E32 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 7, 2009 

RULES OF THE HOUSE 

SPEECH OF

HON. DENNIS A. CARDOZA OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 

Mr. CARDOZA. Mr. Speaker, at the beginning of the 110th Congress, the new Democratic majority reinstated the proven PAYGO 

rules that were abandoned by President Bush 

and the then-Republican Congress as an important first step in ending reckless spending 

and getting our country back on track fiscally. 

I am proud to say that the House rules 

package for the 111th Congress maintains the 

Democratic commitment that government 

should live within its means—just as every 

family across America must live within its own 

budget. 

While the House of Representatives consistently adheres to the PAYGO rules, the fact remains that these are tough times for our country economically and financially. 

Millions of American families’ jobs and livelihoods are at risk and we have the responsibility to react in a timely and efficient manner. 

As such, Blue Dogs have worked to include 

an emergency exception to the House PAYGO 

rules, similar to the emergency provisions 

used throughout the 1990s, so that Congress 

has the flexibility it needs to respond to extraordinary circumstances. 

Let me be clear: this is not just simply a 

way around PAYGO. This can only be used in 

the event of true, defined emergencies such 

as war, a response to an act of terrorism, a 

natural disaster, or even the current economic 

crisis. 

What is profoundly difficult in all this is that 

just 8 years ago, President Bush inherited— 

and squandered—a projected $5.6 trillion surplus from President Clinton. 

Had President Bush not abandoned the 

Blue Dog principles of fiscal responsibility that 

we have long preached, the projected $5.6 trillion dollar surplus would have been available 

for us to respond to the economic crisis in a 

swift and effective manner, without having to 

ask foreign nations such as China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran to pay our bills. 

In spite of our Nation’s current ailments, one 

thing is for certain. PAYGO is and must continue to be our guiding principle. We should 

not be in the economic and fiscal situation that 

we are today, and it’s high time we start doing 

the right thing by paying for what this country 

buys. 

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RECOGNIZING THE UBLY HIGH 

SCHOOL BEARCATS 2008 FOOTBALL SEASON 

HON. CANDICE S. MILLER OF MICHIGAN

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 

Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Madam Speaker, 

I rise today to acknowledge the inspiring and 

truly remarkable football season displayed 

both on and off the field by the Ubly High 

School Bearcats from Huron County. 

The Bearcats took an undefeated record of 

13 wins and 0 losses in to the Division 7 State 

Championship at Ford Field in Detroit against 

perennial powerhouse Traverse City St. 

Francis. Although at the end of the contest St. 

Francis had prevailed on the scoreboard, Ubly 

can stand proud with their heads held high. I 

think former Green Bay Packers Coach Vince 

Lombardi said it best, ‘‘We didn’t lose the 

game; we just ran out of time.’’ 

The 2008 season was comprised of more 

than just film sessions, chalk talks and wind 

sprints but something beyond the parameters 

of just football. Sadly in early October, the entire Ubly community experienced a tremendous loss when former teammate and classmate, David Ostenski, passed away from cancer at age 17. David was diagnosed while a 

member of the JV team but courageously continued his support of the football team despite 

his ailing physical condition. Less than 2 

weeks before his passing, David was recognized during a special ceremony at the homecoming game and even took pictures with the 

homecoming court proudly wearing his #44 

black and orange jersey. 

This small rural town sought comfort in each 

other, rallied together as family and used football as a form of therapy to ease the pain of 

this devastating loss. To commemorate his 

life, each player wore David’s name on his 

helmet and broke each huddle saying his 

name. 

Led by Head Coach Bill Sweeny, these 24 

young men conveyed the true meaning of the 

human spirit, in what was a historic run to the 

school’s first finals appearance, and that 

through tragedy you can find triumph. 

When you reflect upon the entire season, 

everyone can agree that these young men are 

‘‘real’’ champions and they should be proud of 

all their accomplishments. They persevered 

when confronted with adversity and matured 

quickly beyond their years. They learned that 

life is not always fair but instead of giving up 

they stepped up to meet each challenge headon and will forever have those experiences to 

help them grow in the future. 

