senator klobuchar? >> chris, we know the 276 girls taken by gunpoint, kidnapped by boko haram, which literally means "western education is sinful." what we know is some of the girls have escaped, so we have some information, but most of them are still in captivity. the leader of boko haram has said, in fact, he is selling these girls into sex slavery, some for $12 a person. we do not know if that's true, and so what we have asked for, senator collins, the women of the senate, have come together and said, first of all, the u.n. has to declare boko haram as a terrorist organization. our government already has, and then we need to bring together international resources, which we are sending over now today we've learned france, great britain is, counterterrorism, we have to send over counterintelligence, we have to get people involved that can do hostage negotiating. right now, we do not know where these girls are, but we do know that the world is watching. for three weeks this was off the radar screen, and

klobuchar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, i come to the senate floor today to honor the life of a truly remarkable man, a devoted husband, a loving father and grandfather, a dedicated friend and a true public servant. jim oberstar was a man of purpose and grit who never stopped fighting for the people of his district, the people of northeastern minnesota. his resilience was like the resilience of the people that he represented. he was one of those rare people who was just as comfortable in the aurora, minnesota, parade in khakis and tennis shoes as he was at the french embassy. one unique thing about jim oberstar was that he always broke into french at a moment's notice and he would literally speak french at the french embassy and paris, but he might also speak french at the aurora parade even though no one else there spoke french. whether he was biking the masabi trail or fishing on sturgeon lake or hanging out with some of his constituents at tom and jerry's bar in chisolm which is where he grew up, he always lov

klobuchar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: mr.resident, i come to the senate floor today to honor the life of a truly remarkable man, a devoted husband, a loving father and grandfather, a dedicated friend and a true public servant. jim oberstar was a man of purpose and grit who never stopped fighting for the people of his district, the people of northeastern minnesota. his resilience was like the resilience of the people that he represented. he was one of those rare people who was just as comfortable in the aurora, minnesota, parade in khakis and tennis shoes as he was at the french embassy. one unique thing about jim oberstar was that he always broke into french at a moment's notice and he would literally speak french at the french embassy and paris, but he might also speak french at the aurora parade even though no one else there spoke french. whether he was biking the masabi trail or fishing on sturgeon lake or hanging out with some of his constituents at tom and jerry's bar in chisolm which is where he grew up, he always loved

klobuchar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senior senator from minnesota is recognized. ms. klobuchar: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, i want to thank senators harkin, warren and durbin for their leadership on the important issue of student debt. in the united states, we all appreciate the value of education. we know it leads to higher-paying jobs. we know it leads to better health and even longer lives. education gives everyone in this country a fair shot. my grandpa, he never graduated from high school. he worked 1,500 feet underground in the means of ely, minnesota. he saved money in the coffee can in the basement so he could send my dad to college. my dad went to a community two-year college. he then went on to the university of minnesota, got his journalism degree and went from the coal mines in minn

senator klobuchar. >> well, thank you very much, mr.rman, and thank you for holding that all-day meeting yesterday with senator portman about addiction and the work that needs to be done. i was pleased to take part in that, and we welcome you, administrator leonhart. you spent many years in minnesota, how many years? >> most of my childhood -- >> yes. well, we're proud to have you in this job. as you and i talked about last week, i recently led a delegation to mexico a few weeks ago on the topic of sex trafficking as well as heroin. and i think we asked every single official there including the attorney general of mexico and the head of the federal police about what was going on with heroin. i went there with senator heitkamp and cindy mccain, wife of senator john mccain. and as you know, about 50 percent of the heroin is grown in mexico, and 60 percent of the aaron that we have come into the -- heroin that we have come into the u.s. is either grown or distributed through mexico. just as senator sessions wuss talking about -- was talkin

ornstein. >> senator klobuchar, i want to add a couple points. when we think about corruption it goes both ways. one of the problems with removing all the limits is that the pressure on big donors who can no longer say with an umbrella of protection i have maxed out, being pushed to give more and more, or in some instances we have seen before being told that if they give to the other side then mayhem will ensue upon them in the legislative process is another part of this that's a very real problem. and then what i would also like to say full' give me permission is senator cruz said none of these reforms have done anything except increase corruption. i think it's important to set the record straight. in the sense that mr. potter talked about watergate and it led to a law that changed the way presidential campaigns were funded, and to me it's just incontrovertibly clear that for decades after we changed the presidential system so there were voluntary spending limits and public grants. we had a much cleaner and better system. it fell apart because w

