Floor Statements

Mr. Speaker, the National Industries for the Blind (NIB) is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and I am honored to be a part of its celebration. Seventy-five years ago, the Wagner-O'Day Act was signed into law, which created the AbilityOne Program as well as the NIB.

NIB strives to enhance economic and personal independence of persons who are blind by creating, sustaining, and improving employment.

The NIB works with 91 agencies spread out among 35 states at over 250 locations and the agencies provide products and services for the government.

In my home state, Outlook Nebraska is the NIB provider and is an economic engine that brings valuable business to the Omaha area.

Founded in 2000, Outlook Nebraska, much like its sister NIB agencies, seeks to enhance the quality of life for the blind and visually impaired.

It is Nebraska's largest employer for those with vision disabilities. Outlook Nebraska's work is especially important because, unfortunately, 70 percent of working-age Americans who are blind are unemployed.

The AbilityOne program makes Outlook Nebraska possible. As the official AbilityOne manufacturer of quality tissue and towel products for the government, Outlook Nebraska supplies a full line of 100 percent recycled fiber content tissue and towel products, including bath tissue, pull towels, and all compatible dispensers to the United States government.

Besides the manufacturing of products, the agency provides complete product servicing from its office and tissue-converting site in Omaha.

The agency has also developed additional services for blind and visually impaired employees, such as education and training to provide them with the technological skills that allow them to excel in their professional and personal lives.

Madam Chairman, I rise for the purpose of entering into a colloquy with my friend from Utah joining with me.

Chairman Goodlatte, I want to thank you for your attention to the very serious problem of patent assertion entities, otherwise known as ``patent trolls'' here today.

On November 14, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing entitled: ``The Impact of Patent Assertion Entities on Innovation and the Economy.'' We heard from a variety of witnesses from industries including the food, hospitality, and tech, all of whom had been targeted by vague, unfair, and deceptive patent troll demand letters.

That hearing revealed significant economic harm to Main Street businesses in the economy caused by such patent troll demand letters. These entities engage in abusive practices that often target small businesses because they don't have the resources to fight back.

At the markup for the Innovation Act, Mr. Chaffetz offered an amendment that resulted in a sense of Congress in the bill before us today. That sentence says:

It is an abuse of the patent system and against public

policy for a party to send out a purposely evasive demand

letter to end-users alleging patent infringement.

As chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee

on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade with jurisdiction over these type of consumer abuses, I join with your sentiments. We understand that time is of the essence.

I yield to the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Chaffetz) at this point.

To that end, the Energy and Commerce subcommittee intends to proceed through regular order, as soon as it is practicable, to examine both the problem of vague patent demand letters and potential solutions the Federal Trade Commission could implement. We took another step just recently in a hearing with our FTC commissioners this week on the patent trolls demand letter issues.

Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the Rogers' family for their commitment to volunteer their time and talents towards community service. They encourage one another to support their community through church, military, and school activities.

Joel and Felicia Rogers are native Omahans who have given back to their community in a large way. On top of raising seven children, the Rogers' have maintained a strong ethic of serving their community through their faith service and commitment to excellence.

Joel, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, currently serves as a Legislative Policy Analyst in the Commander's Action Group of the U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base. Joel points to his parents' strong support and his firm upbringing as the underpinning of his and Felicia's parenting and leadership strategies. During his 28- year career in the military Joel has led major efforts for the Marine Corps both domestic and abroad. Joel's service has earned him the Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, among many other accolades. Currently, Joel volunteers with the Papillion Recreation Organization (PRO), and supports the annual Toys for Tots drive put on by the Marine Corps.

Felicia serves as the district director in my Omaha Congressional office. She is a highly skilled administrator with expertise built from service in public, private, and non-profit organizations. Felicia dedicates much of her time to faith based and school activities within our community. Some of her past community efforts have taken place with the Wesley House leadership academy, Toys for Tots, the Girls Club of Omaha, and as the 2nd Lieutenant with the 99th Pursuit Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol. Currently, the Rogers family actively participates at Life Church Omaha raising funds to send groups of missionaries to Zimbabwe and Haiti.

