Floor Statements

Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Kristi Shreve who is receiving the 2020 Hillsborough Schools' Community Care Award. Every year, the Associated Parents' Group of Hillsborough selects a non-resident employee who has made sustained, significant and lasting contributions that have touched the lives of our children and benefited the community as a whole.

Mrs. Shreve is an outstanding educator who has dedicated her life to teaching and uplifting the next generation. She began teaching in Hillsborough 24 years ago as a teacher at South Preschool. She became a student-teacher at South School and was hired by Hillsborough School District in 2002 as a 2nd-grade teacher at South. A year later, she transferred to West School where she has been a 1st through 3rd-grade teacher ever since. Mrs. Shreve is a member of the Leadership Team at West, a Data Advisor, a New Teacher Mentor, a Teacher in Charge, a Technology Mentor, an HTA Site Representative, HTA Negotiator, and HTA President, among the many leadership roles she is holding. Her work ethic and compassion have earned her the respect and adoration of her colleagues, students and their parents.

An essential quality of an outstanding teacher is the ability to meet students where they are. Mrs. Shreve gets to know each student and his or her unique needs. She becomes a true advocate and will always go the extra mile. With parents, she forms partnerships that are characterized by flawless communication, strong and trusting relationships, and joint advocacy for the students. These relationships live on beyond their time at the school.

Mrs. Shreve led the first Tyler Yamagishi Walk-a-Thon at West School raising money for the Tyler Yamagishi Scholarship Fund and the Riekes Center in Menlo Park. Tyler Yamagishi was a West student who succumbed to osteosarcoma at the young age of 14. The Riekes Center is a non- profit community space that offers character-building programs in art, music, nature awareness, sports training, and other life skill areas. Mrs. Shreve also worked with the Hillsborough Beautification Committee and the West Parent Group on the memorial tree project in Tyler's memory. Another project that showcased her inexhaustible empathy was the ``Love Notes for Montecito.'' All students at West made valentines for students and staff at Montecito Union Elementary School in Santa Barbara County after devastating fires and mud slides in 2018.

When not at school, Mrs. Shreve loves to spend time with her husband, John, their own children, Alyssa and Brendan, and their two cats, Snowy and Cookies. They reside in Daly City.

Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in commending Kristi Shreve for being an exemplary teacher, one of the most influential and noble vocations in shaping our common future. She is a role model and an inspiration to us all.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Harini Krishnan who is being honored as the 2020 Hillsborough Schools' Citizen of the Year. Every year, the Associated Parents' Group of Hillsborough selects an individual who has made sustained and significant contributions to the Hillsborough community, especially to education and to the well- being of children. I couldn't think of a more deserving recipient than my friend Harini Krishnan. I have known her for many years and seen first-hand her tireless advocacy for others. With a big smile on her face, she takes on problems she identifies and any task handed to her. If you want to get something done, ask Harini.

Somehow, she finds enough hours in the day to serve a long list of organizations. In addition to being a parent volunteer for the Hillsborough City School District, she was the Parent Group President at West School and Crocker School, served on the board of the Associated Parents' Group, was the Community Campaign Co-Chair for the Hillsborough Schools Foundation, co-chaired the Hillsborough Family Fun Day Carnival, and continues to be the Neighborhood Lead for the Hillsborough Neighborhood Network. Harini is a champion for public schools and has also taken a leadership role in the San Mateo High School parent community. She has served as the Co-President of the Foundation Board for five years, is the Mock Trial Parent Liaison, and is a member of Music, Drama and Dance Boosters.

A resident of Hillsborough for 20 years, Harini is a true global citizen and applies her spirit and empathy to anything she does. She is an acclaimed Indian classical vocalist and lecturer. At Crocker, she taught a class on Indian history, culture and arts and she hosted Hillsborough Schools Foundation Pay-to-Play parties at her home where she taught people how to cook traditional Indian food and adorn saris. Her goal is not only to make people knowledgeable about Indian culture, but to inspire them to be global citizens and lifelong

learners. She believes that the best way for our children to have empathy and to be people of good character is by walking in other people's shoes and by exploring the world beyond their backyards.

Harini also was instrumental in organizing the now annual trips for Crocker's 8th graders to Washington, D.C. It's a great opportunity for the students to learn about congressional history and to see democracy in action.

Additionally, Harini applies her love for the arts to her work as vice chair of the San Mateo County Arts Commission and on the 2020 California Arts Council State Local Partners Grant Panel. She is a champion for social justice and gender equality and serves on the boards of Equal Access International and FUND HER. In her never-ending pursuit of growing and learning, she is currently enrolled in a program in public leadership at Harvard Kennedy School. As you can surmise from this long list of public service and engagement, Harini is an exemplary community leader.

She is also a devoted wife and mother. She and her husband, Vika Jha, a startup entrepreneur, have raised two remarkable children, Janani and Abhaya, who are college students pursuing their own dreams. They are talented and extraordinarily gifted. I have been in awe of their accomplishments.

Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in commending Harini Krishnan for her countless contributions to our community and for her determination to recruit more global citizens to make the world a better place.

Madam Speaker, I rise to congratulate Jefferson High School in Daly City on the occasion of its 100th birthday. Home of the Jefferson Grizzlies, Jefferson High School has been educating children since its inception in 1922, staring with 50 students. Previously, all high school students in Daly City attended school in San Francisco.

Courses offered in the original school were mathematics, science, English, Spanish, dramatics, commercial arithmetic, typing, bookkeeping, spelling, penmanship, PE for girls and boys, civics, vocational guidance, free hand drawing, and music. The original three teachers were Gilda Belloni, Gladys Lukes, and Barto Molineux. Mr. Neal O. Best was Chief Administrator but also taught mathematics, science and boys' athletics.

From the start, it was evident that a permanent and larger school would be needed. A $180,000 bond measure was approved, but there was disagreement about the best site for the new building. Some wanted it located on Hillside Boulevard in Edgewood Terrace, while others wanted it near the greyhound racing track at Union Coursing Park between Mission and Railroad Avenue. The voters settled the matter in March 1923. The building was built near the racetrack, and the first class of freshmen entered in 1925.

