The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 410, the nays are zero. 2 3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, and the are suspended bill is passed, as amended. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. The Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from virginia, mr. Goodlatte, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 1123, as amended, on which the yeas and nays were ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 1123, a bill to promote Consumer Choice and wireless competition by permitting consumers to unlock mobile wireless devices and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house swebled the rules and pass the bill suspend the rules and passion the bill, as amended. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 295, the nays are 114. 2 3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. For what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Woodall mr. Speaker, i send to the desk a privileged report for the committee on rules for filing unthe rule. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title. The clerk report to accompany House Resolution 487. Resolution providing for consideration of the bill, h. R. 3865, to prohibit the Internal Revenue service from modifying the standard for determining whether an organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare, for purposes of section 501c4 of the Internal Revenue code of 1986, providing for consideration of the bill, h. R. 2804, to amend title 5, United States code, to require the administrator of the office of information and Regulatory Affairs to publish information about rules on the internet, and for other purposes. And for what purpose does. And for other purposes. And for providing for consideration for motion to suspend the rules. The speaker pro tempore referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. The speaker pro tempore the chair will entertain requests for oneminute speeches. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from North Carolina seek recognition . Ms. Foxx i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, mr. Speaker, but the house is not in order. The speaker pro tempore the house is not in order. The house is not in order. The gentlelady is recognized. Ms. Foxx thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today in support of venezuelans who seek to return liberty, the rule of law and peace to their beleaguered nation. Over a period of years, the corrupt cubanbacked government has systemically a lotted and oppressed the people it purports to serve. I received an email from a friend today who has spent significant time in venezuela. He writes, quote, students, tired of the corruption, the crime, the killings, an economy spiraling out of control, a lack of free press, are peacefully demonstrating for their constitutional right against the government. The government, instead of protecting the students and others demonstrating, is attacking, arresting and often killing them. Mr. Speaker, the death toll is growing. The list of Political Prisoners is growing. The repressive tactics of the venezuelan government cannot be ignored. I call on the administration to act and support venezuelans who seek simply to secure the blessings of liberty for themselves and their countrymen. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition . Without objection, the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Speaker, as they have for weeks, thousands of venezuelans continue to risk their lives, taking to the streets in protest of their failed government. The people of venezuela have seen their economy collapse, family members kidnapped, friends murdered. While they plead for a Better Future for the country, the government brutaly attacked its own citizens and clamps down on basic freedoms. Mr. Garcia this is not a democracy and no conscientious nation should remain silent. It is our responsibility to make sure the world knows full well what is happening in venezuela. And that the venezuelan government is accountable for these blatant violations of universal democratic principles. As the protesters latest motto loses. Who tires the fight for freedom, justice and human rights will never, never die. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition . Ms. Rostrost i ask unanimous consent ms. Roslehtinen i ask unanimous consent to address the house and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized. Ms. Roslehtinen it is important for the taos pay this ion to the case of grassroots leader and founder of the political party, he has been wrongfully accused of criminal incitement, conspiracy, aweson and attempt to damage property. Hes being held in a military prison and his proceedings have been kept secret from the public. We cannot stand idly by while democracy and due process are trampled on in our own hemisphere, mr. Speaker. Being silent is not an option. Venezuelan students have been peacefully demonstrated against this regime that has no qualms repressing the protest with shock unitions and groups whose tactics are extremely violent. Those of us who advocate for support ve a duty to students throughout venezuela who through peaceful means seek to create a more Perfect Union with democracy and freedom as their guide. Thank you, mr. Speaker. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewomans time has expire. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition . I ask unanimous consent to address the house for onemen. The speaker pro tempore without objection the gentlewoman is recognized for ne minute. Ms. Kaptur this weekend, we watched the close of the games in sochi, russia. Our nation distinguished itself. But next door in the nation of ukraine, another olympic struggle was going on, as tens of thousands of young people, the future of that country of ukraine, rose in Peaceful Assembly and achieved their goal of removing corrupt leadership and of offering the hope that life in ukraine could be better for all. May i encourage the leaders of ukraines parliament to of ukraines parliament to rise to this occasion, to embrace all of that great country, to keep the peace, to move forward democratic reform, so that the full potential of that remarkable place on this earth, can be reached for the first time in modern history. May ukraine extend west and south and east and north. Her power is yet to be fully realized and we congratulate those who are moving toward peaceful progress in that nation. May god go with you. I yield back my remaining time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota seek recognition . I ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. This week, on february 8, we recognize rare disease day. Which gives us a chance to recognize Rare Diseases in our communities. There are 7,000 Rare Diseases affecting nearly 30 million americans. One disease i want to raise awareness of is Pulmonary Fibrosis which affects individuals lunged and their ability to breathe. It kills 40,000 americans every year, the same number of annual deaths as breast cancer. Theres still no known cure new york noun cause and no food and Drug Administration approved treatment. Movement we led a in Congress Asking to show more progress in fighting Rare Diseases like pulmonary fie bro sess. I encourage my colleagues and constituents to remember our fellow americans suffering from Rare Diseases including Pulmonary Fibrosis, and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition . I ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Speaker, on february 28, another member of americas greatest generation will be buried at Arlington National cemetery. William t. Mcgee, tom, as he is known, was an american and cincinnatiian we can all be proud of. He was awarded the distinguished flying cross, two bronze stars, and two president ial unit citations during his service in world war ii. Serving aboard a b24 liberator, his plane was shot down over enemy terer to and he survived 10 days in Enemy Territory before returning to the fight. Mr. When strup later with a different crew, he landed a bomber after the pilot and copilot were killed by enemy fire. Tom came home to cincinnati where he lived the rest of his life, devoted to his family, work, and community. Toms legacy of serving his nation inspired three children and two grandchildren to serve in conflicts ranging from vietnam to iraq and afghanistan. Thank you, lieutenant magee. A grateful nation absolutes you. Rest in peace. Rest in peace. Mr. Speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from indiana seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to talk about fairness, to talk about individuals, many from my district, who are being treated unfairly because of the president S Health Care law. Marjorie from carmel recently wrote to tell me that coverage on the exchanges for her family will cost at least 1,500 a month. Her husband recently lost his job in the Health Care Industry and she has two kids in college. Her only option may be to go without health care and pay the penalty to the i. R. S. For marjorie, ba ma cair is not fair. Mr. Speaker, too many hoosier, too many americans, have similar stories. The president has the layed the employer mandate for businesses twice. Ms. Brooks but hes offered no such relief for individual whors studsying. Thats why Steve Scalise and i introduced the fare act this simple bill ensures that whenever the obamacare employer mandate is delayed, the individual mandate will be delayed as well. House republicans understand that fairness means not treated people differently. It means government cannot pick and choose which laws aply to which americans. Mr. Speaker, lets pass this commonsense piece of legislation. Its the fair thing to do. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Thompson i rise as cochairman of the bipartisan career and Technical Education caucus to recognize National Career and Technical Education month. This recognizes the contribution these programs make to the American Economy along with the important work being done by c. T. E. Professionals and teachers. Highpaying, highdemand jobs require Technical Skills and training. C. T. E. Programs have been historically uds utilized, yet in an era of recordhigh unemployment, they are key to the skills gap. This is also a time to ask, are we doing enough to ensure people have the skills to lead to a familysustaining job . I know my colleagues in the caucus have the same concerns. Im pleased to learn that there is now a senateorganized c. T. E. Caucus. I look forward to work with them and mr. Langevin of rhode island as we continue to look at c. T. E. Programs. The speaker pro tempore the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. The clerk leaves of absence requested for mr. Nugent of florida for today, mr. Pastor of arizona for today and the balance of they have of the week and mr. Rush of illinois for today and the balance of the week. The speaker pro tempore without objection the requests are granted. Under the speakers announced policy of january 3, 2013, the gentleman from california, mr. Garamendi, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. Mr. Garamendi thank you, mr. Speaker. Its actually mr. Garamendi and im delighted to be back on the floor once again with another wont take a whole hour here, but i wanted to talk about something thats very important to america and to the future of this country. Id like to start these discussions with, what are we all about . What should we be thinking about . I find myself often going back to Franklin Delano roosevelt, during a very difficult time in americas history, the great depression, he put forth a principle, if you would, a values statement, of what he was about and really what this country could and should be about and he said, the test of our progress is not whether we are whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. Its a values statement. Its a statement of what i like to believe im here for. To deal with this profound, important issue in this and other