mr. perry: i am going a lot of places. [laughter] >> and comments on governor walker's plan on repealing obamacare? do you think the strategy makes sense? mr. perry: i have not looked at it. you'll hear a lot of people say the right things. repeal and replace obamacare. we have been seeing that for a long time. obviously, i believe the states are where the decisions need to be made, not in washington, dc the entire idea that washington can come up with a way to deliver health care that is effective and efficient for new york versus new mexico versus washington, this is not common sense. let the people in the country decide. in the state of texas, we don't consider it to be effective, and we do not judge success by how many people can be forced into insurance. what we think in texas is the more people that have access to the best holiday health care you can't, that is why we had the most sweeping reform in the nation. our people in the state of texas -- if you want to live in a place that has re

larry: mr. perry? mr. perry: i would say a that is a flawed question asked of mr. john. -- trump. , the declaration of independence does say governments exist with the consent of the governed and are supposed to protect life, liberty and property. think you are smart enough to be your own government. [applause] larry: this next question is to mr. peterson. should illegal immigration be stopped? what does open borders mean? mr. peterson: i believe a free market and labor is just as effective lifting people out of as aty is just as helpful free commodity. borders are drawn on a map by politicians. the nationstate things it only serves the needs of the individuals. i believe we as libertarians can offer to the american people a solution we have had in our history shows during the alicessive era, we had an island -- ellis island policy. you are out of time. dr. feldman. mr. feldman: america is the land of opportunity. i will streamline this immigration system and we will have liberty for americans and be welcom

larry: mr. perry? mr. perry: they are both equally evil and to ask which one is the lesser evil is like asking my favorite std. i do not have one. [applause] mr. peterson? mr. peterson when does life begin? when should it be a crime for a woman to have an abortion? mr. peterson: i am not a doctor or a scientist, it most likely because at conception, so all humans deserve the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and it includes the unborn. [applause] dr. peterson -- mr. me, dr.? -- excuse feldman? i have my own very firm religious convictions, i do not mix dairy products and meat products, but i do not think that a cheeseburger should be illegal. we have a pro-life community and they should be able to enforce their rules on their community. we have a pro-choice community and they should be able to enforce their views on their community. and if they want to spread their message, they should invite other people by example to show what a wonderful community they have. it is not the job of governm

[applause] mr. perryt, my friends, we are a resilient country. you think about who we are. we have been through a civil war. we have been through two world wars. we have been through a great depression and made it through jimmy carter. we will make it through the obama years. we will do this. [applause] the fundamental nature of our country never say knock down, we get back up. we dust ourselves off and we move forward. and you know what? we will do it again. [applause] mr. perry: i want to share some important truths, starting with this truth, we don't have to settle for a world in chaos and america that shrinks from its responsibility. we don't have to apologize for american exceptionalism or western values. we don't have to accept slow growth that leaves behind the middle class and leaves millions of americans out of work. we don't have to settle for crumbling bureaucracies that harm our taxpayers and veterans. we don't have to re-sign ourselves to debt, decay and slow growth. we have the power to make

mr. perry: mr. president, it is an honor to be here in this university, and to all of you, good morning. i found that on my numerous visits back to new hampshire over the course of the years that you all appreciate plain talk about as well as any place in this country. and you want to hear some very plain talk about the challenges that we have in this country. and that is the spirit of which i come today, to share with you this vision of mine, and on three points i want to be very very clear. first, our country has entered -- and i think a time of testing, a time -- our political leadership is feeling that test. -- is failing that test. the american people see a president who is in denial about the threats we face, making grave miscalculations that make the world less safe. isis filled the void of failed policy in iraq and syria. in american tanks, with american weapons, isis began taking cities that just a few years ago had been freed by the blood of american soldiers. in these highly orchestrated

