on 9/11 and the u.s.s. cole and the families of the east african embassy bombing can find just a little more solace and just a little more closure as a result of his demise at the hands of extraordinary work on behalf of a substantial number of courageous americans. . as a nation i would ask that we be extremely mindful that al qaeda has not been removed. nor has the sentiment of this very dangerous societal element, nor are they the only organized structure of radical extremists that would attack

our nation. we must remain ever vigilant. there was a bit of irony on may 1, 2011, that should not be lost on any of us. one of the events that transpired on that same day was that the late john paul ii, the pope was beat fide -- beat phied and moved closer to sainthood -- beatified and moved closer to sainthood. on may 1 that occurred. he spent his life blazing a path of enlightenment, peace, love, and uplifting humanity. the second event that occurred on that day was the demies of bin laden -- demise of bin laden who spent his life lighting a path of murder,

deceit, and the destruction of humanity. while one found and is finding sainthood, the other found satan. it is a goo thing -- good thing that he is no longer a plague on the earth and the hope for humankind is that pope-on-the-ii would be our exemplar of goodness. given immense security challenges facing our nation, congress should pass this legislation so that we mi continue to fulfill our commitment to the safety and well-being of the american people. the men and women of the intelligence community may operate in the background, but they are at the forefront of our national defense and deserve every resource necessary to do their jobs.

mr. speaker, i urge a no vote on the rule because in spite of mr. reed, my colleague on the rules committee, and the distinguished chairman, my good friend, touting the fact that we do have a number of amendments and the time, this is not an open rule, and i would have them to know that if it were an open rule, then all members would be able to offer this amendment to -- an amendment to the bill. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. sessions: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, today we have had a distinguished group of speakers, including the gentleman, mr. hastings, who spent years of his service not only on behalf of the people of florida but on behalf of all of us as he served on the intelligence committee. we have -- had members walk in

and out of here. the gentlewoman from north carolina, virginia foxx, who brings thoughtful articulation about her ideas about the protection of this country not just for the people of north carolina but for the people of the united states. we have had the gentleman, former sheriff, mr. nugent, member of congress from florida also, come and talk about their ideas about how you protect this country by protecting the men and women who are engaged in the active and day-to-day business. the gentleman, mr. hastings, referred to al qaeda is not defeated. we still have a threat that is out there. the gentleman, mr. farenthold, talked most forthrightly and honestly about the need of the american people to have confidence and thanks for the intelligence community and that which they do. the gentleman, mr. ruppersberger, the ranking member of the intelligence committee, as they bring their ideas forth in an open process that would be allowed in the

committee, intelligence committee, and then to bring that forward as they would discuss that at the rules committee. here on the floor of the house of representatives. it's an interesting dialogue that we get into about our hopes and desires, about supporting the intelligence community. but we must remember that the need for intelligence community and for them to have clear direction from this congress is important. the killing of the most wanted terrorist in the world, osama bin laden, is a perfect example of the necessary intelligence information and support from this congress for funds and the authorizing process, the oversight as provided by the congress. the men and women in this intelligence community and the armed forces serve this nation and they provide us victories, day-to-day victories, not only keeping america safe, but victories with finding and

killing terrorists around the globe who would harm america and our allies. the underlying bill today allows for that continued service by these brave men and women for the benefit of the american people. six years ago is far too long for congress to have skirted its responsibilities to aid and help the intelligence community with an authorization. now is the time to ensure the appropriate accountability, responsibility, and funding as given to the intelligence community to carry out their mission to keep america safe and to look forward and as might be said over the horizon to ensure that whatever is next they are prepared for. i would like to applaud the chairman, the gentleman, mike rogers, from michigan and the ranking member, the gentleman from maryland, mr. ruppersberger, and the intelligence community for this authorization bill. as they worked so well with men and women of the intelligence community on a mission which is important for us to join in with the administration to

ensure that our intents are very clear. we live in a dangerous time and in a dangerous world. i feel much better protected knowing that this hard work has been by -- is done by so many dedicated people. i encourage a yes vote on the rule and i move the previous question on the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the previous question is ordered. the question is on adoption of the resolution. all those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the resolution is adopted, and without objection the motion to reconsider -- the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. hastings: i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 , further proceedings on this question will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. sessions: i send to the desk a privileged concurrent resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the concurrent resolution. the clerk: house concurrent resolution 50, resolved, that

when the house adjourns on the legislative day of friday, may 13, 2011, or saturday, may 14, 2011, on a motion offered pursuant to this concurrent resolution by its majority leader or his designee, it stand adjourned until 2:00 p.m. on monday, may 23, 2011, or until the time of any reassembly pursuant to section 2 of this concurrent resolution. which ever occurs first. section 2, a, the speaker or his designee after consultation with the minority leader shall notify the members to reassemble at such place and time as he may designate if in his opinion the public interest shall warrant it. b, after reassembling pursuant to section a, subsection a when the house adjourns on a motion offered pursuant to this subsection, by its majority leader or his designee, the house shall again stand adjourned pursuant to the first section of this concurrent resolution.

the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the concurrent resolution. all those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the ayes have it. mr. hastings: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays have been requested. those favoring a vote of the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 , further proceedings on this question will be postponed. pursuant to house resolution 257 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of h.r. 1231. will the gentleman from colorado, mr. gardner, kindly

take the chair. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the further consideration of h.r. 1231, which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill to amend the outer continental shelf lands act to require that each five-year offshore oil and gas leasing program offer leasing in the areas of the most perspective oil and gas resources to establish a natural oil and gas production goal, and for other purposes. the chair: when the committee of the whole rose on wednesday, may 11, 2011, proceedings on amendment number 4 printed in house report 112-74 offered by the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. keating, had

been disposed of. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, proceedings will now resume on those amendments printed in house report 112-74, on which further proceedings were postponed in the following order. amendment 5 by miss tsongas of massachusetts. amendment number 6 by ms. brown of florida. amendment number 7 by mr. thompson of california. amendment number 8 by mr. inslee of washington. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic vote after the first vote in this series. the unfinished business is the request for recorded vote on amendment number 5 printed in house report 112-74, by the gentlewoman from massachusetts, miss tsongas, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 5, printed in house report number 112-74, offered by miss tsongas of massachusetts. the chair: a recorded vote has

been requested. those in support of the request for recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes

the chair: on this vote the yeas are 195. the nays are 223. the amendment is lost. the unfinished business is the request for recorded vote on amendment number 6 printed in house report 112-74, by the gentlewoman from florida, ms. brown, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 6,

printed in house report number 112-74, offered by ms. brown of florida. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

doip on this vote the yeas -- the chair: on this vote, the yeas are 134. the nays are 27 thement the amendment is lost. the unfinished business is request for recorded vote on amendment number 7 printed in house report 112-74, by the gentleman from california, mr. thompson, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 7, printed in house report number 112-74, offered byr. thompson of california. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes

by electronic device. this will be a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the chair: on this vote the yeas are 156. the nays are 263.

the amendment is lost. the unfinished business is the request r recorded vote on amendment number 8 printed in house report 112-74, by the gentleman from washington, mr. inslee, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevail by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 8, printed in house report number 112-74, offered by mr. inslee of washington. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or mmercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the

the chair: on this vote the yeas are --

the chair: on this vote the yeas are 160, the nays are 256, the amendment is not adopted. under the rule the committee rises.

the speaker pro tempore: mr. chairman. the chair: mr. speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union had under consideration h.r. 1234 and reports the bill as amended by that resolution back to the house with sundry further amendments adopted in the committee of the whole. the speaker pro tempore: the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration the bill h.r. 1231 and pursuant to house resolution 257 reports the bill as amended by that resolution back to the house with sundry further amendments adopted in the committee of the whole. under the rule the previous question is ordered. is a separate vote demanded on any further amendment reported from the committee of the whole? if not the chair will put them engross. the question is in the adoption of the amendments. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the amendments are adopted. the question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. third reading. the clerk: a bill to amend the

outer continental shelf lands act, to require that each five-year offshore oil and gas leasing program offer leasing in the areas with the most perspective oil and gas resources, to establish domestic oil and natural gas production goal and for other purposes. >> mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: order. the house will be in order. members, please take their conversations off the floor. the house will be in order. the house will be in order. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? >> mr. speaker, i have a motion to recommit at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: is the gentleman opposed to the bill? mr. holt: i am opposed. the clerk: mr. holt of new jersey moves to recommit the bill, h.r. 1231, to the committee on natural resources

with instructions to report the same back to the house forthwith with the following amendments. page 4, line 19, strike the final closing quotation marks and following period and after line 19, insert the following, 7, no foreign sales and each oil and gas leasing program under this section, the secretary shall specify that all oil and natural gas produced under leases issued under the program shall be offered for sale only in the united states. page 6, after line 3, insert the following and redesignate accordingly. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection? without objection, the clerk will read. the clerk: 3, reducing number of non-- and developing a five-year oil and gas leasing program, the secretary shall seek to recuse the number of nonproducing offshore oil and gas leases by 50% by 2017. mr. holt: may we have order, mr. speaker?

the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the house will be in order. the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. holt: mr. speaker, time and again over the past week i've referred to the majority's trio of offshore drilling bills as amnesia acts. they willfully forget the lessons derived at great cost in lives and livelihoods from the deepwater horizon spill last summer. the speaker pro tempore: will the gentleman suspend? the house will be in order. members are reminded to take their conversations off the floor. the house will be in order. the gentleman may continue. mr. holt: thank you, mr. speaker. and with these amnesia acts the majority offers false promises to americans who are struggling to make ends meet as gas prices

continue to rise. the truth is that giving away more of america's -- of the american people's offshore resources to big oil companies will do absolutely nothing to ease the prices at the pump. how do we know? because the oil giants already are sitting on $11.6 -- 11.6 billion barrels of oil in the gulf of mexico world trade center lifting a finger to extract it. if my colleagues really believe that more domestic drilling is the answer to high gas prices, then they should support this final amendment which does two things. first, to encourage the oil companies to drill on the tens of millions of acres of public land they already hold so that americans can benefit from domestic oil production before the oil companies rush to lock up more land and, second, the amendment would help to keep the oil produced within the united states of america here at home.

mr. speaker, the facts speak for themselves, opening vast portions of the east and west coasts to drilling makes no sense when 79% of all the potential oil resources on the whole continental shelf already are available in the current offshore leasing program. why risk every inch of american coastline which supports millions of jobs in tourism and fishing and over $225 billion in economic activity when the energy administration commission tell us that unrestrained offshore drilling might lower gas prices not at all in the foreseeable future and may be pennies two decades from now? oil companies are active on just 10 million of the 34 million acres under lease in the gulf. my republican colleagues say, yes, but it takes time and money to explore before you can start production. well, the fact is that of the 24 million leased acres lying foul in the gulf, they hold 70% of

the region's technically recoverable oil but the companies aren't exploring on a single one of those acres. they haven't even submitted exploration plans in those areas. why should they? when they can squat on these resources and still make $32 billion in profits just in the last three months. mr. speaker, every kinder gardner knows you -- kindergartener knows you should clean your plate before you get a second helping. evidently the oil company expecttifics never learned that lesson. here is our chance to deliver the lesson to themment and if my colleagues truly believe that we need more drilling not just more giveaways to big oil, then let's at least make sure the oil companies use the resources they have already leased instead of stockpiling them and let's make sure that americans get to use the oil produced on their land. mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield now to the ranking member of the resources committee, mr. markey. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentleman is recognized. mr. markey: i thank the gentleman. oil companies already have the drilling rights to public lands the size of minnesota. on which they are not producing oil. minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes and the area oil companies already have could be the land of 10,000 wells but they are not drilling on it. and are republicanning saying they should drill on what they have? no. they want to put drill rigs off our beaches in new england. the outer banks. and california. all before we have implemented a single safety reform recommended by the independent blue ribbon b.p. spill commission. today five of the largest oil companies testified in defense of their billions of special tax breaks. conoco phillips said today it would be un-american to take away big oil's tax breaks.

well, it's not un-american, it's unbelievable that big oil has the arrogance to continue to defend its tax breaks as consumers are being tipped upside down at the pump and how are these tax breaks for big oil paid for? i'll tell you how. the republicans are planning to put an oil drill rig on top of the medicare program. republicans are building an oil pipeline into the pocketbooks of our seniors for tax breaks for the oil companies. the republican agenda is to cut checkups for grandma and cut checks for big oil. they're going to cut health care for grandma and give welfare to the big oil executives. the republicans' plan is tax breaks for big oil and tough breaks for our nation's seniors -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise?

