Joe Barton

Mr. BARTON

Mr. BARTON. I thank the gentleman.

Mr. BARTON

Mr. BARTON. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Mr. BARTON. Madam Chair, at the end of the dialogue on this amendment, it is my intention to withdraw it, and I want the House to know that. As we all know, we have the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 that stipulates that it is the responsibility of the Federal Government, through the Department of Energy, to accept all high-level nuclear waste that has been generated by our civilian reactors. This has not been done, even though we have a law that says it should be done. There is a permanent repository that is located in the State of Nevada. The citizens of that State have serious reservations about accepting high-level waste in their State, and as a consequence, they have managed, through various bills over the years, to prevent that facility from going forward. The amendment that I have before the body today would authorize a pilot program through the Department of Energy, on a competitive basis and its being consent-based by State, to allow interim storage at one or more facilities. The money would come from the nuclear waste fund from which we have collected over $15 billion. This amendment would not preclude Yucca Mountain, in any way, from being the permanent repository. It would allow any State in the Nation that wished to submit a proposal to the Secretary of Energy within 120 days, if my amendment were to become law; then, on a competitive basis, the Secretary of Energy, after holding public hearings, would make a determination that one or more sites in the country could accept this waste on an interim basis. I think this is a good amendment. It would cut the Gordian knot that has constrained us for over 30 years, and if we were to be allowed to vote on it, I am absolutely certain the House would pass it. Madam Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gene Green), my cosponsor on the minority side.

Mr. BARTON. Madam Chair, could I inquire how much time I have remaining?

Mr. BARTON. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time at this point in time.

Mr. BARTON. Madam Chair, let me reiterate, before I ask unanimous consent to withdraw this amendment, that, one, it is obviously bipartisan. Two, I think it would pass the House overwhelmingly, because, as the chairman of the full committee just said, we have had two votes in the last hour that were 5-1 in favor of disposing of high- level waste. I would say you could say those were votes in favor of disposing of it at Yucca Mountain, but certainly we have the votes for a permanent repository. The amendment before the body at this moment is a pilot program. It is for interim storage. It in no way would preclude any effort to fund and develop the permanent repository at Yucca. And if the State of Nevada wanted to, they could compete for the interim storage and I think, in all probability, might decide to do so. So I would hope that sometime in this Congress through the appropriation process with the other body or, as the full committee chairman has just promised, in the next Congress through the normal regular order authorization process that we deal both with interim storage and permanent storage. And I think I have the chairman's commitment to do that. Is that correct?

Mr. BARTON. I yield to the gentleman from Michigan.

Mr. BARTON. Reclaiming my time, I want to thank the subcommittee chairman, Mr. Simpson, for his courtesy and his staff's courtesy, the ranking member, Ms. Kaptur, the full committee, Mr. Rogers and his staff. I will submit a letter for the Record from the Governor of Texas dated July 3 in support of my amendment. The State of Texas, Office of the Governor, July 3, 2014. Dear Texas Congressional Delegation: After President Obama abandoned any further development of Yucca Mountain and Congress ceased all funding in 2011, the country must look for new solutions to the long-term issue of safe and secure handling of high level radioactive waste (HLW) Early in 2013 the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it was looking into alternative, permanent disposal solutions to replace the proposed storage facility at Yucca Mountain. By its own estimations, a permanent HLW disposal solution will not be available until 2048. An amendment proposed by Congressman Joe Barton authorizes the Secretary of Energy to conduct a pilot program that would provide interim storage of spent nuclear fuel and HLW, with the priority for storage given to spent nuclear fuel located on sites without an operating nuclear reactor. This option could demonstrate how this waste can be transported and stored in a secure and viable manner, providing a step toward a long-term solution to this ongoing issue. With or without a long-term solution for disposing of HLW, implementation of interim facilities is needed. I believe it is time for the Congress to act and ensure that the United States has a safe and secure solution for HLW, and I support this effort by Congressman Barton. Sincerely, Rick Perry, Governor.

Mr. BARTON. Madam Chair, I would, at this point in time, ask unanimous consent to withdraw the Barton-Green amendment.

