{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2025-06-06-pt1-PgH2522", "2025-06-06", 119, 1, null, null, "TEN RADICAL FAILED POLICIES OF GOVERNOR NEWSOM", "HOUSE", "HOUSE", "ALLOTHER", "H2522", "H2529", "[{\"name\": \"Kevin Kiley\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", "[{\"congress\": \"119\", \"type\": \"HR\", \"number\": \"1\"}]", "171 Cong. Rec. H2522", "Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 97 (Friday, June 6, 2025)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 97 (Friday, June 6, 2025)]\n[House]\n[Pages H2522-H2529]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n             TEN RADICAL FAILED POLICIES OF GOVERNOR NEWSOM\n\n  (Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 3, 2025, Mr. Kiley\nof California was recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the\nmajority leader.\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, this last week, a local\nnewspaper published a letter to the editor claiming that by fighting\nagainst Governor Newsom's policies, I was not serving my constituents.\n  I very strongly disagree with that statement.\n  The fact is that we have a Governor whose policies have turned the\ngreatest State in the country into the most popular State to leave.\n  We have a Governor who believes that because he has a supermajority\nin the legislature, he can run roughshod over the rights of\nCalifornians and continue to cause the quality of life in our State to\ndecline.\n  Here in Congress, we have tools to fight back. I set out at the\nbeginning of this year to use whatever tools are available to fight\nback against Governor Newsom's most harmful policies, and I believe\nthat is precisely how I can best serve not only my constituents but all\nCalifornians and, indeed, all Americans because the Governor has\nhimself said that his failed policies are ``a model for the Nation.''\n  I will go through the 10 areas, the 10 radical failed policies of\nGovernor Newsom, which have prevailed in California that we set out to\nreverse, to fight to overturn or to, at least where we can, mitigate\nthe harm.\n  I will give a progress report on where we are with respect to each of\nthose 10 items.\n  Very quickly, the 10 are: Number one, crazy EV mandates; number two,\nfree Medicaid for illegal immigrants; number three, out-of-control\nhomelessness; number four, reckless crime policies; number five, the\nhigh-speed rail disaster; number six, the sanctuary State disgrace;\nnumber seven, failing public schools; number eight, manmade water\nshortages; number nine, catastrophic wildfires; and number 10, chaotic\nelections.\n  The good news is we have made significant progress when it comes to\neach of those 10 items.\n  When it comes to EV mandates, just about a week and a half ago, the\nSenate followed in the House's footsteps and passed my resolution to\noverturn Gavin Newsom's ban on gas-powered vehicles.\n  Any day now, President Trump will sign my resolution into law and\nGavin Newsom's unworkable gas car ban, where he wanted to dictate what\nmillions of Californians drive, will be reversed and Californians will\nbe able to drive the car of their choice.\n  Not only that, we are reversing Newsom's EV mandate when it comes to\ntrucks, and we have already seen the reversal of his mandates when it\ncomes to trains, when it comes to buses, when\n\n[[Page H2523]]\n\nit comes to lawnmowers, and when it comes to leaf blowers.\n  Number Two, on free Medi-Cal for illegal immigrants, a policy that no\nother State in the country has, a policy that has literally driven our\nMedicaid system to the point of insolvency, I introduced the No\nMedicaid for Illegal Immigrants Act.\n  We have been applying pressure in every way we can, and finally Gavin\nNewsom has bowed to that pressure. He has announced that he is\nsunsetting his own policy, ending it at the conclusion of this year.\n  Of course, he still has not gone far enough because he wants to keep\nit going for those who have already enrolled, but this is a significant\nvictory in forcing the Governor's hand.\n  When it comes to homelessness, California has by far the worst\nhomelessness in the country, where the population of homeless has\nskyrocketed during Newsom's tenure as Governor, where he spent $24\nbillion and a State audit determined that he lost track of the money as\nhomelessness, again, continued to go up.\n\n  What is worse is, we had this decision from the Ninth Circuit Court\nof Appeals that said that local communities weren't able to do anything\nabout homelessness. The decision said you are not allowed to regulate\ncamping, you are not allowed to regulate homeless encampments in public\nspaces, even in front of schools or in parks.\n  Well, last year, we had a significant victory before the U.S. Supreme\nCourt, to overturn that lower court decision. Here is the thing: Newsom\nwanted to keep the Ninth Circuit decision in place, whereas I advocated\nin an amicus brief that we reverse that decision and we restore the\npower of local communities to regulate homelessness in a commonsense\nway.\n  Because of that victory before the Supreme Court, you are now seeing,\nacross California, order returning to our public spaces. Even far left,\nvery heavily democratic jurisdictions like Fremont and San Francisco\nhave acted on this new ability provided by the Supreme Court decision\nthat I advocated for to clean up their streets, and we are starting to\nactually see the situation improve.\n  Number Four, when it comes to crime, we had an enormous victory last\nNovember when it came to Prop 36, an initiative that I helped to lead\nand qualify for the ballot that has made crime illegal again in\nCalifornia by restoring some basic consequences for theft and open drug\nuse and dealing fentanyl.\n  Now, of course, Gavin Newsom and the supermajority in California\nfought against Prop 36 each and every step of the way. They even\nconcocted corrupt schemes to take it off the ballot and deny\nCalifornians the opportunity to vote, but each and every one of their\nschemes failed.\n\n                              {time}  1140\n\n  Despite Governor Newsom leading the opposition to this initiative to\nmake crime illegal again in California, it passed overwhelmingly. It\npassed with a higher percentage than any initiative on the ballot. It\npassed in each and every one of California's 58 counties, even Gavin\nNewsom's and Kamala Harris' San Francisco.\n  As a result, you are seeing law enforcement throughout California\nthat now has a new ability to restore order and arrest people who\ncommit crimes. We are starting to see real improvements across the\nState that we have not seen in a very long time.\n  Five, when it comes to high-speed rail, the biggest public\ninfrastructure failure in United States history, which Gavin Newsom has\ncontinued to pour billions and billions of dollars into, at the\nbeginning of this year, I introduced legislation to say that it shall\nreceive no more Federal funding.