>> i continue to reserve my point of order while rising in opposition to the motion. the speaker pro tempore: no point of order. do you reserve time? the gentleman from south carolina is recognized. >> this democrat motion is just one more example of congressional democrats attempting to obstruct a bill that will increase access to american energy resources. this motion is already the law, the law says the president has an authority to restrict and use it or lose it is the law of the land. if my colleagues want to produce the nonproducing leases then we need to get this administration to issue permits in a timely manner. mr. duncan: this motion is trying to deflect criticism from the policies that have been perpetrated, that block american energy production. cost jobs and raise prices. it is simply a distraction from the real work that needs to be done to increase the supply of american energy.

the bill we're voting on today represents a real choice, mr. speaker, on the future of american energy. a choice between using american energy resources or remaining dependent on the opec cartel. a choice between creating jobs in america or creating jobs offshore of brazil. with this motion the party opposite is standing for a drill there and not here policy. mr. speaker, that is not a strategy that will work to create american jobs. the underlying bill will create these jobs. finally, this is a choice between strengthening our energy security in the face of $4 a gallon gasoline or being held hostage to the whims of volatile foreign regimes. mr. speaker, there can be no national security without energy security. as a small businessman i know what the pressure of $5 a gallon diesel fuel did to my business back in 2008. and we only had two trucks on the road. now, think about what this is

going to do to every household, every trucking business, every truck, every shipper and every farmer in our country. the nation's families are hurting, mr. speaker. they're trying to decide between putting fuel in their cars to go to work or putting food on the table to feed their children. we must act to increase the supply of american energy and, mr. speaker, this bill will get us moving in the right direction. this is a commonsense free market solution that can help us restore america's greatness. . this administration has unilaterally defied the will of this congress and the will of the american people by effectively reinstating moratorium. the energy resources don't belong to president obama. they belong to the american people. and they should be used to

create american jobs, generate revenue, reduce gasoline price, and strengthen our national security. i urge my colleagues to vote against this motion. let's pass this bill to return these american energy resources back to where they belong, and that is to the american people. may god continue to bless america. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. without objection, the previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit. the question is on the motion to recommit. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the noes have it. mr. holt: mr. speaker, on that i ask a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. those favoring a recorded vote will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. membermembers will record their by electronic device. pursnt to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule 20, the 15-minute vote on motion to recommit will be followed by five-minute votes on passage if ordered, adoption of house concurrent resolution 50 by the yeas and nays, and adoption of house resolution 264 by the yeas and nays.

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the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 180. the nays are 243. the motion is not adopted. the question is on passage of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. >> mr. chairman. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts rise? mr. markey: on that i request a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. those favoring a recorded vote will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 243. the nays are 179. the bill is passed. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table.

the unfinished business is the vote on adoption of house concurrent resolution 50, on which the yeas and nays were ordered. the clerk will report the title of the concurrent resolution. the clerk: house concurrent resolution 50, concurrent resolution providing for an adjournment of the house. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on adoption of the concurrent resolution. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 227. the nays are 158. the concurrent resolution is adopted. without objection, a the motion to reconsider -- the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. the unfinished business is the vote on adoption of house resolution 264 on which the yeas and nays were ordered. the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 36, house resolution 264, resolution providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 754, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2011 for intelligence and intelligence related activities of the united states government, community management account, and the central intelligence agency retirement and disability system, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on adoption of the resolution. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-minute vote.

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the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 251. the nays are 133. the resolution is adopted. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. for what purpose does the the gentlewoman from florida rise. >> mr. speaker, by direction of the committee on foreign affairs, i submit a privileged report to accompany house res. 20 for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: report to accompany house resolution 209, resolution directing the secretary of the state to transmit to the house of representatives copies of any documents, record, memo, correspondence, or other communication of the department of state or any other portion of such communication that refers or relates to any consultation with congress regarding operation odyssey dawn or military actions in or

against libya. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. ms. ros-lehtinen: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida rise? ms. ros-lehtinen: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that it may be in order at any time on tuesday, may 24, 2011, for the speaker to declare a recess subject to the call of the chair for the pumps of receiving in joint meeting his excellency, benjamin netanyahu -- bena min netanyahu, prime minister of -- benjamin netanyahu, prime minister of israel. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you, sir. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir. pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on may 12, 2011, at

11:30 a.m. appointments, board of visitors of the united states air force academy, with best wishes i am, signed, sincerely, karen l. haas.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan rise? mr. rogers: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on bill h.r. 754. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mursuent to house resolution 264 -- pursuant to house resolution 264 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration of h.r. 754. the chair appointments the gentleman from kansas, mr. yoder, to preside over the committee of the whole. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration of h.r. 754, which the clerk will report by

title. the clerk: a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2011 for intelligence and intelligence related activities of the united states government, the community management accounts, and the central intelligence agency retirement and disability system, and for other purposes. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered as read the first time. the gentleman from michigan, mr. rogers, and the gentleman from maryland, mr. ruppersberger, each will control 30 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr. rogers: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. and all time yielded is for the purposes of debate only. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. rogers: mr. chairman, i wish to announce that subsequent to reporting the bill, the committee has modified the classified annex to the bill with respect to the authorized level of funding for certain programs. with bipartisan agreement between myself and the ranking member, mr. ruppersberger. the classified annex containing the modified schedule of authorizations is available for review by all members of the

house, subject to the rules of the house, and the permanent select committee on intelligence, under which procedures described my announcement to the house on may 3, 2011. the mott fide schedule of authorizations is and has been available for review by members and the period of time required by the rules of the house. mr. speaker, the annual -- excuse me, mr. chairman, the annual intelligence authorization bill i do believe is one of the most important bills that we'll pass in the house each year. i want to thank my ranking member, mr. ruppersberger. we sat down at the beginning of january and decided that matters of national security were too important for infectious partisan debate. and rhetoric. we decided that we would work out through every cause as congenially as possible and agree where we could on every matter where we had a difference moving forward on again matters of intelligence and matters of national security. i think the product we see on the floor today reflects that

commitment and that working relationship. i want to commend mr. ruppersberger and the entire committee on the house permanent select committee on intelligence for their work, their cooperation, and their commitment to our national security. to the united states. we recently saw the successful mission against osama bin laden. our intelligence professionals remain on the frontlines in america's defense against our enemies. . for the last six years, congress has failed to pass an authorization bill with funding authority. instead, yearly appropriations bills have simply deemed intelligence funding to be authorized. we must, and i think we agree in a bipartisan way, stop that trend and stop it this year. the continued success of our intelligence community requires effective and aggressive congressional oversight. such oversight can only be achieved if we get back in the habit of meeting our responsibility of passing an intelligence authorization bill every year. mr. chairman, we have men and

women scattered all across this globe who are engaged daily and sometimes often very dangerous work of collecting information to provide our policymakers and our war fighters the information they need to defeat our enemy. were trying to catch spies here in the united states by our f.b.i., to recruiting people who want to cooperate and help the united states on tough issues like nuclear proliferation and terrorism efforts targeted against us or our allies, these folks log countless hours, risk their lives, spend time away from their family and deserve our praise and our commitment that we'll work with them to give the -- them the tools they need to be successful. i can't think of a more important time in our history when i've seen intelligence play such an important role in our world affairs. the world is changing before our eyes and our intelligence community is providing us the information we need, not just to be safe, but to make good decisions on what that world looks like and what our

national interests are country by country, region by region. i'm particularly pleased that this bill has such strong bipartisan support. the legislative provisions are intentionally limited to focus our attention on providing necessary resources to the men and women of the intelligence community as provided in the classified annex. the secrecy that is a necessary part of our country's intelligence work required that the national intelligence committees conduct strong and effective oversight and that strong and effective oversight is possible. but without that annual intelligence authorization bill, the bill we will pass today, congress must get back in the habit of passing that bill every year. we make important commitments in this bill, mr. chairman, for the priorities of the intelligence community. technology has fused in the intelligence collection like i've never seen it and it's increased exponential in the past few years.

we allow our intelligence officials and professionals to do the work they need to do. it makes them more effective and it also makes the investment in the people who oversee that technology even more important. we make that important investment in this f.y. 2011 intelligence authorization bill as well. nothing brings that home like the broad scope of what we saw participate in the osama bin laden event of last sunday. every sickle intelligence agency, and i do mean every -- every single intelligence agency, and i do mean every single one, played a role, signals intelligence, satellite intelligence, all of those things came together over the course of 10 years. and i credit george bush and his administration for assembling this new intelligence community that really started after 9/11 and president obama for making the authorization and the continued

policies that allowed us to have that information to go after osama bin laden. it was really quite an impressive thing. both administrations deserve credit for that, and i would hope that today the people of the house of representatives would celebrate that victory and all the work of the unsung heroes who work in the shadows by passing this f.y. 2011 bill so they can get about the business of protecting the united states. i appreciate, again, this bipartisan consensus, and i would ask -- i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from michigan reserves. the gentleman from maryland's recognized. mr. ruppersberger: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ruppersberger: i rise in support of h.r. 754. the men and women helped locate osama bin laden exemplified the

extraordinary courage and skill who work tirelessly to keep our community safe. they should be commended for a job well done. but i fight against terrorism is not over. we have severely weakened al qaeda, but we must remain vigilant as we work to eliminate this threat. i believe that it's our responsibility to give our intelligence professionals the capability and resources to do their job successfully. the intelligence authorization act for f.y. 2011 is above the level enacted in f.y. 2010 and above the people onboard. this includes counterterrorism positions at the c.i.a. and a large increase in personnel at the national counterterrorism center, the nctc. the bill also adds hundreds of millions of dollars for intelligence above current levels. in response to the website wilieaks.

it has a protection program that will not give classified information. the way it conducts intelligence is by passing an authorization bill to give the i.c.e. and intelligence community budgetary direction. when i first got involved with the teblings community right after 9/11, i did not know of the communications. the different areas and the different c.i.a., n.s.a., the f.b.i., there was not the communication necessary. but this has definitely changed today. the osama bin laden mission proved that. professionals from all across the intelligence community, including the c.i.a., n.g.a., n.s.a. and special ops, all came together as a team to get the job done. we are now on our game. we're working together. we're better than we've ever been, and we've clearly sent a message to the world, if you're going to attack america, if you are going to kill americans we are going to find you and we

are going to bring you to justice. on the intelligence committee, the house select intelligence committee, we work together. chairman rogers, as stated before, and i have agreed to worg together in a bipartisan manner. the stakes are too high not to do so. i join chairman rogers in saying politics has no place in the intelligence committee. the threats are real and the stakes are too high. sure, we will have disagreements, we will disagree from time to time on policy. but we will work together to work through these issues to cowhat is right for the intelligence -- to do what is right for the intelligence community to protect our country. that's what we did in this budget. after months of negotiations with the majority and a number of changes to address many of the concerns of the administration, i believe this bill moves in a positive direction. it goes a long way to help our communities professionals to get the job done. thank you and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland reserves. the gentleman from -- the chair: the gentleman from maryland reserves. the gentleman from michigan is

recognized. mr. rogers: i'd like to yield one minute to the distinguished member of the intelligence committee from new jersey, mr. lobiondo. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for one minute. mr. lobiondo: thank you very much, mr. chairman. i'd like to start out by thanking you, chairman rogers, and mr. ruppersberger, for refocusing the efforts on the bell committee which is important with the oversight of our intelligence community. we have incredibly dedicated men and women who are putting their lives on the line every day in a way that almost all of america will never know. these individuals deserve nothing less than the full attention and help from congress in the authorization and helping them with the programs that are necessary to continue the dramatic successes such as what we've seen with osama bin laden. now, they have successes every day, ladies and gentlemen. they are not as high profile as the one we had last week, but many of them are just as important. without the intelligence authorization bill, we're having them with one arm tied

behind their back. it's unfair to the country. and these times of turbulence with an enemy that is bound and determined to hurt our country, we rely on our intelligence community and the great work this bill will do. i thank them for that. i thank the chairman for that and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from michigan reserves. the gentleman from maryland's recognized. mr. ruppersberger yes, sir. i now -- mr. ruppersberger: yes, sir. i now yield to mr. thorpeson of california, a member of the select intelligence committee, for three minutes. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized for three minutes. mr. thompson: thank you, mr. ruppersberger and mr. rogers, for your good work in the committee. as the ranking member of counterintelligence, i'm pleased that we're able to work through our differences to bring a stronger and now bipartisan intelligence authorization bill to the floor today.