Mr. BARTON

Mr. BARTON. I thank the gentleman. I almost objected to unanimous consent, but I decided it is tradition. Mr. Chairman, the Republicans wish to congratulate our friends on the minority side for their victory. It was well earned. We fought hard, but we ended up this year in second place--one game behind. That is not bad, but it is not first place. We had some great players on our team. Our MVP, Kevin Brady, was two for three. He made Cedric sweat a little bit. Jeff Flake, our Senator from Arizona, stepped on third on a hard smash and made a throw to Mr. Rooney at first base for a double play. We threw a man out at the plate. Mr. Shimkus came in as a relief pitcher and shut the Democrats down for several innings. So we had some bright spots. The sixth victory in a row was well earned, but I will say that trophy is on loan. It is not permanently on that side of the aisle. While you have won six games in a row, we have won about 60 votes in a row here on the House floor.

Mr. BARTON. We are willing to bet some money on that for a little bit. In any event, charity was the big winner. As you pointed out, we set a record for money raised for the Washington Literacy Center; the Boys and Girls Club of Washington, D.C.; and the Dream Foundation for the Nationals. I wish to congratulate you, Mr. Doyle, and your team. To my Republican players: I am very proud of you. Our guys played hard and practiced hard. I will say we graciously suffered being on the wrong end of the score once again. Congratulations to Mike Doyle and the Democrats.

Mr. BARTON

Mr. BARTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the newly formed Asian Business Division of the Grand Prairie, Texas Chamber of Commerce. I was honored to speak at this unique group's first meeting on May 13, 2014. The Asian population is the fastest growing community in this already diverse city. The Chamber's new division will focus on reaching out to this demographic to make sure they have the tools and resources to build a strong business community in Grand Prairie. It is based in a complex known as Asia Time Square. The shopping development is already home to dozens of Asian businesses--with plans to add dozens more. The Asian Business Division plans to drive economic growth in the city by continuing to lure businesses and jobs to the area, taking a strategic approach to building the groups' brand, improving the overall value of the Grand Prairie Chamber of Commerce in the area, and creating a dynamic business development plan that assists a diverse employer base. This unique partnership wouldn't be possible without the hard work of countless people, including leadership of the Chamber of Commerce and the Loh Family (which owns and operates Asia Times Square). I am confident that this new relationship will benefit everyone in the area and ensure that it competes successfully for new businesses, new jobs and only makes Grand Prairie a more attractive place to live, work, play and raise a family.

Mr. BARTON

Mr. BARTON. Mr. Speaker, we are here to honor a Texas legend in his own time, the Honorable Kent Hance of Dimmitt, Texas, some of us Aggies would put an ``a'' instead of an ``i.'' But Kent was born in west Texas and he, as has already been pointed out, got elected to the Texas Senate at a very young age. Then I got elected to the House of Representatives in 1978, along with such stalwarts as Phil Gramm of College Station. I think Charlie Stenholm was already here. Ralph Hall came a little bit later. Marvin Leath of Waco came a little bit later. He became what was known as a Boll Weevil Democrat. When Ronald Reagan got elected, President Reagan called a number of the Boll Weevils to the White House and asked if they would support his economic plan, but he only asked one to carry the Reagan tax cut which really began the renaissance of America, and that young man was Congressman Kent Hance of the 19th Congressional District. He was on the Ways and Means Committee as a Democrat. He carried the Reagan tax cut in the Ways and Means Committee and prevailed. I would assume the chairman then was Dan Rostenkowski. I am not sure, but I think that's right. Well, in 1984, he decided to go back to Texas. He relinquished his seat and Larry Combest replaced him, and five other young Texans came in as part of the Texas Six Pack: Dick Armey, Joe Barton, Larry Combest, Beau Boulter, I believe, and Mac Sweeney. He switched parties, became a Republican, and got appointed to the railroad commission. He was the first Republican to be named chairman of the railroad commission. He did run for Governor a time or two in that time span and did not have the same luck for Governor. He went into the private sector, became a consultant and an attorney and helped me politically on a number of issues, then, as has been pointed out, became chancellor of Texas Tech. And the students hardly know what a chancellor is, most universities not only know Ken Hance, they affectionately call him the ``Hancellor'' at Texas Tech. The thing that impresses me the most about Kent is that, when people are in elected office and we are successful, we have lots of friends, and they call us and pat us on the back and offer to do things and help us and support us. When we lose or are not successful, normally the only people that try to raise our spirits are our family and sometimes people that we owe money to. On one particular occasion, I had had a political setback and I was really down and I was kind of moping around my house in Ennis, Texas. And one morning about, I want to say, 9:30, my cell phone rang and it was Kent Hance, and I will never forget that. So we're here to honor you for your public service, but I am also here to thank you for your personal friendship. You are a great man. I wish you well, and I hope you stay involved in the public sector, because people of your caliber are in short supply and are always needed. God bless you and God bless your family.