Joel and Felicia have been blessed with seven children. Javin, the eldest, is the Product Launch Director for Kenexa. Clifton works as a design and production manager in the media/advertising industry, and is a professional musician on the side. Three of the Rogers' sons decided to take after their father and serve their country as United States Marines. Blake serves as a Staff Sergeant specializing in advanced communications. Darnell is a Sergeant specializing in imagery analysis. Dwayne, a Corporal in the Marine Reserves, is currently a college student in Omaha. Ryan, 11, is a fifth grader in the Papillion La-Vista school district and an active baseball and basketball player. Zoe, 11, and the only daughter in the Rogers family is also a fifth grader and plays volleyball for Team Dazzle in Papillion.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to tell the story of the Richardson family and honor them for the strength they display to overcome obstacles and continue to be a loving family. Through adoption they have welcomed their children into their home and created a loving family unit.

Patti Richardson is dedicated to serving her nine children, no matter their background. When Patti comes across a child in need, she is always there with open arms willing to welcome them home. She invests significant amounts of time and money in these children, filling her home and yard with toys, exercise equipment, and other tools.

The Richardson family consists of Ragina, 22, who was born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and ADHD. Also born with congenital heart disease, Ragina required surgery to fix it at the age of one. As the eldest child in the house, Ragina looks after her younger siblings. Next is 10 year old Wesley. Wesley has ADHD as a result of being exposed to methamphetamine before birth. Aidan, of 7 years old, is the next oldest child in the house. Aidan has a congenital heart disease and had open- heart surgery when he was only two months old. Anahla, 5, and Lasia, 4, complete the long list of adopted children in the Richardson household. Patti also has three birth children, William, Jeffery, and Mikayla, all of whom are now adults.

Sadly, the family has suffered through the loss of two of their own. Corey, a shaken baby who Patti fostered and then adopted, passed suddenly at the age of three. Andrew, Patti's youngest birth child, has also passed from brain cancer. The family thinks of Andrew frequently and Patti believes that he gives her guidance to help her through the stress and heartache that she sometimes faces while caring for her children.

The Richardson family illustrates the hope and love we know exists in our communities. It is my privilege and honor to represent the Richardsons and others like them in my community.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in honor of the Armitage family for the leadership values

they have demonstrated and passed onto their children. They have built a model for leading in the community that will be continued by their adult children to provide the same leadership as their parents.

Dr. James and Nancy Armitage are being honored for not only their leadership to the Omaha community, but also their contributions to research and training in the medical profession.

Dr. Armitage is internationally renowned for his expertise in bone marrow transplantation. He is also a leading expert in the management of lymphoma worldwide. He is currently the Joe Shapiro Professor of Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha; is active on several committees and his expertise is sought worldwide. James has also served on several community boards and has received professional honors from national and international organizations that are too numerous to list.

Nancy began her career practicing psychiatric and intensive care nursing before the needs of her family led her to leave the field. Currently, Nancy is extremely involved in volunteer leadership positions with local boards, schools, hospitals, nonprofits, and her church. To name a few, Nancy has served on the Munroe-Meyer Institute Guild, Samaritan Counseling Center of the Midlands Board and the executive boards for the Faculty Women's Club and the University Hospital Auxiliary. Her many years of volunteer work at UNMC Hospital has led to her being named a co-chair of the Faculty Women's Club scholarship committee, raising funds for UNMC students. Nancy and James also serve as trustees of the Nature Conservancy of Nebraska.