h.r. 754 will support critical u.s. intelligence capabilities by increasing resources for our country's counterterrorism efforts while also providing needed flexibility to the central intelligence agency to hire the analysts that it needs. last year under the leadership of then speaker pelosi and chairman reyes, president obama signed the first intelligence authorization act in six years. that bill included a number of long overdue provisions that supported critical u.s. intelligence capabilities, significantly enhanced congressional oversight and improved accountability across the entire intelligence community. today's bill builds on that effort and represents an important step forward towards enacting an intelligence authorization bill for the second year in a row. unfortunately, the process used to produce this bill was badly flawed. and there weren't proper hearings to get to where we are

now and that's evidenced by the amendments that we're able to get into this bill to bring it up to the position that it's in. but however, with the changes made to the classified annex, i believe this authorization will strengthen our national security and is in the best interest of our intelligence community. specifically the additional funds authorized by this bill to hire more counterterrorism analysts will make our country safer and more secure. it was, after all, counterterrorism analysts that located osama bin laden after he had disappeared for nearly 10 years and that are now tracking senior al qaeda leadership around the globe. by providing more resources to this critical effort, our intelligence community will be able to confront head on the threat posed by al qaeda and other terrorist organizations across the world. in fact, given our recent

success of our counterterrorism effort, this is the strategy we should pursue over our counterinsurgency campaign in afghanistan which has not shown the results that congress expected or that the american people demand. this tactical change would significantly reduce our military footprint in countries around the world while allowing our military and intelligence assets to confront terrorism threats wherever they're developed. mr. speaker, our intelligence community must be prepared for any and all threats, making it all the more critical for congress to pass an intelligence authorization that furthers our national security. this legislation is necessary, will enhance the capabilities -- 30 more seconds? mr. ruppersberger yes. yield the gentleman. mr. thompson: this legislation is necessary, will enhance the capabilities of the intelligence community, specifically our counterterrorism efforts, and will make our nations safer.

i urge my colleagues to support this bill and thank the members of our intelligence community and their families for their great work and their sacrifice. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from california yields back. the gentleman from maryland reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. rogers: thank you, mr. chairman. i would recognize the gentlelady from the great state of north carolina for two minutes, also a distinguished member of the intelligence committee. the chair: the gentlelady from north carolina is recognized for two minutes. mrs. myrick: thank for yielding me time. i'm delighted to be here today because this is a good moment for our intelligence community that we are going to pass an intelligence bill. you've heard it said, it's been six years since there's been an authorization of these people, and they are out there every single day and every single agency doing what they do so we can be here to be able to discuss this on the floor and to live freely in this country and around the world. it's extremely important that

they have the knowledge and security of knowing that what they do is approved of and authorized by this committee in the house, and it's been good to have a bipartisan agreement in the sense that we worked very well together. mr. rogers and mr. ruppersberger work extremely well. myself, mr. thompson, who chares one of the committees, works very well. the committee members do. and so it's encouraging that we're able to move forward in a way that's very positive for the people of this country relative to their national security. so i urge all of my colleagues to support this bill. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from north carolina yields back. the gentleman from michigan reserves. the chair: the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. ruppersberger: i'd like to yield to a distinguish member from kentucky on the temmings committee, mr. chand -- on the temmings committee, mr. chandler for three minutes. the chair: the gentleman from

kentucky is recognized for three minutes. mr. chandler: i thank the gentleman from maryland for the recognition. osama bin laden, one of the worst men to walk the earth since adolf hitler, is dead. while on the run for many years, bin laden continued to plan and coordinate attacks against americans. he was only found and killed because of the brave men and women in our military and in our intelligence community. we have some of the best intelligence operations in the world, and if we want to continue the fight against terrorism we need to keep it that way. and this bill does just that. the bill authorizes funding for the dedicated men and women of the intelligence community to help them do their jobs and protect american citizens. in my tenure on the intelligence committee, i have had the privilege of visiting with many of the courageous and extremely bright people who work in intelligence. after meeting them, there's no doubt in my mind that we are in

good hands and i have a greater appreciation for the work they do to keep america safe every day. it's incredibly important that we support those efforts, especially in light of the extraordinary job the intelligence community did in finding and killing bin laden. these are tough times with our budget, but the security of our people has got to be our priority. last year congress passed its first intelligence authorization act since the 2005 bill under the leadership of chairman reyes. i applaud both chairman rogers and running backing -- ranking member rupersberging in theirests to work out a bipartisan compromise that would help maintain and strengthen our impressive intelligence community. they've done a tremendous job and it's a breath of fresh air to see everybody working so well together. thank you and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from maryland reserves.

the gentleman from michigan voiced. -- recognized -- is recognized. mr. rogers: thank you. i'd like to yield now two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from texas and a member of the intelligence committee, mr. doneway -- conaway. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. conaway: thank you. i hope those aren't mutually exclusive. distinguished and being from texas. i rise in strong, strong support of this year's intelligence authorization bill and encourage my colleagues to support this. but with their strong support comes a modest amount of disappointment in that through no fault of anyone in particular , no one's fault, we had to strike -- the chairman made the tough decision to strike section 412 from the bill which would have allowed certain elements within the intel community to set up their own direct accounts with treasury. it's a bit of an arcane statement but it allows greater steps toward achieving that in the intelligence community. the provisions were intended for both this goal of better

financial accountability and insight into our classified spending. the intelligence community, mr. chairman, must meet the same financial accounting standards as the rest of government. those accounts standards will help -- accounting standards will help uncover savings in current programs that can be reinvested in vital intelligence priorities or returned to the taxpayers. so while i am disappointed that the provision was not in the 2011 bill, i've got -- i've already had good conversations with the chairman's reference to the 2012 bill which will be in the committee in the next couple of weeks so that we can continue to move the intelligence community, their various slots, toward accountability which is important for the taxpayer and it gives management a reliable tool if they've got those system, got the controls in place, give them -- it will give them tools in order to manage the money that -- the precious resources that we take from the taxpayers and trust to the intelligence community to do the great work that we've done, that

they have done, excuse me, over no greater example of that, of course, than the find and fix portion of the bin laden experience that we saw play out on may 1 and may 2. a terrific achievement by folks whose faces will never be -- never be seen. they will know who they are, they'll have that great pride of knowing that they've done great work for this country using the tools that we provide them. so i urge my colleagues to support the re-authorization bill and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan reserves. the gentleman from maryland is recognized. >> how much time do we have? the chair: the gentleman from maryland has 21 1/2 minutes and the gentleman from michigan has 20 minutes. >> i reserve. the chair: the gentleman from maryland reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. rogers: mr. chairman, i'd like to yield two minutes to the appropriator member of the house committee on intelligence from

new jersey, mr. frelinghuysen. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey voiced for two minutes. mr. frelinghuysen: i thank the chairman for yielding and rise in support of this re-authorization. mr. chairman, i also rise to pay tribute to the dedicated men and women of our intelligence communities. their work is not an easy jobs in the best of times and over the last 10 years they have carried an especially heavy day to day burden. they work long hours under tremendous pressure, mostly in obscurityity, to ensure that americans are protecting err where -- everywhere. they are unsung heroes of national security and we owe them more than we can possibly repay. my colleagues, as a member of the house from a 9/11 state, i take very seriously the findings of the 9/11 commission. and one of the key recommendations of the commission was the need to improve coordination of the numerous congressional committees charged with overseeing and funding the intelligence community and its many activities. to this end i commend chairman mike rogers for including me as part of the intelligence team in

his committee. i'd also like to thank chairman hal rogers of the appropriations committee for seeing fit to appoint me as one of three liaisons to the intelligence committee. we are working closely with the intelligence community and intelligence committee to eliminate the daylight that has existed in the past between these two important committees and the legislation that's produced. the bill chairman rogers and mr. ruppersberger have constructed does ensure that our intelligence community has the tools and resources to analyze, predict, respond and counter all the threats to america and americans. i commend them for their effort and i'm proud to be part of their team and yield back. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey yields back. the gentleman from maryland continues to reserve. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. rogers: mr. chairman, i'd like to recognize for two minutes the gentleman from

georgia, also a member of the committee, mr. westmoreland. the chair: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for two minutes. mr. west: thank you, mr. speaker, and i want to thank the chair -- mr. westmoreland: thank you, mr. speaker. i can't express the importance of passing this intelligence authorization bill. this legislation will not only ensure that our intelligence agencies are sufficiently funded to carry out their functions, but will hold them financially accountable. it has been six years since congress has passed a complete intelligence authorization bill. in years past we have simply continued to deem funding for our intelligence programs to be authorized through other appropriations bills. well, our law expressly requires that we explicitly authorize intelligence funding and that is what we need to do here. we need to start passing an authorization bill each year in order to maintain the success of our intelligence communities and spell out exactly what will be

provided. i want to commend ranking member ruppersberger and chairman rogers for their work in working together to make sure that this is made possible. the significance of our country's intelligence cannot be overstated. the killing of osama bin laden is a direct example of the meaningful work that these agencies performed in order to protect us. we must continue to provide these men and women with the resources and capabilities that they need and not just place obstacles in your way, but give them the resources that will make their job easier and more efficient. this authorization bill provides a detailed blueprint of necessary budget needs for the 17 separate agencies that it covers. it funds both military and civilian members of our intelligence community and directly supports those involved in dangerous operations at home and abroad.

they are the very operations that are countering global terrorism and monitoring foreign militaries. these are the operations that make sure america stays on the cutting edge of intelligence, technology, to be able to detect and thwart threats that become imminent. these are the people we must ensure are adequately funded and i just ask my colleagues to support this bill. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from maryland is recognized. the gentleman from maryland continues to reserve. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. rogers: mr. chairman, i would ask we give one minute to mr. flake from arizona. mr. flake: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i want to engage in a colloquy briefly if we can. as the gentleman knows we have worked to decrease funding for the ndic or the national drug intelligence center. this is a center that's received hundreds of millions of dollars over the years yet in 2005 the white house o.m.b. reports that

the ndic has approved infective in achieving its assigned mission. reports subsequent to that have pointed to similar failures and problems. yet it still received last year i think $44 million. i had intended to bring an amendment to this authorization bill but i don't want to hold up this important authorization for f.y. 2011. i want to ask the chairman if he plans to bring an authorization bill for 2012? mr. rogers: we plan to bring a bill for 2012 and i will work with you on the ndic. i couldn't agree more. it's important that we focus, continue to have the government effort focus on elicit drugs, however the national drug intelligence center has done very little to address this national priority and i look forward to working with him. mr. flake: i thank the chairman and yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from maryland continues to reserve. the gentleman from michigan is recognized.