in this, another period of stress for the American Family. We often find ourselves here on the floor, and i do this almost ll the time, talking about this subject. The subject of making it in america. This is a manufacturing strategy for america and in this strategy there are many elements that we spend time on the floor talking about and legislation that we push here dealing with how to revive the Manufacturing Sector and in doing so give the American Family, the american middle class, an opportunity that it once had to find a goodpaying job, to be able to make it in america with their family. It provides for a home, for food, for clothing, for education, vacations, sort of the american dream. To be able to do those things. They knew if they would work hard theyd be eable to make it. One way of achieving that is with this strategy of rebuilding the american Manufacturing Sector to make it in america. Whether that is manufacturing food as occurs in my district, its a big agricultural district, or some of the new technologies of biotechnologies of one sort or another. The high tech industry. The Automotive Industry is coming back. Endeed for a variety of reasons, some of it had to do with legislative agenda, weve seen the revival of the american Manufacturing Sector. Good. Wonderful. Thats where the middle class jobs will largely come from. There are various pieces of this, theres the trade policy, theres debate on the floor now and in the months ahead about the transpacific partnership, is it going to be fair trade or free trade. We dont need free trade what we need is fair trade. The tax policies, certainly we see this in the kind of tax breaks that are out there, does the oil industry need additional tax brecks . Do they need to be their incomes, which are the largest profits in the world, do they need to be supplemented with american taxpayer money . Right now they are. The big five, 6 billion a year of american taxpayer money, going to them. We talk about tax policy, we talk energy policy, but i want to focus this evening on these two issues. Labor and education. Leaving aseed the research issue, which is fundamental to future Economic Growth because you have to be ahead and thats where the research comes and the infrastructure, which ill weave into this but i want to focus on labor and education. And i want to focus on a very important part of this equation. This very important part about the middle class. And those who want to be in the middle class. Specifically, i want to talk about women. And i want to talk about a womens economic agenda. About why this is critically important. Not just to women and their children and the families, but also to america. And to americas future. We know that the American Family has changed. We know that over the years more and more families are raised by a single parent. And in most cases thats a single mother. And so a womens economic agenda is critical for those children. Its also visitcal for the American Economy. Critical for the American Economy. Because when women succeed, america succeeds. This is a theme were going to spend a lot of time talking about. Were going to talk about women in the American Economy and their success. And here are three of the principles. That we need to talk from. About. Americas success. Is dependent upon the success of women. Because women are a major part of our work force today. And theyre a major part of the poverty issue in america. One in three women in america are living in poverty. Or teatering on the brink of poverty. Thats 42 million women, plus the 28 million children who depend upon them. And the American Family has changed. Today only one in five families has a home maker, mom, thats a stayathome mom, and a working day. Two out of three families de dad. Two out of three families depend on the wages of the working mom. Two out of three families depend on the wages of the working mom who are struggling to balance caregiving as well as bread winning. The average woman continues to be paid just 77 cents for every 1 that a man working in the same job, the same skill sets and the same amount of time at that job earns. So the living wage and equal pay for equal work is critical. The average africanamerican oman earns 64 cents compared to a man doing that same work. And an average la tina earns 55 latina earns 55 cents. This is a huge problem for those individuals. Its also a huge problem for the American Economy. Because a large portion of the American Work force is held back by simple discrimination. Obviously discrimination based on race. Africanamerican woman, a latina woman, 55 of the wage that a man would earn in that same job . Or 64 for an africanamerican woman. Its discrimination for which there ought to be no place in america. Closing the wage gap between men and women would cut the poverty rate in half. Closing the wage gap for an africanamerican woman, for a latina woman, for a european woman would reduce the poverty ate in america by 50 . Is this on the agenda for america . Is poverty on the agenda . You would think so, listening to the debate on the floor of the house of representatives. How do you do it . End wage discrimination. Thats how you do it. This is not a new issue. This is an issue thats been with us at least for the last 60 years. President kennedy talked about this in the early part of his all too short presidency. Women are nearly 2 3 of the minimum wage workers in america. And a vast majority of these workers receive no paid sick days. Not one. Not one paid sick day. Yet these are the mothers, these are the mothers that have the children and these are the children that get sick. So what does is that mother to do . So what is that mother to do . Might very well lose her job, even though shes earning less than a man, she might very well lose her job when she does what every mother wants to do and that is to care for their sick child. More than half of the babies born to women under the age of 30 are born to unmarried mothers. And most of those mothers are white. Singleparent