutions for improving the workforce to the

National Education Trust Conferences.

Always an advocate for others, Rod in-

creased the Chamber’s involvement with the

El Pomar Foundation and the Black, Latino

and Asian Emerging Leadership programs. He

also served as President of the Colorado

Chamber of Commerce Executives, a member

of the United Way of Pueblo board, and chair-

man of the Southern Colorado Business Part-

nership.

Mr. Slyhoff was recognized for his heartfelt

service to the community, and he was award-

ed the United Way Ambassador Award for Ex-

cellence, the Southern Colorado Press Club

Mel Harmon Community Award, and the Colo-

rado State University-Pueblo President’s Me-

dallion for Distinguished Service.

Rod Slyhoff encouraged local engagement,

facilitated cultural development, and spread

joy throughout the community by founding the

Pueblo Chile & Frijoles Festival in 1994 which

has brought as many as 150,000 people to

Pueblo annually. Because of Rod, the ‘‘Pueblo

Chile’’ is known throughout the world, and his

legacy will endure through the Festival every

year.

Mr. Slyhoff had a quick wit, was kind to ev-

eryone, and was beloved by his community.

He was quick to give a listening ear and offer

gentle advice. I want to take this opportunity to

celebrate his life and legacy and to offer my

deepest sympathies to his wife Alice, daugh-

ters Katrina and Marcy, and the rest of Rod’s

family and friends. May they find comfort in

the words of Scripture, ‘‘the Lord is close to

the brokenhearted.’’ God bless the memory of

Rod Slyhoff.

RECOGNITION OF STEVEN

GAUTSCH

HON. JOHN JOYCE

OF PENNSYLVANIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Madam Speak-

er, I rise today to congratulate Steven Gautsch

on winning the Silver Key and an Honorable

Mention Award at the 2021 Central PA Scho-

lastic Art and Writing Competition.

Steven attends Bermudian Springs High

School near York Springs, Pennsylvania and

is passionate about art. His photography has

garnered him two awards at the 2021 Central

PA Scholastic Art and Writing Competition,

which was first established in 1923 to support

teenage artists and writers.

Congratulations to Steven on this remark-

able achievement, and I wish him continued

success as he pursues his love of art.

HONORING MATT CONSTANTINE’S

RETIREMENT AS DIRECTOR OF

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES IN

KERN COUNTY

HON. KEVIN McCARTHY

OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. M

CARTHY. Madam Speaker, I rise

today, along with my colleague D

AVID

ALADAO

, to honor Matthew Constantine for

his nearly three decades of public service to

our community. After dedicating 27 years of

his life to government service, and protecting

the health and safety of the people of Kern

County, an area that I represent, Matt is con-

cluding his tenure this month as the Director

of Kern County Public Health Services Depart-

ment for Kern County, a position he has held

since 2009.

Matt was born and raised in Bakersfield,

California and earned both his bachelor’s and

graduate degree from California State Univer-

sity, Northridge. His family has had roots in

Bakersfield for five generations, and he has

worked at various levels of government, in-

cluding with the Federal Indian Health Service

and the State of California. In 2006, he was

hired as Kem County’s Director of Environ-

mental Services. In 2009, Matt spearheaded

the merger between two different departments

and became the Director of Public Health

Services for the county.

Matt had already informed the Kern County

Board of Supervisors of his intent to retire as

the Director of Public Health Services when

the Coronavirus pandemic hit. But instead of

retiring, Matt stayed on to serve our commu-

nity and began crafting a plan to reduce pa-

tient caseloads at local hospitals and keep the

people of Kern County healthy and safe. Dur-

ing his time with the Department of Public

Health Services, Matt always displayed leader-

ship, especially over the course of this stress-

ful past year, by balancing local needs with

state mandates while never shying away from

making tough decisions. Despite many early

days and long nights, Matt’s work ethic has

been critical for our local response to the

COVID–19 pandemic. This was exemplified by

the routine COVID–19 updates he gave to the

residents of the county over the last 12

months, and despite the State of California’s

constantly changing guidance for residents

and public health officials, Matt always had

one goal in mind—to create and execute a

plan to combat the transmission of the virus in

our community and keep mortality rates in

Kern County down until a vaccine was able to

be offered to every resident who wanted one.

