Floor Statements

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of the life of Walter R. Brooks, Jr., founder of Cape Cod Today, who passed away at the age of eighty-seven.

Mr. Brooks has been a pillar of the community, serving as a voice for Cape Cod. Born in 1930 to Walter Rollin Brooks, Sr. and Evelyn Mae Brooks, he was raised as an only child in Woodbury, Connecticut. At an early age, he knew he wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and pursue a career in journalism. Following his graduation from the University of Connecticut, Mr. Brooks went on to serve as a publisher, managing editor, promotion and marketing director for the Village Voice, the New York Post, the Greenwich CT Times, the Naugatuck Daily News, the Amherst MA Journal-Record, the Enfield CT Press, the Cape Codder, and MPG Communications.

In 1959, Mr. Brooks spent a summer in Provincetown, where he met and married the love of his life, Patricia. Their love of Cape Cod would lead them to settle in Harwich in 1965, where they raised their two sons, Todd and Jay. After moving, Walter and Patricia, who were devoted to improving the accessibility of news outlets, launched a Cape Cod tourism publication entitled Best Read Guides. In 1998, his passion for his community led him to establish, Cape Cod Today. One of the nation's first online-only local news websites, Cape Cod Today has been an integral part of the Commonwealth.

Mr. Brooks has always put the people of Cape Cod first, constantly trying to figure out how to better his home. He has stepped up at every point to improve our schools and our community by using his newspaper to hold institutions and individuals accountable to the people.

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to honor the life of Walter R. Brooks, Jr. for his dedication to bettering our community. I ask that my colleagues join me in recognizing his commitment to journalism and the people of Cape Cod.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of the 30th Anniversary of the Road to Responsibility of Marshfield, Massachusetts.

Road to Responsibility, a Marshfield-based nonprofit, has been serving our area since 1988 with the goal of ``making life better, one person at a time.'' This exceptional organization works to provide adults with disabilities the means, opportunity, and support to be integrated into our community. This charitable organization is made up of a dedicated staff working tirelessly to provide all people the chance to have dignified and meaningful lives.

The celebration of the Road to Responsibility's 30th anniversary gives us a reason to reflect on the far-reaching impact this non-profit has had on the South Shore. Since its incorporation, this organization has provided employment services, therapy and therapeutic actives, day programs, and residential services. Recognizing the needs of its community, Road to Responsibility quickly expanded its residential homes and programs to serve over 1,200 individuals with disabilities and their families. It now proudly operates 48 residential homes and 64 different programs across the Commonwealth, expanding its services to include recreational and art programs in the area of Autism services.

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to honor the 30th Anniversary of the Road to Responsibility for their dedication to bettering our community and increasing the quality to life for people living with a disability in our district. I ask that my colleagues join me in thanking them for their invaluable service and wishing them all the best in the many years to come

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of Weymouth Police Sergeant, Michael Chesna. Sergeant Chesna's life was defined by many things but, above all else, the word we keep hearing alongside his name is ``service.''

He dreamed of being a police officer, while growing up in the town he would one day come to serve. Those dreams would be deferred, as he was called to serve his country overseas first.

His two tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan during 2007 and 2010 with the 10th Mountain Division were the deadliest years of each campaign. Michael served with distinction in the United States Army and was awarded the Purple Heart.

After leaving the military, Michael realized his dream career as a police officer, something he had wanted to do since he was 5 years old. It was in that time, he bought a house with his loving wife, Cynthia, and two children, Olivia and Jack, in Hanover. In that role, he had the opportunity to work in and around a community he held so dear.

Tragically, Sergeant Chesna was killed one day before his sixth anniversary on the force, but his commitment to duty, his family, and his community will be remembered for years to come. Throughout his 42 years, Sergeant Michael Chesna dedicated his life to serving something greater than himself, and ultimately gave his life protecting others.

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to honor the life of Sergeant Michael Chesna. I ask that my colleagues join me in recognizing his many years of dedication to his community and his country.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Evan Gwozdz, a student-athlete from Middleborough, Massachusetts and the National Recipient of the 2017-2018 Student-Athlete Scholarship from the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.