On May 26, 1926, Jefferson High School graduated its first class from the new school site, 13 seniors. The following year, the University of California accredited Jefferson High School on July 26th, and a month later an alumni association was formed. A significant modernization of the high school occurred in 1963 and 2017. Legendary NFL Hall of Fame coach and award-winning broadcaster John Madden, a proud Jefferson High School alum, contributed lights for the school's stadium.

From its founding to our present day, Jefferson has graduated a number of other distinguished alums. These students include Edwin Mulitalo. Super Bowl Champion, Floyd Gonella, former district superintendent and San Mateo County Superintendent of Schools, and Justice Teri L. Jackson, currently serving on the California Court of Appeal.

Jefferson High School takes pride in its diverse student body, and its outstanding curriculum. The school meets every student where they are in their learning to ensure that all students are able to demonstrate mastery of essential skills and content upon graduation. AP classes are open to all students. The school offers a competitive robotics and engineering program and dual enrollment for career technical education is available under an agreement with Skyline College. Students graduate with both college and high school credits.

In addition to its strong curriculum, Jefferson High School received the 2019 San Mateo County School Board Association Kent Award recognizing schools with innovative and replicable programs, and a 2019 Daly City Sustainability Award. Its community and club involvement are substantial. The Grizzly Go Club, sponsored by the local public utility, made portable solar power ``suitcases'' that were then sent to Ecuador for use in schools that have no electricity. Jefferson High School partners with Second Harvest Food Bank to distribute food to over 1200 families, monthly. Thirty clubs, including but not limited to Social Justice and Activism, Anime and Mock Trial, offer students many opportunities to become involved further in their school and education. The 11th and 12th graders are partnered with 9th graders to ensure a smooth transition into the school. At the senior level, Jefferson partners with the Japanese Community Youth Council (JCYC) to help first generation students navigate the college entrance process.

Madam Speaker, America is at her best when it offers free public education to its children. Jefferson High School has long offered a high-quality education to all comers. The shaping of young minds through science, history, athletics and other wonderful courses offered at this school builds our country as much as the creation of any work of public engineering. America and Daly City succeed because we invest in students, invest in their success, and celebrate their coming of age as adults within our community. I thank Jefferson High School, and congratulate them on their birthday.

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Florida and my friend and co-lead on the Democratic Women's Caucus. I must say, she is always the shining light when it comes to finding purpose and the opportunity for women to succeed. She has proven herself over and over again as we have seen our numbers of women grow here in the Congress of the United States.

To my good friend Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, today was a great day of celebration as VAWA was reauthorized. I know you concurred with me when President Biden said, Why don't we make this permanent? That is precisely what we should be doing. But somehow, it is a law that has to be reauthorized every 5 years. It used to be almost something that we did in a bipartisan fashion, and reauthorization was almost automatic. But recently, that wasn't the case.

So to Congresswoman Jackson Lee, thank you for the very complete and comprehensive review of women in America that you just provided us.

As we celebrate national Women's History Month, we were all asked to talk about someone that we wanted to pay special attention to. I decided that I was going to speak about a particular group of women who represent what the essence of womanhood is, which is that they are tenacious, that they are courageous, that they are gritty, and that they will go wherever they need to go to achieve their goal.

There was what was called the Night of Terror in November 1917. During that whole period of time, women would march every day here in Washington, D.C., thousands of them. For the first time, they went and picketed outside the White House. It had never been done before. They chained themselves to the cyclone fence at the White House.

On this night in November 1917, there were 35 of these women who were arrested. They were beaten, and they were spat upon. They had rotten eggs thrown in their faces. The food they were given in jail was so bad that many of them went on a hunger strike, and then they had tubes put in their noses to force-feed them. One woman was struck between the eyes and lost one of her eyes.

What were they doing this for? So women could get the right to vote in the United States.

Because up until that time women were, for all intents and purposes, chattel. There were people like George Bernard Shaw who said: If women got the right to vote there would be a crushing tax on bachelors in America. Another one from the Seneca Falls Review that said: If women got the right to vote they would become thin-lipped, fat-handed, and flat-chested. Oh, my God.

Those were the kinds of thoughts that somehow women did not have the mental capacity to vote because in their skull they only had puppies and chocolate and babies that were in their brains; that somehow that was the kind of political cartoon that was represented.

Certainly, women who were menopausal couldn't vote because they were near extinction. Women who were pregnant or having children couldn't vote because they were lactating. You name it, they came up with it. Having said all that, there were true sheroes of that generation.

Madam Speaker, I want to speak tonight about a different group of women who are fighting for the lives of their countrymen and -women, and that is the strength of the Ukrainian women.

Here is a Ukrainian woman. Here is someone bloodied by Putin's weapon systems: she is still standing; she is still alive. We can't say that about all the women in Ukraine. The world looked on in absolute horror as images of injured and murdered Ukrainian women and children have spread around the globe.

When the hospital in Mariupol was bombed, we saw pregnant women holding their bellies, climbing down stairs. Then we saw a stretcher of a women on a towel--it looked like it was a colorful towel that she brought with her to the hospital. The photo of this pregnant woman who was rushed out of the maternity hospital in Mariupol last week made my blood run cold. The news yesterday that she and her baby had died outraged me.

She was taken to another hospital in Mariupol and when she realized she was losing her baby, medics said that she cried out: Kill me now. Her pelvis was crushed. Her hip detached. The baby was delivered by C- section, but showed no signs of life. She died shortly thereafter.

That is an imprint on my mind that will never leave me and should never leave any of us because what is happening to women in Ukraine is sinful, it is immoral. It is in fact a crime against humanity.

Putin's forces also killed Tetiana, her son Mykyta, 18, and her daughter Alisa, 9, as they tried to flee Kyiv with a church volunteer. She worked for a Silicon Valley software company and was married to her husband of 23 years. He said, ``I have lost everyone and lost the meaning of life.''

Women in Russia are suffering, too, and they are showing lots of guts. They are speaking out against Putin. Here you see a woman, her name is Marina Ovsyannikova. She ran on to the live TV set on a Russian TV station, the most-watched news program in all of Russia, to protest the war. Her sign, which is written both in English and in Russian, reads: No war. Stop the war. Don't believe the propaganda, they are lying to you.