Matt is more than just the leader of our local

public health response; he is an active mem-

ber of the Kern County community. He serves

on the board of the Greater Bakersfield Cham-

ber of Commerce and the Kern County Net-

work for Children, where his vision and exper-

tise have been influential in making decisions

and impacting others.

I always appreciated Matt’s insight and wis-

dom on the public health matters affecting our

community, and although we are going to miss

Matt, I am confident that his record of success

will continue to benefit our county for years to

come. On behalf of the people of the 23rd

Congressional District of California, and the

people of Kern County as a whole, I want to

thank Matt for his service to our community,

and I wish him only the best as he embarks

on the next chapter in his life.

CONDEMNING MILITARY COUP IN

BURMA

SPEECH OF

HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong

support of H. Res. 134, Condemning the mili-

tary coup that took place on February 1, 2021,

in Burma and the Burmese military detention

of civilian leaders, calling for the release of all

those detained and for those elected to serve

in Parliament to resume their duties, and for

other purposes. I’m proud to be an original co-

sponsor of this important resolution.

On February 1st the Burmese military

shocked the world when it launched a coup

against the democratically elected government

of State Councilor Aung San Suu Kyi, de-

clared a national state of emergency, and ar-

rested civilian members of the government.

Since the coup, chaos has gripped the

country. The military shut down the internet

and imposed martial law. The Burmese peo-

ple, insistent that their country continue down

the path toward democracy, have taken to the

streets to protest the military’s actions, and the

military has responded by killing at least 200

civilians, including more than 60 on Sunday,

March 14th, and arresting thousands.

As the oldest democracy in the world, the

United States must clearly and unequivocally

condemn the Burmese military’s brutal and au-

thoritarian crackdown and violence against its

own people. Burma has made significant

progress in transitioning toward democracy in

recent years, and it is heartbreaking to see

this progress squandered in the blink of an

eye.

I echo President Biden’s call for the Bur-

mese military to immediately relinquish power,

release detained officials, and refrain from

using violence against peaceful protesters. I

also support President Biden’s decision to im-

pose sanctions on military leaders in Burma

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and freeze $1 billion of their assets that are

held in the U.S., denying them access to

these funds.

This resolution not only condemns the Bur-

mese military, it sends a powerful message

that the House of Representatives, the peo-

ple’s house in the United States Congress,

stands firmly behind the courageous people of

Burma as they struggle to wrest democracy

and freedom from the hands of their authori-

tarian and corrupt military.

I’m proud to support this resolution and I

urge my colleagues to do the same.

IN SPECIAL RECOGNITION OF

PETER COLE BEING NAMED THE

OHIO PRINCIPAL OF THE YEAR

HON. ROBERT E. LATTA

OF OHIO

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. LATTA. Madam Speaker, I rise today to

recognize Mr. Peter Cole, Principal of Carey

Junior High and High School, for being named

the Ohio Principal of the Year by the Ohio As-

sociation of Secondary School Administrators

(OASSA). Mr. Cole, who is a former President

of the Board of Directors for the OASSA, is

characterized by fellow principals as a leader

who sees himself as a servant, not only for

Carey schools, but a vast number of school

districts as well.

Peter Cole graduated from Carey High

School in 1993. He received his bachelor’s de-

gree in music and a Master of Education in

Administration and Supervision from Bowling

Green State University. Principal Cole went on

to receive his Superintendent’s License from

the University of Findlay and Ashland Univer-

sity. Before becoming principal at Carey in

2007, he was band director at Hopewell-

Loudon and Oak Harbor schools.

During his time as an educator, Principal

Cole has strived to think outside the box and

create an environment for students to suc-

ceed. He promotes new ideas, rather than al-

ways relying on traditional methods to educate

his students. Principal Cole uses the term

‘‘servant leader’’ to describe his position at the

school because he feels his role is to serve

the students. He focuses on ensuring all of his

students are having a good experience during

their time at Carey schools. Principal Cole’s

contribution to Carey Junior High and High

School is seen in every action that he takes

for his school. His dedication is an example

for all of Ohio’s educational leaders.

Congratulations to Principal Peter Cole, on

being named the Ohio Principal of the Year.

IN RECOGNITION OF ELLA BLOOM

HON. JOHN JOYCE

OF PENNSYLVANIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Madam Speak-

er, I rise today to congratulate Ella Bloom on

winning the Gold Key Award at the 2021 Cen-

tral PA Scholastic Art and Writing Competition.

