Sean Duffy

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize the dedication and bravery of our nation's law enforcement, especially in relation to keeping drugs out of our communities. I would like to commend the efforts of Wisconsin officers who are on the front lines to halt the flow of methamphetamines into our communities. After a three-year investigation conducted by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, 19 individuals have pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute meth in central Wisconsin. During that period, the individuals involved distributed 127 pounds of meth, at a value of $5.7 million. These heroes in law enforcement deserve our praise. They go to work every day not knowing if they are going to come home. And they are leading the fight against meth, which has scourged our families and communities. Meth distributors intentionally seek to create new addicts in our communities by flooding the market with cheap product and targeting individuals. Our officers see the consequences of meth in the eyes of the children they rescue from homes consumed by this addiction. That's why the fight against this epidemic is so important, and why we are eternally grateful for their service. I would like to recognize the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, especially Detective Lieutenant Chad Collinsworth; the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Division of Criminal Investigation; the Wausau office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Marathon County Sheriff's Office Special Investigations Unit; the Wausau Police Department, and IRS Criminal Investigation unit for their work on behalf of our community. Mr. Speaker, I encourage all Americans to take the opportunity to thank a police officer in their community. They have our backs, and the least that we can do is to let them know that we have theirs.

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Speaker, on March 30, 2017, on rollcall No. 207 on motion to recommit with instructions, I am not recorded. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay.'' On rollcall No. 208 on final passage of H.R. 1431, the EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act of 2017, I am not recorded. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' personal explanation

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. Madam Speaker, on March 29, 2017, on rollcall No. 203 on ordering the previous question, I am not recorded. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' On rollcall No. 204 on agreeing to the resolution, H. Res. 233, providing for consideration of H.R. 1431, I am not recorded. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' On rollcall No. 205 on motion to recommit with instructions, I am not recorded. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay.'' On rollcall No. 206 on final passage of H.R. 1431, I am not recorded. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on final passage of H.R. 1431.

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Speaker, it's with a heavy heart that I rise today to recognize the loss of four members of our greater Wausau community. It was last week that four lives were taken from us all too early. Karen Barclay was warm and caring to everyone around her. At Marathon Savings Bank, she made sure that no child left the bank without a lollipop. Dianne Look, known as `Dee-Dee,' celebrated her 25th wedding anniversary last month. Dianne loved to make jewelry; raising money for the American Cancer Society. Sara Quirt-Sann had an infectious laugh and ran her own law practice. She proudly served as a Guardian ad Litem for kids in our community. We also lost Detective Jason Weiland of the Everest Metro Police Department, who was killed in the line of duty. Serving 18 years in what was described as his `dream job,' Detective Weiland wore the Everest Metro PD uniform because he wanted to protect people and keep his community safe. On behalf of this institution, I rise to extend my deepest regrets to their families--the mothers and fathers, husbands, wives, and children who no longer have a special member in their homes.

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Speaker, it is with a heavy heart that I rise today to recognize the loss of four members of our greater-Wausau community. It was last week that four lives were taken from us all too early. Karen Barclay was warm and caring to everyone around her. At Marathon Savings Bank, she made sure that no child left the bank without a lollipop. Dianne Look, known as Dee-Dee, celebrated her 25th wedding anniversary last month. Dianne loved to make jewelry, raising money for the American Cancer Society. Sara Quirt-Sann had an infectious laugh. She ran her own law practice, and she proudly served as a guardian ad litem for kids in our community. We also lost Detective Jason Weiland of the Everest Metro Police Department, who was killed in the line of duty. Serving 18 years in what was described as his dream job, Detective Weiland wore the Everest Metro PD uniform because he wanted to protect people and keep his community safe. On behalf of this institution, I rise to extend my deepest regrets to their families, their mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, and children, who no longer have a special member in their homes.

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 201 on motion to table the appeal of the ruling of the chair, I am not recorded. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' On rollcall No. 202 on final passage of S.J. Res. 34, I am not recorded. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on final passage of S.J. Res. 34.