After she was taken into custody, she was questioned for 14 hours. She wasn't

allowed to sleep, to access her family, her lawyers, and she refused to recant her message. Somewhere in Russia right now is Marina, another courageous woman who is speaking truth to power. Russian mothers are angrily demanding Putin to be held accountable for using their sons, as many as 6,000 of whom have already been killed in Ukraine, using them as cannon fodder for his egotistical legacy project.

I am also in awe of the brave Ukrainian women literally leading the fight to protect their country. Nearly 22 percent of Ukraine's armed forces are female--22 percent. Here you see them in their camouflage. The 22 percent is one of the highest percentages of females serving in the military in the world. In the United States it is only something like 18 percent. And more women are joining the fight every day.

Even women members of Ukraine's parliament have taken up arms to defend their homeland. I think about that and I think how many of us women parliamentarians in Congress would do the same? It is a good opportunity for us to do some soul-searching.

We must have the backs of all Ukrainian women. I am proud that the United States has imposed unprecedented sanctions and export controls on the Russian economy. Just last week we stood on this floor and passed the bipartisan $13 billion aid package for Ukraine to assist the military and provide for the humanitarian needs.

Today, the President announced another package of weapons that are going to be sent to Ukraine, including Javelins and switchblades and body armor and helmets and drones, all in an effort to try and provide more protection for the people of Ukraine.

We must hold Putin accountable for the immeasurable death and suffering he has wrought. In doing so, I hope we can show a fraction of the grit and perseverance of the Ukrainian people, and especially the women of Ukraine.

Madam Speaker, I thank the leader of our caucus, Ms. Frankel.

Madam Speaker, I am just going to close with some expectations. I am leaving Congress this year, and I want to convey to you, Madam Speaker, to the leadership of the Democratic Women's Caucus, and to all of my colleagues how important I think that you are as guardians of womanhood. Our job is never done.

So while we may celebrate these small victories from time to time, the ERA is not part of our Constitution. Of the 193 countries in the world, 165 have the ERA in their Constitutions. The United States does not. It is 24 little words. Thirty-eight States have passed it. We have this deadline that we have struck from the legislation in the House. The Senate has not taken it up.

Femicide is a huge problem in Latin America. The Democratic Women's Caucus will have a presentation this Friday on that. The 5,000 missing Native-American women in this country that really we had no cognizance of until we had a Native-American woman in the Congress to talk about it.

Finally, a new issue--probably not a new issue--is one that has just percolated to the surface, and that is female inmates in Federal prisons who are raped by the wardens, the chaplains, and the guards. Congresswoman Bass, Congressman Swalwell, and I went to the Federal correctional institution in Dublin this week.

Now, at that one prison, the warden had raped inmates, the chaplain had raped inmates, and two of the guards that we know of had raped inmates.

It is profound that we change the culture in these prisons to prevent that from happening and from the training of guards and leadership at those facilities to treat these women with a certain amount of dignity that you would just provide to another human being.

What we heard about the kinds of things that are said about them-- they are called hos and called just horrible things that make us realize that we still have a lot of work to do.

So as I conclude, let me just say, Madam Speaker, that we are the guardians of womanhood for the future, and I will look on with fondness and great appreciation.

Madam Speaker, I am grateful for the opportunity tonight for a Special Order on this International Women's Day.

There are a lot of ironies about this day. We in the Democratic Women's Caucus and the Bipartisan Women's Caucus could not let this day go by without drawing attention to what is happening in Ukraine to women, mothers, and children. The irony is particularly significant because International Women's Day is a national holiday in Ukraine and Russia.

The Administrator of USAID and former U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power commented on this today. She referenced that the founder of International Women's Day was a woman by the name of Theresa Malkiel. She was a Jewish labor organizer in New York. She was born in what is now Ukraine, and she emigrated to the United States to escape persecution. Madam Speaker, 130 years later, Ukrainian women are now being forced to leave their homes as well.

Now, we are heralding the incredible strength of Ukrainian women. They are facing unimaginable horrors brought about by Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Putin alone.

Last year, President Putin sent a message to women for International Women's Day in Russia. He said: ``I wish you good health and success . . . . And, of course, I would like you to have as many reasons for smiles and joy as possible.''

I guess the question to ask Putin is: Does that apply to Ukrainian women as well, the women you presume are Russian but are willing to have them be forced into death marches because you feel compelled to shell communities throughout Ukraine?

Last week, Vladimir Putin's forces killed a woman and two children in cold blood as they attempted to escape over a bridge in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, and he continues to order the shelling of evacuation corridors as Ukrainian civilians attempt to flee. Over 1 million of them have already left. It is going to be millions and millions more.

Let me just show you a couple of pictures, Madam Speaker. This is a woman in Ukraine on International Women's Day, thanks to Vladimir Putin. This is what Vladimir Putin thinks of women. These are the smiles he wants to see on their faces, the joy he wants to see in their eyes.

This man needs to be called out for what he is. He is a tyrant, and he is committing premeditated war on the Ukrainian people and Ukrainian women and children. He is doing so and committing war crimes as well.

Let me show you yet another picture, Madam Speaker.

This is one that is hard to look at. These are three dead women who were trying to escape and were shelled down. They are now dead. They have their suitcases and their backpacks. One is a small girl. This is what Vladimir Putin is doing in Ukraine, and he must be called out for it.

His bloodthirsty disregard for the lives of women and children has never been more apparent. Last month, I was disgusted to hear him use a crude rape reference to urge Ukraine to acquiesce to Russia's demands, saying: ``You may like it. You may not. But you will have to endure it, my beauty.''

Vladimir Putin said this: ``You may like it. You may not. But you will have to endure it, my beauty.''

His senseless war has already caused nearly 500 civilian deaths, and it is probably more than that, including 29 children, and it is probably more than that. He has already forced 2 million Ukrainian people, mostly women and children--in fact, about half of them children--to flee their country.

On the news tonight was a story about an 11-year-old child whose mother let him leave. He traveled 700 miles to get to a safe haven. His mother, from some outpost somewhere in Ukraine, put up a video thanking those who had taken her son into their arms and who had brought him to safety. That is what Vladimir Putin is forcing Ukrainian families to do.