Ella attends Bermudian Springs High School

near York Springs, Pennsylvania and is pas-

sionate about art. Her drawing and illustration

of a French Horn garnered her the top award

at the 2021 Central PA Scholastic Art and

Writing Competition, which was first estab-

lished in 1923 to support teenage artists and

writers.

Congratulations to Ella on this remarkable

achievement, and I wish her continued suc-

cess as she pursues her love of art.

HONORING DR. MARGARET C.

‘‘PEG’’ SNYDER

HON. BARBARA LEE

OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Ms. LEE of California. Madam Speaker, I

rise to acknowledge and memorialize the leg-

acy of Dr. Margaret C. Snyder, referred to as

the ‘‘United Nations’ First Feminist’’, who died

on January 26, 2021 at the age of 91. I share

my sincere condolences and prayers with her

family, including her brother, Thomas Snyder.

Dr. Snyder, who went by ‘‘Peg’’, was a trail-

blazer whose passion and determination to

empower women transformed the U.N.’s

mechanisms of global development aid to in-

clude millions of women in Africa, Asia, and

Latin America. Dr. Snyder also worked to sup-

port women at the UN to move beyond being

restricted to secretarial roles to rise to join the

professional ranks within the organization.

Dr. Margaret Cecilia Snyder was born the

youngest of three children on January 30,

1929, in East Syracuse, New York. Her father,

Matthias, was a doctor, and her mother,

Cecilia (Gorman) Snyder, taught Latin and

German in a local high school. Peg graduated

from the College of New Rochelle in West-

chester County, New York in 1950. Two years

later she received a master’s degree in soci-

ology from the Catholic University of America

in Washington, D.C.

While working as the Dean of Women at Le

Moyne College, in Syracuse, she followed

John F. Kennedy’s call for young Americans to

volunteer overseas by taking a one year sab-

batical to work with volunteer organizations in

Tanganyika (which merged with Zanzibar to

become Tanzania in 1964) and Uganda.

Among other tasks, she arranged for African

students to attend college in the United

States—part of an effort known as ‘‘Kennedy

airlifts.’’

When her year ended, she quit her job at Le

Moyne and stayed in Africa, but she moved

home in 1965 to help run the East African

Studies program at Syracuse University. She

advised students from the region on their

graduate work, many of whom went on to hold

leadership positions in their countries—the first

threads of her continentwide network of part-

ners. In 1970, she returned to Tanzania to

complete her Ph.D. in sociology at the Univer-

sity of Dar es Salaam, having started pursuing

her degree in 1964.

Upon graduation in 1971, Peg joined the

United Nations Economic Commission for Afri-

ca (UNECA) as a co-founder of what became

the African Training and Research Center for

Women—the UN’s first major program di-

rected specifically at improving economic op-

portunities for women.

In 1978, she moved to New York City,

where she was put in charge of a develop-

ment fund focused on women, funded by vol-

untary contributions from member states. She

built the organization (renamed the U.N. De-

velopment Fund for Women or UNIFEM) from

operating on a shoestring budget to a global

powerhouse that served women not just in Af-

rica but across the developing world. By the

end of the 1980s, it had supported the cre-

ation of women’s development commissions in

30 countries, through which the U.N. chan-

neled millions of dollars to grassroots women’s

projects. It is now known as U.N. Women.

One of her first grants went to Kenya’s

Green Belt Movement, an anti-deforestation

initiative led by the late 2004 Nobel Laureate

for Peace and eventual close friend Wangari

Maathai.

After retiring from the United Nations in

1989, Dr. Snyder was a Fulbright Scholar in

Uganda and a Visiting Fellow at the School of

Public and International Affairs at Princeton

University. She also wrote or co-wrote three

books on women’s economic development in

Africa.

Peg continued to serve as an informal ad-

viser to the U.N. and advocate for a long list

of women activists and organizations, many of

whom she hosted at her apartment in New

York City. It was there, in 2006, that she

helped organize the Sirleaf Market Women’s

Fund, a program to rebuild markets across

post-civil war Liberia, named for Liberia and

Africa’s first female President Ellen Johnson

Sirleaf.