Thank you to the 2008 Ubly Football Team 

for providing coaches, school officials, students, and parents with an outstanding season. I commend you all! Way to go Bearcats. 

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‘‘BRIAN ROTHSCHILD: MAN OF THE 

YEAR’’ 

HON. BARNEY FRANK OF MASSACHUSETTS

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 

Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Madam 

Speaker, after the congressional redistricting 

of 1992 and the subsequent election, I won 

the great responsibility and challenge of representing America’s most prosperous fishing 

port—the City of New Bedford and the Town 

of Fairhaven. Over these past sixteen years I 

have worked very hard in conjunction with the 

people in the fishing industry to help create 

the conditions in which they can do their work 

which is so important not just to the region in 

which they are located, but to the entire country. As we stress the importance of people 

eating in a healthier manner, the role of seafood becomes all the more important, and preserving the ability of people in the fishing industry to perform this service they do for the 

rest of us is a major part of my job. 

In some cases, our advocacy can be fairly 

easy, as a matter of principle. But there are 

also cases in which mastering a very complex 

body of data is essential if we are to do our 

job right. We are of course in the Congress 

assisted in doing that by the extremely talented and dedicated people we are lucky 

enough to have on our staffs, but we are also 

in need of help from outside. In the case of 

the fishing industry, no individual during my 

career has been as important as Dr. Brian 

Rothschild of the University of Massachusetts 

Dartmouth. 

Brian Rothschild combines in an extraordinary degree technical expertise, practical 

knowledge, political savvy, and an ability to 

understand all viewpoints and articulate his 

own that makes him an enormous asset to 

those concerned with the fishing industry. He 

is a model of how public policy discussions 

should be conducted. Not surprisingly, the 

New Bedford Standard Times recently named 

him their South Coast Man of the Year, an 

honor that is beyond dispute an extremely well 

deserved one. 

Madam Speaker, I ask that the article from 

the New Bedford Standard Times chronicling 

the extraordinary work of Dr. Rothschild and 

his importance to the fishing industry be printed here, since this is an industry which is 

greatly impacted by our activity and about 

which the Members should know a great deal. 

[From South Coast Today, Jan. 1, 2009] 

A BIG FISH IN MARINE SCIENCE

Teacher, fisherman, furniture maker, marine scientist—there isn’t much that University of Massachusetts Dartmouth professor 

Brian Rothschild can’t do and do well. 

Luckily for the city of New Bedford, sometime in the 1990s he set his mind on seeking 

ways to save the local scallop fishery. A little over a decade later, scallops have made 

the city the biggest fishing port, in terms of 

dollars worth of seafood caught, in the 

United States. 

Around the same time that Dr. Rothschild, 

now 74, started studying scallops, he also 

started building up the faculty and facilities 

at the UMD Center for Marine Science and 

Technology (SMAST), making it into one of 

the nation’s quality schools of ocean science. 

He was dean of the marine school from 1995 

through 2006, the school’s formative decade, 

when it first began attracting a world-class 

faculty. 

For his efforts on behalf of the fishermen 

of New Bedford and the seafood economy to 

their fisheries, and for his efforts in making 

UMass Dartmouth a growing center of marine science and research, Brian J. Rothschild is The Standard-Times 2008 

SouthCoast Man of the Year. 

Nominations for the award came from the 

community and members of the newspaper 

staff. Recipients were selected by a newsroom committee. 

‘‘He’s really made a big difference in the 

fishing industry in New Bedford,’’ said Rodney Avila, the owner of two scallop boats 

and the city’s representative to the New 

England Fisheries Management Council (a 

coalition of industry, conservation, and government officials that recommends regulations for the region’s fisheries). 

Dr. Rothschild and UMass Dartmouth professor Kevin Stokesbury developed a system 

of counting scallops by using an underwater 

camera to photograph their beds at the bottom of the ocean. 

Previously, the National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS) had estimated scallops by 

the numbers caught in fishing nets, a method that invariably led to undercounting, Dr. 

Rothschild said. 

Dr. Rothschild and Dr. Stokesbury proved 

the government conservationists’ methods of 

measuring scallops were wrong. 


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