James and Nancy have four adult children: Amy, Greg, Anne, and Joel. Amy, a substitute teacher at Mary Our Queen School and Parish, lives in Elkhorn with her husband Jeff. Greg works as a CPA with FBL Financial Group, Inc and lives in Des Moines with his wife Cheryl. Anne, an attorney and stay-at-home mother, lives in Omaha with her husband Stephen. She also serves as an officer on the Girls Inc. Girl Friend board. Joel practices internal medicine and lives with his wife Anja in Omaha. Nancy and James have been blessed with ten grandchildren.

It's an honor to recognize their commitment to make the metro area a better place.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today because I want to honor Teela Mickles for being an advocate for the youth of Omaha. She is an inspiration for change by creating opportunities for young people to remain active and accountable members of the community.

Teela's interest in helping people return to a successful life after incarceration comes from her own experiences. Teela was involved in a marriage where domestic abuse was prevalent and was finally able to break away after fourteen years. She was able to start a new life for herself and her five children. Her faith in God and desire to do what was right convinced her that she could help others to restore their lives as well.

Teela founded an organization called Compassion in Action in 1994 to provide a holistic approach to family restoration and community re- establishment for incarcerated individuals and their families. The program is designed to address the specific needs of individuals coming out of incarceration by offering them pre-release and re-entry services, advocacy and mentoring services, and transitional and independent living preparation for youth.

Currently, Teela is leading Compassion in Action in a $300,000 fundraising campaign to renovate the former Wesley House building in North Omaha and begin operations there. She is especially enthusiastic about the R.A.W. D.A.W.G.S. Youth Corps Gang Prevention Program clubhouse that will be in the lower level of the building working to replace the desire for gang membership. Teela is working around the clock to recruit a community-wide network of concerned families and community leaders who believe in the importance of investing in our children, rather than building more prisons.

Teela believes that the main key to success is prevention. She is convinced that the best way to prepare someone for the outside world after their release is to prepare them prior to their release.

It's my privilege to recognize Teela's commitment to building up our community and her efforts to bring it together.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor the Hettinger family for their commitment to family solidarity. It is evident by their love and support shared between parents and children that this family deserves to be recognized for its commitment to one another.

Robert and Thresia Hettinger have been blessed with a large family, twelve children in all. The family wasn't always that large; however, after Robert's sister passed in 2006, the Hettinger family grew by seven. With ten children at home, Robert's sister's husband became overwhelmed when they learned of her cancer and Robert and Thresia were eager to help.

Robert works as a district network specialist for the Millard Public Schools. Thresia is currently a stay-at-home mother and certainly keeps very busy with twelve children at home in Papillion. During the final months of her life, Robert and his sister's relationship evolved as they struggled to cope with her disease and living arrangements for all of the children. Soon after his sister passed, Robert and Thresia, along with their five children, made the decision to bring six of their nieces and nephews into their family. The four remaining children stayed with their father; however, they continue to play a significant role in the Hettinger children's lives.

All in all, the adoption process took three years and was finalized in 2009. Recently, the Hettinger's added another nephew to their family, bringing the grand total to twelve children. Miraculously, all of the children are very loving, respectful, and protective of one another and all share a genuine concern for helping others.

The Hettinger reserves Monday nights for family time. During this time they will all get together, which is extremely difficult to do with twelve children between ages seven and seventeen, to focus on their spiritual lives.

Robert and Thresia believe that to be good parents they must teach and lead by example. It is folks like Robert and Thresia who embody the spirit of strong communities. It is an honor to recognize them today.

Mr. Speaker, this is really about trust, and people like Andrea from Omaha feels like that trust has been violated. It has been broken. She was told that she could keep her policy, but then she received her letter saying you cannot keep your policy.

A working mom with two young children, her family's premium has risen to $770 from $450 per quarter. Her responsibility for coinsurance is now 50 percent, up from what it was before at 15 percent. Her out-of- pocket costs rose to over $2,000, and she is paying more for less now.