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the support of the gentleman from Texas and his insight in this amendment. I was a prosecutor in a former life, and we care a lot about due process, making sure that the government can't take something from a private individual just because they want to take it. As an American, I know that protecting intellectual property is a cornerstone of our free enterprise system. That is why I am concerned about the CFTC's rule on automated trading, which takes the unprecedented step of requiring a wide array of market participants engaged in algorithmic trading to maintain a source code repository and make it available for inspection by the CFTC or the Department of Justice without a subpoena. Now, this is highly sensitive source code. This is intellectual property that helps the functionality of our marketplace, and to think that this kind of sensitive data can be taken by the Federal Government without a subpoena should shock our conscience. There are times when the government should get this information; but if they should have it, they should be able to use a subpoena and lay out the cause and the case for why they need to have it. That is not just my only concern. But the CFTC is potentially going to be taking this source code from all different market players and holding it in a warehouse or a repository, and so we have a concern for hacking. It has been a big conversation as of late. But instead of a foreign entity hacking in to individual companies, they just have to hack the CFTC and they get all the source code. Just think of the malicious things that can happen if you have the source code of market players, how you can disrupt it, how you can take it down. It is absolutely frightening. So I think we should have great pause, take a little time to reflect on our Constitution, and continue to respect and support due process, which means, if the government wants this information, they should have a subpoena, lay out their case, and that is the avenue by which they get it, not just because they want it. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. DUFFY. Will the gentleman yield?

Mr. DUFFY. I appreciate the gentleman for yielding. Again, as an American, when the government wants to take very secure intellectual property and data, we do have this belief that they should be able to get a subpoena to access it. Again, we don't have a disagreement that the CFTC, in circumstances, we want them to get access to this information.

Mr. DUFFY. But highly sensitive intellectual property, we think, similar data, should require a subpoena.

Mr. DUFFY. If the gentleman would yield, is the gentleman saying that if the government just wants highly sensitive and intellectual property they should be able to go in and just ask for it and require it to be delivered?

Mr. DUFFY. But it is the government.

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Chairman, I just want to clarify that in the proposed rule there is no requirement for a subpoena. That doesn't exist. Now, they might have told you that they want to reform that rule, but that is not the way the proposed rule stands today. Again, if our government wants information from the private sector, we all believe they should have a subpoena for it, number one. Again, on the concern of hacking, I wrote the Chair of the CFTC and asked for additional information about how they can preserve and protect this very sensitive information, and, in essence, they said: We can protect it because we say we can protect it. That doesn't give me great confidence. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Speaker, I am honored to stand before you today to recognize Mr. Jim Harris of Wausau, Wisconsin for his exceptional service to others. Mr. Harris worked for more than 30 years in education. First, as a teacher in the Wisconsin Indian Teacher Corps, where he taught children of the Ho Chunk Tribe, and later as one of the first male kindergarten teachers in Wisconsin. Along his journey in education, Mr. Harris also spent two decades as a school administrator and an activist for public health. During his many years of service in education, Mr. Harris got to know the children of Hmong Refugees who fled war in their home country to seek a better life in Wisconsin. Our state has a vibrant Hmong community that Mr. Harris has grown close to. He founded We Help War Victims, a nonprofit organization, with his wife, Marty, also a public school educator. Founded over 30 years ago, We Help War Victims has been working with refugee families in the Wausau, Wisconsin area, providing dozens of Lao schools with their first libraries, and helping families receive access to medical care. Since 2006, the Harris' organization has been working with villagers in Laos to destroy land mines, bombs, rockets, mortars, and other unexploded ordnance. Mr. and Mrs. Harris's example directly inspired me to fight for this cause in Congress and their advice has directly affected the focus of my efforts. Countless farmers and families across Laos live in safer communities because of Mr. Harris's work and my community in Wisconsin has been strengthened by the work he and his wife do through We Help War Victims. Mr. Speaker, please join me today to congratulate Mr. Harris on his accomplishments and work on behalf of others. His selfless demeanor in which he answers the call to serve in our district is truly valued.