Dr. Peg Snyder’s legacy continues to bear

fruit. In 2021, women make up a significant

portion of the U.N. professional staff, and

women’s issues, including development, re-

main one of the organization’s focal points. In

her tribute to Dr. Snyder, Phumzile Mlambo-

Ngcuka, the Executive Director of UN Women,

assured the continuation of Peg Snyder’s leg-

acy for generations to come: ‘‘Her passing

comes at a point where the importance of

bringing women’s voices and skills to the fore-

front has never been more important for the

world’s ability to move ahead resiliently and

creatively. We thank her, honour her countless

contributions to women across the world, and

take forward her legacy.’’

We in the United States Congress com-

memorate Dr. Snyder’s work and legacy, and

stand ready to help carry on her work to help

women everywhere claim their rights and lift

up themselves, their communities and nations.

HONORING THE LIFE OF NORBERT

‘‘BUD’’ FAY

HON. JOE COURTNEY

OF CONNECTICUT

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. COURTNEY. Madam Speaker, I rise

today to observe and mourn the passing of a

talented businessman, veteran, husband, fa-

ther, and a patriotic Nutmegger through and

through—Norbert ‘‘Bud’’ Fay, of Groton, Con-

necticut. A pillar of southeastern CT, Bud

passed away at the age of 94 at his residence

on January 9, 2021.

While Bud has moved on—we now cherish

his life and the positive impact he had on the

lives of others and his hometown of Groton.

Born in 1927, Bud was civic minded early in

life and was always willing to lend a hand to

anyone in need. Bud’s commitment to his

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community and country translated into his en-

listment in the United States NAVY, serving

with the greatest generation in World War II as

a member of a Gun Crew on Merchant Tank-

ers. During the war, Bud flew for two compa-

nies that rebuilt war surplus aircraft. His her-

oism and iron will during World War II will al-

ways be remembered by us here in eastern

Connecticut and we cannot thank and appre-

ciate Bud enough for his commitment and sac-

rifice to our nation.

Upon his retirement from the military, Bud

set his sights on doing business in eastern

Connecticut—and the rest is history. With the

same vigor and passion he used to serve his

country—Bud quickly developed an entrepre-

neurial flare and started his first business, a

car dealership in Waterford. A natural busi-

nessman—Bud develop a rapport with the

local business community and even helped ini-

tiate the Groton Business Association which

exists to this day. With his ever-expanding

business acumen, Bud found his way into

working for Davis Standard in Pawcatuck and

joined the team that pioneered the early devel-

opment of plastic product machinery. Bud hit

the ground running as soon as he retired from

the NAVY. As testament to his energy and

hard work, he was once named National As-

sociation of Independent Businessmen’s New

England’s Small Businessman of the Year.

Later in life, Bud would go on to open a res-

taurant, laundromat, and other businesses

which he operated on Route 12 in Groton for

22 years. His restaurant ‘‘Pop and Mum’s’’

was a place where members of the NAVY

could grab a bite to eat and have a warm con-

versation with Bud where he would regale of

his experiences in the military and offer a

friendly ear. Bud was always there for the

local NAVY sailors when they needed him.

But to his core, Bud was a fighter for his

community. This was demonstrated in his fight

to save the century old Naval Submarine Base

New London, which the Pentagon under the

Bush administration added to a list of bases

recommended for permanent closure in 2005.

A eastern Connecticut with no sub-base would

have spelt economic disaster for so many in

the Second District, not to mention the thou-

sands of NAVY personnel who were stationed

at the base and who’s children made up a sig-

nificant portion of the area’s schools. Bud

fought like hell to ensure that this would not

happen and through his voice and the collec-

tive voice of all of eastern Connecticut—the

base was taken off the list and flourishes to

this day. Bud was never asked or obligated to

do his part in saving the livelihoods of so

many here in Connecticut but did so out of his

own sheer will and we will never forget his

commitment to save the base.

Many in Groton and the surrounding also

knew Bud as ‘‘Pop’’ because he was a beacon

of wisdom and was someone who would al-

ways be there if you needed him. Bud was a

humble man and was as down to earth as

they came. He understood that life required

positivity and he always said, ‘‘life’s a learning

experience—enjoy every minute.’’ When Bud

wasn’t running his businesses or leading a

community initiative—he enjoyed visiting folks

at the Fairview retirement community, using

his flying simulator, or reading.

Madam Speaker, I ask that my colleagues

and this Chamber join me in expressing our

deepest respect for Bud’s life and that we

send our deepest condolences to his Family.