\n  I then joined Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy at Union Station\nin Los Angeles to announce an investigation, an audit, and a compliance\nreview by the Federal Department of Transportation into California\nHigh-Speed Rail and the billions it has received in Federal funding.\nJust this week, we got the results of that audit, finding that\nCalifornia is woefully out of compliance and that there is no viable\npath forward for the project.\n  I believe that with this Federal money now stopped, this is the\nbeginning of the end of the high-speed rail disaster in California.\n  Six, when it comes to the sanctuary State, we have taken a number of\nmeasures. I introduced a bill, the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act. I\nalso introduced the Freedom to Cooperate Act to allow local authorities\nto cooperate with Federal immigration enforcement. We have also seen a\nnumber of executive orders making it very clear that sanctuary\njurisdictions are unacceptable and are in defiance of Federal law.\n  In California, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli has found a way to\ncircumvent effectively the sanctuary State using the powers of Federal\nlaw enforcement, so we have come a long way toward ending the disgrace\nof the sanctuary State in California.\n  When it comes to California's failing public schools, which are just\nabout the worst in the entire country, we have the lowest literacy rate\nof any State in the country. We continue to see attacks on high-\nperforming schools from Governor Newsom and his enablers in the\nlegislature.\n  We also have some good news on this front. I am chair of the House\nSubcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education,\nand we have been fighting to give Americans school choice. In this\nreconciliation bill, H.R. 1, there is a provision that would ignite a\nschool choice revolution across America by providing tax credits that\ncan then be used to allow students to attend a school of their choice.\nWe believe this could enable meaningful school choice for 2 million\nstudents across the country.\n  I am also continuing to advocate for the High-Quality Charter Schools\nAct, a bill I have introduced that would enable a similar measure of\nschool choice for students in the public school system through charter\nschools, potentially tripling the number of students attending charter\nschools across America.\n  Eight, when it comes to the absurdity of California's man-made water\ncrisis, where, for example, when we had heavy storms in California that\ncaused 20,000 cubic feet of water per second to be cascading out of\nFolsom Dam, we at the same time had a drought emergency still in effect\nbecause we don't have adequate water storage to capture the water when\nit comes. We don't have the ability to level out these cycles of\nwetness and dryness that are utterly predictable in California. On top\nof that, we have crazy policies that divert water to the ocean for the\nmost absurd of reasons.\n\n  The good news is that we are starting to see some of this diversion\nof water come to an end, and we have secured Federal funding for the\nmost significant water project in California in decades, Sites\nReservoir, which is now well on its way to substantially expanding\nwater storage in California. We are also taking steps to raise the\nlevel of Shasta Dam to provide additional water storage there, as well.\n  Nine, when it comes to the catastrophic wildfires, which have\nafflicted my district in searing and tragic ways and which the whole\nworld saw on tragic display in Los Angeles at the beginning of this\nyear, we know that California's failures to adequately manage its\nforests have precipitated many of these catastrophic fires in addition\nto several other policy failures.\n  The good news is that we are restoring common sense when it comes to\nforest management. We just passed on a bipartisan basis a couple of\nmonths ago the Fix Our Forests Act, which will streamline the sort of\nenvironmental regulations that stop us from appropriately managing our\nforests. It passed the House with bipartisan support, and I expect to\nsee it pass the United States Senate very soon.\n\n  Finally, when it comes to California's election system, it is much\nmore chaotic than any other State in the country. We take a month just\nto count votes, so the entire country is waiting for California to\nfinish a process that takes everyone else a matter of hours or a few\ndays.\n  We have passed in the House of Representatives the SAVE Act, which\nadvances a commonsense proposition that you should provide proof of\ncitizenship in order to register to vote. A recent survey showed that\n72 percent of California's Democrats, Republicans, and Independents\nsupport this commonsense policy.\n  In addition, I have introduced the Election Results Accountability\nAct, saying that California has to count its votes in a timely manner.\nFinally, I believe that Californians will have a\n\n[[Page H2524]]\n\nchance in the next election to vote on a proposition to establish voter\nID in California elections.\n  On each of these fronts, we have made significant progress, and it is\nimproving the quality of life for Californians. Once again, this is a\nconcern for all Americans because by making California sane again, we\nwill help to bring about and continue this golden age in this country\nand chart a future that truly lives up to the founding ideals of our\ncountry.\n  California has always been at the leading edge of the American Dream.\nWhen California thrives, the rest of the country does, as well.\n\n      Responding to California High-Speed Rail Authority Statement\n\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, I want to take a moment to\nrespond to the statement put out by California's High-Speed Rail\nAuthority in response to the audit from the Department of\nTransportation that came out yesterday.\n  This audit began a few months ago. I joined Secretary of\nTransportation Sean Duffy in Los Angeles to announce the investigation\ninto California's 17-year-long failure to build anything despite\nreceiving massive funding at the State and Federal levels.\n  The audit specifically looked at what happened to the $4 billion in\nFederal funds that were provided through recent grants. The result of\nthe audit showed that the State is woefully out of compliance, that it\nhas built nothing, and that there is no viable path forward for the\nproject; therefore, those grants can now be terminated.\n  The High-Speed Rail Authority came out with this statement, which,\nfrankly, defies belief. It said: ``The Authority strongly disagrees\nwith the [Federal Rail Administration's] conclusions, which are\nmisguided and do not reflect the substantial progress made to deliver\nhigh-speed rail in California.''