This isn't a better policy, as we have been told. It takes a big chunk of their family budget. Unfortunately, under ObamaCare, she can't keep her plan. She gets more with less.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill because I actually think Head Start is an important program, and I've supported it. I've seen and I've gone to Head Starts throughout my district and have read to the kids who are there. The reforms that were done that made it more of an educational preschool type of atmosphere--that was done, gee, I don't know, probably about 7 or 8 years ago--I think actually helped improve Head Start, making sure that children are ready when they start regular K-12. So I support this.

This is important, and in this atmosphere where it is all or nothing and no negotiations--we're not going to talk to you--we are left doing these micro or minivan-type bills in which we take the most important, essential programs and say, you know, we agree with you that Head Start is a worthwhile program and that it's worth

funding. So why don't we just work together and agree that we will fund Head Start at the budget level.

I heard comments earlier about some Republicans wanted to cut it, and yes, there are going to be some that do. So if you think that it's that cynical, call us on it. Vote for it. You want Head Start to continue, and you think we're being cynical with this? Call us on it. Vote for it.

Let's send a bipartisan measure over to the Senate, and force them to vote for it. What's the worst thing that's going to happen? Oh, Head Start gets funded.

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentlemen from Virginia, Messrs. Moran and Wolf, for their effort, but also for personally coming up to me and asking me to be an early advocate of this very important bill.

Like them, I have many constituents who are Federal employees who are furloughed right now, including most of the majority of them being civilian employees at Offutt Air Force Base and STRATCOM. The legislation that we are considering here today will ensure that the 800,000 Federal employees are paid for the time lost or off work during this impasse.

Now, we worked last week in a bipartisan effort to make sure that our military would be paid, and included in that bill called Pay Our Military Act was also very clear language that protected civilian DOD workers who are furloughed. But, unfortunately, in a bizarre ``what's the definition of `is' discussion'' in the White House and DOD, they furloughed 60-70 percent of the civilian employees where there are critical missions, endangering our country.

So having a bill like this where we come together in a bipartisan way, we can reduce some level of frustration, we can give some level of peace of mind to those employees that they will be reimbursed for their time lost, they will get paid. I want the DOD today to put those civilian DOD employees back to work as it's clearly in the law.

Now, there is historical precedent for this, all of the way back to Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill and their six closedowns when employees were paid and reimbursed for their time off, and so it should be for this effort. This is bipartisan. The President has said he will sign this. I urge my colleagues to support this effort.

Madam Speaker, the evidence is very clear that ObamaCare is actually hurting people.

In the last week, I've heard from several constituents like Mike, Jim, and Kathleen who told me that they recently received their notice that they no longer have their insurance policy and must go into the exchange. Upon exploring that, they found out their policy in the exchange will cost anywhere from 50 percent to 100 percent more and have higher deductibles and copays. They're not sure of what plan they can go on. They're not sure of what the totality of the benefits and costs will be. Kathleen is on a fixed income and is older. She may have to have a policy with coverages that she doesn't want or need. I hear heartbreaking stories like this from my constituents in the metropolitan Omaha area. These are just three real-life examples of how ObamaCare is truly hurting people and squeezing them.

I want the Senate to join us in acting on defunding ObamaCare. Let's start over in a real bipartisan way and really help folks get the health care they need.

Mr. Speaker, one of our most important responsibilities here in Congress is oversight of executive branch agencies. Such oversight illuminates flaws either in the structure or the conduct of these agencies that sometimes requires legislative action. Today, I am speaking for just such a reason.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission had operated with acceptable performance for quite some time until a few years ago when a new chairman took over the leadership of the agency in 2009. Unlike his predecessors, this chairman did not seek to work collegially with his fellow Commission members, but sought to consolidate and expand his authority as chairman. This abuse of power led to multiple investigations by Congressional committees and the NRC's Inspector General.

In 1980, during Congress' consideration of President Carter's proposal to reorganize the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Members raised concerns about the potential for just such an abuse by a rogue chairman: namely that the President's plan concentrated too much authority in the chairmanship of the agency.