The vast majority of these refugees, as I said, are women and children who have left their husbands, their brothers, and their fathers behind to fight. For the first time--for the first time ever-- half of these refugees are children.

Now, think about the scars that will take place in the minds of those children over their lifetimes. These are children who should be home playing in

their neighborhoods and heading off to school, not hiding in bomb shelters and fleeing across borders, not crying in their mama's arms for milk when all they can get is water.

Women and girls who are single and arriving at the border face an increased risk of exploitation and abuse, including sexual violence, gender-based violence, and trafficking.

Welcome to International Women's Day. Welcome to what Vladimir Putin said he wanted, to put smiles and joy on the faces of women. Instead, women are becoming victims of sex trafficking and rape.

The disruption of essential services and emergency medical care has already affected the women in Ukraine. We have seen heartbreaking reports of mothers giving birth in makeshift bomb shelters and underground metro stations as Russia bombs Ukraine's cities.

The U.N. estimates that 80,000 Ukrainian women will give birth in the next 3 months--80,000 of them. That is as many women who will give birth as I have in one of my larger cities in my district. Many of these women are going to do it alone without the support of their family or their spouses, and they are going to do it without access to medication or critical and lifesaving care.

This is the joy and smiles that Vladimir Putin talked about in his address for International Women's Day last year. I don't know what he said to the Russian women today. Did he send them flowers, give them candy, and offer them gifts?

This is what he calls gifts to the Ukrainian women. The Russian conflict in the Donbas region has already led to an increase in sexual violence. In 2019, one in three Ukrainian women reported experiencing physical or sexual violence, and the current crisis increases this risk exponentially.

We have seen a horrific increase in sexual violence just in the past 2 weeks. In the city of Kherson alone, Russian soldiers raped at least 11 women, in some cases so brutally that only five of them have survived.

We must elevate these stories and call Vladimir Putin out for what he is. He is a misogynistic, evil dictator.

Nevertheless, Ukrainian women are fighting back. I am really in awe of the ordinary, brave Ukrainian women who are leading the fight to protect their country.

I am going to show you a picture now, Madam Speaker, of the Ukrainian women. These are Ukrainian women. They represent almost 22 percent of Ukraine's armed forces, which is one of the highest percentages in the world. In the United States, the number of women serving in the military is like 18 percent. It is 22 percent in Ukraine.

Many women, many mothers, are taking their children to the border to hand them off to family members in Poland or Romania or other locales and then going back in to join in the fight.

More women are joining the fight every day. They are teachers, nurses, accountants, police officers, and grandmothers. The list goes on and on. Even women members of the Ukrainian parliament, who just 1\1/2\ weeks ago were writing their country's laws, have taken up arms in defense of Ukraine.

I guess we should all ask a question: Would we do that?

The Ukrainian parliamentary members are doing that. It is important for us to have their backs.

I am proud that the United States has imposed unprecedented sanctions and export controls on the Russian economy. I am proud of what our President has done by solidifying the support of all NATO nations, something that hasn't been done for a very long time.

NATO countries throughout Europe are stepping up in terms of how much money they are committing to their defense. They all recognize that this is about more than Ukraine. This is about freedom for all of Europe.

I commend the Speaker for working quickly to bring a Russia energy sanctions package to the floor and committing to sending $14 billion to Ukraine to aid its military and assist with humanitarian responses. We must bring the full weight of the U.S. Government and our allies to bear in holding Putin accountable for his aggression and his violations of international law.

Let me show you this picture, Madam Speaker. This is International Women's Day. There is no joy on the faces of these people. There are no smiles.

This is Vladimir Putin's war. He has every intention to annihilate an entire population of people in Ukraine. This is not just an unprovoked war; this is a premeditated, savage, murderous, and tyrannical attempt of genocide.

I hope that we have the guts to call him out. We need to create our red line, and our red line should be that every Ukrainian person who wants to leave the country will have safe passage to a safe country before another bullet or another missile is put into the air.

I hope we do not see the unthinkable happen in Ukraine.

God bless our Ukrainian women and children. God bless our Ukrainian President. God bless the military in Ukraine who fights on and all those who recognize that freedom is not cheap and freedom is not given. If you want a democracy, you have to be willing to put your name, your body, and your soul on the line to protect the community that you love.

Madam Speaker, I have the great and distinct honor to yield to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), who is my colleague whom I adore. She co-chairs the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus and has been passionate about drawing attention to the fate of the Ukrainian people.

I thank the remarkable gentlewoman from Ohio, whose passion and commitment to the Ukrainian people is just so evident. She said that they will be victorious. I believe her because we are going to make sure they are going to be victorious. We have their backs.

I am reminded of this comment by one Ukrainian woman, and she said: Nobody thought this is how we would spend our weekend; a teacher from the town of Dnipro told a cameraman as she and her neighbors made molotov cocktails. She said: I planned to plant tulips and daffodils on my backyard today. Instead, I learned to fire arms and get ready for the next night of attacks on Kyiv. These women are strong and committed, and we will have their backs.

It is now a great privilege to yield to the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms. Dean), co-chair of the bipartisan Women's Caucus and a talented leader.

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms. Dean) for her outstanding remarks.

Madam Speaker, there are many people to thank. There are many organizations to thank.

When we look at who is bringing shelter and aid to the Ukrainian people now, the nonprofit organizations around the world, CARE, Catholic Relief Services, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Rescue Committee, Plan International, Save the Children, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, World Food Program, and World Health Organization. To all of them, we say thank you.

Let's be clear: This is Putin's war. He will pay the price. His vicious, premeditated attempt of genocide of the Ukrainian people will not be tolerated.

Tonight, I want to close with this photograph of Ukrainian women in uniform. They are fighting for their country, their future, their children, and truly for freedom around the world.

Madam Speaker, I yield back.

Madam Speaker, I thank the chairman for the opportunity.

This is nothing short of profound; the impact it is going to have on 60 million Americans who don't even know that they have agreed to forced arbitration and the fact that in 98 percent of the cases of sexual assault and sexual harassment in the workplace, the employer wins.