\n  Mr. Speaker, I almost cannot believe those words: ``the substantial\nprogress to deliver high-speed rail in California.'' What progress has\nbeen made, let alone substantial progress? There literally has not been\nany track laid in 17 years. There has not been one passenger in 17\nyears. There have been five CEOs of the rail authority, by the way, so\nthe CEOs of the rail authority outnumber the passengers 5-0. Mr.\nSpeaker, $17 billion has been spent already, and literally nothing has\nbeen built.\n  By the way, the initial projection was that this thing was going to\nbe done in 2020. That is what we were told when it was proposed in\n2008, that by the year 2020, we will have a high-speed rail system,\nthat you could hop on it in Los Angeles, and it will take you swiftly\nto San Francisco. Wouldn't that be nice?\n  We are now in the year 2025, and nothing has been built. We are 5\nyears past the deadline for the whole thing to be done. Nothing has\nbeen built, and the rail authority has the audacity to claim that\nsubstantial progress has been made.\n  By the way, we were also told that, by the year 2030, we would have\n100 million riders per year. We now know for a fact that the number of\nriders per year by the year 2030 will be 100 million less than\nforecast. There will be zero riders still by the year 2030. We are\ntold, no, no, substantial progress has been made.\n\n                              {time}  1150\n\n  Mr. Speaker, how do we know there will be no riders by the year 2030?\nThe rail authority has said so itself. It has continued to scale back\nits initial leg of the system but has continued to push back the\ncompletion date for that initial segment.\n  The initial segment of the system from Bakersfield to Merced would\nspan 119 miles. For those who are not from California, these are not\nexactly population centers. They have set a deadline to complete that\nby 2033. They are now saying that even that deadline will not be met.\n  Mr. Speaker, in 2033, we will not even have the initial segment of\n119 miles from Bakersfield to Merced. By 2020, we were initially\npromised we would have the whole thing from L.A. to San Francisco. By\n2030, we would have 100 million riders.\n  The CEO of the rail authority came out recently and said he has a new\nand very ambitious plan that by the year 2045, 20 years from now, not\nonly will we have this Bakersfield to Merced segment done but we will\nalso have Gilroy to Palmdale.\n  For those who don't know California geography, where are these\nplaces? Neither is especially close to San Francisco or Los Angeles.\n  Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. Let's assume this actually\nhappens. By 2045, we have Palmdale to Gilroy. There is no reason to\nbelieve that will be true since every single other deadline has been\nmissed and has been pushed back. Let's give him the benefit of the\ndoubt.\n  They work hard for 20 years. They continue to spend tens of billions\nof dollars. They build Palmdale to Gilroy by 2045. How exactly would we\nutilize this system if we wanted to go from L.A. to San Francisco? Here\nis what we would have to do.\n  We would have to get on one rail system. It would take about 2 hours\nto get from L.A. to Palmdale. A passenger would then have to get off\nand hop onto the high-speed train. They probably have to wait for it.\n  That would take about 2 hours to then get to Gilroy. At Gilroy, a\nperson would get off and wait for another train, one that is not a\nhigh-speed one. That would take them from Gilroy into San Francisco.\n  Overall, the trip at a minimum would take 6 hours and would span\nthree different transit systems. It wouldn't be doable until 2045 at a\nminimum.\n  Right now, today, for decades, a traveler could take a flight on\nSouthwest or several other airlines from L.A. to San Francisco in about\nan hour.\n  No, we are told that this vision, this new plan, amounts to\nsubstantial progress such that the results of the audit are--let's see,\nwhat were the words here?--misguided. They do not reflect the\nsubstantial progress that has been made.\n  By the way, the Governor has hired a gentleman who specifically goes\naround on X attacking people like me who criticize anything that the\nGovernor is for. Newsom is completely for spending billions and\nbillions on the high-speed rail. In fact, he just doubled the amount\nthat will be spent this year through the cap-and-trade fund.\n  This gentleman responded to my criticism of the high-speed rail by\nsaying that we are creating all these jobs. That is what this is about.\n  I am all for creating jobs. In fact, it would be great if we had more\njobs in California. As it is, under Governor Newsom, California has the\nhighest unemployment rate in the country. A recent jobs report showed\nliterally zero job growth in California. I would love to create more\njobs.\n  We could create jobs by hiring people to dig a hole and hire more\npeople to come and fill the dirt back in, which isn't that far from\nwhat is actually happening with the high-speed rail.\n\n  It is better to create jobs doing something that actually creates\nvalue, that improves the quality of life of Californians, and that\nstimulates economic activity. Then there are actually more jobs because\nthose are jobs associated with the economic activity that results from\nhaving something useful when it comes to transportation.\n  I do believe that this compliance review is the beginning of the end\nfor high-speed rail in California. I am now calling on the House to\npass my bill which provides that not only will Federal funds continue\nto be unavailable during this administration but that the project will\nbe ineligible for any further Federal funding going forward.\n  Once we eliminate the possibility of future Federal funding, the\nState will have no choice but to acknowledge reality and finally wind\ndown this embarrassing and disastrous project. This is the worst public\ninfrastructure failure in U.S. history.\n  They will use those funds where they are truly needed, which is on\nour roads, on our other transportation infrastructure, or, frankly, on\nliterally anything else.\n\n                     Grading for Equity Initiative\n\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, last week, San Francisco\nannounced a new grading for equity initiative. As the chair of the\nSubcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education,\nthis caught my eye.\n  What they are proposing is truly beyond belief. This grading for\nequity initiative in San Francisco was in a sense a brilliant solution\nto San Francisco's problem of having so many failing schools. It would\nsimply fiat that kids would not be failed.