I believe it is incumbent upon us, as Members of Congress, to exercise our legislative responsibility and address this situation.

For that purpose, my colleagues Mr. Barton, Mr. Burgess and Mr. Kenzinger, and I are introducing the ``Nuclear Regulatory Commission Reorganization Plan Codification and Complements Act.''

Following the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, the President and the Congress saw the need to improve the NRC's ability to respond to an accident. President Carter responded by proposing the ``Reorganization Plan of 1980'' to strengthen the power of the chairmanship by consolidating administrative and emergency authorities. A little known artifact of this history is that the 1980 Plan was subsequently approved by Congress as a resolution, not enacted as a law. Our bill would correct that artifact by seeking to codify a modern version of the 1980 Plan while limiting the potential for a chairman to abuse his authority as I described a moment ago.

While the Fukushima accident happened on foreign soil, the then-NRC chairman exercised emergency authority--authority reserved for emergencies within the NRC's jurisdiction--without making a declaration and without adequate reporting of his actions. Clearly, there must be clear operating authority and accountability in an emergency, including a declaration and termination of any special authority. This bill clarifies those requirements.

If the NRC chairman is the subject of an investigation by the Inspector General as a result of allegations of wrongdoing, the Inspector General should not remain under the chairman's supervision. This bill would require delegation of that supervisory responsibility to another member of the Commission.

These are just a few examples of the provisions in this bill. This is about good government. While the current NRC chairman worked to reestablish collegiality at the Commission, I believe we must act to preclude future leadership breakdowns akin to her predecessor. These are common sense changes to ensure the proper conduct of the people's business at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. I look forward to working with my colleagues in a bipartisan fashion toward passage of this bill into law.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Brownell-Talbot School, an educational institution in my district that is celebrating a truly remarkable milestone in their rich history.

Today marks the Brownell-Talbot School Sesquicentennial. This school played a visionary role in Omaha during our city's formative years and has now enjoyed 150 years of rich history. Rt. Reverend Joseph Cruickshank Talbot, D.D. originally founded the school in 1863 as a girls' boarding school named Brownell Hall. It was established to bring cultural and educational opportunities to the daughters of the pioneers.

The school held the first commencement exercise for high school graduates in the State of Nebraska in 1868. It eventually became coeducational in 1952 under the name Brownell Hall-Talbot School for Boys. The school was ultimately renamed Brownell-Talbot School in 1963, and today is the only independent, preschool through grade 12, college preparatory school in Nebraska.

Brownell-Talbot School continues to graduate some of the city's best and brightest students. The school has very high academic standards and has earned the highest published average composite ACT score in Nebraska.

This 150th Anniversary honors all of Brownell-Talbot School's founders, board members, supporters, past and present students and their teachers, administrators, and staff. All of these members of the Brownell-Talbot School community have had a hand in the exemplary education of Brownell-Talbot students, a tradition that will undoubtedly continue long into the future.

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 2052) to direct the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the heads of other relevant Federal departments and agencies, to conduct an interagency review of and report to Congress on ways to increase the global competitiveness of the United States in attracting foreign direct investment, as amended.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous materials in the Record on the bill.

I yield myself as much time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 2052, the Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2013.

Now, we recently saw the latest job numbers. While somewhat positive, the reality is that we have more people out of the workforce than since 1978. People are giving up looking for work, and it doesn't have to be and shouldn't be that way.

There are many foreign companies who want to ``in-source'' their jobs to America, but there have been many barriers standing in their way. There are many foreign companies who should and want to come here. These are good, high-paying jobs that many Americans are looking for.

In 2010 alone, U.S. affiliates of foreign firms employed an estimated 5.6 million Americans. These Americans also made, on average, $77,000 per year.

