mr. lipinski. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. lipinski: thank you, madam chairman. i thank the chairman for yielding. one correction, research and science education committee. i'm chair but i have a background as an engineer. i understand the need for understanding how systems work, understanding what can be done in preparation so that in this case, this bill of mr. wu's, we can do the best we can to mitigate, avoid the problems and deal with what happens in the aftermath of earthquakes and wind storms. i thank mr. wu for this bill, i thank chairman gordon also for moving this forward and bringing it to the house floor. i thank the republicans for the work, mr. broun, who is here today. this is something we often forget about until after a disaster strikes. we see with the earthquake in chile, so much talk about the planning beforehand, the requirements that buildings has to be designed in a certain way to withstand earthquakes, the lives that were saved. probably tens of thousands of lives were saved from this. and this was all t

mr. lipinski. [inaudible] >> the best spoke directly with the president. here were conversations, but mr. bauer was the main negotiator for a spirit of our. -- for us. bob bauer. one more question and we will go. [inaudible] >> i agree with the bishops that we would rather have the stupak language. the reality is that we cannot pass it in the senate. there is a lot of things we love to have his like 250 pieces of legislation sitting in the senate, but they did not pass it. we need both chambers to pass it and the president decided third we cannot get more than 45 votes in the senate. the bishops are right. statutory law is better than an executive order. we cannot get there. what do we have come and nothing? or you want the same executive order that has the force of law? it insures the enforcement implementation of abortion restriction, and under this act, it says, the hyde language applies. it says that about four or five times. bishops, i agreed but in the legislative process, he did not always get what you want. we honored the principle that we all set f