family, and a woman, a white woman earning 77 man is ing a job that a paid a full 1. Theres something wrong with this. This is something that the house of representatives must deal with. And the senate, and im sure the president would sign the bill. Nearly 2 3 of americans and 85 of them believe that government should adopt to the reality of a singleparent family. And use its resources to help children and mothers succeed, regardless of their family status. An overwhelming 96 of single others say paid leave in the workplace policy would be the most help to them. And 80 of all americans say that the government should expand access to highquality, affordable child care. A living wage, equal pay for equal work, paid family and medical leave and affordable child care. This is an agenda. This is the democratic agenda. This ought to be the republican agenda. And it surely ought to be the american agenda, because when women succeed, america succeeds. Three things. Three things that have been on the agenda for america for a long time and that are obviously not yet done. A living wage. This is the minimum wage issue. This is swirling around the congressional debate. Should there be a living wage, a minimum wage of 10. 10 for every american . What would it mean to women . It would mean that half of the women in poverty would no longer be there. And you couple it with equal pay for equal work and suddenly you have an american agenda where we can go after poverty. One of the great debates is about equality of opportunity in america. Where the equality and the wage disparity is addressed. Where we can make some Real Progress in dealing not only with poverty but also dealing with the wellbeing of our children. Were in an america where one out of four American Children go to bed hungry. You want to deal with that issue . Then you deal with a living wage and the minimum wage issue. 10. 10, which is actually just about equal to what the minimum wage was when Ronald Reagan was governor of california. Long before he became president. And then you pay equal for equal work. This is an agenda that ought to be the american agenda. Heres a little bit more on it. The challenge, the gender pay gap. The gender pay gap. Where an africanamerican woman earns 64 or 64 cents of what a male would be paid for that same job. Where a latina earns 55 cents for what a man would earn doing that same job. And when on average across this nation its 77 cents. The gender pay gap. The paycheck fairness act, House Resolution 377. Raise the minimum wage, House Resolution 1010. Which by the way ought to be 10. 10. These bills are introduced. These bills have strong democratic support. These bills are not heard in those committees that our republican colleagues control. Its time, its time for these bills to be taken up. Its time for america to end the gender pay gap with h. R. 377. Its time for the minimum wage to become once again equal to what it was in purchasing power when Ronald Reagan was governor of the state of california in 10. 10 s, h. R. 1010, an hour for every worker in america, wherever they are, whether they are a woman or a man. Working family work and family. Hows a parent to care for their children . You care about family values, this is important. This is important, if you care about family values. Whats a working mother to do . Remember, roughly half of the American Families are now headed by a single woman. That child gets sick, in many places across america, that mother is faced with a terrible quandary. Are they going to go to work and leave the child at home sick . Or are they not going to go to work, lose the day of pay or quite possibly lose the job, which is not uncommon in america. And so we put forth house , paid sick 86 leave act. Something that is common. In fact, in every european country, advanced economies around the world, like ours should be, understand family alues, understand that parents , men and women, husband and wife, or single father or single mother, want to take care of chair child their child. We have six children. Weve raised those children. We have 11 grandchildren. And we understand that those kids are little petri dishes that collect germs and get sick. We understand what it takes to care for a child. It takes the attention, the full attention of the husband or the mother or the single mother or the single father. House resolution 1286 is languishing in the committees, controlled by our republican colleagues. We talk a lot about family value around here. If you really care about it, then youll let that parent have a paid sick leave day so they can care for their child. Children. Oh, we spend a lot of time talking about children. Our future. The destiny of america. Children. What can we do . Now . To help every child in america . What can we do now to help every family in america . Well, i would suggest that we take a look at House Resolution 769. The permanent Child Tax Credit act. We have a Child Tax Credit, it bounces up and down, depending upon the whims of congress and the senate and the president. This would permanently increase the Child Tax Credit. So that every working family, from the top down to the bottom, those people that are on the edge of poverty, those eople that are not now earning 10. 