mr. rogers: mr. chairman, i'd like to recognize for one minute the distinguished member of the intelligence committee, mr. heck. the chair: the gentleman from nevada voiced for one minute. mr. heck: thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to begin by recognizing our military's extraordinary efforts to successfully close a painful chapter in american history. of course the military could not have performed their mission so successfully without our intelligence community's unflagging efforts. the men and women of the intelligence community are the unsung heroes of not only the mission to bring osama bin laden to justice but many other successful counterterrorism operations and they deserve tremendous credit. the successful bin laden mission highlights the critical role our intelligence community plays in protecting our national security. two of the intelligence communities -- community's chief weapons against terrorism are the information and the ability to communicate that information swiftly. i'm proud so say that the airmen in my home state of nevada are critical to both captures and communicating information that is necessary for intelligence

operations. one reason nevadans elected me last fauth fall was to restore government accountability and oversight. secretary defense gates and chairman joint chiefs of staff admiral mullen both identified america's growing debt as our number one security concern. as we're fighting the war on terror we must not allocate resources without due process and we must ensure the intelligence community -- mr. rogers: i'd like to extend another 30 seconds. mr. heck: is accountable for their operations because most of their operations occur outside of the public 'view -- public's view. chairman rogers and ranking member ruppersberger are doing tremendous work to make sure these ideas are a reality. i applaud their dedication to restoring proper accountability and oversight to the intelligence community. i am confident the act provides the resources and latitude our intelligence community needs while ensuring fiscal and operational responsibility. that is why i urge my colleagues to vote yes on h.r. 754 and with that i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from maryland continues to reserve. the gentleman from michigan is

recognized. mr. rogers: mr. chairman, i'd like to recognize another distinguished gentleman from the house permanent select committee on intelligence, the gentleman from florida, mr. ruiny -- rooney, for two minutes. the chair: the gentleman from florida is recognized for two minutes. mr. rooney: thank you, mr. speaker. and, mr. chairman, mr. ranking member, thank you for your leadership. i rise today, mr. speaker, in support of fiscal year 2011 intelligence authorization legislation. on september 11, 2001, our nation faced the deadliest attack of terror in u.s. history. on the evening of may 1, 2011, the mastermind of those attacks, osama bin laden, was brought to justice and killed while hiding in a compound in pakistan. along with the sacrifices however nation's troops and the sacrifices that they've made over the last 10 years, our intelligence community has played an integral role in fighting the war on terror and keeping america safe. but behind the scenes work of the intelligence -- the

behind-the-scenes work of the intelligence community, leading up to their attack and raid, was critical to the success of the mission. and will continue to be critical -- crucial asset to winning the war on terror. completing the intelligence authorization bill is critical to ensuring that our nation's intelligence agencies have the tools they need to remain on the forefront of global and national security. this bill provides vital congressional oversight and policy guidance to the intelligence community on behalf of the american people. congress must ensure these agencies are acting in our best interest and spending taxpayer dollars wisely. as a member of the house intelligence committee and the house armed services committee, i urge my colleagues to support this bill. mr. speaker, i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from florida yields back. the gentleman from maryland's recognized. mr. ruppersberger: yes. two issues that i'd like to discuss that we don't talk about a lot but i think it's important that we do raise the issue, chairman rogers and i do work on

this issue and that's our space program and that's also cybersecurity. we years ago responded to russia putting up sputnik by in 10 years putting a man on the moon. what we did basically is we helped create the science of rocket science. we did research and development and we were able to put a man on the moon. that was a great day for the united states of america when we did put a man on the moon. now, we're in a situation where our space program needs to move forward. we have a lot of issues that we have to deal with in our space program. and the main reason for that is that if you control the skies you basically control the world. space and satellites are so important to what we do, not just from an intelligence point of view. getting the information, taking the pictures, dealing with all sorts of communications, these are things we do in space and we have to keep moving ahead. we have to get our younger generation graduating from our

colleges to continue to impinto space. the big threat there is china and russia. china is putting billions of dollars into space. their goal is to go to the moon, and the our concern that if they do that we have to be with them there. we have to continue our research and development and we have to be vigilant in our space program. russia also is very active in the space area. so it's something that isn't talked about a lot but there's a lot of money that goes into space, and i think we have to do a better job in our military and space and intelligence to let the public know how important space is. there is another important issue that is of great concern to the united states of america is national security. and that is the issue of cybersecurity. as we speak we're being attacked by different governments and who knows what else we're being attacked by. getting information, relevant information. every day we speak it's a very serious issue. unfortunately the public doesn't really understand what cyber is all about.

our n.s.a. is about as good as any in the world in developing the technology in order to protect our country. we don't control the internet other than a small part, the military part, so we have to make sure that our public understands how important cybersecurity is, how we can be attacked. we recently had attack about a month ago in nasdaq. just think if we had a cyberattack in our banks and what the lack of confidence would be for our public. so -- and the government can't afford to pay for it all so there has to be an effort between our government, our military, our n.s.a., between our private sector and between individuals who have their personal computers. this is an area of the future we need to focus on. i reserve my time. the chair: the gentleman from maryland reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. rogers: mr. chairman, i want to commend mr. ruppersberger for his -- for the last remarks. cybersecurity is a real and growing threat for the united

states. we make serious commitments in this p.y. 2011 bill and we have pledged to work together on separate pieces of legislation to put the united states in a better position to defend itself against cybersecurity. something that started out so long ago somebody in their mother's basement hacking into the local school to change their grades has become whole nation states using the internet and all of cyberspace to not only steal intellectual property from private enterprise, attempt to hack and steal information from the united states and also use it for offensive purposes. we have seen the russians when they went into georgia use aggressively cyber to prep the battlefield for their invasion. something that we all need to worry about. i want to again pledge to work with the ranking member on this very, very important issue so

we can get some on better footing as we move forward. also on the space, it is one of the things that has given the united states a technological advantage in the world something that we need to it be to make those investments into the overhead architecture of the united states from communication slites to all of the things that -- slights to all of the things we -- satellites to all of the things we do in space. when you look at the success of something like the osama bin laden raid, you realize all of it from space to cyberto signal intelligence to human intelligence is something this was invested in this money and i'm glad the ranking member talked about those issues to start to put us on better footing for that. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from michigan reserves. the gentleman from maryland is recognized.

mr. ruppersberger: well, mr. speaker, i'm ready to close. mr. speaker, i believe many valid points have been made in support of h.r. 754, the intelligence authorization act for f.y. 2011. first, i want to thank mr. rogers for his leadership and for working together in a bipartisan way to do what's rights for our national security to make sure we do our job and oversight of all of the intelligence areas and i think this -- hopefully we will continue -- we will continue this relationship as we go forward. now, i also reserve my time. the chair: the gentleman from maryland reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. rogers: thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to recommend -- i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, a member -- distinguished member of the house intelligence committee, mr. nunes. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. nunes: i'd like to say thank you to chairman rogers and ranking member ruppersberger for really taking

the intelligence committee and really establishing its relevance back in the house. i know we've had some disagreements over the past, but i think chairman rogers, with a lot of new members on the committee, have been working closely with the democrats in a bipartisan way to make a real difference to congress' role in the intelligence community, and i want to commend both of them for their honest work and hard work. it's never easy because it takes, as i'm learning now, it's a lot of hours and it's a lot of hours on behalf of the members that they have to commit to this committee and having a chairman and ranking member to really lead us in that effort really makes a big difference. let me speak to the issue at hand, and that is it's very concerning that congress has not completed an authorization bill in six years even though the terrorist threat has not

lessened since september 11, 2001. this has limited and important oversight responsibility of the congress. the world is too dangerous for congress not to be more engaged in overseeing 17 intelligence agencies. we simply cannot maintain the status quo of the 111th congress and ignore laws that require congressional oversight and authorization of intelligence operations by the house intelligence committee. congress must meet its responsibilities and begin again to pass annual intelligence authorization bills, annual intelligence authorization bills are vital to ensure that the men and women that really risk their lives to be part of this intelligence community are properly funded to carry out their critical mission in defending our country. such as the one we just saw a couple weeks ago that saw the

final killing of osama bin laden. mr. rogers: i'd like to yield the gentleman an additional minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. nunes: i thank the chair. congress can no longer ignore our combat units in iraq, afghanistan, libya and other important places across the world. or when our intelligence agencies require new, cutting-edge technology, or during a time of unprecedented unrest in the middle east, southeast asia and other parts of central and south america. so this does not mention the ever-growing threat we face in the cybercommunity with cyberspace which is an area which this committee, i believe, will have to spend some significant time on. also doesn't mention the time that we'll have to spend on

some foreign countries that are quickly gaining access to minerals that are very hard to come by, when we have some of our -- some many foreign nations investing a lot of time of energy and effort into locating not only the -- may i have an additional -- mr. rogers: 30 seconds. mr. nunes: these mineral oils, natural gas all over the world where we have countries coming together that are working, i think, outside the interest of the united states. and we have to have intelligence in these areas. this isn't your typical authorization bill, but it funds 17 intelligence agencies critical to the defense of our country. each agency has a unique perspective on the world and congress should be bipartisan in their partner in these missions throughout the organization and oversight process. i look forward to voting yes on the 11 bills and look forward to working in a bipartisan way on the 2012 bill.

the chair: the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. ruppersberger: yes. i'd like to recognize mr. boren from oklahoma for three minutes. the chair: the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized for three minutes. mr. boren: i'd like to rise in support of the intelligence authorization act for 2011. i'd like to thank mr. rogers and mr. ruppersberger to work together in a bipartisan way to moving this bill forward. it has been critical to all the committee's efforts during the 112th congress. last year the president signed into law an intelligence authorization act for the first time since 2005. that bill included a number of important provisions to address the foreign language needs of the intelligence community including a provision i sponsored which created a pilot program in african languages

under the national security education program. i'm glad we can build upon the f.y. 2010 bill and get another authorization bill signed into law for the second straight year. this bill authorizes the annual funding for the 16-member agencies of the intelligence community. with the policies and strategies of the d.n.i. and requires the d.n.i. to establish an insider threat detection program to prevent unauthorized leaks of classified information. while this bill is important to our intelligence communities' ability to be the first line of defense for america as we recently saw with the killing of bin laden in pakistan, intelligence forms the first line of offense against our enemies as well. last month i traveled to pakistan and afghanistan and witnessed firsthand the tremendous challenge of locating bin laden and other members of al qaeda.

finding him would not have been possible without the robust capabilities that are available to the dedicated intelligence professionals at the c.i.a. and other agencies. that is why congress must continue to provide the intelligence community with every resource it needs to complete its missions. again, i extend my gratitude to chairman rogers, ranking member ruppersberger for their exceptional work on this legislation, and i also thank the intelligence committee staff for their tireless efforts in preparing this year's bill. i urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from oklahoma yields back. the gentleman from maryland reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. rogers: thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to yield to a former army captain, the great new member from kansas, mr. pompeo. the chair: the gentleman from kansas is recognized for two minutes. mr. pompeo: great. thank you, mr. chairman. i want to come to the floor today and thank chairman rogers and the ranking member for the great work they've done.