These U.S. subsidiaries invested $41.3 billion in research and development and made $149 billion in capital expenditures in the United States that same year. In the manufacturing sector alone, FDI inflows were nearly $84 billion in 2012, according to the National Association of Manufacturers.

Unfortunately, according to the testimony of the Organization for International Investment at our legislative hearing last spring, the United States' share of foreign direct investment dropped from 41 percent at its high in 1999 to just 17 percent in 2011. Today, we're here to reverse that trend.

My bill, H.R. 2052, and also, with the gentlelady, Ms. Schakowsky, and Mr. Barrow on the other side of the aisle, this is a bipartisan piece of legislation that instructs the Department of Commerce to conduct an interagency review geared to identifying those barriers to foreign investment to the United States. It also instructs the Department of Commerce to make recommendations on ways to lower or eliminate those same barriers.

The United States should be the leader in attracting foreign investment. We have a stable government, safe working conditions, and the most skilled workforce in the world. I believe that our long-term global competitiveness and economic success as a nation is directly tied to our ability to attract foreign investment.

By creating an environment where foreign companies want to move their manufacturing operations or distribution centers to the United States, we are fostering an environment or atmosphere of organic, government stimulus-free economic growth.

We must be aware of the potential impact on the U.S.' ability to attract foreign direct investment when considering new laws and regulations.

We want these companies to come here and help us grow our economy. But there are a number of areas within the purview of the Federal Government where we can improve the domestic climate for foreign direct investment.

It's my hope that the report at the heart of this legislation will highlight those areas, both for the administration, where it can act on its own authority, and for Congress, where the administration lacks the authority.

I would also like to thank some individuals who helped get this legislation off the ground and to the House floor today. First off, I'd like to thank the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Roskam), who has championed this issue for several years.

I would also like to thank the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky), the ranking member of this subcommittee, as well as our friend, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Barrow), for his leadership.

I believe we can all agree that we shouldn't stop our efforts to put America back to work until every American who wants a job can find one. This legislation is a step in the right direction, Mr. Speaker, and I urge my colleagues to support this bill.

I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I'll continue to reserve the balance of my time.

Will the gentlewoman yield?

Yes, I can assure you. I agree with the gentlelady that it should include both benefits and costs, as we have suggested. And I do want to state that I appreciate working with you. And you have shown great collegiality as well in our negotiations, and I want to thank you for that.

Mr. Speaker, having the right to close, I am going to reserve the balance of my time and allow them to finish their time, if they have any.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself as much time as I may consume.

I want to close by saying that this truly has been a bipartisan effort. Both sides of the aisle want the U.S. to be in a better position to attract the foreign direct investment which does create jobs in the United States. That has been on the decline. We need to reverse that.

And this is one of those times when you go home and you hear, at your townhall meeting, Why don't you work together? The people need to see how we worked together on this bill and resolved the differences between each other on this. Today we're here to have what I think will be an overwhelmingly positive vote.

With that, I will submit a couple of letters for the Record. One is about 150 entities that signed on to a letter for the Organization for International Investment, and then also another letter from Sanofi dated September 9, 2013.

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

Organization for International Investment

OFII is the only business association in Washington D.C.

that exclusively represents U.S. subsidiaries of foreign

companies and advocates for their non-discriminatory

treatment under state and federal law.

Members

ABB Inc.; ACE INA Holdings, Inc.; Ahold USA, Inc.; Airbus

North America Holdings; Air Liquide USA; Akzo Nobel Inc.;

Alcatel-Lucent; Allianz of North America; ALSTOM; Anheuser-

Busch; APG; APL Limited; AREVA, Inc.; Arup; Astellas Pharma

US, Inc.; AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals; BAE Systems; Balfour

Beatty; Barclays Capital; Barrick Gold Corp. of North

America.