\n\n[[Page H2525]]\n\n  Anyone who got an F would just magically be given a C. Even if a\nstudent got a B-minus all the way down to 81 percent, that would\nactually be considered an A under this grading for equity initiative.\n  By the way, there would be no grading on anything--not homework, not\nattendance, not midterms, or anything like that. Grades wouldn't be\ngiven at all. The only thing that would actually matter for grades is a\nfinal exam. Even then, a student would get to keep retaking it until\nthe student got the grade that he or she wanted.\n  Last week, I raised some concerns about this new initiative. Just for\nsome context, it should be understood that San Francisco has had among\nthe very worst student achievement gaps in the State and anywhere\nacross the country. During COVID, they were just about the last place\nin the country to reopen their schools.\n  Students were attending class every day with no problem throughout\nthe country and even in other parts of California. Yet, this corrupt\nschool district refused to open its schools. Instead, what it spent its\ntime on was creating a commission to rename schools.\n  They came up with such interesting recommendations as removing the\nname of Abraham Lincoln from an elementary school. Lincoln was not woke\nenough for this commission. They even went so far as to suggest\nremoving the name of Dianne Feinstein from a school. All the while,\nthese schools were closed, and students were continuing to fall behind.\n  Sadly, it didn't surprise me to see San Francisco come out with this\nabsolutely preposterous grading for equity initiative.\n  The good news is that after we focused attention on this and folks\nspoke out against it, the district has now reversed course and has said\nthey are not going to implement this in the coming school year as\nplanned.\n  That is good news for all Californians because the crazy ideas that\noften start in San Francisco then often spread throughout the rest of\nthe State and can even spread to the rest of the country.\n  I am hopeful that this will be a wake-up call that the way to solve\nthe problem of failing public schools is not simply to lower\nexpectations, arbitrarily raise grades, and make it so that failure\njust simply isn't within the grading system. Rather, it is to raise\nexpectations and follow the forms of accountability and flexibility and\nother education reforms that have elevated student achievement in much\nmore forward-looking jurisdictions across the country.\n\n                              {time}  1200\n\n             California Students Trapped in Failing Schools\n\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, in my home State of\nCalifornia, the California State Assembly passed one of the most\ndespicable education bills that we have seen in a long time. Assembly\nBill 84 is the latest all-out attack on charter school families and\nstudents in California.\n  It is part of what has been a war against charters since Governor\nGavin Newsom came into office. Indeed, we are seeing that reach a truly\nconcerning level right now, even before this bill.\n  Across California, we are seeing new legislation passed by the\nsupermajority and signed by Newsom used to devastating effect to target\nhigh-performing charter schools and to shut them down or to stop new\ncharters from starting up, forcing families to return to neighborhood\nschools that they had chosen not to attend and that, in many cases, are\nfailing to teach students the basics.\n  We have many examples now of high-performing charters in the State\nbeing nonrenewed, but this bill, AB 84, makes things even worse. It\nspecifically targets independent study and homeschool-based charters,\nwhich are very important for many families throughout California and\nwhich are very important, for example, for students with special needs.\n  It seeks to defund these schools and force them to shut down, taking\nthis option away from those families and forcing them to go back into a\nsystem that wasn't working for them. It seeks to further trap students\nin failing schools and ensure that California remains as having among\nthe worst education outcomes in the country, especially for students in\nunderserved communities.\n  The bill is so bad and disgraceful that almost 20 Democrats just\ndidn't even vote at all. They abstained. They knew it was terrible, but\nthey didn't want to go against their party, the Governor, or special\ninterests. They simply abstained from the vote.\n  This is a measure that absolutely cannot be allowed to pass. It still\nneeds to go through the California State Senate, but I would encourage\nfolks throughout the State to get in touch with their Senator about it.\n  The fact that we have this continued assault on students and families\nand their schools, this continued attempt to continue educational\ninequities in our State to continue our State and country's decline\nwhen it comes to education, this makes it all the more imperative that\nwe do everything that we can here to provide choice to families and\nadvance educational excellence.\n  While California is the worst of the worst when it comes to how our\nschool system is run and the policies that the Governor has imposed,\nacross the country, we have seen continued decline when it comes to\nstudent achievement. Spending has continued to go up, and student\nachievement has continued to go down. We are falling behind other\ncountries, and it is putting our country at significant risk for the\nfuture.\n  Millions of kids in California and throughout the country are not\ngetting the education that they deserve. As chair of the Early\nChildhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee, I am\ncommitted to reversing these trends.\n\n  The good news is that I am sponsoring the Educational Choice for\nChildren Act. The basic concept of that bill is to enable school choice\nfor millions of kids across the country. It is now included in the\nreconciliation bill, H.R. 1, which I believe is one of the most\nimportant facets of this bill.\n  I am also strongly advocating for a similar measure, the High-Quality\nCharter School Act, to be passed either as a standalone bill or,\nperhaps more relevantly, as part of the same reconciliation bill, H.R.\n1.\n  We believe this measure could triple the number of students attending\nhigh-performing charter schools across the country, and it would be a\ngreat help to California families who are being attacked by their own\nState government.\n  If we could ignite this school choice revolution across the country,\nthen what the data shows is that this will help not only those millions\nof families that choose to enroll in a public charter or a private\nschool, but it will lift all boats. It will advance student achievement\nfor kids all across the country. It will reverse this decline that we\nhave continued to see in our education system. It will give families\nthe opportunities that they deserve and that they are entitled to. It\nwill put our country on much stronger footing for generations to come.