Each year, the NIAAA awards scholarships to high school student- athletes who exemplify the qualities of scholastic excellence, leadership, and sportsmanship. Without question, Evan was a worthy selection for this prestigious award. An honors student in the classroom, Evan was his class valedictorian, a National Merit Scholar, and a national winner of the Rensselaer Medal for outstanding achievements in math and science. As a high-profile athlete and the top student in his class at Middleborough High School, Evan demonstrates a true commitment to excellence in Massachusetts.

On the field, Evan lettered in football, baseball, and track, garnering numerous awards during his high school career. Evan led his indoor track team in points and was a South Shore League long jump champion; played three years of varsity baseball without ever getting caught stealing; and led Middleborough High School to their first state football championship since 1983 while being named the Boston Globe Division 6 Player of the Year.

A native of Cape Cod, Evan was intrinsically driven at an early age. Starting in third grade, he began a meticulous schedule juggling a multitude of academic, athletic, and extracurricular commitments. He had never played football before he joined the team in high school, so he took extra time to improve his game--a commitment that has undoubtedly paid off. Evan is currently a quarterback at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while majoring in chemical engineering, and he also is cross-registered at Harvard and earning a business degree.

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to recognize Evan Gwozdz for his many accomplishments, and I ask that my colleagues join me in congratulating him and wishing him great success in the future. It is truly inspiring to see a such dynamic and passionate person follow their dream, and I know we will see more great things from him in the future

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of David Tyler Carleton, a resident of Bourne, Massachusetts, who will turn 100 years young on November 27th.

Mr. Carleton has been lucky enough to call Massachusetts his home for much of his life. Born in East Bridgewater, David graduated from Mount Hermon Prep School and then attended college at Syracuse University. Feeling a call to serve his country, he left Syracuse to enlist in the Air Force during World War II. The tenets of brotherhood and service, two values engrained in him during his military experience, have had a profound effect on David's life.

After leaving the service, David met and married Marjorie Neville, and they lived in Brockton, Massachusetts for 55 years. While in Brockton, they volunteered at the Veterans Administration Hospital for 35 years where David never missed assisting during Sunday chapel services. The importance of brotherhood has never left David, and his fellow Masons at the Paul Revere Lodge of Freemasons in Brockton can attest to his over 60 years of activity in that community.

He has passed his commitment to service on to the next generations as well. David is father to one son, grandfather to two, and great- grandfather to four!

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to honor David Tyler Carleton on this joyous occasion of his 100th birthday. I ask that my colleagues join me in wishing him many more years of health and happiness.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in sincere recognition of Ashlan Borsari of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and to recognize September as Children's Cardiomyopathy Awareness Month.

Ashlan Borsari was diagnosed at birth with a rare, chronic, and degenerative heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. By the time Ashlan reached kindergarten, her heart had left her barely able to climb a flight of stairs, and keeping up with her friends was impossible. Ashlan underwent her first open heart surgery at the age of five, and for the next nine years, she lived close to a typical life. Unfortunately, at the age of 14, she experienced a series of sudden cardiac arrests which required her to be revived through CPR. Ashlan was airlifted to Boston Children's Hospital where doctors implanted an internal defibrillator.

Children and infants diagnosed with cardiomyopathy face some of the worse outcomes in pediatric cardiology. Forty percent of patients diagnosed with pediatric cardiomyopathy die at a young age or undergo a heart transplant within the first two years of their diagnosis. Despite this, little is known about the causes of this disease and there currently is no cure. While there is tremendous variation in symptoms among the four different types of cardiomyopathy, each case poses enormous challenges and dangers to those who suffer from the disease. As Members of Congress, we need to do all that we can to get the word out about this little understood, yet life-threatening autoimmune disease.

