received another $42 million cut which means at the beginning of he 2013. that translate into 40,000 fewer students to be served by trio. now, as i as i indicated, this program is a set of programs that seeks to entify brillyant students -- brilliant students that can contribute to the growth of our economy in our society. talent search is a program, it's a very low cost, early intervention program which identifies students for colleges

for grades 6-12 and work towards giving students for about going to college. 79 of talent search participants were admitted. upward bound is an intensive intervention program that prepares students for higher education and 77% of these students who participated are enrolled in college. the upward bound math-science program which we know more of them, 86.5% of these students go on to college. we have upward bound for veterans, student support services and again, the numbers are very, very high for students who complete in these programs. the educational opportunity centers is a program where we have reached back for displaced workers, people who have not been in college and bring them

back into the fold, and we have seen a 57% increase in the number of participants who have been college dropouts who have re-enrolled or displaced workers. and we have the ronald e. mcnare achievement program, named after the famous astronaut who lost his life, which prepares low-income minority students for doctoral programs. i will yield to you for questions, mr. horse ford. but let me -- horsford, but let me reiterate this point. if we fail to invest in young people -- i mean starting out with starving them, you know, i'm still reeling from the comments of my colleague, barbara lee, because the food stamp bill that is before us, would have nearly a quarter of a

million students lose their free lunch program. and the ma -- majority of folks who are served by the food stamp program, you know, are not these welfare queens or slick hustlers. they are elderly children and disabled people. so if we as a country have decided that we don't need to feed babies, we are eating our seed corn, and that is an act of desperation that will take us own a perilous road. mr. horsford: thank you, congresswoman moore, and i couldn't agree with you more, first and foremost your last point, if we fail to invest in our children, in our elderly and in the disabled, then we have done a disservice to them and to r -- and to society as a

whole. moore moore that's right. we can't lift america out of poverty without lifting americans out of poverty. we are a family. mr. horsford: a lot of times when these programs get talked about, the various acronyms, billions of dollars there, waste, fraud and abuse gets brought up oftentimes as the red herring in the room at a lot of our committee hearings, but there is a face behind each one of these programs. there is real people depending on, as you indicate, the 1250,000 children who would lose free and reduced lunches. how is a child supposed to learn if they're hungry? how are they supposed to focus if they haven't been able to see a doctor or see a dentist.

these are real issues that are facing this congress. and i know a lot of times again, those on the other side, somehow want to make this out more than what it is on people and how it affects people. moore moore i can tell you, we can have a society by design or by default. we can just let it all go as it will. i was moved earlier by the tribute that our colleagues, on a bipartisan basis, made to senator lautenberg upon his passing. and once again, here's an example of an american who ultimately became very wealthy, but it was because america embraced him with their values. he went to school on the g.i. bill. he was able to go to school -- he did not have any wealth. and because he was an american, and an american sold year, he

as able to -- solder, he was able to build, not only a great senator, but a great economic enterprises and a lot of jobs that he created and that's how america is supposed to work. and we need to realize that educational opportunity is one of our basic strategies for staying on top in a global economy. mr. horsford: opportunity is the keyword there, mr. speaker. this isn't about a handout. this isn't about providing social services, it's about opportunity. and education is one of those st funnel -- fundamental opportunities and you an advocate of funding, these programs that provide tremendous opportunity for first-generation college students, those who may not have even had the knowledge

of how to go about applying to enroll, financial aid and scholarships, but yet that door to opportunity that then leads to careers and their ability to contribute to sustain for themselves and their family, that's what i'm talking about, mr. speaker, is providing that opportunity. and right now we are having this big debate whether that opportunity should come with a huge burden of debt. moore moore exactly. mr. horsford: when they finish school, should they be so far in debt that they can't afford to buy a home, buy a car, start saving for their future, or should they be focused on paying $2,000 a month in debt for college loans. moore moore and that is an extremely important point. these young people who are going to college are doing us a favor to become educated.