We had a hearing last week in which the NFL staffers at the Washington Commanders talked about the sexual harassment and sexual assault that they endured. One of them said in the year and a half that she worked there, she was sexually harassed every single day.

Let me speak about Loretta Lee of California who was fired from Google after complaining about male coworkers making lewd remarks, sending her disturbing messages, hiding under her desk, and showing up at her apartment. In addition to losing her right to file suit, she was also forced to meet with her perpetrators, resulting in retaliation.

Representative Bustos has done a great service to men and women who are sexually harassed and sexually assaulted in the workplace. I commend her, and I applaud her.

Madam Speaker, I urge all my colleagues to vote for this amendment and for the legislation.

Madam Speaker, I thank the chairwoman for the bold legislation and for her legacy of service.

Members, we cannot rest, we cannot be asleep at the switch. The countries that innovate and commercialize new

technologies the fastest will be able to set the political, military, and economic agenda for the 21st century. We must prevail.

The global microchip shortage is only a symptom of a broader challenge, which is that the United States' share of global semiconductor production has fallen from 37 percent to just 12 percent over the last 30 years.

President Putin recently said the country that becomes the leader in AI will reign the world. Think about that. It is all about artificial intelligence. In the field of AI, China now surpasses the United States in the global share of research papers and consistently files more AI patents than any other country.

The America COMPETES Act will reset our focus. We need to invest in research; we need to invest in application; and we need to invest in talent.

The decline in American technology, innovation, and competitiveness is a national security challenge. We must avoid it.

Madam Speaker, I rise to honor South San Francisco Police Chief Jeff Azzopardi on the occasion of his retirement. After almost 30 years of service with the department, Chief Azzopardi has decided that it is time for a new chapter in his life that will allow him to spend more time with his family.

I had the great honor to work with Chief Azzopardi since he was appointed in 2014. One of the more memorable occasions was a press conference in 2017 in which we announced the first-ever conviction for human trafficking in San Mateo County. That success reflected the outstanding collaboration of law enforcement, elected officials, and nonprofit organizations on the local, state, and federal level. Chief Azzopardi played an essential role in that collaboration.

Jeff Azzopardi was hired as a police recruit for the South San Francisco Police Department and sworn in as an officer in 1993. From there he rose through the ranks of K-9 officer, S.W.A.T. officer, school community liaison officer, police corporal, criminal investigations bureau officer, police sergeant, community relations sergeant, police lieutenant, criminal investigations bureau commander, and police captain. After the retirement of former Chief Mike Massoni in 2014, the department conducted a nationwide search and selected Jeff Azzopardi as its new chief in September of that year. No matter the role, Jeff is dedicated to the safety and well-being of our community. He leads by example and always strives for excellence.

During his time with the department, he successfully completed the Inner Perspectives Leadership Program, LAPD Leadership Program, and POST Executive Development course. He holds a number of certifications from the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. He also is the former president of the San Mateo County Commanders Group, the president of the San Mateo County Police Chief's and Sheriffs Association, and the Chief of the North Central Regional S.W.A.T. Team and Commissioner for the South San Francisco Commission on Racial and Social Equity. Chief Azzopardi understands the importance of community relations and has been a leader on several community oriented policing projects. He tirelessly emphasized the importance of building bridges between his department and our community.

His outstanding service did not go unnoticed. He received numerous awards and honors, including a certificate of commendation from the police department for his work as a sexual assault investigator, a certificate of commendation from the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, a lifetime achievement award from the South San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, the Carl Valero Lifetime Achievement Award from Pacifica American Little League, and Police Officer of the Year from the San Mateo County Trial Lawyers Association.

Born in San Francisco, Jeff attended Terra Nova High School in Pacifica and then received his Bachelor's Degree in Public Administration from Chico State University and his Master's Degree in Public Administration from Notre Dame de Namur University.

As South San Francisco's Top Cop is leaving his post, he is looking forward to spending more time with his wife of 21 years, Nikole, and their sons Nate and Drew.

Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues in the House of Representatives to join with me to thank Chief Azzopardi for keeping South San Francisco one of the safest and most innovative cities in the Bay Area. His exemplary leadership has earned him the respect and adoration of his colleagues and South City residents. His contributions over the last three decades will outlast his service.

Madam Speaker, I rise to honor South San Francisco Police Chief Jeff Azzopardi on the occasion of his retirement. After almost 30 years of service with the department, Chief Azzopardi has decided that it is time for a new chapter in his life that will allow him to spend more time with his family. That desire particularly resonates with me this year because I announced my own retirement from a job I love to spend more time with my family.

I had the great honor to work with Chief Azzopardi since he was appointed in 2014. One of the more memorable occasions was a press conference in 2017 in which we announced the first-ever conviction for human trafficking in San Mateo County. That success reflected the outstanding collaboration of law enforcement, elected officials, and nonprofit organizations on the local, state, and federal level. Chief Azzopardi played an essential role in that collaboration.

Jeff Azzopardi was hired as a police recruit for the South San Francisco Police Department and sworn in as an officer in 1993. From there he rose through the ranks of K-9 officer, S.W.A.T. officer, school community liaison officer, police corporal, criminal investigations bureau officer, police sergeant, community relations sergeant, police lieutenant, criminal investigations bureau commander, and police captain. After the retirement of former Chief Mike Massoni in 2014, the department conducted a nationwide search and selected Jeff Azzopardi as its new chief in September of that year. No matter the role, Jeff is dedicated to the safety and well-being of our community. He leads by example and always strives for excellence.

During his time with the department, he successfully completed the Inner Perspectives Leadership Program, LAPD Leadership Program, and POST Executive Development course. He holds a number of certifications from the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. He also is the former president of the San Mateo County Commanders Group, the president of the San Mateo County Police Chief's and Sheriffs Association, and the Chief of the North Central Regional S.W.A.T. Team and Commissioner for the South San Francisco Commission on Racial and Social Equity. Chief Azzopardi understands the importance of community relations and has been a leader on several community oriented policing projects. He tirelessly emphasized the importance of building bridges between his department and our community.