Mr. Speaker, I am honored to recognize Ashlan Borsari for her remarkable spirit and perseverance, and in recognizing September as Children's Cardiomyopathy Awareness Month. Her story reminds us that through education, awareness, and research, we can better understand pediatric cardiomyopathy. I

pledge to continue to raise awareness and do what I can to secure the resources needed to build upon the steady strides already achieved in understanding and finding a cure for cardiomyopathy.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of my bill, H.R. 5585, to reauthorize the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission for another decade.

One of President John F. Kennedy's first acts was to sign into law the bill that created the Cape Cod National Seashore, a bill which he himself had previously offered when he was a Senator from Massachusetts.

This beautiful expanse of sand dunes, marshlands, highland woods, lakes, rivers, streams, and pristine coastal estuaries stretches from Chatham in the south to Provincetown in the north, and includes the six towns that form the Outer Cape and spans over 43,000 acres.

Today, more than 4 million visitors from around the world come to my district every year to experience the natural beauty and recreational opportunities that the seashore offers. In this way, the seashore is crucial for the many local businesses that depend on the cape's tourism industry for their livelihoods.

Yet, even while hosting the millions of visitors each summer, the seashore continues to protect dozens of threatened endangered species, invests in important local science and education, expands cultural arts, and hosts numerous environmental endeavors. One of these projects, the Herring River Restoration Project, will be the largest salt marsh restoration project in New England history.

It is important to note that, for many communities on the cape, the parklands make up more than 75 percent of their land area. That is why this regional board--the first of its kind in the National Park System--is so important. It links Federal partners in the National Park Service with their State and local partners to inform the public about park matters; to problem-solve on numerous environmental, economic, and public infrastructure issues; and to promote open lines of communication with the National Park Service.

Think about it. Six small communities and a large Federal agency drawing several million people into their towns each year, in solutions rather than conflict.

Time and time again, this commission has proven itself to be an important forum for the communities that make up the Outer Cape to have productive discussions with their leadership on the Cape Cod National Seashore about issues that affect not only the seashore but the broader Outer Cape region as well.

For 60 years, the relationship that the commission has provided between the National Seashore and its host communities represents the best of what a partnership with local entities and Federal officials can and should be.

The track record of success that the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission has shown since its inception clearly demonstrates the need for it to continue its exemplary work for the challenges of the next decade.

I would like to thank the chairman of the committee and the ranking member, my two colleagues from California, for their help in moving this bill forward. I urge my colleagues, all my colleagues, to join me in support of this legislation.

Mr. Speaker, on September 4, 2018, Massachusetts held its state primary elections. I was therefore unable to be present for the vote on the Democratic Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 6157, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2019. Had I been present for Roll Call No. 380, I would have voted YEA.

I was also unable to be present for the vote on passage of H.R. 6439, the Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program Authorization Act of 2018 Act, under suspension of the rules. Had I been present for Roll Call No. 381, I would have voted YEA.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Delima ``Del'' Genard, a resident of Acushnet, Massachusetts, who turns 100 years young on August 18th.

Del was born in Thetford Mines, Quebec, Canada in 1918 to parents Cesaire and Rose Anna Darcy. She was one of six children, with four brothers and one sister. Her family moved to the United States when she was an infant. During the Great Depression, Del left school in the 6th grade and began working to help support her family.

In 1939, Del became a United States Citizen, and two years later she married Alcide Genard on November 20, 1941. She was a devoted and loving stay-at-home mother to their three children: Priscilla, Robert, and Florence. During World War II, Del took care of

her family while her husband was deployed overseas. Then, in 1957 she returned to work as a seamstress until retiring at the age of 62. In her free time, she enjoyed dancing the Quadrille, attending Whiss parties at church, going to the movies, attending clambakes, and going for long walks.

Today she can be found playing cards and bingo, doing puzzles, and going on day trips with friends. Above all, she enjoys spending time with her growing family. Family is incredibly important to Del, who has 18 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren, and four great-great- grandchildren.