senator klobuchar. >> thank you very much. senator feinstein asked some very good questions about the drug take back program. you know, mr. rannazzisi, that i have the bill that senator cornyn and i passed four years ago to make it easier to do drug take backs, and she talked about the 390 tons, but our problem is we don't have the rules, and i have talked to director leonard i think three or four times. she's from minnesota. i like her a lot. i know you guys are working on this and i know we just got them back from omb which was a great thing, but when do you think those rules will be done because we can't support these drug take back programs to the extent that we want if we don't have the rules from the dea when it's taken four years. >> thank you, ma'am, for that question. and thank you for your support and your leadership on that bill. that was a very important bill for us. right now there is just -- there's one issue that we're trying to address. >> long-term care facilities. something like that. you don't have to tell m

klobuchar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. ms. klobuchar: i ask the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection, the quorum call is suspended. ms. klobuchar: i rise today in support of the industrial savings and competitiveness act of 2014. i'd like to commend senator shaheen and senator portman on their leadership and tireless efforts to craft an energy efficiency bill that is good for consumers, good for our economy, and good for our environment. the shaheen-portman energy efficiency bill is supported by a coalition of environmental organizations, including the natural resources defense council, the sierra club, the blue-green alliance. it's supported by business trade associations like the chamber of commerce and the national association of manufacturers. by working together on a bipartisan basis, the two senators have put together a bill that is officially sponsored by seven democrats and seven republicans, and i believe the vast major

klobuchar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of calendar number 88, s. 394, the metal theft prevention act, that the bill be read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. lee: mr. president, reserving the right to object, the theft of valuable metal is a serious crime, one that can damage valuable infrastructure, sometimes government infrastructure and that can cause serious harm to businesses and to the owners of the infrastructure at issue. for this reason, many states including my own state of utah have enacted measures to deter such criminal activity and punish harshly those who engage in this type of criminal activity. these measures are generally appropriate, but where the fed

klobuchar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, i come to the floor today to speak in support of the water resources and reform development act, also known as the wrrda bill. i'd like to thank senator vitter for his work on this bill, and of course i would also like to thank chairman boxer for her leadership in shepherding this bill through. i think many people thought it would be a very difficult year to get a major infrastructure bill done. she was able to do it, work with senator vitter, work with the house most significantly, and we're very pleased with this bill. i support this legislation because it will keep invasive carp out of minnesota's northern lakes. it will help towns across the country advance critical flood protection projects. it will address overdue port and harbor maintenance on the great lakes. it will also ensure that navigation will remain strong on the inland waterway system, including the powerful and important mississippi river, which, of course, starts in my state in ataska state park where you

senator klobuchar. >> thank you very much. thank you to all of the nominees, and this is a very special day and i can see a lot of happy family members back there. i was going to ask some questions of mr. boggs. i know, mr. boggs, you were a judge for how long? >> ten years. >> obviously there's a lot of understandable questions about the positions that he took as a candidate and in the legislature on joyce and civil rights and marriage equality. did you rule on any of those cases when you were a judge? cases involving those issues. >> as a tall court judge in georgia's highest level of trial courts, i didn't have jurisdiction to rule on constitutional questions if that's your question. as a judge on eating meat appellate court in georgia for the last two and half years with limited constitutional jurisdiction, specifically only deal with the constitution as applied and what it was applied in an unconstitutional fashion. jurisdiction in constitutional cases by side with our superior supreme court. >> could you talk about your