Bud was predeceased by his first wife Muriel

Fay. He remarried Barbara Nelson who he

leaves behind alongside two daughters,

Sharlene Aspinwall and Daurene Graf, two

stepdaughters Cheryl Elci and Laura Nelson,

eight grandchildren and 10 great grand-

children. Bud will forever remain a symbol of

love and patriotism in southeastern Con-

necticut and we will use his life as an inspira-

tion to do good for our community.

IN RECOGNITION OF BRIELLA

RILEY

HON. JOHN JOYCE

OF PENNSYLVANIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Friday, March 19, 2021

Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Madam Speak-

er, I rise today to congratulate Briella Riley on

receiving an Honorable Mention Award at the

2021 Central PA Scholastic Art and Writing

Competition.

Briella attends Bermudian Springs High

School near York Springs, Pennsylvania and

is passionate about art. Her mixed media arts

piece garnered her the Honorable Mention

Award at the 2021 Central PA Scholastic Art

and Writing Competition, which first was es-

tablished in 1923 to support teenage artists

and writers.

Congratulations to Briella on this remarkable

achievement, and I wish her continued suc-

cess as she pursues her love of art.

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Daily Digest

Senate

Chamber Action

The Senate was not in session and stands ad-

journed until 3 p.m., on Monday, March 22, 2021.

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held.

House of Representatives

Chamber Action

Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 43 pub-

lic bills, H.R. 2075–2117; and 10 resolutions, H.J.

Res. 32; and H. Res. 257–265, were introduced.

Pages H1610–12

Additional Cosponsors: Pages H1613–14

Reports Filed: There were no reports filed today.

Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein she

appointed Representative Cuellar to act as Speaker

pro tempore for today.

Page H1587

Preventing across-the-board direct spending

cuts: The House passed H.R. 1868, to prevent

across-the-board direct spending cuts, by a yea-and-

nay vote of 246 yeas to 175 nays, Roll No. 96.

Pages H1589–H1601

Rejected the Smith (MO) motion to recommit the

bill to the Committee on the Budget, by a yea-and-

nay vote of 202 yeas to 216 nays, Roll No. 95.

Pages H1598–H1600

H. Res. 233, the rule providing for consideration

of the bills (H.R. 1620), (H.R. 6), (H.R. 1603),

(H.R. 1868), and the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 17)

was agreed to Tuesday, March 16th.

Moment of Silence: The House observed a moment

of silence in honor of the victims of the shootings

in Georgia.

Page H1601

Suspension—Proceedings Resumed: The House

agreed to suspend the rulesand pass the following

measure. Consideration began Thursday, March

18th. Condemning the military coup that took place

on February 1, 2021, in Burma and the Burmese

military detention of civilian leaders, calling for the

release of all those detained and for those elected to

serve in Parliament to resume their duties: H. Res.

134, condemning the military coup that took place

on February 1, 2021, in Burma and the Burmese

military detention of civilian leaders, calling for the

release of all those detained and for those elected to

serve in Parliament to resume their duties, by a

⁄

yea-and-nay vote of 398 yeas to 14 nays with one

answering ‘‘present’’, Roll No. 97.

Pages H1601–02

Requiring each Member, officer, and employee

of the House of Representatives to complete a

program of training in workplace rights and re-

sponsibilities each session of each Congress: The

House agreed to H. Res. 257, requiring each Mem-

ber, officer, and employee of the House of Rep-

resentatives to complete a program of training in

workplace rights and responsibilities each session of

each Congress.

Pages H1602–03

Establishing a Next Generation Entrepreneurship

Corps program within the Small Business Ad-

ministration: The House agreed to take from the

Speaker’s table and concur in the Senate amendment

to H.R. 1276, to establish a Next Generation Entre-

preneurship Corps program within the Small Busi-

ness Administration.

Page H1603

Committee Resignation: Read a letter from Rep-

resentative LaHood wherein he resigned from the

Joint Economic Committee.

Page H1605

Joint Economic Committee—Appointment: The

Chair announced the Speaker’s appointment of the

following Member on the part of the House to the

Joint Economic Committee: Representative

Arrington, to rank after Representative Herrera

Beutler.