widgits areking the dying out not only from technology, but from outsourcing. we are going to win this game by having the highest skilled worker, whether it be in farming or manufacturing or research and development and to see this congress gutting research and development, anything that looks academic or associated with intelligence or studying at all, decimating it, it is eating our seed corn and hopefully we can reverse this curse before they get too far down the line. thank you for letting me participate. mr. horsford: with your voice and continued participation, we will do that, continue to advocate these priorities. and i turnh carolina, the vice

chairman of the c.b.c. to a quick question that came in from the twitter line. it's from dr. davis 920 who asks how can we increase money in underserved areas for students from high school to college instead of doing more with less funding? so i'm going to ask our vice chairman if he would tackle that question as he provides his response. i yield to the gentleman from north carolina, congressman butterfield. mr. butterfield: i have a few points that i want to make. do you have an idea of how much time we have remaining so i can llocate my time? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from nevada has 26 minutes. mr. butterfield: mr. horsford, i think the question that has been

raised by the gentleman is a very pertinent point. we have seen over the last 18 to 24 months, a deep cut in our federal budget. there are some who believe that discretionary spending is too much and that we need to engage in what i call draconian cuts to discretionary spending and because of that, we have seen discretionary accounts reduced significantly and is going to affect not only higher education but public education as well. mr. horsford, i want to thank you for allowing me to say a few words here this evening. this is a very appropriate conversation for the congressional black caucus to have. i want to thank you and mr. jeffries for coming to the floor each week and lifting up the issues that the congressional black caucus feels are so vitally important to debate here in this congress. ms. fudge has left the floor but i thank the chair of our caucus for all that she does.

she stays in perpt tall motion and i want to thank her publicly for what she does not only for the people of ohio but for the people in congress. barbara lee has been talking about issues of poverty ever since i came to this place nine years ago and i associate myself with everything she said and everything that congresswoman moore said a moment ago. mr. horsford, i don't know much about your state of nevada, but i can tell you about my state of north carolina, and i can tell you, these are some tough times. these are tough times for poor people. these are tough times for rural communities all across america. i represent one of the poorest districts in the whole country. one in four people in my district, mr. speaker, including 36% of children, live at or below the poverty level.

that's a statistic that is worth bearing. i want to repeat it, 36% of the children who live in my congressional district live below the poverty level, and that is unacceptable. the poverty problem in america is actually getting worse, at a time when it should be getting better, it is actually getting worse. there's a huge difference, a huge gap between tvs and have -- between the haves and have nots. median household incomes have dropped since the year 2000. my district has viv i had and unfortunate illustrations of poverty. for example, nearly one in 20 homes in some counties do not have a telephone or a kitchen. a lot of my friends in urban communities cannot relate to that. but nearly one in 20 homes in some counties do not have a

telephone or a kitchen. many of my constituents are still living without indoor plumbing in the year 2013. the time to invest in our children and in our nation's future is now. we must first undo the cuts from sequestration. and gentleman who sent us a message a few moments ago may have been referring to sequestration. we must undo the cut we are seeing involving sequestration. they are devastating to our communities all across the country. sequestration has slashed head start funding, impacting thousands and thousands of children. it has cut job search assistance for thousands of people. eliminated millions of dollars from the meals for low-income seniors. it cuts nutrition funding by 600,000 women and children. housing and emergency shelter

funding for nearly 100,000 homeless people. and emergency unemployment compensation benefits by nearly 11%. instead of indiscriminately cutting funding for critical economic development programs, we must invest in programs and mr. horsford, that's what you have been saying each week. we must invest in programs which give people a handup toward making it on their own. important programs such as emergency unemployment insurance, the work force investment act and supplemental nutrition program and supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children. we call it the w.i.c. program that give people the ability to provide for their families. house version of the farm bill, and that's been alluded to by the two previous speakers, it cuts $20 billion from the snap