10 an hour, that are at just above the now minimum wage at the federal level, say 7 an hour, so that those people would be able to at least have a little more income with a permanent child care tax credit. How long have we known, how long have we known that if you could give a child early education, prek, prekindergarten education, that that child in the formtific years of their Brain Development formative years of their Brain Development would advance faster and longer in the development of their mind and their capabilities to address the challenges that they will have out ahead . Weve known this for decades. We know that if you can get your child into prek, into Early Childhood education, that that child will be advancing faffletter. Be better able to handle faster. Be better able to handle the first grade, second grade and on, all the way through college. This is not just an american issue. Around the world countries that want to advance their economy, countries that want to have social justice, countries that want their families to have economic opportunity, they want Early Childhood education. And so we put forth house universal 461, the prek education act. Universal prek. Can we afford it . Of course we can, when you consider the benefit to this nation. When you consider the benefit to that venl child. You would say, of course we can afford it. Nd, alternatively, we cannot a in order afford not to do it. We cannot allow a large percentage of our children to not succeed in school, to not be able to keep up, to go into a classroom, illprepared whether its kindergarten, first grade, to begin behind on the first day of school. Its not uncommon. The percentage is probably somewhere sless than 25 of the children in america are able to get prek education. But ill tell you who is able to get it. Those families that have the upper income. Those family whors not worried about the gender pay gap. Those families who are not worried about the minimum wage. They are able to send their children to Early Childhood education courses of all kinds so when those children enter kindergarten, when those children begin the first grade, theyre the ones that are ahead, theyre the ones that are likely to stay ahead. For those children who dont have this opportunity, theyre the ones that are behind. Theyre the ones that are going to fail. They are the theyre the ones that will drop out. And likely to become the troublemakers of the future. So why not give every child in america an equal opportunity to succeed. Can we afford it . You bet. Can we not afford we cannot afford to not do this. This is critical. This is our agenda. When women succeed, america succeeds. This is a family value agenda. This is an agenda where if you care about the American Family if you care about its success, if you care about its health, then these are the issues that we ought to be pushing. The gender pay gap. Equal pay for equal work. Paycheck fairness act. H. R. 377. Raise the minimum wage. House resolution 1010. I would ask our republican colleagues who care deeply about family values, and i know they do, to consider these two pieces of legislation. If you dont want a democratic author, find a republican author, and well support it. We dont care who carries the bill. We just want paycheck fairness, equal pay for equal work. We just want the minimum wage to provide enough for a family to at least survive and thrive. If you care about family values, then youll want to talk about paid sick leave, so a that a mother and father dont have to make a choice between their job and their childs health. H. R. House resolution 1286. Lets give every family a chance. Lets give this a hearing. Lets give this bill a hearing in committee and finally, all of us will stand here on the floor and well talk for hours about our children. But are we willing to actually do something . Are we really actually willing to fund Early Childhood education . And are we willing to make child t a tax break, a tax credit . Or are we just willing to yap and talk. Heres something positive, heres something real, take up House Resolution 769, the permanent Child Tax Credit act, take up universal prek education. House resolution 3461. If youre not willing to take these bills up if youre not willing to introduce something similar to address these issues, then its just all talk. Its just a lot of hot air, for which there is justifiable belief that thats most of whats done around here. Give the American Family a chance. Give american women the opportunity to succeed. Lets do it. And we can. So this is our agenda. This is part of the make it in america agenda, when we talk about labor, when we talk about education, we talk about women in the work force. We talk about their opportunity. We can make it in america. We can make things. We can make locomotives, we can make solar cells, we can make windmills. But if we want the American People to make it, if we want them to be able to take care of their families if we want children to thrive, if we really want the American Family to make it, then we better be thinking about women. And we better remember that when women succeed, then this country will succeed. With that, mr. Speaker, i yield back my remaining time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. Under the speakers announced policy of january 3rks2013, the gentleman from iowa, mr. King is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. Mr. King thank you, mr. Speaker. It is my privilege to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the United States house of representatives and of all the things that are on my mind that id like to express to you, i know that there are also a number of things on the mind of the gentlelady from florida so id be so happy to yield such time as she may consume to the very classy gentlelady from florida. Ms. Roslehtinen i thank the gentleman from iowa for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to urge this legislative body to stand in solidarity with the freedom seekers and the prodemocracy advocates of venezuela. They have taken to the streets, as you can see in these posters, demand an end to the rule of nicholas maduros antidemocratic measures and his failed economic policies that have caused a shortage of basic necessities like bread, electricity, and more. Despite the vast oil wealth that the nation has. But the harshest shortage is democracy. These unarmed, freedom these unarmed freedom seekers have predictably been met by the heavy hand of maduros state thugs as the veans way lan forces have responded with vifpblese. Maduro remains intransigent and vows to continue to unleash the National Guard on these unarmed protesters urn the false pretense of protesting protecting the people of venezuela. Montes cue said there is no great montesquie said theres no greater