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Luetkemeyer for all of his work on this bill, H.R. 5143. As we enter into this debate, I think it is important to look at who supports what. If you look at insurers in States like Wisconsin, they have looked at Mr. Luetkemeyer's bill and they love it. They think it is a great bill because it protects the American State-based model. If you are a large global insurer, you don't like this bill because you want one global international standard that you have to comply with. So we are here fighting for the little guy, those little insurance companies that dot all of our States, that serve our communities and our families; and the opposition is standing with the large insurers which have been more concerned about this bill than the little guy, which goes to my point. I am concerned that the Federal Reserve and Treasury could enter into an international framework that undermines the U.S. system in favor of, again, this European-centric model that is inconsistent with our American model. If you look at this great American model, it has worked for 150 years. Look back to the 2008 crisis. This system in America, with a ton of pressure, it performed beautifully. It did really well. Why do you want to cash that in for a different model? I guess my concern is that those State insurers like in my State, they are not even regulated at the Federal level, but they are concerned that on the track that we are going, they very well may be. This is pretty simple stuff. What Mr. Luetkemeyer is looking for is openness and transparency. He just doesn't want Washington bureaucrats negotiating a deal. He wants all stakeholders as part of this deal. And lo and behold, it is a remarkable concept; but if we are going to have fundamental changes to our insurance law, why only have unelected bureaucrats make those decisions? Why not empower the Congress, the people who are responsive to the American electorate? We should have a say in this process. Put us back in control, which is exactly what Chairman Luetkemeyer does. It is a great bill. I encourage all of my friends on both sides of the aisle to show their resounding support.

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Speaker, I am honored to stand before you today to recognize Mr. Jim Harris of Wausau, Wisconsin for his exceptional service to others. Mr. Harris worked for more than 30 years in education. First, as a teacher in the Wisconsin Indian Teacher Corps, where he taught children of the Ho Chunk Tribe, and later as one of the first male kindergarten teachers in Wisconsin. Along his journey in education, Mr. Harris also spent two decades as a school administrator and an activist for public health. During his many years of service in education, Mr. Harris got to know the children of Hmong Refugees who fled war in their home country to seek a better life in Wisconsin. Our state has a vibrant Hmong community that Mr. Harris has grown close to. He founded We Help War Victims, a nonprofit organization, with his wife, Marty, also a public school educator. Founded over 30 years ago, We Help War Victims has been working with refugee families in the Wausau, Wisconsin area, providing dozens of Lao schools with their first libraries, and helping families receive access to medical care. Since 2006, his organization has been working with villagers in Laos to destroy land mines, bombs, rockets, mortars, and other unexploded ordnance. Mr. Harris' example directly inspired me to fight for this cause in Congress and his advice has directly affected the focus of my efforts. Countless farmers and families across Laos live in safer communities because of Mr. Harris' work and my community in Wisconsin has been strengthened by the work he and his wife do through We Help War Victims. Mr. Speaker, please join me today to congratulate Mr. Harris on his accomplishments and work on behalf of others. His selfless demeanor in which he answers the call to serve in our district is truly valued.

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Mississippi for yielding. Let's be really clear about what this is about. This is about following the law. We negotiate, we vote, we pass laws, the President signs them, and they should be enforced. That is what this conversation is about, Madam Speaker. StemExpress has thumbed its nose against the select investigative panel and obstructed our efforts to bring light to the fetal tissue procurement industry. Nearly a year ago, the panel requested information from StemExpress regarding where they procured their fetal tissue, whom they distributed the fetal tissue to, any communications instructing the company's employees to procure fetal tissue, and all accounting records and banking records related to fetal tissue. StemExpress, in response to that request, has given us none--zero--no document. So to compel StemExpress to provide the panel with this information, the panel issued the company a subpoena. Instead of complying with the subpoena, StemExpress only turned over limited information to the panel, and the information that they turned over to us was so heavily redacted that it was completely useless for investigative purposes. To date, the select panel has not received a single accounting or bank record from StemExpress. So they have failed to comply with our requests and our subpoenas in violation of the law. If StemExpress is within the limits of the law, if nothing is illegal or immoral, then why does StemExpress refuse to turn over all the documents that our panel has requested? Opening your accounting records to a congressional panel shouldn't be that difficult. StemExpress has had plenty of time to get their act together and provide us with the requested documents that we have asked for. Other organizations that we have reached out to and made the same requests to have turned over the documents in a pretty timely fashion. For failure to comply with our subpoenas, this panel has recommended the House hold Cate Dyer, the CEO of StemExpress, in contempt of Congress. Despite StemExpress' best efforts to stonewall this investigation, the panel did find out the name of StemExpress' bank which we subpoenaed. The bank provided us with StemExpress' banking records. So, again, StemExpress won't give us the records, but we got them from the bank. We now know why StemExpress was hiding these documents. The banking records reveal that StemExpress may have been shredding documents that were directly related to this panel's investigation. The bank records show that payments were made to a shredding company--a shredding company. We looked back at all the records we sought from StemExpress back to 2012, and there is no payments to a shredding company. But when this panel started its investigation and when we started asking for documentation, guess what? You have bank records that show they hired a shredding company. Why hire a shredding company when we were starting our investigation?