program. that is unthinkable. the house version of the farm bill has cut $20 billion from the snap program. snap is not a government throwaway or handout. snap monies go directly to needy families that are in need the most. we are talking about seniors and children, families that need it the most. republican proposals to slash funding for a program that feeds poor people is simply unacceptable. but there is hope on the horizon for some of our country's poor and uninsured. we can be encouraged that the affordable care act will be fully implemented in a few months hell pping the -- helping the people in my district. i would say in closing and thank you for giving me this time. i will say that the congressional black caucus is very concerned about poverty and

we have constructed a plan to address persistent poverty. we are alarmed that so many communities all across the country have experienced a poverty level that exceeds 20% and it has been persisting now for more than 30 years. so our plan in the congressional black caucus is to target federal resources and census tracks of high levels of unemployment and high poverty. we call it the 10-20-30 plan. we have to do it for the sake of america. thank you for mr. horsford. you have been very kind. i yield back. . . mr. horsford: i want to commend you for being very plain with how desperate the situation is for so many people. you talked about 36% of people in north carolina, in parts of your district, living in poverty, and the fact that they

are going without basic fundamentals. things that many of the us probably just take for granted in america. there are people in america who are going without the basics. and that is not something often that's talked about here in washington. definitely not in this house. and when so much attention is placed on, you know, corporate special interests and subsidies for big corporations, it's time that we start changing the debate and focusing on the people who most need government support and those are the people that you just talked about. mr. butterfield: poverty is all around us. whether notice my district or your district or any -- whether it's in my district or your district. poverty is persistent and it's all across america. it's within the shadows of this capitol. when i drive home, i'll go right through some very poor low-income communities within blocks of this capitol. we must do better, we've got to address as a congress the whole issue of poverty. .hank you

mr. horsford: thank you. and you were very clear and i know mr. clyburn would expect nothing less than for us to lay out what our solution is. i know some people ask, well, what is the congressional plaque caucus' position on how to address poverty? and you touched on it. it's the 10/20/30 policy. this means that 10% of funds from certain accounts would be directed to areas that have poverty rates of 20% for the last 30 years in america. so rather than, you know, spending money everywhere, let's spend it where there's the most need, the most critical need and where there has been generational need now for 30 years, so that we can see the type of outcomes, the return on investments and the change that people so desperately need. mr. butterfield: absolutely. mr. horsford: thank you to the gentleman from north carolina. now i'd like to turn to the chairman, the cho chairman for the progress -- the co-chairman for the progressive caucus, the gentleman from minnesota, i want to commend him and the

progressive caucus the i know you had a hearing before the -- caucus. i know you had a hearing before the recess to listen to concerns and how working people, really the working poor, are struggling and i'd like to yield as much time as the gentleman from minnesota needs to cover his points at this time. mr. ellison: well, mr. speaker, i just want to just say that the congressman from nevada, our friend steve horsford, and hakim jeffries, are doing you a awesome job. i'm so proud to see you gentlemen holding forth about the issues that affect this whole country and things that the congressional black caucus, of which we're all members, are doing. i also want to let people know, who may be tuned in, mr. speaker, that there are people in this congress who believe that hard work should be rewarded, who believe that when people get up in the morning, pound it out all day to put food on the table for their

families, that it is nothing less than an insult for somebody else who's living in plenty to look back on them and say, you're not working hard enough, you're not doing quite enough. the fact is, sometimes hard working people need the help of their government. there's no shame in that, there's nothing wrong with that. lord knows apple computer grease that sometimes hard working people -- agrees that sometimes hardworking people needed help of their government. the fact of the matter is that we did have a hearing and that hearing did involve low-wage workers, people making $7, $8, $8.25 an hour, some of whom are working for contractors who had contracts with the federal government, people who were literally working in buildings ke the union station, like the reagan building, federal buildings across washington, but also across this country, who were not working for the federal government, but were working for contractors who had

contractors with the federal -- contracts with the federal government, paying them $7 an hour, a wage that's not livable, not sustainable. you know, folks often speak dericively, mr. speaker, about low-income folks. why don't they make more money? what's wrong with them? well, they're working eight hours a day, they're working 40 hours a week. you know, they're working three jobs, but they can still barely put food on the table and they're raising their children. and they need food stamps and if we cut the food stamp budget by $20 billion, we're going to be cutting families who work hard, two, three jobs, every day. i've heard my republican friends talk about this cultural dependency. somehow that moral judgment, oh, the good book says, judge not least thee be judged. mr. horsford: what's ironic about the culture of dependency is they never talk about it