\n\n                    congratulating tahoe yacht club\n\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate\nthe Tahoe Yacht Club as they celebrate their 100-year anniversary.\n  In 1925, many San Francisco families discovered and became drawn to\nthe beauty of Lake Tahoe. A small group of individuals formed the Tahoe\nPower Boat Club to organize seasonal boat regattas, which quickly\nbecame a highlight of the Tahoe Basin. In 1938, the organization\nofficially became the Tahoe Yacht Club, the name it proudly holds\ntoday.\n  Over the following decades, membership grew exponentially to around\n600. The organization later established the Trans-Tahoe Race, the\norganization's largest sailing event, which soon became internationally\nacclaimed. It attracted people from across the world. This July will\nmark the 62nd annual Trans-Tahoe Regatta.\n  The Tahoe Yacht Club has exhibited endurance and resilience over the\npast century, briefly closing over COVID-19 but overcoming the\nchallenges of that time to reopen to a wave of new members. Today, the\nTahoe Yacht Club boasts a membership of 450 individuals and maintains a\nyear-round calendar of outdoor activities, environmental cleanup days,\nand strong community engagement.\n  It is an honor to represent exemplary organizations like the Tahoe\nYacht Club in Congress. The Tahoe Yacht\n\n[[Page H2526]]\n\nClub contributes to the Tahoe Basin's status as an international\ndestination, and its contributions have had a positive and lasting\nimpact on the region.\n  Therefore, on behalf of the United States House of Representatives, I\nam honored to recognize the Tahoe Yacht Club for their 100-year\nanniversary.\n\n            national teacher appreciation week: danna mccoy\n\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, in the spirit of National\nTeacher Appreciation Week, I wish to take a moment to highlight a\nteacher from the Colfax Elementary School District, Danna McCoy, who\nhas dedicated the past 4 years of her career to educating the young\nstudents of her community.\n  Mrs. McCoy is an invaluable member of the Colfax Elementary team. She\nstarted as a paraeducator before going back to school to become a\nteacher. Now, she has many different roles at Colfax Elementary,\nserving as their resource specialist program teacher, working on the\nmultitiered system of support team, coordinating the tier 2 check-in,\ncheck-out program, and acting as the SST coordinator.\n\n  Mrs. McCoy's efforts are critical to ensuring that students'\nindividualized education plans, IEPs, are being met, and she has built\nan educational environment dedicated to helping all students reach\ntheir full potential. She also creates schedules for all of her\nschool's paraprofessionals to ensure smooth support across the campus.\n  Mrs. McCoy's efforts do not go unnoticed. She is an exceptional\neducator, and she continues to make a strong impact in the educational\njourney of her students. She is known by others for her hard work,\ndetermination, strong ability to collaborate with other colleagues and\nwork in a team, and for the brightness and positivity that she brings\nto the school.\n  It is a true honor to represent exemplary teachers like her in\nCongress, and I commend Mrs. McCoy for her exceptional dedication to\neducation and promoting student success and academic achievement.\n  Therefore, on behalf of the United States House of Representatives, I\nam pleased to recognize Mrs. Danna McCoy for her significant\ncontributions to the Colfax Elementary School District and the young\nstudents of the Colfax community.\n\n                              {time}  1210\n\n                       Recognizing Chris Wardlaw\n\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, in the spirit of National\nTeacher Appreciation Week, I wish to take a moment to recognize a\nteacher from the Western Placer Unified School District, Mr. Chris\nWardlaw, who has dedicated 25 years of his career to educating the\nstudents of his community.\n  Mr. Wardlaw became passionate about teaching when he had the\nopportunity to be a teaching assistant in graduate school when he was\nstudying to become a research biologist. In that capacity, university\nstudents knew him for going above and beyond by holding extra weekly\noffice hours, meeting with study groups in the library before midterms,\nand helping however he could. His true passion for teaching that was\nignited in that role has continued to this day.\n  His current high school students know him similarly as the teacher\nwho is always willing to help, no matter the time or the place. He\nteaches during lunch, before school, after school, into the evening,\nand sometimes over the weekend before an upcoming important test,\ndedicating countless hours towards promoting the success of his\nstudents. He even extends himself at times to help students that aren't\nspecifically in his class. He brings enthusiasm, positivity, and\nperseverance to the classroom and uses these traits as tools to help\ninspire students to learn and apply math and science to their day-to-\nday lives.\n  Additionally, Mr. Wardlaw created a summer bridge course after seeing\na critical need among students transitioning from middle school to high\nschool, with a goal of closing that gap. The success of the program is\nevident as nearly all students in his program are thriving in math for\nthe first time.\n  Mr. Wardlaw exemplifies what it means to be a dedicated,\ncompassionate, selfless, and skilled educator. He is a source of\nsupport for not only his students but also his colleagues in the\nschool. Mr. Wardlaw is an exceptional educator, and he continues to\nmake a profound impact on the educational journey of his students.\n  It is a true honor to represent exemplary teachers like him in\nCongress, and I commend Mr. Wardlaw for his dedication to education and\nfor promoting student success in academic achievement.\n  Therefore, on behalf of the United States House of Representatives, I\nam pleased to recognize Mr. Chris Wardlaw for his significant\ncontributions to Western Placer Unified School District and to the\nstudents of the Lincoln community.\n\n                   Recognizing Dr. Jennifer Sandfort\n\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, in the spirit of National\nTeacher Appreciation Week, I wish to take a moment to highlight a\nteacher from the Folsom Cordova Unified School District, Dr. Jennifer\nSandfort, who has dedicated 25 years of her career to educating the\nstudents in her community.