. >> senator klobuchar? >> thank you to all the nominees. this is a very special day and i see you have a lot of happy family members. i was going to ask some questions to mr. boggs. i know you were a judge for how long? >> 10 years now. >> obviously, there is a lot of understandable questions about the positions that you took as a candidate and in the legislature on choice and civil rights and marriage equality. did you rule in any those cases when you were a judge? cases involving those issues? >> as a trial court judge in georgia's highest level of trial court, didn't have jurisdiction to rule on constitutional questions. as a judge in the intermediate appellate court for the last two and half years, we of limited constitutional jurisdiction specifically we only deal with constitution is applied and whether it was applied in an unconstitutional fashion. jurisdiction and confidential cases present with the supreme court. >> can you talk about your overall judicial philosophy? how your personal views have shaped that philosophy? >> i don't

antitrust.we look at amy klobuchar is the chair of the antitrust subcommittee. she is a former prosecutor, very good, very knowledgeable lawyer. butnot an attorney, lawyer, this experience in this business has helped me. to the fcc's new rules, they are not set in stone. we have a common period for four months. how important will it be for citizens to speak of in these coming days? >> very important. chairman wheeler reacted to the pushback from the leak of his .olemic very proposal i think it is very important that we use skeptics and ruling,s of this express themselves, use this comment period, it is very important. u.s. was the one that developed the internet, it scores ofbelow countries for internet speed and access. the world economic forum ranked u.s. 35th out of 140 countries in internet and with. other studies rank it from 14th to 31st in average connection speed. why are we so slow in the u.s.? is we did not categorize it as telecommunications. that would've helped. minnesota, we have a lot of rural areas that .re underserved actually, in the last budge

and so -- and senator klobuchar said she saw no sign of inflation in the foreseeable future. you don't agree with that. and ideally inflation should increase to 2% and that would be a better result as far as you're concerned? >> 2% is the committee's longer term objective, and we would not want to see a persistent deviation either below or above 2%. so it won't be at that level at every moment but we expect it to move up gradually over time back to 2%. >> great. you mentioned during your testimony today, maximum employment and full employment. would you just define those for the committee? >> i'm using those terms interchangeably. maximum employment is the wording that's used in the federal reserve act. it's our goal that congress defined for us. i'm using the term -- >> and what is -- could you use that to a percentage rate, what is maximum employment? >> so i determine maximum employment as meaning a level of employment in the labor market where people are able in a reasonable amount of time to gain work -- >> so -- >> they're qualified. >> for today's purposes, you're not

and when amy klobuchar saw that they wanted to take pizza out of school calf tier az, the company thates 70% of the nation's pizza for schools is located in her state. she wanted to protect those jobs, understandably, and yet, you know, i think there's always this dichotomy between you want to feed our kids well, but these schools get big paybacks from fast food restaurants and you know, 50% of the schools' cafeteria in this country actually serve fast food to their students. one of our experts dr. brin nel i thought said it so well. he said schools have turned into 7-elevens with books. >> that's a great line. michelle obama starts the let's move campaign and starts growing carrots in the white house garden. so big food had an interesting choice. they could push back or sort of -- >> they cooperated with her in the process. she's trying to do the right thing and speaking out and declaring this an issue and motivating americans to pay attention. and a lot of things that have been part improving nutrition in schools all great. she got caught by the food industry saying let's partner wit

i heard senator klobuchar speak today on the floor. she went to a what we consider in this country an exclusive very expensive university. she scrounged together her teacher/mother, her father. i was in the presiding chair as she was speaking. her father is a reporter, journalist columnist as my wife is, and didn't make a lot of money. it was difficult to come up with the tuition room and board for amy klobuchar young 18-year-old student then. but they were able to do it. i look back at my wife who graduated from college 30-plus years ago the daughter of a maintenance worker at a power plant, union member, 35 years in the union. she is the oldest of four. her parents absolutely had a commitment to send her to college but couldn't really afford it. her mother took a job as a home care worker after connie was -- as connie was approaching college age. she is the oldest. she went tpo a -- she went to a state university, kent state university, one of the finest state universities in our state. she graduated in 1979 with only about $1,200 in