when we bring up corporate welfare or corporate entitlements. we really want to talk about entitlements and who's depending upon government? then let's put it all on the table and the billions of dollars that go to special interests, but yet we want to take away services for poor, needy children, families, the elderly, and the disabled. that's really the comparison? mr. ellison: the gentleman's absolutely right. it is utter hypocrisy to sit up here and talk about the culture of dependency and not talk about corporate welfare. you know, me and senator bernie sanders, and awesome gentleman, by the way, have a bill called end corporate welfare act in ich we identify $110 billion worth of corporate giveaways to big oil, big coal and big natural gas. now, look, these are industries that are making record profits.

exxonmobil is not having any trouble. why do they need the american people's money? why do they need a subsidy? well, they're getting one and yet people in this very body are willing to stand back and say, poor folks working three, four jobs need to have their money cut. i mean, it is astounding, it's shocking how pip critical some of the things that we see -- hypocritical some of the things we see go on here. but i want to say this, mr. speaker, this is a country of, by and for the people. it's a country designed to let the voice of the people be heard. and yet sometimes the people's voice is muted because it's so difficult for the average person to take off time, to come down here, to talk about what they want to talk about, to be able to access their government. and so this is times when you

and mr. jeffries can come down here and talk about the importance of food stamps, of trio, and talk about the absolute concentration of wealth at the very tip-top of the economic string in this country. i'm going to wrap up here, mr. horsford, but i just want to wrap up by saying this, working people across this country need to know that when poverty increases, the money just doesn't disappear, it goes to the very top of the economy. and that's why since about 2008, if you look at the newly created wealth in this economy, about 93% of it went to the top 1%. now, my friends on the republican caucus belief that -- believe that rich people don't have enough money and poor people have too much. which is why they want to cut food stamps and cut taxes for the richest people. one of them even said to me one time, keith, a poor person has never given me a job. like, wow, that's the attitude we're dealing with. the bottom line is, the bottom line is, mr. horsford, is that

low-income workers are taking matters in their own hands. low-income workers in detroit in chicago, in new york, in st. louis, even here in washington, d.c., have come together and said -- and had strikes. even mcdonald's workers, in order to get better pay. now, they are brave and they're courageous, their taking their families' needs into their own hands. we wish them the best whefment a hearing so they could -- best. we had a hearing so they could be heard. but if we had a functioning labor relations board, would they need to go on strike and risk their jobs? if we had a social safety net, would they be in such dire straits? if we made sure that american workers had an increase in the minimum wage and we were paying a livable wage, would they be in this situation? the american people are standing up for a better life. but the truth is, public policy is a failing -- policies are faring them and we've got to do

better question. start by getting rid of sequester and getting rid of this very bad idea of cutting $20 billion out of supplemental nutrition. i yield back to the gentleman and again thank you for your excellent work. mr. horsford: thank you to the gentleman from minnesota. and again thank you for your leadership. on behalf. progressive caucus -- on behalf of the progressive caucus. and we work together here to try to bring these issues fooshed. we appreciate your hard work -- forward. i'm i we appreciate your hard work -- we appreciate your hard work. i'm pleased to be joined by the gentleman from new york, who, you know, represents i think a community that has constituents who are struggling, like many constituents in my district, the fourth district in nevada, and so i just want to pose the question to you, mr. jeffries, around this whole issue of income inequality that we just spent nearly the hour talking about. and the fact that it's increased by more than -- by more over the last three years

than in the previous 12 years. that under the republican policies, the budget that they propose, middle class families with children pay on average $3,000 more in taxes but yet higher taxes or tax cuts, excuse me, upwards of $245,000 were given for some of the wealthiest in america. and now here we heard so many programs from snap to gear-up, to trio, funding for k-12 education, for head-start, to $20 billion cuts to snap, these are the things on the cutting board but yet we're giving tax cuts to wealthy americans and corporate subsidies. what do you say about that, my friend from new york? i yield to you at this time. mr. jeffries: i want to thank my good friend and distinguished gentleman from the silver state for once again