\n  Beginning her career as a fifth grade teacher in 2000, Dr. Sandfort\nlater earned her doctorate with a focus on inclusive education for\nstudents with autism. Her research has shaped teaching practices both\nin her classroom and across the district. Dr. Sandfort has spent the\nlast 10 years teaching at Empire Oaks Elementary in Folsom, where she\nhas become known for her innovative, inclusive approach, and deep\ncommitment to student growth.\n  In her teaching style, Dr. Sandfort emphasizes collaboration,\nrelationships, and the transformative power of learning. Her tireless\ndevotion to her role has made a meaningful impact in the lives and\nlearning outcomes of her students. Not only does she empower her\nstudents academically, but she also plays a pivotal role in supporting\nher colleagues and fellow educators, reflecting her ongoing commitment\nto public service and civic responsibility.\n  Dr. Sandfort exemplifies the highest standards of educational\nexcellence and leadership, which led her to be recognized recently by\nthe Folsom Cordova Unified School District as the 2024-2025 Teacher of\nthe Year.\n  I am proud to represent outstanding educators like Dr. Sandfort in\nCongress, and I commend her for her more than two decades of dedication\nto education and to promoting student success and academic achievement.\n  Therefore, on behalf of the United States House of Representatives, I\nam pleased to recognize Dr. Jennifer Sandfort for her significant\ncontributions to the Folsom Cordova Unified School District and to the\nstudents of the Folsom community.\n\n                    Recognizing Sarah Grimke Taylor\n\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, in honor of National Teacher\nAppreciation Week, I wish to take a moment to highlight a teacher from\nthe Eastern Sierra Unified School District, Sarah Grimke Taylor, who\nhas dedicated 29 years of her career to educating the students of her\ncommunity.\n  Ms. Taylor graduated from Amherst College in 1991, earned her\nteaching credential from UC Berkeley, and earned her master's degree in\nEnglish from UC Irvine. In 1994, she began teaching English, and in the\nlast 15 years has taught both English and Drama at Lee Vining High\nSchool. Due to the high standards of her performance, she has received\na number of awards recognizing her exceptional teaching abilities,\nincluding the Outstanding Teachers of America Award from the Carlston\nFamily Foundation, the Olmsted Prize for Excellence in Secondary School\nTeaching from Williams College, and most recently the Teacher of the\nYear Award from Mono County.\n\n  Ms. Taylor is known for her empathy and attentiveness to the\ndiffering needs of her students, as well as for the high expectations\nshe sets, and the corresponding support she provides to empower her\nstudents to reach their full potential. She is regarded as a bedrock of\nthe school and is one that students can turn to for college and career\nadvice, academic assistance, or just to be a listening ear. Not only is\nshe an invaluable role model to her students, but she also is a leader\namong her colleagues and was instrumental in creating a program that\nmentors early career teachers, helping them hone their craft and build\na positive learning environment in their classrooms.\n\n[[Page H2527]]\n\n  I am proud to represent educators like Ms. Taylor in Congress, and I\ncommend her for her exceptional dedication to education and to\npromoting student success.\n  Therefore, on behalf of the United States House of Representatives, I\nam pleased to recognize Ms. Sarah Grimke Taylor for her significant\ncontributions to the Eastern Sierra Unified School District and to the\nstudents of the Eastern Sierra community.\n\n                    Recognizing Deputy Jeff Bilodeau\n\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, as part of the California\nCongressional District Three Police Honor Roll and in honor of National\nPolice Week 2025, I wish to recognize Deputy Jeff Bilodeau of the\nPlacer County Sheriff's Office for his unwavering commitment to serving\nand protecting the Placer County community.\n  Deputy Bilodeau serves as the Loomis traffic deputy and is known for\ngoing above and beyond the normal call of duty to serve his community.\nHe reads books to children at the local library, partners with schools\nto improve traffic flow and safety, provides educational presentations\nabout accident investigations, gives public safety presentations to the\ntown, and so much more. Through local partnerships, he has assisted in\ncontributing numerous bicycles and helmets to underprivileged children\nin order to ensure that they have safe and reliable transportation\noptions.\n  His passion and commitment to mentorship, education, outreach, and\npublic safety make such a positive impact in our community. As such, he\nhas received several honors, including the Roseville Elks Lodge Officer\nof the Year Award, and the soon to be induction into the United States\nPolice and Fire Olympics Hall of Fame.\n  It is an honor to represent such exemplary law enforcement officers\nin Congress.\n  On behalf of California's Third Congressional District and the United\nStates House of Representatives, I would like to thank and honor Deputy\nJeff Bilodeau for serving and protecting the region as a dedicated\npublic servant.\n\n                     Recognizing Deputy Chad Blair\n\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, as part of the California\nCongressional District Three Police Honor Roll and in honor of National\nPolice Week, I wish to recognize Deputy Chad Blair of the Sacramento\nCounty Sheriff's Office for his unwavering commitment to serving and\nprotecting the community of Sacramento, California.\n  Deputy Blair began his career in 2019, working in the Investigation\nService Unit where he collaborated with the California Department of\nCorrections and Rehabilitation to gather intelligence from inmates,\nanalyze trends in violence and narcotics distribution, and monitor gang\nactivity. Deputy Blair enhanced his training by becoming a jail\ntraining officer and the team leader for the Custody Emergency Response\nTeam.\n  Subsequent to his service in corrections, he was assigned to patrol\nwhere he utilizes technologies and community engagement to help prevent\ncrime and build bridges between the community and law enforcement.\nBecause of his dedication to community engagement, he was selected for\nthe Problem-Oriented Policing Team. In addition to his regular duties,\nDeputy Blair is also a member of the Sheriff's Critical Incident\nNegotiations Team in which he assists with hostage and barricade\nsituations through the use of negotiation and crisis management skills.\nWithin these roles, Deputy Blair has continually demonstrated\nprofessionalism and commitment to service and community.