i do not sit on this committee but i did have the opportunity to serve our country in uniform. and we witnessed what happened in the capture of the world's greatest terrorist and we saw the great military feats which took place, but we also know all the enormous work that our intelligence community did to make that happen. i served in the units that patrolled the u.s. german and check low slovakian border. -- czechoslovakian borders. the military had the finest data. in as near real time as we possibly could to know how to deploy our forces and do the things we needed to keep america safe. i want to applaud the efforts of the intelligence community. i want to urbling all of my colleagues to -- i want to urge all my colleagues to support this legislation. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from kansas yields back. the gentleman from michigan reserves. the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. ruppersberger: mr. chairman, i'm ready to close. the intelligence authorization act for f.y. 2011 provides

policy guidelines and sets classified funding levels for the 16 agencies in the intelligence community. al qaeda leader, osama bin laden, is gone forever, but our fight against terrorism is far from over. i believe this bill moves us in the right direction to ensure our top-notch intelligence professionals have the resources, capabilities and authorities they need to keep our country safe. i also want to acknowledge our staff, both on the democratic and republican side, who worked very closely with us together to help put together this bill. i've always said you're only as good as your team. you talk about teamwork. you need a good team and good staff. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from maryland yields back. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. rogers: thank you, mr. chairman. i'll just take this opportunity to thank both the democrat and republican staff members who helped us prepare this bill. you know, for the first time since i served on the committee we had both democrat and republican staff brief in a bipartisan way at the same table all members in the room, and we think that improved the

value of this product tremendously, something we're going to hope to continue on. so my hats off to all of the staff. we hire professionals from the community of all walks of life as well to provide us the expertise that we need to provide the proper oversight for the intelligence community, and i do believe in this great spirit of bipartisanship with mr. ruppersberger this will give the tools to those 17 agencies who work in secrecy on behalf of the united states the things they need to accomplish their mission and to keep this great country safe. and with that i would yield back the remainder of my time. the chair: the gentleman from michigan yields back the remainder of his time. all time for general debate has expired. pursuant to the rule, the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in the bill shall be considered as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule and shall be considered as read. no amendment to the committee amendment is in order except those printed in house report 112-75. each such amendment may be offered only in the order

printed in the report by a member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to an amendment and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question. it is now in order to consider amendment number 1. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan rise? mr. rogers: i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: amendment number 1 printed in house report 112-75 offered by mr. rogers of michigan. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 264, the gentleman from michigan, mr. rogers, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr. rogers: thank you, mr. chairman. this is a manager's amendment to the bill. it contains two provisions. the first provision would simply clarify that section 411 of the bill, which relates to certain defense intelligence agency expenditures, applies only to the national intelligence program funds. this clarification was requested

by the committee on armed services and is largely technical in nature. the second provision which strikes section 412 of the reported bill which provides for the creation of certain accounts for intelligence funds. while this provision is an important one intended to promote auditability of intelligence funds, some technical issues have arisen and i believe it was prudent to hold this over until the f.y. 2012 bill. it is something that i support and hope to return to the bill in f.y. 2011. i do not believe that either of these changes are controversial and urge members to support the amendment. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from michigan reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise? rupe ripe i rise to claim time on the amendment -- mr. ruppersberger: i rise to claim time on the amendment. the chair: is the gentleman in opposition? mr. ruppersberger: no i just rise to claim type. the chair: without objection. mr. ruppersberger: all right. in this era of tight budgets i

believe it is our responsibility to manage every taxpayer dollar efficiently and effectively. section 412 of the bill provides the secretary of defense authority to transfer certain funds into specific accounts to provide more accurate accounting of money spent. the manager's amendment strikes sections 412 from the bill. section 412 will allow for an accurate audit of taxpayer dollars. this important tool will save us money in the long run. we must identify programs that are not working and trim those costs. a thorough audit will help us to do that. we must ensure any cuts do not necktively impact on the performance of the mission. the administration supports section 412 and so do i. thank you, i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from maryland reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. rogers: i thank the ranking member, look forward to working with you on this particular issue. as a ranking member, i think understands, mr. chairman, that we brought in auditors on the

committee, this is something we're very committed to in a bipartisan way, to actually have funds that can be audited, it's a bit shocking to both of us that they have had these funds for such a long time that have not been able to be audited and we hope to do that on behalf of the taxpayers of the united states. with that i would yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from michigan yields back. the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. ruppersberger: i agree with the chairman and that staff is working together to try to resolve the issues involving section 412. we look forward to a positive resolution. the chair: does the gentleman yield back? mr. ruppersberger: i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question son the amendment offered by the gentleman from michigan. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. the gentleman from maryland is recognized. requests a roll call vote. further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from michigan will be postponed. it is now in order to consider

amendment number 2 printed in house report 112-75. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia rise? the gentleman from georgia is recognized, for what purpose? mr. barrow: i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: amendment number 2 printed in house report 112-75 offered by mr. barrow of georgia. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 264, the gentleman from georgia, mr. barrow, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from georgia for five minutes. mr. barrow: thank you, mr. chairman. i want to begin by thanking chairman rogers and ranking member rupersberging for their hard work on this important legislation. we face a diverse and growing array of threats around the globe and we need an intelligence community as diverse as the threats we face. my amendment directs the national intelligence director to create a pilot program for historically black colleges and universities to help develop

critical language curriculums and study abroad programs. our defenses have to be as advanced as the means used by our enemies. that means that our human assets have to be as diverse as our enemies. cultural, language and educational barriers affect the quality of intelligence we can gather and it's critical that we have the human assets to overcome these barriers. the area of georgia i represent is home to several hbcu's with specific expertise in critical languages. engaging centers of excellence such as these will help the intelligence community meet our strategic security goals and will produce more sophisticated intelligence officers and this will make our country more secure. i urge my colleagues to support this amendment and support passage of the bill. and with that i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from georgia yields back. the gentleman from michigan seeks recognition. mr. rogers: mr. chairman, while i do not oppose the amendment i would ask unanimous consent to claim the time in opposition. the chair: without objection. the gentleman is recognized for five minutes.

mr. rogers: i yield myself as much time as i might consume. while i support the intent behind the amendment i believe it is also important to note for the record and i appreciate the gentleman's work on that the intelligence committee has already a number of existing programs and initiatives in this area. i think this will in fact enhance that effort. the proposed amendment has the goal of assisting historically black colleges and universities in maintaining curriculum that help the intelligence community beat its work force diversity and critical language goals. i'm happy to say that the community already understands well that a diverse work force enhances its mission performance. for example, director panetta has launched his own initiative at c.i.a. to enhance the diversity of that work force. additionally there are other anybodytives under way to increase the employment and retention of the diverse candidates throughout the intelligence community. and i won't go on other than to compliment the gentleman's interest in exposing the number of people who would have the skills to apply and diverse our

work force at the c.i.a. and with that i would reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from georgia has yielded back so the gentleman from michigan still exroles. mr. rogers: mr. chairman, i would yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from michigan yields back the time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from georgia. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 3 printed in house report 112-75. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? mr. dent: for the purpose of offering an amendment, mr. speaker. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 3 printed in house report 112-75 offered by mr. dent of pennsylvania. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 264, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. dent, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair -- the gentleman from pennsylvania voiced for five minutes. mr. dent: thank you, mr. speaker.

i want to commend the chairman and ranking member for the very good work they've done on this bill. they really have worked in a bipartisan manner and they're really trying to advance the best interests of the intelligence community in this -- and this nation's national security so i applaud them for the spirit in which they've taken on this legislation. i will withdraw this amendment after having conversations with the chairman. but the point i want to make about this amendment, the amendment simply directs the director of national intelligence and c.i.a. that within 90 days this act provide the congressional intelligence committees information possessed by the c.i.a. relating to the pursuit and targeting of one anwral awacky by the federal government as well as the analysis by the legal impediments to pursuing him. americans are all very much familiar with whom osama bin laden is, everybody knows who he is and we're all extremely gratified about his demise. at the same time we all should be aware that anwar seems to be the leader of many operational

aspects of al qaeda on the arabian peninsula. he's an american citizen and also a yemeni citizen. he has targeted americans. we always thought he was a spiritual advisor and certainly a recruiter for al qaeda. but now it's quite clear he's also gone operational. we're aware of that as it relates to the underwear bomber and his attempt to blow up the airliner near detroit. so the point of this amendment is to raise awareness onal all i can. point out the fact that i think it's important that we consider essentially that he has committed ex pateating acts. the fact that he has targeted american citizens, that he has called on the death of many americans, i think i have legislation that is also prepared that will deal with his citizenship issue, that it should be revoked, at least we should seriously do that, just as wie for any other individual who takes up arms against this

country. we have laws in the books from 1944 when there were individuals who were signing up with the nazi army or the imperial army of japan, who took up arms against this country as citizens. those are ex pateating acts. i think if an individual takes up arms with al qaeda, with the taliban or any other terrorist organization, foreign terrorist organization, that is intent on killing americans, that we should treat them just as we would an individual who is an agent of a foreign government or part of a foreign army. that's the whole point. recognizing this is probably not the best place to offer this amendment at this time, i have agreed to withdraw and it. i appreciate the chairman's consideration and i will be working to make sure that this congress has the opportunity to address the citizenship issue of al-awlaki. it has been reported in the press that our government has a kill or capture order on him. just last week we saw reported that anwar was the sbeppeded

target of an attack, unsuccessful, in yemen and so he is still alive and the point i want to make is that i think that we're targeting an american citizen for assassination and i think we should at least take up the issue of his citizenship and revoke it if at all possible. at that point i will address it in another form. at this point i would again urge everybody here to support the underlying legislation and at this time i would withdraw this amendment. i appreciate the chairman, ranking member's consideration. the chair: the gentleman seeks unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment. without objection, the amendment is withdrawn. it is now in order to consider amendment number 4.

the chair: it is now in order to consider amendment number 5 printed in house report 112-75. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition in mr. welch: i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: amendment number 5 printed in house report 112-75 offered by mr. gibson of new york. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 264, the gentleman from new york, mr. gibson, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. gibson: thank you, mr. chairman. and i actually want to begin this afternoon by praising the chairman and the ranking member, all the members of the intel committee and their staff, for truly magnificent sent work here on behalf of -- magnificent work here on behalf of the american people. i spent some time down in the skiff and have been through the bill and i think it's something that everybody can be proud of

and clearly the operation that occurred about two weeks ago that ended up in the death of osama bin laden is an example of how intel and operations can be fused for successful operations and i'm rising today to offer an amendment to the intel authorization bill that i hope the committee will be willing to accept. it's based on my experiences from the 29 years i served in the united states military, nearly five in the new york army national guard and then four years -- or 24 years in the united states army. i will tell you that particularly my experiences in iraq commanding an airborne infantry battalion task force and then later as a division g-3, that's an operations officer for multidivision north, i saw firsthand the

virtues of intel and operations being tuesdayed for successful operations. so what concerns me today is the fact that since the 11th of september we've had significant growth in the intel community to aagrees various concerns. and what i think we need to do now is pause, reflect and look for ways to consolidate all that growth so that we can continue to have effective intel operations in a manner that's consistent and one we can afford. what i offer is a simple amendment. it asks the director of national intelligence to provide his recommendations on consolidation with an eye towards effectiveness and efficiency. when we initially created this position, this, of course, was the result of the king commission after the horrific attacks of the 11th of september, 2001, we created the d.n.i. to help us really provide leadership in the intel

community. in my estimation we did not provide the adequate budget and legal authorities for him to really accomplish all those duties that we expected of him. i think he would welcome this task to provide his recommendation to us on how we might better organize, consolidate the intel community to perform its critical function for the american people. so with that, mr. chairman, i reserve the balance of my time and urge my colleagues to support the amendment. again, i want to thank the intel committee, the leadership who provided work for this bill. the chair: the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from maryland. mr. ruppersberger: yes, mr. speaker, i rise to claim time in opposition to the amendment. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. ruppersberger: i appreciate congressman gibson's intent, and i also want to thank him for his service in the military, but i believe we should always be looking for efficiencies to help reduce cost throughout the government.

the director of national intelligence is conducting a similar review that will identify redundancies without sacrificing core missions. i want to have a review before we submit an additional report. for this reason i oppose the amendment, and i reserve the balance of my time. the chair:ate reserves from maryland -- the gentleman reserves from maryland. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. gibson: i respect my colleague for all his experiences that he brings before he comes to the congress and for the tremendous work he's done in the time that he's been here serving the american people in the congress. i respectfully disagree with the position and would like to hear directly from the director of national intelligence. i know if i were in his shoes i would welcome this task. i would want to provide the united states congress, the american people by way of the united states congress to provide the recommendations on the way that he in this case, the way he sees fit on better

organizing the intel community. with a very heavy respect for the ranking member, i still urge my colleagues to support. the chair: the gentleman from new york reserves his time. the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. ruppersberger: i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from maryland yields back. the gentleman from new york. mr. gibson: i yield back. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new york, mr. gibson. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. mr. ruppersberger: i request a roll call vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by mr. gibson will be postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment 6 printed in house report 112-75.