anchoring the c.b.c. special order, this hour of power. where for the 60 minutes that we've been allotted we and congressional black caucus have an opportunity to speak directly to the american people on an issue of great significance. income inequality. which as you've pointed out, representative horsford, has increased, gotten worse, not better, in recent years. and in fact in recent decades. it's a very troubling trend. the fact that in america, and we celebrate success in america , celebrate entrepreneurship and the ability of people to prosper, but we in the c.b.c. think that america is at its greatest when we promote progress for everybody. where we work as hard as we can in this congress and in this country to lift the entire

civic participation rates and economic participation rates of everybody in this country. now, for the last several decades, objectively and empirically, the rich have gotten richer. they've seen their incomes increase since 1979 by in excess of 275%. now, in isolation that wouldn't be problematic, but when you consider what has happened to the least of those amongst us, to middle-income americans as well, the situation is extremely troubling. the poor in many instances have gotten poorer. and working families and middle class folks and those who aspire to be part of the middle class are still struggling. in many instances they've been left behind. now, it's often been said that

hen wall street catches a cold , many low-income americans get a fever. well, we know that in 2008 wall street in fact got the flu. and ever since many low-income communities across this great country have been dealing with economic pneumonia. that's bad for the country, it's bad for our democracy and we here in the country ought to do something about it. one of the things that has acerbated the economic inquality, some americans have recovered and others have been left behind. we are in a tough situation. corporate profits are way up.

the stock market is way up. the productivity of the american worker is way up. yet unemployment remains stubbornly high. and wages for working families and for low-income americans has remained stagnant. that's why we are arguing in the c.b.c. that what we should be doing in america right now is investing in our economy, lifting up low-income workers and working families and those who aspire to be part of the middle class. invest in education, invest in job training, invest in job research and development, invest in transportation and infrastructure and technology and innovation. invest in america in these ways. put people back to work. so we can increase consumer

demand. and if you increase consumer demand, the economy is going to combrow. if the economy grows, the deficit as a percentage of g.d.p. will of course will reduce. everybody benefits. if you can't find the compassion simply to do the right thing for those low-income americans who are struggling here in this great country, basic economic theory suggests that the right ,hing to do would be to provide support to those americans who will spend that additional income that they have, put it into the economy in order to help for morrow bus recovery. so i thank the gentleman from nevada for his leadership on this issue of great importance, and i yield back the balance of my time. mr. horsford: thank you again to

my good friend from new york, mr. jeffries. and i just want to ask you, the proposal by the c.b.c., which supports a 10-20-30 policy for federal spending, how do you feel this would improve outcomes , address prioritizing of resources and create the type of positive impact that would ultimately lead to reduced poverty? america. mr. jeffries: we don't need slash-and-burn budgets that reduce our safety net programs, an important part of who we are in america. what we should be doing consistent with the 10-20-30 proposal is targeting our investment in a way that is nonpartisan in nature, that will direct resources to rural america and to urban america to blue states and to red states that will focus on the poverty

problem in a way that will benefit americans no matter where they might be. that's what we should be doing as a congress. that's what 10-20-30 is all about. and i'm hopeful we can find our bay to a bipartisan immediating of the minds, find common ground and engage in investing in programs that will lift people out of poverty in this great country. mr. horsford: thank you. thank you to my friend and co-anchor and to those who have listened to the last hour, thank you for joining the conversation. so we are going to continue this conversation because 46 million people in our country live in poverty. 16 million of them are children. the u.s. poverty rate has risen and approaches a 50-year high. no where in america that a family of four can live on $23

,550 and not expect some type of support and these are the issues we are confronting, mr. speaker. we want to work with our colleagues on the other side but do it in a way that addresses the root causes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. horsford: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and insert additional materials on this topic and also house resolution 242. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> i send to the desk a privileged report from the committee on rules for filing under the rules. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: report to accompany house resolution 243, making appropriations for military

construction, the department of veterans affairs and related agencies for fiscal year ending september 0, 2014, and for other purposes and providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 2217, making appropriations for the department of homeland security for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2014 and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> mr. speaker, i move the house adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair the ayes have it. the motion is aagreed to. the house stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m.