Mr. BARTON

Mr. BARTON. Mr. Speaker, I thank both my friend on the majority side and my friend on the minority side for allowing me this unusual procedure. I do rise in support of the rule. I am going to vote for the rule. But, Mr. Speaker, I am going to oppose the underlying bill on the debt ceiling. I have brought some materials that have been prepared by the Congressional Research Service with materials that were provided by the Office of Management and Budget that show in the fiscal year that we are now engaged, mandatory spending is 62 percent of the total budget, and interest on the debt is over 6 percent. Those two combined are two- thirds of all total spending, mandatory spending and interest on the debt. It is not going to get any easier, Mr. Speaker, to solve this problem by passing so-called clean debt ceilings that don't address the underlying problem. I understand the problems governing on the majority side, and I understand the issues with the Presidency and the Senate being controlled by the Democrats. I understand that. But I couldn't walk into a bank in Ennis, Texas, today and say, I owe you $300,000 right now, but I want to borrow another $200,000. They would want to know what plan I had to repay the money I had already borrowed, and they would want to know how giving me another $200,000 would actually be the appropriate thing to do. What we are doing on the underlying bill, Mr. Speaker, with this so- called clean debt ceiling is simply saying, we want to borrow--I am not sure how much it is--probably 600 or $700 billion, where we already owe $17 trillion. We have no plan to repay the money we have already borrowed and certainly have no plan to repay the money we are going to borrow. So my comment today is, this Congress should be addressing this problem in a bipartisan fashion today. We will be back here in March of next year. We will have the same debate. So I will be voting ``no'' later this evening. I do thank my good friend from Georgia and my good friend from New York for allowing me to speak.

Mr. BARTON

Mr. BARTON. Mr. Speaker, sometime in the very near future, we are going to have to vote on an increase in the national debt. The national debt ceiling is currently at $17 trillion, and all expectations are that the increase will put it up over $18 trillion or at least $17.5 trillion. It is unconscionable to me that one of the largest items already in our budget is the interest on the national debt, and that it is also one of the fastest growing items in the budget. I will not vote, Mr. Speaker, for a so-called ``clean'' debt ceiling, because I think that is a dirty deal for the American people. It is time to begin structural changes to our entitlement programs that make them subject to some sort of caps so that we can get back to balance and keep our budget in balance. This is one of those inflection points in American history, and I hope that the House of Representatives will insist on real reform in our budget before we vote to increase the public debt by one penny.

Mr. BARTON

Mr. BARTON. Thank you. I want to recognize your leadership on the Republican Study Committee and the Health Task Force on preparing the legislation that you just referred to. I am the past chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, the past ranking member of that committee; and when the Affordable Care Act came through the Congress, I was the senior Republican on the committee of jurisdiction. I don't want to tell you and the American people that I told you so, but I told you so. We knew that this wasn't going to work. For example, we had a hearing today about the Affordable Care Act in the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. It was focusing on the security of the Web site and on all of the problems and when the administration knew about those problems and what they did or didn't do. In the course of that hearing, Congressman Cory Gardner of Colorado was asking the senior civil servant, Mr. Chao from CMS, some questions. The gentleman from CMS just kind of, off the cuff, said, You know that 60 to 70 percent of the programs haven't been developed yet. Congressman Gardner followed up and said, What are you talking about? He said, All we are working on right now is the Web site to get people registered. We haven't completed that portion of the program about billing, that portion about accounting for treatment, how we interact with the hospitals and the patients and the doctors. Basically, 60 to 70 percent of the system has not been programmed yet.