Mr. DUFFY. Madam Speaker, there is no cause and no reason why StemExpress would allegedly shred these documents. We both know on both sides of the aisle--though we may have a disagreement on this issue-- that when this Congress sends a lawful request to an institution, they are required to provide the documents that are requested. Both sides of the aisle know that when we send a subpoena, those who are subpoenaed are required to provide those documents to us. So if StemExpress has failed to comply with these requests and these subpoenas, and if they are willing to violate the law in regard to subpoenas to hide information, the question becomes: What laws are they willing to violate in regard to the sale of baby body parts? I think that question deserves to be answered by StemExpress, by this institution, and for the American people. So I would ask support for this additional funding to complete this investigation and provide documentation to this country and to this House about what has been taking place in regard to the procurement and sale of fetal tissue. 1. Date of Congressional Action: August 7, 2015. a. Event: Energy & Commerce Committee letter to StemExpress requesting a briefing. b. Date of StemExpress Payment to Shred-It Us: August 13, 2015. 2. Date of Congressional Action: August 21, 2015. a. Event: StemExpress briefing to Energy & Commerce Committee. b. Date of StemExpress Payment to Shred-It Us: August 13, 2015. 3. Date of Congressional Action: September 17, 2015. a. Event: Senate Judiciary Committee document request letter to StemExpress. b. Date of StemExpress Payment to Shred-It Us: September 29, 2015; November 10, 2015; December 10, 2015. 4. Date of Congressional Action: December 17, 2015. a. Event: Select Investigative Panel document request letter to StemExpress. b. Date of StemExpress Payment to Shred-It Us: January 12, 2016. 5. Date of Congressional Action: January 15, 2016. a. Event: StemExpress first production in response to Select Panel document request letter. b. Date of StemExpress Payment to Shred-It Us: January 12, 2016. 6. Date of Congressional Action: February 9, 2016. a. Event: StemExpress production in response to Select Panel document request letter. b. Date of StemExpress Payment to Shred-It Us: January 27, 2016. 7. Date of Congressional Action: February 12, 2016. a. Event: Select Panel Subpoena to StemExpres. b. Date of StemExpress Payment to Shred-It Us. 8. Date of Congressional Action: March 28, 2016. a. Event: StemExpress production in response to Panel subpoena. b. Date of StemExpress Payment to Shred-It Us: March 21, 2016. 9. Date of Congressional Action: May 10, 2016. a. Event: StemExpress production in response to Panel subpoena. b. Date of StemExpress Payment to Shred-It Us: April 26, 2016.