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the two chame he beers is in large part of how they contemplate the sequester going forward. the senate democrats have and mixed spending cuts and tax increases to wipe it off the map. the house is assuming that the sequester is going to take hold. even the very basic issue that the two chambers are in disagreement about how to factor in the sequestration. and it's something that the house appropriations committee chairman, hal rogers, in the last couple of weeks has openly despaired of how the sequester is making it hard to write his funding bills and said it's causing damage to the budget but he is under marching orders from the leadership to assume that the sequestration is going to

stay in place. he has crafted his 12 bills to take that into account. >> in the seconds we have left, what about the debt ceiling? >> the debt ceiling is liking to come up sometime in the fall and there is some prospect that the 2014 iling and fmple y. f.y. 2014 funding bills will come late in september, early october. >> we thank you. >> senator frank lautenberg died this morning at the age of 89. the new jersey democrat was the last world war ii veteran senching in of senate. several senators spoke on the floor about his life and career. > let us pray.

o, god, thank you for being near to us in good and bad times. we celebrate your wonderful blessings that bring us new victories each day. as we look at the flowers on the desk of our friend and brother, senator frank lautenberg, we thank you for his life and legacy. as we mourn his death, send your comfort into our hearts. bless bonnie and his family and give them your peace. and ur memory of this good courageous american inspire us

to transcend the barriers that divide us and to work for the good of america. amen. in your name, >> please join me in citing the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.. >> the clerk will read a communication to the senate. >> washington, d.c., june 3, 2013. under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, i hereby the

perform the ain to duties of the chair. >> the senate observes a moment of silence on behalf of senator frank r. lautenberg, senator from new jersey. >> if all members could please stand.

>> mr. president. >> majority leader. >> i have a few matters i must take care of. winding business. consideration of the farm bill, 5:30, two roll call votes and two amendments. bills due for a second reading. >> the clerk will read the bills for a reading for the second time. >> act to approve the construction of the keystone pipeline and for other purposes. .r. 271, act to clarify that compliance with emergency order under section 202-c. >> i object to further proceedings with regard to both of these matters. >> objection having been heard. the measures will now be placed on the calendar. mr. president, when i learned earlier this morning that frank

lautenberg had died, of course i .ecame very, very sad i served with him for two and a half decades or more in the senate and to see now the flowers on his desk, it seems the flowers have barely wilted on the desk that was height rind enator inohue. i have a heavy heart, senior citizen from new jersey and my friend, frank lautenberg died this morning, as we all know. our thoughts are with his lovely wife bonnie, children and 13 grandchildren. few people in the history of this institution contributed as much to our nation and to the united states senate as frank lautenberg. success story is what the american dream is all about.

he came from a family of working-class immigrants from eastern europe, russia and poland. his parents struggled and i have heard frank talk about how they struggled. they worked so hard. they moved around new jersey often. when frank was 18 during the middle of world war ii, he enlisted in the united states army. during world war ii, he served in the signal corps and i can remember frank talking about his experiences in the european theater. he was on the army signal corps, up on wooden power poles and he his ee a war going on in sight. during world war ii, he talked about the many experiences he had, as he said making him a

better american. he was very proud of his military service. he is the last world war ii veteran having served in the senate. we don't have any more world war ii veterans in the senate. his death is a great loss to this institution in many, many different ways. and when frank came home from the war, he was obviously very attend d was allowed to prestigious columbia university and did it on the g.i. bill like many other returning americans did. but he quickly found his own business, his own company. he did it with two friends, all three of them from new jersey, three kids from new jersey, under his leadership, this firm, automatic data processing, a.d.p., largest computing