BASF Corporation; Bayer Corp.; BG Group; BHP Billiton; BIC

Corp.; Bimbo Foods, Inc.; bioMerieux, Inc.; BMW of North

America; BNP Paribas; Boehringer Ingelheim Corp.; Bombardier

Inc.; BOSCH; BP; Bridgestone Americas Holding; Brother

International Corp.; BT; Bunge Ltd.; Bunzl USA, Inc.; Case

New Holland; Cobham.

Covidien; Credit Suisse Securities (USA); Cristal USA

Inc.; Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.; Daimler; Dassault Falcon Jet

Corp.; Deutsche Telekom; Diageo, Inc.; EADS, Inc.; Electrolux

North America; EMD Serono Inc.; E.ON North America; Ericsson;

Evonik Degussa Corporation; Experian; Flextronics

International; Food Lion, LLC; France Telecom North America;

FUJIFILM Holdings America; Garmin International, Inc.

GDF SUEZ Energy North America, Inc.; Generali USA; GKN

America Corp.; GlaxoSmithKline; Hanson North America; Henkel

Corporation; Holcim (US) Inc.; Honda North America; HSBC

North America Holdings; Huhtamaki; Hyundai Motor America;

Iberdrola Renewables; ING America Insurance Holdings;

InterContinental Hotels Group; JBS USA; John Hancock Life

Insurance Co.; Kering; Kia Motor Corporation; Lafarge North

America; Logitech Inc.

L'Oreal USA, Inc.; Louisiana Energy Service (LES); Louis

Dreyfus Commodities; Louisville Corporate Services, Inc.;

LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton; Macquarie Aircraft Leasing

Services; Maersk Inc.; Magna International; Mallinckrodt;

Marvell Semiconductor; McCain Foods USA; Michelin North

America, Inc.; National Grid; Nestle USA, Inc.; Nissan;

Nomura Holding America, Inc.; Novartis Corporation; Novo

Nordisk Pharmaceuticals; Oldcastle, Inc.; Panasonic Corp.; of

North America.

Pearson Inc.; Pernod Ricard USA; Philips Electronics North

America; QBE the Americas; Randstad North America; Reed

Elsevier Inc.; Research in Motion; Rexam Inc.; Rinnai; Rio

Tinto America; Roche Holdings, Inc.; Rolls-Royce North

America Inc.; Royal Bank of Canada; SABIC Innovative

Plastics; Samsung; Sanofi US; SAP America; Sasol;

Schlumberger.

Schneider Electric USA; Schott North America; Shell Oil

Company; Siemens Corporation; Smith & Nephew, Inc.; Societe

Generale; Solvay America; Sony Corporation of America;

Sprint; Sumitomo Corp.; of America; Swiss Re America Holding

Corp.; Syngenta Corporation; Takeda North America; Tate &

Lyle North America, Inc.; TD Bank; TE Connectivity; Teva

Pharmaceuticals USA; Thales USA, Inc.; The Tata Group;

Thomson Reuters.

ThyssenKrupp North America, Inc.; Tim Hortons; Toa

Reinsurance Company of America; Tomkins Industries, Inc.;

TOTAL Holdings USA, Inc.; Toyota Motor North America;

Transamerica; Tyco; UBS; UCB; Umicore USA; Unilever; Vivendi;

Vodafone; Voith Holding Inc.; Volkswagen of America, Inc.;

Volvo Cars North America; Volvo Group North America, Inc.;

Westfield LLC; White Mountains, Inc.; Wipro Inc.; Wolters

Kluwer U.S. Corporation; Wolseley; WPP Group USA, Inc.; XL

Global Services; Zurich Insurance Group.

Organization for

International Investment,

Washington, DC, September 9, 2013.

Re OFII Support of H.R. 2052, the ``Global Investment in

American Jobs Act of 2013''.

Hon. Fred Upton,

Chairman, Energy and Commerce Committee, Washington, DC.

Hon. Lee Terry,

Chairman, Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade,

Washington, DC.

Hon. Henry Waxman,

Ranking Member, Energy and Commerce Committee, Washington,

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.