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There are too many members of Congress Today to the west german had not segregated the military. We celebrate his courage today. Theres one big difference between what truman did and what president obama is considering. President truman never asked but ess for legislation, president obama did ask congress repeatedly to act. He has been judicious and his power to reduce executive action. Ask this congress he did ask this congress to act working with both parties. He is year and a half waited patiently until executive action was his last resort. They never passed the bill. The senate icans in said gay people cannot be considered under any standards, democrats tried to get an agreement. When the house said it was not even considered a bill, we democrats said okay lets work on a house bill. When you said immigrants can safe point for citizenship, the president never left the negotiating table. House he speaker of the called the president and said to allow is not going a vote, the president said he was going to do what he said he to going to do all along help this nation. The speaker says he wants a fight with republicans. Ill remind the speaker, that it is for the American People. Fight he will have two millions of american citizens. Parents of dreamers who just came to this country. Setting on his desk truman said i have the power. The president has the responsibility to act even when congress refuses to do so. Like the 1950s after truman desegregated the military, it will be time to act for the congress. The gentleman from florida. Thank you so much. Away from the packed with iran for the nuclear. We know iran is not serious about abandoning the nuclear weapons. Threat to y iran is a the us security. They have been sponsoring terrorism since 1984. Its prox hezbollah and hamas, iran has targeted america and our ally, the democratic jewish state of israel, with violent acts of terror. For over three decades, including the 1979 iranian hostage crisis, the 1983 beirut bombing, and the Marine Barracks bombing, and the 1992 Israeli Embassy bombing and the 1994 Jewish Community center bombing, both in benos aires, argentina. They have been the chief supporter of the rocket attacks in israel like we saw in the year 2006 and 2012 and again just this past summer. In fact, since the iranian hostage crisis in 1979, the United States has been officially in a continued state of National Emergency with respect to iran. A state of emergency that president obama just renewed last week. Tehran continues to demand it has a right to enrich its own uranium. After operating a covert Nuclear Program for decades, iran forfeited any socalled right to enrichment. Yet the centrifuges continue to spin and president obama has seemingly acquiesced to irans illegitimate claim to enrichment. The regime in tehran also maintains an advanced lipids Ballistic Missile program, a program just this week is it used to threaten israel and u. S. Military bases in the middle east. And it is a program that continues to expand in violation of several u. N. Security council resolutions. Iran also remains one of the worlds worst human rights violators. It is currently designated a tier 1 country of particular concern, a designation reserved for the worlds worst most egregious violators of religious freedom by stated by our own state department and the u. S. Commission on International Religious freedom. And despite that selection, not a real election, of a socalled moderate last year, irans human rights record has only gotten worse. As iran has executed a Record Number of people under president , socalled president row hani. Despite all this clear and indisputable evidence that iran is led by a dangerous regime that cannot be trusted, these misguided negotiations taking place right now focus solely on tehrans illicit Nuclear Program and none of it is based on its other illicit activities. So while the president continues to try to reach a deal on irans Nuclear Program at seemingly any cost, he has turned a blind eye to the multitude of other threats that iran poses to us and to global security. Mr. Speaker, the president and the m p5 plus one countries are operating as if irans Nuclear Program exists in a vacuum. In doing so it jeopardizes the civility of the middle east and security of many of us in the west. There is every reason to believe that these negotiations are just one big ploy by the Iranian Regime and the Obama Administration has fallen for it. That is why it is up to us and congress to be the counter balance. Tomorrow the subcommittee which i chair will be convening a hearing on the iranian deal with former c. I. A. Director general haden as one of our witnesses. The general has said that right now we are not getting the proper monitoring and verification provisions that we need. And he said were he still advising the president , general haden would tell him that this deal could not be adequately verified. That is why we must take action to ensure that the administration does not agree to a week, a bad nuclear deal and we must not waiver in our resolve. Unless negotiations result in an agreement that ends irans other illicit activities and ensures that iran will stop all enrichment and will dismantle its nuclear infrastructure, then we must act to impose and strengthen and expand sanctions against the regime and the Administration Must walk away and abandon these foolish and dangerous talks. Thank you, mr. Speaker. The speaker pro tempore the gentleladys time has expired. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Quigley, for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the 113th congress will go down in history as the congress of abandoned authority. With little exception this congress has failed to address the issues the American People sent us here to take on. Tax reform, immigration, transportation infrastructure, climate change. This congress has shown little progress. And in so doing we have ceded more and more of our power as a legislature to the executive. Nowhere has our abandoned authority inflicted greater harm on congress as an institution than our abdication of leadership in the fight against isis. The constitution gives congress and congress alone the power to declare war. While unilateral executive action on every other issue has been met with partisan attacks, this congress seemed content with allowing the president to call the shots on military engagement with isis. Mr. Speaker, this abandoned authority must end. Before the end of the 113th congress we must restore our Constitutional Authority over the nations war powers. We must commit to full open and honest debate on an authorization for use of military force in the fight against isis. Our brave men and women are risking their lives and we are afraid to even risk a vote. Its time for congress to put some skin in the game. Its time for congress to outline in clear terms the Legal Authority under which the u. S. Will wage this war and in so doing future conflicts. The fact of the matter is that right now the u. S. Is at war from august 8 to november 12 we have spent an average of 8 million a day and 776 million in total on military operations to combat isis. As of october 23, the u. S. Has conducted 632 air strikes, involving 6600 sorties, dropping more than 1,700 bombs. We are at war with isis and we are waging that war without congressional authorization. No one should doubt the inhumanity of isis. They pose a threat to the region, our allies, and the innocent civilians of iraq and syria. Left unchecked the threat and reach of isis will grow. Isis has made no secret of its plans to broaden its reach in the region and to attack western nations, even threatening the homeland of the United States. The president was right to target and attack isis with our military assets and to begin to train local onthe Ground Forces, but this is just the start. As our commander in chief, i do believe the president has the Legal Authority to begin these military operations, but the authority to begin a military operation is not a substitute for the full Legal Authority required to continue military operations that must be debated here in the United States congress. The president has said he welcomes a new aumf, and we have debated repeatedly the Affordable Care act more than five dozen times in this congress. On isis, though, on our wartime operations, on sending our brave men and women into harms way, we continue to sit idly. We had a debate on the lastminute amendment to temporarily spending bill that authorized only one small piece of a larger overall strategy. That is not a true debate. Thats certainly not a substitute for war authorization. Americans did not send us here for piecemeal amendments to lastminute spending bills. You disagree with the president and think we shouldnt be arming syrian rebels, lets write an aumf. You think we should be working towards a contingency plan which american Ground Forces get involved . Lets write an aumf. If you think as i do our fight against isis should have clear, defining goals before we consider further authorization. Lets write an aumf. Mr. Speaker, i call on congressional leadership to take up this task. Your members are ready for debate. The American People are ready for a debate. We simply have no excuse to let this opportunity pass us by. Lets step up to the plate. We should not end the 1 spth congress 113th Congress Without debating and passing an authorization for use of military force. Thank you. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time of the the chair now recognizes the gentleman from nevada for five minutes. Mr. Amodei thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to pay tribute to retiring mayor of fernly, nevada, leroy goodman. Native of the sill vear state, born in virginia city, nevada, for the last 44 years, former educator and high school coach, also key member of the private sector after that, working for suntex from the silver state in nevada, for nevada cement. Mayor goodman had and has a statewide network of friends which helped him serve his native city, his city that hes the mayor off, in an extraordinary manner. Member of the association of counties, lion county commissioner for 12 years. Hes one of those few folks that the phrase politician does not apply to. Its public servant. Also applies to him is a word we see used less and less these days when we talk about people elected by those, that is a leader. The father of the effort to create nevadas newest continue core pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20ed city being fernly and the legislature, his leadership was effective, resulted in