mr. perry: i heard this question before. mr. heath: i thought you might have. mr. perry: i think it is -- when you look at the federal government, obviously when we talk about the size of it and the concept of being able to shrink the size of state government. if anybody gets on the stage, whether any of these candidates left thatybody on the says there is any way to go forward in this country without cutting and without growing, those are the two things that we must do in this country. we have to cut spending. i know a little bit about cutting spending. a $10 billion shortfall in 2003. we went in and made the cuts. we told people we would do that. we realize that's how you have to live your life. the government has to learn to do it as well. the states that have been successful, governors have done that and made successful cuts. we cut the $10 billion out and laws down.ulatory reform.weeping tort we had health care explode across texas. two years later, we came back into session, we only meet every other year for 140 days, we had an $8 bill budget surplus. that's w

mr. perry: i agree with you. but -- ambassador nuland: however -- mr. perry: they have legitimate grievances, does russians have legitimate grievances? ambassador nuland: russian speaking ukrainians have long wanted some of the things that russia championed for them language, rights decentralization. but all of those things were on offer first from the transitional government of yatsenyuk onward and now with poroshenko. mr. perry: history sometimes gets lost on us as we go through our days. i just want to make sure that administration is familiar and aware of the history of stalin and khrushchev in the 1920's and the terror famine and starvation of the ukrainian people and deportations and the re-establishment of russians into the ukraine and so when putin says that he's going to protect these russian-speaking citizens, with all due respect they were moved into ukraine by killing the ukrainians and it's important to know that history when we talk about legitimate grievances. so i'm concerned -- i, too, agree we should send defensive weapons to ukraine. i

mr. perry: the chair now recognizes the gentleman from mississippi, mr. thompson. mr. thompson: thank you very much, mr. chairman. almost to the member before me the conversation has been about the culture, the organization. and i think it speaks to whether or not internally we can fix it or do we just cover it up? and i'll get to a specific shortly. inspector roth, in your review of the secret service, how would you describe the culture within the service, especially at the executive level? mr. roth: as we noted in the report on the access to chairman chaffetz's employment record, we found a number of supervisors who, in fact, themselves had access to m.c.i. to me that was a very troubling incident. additionally, few people then elevated their concerns or the fact that this was being used to a high enough level of management for something to be done. so that was sort of certainly troubling behavior that we identified. mr. thompson: let me -- so we had senior level people accessing information.

mr. perry: at times. walter: you always have something interesting to say. you are critical of two things. one, the expulsion policy which is if you are in one of these types of schools, you have an incentive to expel the back kids so that your scores go up and you don't the deal with it. and then there was the other criticism. mr. perry: special needs. the way i explain it is that the development of what we have in new orleans occurs generally in three stages. the immediate aftermath. we were literally pulling schools together, cleaning them up, finding teachers. then you have a second phase and this is where a heap of criticism is deserved. it was at the point when we got and the focus was clearly on deconstructing the former system. process people were expelled. we can talk to the youth empowerment project, families and friends for incarcerated children, and the data bears it out. right around 2007 the expulsion rate was around the same as it what it was pre-katrina. then there was this thir

mr. perry. vania, mr. perry: many of the people we meet in our home districts, they said this is what's wrong with washington and this is the misspending of our money. and they say why don't you do this. it is complicated, house of representatives, a senate and don't always agree and have to get the president to sign something, but on this occasion, something can be done. april, 2011, the palestinian authority published a resolution granting all prisoners imprisoned in israel for security and terrorism-related offenses a monthly job. imagine if your job was to blow up people, tear their limbs off and send hot metal through their bodies and see their bloody corpses through the streets. you get a salary for that. we put people in prison for that. we put people toll death for that. american taxpayers are paying people overseas to do that. words mean something. eligible beneficiaries, as anyone in israel's prison as a result of his participation in the struggle against the occupation, as has alread