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to honor Delima ``Del'' Genard on this joyous occasion of her 100th birthday. I ask that my colleagues join me in wishing her many more years of health and happiness

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Equitable Access to Care and Health Act, or the EACH Act, which seeks to provide a bipartisan, common-sense exemption to the Affordable Care Act for those who uniquely rely on religious methods of healing.

In my home state of Massachusetts, we are very proud of our healthcare system, the system which, as my colleagues know, formed the basis for the Affordable Care Act, the law from which so many Americans benefit today.

As the Massachusetts legislature contemplated the direction of its successful healthcare system, lawmakers saw fit to provide an exemption from its insurance requirements for sincerely held religious beliefs. The exemption grants reprieve for Massachusetts residents who would not otherwise use our traditional healthcare system even if they did carry traditional health insurance. At its essence, the EACH Act seeks to extend a similar reprieve for Americans who would not otherwise benefit from the system created under the Affordable Care Act.

Thank you to my colleague Mr. Davis of Illinois for his leadership on this issue. I urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan legislation.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of the life of John Francis Aylmer, a resident of Centerville, Massachusetts and dedicated public servant.

John was born in Barnstable and raised in the villages of Osterville and Centerville, graduating from Barnstable High School in 1953. Following his graduation from Admiral Billard Academy in New London, Connecticut, he received a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and joined the United States Navy. Upon his honorable discharge, John served as a Merchant Marine Officer on oil tankers. He was later commissioned in the U.S. Navy Reserve for twenty-three years.

Within this same time span, John also served two terms as a Barnstable Selectman. He went on to earn his master's degree in education from Bridgewater State College. Then, in 1970, he successfully ran for election as a Massachusetts State Senator, where his commendable leadership resulted in his appointment as Assistant Senate Minority Leader. While in office, John also obtained his law degree from Suffolk Law School.

In 1981, John was appointed as Rear Admiral, U.S. Maritime Service. He also became the president of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, holding this position for the following decade and presiding over a period of critical expansion. Upon his retirement, John continued to give back to his community through his long-time involvement in the Cape Cod Baseball League.

John married his wife Ann M. McLean in 1957, and over the sixty-one years they spent together they had four sons, and now three grandchildren. Unfortunately, John passed away on July 8, 2018. His commitment will live on through his growing family and the legacy of his activism in our community.

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to honor the life of John Francis Aylmer. I ask that my colleagues join me in recognizing his many years of dedication to his community and his country.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of the retirement of Captain Edward J. Marohn, the Chief of External Affairs for the Coast Guard First District in Boston, Massachusetts.

Captain Marohn joined the United States Coast Guard at the age of seventeen and has served this country honorably for thirty-one years. He served in a variety of afloat, ashore and staff tours on both Coasts and on the Great Lakes. He also conducted counterdrug, fishery enforcement, search and rescue, and environmental protection operations from the Bering Sea to the Sea of Cortez. Further, while serving in Michigan, he coordinated the execution of over 7,000 search and rescue operations that resulted in saving or assisting over 1,200 lives and $10 million in property.

Complementing his remarkable operational career, Captain Marohn served as the Coast Guard Liaison to the National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Law Enforcement in Silver Spring, Maryland; Assistant Chief of Enforcement for First Coast Guard District in Boston, Massachusetts; Maritime Drug Interdiction Officer at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and earned a Master of Marine Affairs from the University of Washington.

Recognized as an expert in fisheries management and enforcement, Captain Marohn has also served as the Coast Guard representative to the New England Fisheries Management Council, the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council, the U.S. delegation to the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, and the North Atlantic Coast Guard Forum. Further, he was the sole Coast Guard representative on the U.S. State Department led delegation to the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, where he negotiated the first ever U.S. enforcement presence in this international fishery regime.

Captain Marohn pioneered the Integrated Maritime Security Operations program, an international approach to law enforcement on the northern border that involves joint operations between the U.S. Coast Guard and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. These operations continue to serve as a model for overcoming jurisdictional challenges along a shared international maritime border to improve security. He is also known as the primary architect of the Coast Guard's Ice Rescue Program, and received the 2005 Coast Guard Innovation Award for Operational Management to recognize his groundbreaking achievement of developing the first-ever Ice Rescue Manual.