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Luetkemeyer for all his hard work on what I think is an excellent bill. It is fascinating to sit in this Chamber and listen to the debate and the fear-mongering that takes place. Before I get into that, let's just take a trip down memory lane. We have to look at the financial crisis and what the Democrats chose to do, the idea that you can't let any good crisis go to waste. There is a financial crisis, so we go to our file cabinets, we open them up, and every progressive, liberal idea we take out and put them into Dodd- Frank--a 2,300-page bill, a bill that was written before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission even came out with their report on the cause of the crisis. This is a very, very simple tweak. Right now we have designations for systemically risky banks at a set assets threshold of $50 billion. Let me tell you what, I have banks in Wisconsin. They are small, regional banks--not Wall Street banks--that are getting crushed by these new rules and regulations. So all we are saying to my friends across the aisle is: You love the regulators. You think that the regulators are awesome. We are trying to empower the regulators to look at the facts on the ground and to look at the interconnectedness and complexity to determine risk, not just have a one-size-fits-all mentality. It is not one size fits all. We are more complex. Banks are as different as people. Let's look at the complexity at every bank and make sure they can operate within their communities in a way that fits the risk to the financial system. This gets back to the American people. Why does this matter? Why is this not just about finance and complex rules? Because if banks can't lend, or if they lend and you are driving up the cost of their lending, then that has a real impact on the small businesses in my community and the families in my community that can't get a loan, or the loans they do get, the costs are going through the roof because of all the new compliance costs. The bottom line is why do we want to have increased regulatory burdens on banks that aren't risky? Let's have the regulators focus like a laser on the banks on Wall Street who do need the increased regulation, but not the ones that don't. One size doesn't fit all. Let's work together. Let's modify Dodd- Frank. This isn't Holy Scripture. It didn't come down from Heaven on high. It can be fixed. It is not perfect. Again--we are going to say this all day--Barney Frank even thinks the threshold is too low. It can be fixed.

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Speaker, I look forward to working with my good friend, the ranking member. Commonsense reform that looks to your good friends, the regulators, to take a sound look at risk profiles, and then decide what kind of regulatory regime is necessary for the risk that is presented by each of these banks. I thank the chairman for his work. I encourage everyone on both sides of the aisle to support this commonsense bill that supports small businesses and American families to make America great again.

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. I thank the gentleman from Arizona for yielding, and I thank my friends across the aisle for their support of this commonsense piece of legislation that, again, rights a wrong perception from the U.S. Court of Appeals. Mr. Speaker, many of us in this institution do talk about how we are a nation of laws; but, unfortunately, on June 7, when the U.S. Court of Appeals handed down its decision, it ruled that we are a nation of laws but not a nation of rules and regulations, at least as they apply to Federal workers. We have had a good discussion about the case. Dr. Timothy Rainey, just to summarize again, is a State Department employee who was asked to violate the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and he didn't want to do it; so he denied, and he invoked his right to disobey under the Whistleblower Protection Act. This was brought to the Merit Systems Protection Board, and it ruled against Dr. Rainey. It went to the U.S. Court of Appeals, and it also found against Dr. Rainey. This exposed a glaring inconsistency in the application of the Whistleblower Protection Act, which, again, is inconsistent with the intent of this institution. So we ask ourselves: What does this mean? I chair the Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation. Federal whistleblowers play an important role in exposing the mismanagement at Federal agencies and in supporting the oversight that all of us do in this Congress. Critical to them is the Whistleblower Protection Act, which provides Federal workers with certain safeguards to disclose information that an employee reasonably believes evidences gross mismanagement, a waste of funds, an abuse of authority, or a violation of law. This court ruling will take away those protections when Federal employees stand up against bad actors within our Federal workforce. In effect, this ruling will give permission to supervisors in positions of authority to force Federal workers to violate the rules and regulations that Congress, through law, directs the agencies to implement. For example, at the Treasury Department, one of the agencies that I have the great privilege of overseeing, this would mean that Federal workers could be forced to violate sanctions against Russia for a violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity. Many of those sanctions are enforced through the Code of Federal Regulations pursuant to laws that are passed by this Congress. Regardless of one's opinion about rules and regulations--and if that were the conversation today, I am sure one would have a debate that was far more disagreeable, but that is not the issue. No matter what one thinks about rules and regulations, we should not leave exposed Federal workers who simply want to follow those rules and regulations. This bipartisan Follow the Rules Act, which, again, I introduced with my good friend from Virginia (Mr. Connolly), will close the loophole that was created by the court. What we are doing is ensuring that Federal employees aren't just protected under our whistleblower statute for violations of Federal law, but that they are also protected as whistleblowers if there is a violation of a Federal rule or regulation. This makes sense. It closes a loophole. I think that is why we have seen such bipartisan support from the far right of this institution and the far left of this institution. I think this is a great bill, and I thank my friends for so closely working with me to garner the support.