the clerk: amendment offered by mr. perry -- mr. perry: i request unanimous consent to dispense with the reading. the chair: without objection. mr. perry: it's my understanding that the chairman accepts the amendment. if that's the case i would yield the balance of the time to the chairman. the chair: the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. wolf: strike -- we accept the amendment. yield back the balance of the time. the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania yield back the. mr. perry: yield back. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from pennsylvania. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have t the amendment is agreed to. -- the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. for what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin rise? >> i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. duffy of wisconsin tend of the bill before the short title insert the following. section, none of the

mr. heath: thank you, governor perry. mr. perry: thank you. >> rick santorum represented pennsylvania from 1991 until 1995 in the house. mr. heath: should the federal government subsidized any sector and which ones? mr. santorum: we have to make sure our sectors are competitive. one of the things i announced, if we are going to restore the center of america, we have to get american spectrum realty that we have to get americans back to work. wage growth has released stagnated. 74% of americans do not have a college degree and do not have manufacturing jobs. 20 million manufacturing jobs when reagan was president. we now have 11 million. if we do not allow our country to be competitive with the rest of the world, we will continue to see that the client and there is no struggling list. that is why i put our campaign square on, will make effectuating competitive. he will put out a flat tax that will have a time that transitions for manufacturing. we will incentivize that money to calm into country. we will have repatriation. inste

mcafee, mr. perry, governor johnson, mr. petersen, dr. feldman, and i went to thank all of you who watched on c-span. thank you for covering this. [applause] >> thank you, libertarians. now sit down. stand up if you want. can everyone give these candidates another round of applause? [applause] i've been to everyone of these nominating conventions since 2000 and orlando. i have voted for the presidential nomination every time. there's always been a choice. there are always choices we have to make. believe that you see a, you, the delegates of the libertarian party, have the best and .oughest choices i've ever seen [applause] at the beginning of this thing we passed of those donation cards, and i hope you been filling them out while listening to the awesome answers in this debate great if you haven't, you can start filling them out now. and i'm going to auction off a piece of history. on this stage to my right is an area sign, and on that sign the signatures of every one of the candidates on this stage. there's only one of these in the .orl

mr. perry: without objection, so ordered. mr. duncan: there is a school, elementary school or middle school, near the naval big, is that correct? governor haley: yes. i talked to someone yesterday and said good luck tomorrow. he said everybody in my area is terrified what could happen. mr. duncan: we're talking about south carolinian mothers and fathers considering sending their children to a school in close proximity to some of the most wanted and dangerous terrorists in the world so thanks for pointing that out. the letter that you and governor brownback sent to ash carter, did y'all get a response on that? governor haley: i'm not aware that we got a response. i will follow up and just confirm that but i am not aware of a response. they've been very -- they handled this very much on their own and have not included us in the process. i have had conversations of governor brownback and i have made it very clear and i want it to be made very clear, any governor that has to deal with this, i will fight for them to make sure it doesn

mr. perry: i want to thank the speaker for the time, i want to thank the fine gentlemen from the other side, i appreciate your impassioned pleas, that's what this price is all about. i may disagree but i appreciate your passion and willingness to serve. i want to talk about a couple of things, at least from my side, set the record, or at least balance the record, maybe not set it straight in some people's minds, because i'm sure some folks will disagree, but when the one gentleman said he opposed the iraq war and folks were here spending on it with a credit card, he was opposed to that. i wasn't here, i can't atone for the sins of the past, but one of the reasons i wasn't here is because i was in iraq at that time and even though i think it is morally wrong to have spent this nation into such debt over those conflicts, when you're attacked you must respond, number one, and number two, i think it belies the fact that the current administration has nearly doubled that spending in half the time. a

amendment number 1 by mr. perry of pennsylvania. earment number 2 by mr. mulvaney of south carolina. amendment number 3 by more mulvaney of south carolina. amendment number 4 by mr. mulvaney of south carolina. amendment number 5 by mr. mulvaney of south carolina. amendment number 6 by mr. mulvaney of south carolina. amendment number 7 by mr. rothfus of pennsylvania. amendment number 8 by mr. royce of california. amendment number 9 by mr. schweikert of arizona. amendment number 23 by mr. westmoreland of georgia. and amendment number 10 by mr. young of iowa. the chair will reduce to two minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote after the first vote in this series. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 1 printed in part b of house report 114-326 by the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. perry, on which further proceed wrgs postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. cloim amendment number 1 printed in house report 114-offered by mr. perry of pennsylvania. the