\n\n                              {time}  1220\n\n  Deputy Blair is known by others for his expertise and highly trained\nskill set, as well as for his dedication to enhancing trust between law\nenforcement and community members to prevent crime and promote public\nsafety. He stands out as a daily example of excellence in law\nenforcement and is a model to those around him.\n  Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to represent exemplary individuals like\nDeputy Chad Blair. On behalf of California's Third Congressional\nDistrict and the United States House of Representatives, I thank and\nhonor Deputy Blair for serving and protecting the region as a dedicated\npublic servant.\n\n                 Recognizing Lieutenant Jason Doolittle\n\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, as part of the California Third\nCongressional District Police Honor Roll and in honor of National\nPolice Week 2025, I recognize Lieutenant Jason Doolittle for his\nunwavering commitment to serving and protecting Placer County.\n  Lieutenant Doolittle joined the Placer County Sheriff's Office in\n2002 after he graduated from the police academy. He started his career\nin law enforcement as a reserve deputy and later as an extra help\ndeputy, which allowed him to obtain experience in both patrol and\ncorrections. In 2003, Lieutenant Doolittle was brought on as a full-\ntime deputy sheriff and worked in the jail.\n  In 2005, Lieutenant Doolittle was transferred to patrol. He was\nresponsible for the I-80 corridor, all the way from Bell Road in Auburn\nto Donner Summit. During this time, Lieutenant Doolittle developed\nstrong self-reliance and proficiency, and his work did not go\nunnoticed. He received the Mothers Against Drunk Driving Award in both\n2006 and 2008 for the most DUI arrests in the department and was\nawarded the Sheriff's Pin by then-Undersheriff D'Arcy.\n  While on patrol, Lieutenant Doolittle became a field training\nofficer, which gave him the responsibility of training new deputies in\nlaw, policy, tactics, and procedures. In 2009, he joined the special\nenforcement team, which is the equivalent of a SWAT team, and was\nselected as the element leader for the chemical agents unit.\n  That year, Lieutenant Doolittle was also assigned as a detective to\nthe investigations unit. He handled cases involving burglary, theft,\nfraud, stalking, homicides, sexual assaults, and assaults with deadly\nweapons. Lieutenant Doolittle was very effective, with nearly all of\nhis cases resulting in guilty pleas from the defendants, and he was\nrecognized by the district attorney's office for the thoroughness of\nhis work.\n  In 2012, he received a promotion to sergeant. He went on to take such\nroles as a team leader for the critical incident response team at the\njail, developing a supervisory training manual for the division, and\nworking in patrol. He has overseen teams of deputies and supervised\nnumerous high-risk and tactical incidents.\n  In 2024, Lieutenant Jason Doolittle was promoted once again, this\ntime to field operations lieutenant. He currently serves as the\ncommander of the south Placer substation located in the town of Loomis.\nHe manages the youth and community services unit, which oversees public\noutreach and school resource officers, and works closely with local\ngovernment and business leaders.\n  Lieutenant Jason Doolittle's service does not stop there. He also\nserves as an adjunct instructor at Sierra College's modular police\nacademy and teaches courses in firearms, weaponless defense, chemical\nagents, introduction to criminal law, evidence, and professional\npolicing in the community. On top of this, he serves as a recruit\ntraining officer, a position that allows him to mentor and guide new\nrecruits.\n  Lieutenant Jason Doolittle's leadership, commitment to excellence,\nand ongoing involvement in our community sets him apart, and it is an\nhonor to represent exemplary individuals like him in Congress.\n  Therefore, on behalf of California's Third Congressional District and\nthe United States House of Representatives, I thank and honor\nLieutenant Doolittle for his ongoing commitment to serving and\nprotecting Placer County as a dedicated public servant.\n\n                    Recognizing Sheriff Mike Fisher\n\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, as part of the California Third\nCongressional District Police Honor Roll and in honor of National\nPolice Week 2025, I recognize Sheriff Mike Fisher of the Sierra County\nSheriff's Office for his unwavering commitment to serving and\nprotecting the Sierra County community.\n  Sheriff Fisher has served his community for 25 years, starting his\ncareer as a deputy with the Sierra County Sheriff's Office, then a\ndetective. Finally, he was elected as Sierra County sheriff in 2018 and\nreelected in 2022.\n  Sheriff Fisher exemplifies what it means to be a dedicated public\nservant, consistently prioritizing the needs of Sierra County and\nserving as a strong representative of his community.\n  His passion for championing the rural and ranching communities of\nSierra County sets him apart as a leader,\n\n[[Page H2528]]\n\nand his steadfast commitment to safeguarding life, liberty, property,\nand Sierra County's community values is unparalleled.\n  Sheriff Fisher is known for being a trusted leader and has earned the\nrespect of those who have the privilege to know him. It is an honor to\nrepresent exemplary individuals like Sheriff Mike Fisher. On behalf of\nCalifornia's Third Congressional District and the United States House\nof Representatives, I thank and honor Sheriff Fisher for his nearly\nthree decades of serving and protecting the region as a dedicated\npublic servant.\n\n                    Recognizing Detective Dan Heaton\n\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, as part of the California Third\nCongressional District Police Honor Roll and in honor of National\nPolice Week 2025, I recognize Detective Dan Heaton of the Sacramento\nCounty Sheriff's Office for his unwavering commitment to serving and\nprotecting the communities of Sacramento, California.\n  Detective Heaton began his career with the Sacramento County\nSheriff's Office in 2014. He spent 2 years in corrections before moving\non to become a patrol officer. He eventually became a field training\nofficer, where he was responsible for training new deputies under his\nwatch. He was then assigned to the problem-oriented policing team, and\nthen was promoted to his current rank of detective, being assigned to\nthe Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.\n  Throughout Detective Heaton's career and decade of public service, he\nhas achieved a wide diversity of accomplishments to improve the safety\nof our communities.\n  One accomplishment of particular note occurred last year, in which he\nled and implemented a proactive investigation across nine counties,\nincluding close to 30 agencies, that located and served warrants on\nmore than 21 suspects who were preying on children. This was truly a\nheroic effort that spared many young lives from becoming victims.