[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 99 (Thursday, June 9, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2895-S2896]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS
By Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Rubio,
Mr. Ossoff, Ms. Ernst, and Mrs. Feinstein):
S. 4367. A bill to improve certain sexual assault and domestic
violence prevention policies; to the Committee on Armed Services.
Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to print my bill
for introduction in the Congressional Record. The bill improves certain
sexual assault and domestic violence prevention policies.
There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be
printed in the Record as follows:
S. 4367
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting our
Servicemembers through Proven Methods Act of 2022''.
SEC. 2. ANNUAL PRIMARY PREVENTION RESEARCH AGENDA.
Section 549A(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 2022 (Public Law 117-81) is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) as
paragraphs (5), (6), and (7), respectively;
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new
paragraphs:
``(2) include a focus on whether and to what extent sub-
populations of the military community may be targeted for
sexual assault, sexual harassment, or domestic violence more
than others;
``(3) seek to identify factors that influence the
prevention, perpetration, and victimization of sexual
assault, sexual harassment, and domestic violence;
``(4) seek to improve the collection and dissemination of
data on hazing and bullying related to sexual assault, sexual
harassment, and domestic violence;''; and
(3) in paragraph (6), as redesignated by paragraph (1) of
this section, by amending the text to read as follows:
``(6) incorporate collaboration with other Federal
departments and agencies, including the Department of Health
and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, State governments, academia, industry, federally
funded research and development centers, nonprofit
organizations, and other organizations outside of the
Department of Defense, including civilian institutions that
conduct similar data-driven studies, collection, and
analysis; and''.
SEC. 3. PRIMARY PREVENTION WORKFORCE.
Section 549B of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2022 (Public Law 117-81) is amended--
(1) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following
new paragraph:
``(3) Comptroller general report.--Not later than one year
after the date of the enactment of this paragraph, the
Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report comparing the
sexual harassment and prevention training of the Department
of Defense with similar programs at other Federal departments
and agencies and including data collected by colleges and
universities and other relevant outside entities.''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(e) Incorporation of Research and Findings.--The Primary
Prevention Workforce established under subsection (a) shall,
on a regular basis, incorporate findings and conclusions from
the primary prevention research agenda established under
section 549A, as appropriate, into the work of the
workforce.''.
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By Mr. PADILLA (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein):
S. 4371. A bill to establish the Cesar E. Chavez and the
Farmworker Movement National Historical Park in the States of
California and Arizona, and for other purposes; to the
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Mr. PADILLA. Mr. President, I rise to introduce the Cesar E. Chavez
and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park Act.
This legislation would establish the Cesar E. Chavez and the
Farmworker Movement National Historical Park in California and Arizona
to preserve the nationally significant sites associated with Cesar
Chavez and the farm worker movement.
In 2008, with strong bipartisan support, Congress enacted legislation
directing the National Park Service to conduct a special resource study
of sites that are significant to the life of Cesar Chavez and the farm
labor movement in the Western United States. The National Park Service
evaluated over 100 sites that were significant to Cesar Chavez and the
farm labor movement in thy stern United States and found that five
sites were ``nationally significant.'' Importantly, the Park Service
wrote that these nationally significant sites depict a distinct and
important aspect of American history associated with civil rights and
labor movements that are not adequately represented or protected
elsewhere. While the Park Service provided five management alternatives
to protect these special places, they ultimately recommended that
Congress establish a national historic park that would include several
nationally significant sites.
In 2012, President Obama established the Cesar E. Chavez National
Monument. The property is in Keene, CA and is known as Nuestra Senora
Reina de la Paz. In his Presidential Proclamation, President Obama
said: ``This site marks the extraordinary achievements and
contributions to the history of the United States made by Cesar Chavez
and the farm worker movement that he led with great vision and
fortitude. La Paz reflects his conviction that ordinary people can do
extraordinary things.''
While this was a critical step forward, the National Monument leaves
out many nationally significant sites and leaves many important stories
untold. The creation of a national historical park, as originally
recommended by the Park Service, would allow the National Park Service
to tell the full story of Cesar Chavez and the farm labor movement for
the benefit of all Americans.
This legislation would establish the Forty Acres in Delano, CA; the
Cesar E. Chavez National Monument, which includes La Nuestra Senora
Reina de la Paz, in Keene, CA; and the Santa Rita Center in Phoenix,
AZ, as part of a new Cesar E. Chavez and Farmworker Movement National
Historical Park. These sites contain nationally significant resources
associated with Cesar Chavez and the farmworker movement and would be
preserved and protected as part of the National Park System.
This legislation would also establish a new National Historic Trail
that would commemorate the 1966 Delano to Sacramento March, a major
milestone event in the farm labor movement. According to the Special
Resource Study, ``More than one hundred men and women set out from
Delano on March 17, 1966, and thousands of farm workers and their
families joined in for short stretches along the way. By the time the
marchers entered Sacramento on Easter Sunday, April 10, 1966, the farm
worker movement had secured a contract and attracted new waves of
support from across the country.''
We must honor and celebrate the life and legacy of Cesar Chavez, the
inspirational civil rights advocate and leader of the farm labor
movement whose impact reverberated in California and across the world.
His list of accomplishments is long, from creating the Nation's first
permanent agricultural labor union to helping secure passage of the
first American law that recognized farm workers' rights to organize.