mr. perry. the chair: the gentleman is ecognized for one minute. mr. perry: i want to thank them for this opportunity and just like to remind everybody, although they might say, why do they do this, why is the rhetoric important? if we don't counter the alternate reality that the other side touts, people think that is reality. i'd remind everybody in the room that the federal government and every state government has said not one, not one, zero, there will be zero accidents regarding hydraulic fracking, not one. people in washington have never been to warren in pennsylvania. they don't know anything about these places or what happens here, yet they want to regulate us. the people that live there are the ones that are working there and they have the greatest stake in protecting the environment. let me tell you what it's done for pennsylvania. $750 million in road and infrastructure improvement since 2008, provided by the gas industry. average income of up $1,200 of it. $1.8 billion in tax revenu

mr. perry: i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the reading. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection? without objection. pursuant to house resolution 333, the gentleman from pennsylvania and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. perry: i yield myself as much time as i might consume. i thank the chairman of the committee for allowing me to offer this amendment. it provides -- it prevents the department of interior from competing with our local job creators in the use of u.a.f.'s. unmanned aerial systems for land surveying, mapping, imaging and remote sensing data activities. there is concern that agencies the usgs and bureau of land management are requiring the u.a.s. and utilizing them on projects that can be accomplished by the private sector. we have no problem with them using them, we have no problem with them using for forest fires and those type of things, emergency situations, but where local businesses can do th

representatives and all the elected officials and members of congress who are here with us today as well as mr. perry, all of the trustees, dr. blaine, reverend rodes and all of the faculty and staff here at jackson state. let's take a moment to give it up to the people who helped get you here. thank you for your incredible hospitality. i would not be anywhere else but here. i might be a little jetlagged, but i am here right now to celebrate all of you, so i'm grateful. i have to thank the band and both of the choirs today for the beautiful music. you all are amazing. and of course, before we go way in, we have to give it up to all the folks in the stands who helped you all get here, the moms and dads, brothers, sisters, grandparents, cousins, friends, neighbors. all you all must give it up! give it up! [cheers and applause] mrs. obama: and finally, most of all, i wanted to join in congratulating,', what a good-looking group, the men and women of jackson state university class of 2016! whoa! you all deserve all of that and more because i know how hard you worked studying late into the night, writing

mr. perry: the chair thanks the gentleman from oklahoma. before i close out i have a couple of questions. mr. willemssen, you are from the government accountability office, i read through your information. i'm just wondering if you can provide any clarity on other agencies regarding penalties, regarding accountability for actions that have been -- that they have engaged in regarding security clearances. that might be out of your wheelhouse mr. willemssen: i can talk about numerous -- some of the major incidents over time. probably the first major incident we had with inappropriate browsing was at the i.r.s. in the mid 1990's. several employees decided to start browsing celebrity's tax returns, as a result of that there was an act passed that taxpayer browsing protection act, 1997, and that among other things has the penalties of up to $1,000 fine and imprisonment of not more than one year. mr. perry: do you know if anybody was prosecuted under that and subjected to those penalties at all? mr. w

the chair now recognizes mr. perry for five minutes for questioning. >> thank you mr.egarding cuba and aviation security i asked about the goals annual business by cuban officials to the u.s. into her airports which have been occurring since 2010. in its response to my letter dhs stated this has involved exchange of technical information and aviation security and best practices. exchange of technical information. my concern and curiosity in speaking with you is about what we are giving to them, not what we are getting from them but what we are giving to them. giving cuba's history as a counterintelligence state, this is extremely concerning to me. as you know cuba is ruled by a government hostile to the united states with close relationships to other u.s. at series including china russia and north korea. russia and china both have some of the largest in the world if not the largest on the planet. i think personally it's outrageous to think that dhs is sharing our information with cuba when they know they could likely share it at at this point give it to her ever series