Page H1605

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Select Committee on the Modernization of Con-

gress—Appointment: The Chair announced the

Speaker’s appointment of the following Member to

the Select Committee on the Modernization of Con-

gress: Representative Joyce (OH), to rank after Rep-

resentative Latta. Page H1605

Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis—

Appointment: The Chair announced the Speaker’s

appointment of the following Member to the Select

Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis: Representa-

tive Miller-Meeks. Page H1605

Quorum Calls—Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes de-

veloped during the proceedings of today and appear

on pages H1600, H1601, and H1602.

Adjournment: The House met at 9 a.m. and ad-

journed at 1:56 p.m.

Committee Meetings

INVESTING IN AN ORGANIC INDUSTRIAL

BASE TO SUPPORT SERVICE

MODERNIZATION PLANS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readi-

ness held a hearing entitled ‘‘Investing in an Organic

Industrial Base to Support Service Modernization

Plans’’. Testimony was heard from Lieutenant Gen-

eral Duane A. Gamble, Deputy Chief of Staff, G–4,

U.S. Army; Vice Admiral William Galinis, Com-

mander, Naval Sea Systems Command, U.S. Navy;

Vice Admiral Dean Peters, Commander, Naval Air

Systems Command, U.S. Navy; Lieutenant General

Donald E. Kirkland, Commander, Air Force

Sustainment Center, U.S. Air Force; and Major Gen-

eral Joseph F. Shrader, Commanding General, Ma-

rine Corps Logistics Command, U.S. Marine Corps.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM

OPERATIONS: CHALLENGES AND

OPPORTUNITIES IN THE INVISIBLE

BATTLESPACE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Cyber,

Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems

held a hearing entitled ‘‘Department of Defense

Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations: Challenges

and Opportunities in the Invisible Battlespace’’. Tes-

timony was heard from Joseph Kirschbaum, Direc-

tor, Government Accountability Office; and public

witnesses.

AMERICA’S WAY FORWARD IN THE INDO-

PACIFIC

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Asia,

the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation held

a hearing entitled ‘‘America’s Way Forward in the

Indo-Pacific’’. Testimony was heard from public wit-

nesses.

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Select Committee on the Climate Crisis: Full Committee

held an organizational meeting. The Committee

adopted its rules for the 117th Congress.

Joint Meetings

No joint committee meetings were held.

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR MONDAY,

MARCH 22, 2021

(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)

Senate

Committee on Foreign Relations: to receive a closed brief-

ing on the policy and legal rationale of U.S. airstrikes in

Syria, 6 p.m., SVC–217.

House

Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on

Civil Rights and Human Services, hearing entitled ‘‘End-

ing the Cycle: Examining Ways to Prevent Domestic Vi-

olence and Promote Healthy Communities’’, 12 p.m.,

Zoom.

Committee on Energy and Commerce, Full Committee,

hearing entitled ‘‘LIFT America: Revitalizing our Na-

tion’s Infrastructure and Economy’’, 11 a.m., Webex.

Committee on Oversight and Reform, Full Committee,

hearing entitled ‘‘H.R. 51: Making D.C. the 51st State’’,

11 a.m., 2154 Rayburn and Webex.

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D276 March 19, 2021

Next Meeting of the SENATE

3 p.m., Monday, March 22

Senate Chamber

Program for Monday: Senate expects to swear in Karen

Gibson as Sergeant at Arms.

Senate will resume consideration of the nomination of

Martin Joseph Walsh, of Massachusetts, to be Secretary of

Labor, and vote on confirmation thereon at 5:30 p.m.

Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

11 a.m., Tuesday, March 23

House Chamber

Program for Tuesday: House will meet in Pro Forma

session at 11 a.m.

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE

Boebert, Lauren, Colo., E279, E284

Buck, Ken, Colo., E278

Case, Ed, Hawaii, E278

Castor, Kathy, Fla., E277

Courtney, Joe, Conn., E285

Eshoo, Anna G., Calif., E277, E282, E284

Fulcher, Russ, Idaho, E283

Garbarino, Andrew R., N.Y. E282

Johnson, Dusty, S. Dak., E279

Joyce, John, Pa., E277, E277, E278, E282, E282, E284,

E285, E286

Latta, Robert E., Ohio, E278, E282, E285

Lee, Barbara, Calif., E285

McCarthy, Kevin, Calif., E284

McGovern, James P., Mass., E279

Norton, Eleanor Holmes, The District of Columbia,

E277

Phillips, Dean, Minn., E283

Smith, Jason, Mo., E277

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