joined with the senior senator from oregon, senator wyden, the senior senator from minnesota, senator klobuchar, and the junior senator from illinois, mr. kirk, to introduce something we called the justice for victims of trafficking act. our bill would establish a domestic trafficking victims fund that doesn't come from tax dollars but rather from fees and fines paid by people who commit law enforcement offenses. it would allocate tens of millions of dollars, both to fight human trafficking and just as importantly, to help the victims get the sort of services that they need in order to heal and to become productive citizens once again. it would also give law enforcement officials more tools to crack down on human trafficking, and the broader criminal networks that support them. it would streamline human trafficking task force investigations by giving investigators access to better technology and better cooperation between federal and state law enforcement partnerships. it would allow law enforcement officials to prosecute each and every member of a human trafficking organization as opposed to m

now amy klobuchar joins me now. thank you so much for taking the time. >> thank you. >> are you satisfied with the president's response? he is doing the interviews on climate change. he was asked in each of them about the situation, and he says he is paying attention to it. he talked about his own daughters. he says he is doing something. are you satisfied? >> well, i think it's a start. but i really believe the whole world has to come together on this. we've had no u.n. resolution. i've asked with senator kirk have asked the u.n. -- the president to request such a resolution. and certainly the letter the 20 of us put together where we asked that the u.n. designate boko haram as a terrorist organization is key. we've already done that in our country. but this is an organization in very name, and i'm sure you know this, erin, but it means western education is sinful. that is the name of this group. and they have not just done this in one incident. they have shut down 200 schools in nigeria. they have hacked young boy

. >> chairman feinstein's senator whitehouse and senator klobuchar thank you for the opportunity to discloseur nations opioid epidemic. the increasing use of heroin in suburban rural counties across the country is easily explained. if you speak with the new heroin user they will tell you that they began using heroin after becoming addicted to opioids painkillers. this phenomenon is not new. people have been switching from painkillers to heroin since the epidemic again 18 years ago. like heroin opioid painkillers are made from oak wood and the effects the world's oxycodone and 99% of the hydrocodone supply. on what basis is a concluded that we need more opioids? to end this epidemic i think we must accomplish the same two things we must do for india disease epidemic. one, that we must prevent people from developing the disease in the first place and two we must see the people who have the disease are able to access effective treatment. to prevent people from getting the disease in the first place the medical community must prescribe more cautiously so we don't addict their patients and indire

and so -- and senator klobuchar said she saw no sign of inflation in the foreseeable future. you don't agree with that. and ideally inflation should increase to 2% and that would be a better result as far as you're concerned? >> 2% is the committee's longer term objective, and we would not want to see a persistent deviation either below or above 2%. so it won't be at that level at every moment but we expect it to move up gradually over time back to 2%. >> great. you mentioned during your testimony today, maximum employment and full employment. would you just define those for the committee? >> i'm using those terms interchangeably. maximum employment is the wording that's used in the federal reserve act. it's our goal that congress defined for us. i'm using the term -- >> and what is -- could you use that to a percentage rate, what is maximum employment? >> so i determine maximum employment as meaning a level of employment in the labor market where people are able in a reasonable amount of time to gain work -- >> so -- >> they're qualified. >> for today's purposes, you're not

let me ask you another issue and senator klobuchar began it in a web like to do it in a slightly different way. that is u.s. v. windsor. i am aware a lawsuit is pending so i want to be very careful. i am the main author on repealing the defense of marriage act. i was one of 14 that voted against it in the 1990's and we have 42 cosponsors. we are getting close. as you know, 17 states and the district of columbia have essentially approved the right of marriage to same-sex partners. what doma did was family law, divorce, etc. is generally to preserve a state law. in that case, they made it to preserve a federal law. in so doing, removed some 1100 federal rights from couples that are duly married in their state. so, this involves a state tax right, a social security right, and on and on. the question i have would be if your state were to approve same-sex marriage or the supreme court on the windsor case, i guess would repeal doma, how would you feel and how would you act as a judge? >> my personal feelings would be irrelevant to how i act as a judge. you have my commitment i would follow the d