the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise? mr. ruppersberger: i rise to offer the amendment for ms. waters, the designee. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 6 printed in house report 112-75 offered by mr. ruppersberger of maryland. the chair: pursuant to house resolution number 264, the gentleman from maryland, mr. ruppersberger, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from maryland. mr. ruppersberger: i yield all

my time to congresswoman waters. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized for five minutes. ms. waters: i have an amendment at the desk. thank you very much. my amendment requires the inspector general of the intelligence community to report to congress on racial and ethnic diversity in the intelligence community. diverse work force is essential to intelligence work. people from a variety of backgrounds bring a variety of perspectives to the table to understand the world in which we live. a diverse work force provides intelligence agencies critical insight into different cultures around the world where information about potential threats to our national security is being collected and analyzed. many believe that intelligence

officials understand the importance of a diverse work force. a statement, i quote, in order for the c.i.a. to lead our mission of protecting our national security interests, we need to employ a work force as diverse as america itself. the most diverse nation on earth reflects the unique way we value our intelligence officers, race, ethnicity, gender, age, language, culture, sexual orientation, education, values, beliefs, abilities and disabilities. these are soughted attributes that develop views to our innovation, collection and analysis. and i really do think that says it all. and so unfortunately there's virtually no data available to congress and the public regarding the degree of racial and ethnic diversity in the intelligence community. the most recently publicly available report that discusses

this subject is a 1996 report by the government accounting office on personnel practices at intelligence agencies which focused on equal employment opportunity practices. the report concluded that intelligence agencies have work force diversity programs but results lag far behind other federal agencies. this report was written more than five years before the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and 15 years before the death of osama bin laden. needless to say, both the intelligence community and the world in which it operates have changed tremendously since then. my amendment states that within 180 days after the enactment of the bill the inspector general shall submit to congress a report on the degree to which racial and ethnic minority in the united states are employed in professional positions in the intelligence community and barriers to the recruitment and

retention of racial and ethnic minorities in these positions. the amendment requires that the report be submitted in unclassified form but allows the inspector general to include classified annexes. it's long past time for congress to re-evaluate the diversity of the intelligence community work force and i urge my colleagues to support my amendment. and i thank you very much, congressman ruppersberger, for giving me this time. and i would yield back to you whatever time may be left. the chair: the gentlelady yields back to the gentleman from maryland. the gentleman from maryland will reserve. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? mr. rogers: mr. chairman, while i do not oppose this amendment, i ask to claim time in opposition. the chair: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. rogers: i support efforts to create a diverse work force within the intelligence community. diverse work force is instrumental to respond to the complex global threats faced by the united states. i do have some concerns that

this amendment is duplicative and many -- for many efforts which are already under way within the intelligence community to address this issue. for example, section 338 of the intelligence authorization act of 2010, passed after the fiscal year last year, requires the d.n.i. to coordinate with each element of the i.c. to provide a report of plans to increase the employment and retention of diverse candidates. moreover, the d.n.i. has already created a strategic plan on equal employment opportunity and issued community directive 110, the equal employment opportunity and diversity program. i hope -- it is my hope that the inspector general will consider all of these existing initiatives in the report and use the substantial body of work that has already been done on these issues in completing it. nonetheless, i will support the amendment and its laudable goals.

i'll yield back the remainder of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. ruppersberger: i yield back. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from maryland. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 7 printed in house report 112-75. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. hinchey: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i have an amendment that i will describe. the chair: the gentleman will suspend. the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 7 printed in house report 112-75 offered by mr. hinchy of new york. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 264, the gentleman from new york, mr. hinchey, and a member opposed, will each

control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. hinchey: a military coup installed one of the cruelest dictatorship south america has ever seen. a legal -- illegal detentions, excuses of dissidents became routine. cross-country operations to capture dissidents were -- it was known as operation condor. over the years, the victims of the oppression went missing, a new tactic of the argentine security forces was revealed. it is estimated that 30,000 people disappeared in argentina between 1976 and 1985. many of these victims, known as the disappeared, from abducted, they were tore turd and then dropped far out into the ocean. during the dictatorship, hundreds of children were born into captivity and distributed

to members of the argentine security forces while their mothers are believed to have been killed. the identity of some of these children have been discovered but the majority of their identities and whereabouts remain unknown. my amendment seeks to shed light on the unknown faith of these children who would be now in their 20's and early 30's. given the close relationship with their argentine counterparts and the intelligence security and military community, the documentation of the american intelligence community is likely to contain invaluable information to support renewed justice investigations and the search for the children of the disappeared. . this amendment would direct the director of national intelligence on information that has regarding the human rights violations of the military government in argentina and also seeks to help shed light on the

unknown fate of the argentine children who were born in captivity. the amendment structs the d.n.i. to include an appendix of declassified documents used for the report and gives the authority for the inclusion of a classified annex. thousands of families have waited more than 30 years to learn the fate of their loved ones and today, we have an opportunity to make a significant contribution to truth and justice and help bring to a close this troubling chapter in argentina's history. in 2008, this amendment was made in order by the rules committee and agreed to on the house floor without objection from either party by voice vote. at that time, our dear friend and colleague, peter hoekstra said, quote, i will not oppose this amendment, mr. chairman. i will support the amendment. so i urge all of us to join in

supporting this contribution to truth and justice in the country of argentina. i reserve the time. the chair: the gentleman from new york reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? mr. rogers: i claim time in opposition to the amendment. i must unfortunately oppose this amendment. i certainly can sympathesize with the gentleman's intention to try to bring some closure for families in this particular difficult issue in argentina and may result in some information to those who are conducting historical research and analysis and certainly to mend the wounds that has been created in this situation and would do something, i think, equally damaging to today's effort in the war on terror. it would divert the intelligence community from its mission of protecting the united states in our interests from current threats. when you think about how difficult it was to take a small

piece of information and stretch a nickname -- an arabic nickname to someone who is likely associating with individuals who had arabic nicknames and from that scrap of information the entire intelligence apparatus spent years trying to develop the right lead to lead us to last sunday's event to bring osama bin laden to justice. this year, the intelligence community came forward and said, we need more analysts and more human resources in order to accomplish this mission. there are too many threats in too many places for our people to handle it. and what this amendment does, although it is very well intended, it takes resources away to apply it to a problem that is 20 to 30 years old. i'm sorry. we just don't have that luxury today. we are concerned. the intelligence community is concerned that the next few

months, next six months are crucial when al qaeda is trying to get its act back together after losing its operational and inspirational leader and how they reach out or lash out in some kind of an attack. it is imperative of every minute of every day be spent targeting those who are seeking to kill americans or our allies overseas now. i hope that we find some other alternative to what the gentleman proposes and in maybe another way. but redirecting the valuable assets in the fight on terror today, i just think is a misuse of our resources and may, in fact, be a dangerous one at that. this is not the time to be disrupting our counterterrorism analysts or case officers or anybody in the c.i.a. or other intelligence agencies away from disrupting, dismantling and defeating al qaeda and other

terrorist organizations for the activities of the government of argentina nearly 25 years ago. and i would reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. hinchey: how much time do we have? the chair: the gentleman from new york has two minutes remaining and the gentleman from michigan has three minutes. mr. hinchey: thank you very much and i deeply appreciate what has just been said. but the fact of the matter is that there is no significant costs involved in this. this operation has been looked at in the past. the information that we are asking for in the context of this amendment is readily available. it's not going to take any significant costs whatsoever. and it can be done very, very quickly. this is a situation that really needs to be corrected. it's a violent, deeply disturbing activity that took place in the context of many, many families, many who are

completely innocent. and the effects on that were, in many cases, deeply disastrous. so this is something that can be done easily and can be done quickly. and it was supported by the opposition. almost unanimously. unanimously the last time that this bill came up and this amendment was brought forward. so i ask the opposition here to reconsider this, think closely about this, how important this is, how significantly important it is for argentina and for the united states. and how it can be done readily and easily and how the results of it being done would be happily taken care of by these two countries. there isn't anyone who is going to deeply object to this, anyone

who is significant at least in the context of this operation who is going to deeply object to this. we need to do this. it's an honest thing and something that is going to be positive and will be deeply positive and effective for us in the context of bringing this about. so i hope what -- that everyone in this body will recognize the significance of this and vote in favor of it. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. rogers: again, with deep respect to the member from new york, and i appreciate your passion on this, i can tell you as a former f.b.i. agent, when you take one minute away from your case, it does take someone who is operational in some sense, either an analyst, operator or in the i.t. front to gather, collect, sort that information, go through it, to put it in the form and get it in

the rate place. and when we are really every minute of every day is so precious to these individuals who are trying to focus on al qaeda and the current threat, my argument is that this is something that can wait. it's waited 25 years. probably the next few years won't make a difference. but the next few years in the fight against al qaeda can mean the life and death of u.s. citizens. i hope the gentleman doesn't take it that it is any condemnation of his effort. i think the time and the place and the resources that would be lost are just not meeting the national security priorities as we look out across what the threat stream is today. unfortunately, i will continue to oppose it and i would like to work with the gentleman on something in the future. with that, i yield back my time. the chair: the gentleman from michigan yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new york.

those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it and the amendment is not agreed to. mr. hinchey: would request a vote on this in the next session we have tomorrow. the chair: pursuant to clause 6, rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new york will be postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment number 8 printed in house report 112-75. for what purpose does the gentleman from delaware seek recognition? mr. carney: i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: amendment number 8 printed in house report number 112-75, offered by mr. carney of delaware. the chair: the gentleman from delaware, mr. carney, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from delaware. mr. carney: over the past week, officials have announced preliminary intelligence gathered from osama bin laden,

pakistan hideout shows al qaeda had been plotting a terrorist attack on our nation's rail system. while roughly 1.7 million passengers ride in domestic and international flights daily, every week day, 34 million americans ride on trains and transit systems. the issue of rail security is more relevant now than ever and i'm here today to argue for making rail security a national intelligence priority. on march 11, 2004, nearly 200 people were killed in madrid as a result of a terrorist bombing while riding the commuter rail to work. in 2005, over 50 people were killed and 700 people injured on the london transit system in a series of explosions during the morning rush hour. an attack on our rail system here in the united states would be devastating. and would almost certainly result in the loss of life. clearly, terrorist organizations

around the world have made rail systems a target. and i strongly believe we need to address the vull -- rail security. that's why i offered this amendment directing the intelligence community to include rail and subway transit security in its transportation security plans and budgets. the 9/11 commission report found over 90% of the nation's annual investment in transportation security is spent on aviation security. and while addressing security flaws in aviation security is critical, this leaves too little for the surface transportation security, particularly on our rail systems. for now, riding trains are safe. that's how transportation secretary lahood described our rail system despite the intelligence found in osama bin laden's compound. we need to do better than that. as a near daily rider of amtrak

myself, i want to know that the united states government is doing all it can to keep my fellow passengers safe. and i urge my colleagues to support this amendment so our intelligence community is able to identify and prevent a terrorist attack on on our rail system. i thank you for your consideration and i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? mr. rogers: i lay claim time in opposition. while i agree with the need for a strong security in the railway sector, i don't believe that this amendment is best suited for the intelligence authorization bill. as it seems to address the policy issues that are not authorized or otherwise addressed if our fiscal year 2011 authorization bill. the intelligence community does not have transportation security plans or transportation security budgets. nor do individual intelligence community agencies.

they would -- in order to meet the requirement of this, they would have to restructure themselves to bring in the right people to do the plans for security for the railway. and i don't think that's what the gentleman intends, but that's clearly what the gentleman's amendment would do. and i would argue that this amendment would be better focused on the transportation security administration, the t.s.a. that agency falls under the jurisdiction of the homeland security committee and not the intelligence committee. the intelligence community does not develop transportation security plans, rather the intelligence community provides threat information to the transportation sector to better enable it to develop security plans. additionally, i note that this amendment simply expresses the sense of the congress on the issue, does not actually compel any action. and i would question the real improvement to security in the railway sector from its adoption. because, again, it appears that the amendment would not have the

real impact if this is really out of the scope of the intelligence community, i would urge the gentleman to reconsider and contemplate maybe addressing it in the t.s.a. and if the gentleman would like help in doing that, i would be eager to try to help the gentleman do that. but again, given the time pressures on our intelligence community to stop real-time threats and pass that information on to people in the t.s.a. and others, i would argue that this is an amendment that we should all oppose and look for a better opportunity. with that, i resevere the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from michigan reserves. the gentleman from delaware is recognized. mr. carney: i would like to add, i listened to the gentleman and i appreciate his comments and i appreciate his remarks on the previous amendment and he said intelligence agencies spend all their time targeting people trying to kill americans.

and the facts are that these terrorists are trying to kill americans on american rail transit systems and that's the purpose of this amendment to make sure this is given a priority in our intelligence plan and i yield 30 seconds or whatever he might need to the ranking member. mr. ruppersberger: i thank the gentleman for his amendment. i disagree with the chairman. i believe it is vitally important we protect our railway infrastructure from terrorist attacks. department of homeland security issued an intelligence message about potential al qaeda contemplation in plots against the rail sector. while there was no imminent threat at that time, we must become vigilant. i hope we can work together with the chairman if the amendment does not pass so we can focus on this serious area of threat to our national security. i urge a yes vote on this amendment and yield back.

. the chair: does the gentleman from delaware reserve? mr. carney: i just have a couple more comments. how much time do i have? the chair: the gentleman has 1 1/2 minutes. mr. carney: between 2004 an 2008, attacks resulted in 2,000 deaths and 9,000 injuries. five billion passenger miles, inner city and commuter rail are logged every tai in the northeast corridor alone in the u.s. that represents more than 1/3 of vehicles logged on i-95 between washington, d.c. and new york city my amendment will ensure that the u.s. government places our priority on ensuring the safety of rail passengers around the country by working

to prevent a terrorist attack on our rail system and i would ask support for this amendment. i reserve the brans of my time. the chair: the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. rogers: -- mr. ruppersburger -- mr. rogers: they are supposed to pass it to somebody in charge, the t.s.a. in this case, of protecting the transportation sector. i make the argument it is important but i just think this is misplaced. we're going to try to have, the intelligence committee would have to try to create this expertise of which they do not have today in the entirety of the intelligence committee to make security plans. it's not what they do, it's not what they're equipped to do, they're not, in most cases, with the exception of the f.b.i. and d.e.a., they're not domestic agencies, they're

designed to collect overseas. it's not a good fit. again, i appreciate the gentleman's position. i just think the community would have to spend a lot of time and resources diverting from its real intention and mission to keep us safe. just quickly, for the record, i think it's important, the information that the gentleman referenced with was aspirational. i know we saw a lot of press reports that i think misrepresented the information that was provided. it was something that osama bin laden thought about. it is not something that the intelligence community believes was operational which means you have to be vigilant all the time on all these issues. i commend the gentleman in his effort on trying to bring better security to our railways, again, just the right tool for the right job, this is not the right place. i oppose it but would like to work with the gentleman on the right place to get that job tone. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from delaware has 30 seconds remaining.

mr. carney: i appreciate the gentleman's comments and respect his expertise but i can't imagine that the intelligence agencies aren't, a they do their intelligence activities overseas, aren't finding out there are threats to the u.s. ail system. my amendment would make that a priority within all the things that they do. with that, i yield my time and ask for a vote on the amendment. the chair: the gentleman yields back all time. the gentleman from michigan. mr. rogers: i yield back my time. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from delaware. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it and the amendment is not agreed to. mr. carney: i ask for a recorded vote. the chair: the gentleman asks for a recorded vote. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from delaware will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan rise? mr. rogers: i move that the committee do now rise. the chair: the question is on the motion that the committee

rise. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it, the motion is adopted and and accordfully the committee rises. -- accordingly the committee rises. the speaker pro tempore: mr. chairman. the chair: mr. speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union, having had under consideration h.r. 754, directs me to report that it has come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: the chairman of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration h.r. 754 and has come to no resolution thereon.

the speaker pro tempore: under the speakerer's announced policy of january 5, 2011, the gentleman from california, mr. garamendi is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the

minority leader. mr. garamendi: mr. speaker, we just finished a very important debate here on the floor dealing with the ability of the american government to understand the threats that face us across this world. i want to commend my colleagues both on the republican and democratic side for working long and hard on the

intelligence legislation that will be up on the floor probably tomorrow. in our head, what i'd like to focus on and bring to the attention of the merp people is the necessity for jobs. we spent a lot of time talking about security as we should, and we've certainly seen that in the successful effort to bring down bin laden and finally see that justice was properly served and congratulations to the military, to the intelligence community, and particularly to president obama for his courage in ordering that action, risky, to be sure, but ultimately extraordinarily successful. the other part of american security is our economy. at the end of the day and even at the beginning of the day this nation will never be

secure unless we have a very strong, vibrant, growing economy that provides every american that wants to work with the opportunity to go to work. and so the focus of our attention for this hour ahead is economic security. how to secure the economic well being of every american, how to secure the economic well being of the american public. it can be done. there are essentially six elements to achieve economic security and economic growth and strength. we'll cover many of those today as we talk about this issue. let me very briefly lay them out to you. the first is education. i think we now understand that an individual who has little or no education has very little opportunity to find economic security.

just difficult to get a job if you don't have an education. so for an individual, a good education is essential. unfortunately, across america, report after report usually every six or seven years, a new report comes out and says, america at risk. our education system isn't measuring up. and yet here in the days, the last three months and in the days ahead, my colleagues on the republican side have consistently cut the education programs that many, indeed millions, of americans depend upon. back home in my state of california, education funding is similarly cut so that now a class that five years ago was 20 students is now 30 students. at the university of california, 10 years ago, it may have cost $1,500 or $2,000

to go to school to pay the tuition. new it's $8,000. and in the budget that's being proposed that was presented to the propings committee today, the republicans are virtually reducing to a point of nonexistence pell grants necessary for higher education. so education becomes the first key pillar in building a secure economy for an individual. similarly, it is the pillar to secure a good, growing economy for this nation. because this nation will not be able to compete economically unless we have the best educated work force in the world. and we're not even close today. we were. in bygone years, 30, 40 years ago, and we can be in the future. but it's going to take a change.

and we'll talk, as my colleagues come and join me during this hour, we will be talking about the ways in which the education system can be improved and the way in which we can transition people from education to work and back to education and back to work. the second pillar is research. research is an essential element because from that research comes the new products of the future. i think we only need to think about the things in our home. the television. the v.c.r. the other things that we depend upon. they were mostly invented in america, the fundamental research for computer chips and the like, america made and much of the technology we now find in our green technology, a will the of wind turbines, the initial wind turbine sfri, the solar -- turbine industry, the

solar industry, research in our great institutions, our universities, our laboratories, led to these kinds of products. the battery technology we now find in the hybrids, invented in america but i think most of you would say, not made in america today. that's true. so what we have seen is the research, while done in the united states, did not lead to those things being manufactured in the united states. we need to understand why -- and we'll go into that also. so education, research and then the third element is making those things in america. manufacturing matters. and that is the core subject of today's discussion. make it in america. you can educate, you can research, but ultimately you have to make it in america. now, there are ways that we can enhance the american manufacturing sector, and my colleagues and i on the

democratic side have put forth a program we called make it in america so that america can make it. so that american families can make it. and we know that these programs that we're proposing will cause that to occur. the remaining three things that we will talk about, not today but i want to make sure we lay them out there, education, research, manufacturing, make it in america, the next element is infrastuckture. you have to have roads and treats and sanitation, communication systems, all those things are critically important. fortunately part of the stimulus program, not enough of it but a big part of it was to build the infrastructure, the largest surge in infrastructure investment ever in the history of this nation was the stimulus program. overlooked and certainly overlooked by -- in the politics of last year's election, but it was there.

it was a good point, but we have to carry that forward. ft fifth point, you have to be international. the word seems to be we give it away. the trade agreements led to the outsourcing of american jobs. so as we look to the future, we want to make sure as we look international, we talk about as president obama has suggested, that we once again become an export nation. we can do that. there are programs that will cause that to happen. and also, we need to be quite sure that when we talk about international, we talk about fair trade, trade that is fair to american workers. and so as the trade programs come before us, we will be taking a very hard look at all those programs good for american workers or are they simply good for chinese workers. if they are good for those

workers overseas and not good for american workers, you can see strong resistance from those of us on the democratic side who say, wait, a minute, international is good and we understand the need to grow markets and we understand the growing markets of the world, but we will no longer allow american workers to be put at a disadvantage. that is not fair to american workers. the final element is this, we have to change. we cannot be what we were yesterday, we have to be what we can be tomorrow. and our president very clearly points this out as he talks about capturing the future. we can, but only if we do these six things and the final one is change. let me go to a couple of the specific elements that we need to talk about here.

sometimes it's focusing my attention and perhaps yours, this is the make it in america agenda. these issues we have talked about, trade, tax policy, energy policy. let's pick up the energy policy here. it is incumbent upon america to secure its energy future. i think all of us go to the gas station from time to time, all too often, it seems to me, and when i was filling up with $4 a gallon. more than 30 years, america has talked about energy security. we have talked about ending the importation of oil. we've talked about how we can provide the energy necessary for

this nation. yet, we now find ourselves in the situation very similar to what we found in the 1970's, that is insufficient energy available to us. the drill, baby, drill mentality that we saw on the floor today is not the solution to this. the solution to the energy issue is to transform our energy systems from the 19th and 20th energy system, fossil fuels, where we are dependent upon the petro dictators of the world and on coal, which i think all of us have come to understand presents enormous challenges for us, challenges of climate change, challenges of spoiling the surface of the earth as we now find in the appalachian mountains and enormous health risks that come with the burning of coal. we need to move away from the fossil fuels to the fuels of tomorrow.

as we do that, we need to use our tax dollars to accomplish this goal. right now, our tax dollars are used to support the oil industry. the oil industry thinks that's all well and good. but how many of you want to have $4, $5, $6 billion of your tax money to go the wealthiest industry in the world. that's a subsidy. it is oil welfare to the industry who simply does not need it. we are talking about the wealthiest, most successful industries in the world that have for a century, for a full century, general joid the general rossity of the america -- enjoyed the generosity. yet, we know in the last few

days. the big five oil companies have produced record profits in the last quarter. so much so that in the last decade, the decade 2001 until 2010, the oil industry has had over $1 trillion of profit, $1 trillion of profit. at the same time, they have received billions of dollars of subsidies. we need to bring those subsidies back into the treasury, tell the oil industry for a century, you have been living off the welfare of the american public taxpayer. no more. that money's coming home and we are going to use it for two purposes, one, to reduce the deficit. president obama has suggested about $4 billion a year.

i think you can go as high as $12 billion if you add up all of the subsidies, bringing that money back into the treasury to be used to reduce the deficit and to support industries of the future. we're talking about a lot of money here. take a look at this. exxon mobil, hmh, $10.7 billion of profit in just the last quarter. conoco, $2.1 billion. got to love this. c.e.o. of conoco oil a couple of days ago got on a microphone and said it is un-american to take away our welfare, to take away our subsidy. i don't think so. i think it's un-american to give the wealthiest industry in the world a subsidy.

we can go on and on here. chevron is doing very well. bp, we know that bunch. they are the ones who didn't have enough money to safely drill for oil. but they did manage to make $7.2 billion of profits this last year. so as we look at the energy systems of this nation, we need to understand that the money that you and i are presently giving to the oil companies as a subsidy needs to be brought back and used to reduce the deficit and to support the energy systems of the future. i'm going to wrap this very quickly with two pieces of legislation that i have introduced that would take those subsidies back from the oil industry and apply them to tomorrow's energy systems, the green energy systems, solar, wind. our tax money should be used to buy american-made solar, wind,

turbines and other green technologies. right now, our tax money -- we do subsidize those industries. our tax money is used to purchase products that are manufactured offshore. my legislation says good, we need to subsidize. we need to promote those industries. those are the industries of the future. those are energy sources of the future. let's use that money to buy american-made equipment. if somebody wants to go buy chinese solar cells, fine, use your money. one of the companies wants to go by european-made wind turbines, that's fine. do it. but don't use my tax money, or your tax money. american tax money must be used to buy american-made equipment. gasoline taxes are used to buy buses, trains, build highways and bridges, great, good thing to do.

but make sure that those things are made in america. now, let me turn my attention to my colleagues. three of them have joined us. i notice that minority whip has joined us today. mr. hoyer, you have been the advocate, the leader of make it in america strategy. share us your thoughts and i will turn to my other two colleagues. mr. hoyer: i will be brief and i thank the gentleman for his continuing focus. if i am i am the corner of the phrase and focuser of make it in america, you are its chief spoke sperson and i thank you for that. americans are rightfully very concerned at the fact that we don't have enough jobs for the people who are looking for jobs. we've got to have a growth agenda in america. we have to have an agenda in america that focuses on

expanding opportunities. we've got to have an agenda that gives to americans the sense that they, their families and children can make it in america. and you have been focusing on night after night, week after week, month after month on a jobs agenda that we call make it in america. we have introduced over 25 bills that are focused on trying to help us focus on that agenda, trying to help business, small, medium and large expand their businesses. try to give them assistance in doing so. i want to say to the gentleman that his continuing to focus on this jobs agenda is critically important that americans understand what the make it in america agenda is all about.

contact their members of congress and united states senate and say, look, we support the make it in america agenda. we believe that's an agenda for our opportunities and our children's opportunities. and i want to say something about the statement to which the gentleman referred made by the president of conoco that apparently indicates that he believes that his company is entitled to a tax preference and that if we did not give that tax preference, somehow it would be un-american. but of course life is a series of tradeoffs. if we are buying things, national defense, defeating trim, making sure our seniors are secure in their pocketbook and their health, making sure we participate in helping young people, particularly disadvantaged young people get the educational start that they

need, making sure our college students can develop their talents so they can make us a more competitive nation and that the innovation and innovation to which the gentleman referred to earlier, will still be done in the united states and then we need to make sure the products and technology that has developed through that enterprise is, in fact, then subject to a make it in america reality. but the gentleman from conoco, and i don't know him, and i applaud the oil companies. we need the energy that they give us. but the fact of the matter is, we gave subsidies and we give subsidies in various areas as the gentleman from california knows, to encourage doing things that are not now profitable. that have a long-term payoff not only for the companies but for america. and that is why the government invests its money as governments

all over the world do in developing emerging technologies. and the gentleman spoke, of course, of solar, wind other renewable technologies that will have a tremendous payoff, but not in the short-term. and therefore, it's hard to get investors to put money in. that's why governments, not just in this country, but all over the world -- and that's why we have in the past when, for instance, prices of gasoline were not such that they provided the resources to encourage research, which we knew we needed, drilling, which we knew we needed, but now, when you have the profits of the product i'm shocked that those who promote the free market system, which ought to be driven by the markets, driven by demand, driven by profits would now say that notwithstanding the fact that oil profits among the big

five in particular are up to historic levels, that we should still continue to ask our taxpayers to subsidize them even further. that seems to me to make no sense. but back to the principal focus of making it in america. the gentleman has been so right in his focus on making sure that we create the kind of environment in this country that will empower people to make things in america, grow things in america, sell them here, but also to sell them around the world. the president has indicated he wants to double exports. the only way we're going to double exports is if we make things in america to sell overseas. that's the only way you can get exports. whether they be goods, frankly, or services. we ought not to preclude the growth of the service sector in

our economy servicing overseas, whatever that service agency might be. . i thank the president for keeping the focus on an agenda i hope the republicans will focus on as well. there isn't a member here that doesn't want to create jobs, we believe the make it in america agenda is focused on doing just that. i believe our republican colleagues, our democratic colleagues can join together to pass this make it in america agenda until we see a resurgence of the manufacturing might of this great country that when we are -- continue to be the inventing, innovative, developing center of the world's economy that we also, once we've done all that, then

bring it to scale or make it in america. and the role of intel has observed that -- the head of intel has observed that if we do the photo voltaic cells and chips and other technologies and then take the products to scale overseas, inevitably, he believes, and i share this view, that our inventors, innovators and developers will themselves go overseas. the american public by large numbers understand that's not a policy that's defensible or profitable for them, for their pamity -- families or for america in the long-term. i thank the gentleman from california for his focus and for his tenacity and for his compelling advocacy of the make it in america agenda. mr. garamendi: i thank you for

what you've done. mr. hoyer, you've been on this for longer than i have, you have some history in this house that goes way back. i think about the program you and the democrats put forward before i arrived, i've only been here now about 20 months, the stimulus recovery act, in that recovery act, there was about $12 billion for transportation. and in that transportation program, you and the democrats, signed by president obama, say -- said that the money had to be spent, this was the high speed rail program, had to be spent on american-made high speed rail. guess what happened? the high speed rail companies of the world, none were made in america, but the japanese, the chinese, the germans, and the french and the spanish all began to find american

manufacturing plants because they wanted access to the high speed rail money that was in the stimulus bill. the point here is that if we use our tax money wisely and say to the world, come and build a high speed rail, but you're going to make it in america, they will establish those manufacturing plants here in america and it's already happening. in sacramento, siemens, and in new york, a couple of european countries -- companies are already locating those manufacturing plants. sheila jackson lee from the great state of texas has joined us and she's been on this issue for a long time. if you'll share with us your thoughts on how america can make it by making it in america. ms. jackson lee: i thank the gentleman from california. if it was allowed on the floor i would say yippee, but i will try to adhere to protocol or take a laryat and circle it around out of excite lt.

thank you for vutch for the -- thank you very much for the years of tenure of leadership you brought from the state of california, you brought it here with a sense of action. we thank you. i'm delighted our democratic whip has been at the forefront of this issue and the gentleman from rhode island, i know others may be coming, but a former mayor who understands the importance of jobs, let me just say, to add to your comment, both president clinton and president reagan have quotes that suggest in a you build infrastructure, it is an investment that will continue to give and give and give. since 9/11, my good friend, i've been on the homeland security committee, and the attention of the united states, rightly so, has been on securing the homeland and national security and just one minute so i can transfer into

this discussion, 70% of the american people now with the capture and demise of osama bin laden still are concerned about our security but in actuality believe that our troops can come home completely. i hope we can move in that direction. this is not a republican issue or a democratic issue, 70% of the american people frankly believe that our troops have done an enormous tribute to themselves and to the american people. what does that mean? it means bright young men and women are going to be coming home, and let it be known that they will not just come home in need of health services. they will come home eager to participate in the american dream. frankly, i want to make sure they can do that and i want to make sure we end the war in afghanistan but i believe we have, as you have mentioned, the tools of the trade.

i see this word trade and some of us get nervous about that, but let me tell you how i explain trade. i want every item that can be sold overseas to someone else from the united states to be sold. i have taken to inventorying the manufacturers in the 18th congressional district in texas and if i might, if you're listening, call our office in houston and let us know you make something in the 18th congressional district in texas and i venture to say my colleagues will tell you call them or get on their website because we want you to be able to sell it overseas. make it in america, it's to recognize the validity of the product you make. we're going to make sure there are taxes that are fair to manufacturers. energy means all kinds of

energy. i am a person who is an equal opportunity welcomer of sew already -- solar and biofuels and a number of other energy types to join in energy. labor, i've already said to you i'm trying to bring our soldiers home but there are young people graduating from college in 2011, they were at my town hall meet, my distinguished friend and they asked me about work. i said to them that we're in this congress, mr. garamendi, that we are working to provide jobs for the talented young people that will walk across those various stadiums and auditoriums, getting their diploma, doing what we ask them to do. can we put them to work? then, of course if you reinvest in america, i'll tell the state of texas, i don't want to get in anyone else's business, we don't have to close schools, we don't have to lay off teachers, we can educate the work force and some of the work force can be those with their hands.

hoe vow casal trades. learning to manufacture, building the high speed rail that i'm so excited about, that i'm trying to find some land in the 18th congressional district or somewhere in texas and say, come one, come all. then of course by the way i serve on the intellectual property committee on judiciary and every time i have a hearing in that committee, i say this is the work of the 21st century, protecting the genius of america, and it's a lot of them. it's unbelievable the inventors who are here. i want them to know there's some value to first to file to protect their product and lastly what you have been talking about. the idea of redoing our infrastructure, a good friend of ours who served as the chairman of the transportation committee was such a leader a distinguished -- the distinguished gentleman from minnesota, he in the course of his service in the last couple of years had a bridge collapse in that state and he kept

saying over and over again, build infrastructure and you'll put america to work, so i think -- i wanted to capture these words as a mandate, as an instructive vision, that the democrats have captured and the only thing we need are partners. the president has already shown his proudness and his ability to put dollars to make jobs and to build infrastructure. he's seen it. i've seen public housing go up. i've seen -- i've seen -- i've seen roads being improved and of course light rail and high speed rail. we've got the right thinking. i don't want to stop without just adding this point. there's not a one of us that does not have the consciousness and the sense to recognize that we must have responsible spending and responsible reduction.

i take great offense for anyone to suggest that i am opening the treasure chest and throwing money to the wind. i believe that education is valuable, infrastructure is valuable but there are ways we can reasonably, down the road, begin our belt tightening. but eff to recognize that the debt ceiling is not for the state of texas or california, it is to help this nation, but we do it sensibly. i hope we can do a clean one, by the way but the point is, is that make it in america is an engine of job creation. i want to thank the gentleman for constantly bringing us to the floor, giving us the opportunity, of course, to do as the boy scouts may have done and recite these words, trade, taxes, energy, labor, intellectual property and infrastructure and go around to our constituents and tell them, we're not going to forget you.

i believe we're going to create some jobs and watch america continue to have its economy, not only make baby steps but it's going to be spinning. i am grateful for this philosophy and this mission. i thank the gentleman. mr. garamendi: thank you. you've been a leader in all these issues over many, many years, speak wisely and legislate wisely. it puzzles me as to whi my colleagues on the republican side don't seem to get the message. we passed a tax bill last year that ended the subsidy that international, multinational companies were given to offshore jobs.

$12 billion a year of our tax money to these huge american companies. what was that all about. it was in the tax code and american companies were taking advantage of that tax reducks, corporate welfare to send jobs overseas. it's over, the president signed it, not one of my republican colleagues voted for that. i'm befuddled by their lack of support for american companies who want to keep jobs here. apparently they're willing to support american companies that want to send jobs offshore. anyway, one small example, i wonder what it's like to be the mayor of the largest town in rhode island? probably an enormous experience, and then to bring that experience here to the floor of the congress and to

the committees and share with us all that down-home, on the ground experience of bringing jobs to the community. mr. cicilline if you would care to share with us some of that experience and the legislation you brought to us. ms. lee, as you leave, thank you for joining us today. mr. cicilline: i thank the gentleman from california for his make it in america hour, and i thank mr. hoyer for making this a priority. i think we all realize the biggest responsibility we have is to get americans back to work. i know in my home state, americans are hurting. our single greatest responsibility is to do everything we can to get people back to work. i've been disappointed we've been here five months and there hasn't been from our friends on the other side of the aisle a jobs agenda, jobs