mr. perry: reclaiming the balance. i look forward to working with the chairman on this and would ask unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment. the chair: without objection. for what purpose does gentlelady from oregon seek recognition? the clerk: amendment offered by the gentlelady from oregon. insert increased by $9 million. page 26, line 24, after the dollar amount insert reduced by $9 million. the chair: pursuant to house resolution, the gentlelady from oregon and a member opposed each will control five minutes. ms. bonamici: i rise today because of the power and potential of water. in support of an amendment i'm pleased to offer with congressman michaud and congresswoman ping agree. our amendment would increase department of energy's water power program by $9 million, a small price tag that will yield a huge return on investment. this increase is offset by the departmental administration account. the modest increase we are supporting will support hydropower and technologies along with marine and hydro technologi

mr. perry: i rise in favor of the amendment and -- the chair: the gentleman claim time in opposition? mr. perry: i do claim time in opposition although i'm not object jectsing. i rise in support of the amendment and see it as a reasonable bipartisan approach and agreement, which has seen favorable consideration in this house in the past and as i said just recently, hydropower is the most reliable, affordable and sustainable energy source and seems to me while we spend money time and energy on unproven resources, this is one that has stood the test of time it is one of the beginning of sources of energy, not only in the united states but around the globe. this is one that we know. this is one that is in every community. this is one that is clean. it doesn't create too much noise for people. it doesn't hurt fish. all it does is produce power without doing anything else. it's hard to argue why we wouldn't be in support of this program. with that, i urge my colleagues to vote in support of this ame

senator perdue: have the local -- mr. perry: have the local law enforcement in collaboration with federal enforcement agencies done any cost estimates that you know of? i don't know. you said it's difficult to quantify but at some point it's going to require additional -- whether it's additional training, whether it's additional manpower, equipment, briefings, protocols, have you even begun? based on the phone call you said you got, have you even started down that road and have local law enforcement officials aware of this expressed any concern to you? governor haley: whether that be of d.p.s., whether that be our military bases or general, those are the conversations we've had. i will spend whatever it takes to help my people. whether it be law enforcement, whether it be military, whether it be tourism, whether it be economic development, every call i've gotten has been, please don't let this happen to south carolina. representative perry: thank you. the chair recognizes mr. thompson for his five minutes of questioning. repres

secretary, it was feel expired.time has mr. perry from pennsylvania. mr. chairman.rb, is there a document system been operating to allow illegal immigrants to avoid is the law? a forged document system in some form around the border where eople that with come here illegally obtain social security numbers and other documents that to america? access criminal r words a network? >> whatever you want to call it. is there one present? is. i would imagine there >> is using forge the documents o gain access to the social services lawful? >> i do not believe so. would agree. what is the d.h.s. estimate for here illegally including those with terrorist affiliations who have used documentation to gain access to our nation and other things i described? don't have that number indiana -- offhand. there is an estimate i will undertake to get it to you. an estimate.e is i'm sure it is just an estimate are unlawful but we have written your office an haven't gotten answers so i'm or erned about the ability your willingness to give us those answers. a couple of answers. with

and now we turn to mr. perry of pennsylvania. >> thank you, madam chair. mr. mcgurk, in violation of u.s. and u.n. security council, what support is the maliki government receiving from iran that you know of? >> the question of sanctions under those provisions is something we're looking at very closely. it's a very complicated question, actually. >> all right. well, then just tell me what kind of material support you know of and then we'll try and figure it out from there. >> it's another question i think i'd like to follow up with you in a closed session. >> all right. ms. slotkin, do you know? >> sir, i really do think in a closed session we can much more specifically answer your question. >> all right. i get your point. well, knowing that iran is supporting the insurgency in yemen, is the yemen model sponsored in some sort by the president, is that realistic or viable for iraq? didn't that -- isn't that fairly complica complicated, knowing that iran is essentially an adversary, an enemy of the united states that we're barely working with on a treaty regardi

