who is the commandant now of the united states coast guard. 24th united states coast guard commandant, and has served 39 years. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentlewoman is recognized for 30 more seconds. ms. jackson lee: i thank the gentleman and i thank the speaker. commandant pat is a great american. he has been a friend to not only those of us in the united states congress who are on the responsible committees, but he's been a friend to his men and women that serve in the united states coast guard. commandant pat, we absolute you for your grand service and -- salute you for your grand service and look forward to your continued service to america, but more importantly we owe you a great deal of respect and honor. thank you so very much. i thank the gentleman. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from california, mr. hunter, is recognized. mr. hunter: mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlem

united states. like the u.s. coast guard and d.h.s., along with d.e.a., f.b.i., we build the capacity of nations which helps enhance security stability in anti- trafficking efforts throughout latin america and the caribbean. together with u.s. law enforcement partners, we focus on combagget illicit drug trading and interdiction as far from our borders as far as possible. until the drugs are broken down into nearly impossible to detect sizes. amphetaminesin and from reaching our shores. it enhances our understanding of trafficking networks, all with almost no violence. when we're adequately resourced, this approach is very effective. although my come opponent, the task force in the key west receives only 1.5% of the total u.s. government narcotics budget. 1.5%. with the support of partners like d.h.s. and the coast guard, d.e.a. and the f.b.i., they are responsible for removing 68% of of the sees cocaine heading towards the united states. our international partners are key to our effectiveness, especially in our ongoing opera

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they're used to illegally ship drugs or people to the united states >> coast guard hit miami beach to unload 6,000 cocaine worth $110 million. first a report of a sus spishus fishing boat. agents did a sweep and moments later the same boat caught fire they found illegal drugs nearby. >> in the search for the missing malaysian jet, yesterday's search was cut short after six hours. a safety feature returned the subto the surface after returning from a swim of 15,000 feet. so far, no data offered clues to the whereabouts of the plane. >> given the size of the search area, that could take 6, 8 weeks it's weeks and months type of problem. >> crews have now reprogrammed to account for variations but the search is taking place in an area where the sea bed is covered in silt. >> new research finding a link between air pollution and some of asia's biggest cities and weather in north america. researchers say the smog drift over pacific ocean and we noticed that in form of colder winters and powerful storms seen in parts of the country. >> former klan leader faces charges today in kansas city, a

coast guard. continuing to ask them to do more with less. the united states coast guard talking about contracting out. it is unfortunate. i wish we could restore the cuts we made and not impose the next round of sequestration. it is unfortunate that we add this state. and just want to go on record as saying i'm the lead in your mission and feel like we are shortchanging your department and the american people ambassador, one of the primary missions behind the bureau of international narcotics and law enforcement affairs is to build partnerships with state and local law-enforcement agencies here at home in order to allow these agencies to provide their unique expertise to foreign agencies and governments that desperately needed in order to incentivize state and local agencies to provide this expertise. the state department reimburses agencies of the costs incurred which strengthens overall international security and bolsters our relationships with our foreign partners while simultaneously creating a merchant in these here at home. i would like for you to talk

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that's why i serve in the united states coast guard. maybe you were born ready., and programs the next in line chili davis and his son kai who was hoping for his own field of dreams. 19-year-old k eight grew up in arizona wi in chili davis. his father played 19 years with five teams including the ts hitting coach. kai is playing for city college? san francisco and it has always been tough living in his dad's shadow. >> i tell him he could be better than i was. >> like most sons k eight wants to prove he can -- kai wants to prove he can do it himself. but he needs to take advantage of his dad's knowledge. >> he is telling me, you know, your dad is one of the smartest hitter easy -- hitters i have seen. you need to pick his brain to get that info. >> kai is a switch hitter like his dad playing right field and first base. he came to ccsf late, but working hard for more playing time. >> he has good skills. the one thing i like about him is work ethic. and he doesn't want anything for free. he wants to earn everything he gets. >> he likes to be in the bay area with hi