His outstanding service did not go unnoticed. He received numerous awards and honors, including a certificate of commendation from the police department for his work as a sexual assault investigator, a certificate of commendation from the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, a lifetime achievement award from the South San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, the Carl Valero Lifetime Achievement Award from Pacifica American Little League, and Police Officer of the Year from the San Mateo County Trial Lawyers Association.

Born in San Francisco, Jeff attended Terra Nova High School in Pacifica and then received his Bachelor's Degree in Public Administration from Chico State University and his Master's Degree in Public Administration from Notre Dame de Namur University.

As South San Francisco's Top Cop is leaving his post, he is looking forward to spending more time with his wife of 21 years, Nikole, and their sons Nat and Drew.

Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues in the House of Representatives to rise with me to thank Chief Azzopardi for keeping South San Francisco one of the safest and most innovative cities in the Bay Area. His exemplary leadership has earned him the respect and adoration of his colleagues and South City residents. His contributions over the last three decades will outlast his service.

Madam Speaker, I thank our outstanding chairman.

Madam Speaker, this helmet has been on my shelf in my office for 9 years. It has the signatures of 58 military servicemembers who have been sexually assaulted. It was a daily reminder to me that we had so much work to do.

The clarion call of them, and so many others, hundreds of thousands of other servicemembers who have been sexually assaulted in the military has

finally been heard. We cannot erase their anguish, their pain, their abuse, their scarring, but we can, through this NDAA, change it for future servicemembers.

Make no mistake, Madam Speaker, this is a seismic reform of the military justice system as it relates to sexual assault, as it relates to murder, as it relates to kidnapping. It is, in fact, creating a separate, distinct office which will be populated by those who are professional lawyers skilled in sexual assault, and investigators who will do the investigations. They will make the decisions as to whether or not these cases move forward.

Beyond that, we make a crime of sexual harassment. We don't go far enough because, unfortunately, it is still in the chain of command. Mind you, 100,000 servicemembers are sexually harassed every year. Sexual harassment begets sexual assault. We have more work to do there.

Beyond that, in this particular measure we have a 2.7 percent increase for our servicemembers. We also provide up to 12 weeks of parental leave. Our version had a required opportunity for 12 weeks, but that was changed, and, hopefully, we will move on that in the future. We are improving childcare centers that are failing.

We have required an independent review commission to look at suicides within the military.

Madam Speaker, we have now required racial and gender data collection for NJP. We also are providing better access to mental health.

In the end, when servicemembers serve so do their families. This bill delivers on our commitment to them and to the military families. It also honors the memory of Specialist Guillen and others like her who have been killed, as well as the tens of thousands of survivors living with the scars of sexual assault.

Madam Speaker, I thank Josh Connolly, my chief of staff; Brian Collins; Chuck Jackson, my fellow. I also thank the committee staff, Ilka Regino, Hannah Kaufman, Dave Giachetti, Ranking Member Mike Gallagher, and a special thanks to Chairman Adam Smith, who has worked so closely with me in making sure we got to this point.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Mark Laret, retiring President and Chief Executive Officer of the University of California San Francisco Health and a treasured friend. The San Francisco Giants recently announced that Buster Posey is retiring. For those who understand Mark Laret and his role at UCSF Health, the departure of Mark is equally earthshaking.

Mark Laret is a 1980 Regents Scholar graduate of UCLA. He earned his Master's in Political Science from the University of Southern California. He joined UCLA Medical Center in 1980 and worked his way up the ranks, and then transferred to UC Irvine. After Irvine, he came to UCSF and never left.

Mark arrived at UCSF Health after a disappointing attempt to merge with Stanford Health. At a time when the two organizations decided to end their merger, and many saw UCSF Health as the weaker partner, Mark took an $86 million deficit at the merged entity and produced a turnaround for UCSF Health. It wasn't easy, and he later remarked, ``I think when you are faced with a very difficult turnaround situation, the first thing you do is listen, and let people vent, hear them out-- hear their take on what went wrong, and what caused the issue . . . . [hear] what they're proud of about the place they work, what they think those strong core assets are. What do they want to see change, what's their hope for the future?'' What faculty and labor wanted was new management.

A new executive team was recruited, and it operates under what Mark calls PRIDE (Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity and Excellence). UCSF's commitment to quality patient care, operational efficiency, deep employee engagement, and health equity were formalized. Although it would take another 14 years, equity remained a core value and was made concrete when UCSF acquired Oakland Children's Hospital, now known as UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Oakland. A new capital campaign to update that campus has begun.

UCSF Health also focused on regional care and an expansion of research. To expand its research capacity, Mark and his board created an entirely new and state of the art campus at Mission Bay. From the remains of railroad tracks and industrial decay, UCSF Mission Bay rose to offer globally competitive research space and hospitals that serve the entire San Francisco Bay Area. $1.6 billion was needed by an institution that only a few years earlier was teetering on the edge of financial ruin. Mark is a visionary, and philanthropists from throughout the Bay Area supported that vision with $600 million in donations, matched by $700 million in borrowing and other funds. Today, the Mission Bay campus includes Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco, Bakar Cancer Hospital, Betty Irene Moore Women's Hospital, and the Ron Conway Family Gateway Medical Building. From birth to passing, relying heavily upon one of the globe's premier research and training programs, UCSF Health provides first rate health care for the people of our region.

I have known Mark Laret for decades dating back to my years in the state legislature where we worked together after the unwinding of the Stanford merger. The first district that I represented in Congress had the UCSF Parnassus campus at its outer boundary. I was thrilled and spoke regularly to Mark and his leadership team about the vision for

Madam Speaker, I take no pleasure in introducing this resolution. No one asked me to introduce it, no one tapped me on the shoulder.

I am a victim of violence. I know what it is like. I also was in the gallery clamoring for life when the shots rang out in the Speaker's lobby.

We are here today because a sitting Member thought it was okay to post a deranged, animated video of himself killing a fellow Member of this House and also attacking the President of the United States. That video has been seen by three million people. It was up for over 2 days before it was taken down.

Inciting violence begets violence. Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has become the go-to subject of the radical right to stir up their base, as too often is the case for women of color. It is disgusting and profoundly unacceptable. Tragically, the minority leader has not condemned the video. For 8 days, he said nothing. Silence speaks volumes. Silence normalizes violence.