\n  Detective Heaton is known by others for his strong leadership,\ninnovative techniques, understanding of the law, and the high standards\nby which he holds himself and others. He makes himself available to\nassist other law enforcement officers and agencies, sharing the skills\nthat he has worked so hard to develop. His passion and dedication to\nthe protection of children is unparalleled, and his tireless efforts\nhave made a meaningful impact in our communities.\n  Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to represent exemplary individuals like\nDetective Dan Heaton. On behalf of California's Third Congressional\nDistrict and the United States House of Representatives, I thank and\nhonor Detective Heaton for serving and protecting the region as a\ndedicated public servant.\n\n               Recognizing Police Officer Brett Schneider\n\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, in honor of National Police\nWeek, I recognize and honor Officer Brett Schneider of the Lincoln\nPolice Department for his unwavering commitment to serving and\nprotecting the Lincoln community.\n  Officer Schneider was hired by the Lincoln Police Department in June\n2006. Over his last 19 years with the department, Officer Schneider has\nheld various roles, including EMT, field training officer, corporal,\nactive-shooter response instructor, UAV coordinator, accident\nreconstructionist, department instructor, and he is currently assigned\nas a motorcycle officer with the traffic unit.\n  Throughout Officer Schneider's nearly two decades of public service,\nhe has achieved a wide diversity of accomplishments to improve the\nsafety of our communities. One accomplishment of particular note arose\nin 2023, when Officer Schneider was assigned to a full-time role to\nsupervise the traffic unit that was disbanded as a result of the\nfinancial crisis in the mid-2000s.\n\n  Officer Schneider was given no funding and was directed to create a\nunit that provides the best possible traffic enforcement. Since the\nstart of this formidable task, Officer Schneider has not only met but\nrepeatedly exceeded expectations.\n  Through his efforts within the traffic unit, he has been able to\nsecure grant funding, allowing the Lincoln Police Department to acquire\nessential vehicles and equipment that promote traffic safety, including\ntraffic motorcycles, a DUI enforcement vehicle, multiple DUI\ncheckpoints and patrols, specialized equipment for targeted traffic\nenforcement operations, and a truck to transport these resources.\n  Additionally, Officer Schneider secured funding to purchase a\npreliminary drug screening device, which is utilized in DUI\ninvestigations involving drugs, making Lincoln the first city in the\nregion to utilize this type of device.\n  The funding he has acquired has enhanced accuracy and expanded\ncapabilities within the department, leveraging innovative and new\ntechnologies. Not only has Officer Schneider secured equipment for the\ndepartment, but he also has established the traffic safety committee to\nactively engage with the community and to enhance traffic safety.\n  Officer Schneider has harnessed GIS and drone technology to enable\nthe department to recreate the scenes of accidents, allowing them to\nsee accurate depictions of the chain of events.\n  With his levels of experience and expertise in the field, Officer\nSchneider has become the department's subject matter expert on traffic\nmatters, leading the city to new heights and addressing traffic\nconcerns through the implementation of positive and advanced solutions.\n  Officer Brett Schneider is known for his exceptional skill set,\nambition, determination, and tireless devotion to preventing crime and\npromoting safety in the city of Lincoln. His efforts have made a\nmeaningful impact on the Lincoln community.\n  It is an honor to represent exemplary individuals like Officer Brett\nSchneider in Congress.\n  On behalf of California's Third Congressional District and the United\nStates House of Representatives, I thank and honor Officer Schneider\nfor his ongoing commitment to serving and protecting the region as a\ndedicated public servant.\n\n                              {time}  1230\n\n                  Recognizing Detective Sterling Wolfe\n\n  Mr. KILEY of California. Madam Speaker, as part of the California\nThird Congressional District Police Honor Roll and in honor of National\nPolice Week 2025, I wish to recognize Detective Sterling Wolfe of the\nRocklin Police Department for his unwavering commitment to serving and\nprotecting the Rocklin community.\n  Detective Wolfe has served as a police officer for over a decade. He\nhas held numerous specialized roles, including Rapid Containment Team\nmember, drone pilot, crime scene investigator, and, now, detective.\nThroughout every position, he has displayed and exemplified the highest\nlevels of professionalism, leadership, and service.\n  During Detective Wolfe's time in public service, he has achieved a\nwide diversity of accomplishments to improve the safety of our\ncommunities. Over the past year alone, he has authored more than 35\nsearch warrants, performed numerous arrests, and successfully led\ncomplex investigations.\n  One particular accomplishment of note was his use of advanced\ntechnology, complex search warrants, social media searches, and\nmultiple agency coordination to identify key suspects to bring a high-\nvalue theft ring spanning across northern California to justice.\n  Detective Wolfe's commitment to his role and public safety is evident\nby the various recognitions he has received. He was recognized by a\ndeputy district attorney from Placer County and was also honored with a\nlifesaving award earned after extinguishing a vehicle fire and\nrendering lifesaving aid to the pinned driver while responding to a\nsolo vehicle collision.\n  Detective Wolfe embodies the spirit of teamwork by mentoring fellow\nofficers and fostering collaboration and open communication across the\ndepartment. He is proactive and dedicated, and he has become an\ninvaluable resource for both his peers and the community. As such, he\nembodies the core values of the Rocklin Police Department through his\nintegrity, skill, and dedication.\n  It is an honor to represent exemplary individuals like Detective\nSterling Wolfe in Congress.\n  On behalf of California's Third Congressional District and the United\nStates House of Representatives, I\n\n[[Page H2529]]\n\nthank and honor Detective Wolfe for serving and protecting the region\nas a dedicated public servant.\n  Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2025-06-06-pt1-PgH2522"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 61.145923915319145, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}