the creation of that city, the people were very well served. I want to read to you what he said when he was elected to be the mayor after serving a short term as the appointed one. I am both privileged and proud to be voted in as mayor of fernly. I shall indid he ever to fulfill shallignity and purposei endeavor to fulfill with dignity and purpose to improve the overall functioning of the council, city operations, and doing the peoples business. Fernly is nigh home. I am committed to giving the residents my absolute best. Well, mr. Mayor, your absolute best does us all proud. I want to add a few more praises to this tribute and that is class act, true leader, i want to also thank the first lady of fernly, your wife, for her support of you and your endeavors. And say thank you very much on behalf of those folks not only those but throughout nevada. You are truly, truly a part of the fabric of not only your community but our state. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. Scott, for five minutes. Mr. Scott thank you very much, mr. Speaker. Ladies and gentlemen of the congress, ladies and gentlemen of america, president barack obama, i rise this morning with a heavy, heavy heart. At the passing of two great, magnificent americans from my home state of georgia. Herman russell and governor carl sanders, who men, who giants whose lives intertwined at a most important time in the history of this it nation and especially the history of the south. For these two men, Herman Russell and governor carl sanders, ushered in and gave birth to the new south, the south away from segregation. It was Herman Russell and governor carl sanders who broke down the barriers of segregation and paved a new way and a new day for this nation. That is why we are so proud of these two gentlemen. Every school should look at ogbiography auto biographies. Came up and didnt let the ravages of segregation stop him, didnt let his speech impediment to stop him and emerge as the worlds largest, most profitable construction and Real Estate Financial firm owned by an africanamerican but it wouldnt have happened if they didnt have a governor that time named carl sanders who broke down those racial barriers, tell you about them. 19 as a quarterback at the university of georgia, he left the university of georgia and went and volunteered at 19 years old to fight for his country in the military. Came back and ran for the state house of representatives against the segregationist party and this man, because of right place the and the right time, and hurman russell, being in the right Herman Russell, being in the right place at the right time, major league came and they said, build it, they will come. It was carl sanders who passed legislation setting up the Fulton CountyRecreation Authority that made it happen. All of this happening while all around us in the south in racial turmoil. Building russell, his Great Company and being the first africanamerican to sit on the board and member of the Atlanta Chamber of commerce, oh, my friends, the world, these are two great trees who were planted by the rivers of waters and they brought forth their fruit and their season and none of their leaves withered. And let me tell you that every single thing they touched prospered. They touched me. I wouldnt be in congress this day if it werent for Herman Russell, an africanamerican who dared to fight segregation and reached across. And carl sanders, a white governor who himself fought and integrated the schools in eorgia when it was not popular. And who, when i got ready to run for the state house, it was Herman Russell who i asked, could you help me . He said, yes, i will. Who you got with you . I said, i got andy young. I got main ard jackson. Nard jackson. I got jackson. And he said, who you got for white folks . Governor sanders gave me a contribution. Didnt stop there. Even signed two of his lawyers, norman underwood, and dale schwartz, to get out in the community and helped me. Hat is what carl sanders and Herman Russell means. They built atlanta the right way, and when pete rozelle wanted the nfl, all of this while the Civil Rights Movement was turning, but in atlanta the nfl was coming. Picked up the phone and called carl sanders. Can you get me somebody there, governor, whos got 5 million or 6 million . Well bring an nfl team to atlanta. Carl sanders got on the phone and called his old buddy at the university of georgia. We thank god for Herman Russell and carl sanders. God bless Herman Russell and carl sanders, and god bless the United States of america. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Mcclintock, for five minutes. Mr. Speaker, on october 24, Sacramento County sheriffs Deputy Danny Oliver and laster county detective Michael David davis were wantonly gunned down in the most coldblooded rampages in the history of either county. By all accounts these were exemplary Law Enforcement officers, fathers, husbands, sons and neighbors. Deputy oliver spoke his last words as he approached a car in a parking lot for the simple purpose of asking if he could help a couple who appeared to be lost, hows it going, he said . The gunman and his accomplice nexted gunned over as the couple hijacked their car. Miraculously, the bystander survived a gunshot wound to the head but vividly remembers the smile on the gunmans face as he pulled the