Today Captain Marohn has been married to his wife Christine for 26 years, and together they have two daughters, Meaghan and Lauren.

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to honor Captain Edward J. Marohn as he retires from the United States Coast Guard. I ask that my colleagues join me in recognizing his many years of dedication to his community and his country.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of the life of Scoba Francis Rhodes, a resident of East Falmouth, Massachusetts and dedicated civil rights and education advocate.

Scoba was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and moved to Falmouth with his family in 1947. Following his graduation from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College, he served in the Air Force as an education specialist during the Vietnam War era.

His laudable devotion to public service continued through his position as a guidance counselor at the Mores Pond School in Falmouth, while he ran a night program for students unable to finish High School. Later, he served as the assistant director of admissions and then associate director, at Southeastern Massachusetts University. Further, he served as the dean of students at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School and Worcester Academy and on the board of trustees for Cape Cod Community College.

Throughout his life, Scoba worked tirelessly to advance civil rights. To name a few roles in which he served, he was elected chairman of the Cape Cod Council of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination in 1973, served as president of the Cape Cod chapter of the NAACP, and was the 2018 recipient of the Civic Leadership Award from the Falmouth ``No Place for Hate'' organization.

Unfortunately, Scoba passed away on June 23, 2018. His commitment will live on through his growing family and the legacy of his activism in our community.

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to honor the life of Scoba Rhodes. I ask that my colleagues join me in recognizing his many years of dedication to his community and his country.

Mr. Chairman, I thank my two colleagues from California.

Mr. Chairman, I am here rising in support of my amendment to H.R. 6237.

The underlying bill requires all members of the Foreign Service to serve three consecutive terms if they have received language training in certain languages. My amendment adds the Russian language to that list.

Extending Foreign Service officers' length of service in these positions is vital to our foreign policy and national security objectives. Through this continuity of service, they can develop and deploy their cultural and language expertise to make the most of our diplomatic efforts in-country. Putin has become one of the greatest antagonists of the United States. He attacked our elections and those of our allies, and he is behind a number of cyber-related incidents recently.

He has invaded sovereign nations when they looked toward strengthening ties with the West. His government and government- controlled entities spread lies and misinformation about the United States--not only in Russia, but here in the U.S. as well--through fake social media accounts that attempt to sow division among all Americans.

He seeks to undermine all aspects of civil society and a free political process that challenge him and his control over the Russian Government and its people.

Putin presents a serious security threat to the United States and our interests. We must respond to these actions through sanctions, indictments, and other means, whether related to election interference, incursions into Ukraine, or human rights violations.

However, we must also keep our eyes on the long game. Russian language is broadly spoken around the globe, not just in Russia, but across Eastern Europe and many parts of Central Asia as well.

Representing the United States and our ideals abroad means being able to actually have meaningful person-to-person exchanges with local communities and build the relationships that will help us combat Putin's misinformation apparatus.

It means we can talk to local press in-country to clarify misunderstandings and to communicate directly with the local population about what we actually stand for. It means having the most accurate understanding of real-time security information, so that the United States can respond quickly and appropriately.

Today, we are not operating at full capacity in this regard when it comes to Russia, and, frankly, we cannot afford to keep looking the threat from Russia and Putin in the face and refusing not to do everything we can about it.

We have heard many times that the Russian people themselves have great

concern and great antagonism to Putin and his leadership. We need to have skilled people fluent in the language and understanding the culture there and on the front lines of our efforts to encourage them to stand up within their own country, and to make sure that our allies in Europe know that we are there, using every tool at our disposal to stop his aggression and interference.

Mr. Chairman, I hope this amendment passes.

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.

Mr. Chairman, my amendment requires the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, to develop a strategy for how they plan to implement electronic monitoring in the Northeast Multi-Species Fishery by 2021.