While widely respected as the most important Latino leader in the
United States in the 20th century, Cesar Chavez was not just a leader
for the Latino community. Following the principles of Mahatma Gandhi
and Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez led a nonviolent movement of
protests and boycotts to secure a union, better pay, and better working
conditions for farmworkers. He also played a leading role in the
broader labor movement, the Chicano movement, and the environmental
movement. For Chavez, it did not matter where you came from or what
your job was: he believed in the fundamental right to dignity and
respect.
But this park will not just focus on Chavez's legacy; it will also
preserve the thousands of stories of people who played a role in the
broader farm labor movement. According to the Special Resource Study,
``During the 1960s, the farm labor movement attracted support from a
wide array of individuals, including members of other unions, religious
leaders, civil rights activists, high school students and college
students (including young Chicanos and Filipinos), environmentalists,
and justice-minded consumers across the country and abroad.''
As the son of immigrants from Mexico and the first Latino to
represent California in the U.S. Senate, I believe the movement Cesar
Chavez created is just as important today as it ever has been. The
National Park System--which preserves our natural, historical, and
cultural heritage while offering
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vital spaces for teaching, learning, and outdoor recreation--must paint
the full mosaic of America. Through the sites preserved by this bill,
we can ensure that the National Park System preserves the diverse
history of our Nation that is too often overlooked. As a farm worker
himself, Cesar Chavez maintained a strong connection to the natural
environment. This bill uplifts his story and those of others whose
contributions helped build the farmworker and civil rights movements
that are pillars of American history.
I thank the bill's cosponsors in the Senate and House of
Representatives, and I especially want to thank Congressman Ruiz for
spearheading this effort with me to ensure that our national monuments
and historical parks better reflect the diversity of America's
heritage.
Today and every day, let's recommit to the work Cesar Chavez began.
As he would say: La Lucha Sigue. We must not waver as we keep up the
fight for justice and equality for all.
I look forward to working with my colleagues to enact the Cesar E.
Chavez National Historical Park Act as quickly as possible.
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By Mr. THUNE (for himself and Ms. Sinema):
S. 4372. A bill to require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration to carry out a pilot program on developing and testing
dynamic management of special activity airspace, and for other
purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of
the bill be printed in the Record.
There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be
printed in the Record, as follows:
S. 4372
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Dynamic Airspace Pilot
Program Act of 2022''
SEC. 2. DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF DYNAMIC SCHEDULING AND
MANAGEMENT OF SPECIAL ACTIVITY AIRSPACE.
(a) Sense of Congress on Special Activity Airspace
Scheduling and Management.--It is the sense of Congress
that--
(1) where it does not conflict with safety, dynamic
scheduling and management of special activity airspace (also
referred to as ``dynamic airspace'') is expected to optimize
the use of the national airspace system for all stakeholders;
and
(2) the Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration and the Secretary of Defense should take such
actions as may be necessary to support ongoing efforts to
develop dynamic scheduling and management of special activity
airspace, including--
(A) the continuation of formal partnerships between the
Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Defense
that focus on special activity airspace, future airspace
needs, and joint solutions; and
(B) maturing research within their federally funded
research and development centers, Federal partner agencies,
and the aviation community.
(b) Pilot Program.--
(1) Pilot program required.--Not later than 90 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of
the Federal Aviation Administration, in coordination with the
Secretary of Defense, shall establish a pilot program on
developing and testing dynamic management of special activity
airspace in order to accommodate emerging military training
requirements through flexible scheduling, along with
increasing access to special activity airspace used by the
Department of Defense for test and training.
(2) Testing of special activity airspace scheduling and
management.--Under the pilot program established under
paragraph (1), the Administrator and the Secretary shall
jointly test not fewer than three areas of episodic or
permanent special activity airspace designated by the Federal
Aviation Administration for use by the Department of Defense,
of which--
(A) at least one shall be over coastal waters of the United
States;
(B) at least two shall be over land of the United States;
(C) access to airspace available for test and training is
increased to accommodate dynamic scheduling of airspace to
more efficiently and realistically provide test and training
capabilities to Department of Defense aircrews; and
(D) any increase in access to airspace made available for
test and training shall not conflict with the safe management
of the national airspace system or the safety of all
stakeholders of the national airspace system.
(c) Report by the Administrator.--
(1) In general.--Not less than two years after the date of
the establishment of the pilot program under subsection
(b)(1), the Administrator shall submit to the appropriate
committees of Congress a report on the interim findings of
the Administrator with respect to the pilot program.
(2) Elements.--The report submitted under paragraph (1)
shall include the following:
(A) An analysis of how the pilot program established under
subsection (b)(1) affected access to special activity
airspace by nonmilitary users of the national airspace
system.
(B) An analysis of whether the dynamic management of
special activity airspace conducted for the pilot program
established under subsection (b)(1) contributed to more
efficient use of the national airspace system by all
stakeholders.
(d) Report by the Secretary.--Not less than two years after
the date of the establishment of the pilot program under
subsection (b)(1), the Secretary shall submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress a report on the interim
findings of the Secretary with respect to the pilot program.
Such report shall include an analysis of how the pilot
program affected military test and training.
(e) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) The term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
(A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation,
the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the Committee on
Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives.
(2) The term ``special activity airspace'' means the
following airspace with defined dimensions within the
National Airspace System wherein limitations may be imposed
upon aircraft operations:
(A) Restricted areas.
(B) Military operations areas.
(C) Air Traffic Control assigned airspace.
(D) Warning areas.
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