tyranny than using the rule of law against the force of justice. There have been over a dozen deaths so far, mr. Speaker, a high number of arrests, including one of the most vocal critics of maduro, leopold de lopez who turned himself in even though hes facing serious tumped trumped up charges. His case caused Amnesty International to condition democrat maduro, saying the charges were politically motivated and an attempt to silence dissent in venezuela. I agree. I ask my colleagues to be as vocal and as engaged on the crisis of democracy in venezuela as they have been on the problems in ukraine. It is vitally important to highlight the democratic struggles of the people of vens lay venezuela where over a dozen prodemocracy advocates have been killed over the past weeks as maduro unleashed the thugs in an effort to silence the masses. The people of swens venezuela deserve better than maduros abuse of power, his corruption and antidemocratic measures. They are pleading for help, looking to the world, turning to the United States, to speak out against these injustices and to help them as they fight for their fundamental rights. And the United States must stand with them in this struggle and that is why, mr. Speaker, i have introduced a bill tonight, House Resolution 488, a resolution that says to the people of venezuela, to maduro, and to the world that the United States stands on the side of those who seek liberty who seek democracy in venezuela, and that we will not remain silence while those abuses persist. This resolution also deplores the inexcusable use of violence against opposition leaders and the pr testers, many of whom are just students. And the use of intimidation to try to violence dissent. House resolution 488 also urges responsible nations to not sit quietly by on the sidelines, put to instead stand with them in solidarity, with the people of venezuela, to act i havely encourage a process of dialogue to end the violence. Mr. Speaker, this body must not remain silent on venezuela. I urge my colleagues to stand in support of freedom, in support of peace, in support of nonviolence, in support of democracy and in support of those seeking a peaceful, democratic process in venezuela and to cosponsor my resolution, House Resolution 488. I thank the speaker for the time and i thank the gentleman from iowa for the time, for yielding me the time. Thank you, sir. Mr. King i thank the gentlelady from florida. Reclaiming my time, ill move to the microphone. Again, i think, mr. Speaker, i thank the gentlelady from florida for raising this issue and giving me the number of the bill that i expect to sign on in business tomorrow, h. R. 488. Im of the opinion that here in this house of representatives, we have two few people that demonstrate the leadership that the gentlelady from florida is demonstrating tonight in taking a stand on Foreign Policy issues. And im very happy to see the few cus focus thats been brought on venezuela from some of the leadership that emerges from florida and its caught my attention, mr. Speaker, when i listen to the circumstances taking place in vens way lark i cant help but think about the essentially the sister state led ba and how they have the regime since 1959. Think of this western hemisphere, all of it, as the domain of, as churchill described it from this hemisphere, western kristen dom. The foundation of wen civilization, judeo christianity, the values from the old and new testament, the values that Christopher Columbus brought here across the ocean and that great footprint of the moral values emerged thics that are as part of our Old Testament values, the new testament value the protestant work ethic, turning the other cheek, building a civilization, a society, to provide the best opportunity for sal veags, to glorify god and our country and understand as our Founding Fathers understood, that our rights do come from god and to promote that the fullthroated americanism, as the leaders of the free world, of western christianen dom, has not been asserted strongly enough in this hemisphere and certainly not Strong Enough in other hemispheres, mr. Speaker. But it comes home then you see the violence in place like venezuela where at least a dozen dissidents have been killed as political enemies to the maduro regime. And one a beauty queen, abducted on a motorcycling shot in the head and died last week. The tragedy thats taking place down there, i cant help but reflect back upon my travels in that part of the world and recognizing through some of the places such as argentina and brazil and peru and panama, some of the stops that ive made along the way and not been to venezuela, have been to cuba, mr. Speaker, but one thing i recognize is, in south america they just dont they dont know america very well. They dont americans very well. And they look to the United States as the leader of the free world, the economic leader, the military leader they can cultural leader, but we watched as the beginnings and the breath of the leftist regimes have taken hold in south america for a number of reasons. Some is cultural, some is because nature and power abhors a vacuum and weve allowed a vacuum to take place in places like venezuela. In cuba, we sat back an watched all these years, waiting for the biological solution to be to take place with the castro brothers. Thats the vernacular i picked up on a trip to cuba some time ago. But if the United States take leadership in this hemisphere well see some philosophy, some ideology take that leadership and weve seen it take place in venezuela. Hugo chavez seemed to be enamored with cuba and weve seen gi fidel castro led the marxist regime in cuba and influenced venezuela. Its hard to think of a venezuela thats been such a marxist thorn in the side, a belligerent hugo chavez who called our president the devil from new york city, from the United Nations podium, went on with, ill say a smelly description, that was offensive to anybody on the planet, let alone americans. But hugo chavez drove this marxist agenda in venezuela and