Today, the majority of monitoring is conducted by at-sea, in-person monitors who NOAA sends on only about 30 percent of the trips. What is more, vessel owners must pay the cost of this in-person monitoring, at a cost of $900 a day. Not only is this a financial burden, especially on the small boat fleet owners, but it is also less effective because it leaves massive gaps for bad actors to exploit the system.

Modernizing fisheries monitoring programs by the full-scale adoption of electronic monitoring is critical for the future sustainability and the development of the North Atlantic's multi-species fishery. Full implementation of electronic monitoring will mean better data for making stock assessments and making sure that every fishing trip is monitored. This means better protections for our environment and more sustainable fisheries so that our fishing industry can remain strong for the generations to come.

This is why, in my district, there is already broad support among fishermen for moving to an electronic monitoring regime. It costs less. It rewards fishermen who play by the rules. It ensures that sustainability of the fisheries that their industry depends upon goes forward.

In fact, the Northeast Fisheries Council has already outlined the goal of total adoption of an electronic monitoring regime. However, NOAA's Marine Fishery Service does not have a strategy in place to make that goal a reality. Without an implementation strategy from NOAA, fishermen who elect to invest in electronic monitoring for their vessels would still be subject to the costly at-sea monitoring regime, so, in effect, would be forced to pay twice.

We need to move forward on this issue, take advantage of the new technologies that not only make it cheaper and easier to monitor, but more effective as well. We have an opportunity for a win-win scenario, but it requires that we commit to pursuing it.

Step one is NOAA reporting to Congress on what full implementation of the electronic monitoring should look like and by focusing first on the Northeast region. This strategy will serve as a model for other fishery regions around the country as they take their own steps towards adopting electronic monitoring across the country.

Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentleman from Alaska (Mr. Young).

Mr. Chair, I thank my colleague from Alaska. I think the gentleman understands full well that that monitor on the ship poses very challenging times from the time that they are on that ship, and the $900 a day is simply something that fishermen can't afford right now. It is not necessary.

Mr. Chair, I thank my colleague from Alaska for joining with me in this effort, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.

Mr. Chairman, this is another amendment that will reduce the cost of monitoring on fishermen.

My amendment would allow the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, to spend the fees they collect from penalties that are assessed against violators of fisheries regulations to help defray the costs related to monitoring. Being able to use the fees in this way will actually help NOAA prevent against future violations, as well as possibly reduce the cost to fishermen themselves.

Currently, these fees can be used only to support NOAA enforcement actions. While enforcement is important, it unnecessarily prevents NOAA from spending these funds on preventing violations in the first place. Electronic monitoring and at-sea monitoring trips help to ensure that these kinds of abuses do not occur. This makes them a critical tool to NOAA in enforcing regulations and ensuring that our fisheries remain sustainable.

Countless fishermen in my district have been suffering this past year because a select few decided to abuse the system. Greater investments in monitoring may have helped prevent this massive fraud that occurred. However, now that it has, it is important that measures be put in place to prevent anything like this from ever happening again. That means funding for prevention and monitoring.

NOAA should be able to use the funds it collects from the recent cases and any other cases that inevitably arise to double down on protecting the sustainability of fisheries and preventing as much abuse as possible before the harm is ever done.

My amendment does just that by allowing NOAA to use the fees it collects to support prevention efforts. This gives NOAA and the fisheries managers greater flexibility to find the right balance between prevention and enforcement, and, at the same time, lowers the cost of monitoring for fishermen.

Mr. Chairman, I urge support of this amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Chairman, I thank my colleague from Alaska for his support. He knows full well how difficult it is, particularly in our region, for fishermen just to sustain themselves, let alone sustain the fish. We want to sustain the fishermen themselves. These small vessels are out there, and they are facing $900-a-day monitoring charges. This is another means by which we will be able to do it.

So I find myself agreeing three times in the last few minutes with my colleague from Alaska--twice on my amendments and the other, indeed, on a prior amendment where he rightfully pointed out the rather hyperbolic description of the State of Maine, as wonderful as it is, and remind and agree with him that, indeed, this was just a mere portion of Massachusetts at one time.

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