. >> senator klobuchar? >> thank you to all the nominees. this is a very special day and i see you have a lot of happy family members. i was going to ask some questions to mr. boggs. i know you were a judge for how long? >> 10 years now. >> obviously, there is a lot of understandable questions about the positions that you took as a candidate and in the legislature on choice and civil rights and marriage equality. did you rule in any those cases when you were a judge? cases involving those issues? >> as a trial court judge in georgia's highest level of trial court, didn't have jurisdiction to rule on constitutional questions. as a judge in the intermediate appellate court for the last two and half years, we of limited constitutional jurisdiction specifically we only deal with constitution is applied and whether it was applied in an unconstitutional fashion. jurisdiction and confidential cases present with the supreme court. >> can you talk about your overall judicial philosophy? how your personal views have shaped that philosophy? >> i don't

vice chair klobuchar.the chairman was talking about forward guidance policy, in the past it was about raising the interest rate, the 6.5% on a blended rate, and now the fed says we will consider a wide array of economic indicators and not just the unemployment rate. the question you about this with the other indicators, but could you tell me what you see the benefits of this new approach, and what are the drawbacks of moving away from an exact number? explain about the number, the 6.5%. arrived at that number at a time when the unemployment rate was around eight percent. we were very far from what you would call full employment. .hich is our goal we wanted to indicate to markets that we would need to see a lot of improvement in the labor market, and assuming inflation was under control, before we would dream about raising our target for short-term interest rates. to make that clear, we took the number 6.5%. not,lt confident we would if inflation was under control, consider it appropriate to begin the proce

i'd like to thank my colleagues, senators casey, moran, heinrich, vitter, murkowski, warren, klobuchar, warner, toomey, thune and pryor for joining me to address this very, very critical issue. i recognize that the claims process is complex. there is no silver bullet that's going to solve this problem overnight. but the v.a.'s current efforts will not eliminate the backlog. and it's common sense. targeted solutions from congress that will address some of the inefficiencies that are keeping veterans from receiving a timely decision. that is why this bill has been endorsed by a number of veterans service organizations, including the american legion, veterans of foreign war, the disabled american veterans, the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, the military officers association of america, and the association of the united states navy. i'd like to thank these v.s.o.'s for their support and for collaborating with the working group to develop solutions that will fix this problem. time and again we've asked our men and women in uniform to answer the call of duty, and they do so withou

senator klobuchar, welcome to the hearing. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. two previous hearings including the joint economic committee. so i apologize for getting here now. i think this is an incredibly important topic. i thank you for holding this hearing. i thank justice stevens for his testimony and his support for constitutional amendment. i also thank my colleague here, senator udall, for his work in leading the constitutional amendment which i'm a co-sponsor. i'm very troubled by the recent supreme court decisions, mccutcheon decision extending the damage citizens united caused in my mind. i looked back, i was cleaning out a backroom in my house in minnesota last week, and found a bunch of things from my campaign for county attorney where, mr. chairman, we had $100 limit on contributions in the off election years, and $500 in the election year. i found letters where we returned $10 if people had gone over the $100 limit. i then thought of my first days, i found a bunch of stuff from the 2006 senate campaign where i knew no one to ask money from nation

david cohen, you stated following your response to a question, my counterpart in the senate, amy klobuchar we have independent networks because we're focus on the consumer. if you have compelling content and can make the case that our consumer wants to watch the content we will carry it. first, i would ask you if you stand by that statement. secondly, i would caution you, what may be a consumer in philadelphia, what may be a consumer in alabama, an agricultural county in colorado, is a totally different consumer. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i do stand by that statement and i completely acknowledge the second part of what you are saying, we try to assess what customers want in individual local markets so whereas we do centralize negotiation of content deals out of our headquarters in philadelphia there is enormous input from local systems as to what channels and what programming their customers might want to see. to put flesh on the bones of this we think we are if not the most, one of the most independent programmer friendly distributors in the industry. we kerri 160 independent programmin

that would correct the problems we face with the medical device tax, a bill introduced by senator klobuchar and myself. and i commend her for it. she has had a lot of guts, plus a lot of ability to work on this bill. sadly, the senate democratic leadership has thus far refused to allow an up-or-down vote on the measure even though we nigh know it has broad bipartisan support as i've mentioned. my hope is this will change with the upcoming debate over tax extenders but i'm not holding my breath. given the ongoing experience with the medical device tax, i have to say i'm a little skeptical when my colleagues on the other side of the aisle say they are concerned about american companies moving addresses and operations out of the country. indeed, if they were really so bothered by this, we would have revealed this medical device tax a long time ago. finally, madam president, i would just like to give a brief aside on the topic of retroactive changes to our tax laws. in my view, stability and predictability are bedrock principles of the law. when it comes to our tax code we've gotten away from t