Mr. BARTON. Can you imagine that, if we are having the horrendous problems we are having on just getting people interacted with making choices of which kind of coverage they are going to choose, the problems you are going to have when you actually begin to have to use the system for real health care in January? So I and, I think, you and the other members of the Republican Study Committee task force on health, who helped prepare the legislation that you are talking about, are going to begin to push to delay the Affordable Care Act. I have a bill, H.R. 3348, that makes it voluntary the first year in that we are not going to impose the individual mandate on people. The President has already delayed the employer mandate for a year. My bill, H.R. 3348, would delay the individual mandate so that, as we work through all of the problems, people can choose to participate or can choose not to participate. I think it is becoming more apparent every day that the Affordable Care Act is like that shiny automobile that you see when you go into the showroom or go to the car lot. You see it, and the salesman says, Man, this thing is great. It gets 30 miles a gallon. It doesn't use much oil. Everything is power steering, and it has air-conditioning and a great stereo system. So you put down your down payment, and you take it out on the road. Son of a gun. The thing doesn't go above 50. It burns oil like it is going out of style. The air-conditioning doesn't work. The stereo system barely works. It is just a lemon. The Affordable Care Act is a lemon, and the American people and the Democrats on the other side of the aisle who voted for it are having buyer's remorse. So what we need to do is to delay it or to repeal it or to at least make it voluntary. Then let's look at some of these alternatives like the legislation that we put into play in which we give people real choices. It is a patient-centered, client-centered system. We allow insurance to be sold across State lines. We beef up affordable savings accounts, Health Savings Accounts. We do cover preexisting conditions, which I know you will talk about later on, but we do it with a high-risk pool on a State-by-State basis. The Democrats have told us time after time in the general debate that you Republicans are against the Affordable Care Act, but you don't have an alternative. We have an alternative, and I think it is a good alternative. I am a sponsor of the legislation, and I am here to support you in this Special Order. As we go through and outline what is in it, I think the American people and the other Members of the House who are watching these proceedings--more and more of them--will say, We don't like that lemon that we have. Maybe we ought to go back, and maybe we ought to start over. Maybe some of these ideas in the alternative we should take a serious look at. So I commend you for your work on the legislation, and I also commend you for leading this Special Order this evening.

Mr. BARTON

Mr. BARTON. I appreciate the chairman yielding. Mr. Speaker, we are here today to begin the long process of amending--hopefully improving, and if that is not possible, at some point in time, repealing--the Affordable Care Act. The President, as everybody knows by now, repeatedly said that if you like your health insurance, you can keep it. Well, it has been proven that even when he said it, that was not true. Yesterday, the President admitted as much when he said for the next year he would try to honor that promise, if only in the breach. The Upton bill actually correctly honors that promise in the correct way by legislatively saying that insurance can continue to provide these private policies--and I would assume some employer-sponsored policies--regardless of whether they meet the new minimum standards under the Affordable Care Act. The bill does not require insurance companies to do so, but it does allow them to do so. As sponsors of the bill, it is our hope that many companies will do so. It is a reasonable expectation that millions of Americans, given that choice, will actually keep the plans that they have and that they like. At some point in time, though, Mr. Speaker--this bill is not the end of the process; it is the beginning--we need to come back and fix the rest of the law or perhaps even change it or repeal it. I have a bill that I hope will be brought to the floor at some point in the near future that will make ObamaCare voluntary. Let the American people choose what parts of the new law they like, and if they decide they don't like some parts or all of the law, they wouldn't be compelled--mandated--to continue to use some of these new policies. So, Mr. Speaker, I want to commend Chairman Upton and Subcommittee Chairman Pitts for bringing this bill so expeditiously to the floor. I would hope that we can have a unanimous vote in support of it.