. >> i yield to mr. perry. mr. perry: i oppose this amendment. this will not improve highway safety. what incentive does it create. how does increasing the insurance requirement improve safety? the agency's own data shows they cover damages more than 99% of all crashes. but to the gentleman's point my friend from pennsylvania, the agency is planning on tying these requirements to medical inflation and results in increases in 500% or more. the height of irony. they were driving the cost of medical inflation down -- that's another whole story. the fact that industry has a remarkable safety record compared to all commercial vehicles. motor coaches average 20 fatalities per year and school buses five. that is not to minimize those losses but in a highway environment, the d.o.t. study didn't talk to insurance carriers about the impacts of increasing insurance or whether there is a need for it. this is a solution that is looking for a problem, a problem that does not exist. i urge the members to vote no on this amendment. i yield back. the chair: the g

jordan: i recognize the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. perry. mr. erry: thank you for the leadership. ladies and gentlemen, mr. speaker, what we are talking about, heard all the facts and i don't want to belabor them, protective orders and subpoenas and a preservation from his own agency, the commissioner disregarded that and did what he wanted to do in contravention to what any of us would do. two standards of justice. lois lerner for or hillary clinton. one for them and one for all the rest of us, one for all the people out there in the real world. my business, when we got a letter from the i.r.s., provide something from four years ago, we would go to the accountant and said we submitted this stuff. well, you have to save your records for seven years. when you see something from the i.r.s., your heart stops. lois' heart t -- stopped? you go to the judge without talking to the police and say, we don't need to involve the police. that's what happened here folks. two standards of justice. one for all of us working people out there and one for the conn

the president's tax and regulatory policies have mr. perrylicy has slammed the door is shut for the average american who is trying to climb the economic ladder and climb the middle class, to deferred dreams. weakness at home has led to weakness abroad. the world has descended into a chaos of this president's own making. while his white house lawyers, they construct an alternative universe where isis is contained, that ramadi is merely a setback where the nature of the enemy can't be acknowledged for fear of

mr. perry: c.b.d. oil has been known to reduce the amount or dureation of seizures in those suffering epilepsy and other disorders. it contains no t.h.c., the active psychotropic agreement that makes people high. numerous families in my district have children with epilepsy and are out of options. they've tried the f.d.a. approved drugs and they sit and watch their children fade away. that's their option. they can do that, they can break the law or they can move somewhere where they can get c.b.d. some have had to split their families apart to care for their children. mr. chairman 17 states, most recently texas, where the good chairman resides have legalized c.b.d. these states have made the choice to help children with epilepsy and seizure disorders. paraphernalias who want to treat their children should not be hindered by federal prohibition. with that, mr. chairman i recognize think good friend mr. dold from illinois for as much time as he would consume. the chair: the gentleman from illinois is reco

stewart: thank you, mr. perry. once again, i have the honor of introducing a member with a unique background, mr. ben voleyow of michigan. attacks enced rocket in his service, i think he speaks with some authority of the subject. mr. bent voleyow -- mr. benivolio: i rise in support of israel and its right to self-defense as it faces ongoing threat from rockets from gaza. picture the scene, you're walking down the streets of tel aviv. you see men, women, and children of all ages. to your right, an elderly man with a walker. a few paces ahead a mother with her stroller. it's peaceful. it's calm. it's the embodyment of urban normality. and suddenly you hear it. everyone instinctively know what is it is and in a split second, everything changes. it's the red alert siren a rocket is racing toward the city at breakneck speed, only seconds remain to find refuge in a bomb shelter. and the rocket could land anywhere. on a preschool, on a hospital, on a random family home, or perhaps on the mother and her stroller up ahead. m

