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and there will be more exhaust which will 

cause much more pollution. Also there will 

be more wrecks. There has got to be something more done. I feel that the U.S. will become weaker and it will threaten our national security. I believe there will be violence as people are unable to provide the necessities of life. It really is a threat to our 

nation. 

LAREE. 

Very simply, we are reducing the amount 

of money we spend on everything other than 

gasoline. We are having to pay more for natural gas, electricity, and food because all are 

being impacted by the increase in oil futures. 

We have not taken a vacation this year and 

will not be able to afford one anytime soon. 

ROBERT. 

Thank you so much for offering us an opportunity to share with you how gas prices 

are affecting our family. We are a family of 

four, and we purchased our home in Kuna because housing was more affordable in this 

rural town. We are 8 miles from I-84, and just 

about everything requires us to drive to the 

freeway and beyond. My husband works 8 

miles from home; our adult daughter works 

8 miles from home; our adult son works 12 

miles from home; and I spend my time driving to doctor appointments in Meridian and 

downtown Boise (12–20 miles)—and back. As 

you mentioned, there is no public transportation. 

During the summer, our children work almost fulltime, and they each earn approximately $1,000 per month. They both drive 

high-mileage vehicles, but their gasoline bill 

is now approximately $120 per month. When 

the school year begins, they will both cut 

back on their working hours and increase 

the number of miles they drive, as they both 

attend BSU. Their income will drop to approximately $700 per month, and they will be 

adding approximately 70 miles per week to 

their mileage, at an estimated additional 

cost of $70 per month. If their schedules permit, they can carpool to school, leaving a car 

in Meridian so they can each drive to work 

in the afternoon. Obviously, this does not 

leave much room in their budgets for car insurance and other expenses. Fortunately, 

they live at home with us. 

My husband and I have greatly reduced the 

number of times we go out to dinner, and we 

select more fast-food restaurants lately. We 

try to run our errands while we are out in 

Meridian and combine trips. My husband recently had to fly to Florida on business. Normally, we would pay for me to join him; we 

did not do that this time, as airline tickets 

are prohibitive. We had already arranged to 

rent a cabin in California for a week, as our 

summer vacation, and that trip begins next 

week. Since we are taking five adults and 

two cats, we will be driving a Chevy Suburban (ouch!). We have not even estimated 

what that is going to cost in gasoline, because calculating it would only ruin our vacation. It will be interesting to find out 

which was the higher cost, the rental of the 

cabin or the gasoline for the car. Needless to 

say, we will not be renting a cabin in California for our next vacation if gas prices continue to be this high. We are also seeing the 

prices of groceries inch up. The cereal boxes 

and ice cream cartons are smaller, but they 

run out faster. My husband and I do not have 

a lot of cushion in our budget to help our 

children with their budgets. I am unable to 

work because of health issues (but social security does not want to pay me the disability benefits I earned). My husband’s employment at Western States Equipment (Caterpillar) is all that is keeping us afloat. 

Thank you so much for all that you do for 

Idaho families, and we hope this information 

helps you in your endeavors. Any help would 

be great. 

SONDRA, Kuna. 

Energy prices affect all aspects of our 

lives. Food, home heating, all shipping 

charges, it goes on and on. Most of us are 

fearful of our heating costs for this winter 

coming. We had such a long cold winter, if it 

costs double it will hurt everyone. I really 

feel for the young families. There costs for 

housing, cars, food, energy and all that children need, it is almost impassable without 

help. We have to drill for oil and build refineries. We should not be paying other countries for energy that we can produce here. It 

does not make any sense. Please help make 

the [Congress] understand. 

JULIE, Worley. 

If I see or hear of fossil fuel one more time, 

my head will explode. It is not from fossils. 

How did they get that deep in the earth. Abiotic oil—do your research. Now on this stupid carbon credit [issue] related to so-called 

global warming—we all could stop breathing 

that cut CO2 by 90% and the Earth could 

stabilize÷÷. Thank you for doing what you 

can. 

JEFF, Nampa. 

The way the energy crisis have impacted 

my life is I have come to the realization that 

are politicians in Washington are more interested in protecting big business than their 

constituents. Nothing is done about illegal 

immigration because it might affect the 

economy but the only thing more important 

to the economic infrastructure of the USA 

then cheap fuel is oxygen. Drill for oil, build 

nuclear power plants, construct windmill 

farms and offer incentives for solar power 

and preserve what is left of our way of life 

for future generation. 

DALE, USMC retired. 

From where I am sitting, [too many in 

Congress] are directly responsible for the 

current high energy prices. The Bush energy 

policy was decided by Vice President Cheney 

and oil company executives. Even now you 

are protecting Big Oil profits at the expense 

of alternate energy support. 

Your feigned attempt at feeling my pain 

falls on my deaf ears. 

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MARVIN. 

ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS 

TRIBUTE TO AMBASSADOR 

KENNETH QUINN 

∑ Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, during a 

long and distinguished career in many 

fields of public service, Ambassador 

Kenneth Quinn has received countless 

awards and honors. But I daresay that 

the award he will receive tomorrow 

from the Department of Defense is the 

longest delayed and hardest earned of 

his distinctions. Ambassador Quinn 

will become the first civilian ever to 

receive the Air Medal for Combat Service, an award created during World War 

II to honor courageous and meritorious 

service in aerial combat. 

From November 1968 to June 1973, 

Kenneth Quinn served as a Foreign 

Service officer in Vietnam. For his 

first 2 years in that country, he was assigned to Advisory Team 65 in Sa Dec 

Province, replacing an Army major as 

senior adviser to the team. In that capacity, he took part in the same military activities and combat operations 

as his military predecessors. All totaled, he participated in some 250 hours 

of helicopter combat operations. He 

served in night helicopter patrols over 

Viet Cong-held sectors and took part in 

helicopter operations to insert and extract troops from the battlefield. On 

other occasions, he directed helicopter 

gunship operations from a commandand-control helicopter flying just several hundred feet above the battlefield, 

repeatedly coming under enemy fire. 

On still other occasions, he participated in ground combat operations, 

night ambushes, and brown water 

naval combat operations. 

This is just one chapter in the remarkably accomplished career of this 

Dubuque, IA, native. He served for 

more than three decades in the Foreign 

Service, becoming one of the most 

decorated and respected American diplomats of his generation. Ambassador 

Quinn was one of the U.S. Government’s top experts on Indochina, having written his doctoral dissertation on 

Pol Pot’s regime in Cambodia. Indeed, 

he is widely acknowledged to have been 

the first westerner to discover and report on the holocaust being perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge. Later, 

while serving as Ambassador to Cambodia, he played a key role in the 1999 

capture of the last remaining Khmer 

Rouge general. Upon his retirement as 

Ambassador to Cambodia, he was presented the Secretary of State’s Award 

for Heroism and Valor for protecting 

Americans citizens exposed to danger 

in Cambodia and for his participation 

in four lifesaving rescues in Vietnam. 

The common theme in Ambassador 

Quinn’s career has been his commitment to serving causes higher than 

himself. He has undertaken humanitarian missions that have saved countless thousands of lives. In 1978, under a 

special exchange program with the 

Foreign Service, he was allowed to return to Iowa to join the staff of Governor Robert Ray. He played a lead role 

in the Governor’s program to resettle 

Indochinese refugees in Iowa, and he 

served as executive director of the 1979 

Iowa SHARES Program, which sent 

Iowa medical personnel, supplies, and 

food to Cambodia during a period of 

mass starvation there. 

Following his retirement from the 

State Department 8 years ago this 

month, Ambassador Quinn returned to 

Iowa to assume leadership of the World 

Food Prize Foundation, the Des 

Moines-based organization dedicated to 

ending hunger around the world by promoting the sustainable production and 

distribution of an adequate and nutritious food supply. The World Food 

Prize—created by Nobel Peace Prizewinner and Iowa native Dr. Norman 

Borlaug and supported for many years 

by Iowa business leader and philanthropist John Ruan—is the most prestigious international award recognizing exemplary work in improving 

the quality, quantity, or availability of 

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Mr. President, Ambassador Quinn has 

served our Nation as a diplomat, a soldier, and a passionate humanitarian. 

At every stage of his brilliant career in 

public service, he has embodied America’s highest ideals, and he has earned 

renown for his courage, initiative, and 

selfless dedication. I join with my colleagues in the Senate in congratulating 

Ambassador Quinn as he becomes, tomorrow in Washington, the first civilian ever to be awarded the Air Medal 

for Combat Service.

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∑ 

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 

The following message from the 

President of the United States was 

transmitted to the Senate by one of his 

secretaries: 

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REPORT RELATIVE TO THE EMERGENCY ECONOMIC STABILIZATION ACT OF 2008—PM 2 

The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message 

from the President of the United 

States, together with an accompanying 

report; which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 

Urban Affairs: 

To the Congress of the United States: 

Consistent with section 115(a)(3) of 

the Emergency Economic Stabilization 

Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–343) (the 

‘‘Act’’), I hereby transmit a report detailing the plan of the Secretary of the 

Treasury to exercise the authority 

under the Act. 

GEORGE W. BUSH.

THE WHITE

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HOUSE, January 12, 2009. 

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE 

At 2:36 p.m., a message from the 

House of Representatives, delivered by 

Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has passed the 

following bill, in which it requests the 

concurrence of the Senate: 

H.R. 11. An act to amend title VII of 

the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age 

Discrimination in Employment Act of 

1967, and to modify the operation of the 

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 

and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to 

clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice 

that is unlawful under such Acts occurs 

each time compensation is paid pursuant to the discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, to 

amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 

1938 to provide more effective remedies 

to victims of discrimination in the 

payment of wages on the basis of sex, 

and for other purposes. 

