Page:Congressional Record - 2016-01-05.pdf/4

 H6

minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize Cliff Koroll, a Chicago Blackhawks legend. After signing with the Blackhawks in 1969, Cliff enjoyed 11 seasons as their right winger, where he reached the 50point mark during four different seasons. He also helped lead the Blackhawks to the Stanley Cup finals twice and later served six seasons as their assistant coach. His talent led him to be inducted into multiple sports halls of fame, but his greatest accomplishment is leading the Chicago Blackhawks Alumni Association. This group of retired players continually gives back to the Chicago community and has given over $1 million in scholarships to the most deserving high school players in Illinois. Cliff is also a supporter of the Chicago Legal Clinic, which provides legal services for immigrants, the disabled, victims of domestic violence, consumers with serious debt issues, and more. Today I urge my colleagues to join me in honoring and celebrating Cliff’s work and accomplishments. f

HONORING KEVIN KLINE AND THE SNOWDROP FOUNDATION (Mr. OLSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, in the movie ‘‘Forrest Gump,’’ Tom Hanks runs for over 3 years. A good friend of mine is like Forrest Gump. His name is Kevin Kline. He is a DJ on the 93Q morning radio show. His partners, Erica Rico and Tim Tuttle, call him Kevin Gump or Forrest Kline. Why? Because for 55 hours over New Year’s, Kevin and others ran, walked, or crawled to save kids with cancer. With his wife, Trish, Kevin started the Snowdrop Foundation because cancer touched a 16-year-old, who lost her life, named Chelsey Campbell. Snowdrop has raised over $1 million in just 9 short years. They did this to ensure no child or parent hears those three awful words, ‘‘You have cancer.’’ All Texans are proud of Kevin and Trish and Snowdrop. To quote Kevin’s idol: ‘‘That’s all I have to say about that.’’

SSpencer on DSK9F6TC42PROD with HOUSE

f

A CRITICAL STEP FORWARD (Mr. GALLEGO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) Mr. GALLEGO. Mr. Speaker, for too long, calls for Congress to pass commonsense gun control measures— heartfelt appeals from concerned Americans of all ages and ideologies, including gun owners—have fallen on deaf ears. Despite the mounting death toll, the Republican leadership has refused to consider any new measures to address

VerDate Sep 11 2014

January 5, 2016

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE

02:51 Jan 06, 2016

Jkt 059060

the devastating impact of gun violence in America. We cannot continue to wait for Republicans to come to their senses. The price of delay for our children, for our families, and for our communities is simply too steep. That is why I applaud President Obama for putting American lives above partisan politics. The President’s executive actions will require more gun sellers to be licensed and to conduct background checks, narrowing the dangerous loopholes that allow guns to fall into the hands of criminals or the mentally ill. The new rules will also make it easier for us to hold irresponsible dealers accountable and to track guns that are lost or stolen. This is a critical step forward, but it is not enough. I call on my colleagues to join the President in taking real action to prevent gun tragedies and keep the American people safe.

The year 2015 has expired. We have just begun this session in 2016. But the question, ladies and gentlemen, is: What are we going to do to serve the public? What are the things that we are going to focus on to make sure that our constituents are safer so that we continue to provide a democracy that is an example for other countries? We have heard just in the first few minutes of these speeches about how we need to make America safer. Well, one way that we can do that is to do our job so that the executive of our country doesn’t have to try to do whatever he can to extend his responsibilities because we are not doing enough. There are too many moments of silence, ladies and gentlemen, where 9, 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50 Americans are killed through senseless violence, and we have done almost nothing about it as a Congress.

f

REVOKE PASSPORTS OF MEMBERS OF FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, ISIS fighters hail from nations all over the world, including the United States. Americans who go to fight the jihadists overseas are able to freely travel back to the United States with their U.S. passports. These homegrown jihadists are not coming back home to open up coffee shops. They are coming home to harm Americans. We have to stop them by keeping them from coming back at all. That is why the United States House passed the Foreign Terrorist Organization Passport Revocation Act, which I introduced. The legislation is simple: revoke or deny passports of Benedict Arnold Americans who have assisted designated foreign terrorist organizations. Not only will the bill help law enforcement locate these individuals, it will prevent them from entering the United States at all. While my bill languishes down the hall in the Senate, Congress did pass a law allowing for the revocation of passports for Americans who are delinquent on their taxes. Mr. Speaker, what is a bigger threat to America and our national security? Tax offenders or terrorists? Congress must get its priorities straight. It is time for the Senate to pass the House bill and revoke passports of members of foreign terrorist organizations who may or may not be tax cheats. And that is just the way it is.

b 1915 PRESIDENT OBAMA’S EXECUTIVE OVERREACH ON GUNS (Mr. BABIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) Mr. BABIN. Mr. Speaker, President Obama is up to it again with his pen and phone. This time he is undermining the Second Amendment rights of American citizens through executive order. President Obama’s disdain for gun owners has been clear from the beginning. This is another sad chapter in his Presidency. It is a shame the President would exploit the latest act of terrorism in this manner. The murders of Americans in San Bernardino were due to a radical Islamic ideology, an ideology that this President will not even acknowledge, though these people have declared war upon us, and nothing this President is doing through his unilateral action will address that. It will only serve to hurt law-abiding American citizens. President Obama is shooting at the wrong target. We are a constitutional republic. The President cannot simply bypass Congress when his ill-advised initiatives are rejected. The President should join Congress in focusing on the growing threat of terrorism rather than making it easier to disarm law-abiding American citizens. We should do all in our power to stop this unconstitutional executive action and overreach. f

MAKING AMERICA SAFER ´ RDENAS asked and was (Mr. CA given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) ´ RDENAS. Mr. Speaker, it is Mr. CA an honor and a privilege to be a Member of this House and to be elected in a wonderful, beautiful economy in the greatest Nation on the Earth.

PO 00000

Frm 00004

Fmt 4636

Sfmt 0634

f

f

IRAQI JEWISH ARCHIVES (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)

E:CRFMK05JA7.010

H05JAPT1