that's why i serve in the united states coast guard. maybe you were born ready. find out at gocoastguard.com. >>> public health officials in berkeley tonight say an unknown number of people may have been exposed to a uc student infected with measles. the cal student, the second in two months to be diagnosed with measles, not only rode from oakland to berkeley on b.a.r.t. but also attended classes this week. health officials opened up a clinic today on campus. they say there is not an outbreak. >> we are seeing more cases in california than we've seen in prior years. and that's related primarily to some outbreaks that are going on overseas. so there's an outbreak in the philippines, and there are higher rates of measles in other countries than there are here. >> since january 1st, california has reported 50 cases of measles. last year at this time the count was four. >>> tonight b.a.r.t. is still trying to fix a pesky device that's causing a five-minute delay through the transbay tube. it's the same problem that caused friday's delays. the mux box. the box regulat

and the united states coast guard have kind of given a ok given b.p.'s track record especially with think it's kind of hard to take their word right i mean it's hard to even take them when they say estimates that it's not just extraordinary conservative of course as you point out in your article that lake michigan is actually drinking water the source of drinking water for seven million people here so it is a huge issue and i hope that there is some testing soon steve yeah and that area lot of progress you know a source of drinking water to suddenly and people because it's such a huge like out of you know the that's the body of water that goes out away from there oh and north it's you know it's a it's a source of drinking water for a lot more people than that overall so it's really scary what's happening with this refinery unscary that i've been fortunate with the keystone x.l. the bad kind of the loss and it is this whole and bridge pipeline system for example among other pipelines i mean this is just under five product of the runaway expansion of the

the admiral is the 24th commandant of the united states coast guard. and this includes the deputy chief at the u.s. embassy in panama. he holds a phd in economics and an m.a. in management from the university of wisconsin. general kelley is commander of the united states southern command, prior to his current position he served as a leader oteri system for the secretary of defense and reinforces reserve north. and we understand that goes yellow about the time that we have about a minute left and then it's time to cut it off and you guys are just so distinguished and i'm not brave enough to probably cut you off. so with that, thank you. >> good morning again to chairman hunter and the ranking member and to all the members of the subcommittee. i want to thank you for the opportunity to be here this morning to thank you for your continued support of the coast guard and also to discuss the challenges that we face in confronting the illicit smuggling and its consequences for our country. i would be remiss if i didn't recognize some of our other partners in

that's why i serve in the united states coast guard. maybe you were born ready.he cheap and obvious transition here to our first story. we are beginning with a big achievement. rosie o'donnell, the comedian lost nearly 50 pounds. >> this is the before and after picture she posted on twitter. take i look. you can see the difference. she had gastric bypass surgery. she spoke for the american heart association. she reveals she dropped from 230 to 190. she said earlier this year, having a heart attack in 2012 convinced her to have the surgery. she looks great. >> she does. >> christina aguilera is putting on a few. showing off her growing baby bump. >> take a look at singer and her fiance. a doral picture -- adorable picture from her instagram with the caption, baby loves nyc. >> she is having a girl. no word on the date, but announced shortly after valentine's day. >> a netflix original. >> the second season "orange is the new black" is out. >> like what you've done with the place. >> it is starting to feel like home in here. >> 3, 2, 1, go. >> look at how many good

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and the united states coast guard has encountered many rescues where they cut into the bottom of thely. >> now, the concern is you have darkness and you have cold water, they believe 40 degrees fahrenheit, 20 kilometers or so off the mainland and you have fast-moving currents. what does that do for the ability of divers to go under water and essentially enter a matrix of caves? >> well, it's tough on the divers. obviously not only for people in well, searching for air pockets, of course. it's a tough dive duty and tough to get in. they have to maneuver their way through the ship. the rescues i mentioned with the coast guard, sometimes they eat cut right through the hull. granted they have been able to send people in and get people out from ships. it's tough. it's dangerous. they have lost rescuers that way. but that's the only hope at this point, is to go and get them out or go through the hull. >> ferry is a nis leading term. this is a 500-foot-long ship, like a cruise ship. how does something like this go down so fast, so fast that they have people jumping off for their lives. >> b