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EXECUTIVE AND OTHER 

COMMUNICATIONS 

The following communications were 

laid before the Senate, together with 

accompanying papers, reports, and documents, and were referred as indicated: 

EC–326. A communication from the Director, Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting, 

pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled 

‘‘novaluron; Pesticide Tolerances Technical 

Amendment’’ ((EPA–HQ–OPP–2007– 

0438)(FRL–8396–4)) received in the Office of 

the President of the Senate on January 5, 

2009; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. 

EC–327. A communication from the Under 

Secretary for Industry and Security, Department of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant 

to law, a report relative to the Department’s 

intent to impose new foreign policy-based 

export controls on certain persons in Burma; 

to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 

Urban Affairs. 

EC–328. A communication from the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 

transmitting, pursuant to law, the Office of 

Inspector General’s Semiannual Report for 

the period of April 1, 2008, through September 30, 2008; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 

EC–329. A communication from the Deputy 

Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, 

pursuant to law, a six-month periodic report 

on the national emergency that was declared 

in Executive Order 12947 with respect to terrorists who threaten to disrupt the Middle 

East peace process; to the Committee on 

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 

EC–330. A communication from the Chief 

Counsel, Federal Emergency Management 

Agency, Department of Homeland Security, 

transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of 

a rule entitled ‘‘Final Flood Elevation Determinations’’ ((44 CFR Part 67)(73 FR 76234)) 

received in the Office of the President of the 

Senate on January 5, 2009; to the Committee 

on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 

EC–331. A communication from the Chief 

Counsel, Federal Emergency Management 

Agency, Department of Homeland Security, 

transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of 

a rule entitled ‘‘Changes in Flood Elevation 

Determinations’’ (Docket No. FEMA–B–1023) 

received in the Office of the President of the 

Senate on January 5, 2009; to the Committee 

on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 

EC–332. A communication from the Chief 

Counsel, Federal Emergency Management 

Agency, Department of Homeland Security, 

transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of 

a rule entitled ‘‘Changes in Flood Elevation 

Determinations’’ ((44 CFR Part 65)(73 FR 

76230)) received in the Office of the President 

of the Senate on January 5, 2009; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 

EC–333. A communication from the Acting 

Secretary, Division of Corporation Finance, 

Securities and Exchange Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule 

entitled ‘‘Modernization of Oil and Gas Reporting’’ (RIN3235–AK00) received in the Office of the President of the Senate on January 5, 2009; to the Committee on Banking, 

Housing, and Urban Affairs. 

EC–334. A communication from the Under 

Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, transmitting, pursuant to law, a 

report relative to the National Oceanographic Partnership Program; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 

EC–335. A communication from the Secretary, Federal Trade Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Report to Congress Under Section 319 of the 

Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act 

of 2003 (December 2008)’’; to the Committee 

on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 

EC–336. A communication from the Assistant Administrator for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, National Aeronautics 

and Space Administration, transmitting, 

pursuant to law, a report relative to the Administration’s competitive sourcing activities during fiscal year 2008; to the Committee 

on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 

EC–337. A communication from the Executive Director, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, 

a report relative to the Commission’s competitive sourcing efforts during fiscal year 

2008; to the Committee on Commerce, 

Science, and Transportation. 

EC–338. A communication from the Deputy 

Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

Department of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled 

‘‘Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Commercial Fishing Operations; Atlantic 

Large Whale Take Reduction Plan’’ 

(RIN0648–XM18) received in the Office of the 

President of the Senate on January 5, 2009; 

to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 

and Transportation. 

EC–339. A communication from the Deputy 

Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

Department of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled 

‘‘Sea Turtle Conservation; Shrimp Trawling 

Requirements’’ (RIN0648–XL11) received in 

the Office of the President of the Senate on 

January 5, 2009; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 

EC–340. A communication from the Deputy 

Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

Department of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled 

‘‘List of Fisheries for 2009’’ (RIN0648–AW48) 

received in the Office of the President of the 

Senate on January 5, 2009; to the Committee 

on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 

EC–341. A communication from the Deputy 

Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

Department of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled 

‘‘Sea Turtle Conservation; Fishing Gear Inspection Program’’ (RIN0648–AU98) received 

in the Office of the President of the Senate 

on January 5, 2009; to the Committee on 

Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 

EC–342. A communication from the Deputy 

Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

Department of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled 

‘‘Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Commercial Fishing Operations; Atlantic 

Large Whale Take Reduction Plan’’ 

(RIN0648–XL74) received in the Office of the 

President of the Senate on January 5, 2009; 

to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 

and Transportation. 

EC–343. A communication from the Deputy 

Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

Department of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled 

‘‘Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Commercial Fishing Operations; Atlantic 

Large Whale Take Reduction’’ (RIN0648– 

XL75) received in the Office of the President 

of the Senate on January 5, 2009; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 

EC–344. A communication from the Deputy 

Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

Department of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled 

‘‘Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Commercial Fishing Operations; Atlantic 

Large Whale Take Reduction’’ (RIN0648– 

XM19) received in the Office of the President 

of the Senate on January 5, 2009; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 

Transportation. 


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