Violence against women in politics is a global phenomenon. A 2016 survey by the Inter-Parliamentary Union found that 82 percent of women parliamentarians have experienced psychological violence, and 44 percent have received threats of death, rape, beatings, or abduction.

The intent of these online threats against women is clear: Silence them, strip them of their power, and discourage them from running for office.

The Congressman defends his post, published with House resources and posted on his official Twitter and Instagram accounts. It didn't stop there. He sent an email to supporters that weekend stating that the ``faux outrage'' was ``infantile''--this is not faux outrage. This is not infantile--and the accusations are ``shrill'' and ``hyperventilating.''

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to glean that this is gendered, coded language. The Congressman shows no remorse. In fact, yesterday the Congressman said, ``I did not apologize.''

Twenty-three Members of the House in the history of this country have been censured for actions including insulting the Speaker or using unparliamentary language. Certainly, conduct by a Member depicting murdering another Member of the House deserves censure.

Let me be clear. If a Democrat did the same thing, I would introduce the same resolution.

Madam Speaker, I rise today along with Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pay tribute to a registered nurse and leader in health care for marginalized people, specifically people with AIDS and the impoverished. Anne Hughes, Ph.D., RN was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1953 and studied nursing there at Gwynedd Mercy College. She went on to Boston College to receive her Master's Degree and then to the University of Washington in Seattle. She received a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of California, San Francisco, in 2007.

Dr. Hughes died earlier this year after more than 30 years of service to San Francisco's public health hospitals. She worked at San Francisco General Hospital as a clinical nurse specialist; hospice nurse and on the HIV/AIDS unit. From 1987 to 2000, at the height of the epidemic, she provided compassionate care when HIV/AIDS was highly stigmatized because it affected primarily gay men. She began in an era when few in the country knew much about this disease.

Dr. Hughes was a soft-spoken leader known for her kindness to patients, and colleagues. She also served beyond San Francisco and helped found the American Association of Nurses in AIDS CARE, serving as President of the organization in its early years. Dr. Hughes used her clinical expertise and served as the first co-editor of the ``Core Curriculum for Nurses in HIV/AIDS Care,'' a major undertaking with over 102 contributors.

In 2000, Dr. Hughes left San Francisco General to work at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital, the largest skilled nursing facility in the country. Her doctoral study research focused on how poor and homeless people die in San Francisco. She brought her knowledge of the emerging field of palliative care and her hospice experience to Laguna Honda. She was the first nurse selected to be a department director. She served on San Francisco's End of Life Task Force, an interdisciplinary, inter-health system group that sought to improve care throughout San Francisco.

Dr. Hughes wrote numerous chapters and articles on HIV/AIDS, hospice care and palliative care. She was elected to, and served on, the board of the national Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association. Her many accomplishments won her an invitation to be inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing.

As I close these remarks, let me offer Speaker Pelosi's and my condolences to her wife, Marylin Dodd, Ph.D. RN, and to her extended family. The requirements of a public health professional likely cost Dr. Hughes many hours that might otherwise have been devoted to family and friends. In their grief they can take comfort from the reality that her hours were spent in heroic work, tending to the needs of those who, many times, had few others who would acknowledge their humanity. They can justifiably be proud of all that she achieved in her professional life.

Dr. Hughes gave us a wonderful example of what public service can mean to this nation. Our nation now extends to her this acknowledgement, in its chronicle of the proceedings of Congress. We hope that other stories and facts related herein today will rise to the outstanding example of duty and honor demonstrated by the life of Dr. Hughes.

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the subject of my Special Order.

Madam Speaker, I am astonished by the last hour. It is like they are living in a different universe. If you look at the economic growth in the United States under this administration, it is actually growing at such a rate that by the end of the year it will have reached 6 percent in growth. So all of that blather that went on on the other side of the aisle should be registered as what it is: False.

But we are here to talk about something much more important than a bunch of lies. We are here to talk about what 90 Members of the Democratic Women's Caucus are concerned about, and that is the care economy. The question that we want to ask is: Why does America not value our families or our children?

Why is it that France has provided 8 weeks of maternity leave to working women since 1913--yes, since 1913--yet we struggle to provide paid family leave?

Why is it that Germany 30 years ago was able to decide children have the right to quality childcare, yet some of my colleagues call universal childcare and pre-K a handout?

Surely if our European counterparts can understand that childcare and pre-K is not babysitting, it is education that fuels the brain and emotional development in the most formative years of a child's life so that children can grow and thrive, we certainly can grasp that.

Surely my colleagues who stand here and preach about the sanctity of life can understand the hypocrisy of advocacy for birth but not advocacy for life. After they come out of the womb is when we should be investing in them.

And surely, they can understand that the she-cession that happens to both Republican women and Democratic women is real in this country and has resulted from a pandemic that isn't just a burden on working women and families, it is a burden on all of us. It is an issue that touches every corner of our society and government from national security to economic growth, and most importantly, the health and well-being of our children and the progress of our country as we work to build back better.

Now, I am just getting started here, but I have got many colleagues who are here and want to speak to this issue.

Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from New Jersey (Ms. Sherrill).

Madam Speaker, I would ask the Congresswoman, before she leaves, she has also served in the military, and as she called upon this being an economic issue, is it not also a national security issue?

I yield to the gentlewoman from New Jersey.

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for participating today.

I yield to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Lois Frankel), my friend and colleague, and co-chair of the Democratic Women's Caucus.

It is about $11 an hour, isn't it?

I yield to the gentlewoman from Florida.

Isn't it stunning that we will pay those who watch our money six times as much money as we will pay those who take care of our children?

Well, that is why we have lost so many slots in childcare centers around the country. That is why 60 percent of our families live in childcare deserts now. Think about that.

There is no childcare available, even if they have the resources to pay for it because the infrastructure doesn't exist anymore because we paid them so little. And the Build Back Better plan, as you know--and you can articulate--is going to change all of that.

Madam Speaker, we all know that from 1 to 3 is when the brain is developing. That is when the resources need to be made available to these young infants and toddlers so that they will be prepared to then go into pre-K and then into school. If you don't have that experience, you are not going to have the children being able to do well in school and then to be able to be persons in our communities who are working very important jobs. So if it is truly about the children, let's make it about the children and build back better.