think it makes a tremendous amount of sense, because for example, in the united states every -- almost every year, the coast guardoses someone on a rescue mission. then they go out in just impossible conditions. i think it's wise, good sense. >> tim, let's talk about the australian ship ocean shield with the u.s. pinger detecter on board. we saw it going out over the weekend. the pinger batteries could run out at any moment, if they haven't already. too little too late? >> you have to hold out hope. if you don't have hope, it's despair. so get it out there, get it on the water. i was speaking to david soucie. he thinks maybe get it out in the deep canyons and work first. give credit to dave, that would be a good idea if we were running the operation to focus on the areas where you're not going to be able to get an auv down there and rule them out. the pinger may have already stopped. it could be like the air france flight where even if you go over it now you may not be picking it up. >> if the plane is believed to be closer to australia, how come their radar did not pick up where it went down? >> that's a great q

investigators are looking into whether the coast guard's initial response to the sinking was appropriate. united states in the philippines have signed a new military agreements the deal coincides with the visit by us president barack obama to the southeast asian nation after the attacks on in bangkok is phone the store the agreement is believed to be aimed at countering china's growing maritime self defence in the region. it will see an increase in the us manatee presence in the country the facts will be on a temporary basis. team president they make no walking and when obama held a joint news conference after their toll. he has a high heel the humanity packs. it was signed and a good day at the philippine defense ministry the bbc was enhanced defense cooperation agreement these are security cooperation on an emblem of the beach. to them please or beginning an important new chapter in the relationship between our countries under the deal the us will periodically dispatched troops to the philippines and the two sides will jointly use managing the seventies the agreement will be affected than ten years s

this family of four making their way back to the united states safely thanks to the massive rescue effort of the air force, navy, coast guardte department. >> it's an expensive business. it's a dangerous business. but it's a business that we're obligated to keep the american people safe. >> reporter: no one is saying how much the rescue operation cost but flying a coast guard chopper can run $15,000 an hour. $20,000 an hour for the guard's largest search aircraft all paid for with taxpayer dollars. there's a reason. brianenberg is chief of new jersey's search-and-rescue operations. >> charging for rescue is dangerous. it makes someone question before they call for help. >> reporter: eric and charlotte kaufman were taking their two girls ages 1 and 3 on a around the world sailboat adventure. their stranded vessel started taking on water last week and 1- year-old lyra developed a fever, vomiting and rash covering her body. many are calling the parents reckless wondering why their tax dollars should literally bail the kaufmans out. >> i'm sure it's those same people that have a fire department that's waiting to put out their h

coast guard and maritime legislation. that re-authorizes the american coast guard, the united states coast forward, for two more years, expands their opportunities to protect our waterways, our lakes, and to protect america in the oceans that surround this great nation. it also provides an opportunity for the mariners who want to enter that profession from the armed services that may have been in the navy, that have gained certain skills, so that they can get a license to be a mariner, to be a sailor, tore a ship's captain or -- to be a ship's captain or an officer on one of our merchant marine ships. there's more we can do with this piece of legislation and i want to put it up here so we can take a look at some of the opportunitys that exist in this law. ere we go. about 20 years ago, there were several hundred american flagships and several tens of thousands of american sailors that were bringing american commerce, exports and imports into our ports. so if you support the growth of jobs and the growth of trade, then we need to support the merchant marine and coast guard renewal act that passed the house today. because it pr