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Speaker, today I rise with a heavy heart and offer condolences for the passing of former Secretary of Defense Mel Laird who served under Richard Nixon. Secretary Laird was well known, among many things, for the drawdown of troops in Vietnam and, to the delight of many, he suspended the military draft. But for us in Wisconsin, Mel Laird was our Congressman, a young man who was elected at 30 years old and served from 1953 to 1969 until he went to the Secretary of Defense position. When I was running for Congress in the late spring, my phone rang, and on the other end this guy says: Hello, Mel Laird here. Could I speak with Sean Duffy? Well, Mel Laird is larger than life in Wisconsin, a guy from Marshfield. I nearly dropped the phone to think that the great Mel Laird would give me a call. He knew everyone and every issue in Wisconsin at the ripe old age of 90. He passed away yesterday. With a heavy heart, we mourn his passing. I would just like to say, he was a man that President Ford said was the can-do conservative from Wisconsin. He was a patriot more than a partisan, so much so that he was the mentor of Colin Powell. And to the friends he had on both sides of the aisle, they would be tickled to know that Hillary Clinton once interned for him. In true Wisconsin fashion, when I won the seat that he had formerly held, he sent me a Wisconsin block of cheddar cheese. So, today, with a heavy heart, I want to extend my condolences to the family of Mel Laird, thank him and his family for his service, and may his soul rest in peace.

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Speaker, it is my honor to recognize Mr. Justin Schroepfer of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. His life was tragically cut short, but he will always be remembered as a courageous, Good Samaritan who put the well-being of two people he did not know ahead of himself. On June 11, 2016, Justin spotted two women struggling against Lake Superior's strong current. He swam through the frigid water in an attempt to save their lives. One woman made it back to shore, but tragically, both Justin and the other woman succumbed to the unpredictable waters. A graduate of Antigo High School, Mr. Schroepfer was recruited to play baseball at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. He transferred to Northern Michigan University in Marquette after two years and earned a bachelor's degree in accounting. With his degree, Mr. Schroepfer pursued a career at Wipfli CPAs and Consultants in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Along with his talents on the baseball field, Mr. Schroepfer was also an avid outdoorsman. He enjoyed fly-fishing, downhill skiing, and hunting. Mr. Schroepfer was dedicated to his Christian faith and family, and was planning his wedding with the love of his life, Suzy Solin, at his untimely passing. Mr. Speaker, please join me today to recognize Mr. Schroepfer for his courageous action and ultimate sacrifice; we pray that in knowing of his heroic effort, his family may find comfort and peace

Mr. DUFFY

Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Speaker, it is with deep sadness and regret that I rise to inform my colleagues of the death of Rusk County Sheriff's Department Deputy Dan Glaze, who was tragically killed in the line of duty Saturday, October 29th, 2016, while responding to a call in my district. Dan, a seven year Veteran in Law Enforcement, served on the Fall Creek Police Department, Sawyer County Sheriff's Department and Hayward Police Department before serving his last watch with the Rusk County Sheriff's Department. He had recently achieved a career goal of becoming a member of the Rusk County Swat Team. His family remembers him for his: ``strength, dedication to family, sense of humor, and enthusiasm. He was a husband, father, son, brother, mentor, and friend to all of those he met. Those who knew him or met him were all impacted by his passion and willingness to sacrifice for others in order to benefit the greater good of all. Dan's courage will forever be our protection.'' Dan is survived by his loving wife and high-school sweetheart, Sarah and three children, Kendall (18), Levi (5) and Elianna (5 months); his parents, Dan and Jan Glaze; and brothers, John and Allen Glaze. Mr. Speaker, my deepest sympathies are extended to Deputy Glaze's wife and children, family, friends, and colleagues in law enforcement. On behalf of this body, and a very grateful nation, I thank those men and women who risk their lives to give us order, safety, and protect our freedom; we keep them and their families in our thoughts today and always.