That is correct. In fact, as I pointed out earlier, France had it back in 1913. Think about that. We are a century later and we are still struggling with parental and medical leave.

It is important to point out, the vast majority of this money, in terms of who takes advantage of parental and medical leave, it is for the individual. Fifty percent of the paid leave goes for an individual who is sick and who needs that particular benefit to be able to have the surgery or be provided the healthcare during a time of sickness.

So when we say paid parental and medical leave, the big beneficiary of that benefit is probably an older American who is in the workforce who, without this, would have to use their sick leave up and then probably go on unpaid leave.

Ninety of us.

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman and dear friend, Ms. Frankel.

Madam Speaker, I would also point out that as we look at the infrastructure bill that everyone is supporting, that trillion-dollar package is going to create 2 million jobs over the next 10 years. That is great, but 90 percent of those jobs are going to men.

Meanwhile, the pandemic has created an environment where 1.6 million women have left the workforce. That is the lowest participation of women in the workforce since 1988. We are going back. We are not going forward, unless we have the Build Back Better plan, which is going to provide the infrastructure for childcare and pre-K and the opportunity for women to get back to work.

Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky), my dearest friend.

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for her rousing speech and making the case, once again, that women are the backbone of this country. If we build back better in the Build Back Better plan, what we

will have is a situation where 2 million more jobs will be created. There will be $24 billion more in take-home pay for women, which will then move through the economy and benefit all of us, as well.

It is my great pleasure to introduce one of our newer Members, but one of our feisty new Members.

Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms. Wild).

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for her comments. I think it is important to point out, as she did, that when we are in a situation where we want to bring our family members who are dying home and keep them at home, and bring in home healthcare, we are actually saving money for the Medicare system because if they were hospitalized, the cost per day would be prohibitive.

I had my mother-in-law, my father, and my mother all living with us at the end of their lives, and it was a great source of solace to know that they could stay home and bring in a home healthcare worker.

Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Michigan (Mrs. Lawrence), a co-chair of the Democratic Women's Caucus, an outspoken advocate for so many of these issues.

Madam Speaker, I thank my co-chair for that passionate speech. I think you pointed out, as heads of households, that the feminization of poverty that was dubbed some 30 years ago is still, in fact, what we are dealing with today.

That is part of what we are trying to do with Build Back Better.

Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms. Houlahan), my colleague on the Armed Services Committee and the Military Personnel Subcommittee, and someone who has served our country in the military.

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania for her comments.

I do believe that today a woman serving in the Air Force would have the benefits of 12 weeks of paid parental leave and, hopefully, in the very near future a childcare system that will not speak of some 9,000 who are waiting for childcare slots that don't exist in childcare centers in the military.

It is shameful that we have to legislate that, but we are in the process of doing it.

I now will join my colleagues in welcoming our colleague from the great State of Illinois, one of our new but very effective members, Congresswoman Marie Newman.

Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Newman).

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for her comments and for her great leadership.

Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from the great State of California (Ms. Barragan).

Madam Speaker, I am very impressed that my colleague took the red-eye because she was caring for her family and she is here tonight caring for her constituents. I hope the gentlewoman can go home and get some rest.

Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee). My colleague is a great advocate for all those in her State and throughout the country.

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Texas for her comments, and I thank Madam Speaker for allowing us to have this Special Order hour to talk about families in America and what the Build Back Better plan will do to make sure that families have childcare, have pre-K, have the opportunity to go back to work.

Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Judy Swanson as she is honored by Peninsula Family Service (PFS) with a Lifetime Achievement Award. ``Lifetime'' has a special meaning in the case of this remarkable woman whom I've been honored to call a dear friend for over 35 years.

Judy is an exceptional community leader and philanthropist. She has dedicated her life to advancements in science, focusing broadly on oncology and science education. She personifies PFS's passion for transforming lives in San Mateo County. With her leadership, PFS successfully offers older residents services to keep them healthy and connected to the broader community. San Mateo County has a great deal of household wealth, but many families struggle. During the COVID emergency, PFS offered COVID information to the elderly, and continued its longstanding programs offering senior peer counseling, housing, nutrition and transportation assistance. Hundreds of children ages 0-5 from the most economically vulnerable families were served at early learning centers. Judy understands that this service is essential because 80 percent of brain development occurs during these early years.

As a member of the Hillsborough Auxiliary to PFS, Judy has helped dozens of participants in the organization's financial literacy programs take out small, manageable loans in order to meet their annual requirements and to build a credit score. Judy is a major benefactor and rolls up her sleeves when the auxiliary that she leads raises funds to support the mission of transforming lives.

Judy also serves as the CEO and Director of the Swanson Foundation and is a regular donor to leading research institutes and scientists in the United States. As a board member of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, she helps staff to identify researchers whose fields hold the greatest undiscovered promise in oncology. The institute funds researchers early in their careers and helps them thrive through the cycle of early discovery to the point where government grants begin to flow due to promising findings.

Judy's late husband, Bob Swanson, played this role for many years and ultimately helped co-found, and was the first CEO of, Genentech. Judy's dedication to oncology research is due in no small part to the fact that Bob died far too early of brain cancer. In his memory, she fights for those for whom cures could be around the comer if enough leading- edge technology commences. She also supports oncology research at MIT, Bob's alma mater, and is a member of the President's Circle of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

Judy is also a strong supporter of science education and the arts, serving on the Tech Interactive in San Jose, and the board of the San Francisco Ballet. She is a graduate of Michigan State University and a lifetime member of the International Chapter of Young President's Organization and The Chief Executive's Organization.

Madam Speaker, the long recitation of activities of Judy Swanson does not describe the greatest fact of all: Judy Swanson has an enormous heart. She is constantly looking for opportunities to advance the quality of people's lives and generously supports programs and projects large and small. She deserves the appreciation of untold millions who will some day benefit through the discoveries she funds, the science lessons they learn at The Tech in San Jose or their experiences of joy through the San Francisco Ballet. We are only on Earth for the blink of an eye. However, Judy Swanson understands the point made by Archimedes when he said, ``Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.'' Judy Swanson moves the world with each day that she begins anew her life's work.