service of its kind in the world. he was proud and never hesitated to tell everyone that he made money. he became rich. he was a poor boy. became wealthy as a result. people being able to fulfill their dreams as people can do in america. frank wasn't content with his personal success alone. he was proud of a lot of the civic and charitable things he did. nothing made him more proud than when he served as the head of the united jewish appeal. he was very proud of that. mr. president, frank lautenberg was known for many, many things. before he came to the senate, he ran an impossible race to the senate and was elected. in 1982, he came to the congress

the same year that i did and on the three decades since, he has worked tirelessly on behalf of his state and the country. he retired once. he couldn't stand retirement. he hated retirement. he couldn't stay away from public service. and returned to the senate again in 2002. he had a remarkable career. i just touched upon a few things. his determination that made him successful in the private sector served him well in the united states senate. mr. president, motivated by his own experience, frank lautenberg, a world war ii veteran co-authored the g.i. bill of rights recognizing how much this meant to him and wanted to make sure the vets enjoyed the same opportunities for education that helped him

become so successful. mr. president, my youngest boy and ated cigarette smoke it really made him ill. and airplanes, remember we went through a procedure where you could smoke every place in the airplane and finally only part of the airplane. didn't matter. frank lautenberg took care of my boy and millions of other people that would no longer have to suck in that smoke when they are in an airplane. he is the one more than anyone else that we have to thank for protecting us from deadly second-hand smoke in an airplane because his legislation banned smoking on airplanes. also was a long time member of the environment public works committee. had he not retired in that short

period of time, he would have been chairman of that committee because he wasn't there. i got the opportunity to be chair of that committee on two separate occasions. infrastructure, roads and highways and one of he things he would make this country, you couldn't beverage alcohol any place in the country unless you were 21 years of age. the national drunk driving standard is what it was called. he believed in helping the state of new jersey, that was his first priority. and his second priority was helping the country. and i'm not sure which order it came. hard to understand the difference. he was focused on the country and new jersey at the same time. frank wanted to make sure that women and children were protected from gun violence and because of him, we passed

legislation here that convicted domestic abusers. so just a few examples of his work in the senate that literally saved lives. and mr. president, he came out f his sick bed in a wheelchair to vote on gun legislation. he agreed with 90% of the american people, people who had severe mental problems or felons shouldn't be able to buy a gun. he agreed with 90% of the american people. and he came from his bed to come here and vote with us. he was so happy to be here. he came here once after that, just a few days ago, to vote when we needed him again. he tried so hard talking to bonnie today, she said he was confident he would live to be

100. we was a very strong man physically. couple of years ago, i took a big delegation to china, bipartisan group. it was a wonderful trip. frank lautenberg, that was his last foreign travel. and i can remember indicating what a strong man he was physically. i haven't been to the great wall of china. i hadn't been. and it's pretty steep and big rocks there there have been so many centuries and centuries. and because frank was 88 years old at the time, somebody grabbed his arm to help him go thrup. he pushed them away and wanted no help. he was on his own and that's the way he wanted to be. i, our nation, owes a great debt of gratitude to frank for his outstanding service. he has always been so kind to

me. he was won that really appreciated his service. he appreciated being here. he loved being in the senate. and the nation's going to miss his strength and his progressive leadership. mr. president, the other thing that probably a lot of people don't know about frank lautenberg, his sense of human our. i had him tell a story because no one could tell the story like him, but another reason, frank laughed his own jokes and thought they were funny. one of our favorites was about two wrestlers. there was five minutes to tell the story, but it was hilarious, no one could tell like frank. he had a sense of human our and we appreciated that. even though the united states

senate at midnight last night had al franken and we still have al franken but there was room for two funny people prior to frank's death this morning. ank and al, frank lautenberg and al franken always made us smile and often made us laugh. now i guess it's going to be up to us, senator franken to do this along, because they were both really funny together and apart. it's with deep sadness that the senate family is going to say good-bye, are going to do that wednesday morning. exemplary public servant, faithful friend in frank lautenberg. >> the clerk will call the roll.

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