mr. perry: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. speaker, no one wants iran to have a nuclear weapon. i certainly don't think the president wants them to, but i think it's clear that they're going to. the question is when. clearly the president tried to make -- he tried to make a good deal. i don't think he thinks that iran can be trusted, but i do think he thinks they won't cheat. mr. speaker, the road to hell was paved with good intentions, and i'm sure that the administration had and has good intentions, but the facts remain. iran has been cheating literally for thousands of years or at least that region has and certainly we know. the facts, the facts is for the last 36 years iran has cheated on every single agreement they have signed. they're cheating at this very moment. so an agreement that's based on that, that they wouldn't cheat is an agreement that is fatally flawed. mr. speaker, this is the same country that won't cheat. this is the same country that leaders recognize the stoning of women, the hanging of homosexuals, the

mr. perry: thank you, madam speaker. i'd like to thank mr. graves from missouri for taking the lead on this amendment and chairman mckeon for including this amendment in this en bloc package. after 12 years of combat coming to a close, and shifting security priorities, the commission to evaluate army force structure is indeed appropriate. the pentagon is still operating with the assumptions, metrics and policies from the early 2000's. what we need to be doing is looking at shaping the force of the future. what the future missions and force mixture between active, guard, reserve should be is a question that should be thoroughly assessed. to determine how the future of our total army will be shaped for decades to come, we should select the more comprehensive commission and take the additional few months to do a comprehensive anal sills with the best personnel -- analysis with the best personnel and minds available. madam speaker, the security of the nation depends upon it. and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of hi

. >> thank you, mr. perry. >> thank you, mr. chairman. you know i travel up and down the northeast corridor constantly back and forth. i'm still trying to get this idea with the spectrum, how we end up in places like chicago they only have one come and more than 11 companies use it. i just don't understand why we just can't come up with one system. now we have to worry where one is going to interfere with the other? to me it just doesn't make sense. when other parts of the country is one system. how did we get to this? how did we get to this point? >> i think it goes back to the conversation we had a few minutes ago where the access system for amtrak was really developed for passenger rail and specifically high speed passenger rail. there is a certain way that passenger railroads run their operation and to utilize a certain technologies to run the trainstranscom dispatch their trains and the freight railroads have literally a giveaway of running a railroad, and so those two systems -- >> a company not making concessions with the other? i

the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. perry, for five minutes. mr. perry: thank you, mr. speaker. 400 rocket attacks from gaza in the past three weeks, mr. speaker. israel's made several attempts to diffuse the issue and the situation. this is how hamas responded. we will not agree to quiet in exchange for quiet. if israel does not agree to our demands, i expect we will continue this battle. can you imagine that? demands from hamas that israel not respond, not respond to rocket attacks. that's the only way you will get quiet for quiet. between israel and hamas. now we all know where this recent exchange started on june 12, the abduction, subsequent murder of three veili teenagers, suspected -- by three i veily teenagers, suspect -- by israeli teenagers, suspected by hamas. there is a difference between how both sides act from the israeli prime minister, i condemn the murder of a palestinian youth in jerusalem. murder riots, incitement, vigilanteism, they have no place in our democracy. israel quickly tracked down and arrested the teens' suspected murd

the chair recognizes mr. perry for 30 minutes. mr. perry: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd stand before you today, mr. speaker, to discuss the comments made recently by secretary kerry regarding israel and apartheid. now, i'm not going to be one of the people -- the many people that are calling for secretary kerry's resignation in that regard. i, too, work in the arena of public policy and i understand that sometimes you make mistakes the things you say. you say things you didn't necessarily intend to say, but i think it's very instructive to talk about it for a few moments here. israel first fought the war of independence in 1948 and 1949. then fought again in approximate 1967. correction. 1967 on the six-day war and hen again in 19 -- in 1973 with the yom kippur war. during those periods of time they were attacked, unilaterally attacked by their neighbors. people say, we need to go back to those pre-1967 borders. ask anybody who's been attacked, who's been in an tack that was sucker punched, why is it incumbent that israel return to the spoils of the war? people attac