Mr. BARTON

Mr. BARTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Michael R. Linn as the new CEO Emeritus of the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association (NIADA) that is headquartered in Arlington, Texas, in my district. Prior to his new position, Mr. Linn served as the CEO of NIADA from 1999 to 2013. Under his leadership, membership rose beyond 20,000 members. In addition, NIADA added significant value to the automotive industry with its legislative and regulatory presence in the Nation's capitol. Expanded education programs, which include the Certified Master Dealer (CMD) Program and Certified F&I Professional Program, have greatly enhanced the professionalism of the industry. In 2004, the NIADA Educational Television Network (NIADA-TV) was created to better educate the nation's automotive dealers. In 2006, another educational TV network, Automotive Consumer Television, was developed to also educate consumers about the motor vehicle industry. All of these occurred during Mr. Linn's tenure. He also currently serves as a Board Member on the National Automotive Advisory Board at Northwood University in Midland, Michigan. Prior to joining NIADA, Mr. Linn served as the Executive Director of the Carolinas Independent Automobile Dealers Association that serves the industry in both North and South Carolina. With over 26 years of extensive experience in the motor vehicle industry, he is extremely knowledgeable of industry issues and the issues facing today's professional automobile dealer. Prior to working in the motor vehicle industry, Mr. Linn enjoyed a career in the motion picture and television industry as an Executive Producer. He is a graduate of LaSalle University with a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) and is a Certified Program Planner. He has written several training manuals on the car rental industry, Federal labor laws and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations. Michael Linn is a native of North Carolina. The National Independent Automobile Dealers Association, founded in 1946, has represented the used motor vehicle industry for over 67 years. NIADA's mission is to assist its members in becoming more successful within the automotive industry by bringing valuable information, services and benefits designed to prepare them for an ever-changing and ever-challenging marketplace. Again, congratulations to Michael Linn as the new CEO Emeritus of NIADA.

Mr. BARTON

Mr. BARTON. Madam Speaker, I rise to announce to my colleagues in the House that I just introduced H.R. 3348, the ObamaCare Choice Act of 2013. This is a simple 1\1/2\-page bill. It simply lets the American people choose for the next year whether they want to participate in what we commonly call ObamaCare. If it is as good as the President says it is, people will join and get the benefits from it. If, on the other hand, they can't get the software fixed, the policy mandates are unsustainable, and the costs are too high, the American people will choose not to participate. It is a simple bill that makes participation voluntary by suspending the tax for nonparticipation. So I would encourage all of my colleagues to join as a cosponsor of H.R. 3348, the ObamaCare Choice Act of 2013.

Mr. BARTON

Mr. BARTON. Mr. Speaker, we're seeing an interesting dialogue today in the 1-minutes. Last week, House Republicans brought to the floor a bill before the shutdown to pay our military. Both sides totally supported that, the Senate accepted it, and the President signed the bill. So that's law. Early this week, after the shutdown occurred, House Republicans brought to the floor to fund the Veterans Administration, to fund National Institutes of Health research, to fund and open our national parks. My friends on the other side of the aisle--most of them, not all--voted ``no'' against that and called it a gimmick. Today we brought a bill to the floor, the House Republicans, once the shutdown is over, to pay furloughed workers. Again, on that one today, both sides embraced it and said it's a good thing. Now my friends on the Democratic side are getting up and arguing against themselves. We want to open the government. We want to end this. But we want to keep as much of the government functioning while we do it.

Mr. BARTON

Mr. BARTON. Will the gentleman yield?

Mr. BARTON. Well, I thank the gentleman from Oregon. I am not going to be demagogic. I certainly respect the comments of the gentleman from Oregon and the gentleman of California. I was actually going to pay the gentleman from California a compliment. I just wanted the country to know these are serious issues and there are differences of opinion based on philosophy, but there are not personality conflicts. The gentleman from California was gracious enough several weeks ago to invite me into his home for a meal. He makes a delicious grilled chicken and is quite the chef, and I just wanted to thank him. And at the appropriate time after the gentleman from Oregon and the gentleman from California have made their points, if they would like to enter into a little bit of just an honest policy debate, I would be happy to do that. But I know it is the gentleman from Oregon's time, and I don't want to take away from that.

Mr. BARTON

Mr. BARTON. Mr. Speaker, for the last hour, the minority in the House, the Democrat Party, has had the right to speak to the American people in their leadership Special Hour. I think the gentleman from Oregon and the gentleman from California did a good job of presenting the side of the story as they viewed it. Having said that, Mr. Speaker, the late Paul Harvey had a radio program for many, many years that many of us listened to, and in that radio program he would tell us ``The Rest of the Story.'' Well, Mr. Speaker, for the next hour, those of us on the majority side, the Republican side--most of us from Texas, although we're going to have some friends from Michigan and perhaps from Florida, too--are going to tell you the other side of the story, the rest of the story. And let's start by discussing this continuing mantra from the minority side that we ought to just bring up the clean continuing resolution, or CR, from the other body, the Senate, and life would be perfect. Well, Mr. Speaker, there's one tiny, small problem with that. And that is, Mr. Speaker, that that continuing resolution funds the discretionary part of something that is legally called the Affordable Care Act, but most people in the United States are now calling it ObamaCare. Mr. Speaker, ObamaCare is a huge new entitlement. It's not just another Federal program. It changes, fundamentally, the way we practice medicine in the United States of America. It changes, fundamentally, the rights of Americans. Mr. Speaker, ObamaCare mandates--forces--every American to have health insurance, whether they want it or whether they need it. It's a huge new right taken away, a freedom. Heretofore, we've said that people had the right to choose whether they wanted health insurance or not. And now we're going to tell them, at the Federal level, they to have it. That is not a trivial right to take away from the American people. Mr. Speaker, the Affordable Care Act, ObamaCare, mandates that every employer that has at least 50 employees must provide health insurance. Heretofore, health insurance had been considered a fringe benefit. Some employers provided it, some employers did not. Now, according to the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, you have to provide health insurance. What that's done, Mr. Speaker, is caused many small businesses to reduce their workforce, to change their work hours. Many employees that were full-time, 40-hour employees, have become 20- or less than 30-hour part-time employees. Again, a huge change in the way Americans have conducted their business. Mr. Speaker, there are many mandates in the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, that relate to how you practice medicine. Many health care practitioners have told me in my district that they're not going to practice. They're going to retire. They're not going to put up with all the mandates. They're not going to put up with all of the paperwork. Again, something that is fundamentally changing the United States of America. Mr. Speaker, in the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, there are all kinds of mandates on what has to be included in insurance, how the insurance companies have to provide it, what premiums they can charge. Because of this, Mr. Speaker, many insurance companies have raised their premiums. Many insurance companies have changed their policies. Again, a fundamental change. So, Mr. Speaker, when our friends in the minority on the other side say, Just bring up a clean CR and we'll vote for it, they don't point out that that clean CR includes funding for ObamaCare. It is, again, a fundamental change, Mr. Speaker. Most of us on the Republican side, the majority side, don't want that. We want the freedom to choose. I would ask my friends on the minority side, if ObamaCare is so great, why does it have to be mandatory? Let's make it voluntary. Republicans happen to support many of the things in it. We support coverage for preexisting conditions. We support allowing young adults to stay on their parents' life insurance until they reach the age of 26. We support the concept of the public exchanges. In the Republican alternative, when ObamaCare was passed, we had something called ``co- ops.'' Not exactly like these health exchanges, but certainly similar. So, again, if this act is so good and so great and everybody loves it, let's make it voluntary. How about making it voluntary for a year and just let the people choose? If these health exchanges are great, people are going to flock to them. If all of these mandates are really worthwhile, make them voluntary based on free choice and the market, and most of those will be accepted and implemented. So that might be an alternative at some point in time to consider. Take all the mandates away, leave the structure of the law, and let the American people choose whether they wish to participate. Mr. Speaker, there is another side to this story. In the next 50 or 55 minutes, the Texas delegation on the Republican side, with some help from friends in other States, are going to tell you the other side of the story. With that, I would like to yield to Congressman Weber from Friendswood, Texas.

Mr. BARTON. Thank you, Congressman Weber. Before I yield to my friend from far north Texas, Mr. Benishek, of the First District of Michigan, I want to read into the Record a comment that I received on my Facebook page. Now, most of these comments are from Texans, some of them are not. I'm not sure of the location of this gentleman, Mr. Dave Guss, Jr. This is a Facebook page comment received yesterday or this morning: Just got a letter from my provider that my policy will end and I need to purchase a new one. When I called and asked why, I was told that my current policy does not meet the required coverage for ObamaCare because it has no prenatal coverage. I am a male. The new policy will cost me $500 a month, the old one I had was $200 a month. We have a number of these stories, Mr. Speaker, that I will be putting into the Record as this Special Order continues. But now I would like to yield to the gentleman from the First District of Michigan (Mr. Benishek).