she's now taking questions from the vice chair, senator, amy klobuchar.rce. it's unusually high relative to the unemployment rate. we've really never seen a situation where long-term unemployment is so large, so large a fraction of total unemployment, around 35%. that's very unusual. other things are happening that we really in evaluating how much slack is there in the labor market. labor force participation rate has fallen a lot. now, there's some structural reasons for that, demographics, baby boomers are aging and getting into the years when they retire and their labor force participation naturally declines. so the decline we've seen, it's not entirely because of a weak economy, but i think some of it is because of a weak economy, and in a sense it's hard to give you a precise number for how much of that decline is cyclical. but to the extent there is a cyclical decline, that's more slack, and that's what we're looking at in trying to judge. we're also looking at wage developments and the level of payroll employment creation. >> okay, let me follow up

. >> senator amy klobuchar, thank you for taking the lead on this and coming on "new day." >> of courseght, more bloody battles between ukrainian troops and pro-russian rebels. five rebels were killed overnight. now nato is getting involved even though ukraine is not a member. this after russia's foreign minister end kaindicated moscow challenge the upcoming elections. nick paton walsh is joining us from ukraine with the latest. what do you make of this, nick? >> well, chris, i'm talking to you from inside slaviansk, the hotbed of the unrest here where pro-russian militants have been defending the barricades about the military who have been trying to move in. we've hearing from their spokesperson shooting on the outskirts of town about an hour ago now. in the center of this city which has been galvanized by the moves of the ukrainian forces against the civilians caught in that cross fire. today, somber scenes of funerals here. ten killed in fighting in past 48 hours. a number of civilians as well. people are angry. a lot of anti-american sentiment, too, we hear amongst that crowd. there

i'd also like to thank the senate leads on the bill, senators kirk and klobuchar. finally, again, chairman hensarling and ranking member waters for prioritizing the ed to improve regulatory oversight which will also meet humanitarian needs. i urge my colleagues to support the money remittance improvement act, h.r. 4386, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentlelady reserves. the gentlelady from west virginia. mrs. capito: thank you, madam speaker. i have no further speakers if the gentlelady from california -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized. ms. waters: thank you, madam speaker. i have no further requests for time. i'd like to thank all of those who have worked on this legislation. this is a fine example of how you take a rather difficult and complicated problem and work through ways by which you can ensure security and that lawful actions are continued and in order to make sure that the banking laws are being recognized and being honored and still do something for those people who are de

ornstein. >> senator klobuchar, i want to add a couple points. when we think about corruption it goes both ways. one of the problems with removing alt limits is that the pressure on big donors who can no longer say with an umbrella of protection i have maxed out, being pushed to give more and more, or in some instances we have seen before being told that if they give to the other side then mayhem will ensue upon them in the legislative process is another part of this that's a very real problem. and then what i would also like to say if you give me permission is senator cruz said none of these reforms have done anything except increase corruption. i think it's important to set the record straight. in the sense that mr. potter talked about watergate and it led to a law that changed the way presidential campaigns were funded, and to me it's just incontrovertibly clear that for decades after we changed the presidential system so there were voluntary spending limits and public grants. we had a much cleaner and better system. it fell apart because we d

klobuchar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: thank you, mr. president. i would like to thank the leader for his superb leadership on tourism. anyone that represents the state of nevada understands how important tourism is to our states and to our country, and i think one of the things that the leader knows, it's not just about las vegas. it's also about places like the mall of america in minnesota or all of those great bed and breakfasts and fishing operations in the state of maine or arkansas or missouri. senator blunt is the leader, the republican head of this bill along with myself, and we now have 56 authors on the reauthorization of the travel promotion act, brand u.s.a., in addition to, of course, the immigration bill which would allow us to not just reauthorize the travel promotion act but also the jolt act, which creates all kinds of new ways to add more jobs to america by speeding up the visa process, by creating some more visa waiver countries