. >> stephan, here in the united states, if you ship that big, taking passengers, get it certified by the coast guard of some sort. was there no sort of similar thing in south korea, no way that they could make that change in the boat that could add to it and not have it certified? >> well, it was certified. the ship was operating legally. and that's one of the things that's made your average south korean really angry at the government. acting like if this ship was able to operate legally, then how was that? how was something so dangerous allowed to go ahead with full government licensing? >> what about the cause of why that boat was sinking still that it might have veered off course and something breached the hull or something else tonight? >> like so many things with this case, we are getting a lot of contradictory information. consensus had been that it had been traveling too fast. and it had made a sharp turn. that had caused the cargo to fall over and which would have knocked the ship off balance. just yesterday we got a report that maybe data from the ship showed that there wasn't an abrupt tur

united states is not at the mercy of other nations in times of emergency. but i will say that i have been dismayed at recent activities to force in the coast guard re-authorization to increase the cargo preference for american food aid from its current level of 50% to 75%. this is outrageous and it's not the answer. the situation we face today is that we require this food to be elivered in american ships, it increases the delay in terms of when the food gets there and we are competing with local community. mr. speaker, in an ideal world, we would do what most international aid countries do when they deliver assistance, they use money to buy local products. this helps support local agriculture and it provides the food when it's needed, not months later. the united states primarily delivers surplus commodities that we produce in the united states that are shipped halfway around the world that arrive often too late and it is in direct competition to local producers. it undercuts their capacity to take care of themselves while our assistance gets there too late and it increases the cost of doing so. now, in times past, the government had reimbursed the cost differen

united states. >> reporter: 80% of the cocaine that comes into the u.s. travels over water. the coast guard is the only military agency that can enforce both u.s. and international laws on the high seas. >> each and every day our men and women are on ships at sea, flying in the air, focused on the counterdrug mission. it's one of the core missions we do for the coast guard, one of the core missions we do for the nation and we help protect our borders. >> reporter: in spite of its most recent success, the coast guard said it is only catching one third of the drug smugglers passing through here. the drugs seized in this most recent interdiction will now be destroyed. >> the ""detroit free press"" looks at developments in the recall. gm wants to delay a judge from deciding on a class action suit. they want to see if another judge will protect them from claims. >> and plain clothed detectives were sent into muslim neighborhoods, places where people eat, pray and shop. they say it harmed national security by creating mistrust in islamic communities. >> classes resume at franklin regional high sc

united states in the future as chinese nationalism. what could happen is, don't think of navies as just great warships. the chinese love to use navies as fishing boats, coast guardvessels, chinese fishermen could lay claim to a rock that japan could try to intercept. you could have tit for tat that could escalate into a major exchange. asian countries like to strike poses but it could escalate into something where neither side could pull back and you can have what's been forecast short, sharp war. >> and you can imagine some crisis of the kind bob is describing, and then neither side, the chinese nor the japanese, can't back down because they can't appear weak to their publics. >> absolutely. if you look at opinion polls in japan, you get polls of 90% and very similar figures in japan. remember, this is the second and third biggest economies in the world. this is not just two small countries. one of the underlying risks is you get people talking about this idea of a short, sharp war. and this danger sense you get from japan and china and maybe we can have this fight and it can be isolated and we can control it. but it's hard to control. it's hard to contain and

united states where millions ride here each. we brought in captain patrick little, a retired captain with the u.s. coast guardicer with the u.s. coast guard marines safety center. captain, i'm not putting you on the spot about prognosticating what happened here, but you know the rules and regulations, what's supposed to be done, that's what we want to get out this morning. beginning with abandoning the ship as a captain and crew, one of the big criticism. the captain made it off while people were still onboard. what are the rules and then what are the ethics involved? >> in general from a ship design and operation point of view, it's long been a principle that the ship is its own best lifeboat. so in general, you want to stay with the ship, and there's a great deal of effort put into designing and building ships so that they're redundant. so that if something happens, if there's some flooding, if there's a fire or other sort of emergency, the ship can stay afloat and people can stay on it. so that's generally rule number one. you know, obviously -- obviously, if it were me in charge, and i don't want to speak

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