. >> good luck mr. perry. >> good luck. >> did we get our picture? >> not yet. >> got it. thank you, sir. >> we have a mutual friend. you high. to tell -- hi. rick perry: oh yeah. i have a house in austin and the house of here and i came up here when i do you were coming to the fair. -- knew you were coming to the fair. rick perry: it was a little 7-eleven and they turned it into -- you know where high park cafe is? rick perry: yeah. >> it is on the left. rick perry: next to the laundromat. >> if you want to have some really good mexican food, go there. rick perry: i think rob has some great restaurants. >> all these awesome. -- oh, he's awesome. >> there is a cleaner. >> jack brown. >> right behind the apartments. driving by getting a little breakfast. >> he wanted me to ask you about a time you went to the restaurant. rick perry: we used to take people there on a regular basis back when i was a governor. [laughter] >> thank you. keep it up. rick perry: where is your camera? >> thank you. thank you. good luck. >> on the count of three. 1, 2, 3. up.et your horns >> gig 'em.

mr. perry of pennsylvania. page 1, line five, after the dollar amount inseert increase by $22 million. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 23, the gentleman and a member opposed will control five minutes. mr. perry: this amendment seeks to highlight the fact that the water power program is vitally important to reducing our dependence on foreign oil. this bill the underlying bill, cuts hydropower by over $22 million. what the amendment i'm offering does is restore that funding and offsets it with department of energy administrative costs. the hydropower -- hydropower is the nation's most available, reliable affordable and sustainable energy source. requiring only the pow over moving water, rivers, streams, and ocean waves an tides, hydropower is domestic and renewable. hydropower is available in every region of the country. a range of technologies exists or are under development to tap the power of waves, tides and river flows. thousands of mega watts of potential are available from projects

mr. scott perry of pennsylvania. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. sewall, it's my understanding that officials have repeated -- administration officials have repeatedly stated that boko haram is not motivated by religious causes but by issues of economic deprivation. is that -- is state department also led to that conclusion? >> i'm not sure what the -- whether there is a piece of paper that describes the state department's view about the motivations of boko haram. what i can tell you is we know from watching boko haram over the years that they are bent on destroying institutions that support the people of nigeria in the northeast. and that they have no compunction about killing any nigerian that is in their path. >> i understand and i think we as americans understand that but i'm trying to focus on how state department views boko haram. >> we view boko haram as a terrorist organization. >> and what is their motivation, if you can describe that. what are they motivated by? not what are their actions, what are they motivated by? >> i'm not in the hea

western europe and calls on the united states to promote increased gas export and energy efficiency >> mr. perry had a question. >> thank you mr. chairman. i am curious about the gas flow from western europe. is this essentially -- i mean how do you take changes and so on and so forth, but it takes a market that draws the gas to the customer. it doesn't take us for saying so. does this mean that we are going to advocate to russia? >> know ino it does not but i wo recognize mr. grayson for an explanation of the amendment. >> the status quo these days is that western europe imports of gas from russia and there is a perception on the part of many that could create a certain dependency on the part of western europe to russia because they could turn off in the same end that russia has turned off the tap to some of the former soviet republics. so, they reversed gas flow and essence energy independence, energy independence from western europe so that russia and europe is now the main dependence upon russian gas to the extent that it already may be. >> mr. kennedy, did you seek recognition? >> thank you

goodlatte: i now yield to the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. perry. mr. perry:in all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the supreme court shall have original jurisdiction. in all the other cases before mentioned, the supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the congress shall make. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentlewoman from -- i now yield to the gentleman from new york, mr. tonko. mr. tonko:the trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed, but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed. section 3 mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentlewoman from tennessee mrs. black. mrs. black:treason against the united states, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving th