mr. hastings: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. hastings of washington. at the end of the bill, before the short title add the following, section, none of the funds made available by this act under the heading pacific coastal salmon recovery may be used for grant guidelines or requirements to establish minimum buffers. the chair: pursuant to the order of the house of today, the gentleman from washington, mr. hastings, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: mr. chairman, i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hastings: mr. chairman, for the past 15 years, a large part of the success of the salmon recovery in the northwest and other states has been through locally driven solutions funded through the pacific coastal salmon recovery fund. and i continue to support this program. this amendment will ensure, however, that these fund

mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 3366, as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 3366, a bill to provide for the release of the property interests retained by the united states in certain land conveyed in 1954 by the united states, acting through the director of the bureau of land management, to the state of oregon for the establishment hermiston agricultural research and extension center of oregon state university in hermiston, oregon. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from washington, mr. hastings, and the gentlewoman from new mexico, ms. lujan grisham, will each control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hastin

mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman, my friend from oklahoma, for yielding me the necessary, customary 30 minutes. while i support research and development incentives and consider encouraging american businesses to research, innovate, build, and make it in america some of congress' most important duties, i rise today in opposition to this rule and the underlying bill. four months ago my friends on the other side of the aisle allowed emergency unemployment insurance for more than 1.3 million americans to expire. during the farm bill negotiations, my friends on the other side of the aisle insisted on cutting $8.6 billion from nutrition assistance programs. last week republicans on the ways and means committee insisted on removing a $12 million provision that would help foster children who were victims of trafficking. i find that ironic because this happens

mr. hastings: i'm pleased to yield five minutes to the distinguished the gentleman from maryland, my good friend and member of the oversight and government reform committee as its ranking member, five minutes to mr. cummings. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for five minutes. mr. cummings: i rise in strong opposition to this resolution. benghazi was a tragedy. we lost four brave americans that night. and i extend my deepest sympathies to their families. in my opinion, we honor their memories best by bringing the killers to justice and by working in a bipartisan way to strengthen security for all u.s. personnel overseas. as family members of ambassador stevens has stated, and i quote, what chris never would have accepted was the idea that his death would have been used for political purposes, end of quote. unfortunately, that is what house republicans have been doing for the last year and a half. n april 23, 2013, republican five n of dive -- different house committees issued a staff report with no consultation or input from a single democratic member of t

mr. hastings: i'm pleased to yield five minutes to the distinguished the gentleman from maryland, my good friend and member of the oversight and government reform committee as its ranking member, five minutes to mr. cummings. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for five minutes. mr. cummings: i rise in strong opposition to this resolution. benghazi was a tragedy. we lost four brave americans that night. and i extend my deepest sympathies to their families. in my opinion, we honor their memories best by bringing the killers to justice and by working in a bipartisan way to strengthen security for all u.s. personnel overseas. as family members of ambassador stevens has stated, and i quote, what chris never would have accepted was the idea that his death would have been used for political purposes, end of quote. unfortunately, that is what house republicans have been doing for the last year and a half. n april 23, 2013, republican five n of dive -- different house committees issued a staff report with no consultation or input from a single democratic member of t

mr. hastings of washington. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 90, the gentleman from washington, mr. hastings and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: i yield myself two minutes. . our nuclear weapons production programs played a pivotal role and helped in world war ii and helped end the cold war. but these programs created a large amount of radioactive nuclear waste and the federal government has a legal esponsibility to clean up this waste. this amendment restores a portion of the proposed reduction for the department of energy's environmental management program, which is tasked with cleaning up the nuclear defense waste at different sites. one of the defense nuclear waste site is facing a cut over $100 million. even in times of tight budget constraints, federal government must meet existing legal obligations to clean up the defense nuclear waste. existing legal obligations of the federal government, like cleanup of the nuclear

hastings. >> i thank mr. fattah for his presentation and i'm appreciative of many of the measures they have put together. i have two concerns i would like to ask them about one is the $15 million cut in legal services and i understand our fiscal dynamics in this country. as do all members of congress and i understand that we have to make priority determinations, but i know the good the legal services program does in this nation, i'll be specific about florida. in an article in today's newspapers in florida, discussion is ongoing regarding the fact that these cuts are to take place and legal services are going to have to put people out of work. there are 400 legal services in florida. and according to cuts as proposed, 24 of them will lose their jobs. florida as many states in the nation does an incredible amount of pro bono work through members of the florida bar. the florida bar also has a foundati foundation. and it along with some state funds which i might add were also out of the state budget legal servic

mr. hastings and i are at the same meeting, so with -- >> i will yield back my time. >> judge hastings? > i yield back. >> the gentleman from orlando, florida, is recognized. the gentleman has no questions. the gentleman from louisville is recognized. >> mr. chairman, i didn't get the invitation to go down to the white house. let me just our to thank the chairman for his service because we are going to not be ago to rely on his services after this term. that's too bad. the country will recover but it will be a struggle. mr. chairman, i just want to thank you for inclusion of sex and -- section 571 which deals with the purple hearts for the soldiers that were wounded in fort hood in 2000. this is important to us back in texas. i appreciate the careful wording of the amendment so that it does not alter the importance of the purple heart award, at the same time recognizes the sacrifices those individuals. thank you, mr. chairman. i will yield back. >> mr. chairman, of what you think you want again, not only for the work that you've committed to on behalf of yourself, your district, but also

mr. hastings, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 503 as amended, on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: union calendar number 325, h.r. 503, a bill to authorize the national desert storm memorial to establish the national desert storm and desert shield memorial in the district of columbia and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is 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 370, the nays are 0. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the speaker pro tempore: for w

mr. hastings made reach at that we will point where our ability to co-travel with russia to the space station will be exhausted and will we have a way of moving our personnel back and forth from what has been a significant investment made by the subcommittee over the years and the state station, clearly receives my tenure in congress, but it is a significant investment. we want to be able to see our scientists does it in that endeavor. >> we may have a problem. the administrator, when he testified at that time, he did not feel we would have a problem. if you look at a comet from the russians in the last couple weeks, they will cut off 2020. we have funded these programs at a high level. but it could be a problem. i think the problem several years ago when a certain rocket i think charlie would be able to give you a better example. he believes they will work it out and this is important to russia as it is to us. it could be a serious problem. i believe we are fasting moving to a position where, if confronted with a problem, america will be in a position to respond. to spacex in california with

mr. hastings of florida for today through may 30. mr. honda of california for today. mr. gary g. miller of california for today and the balance of the peek. -- of the week. ms. slaughter of new york for today through may 30. and mr. thompson of mississippi for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the requests are granted. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? mr. wolf: i move that the house adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly the house stands >> you cannot write in a calculating way. about thatnot think issue on allman use it down to write. but you should do when you sit down to write is to write what you find interesting and follow your own curiosity. when i was writing tipping point , i can honestly say i never for a moment tried to imagine how well that the grid cell. i just wanted to write something cool. i was interested in it. i wanted to write something that my friends would read, that my mother

mr. hastings of florida, huffman, tonko, and cartwright, and we rise because, unfortunately, this bill fails to make the critical investments that are needed to further our understanding of the spheric -- at moss spheric changes -- atmospheric changes we know are affecting our planet. it would cut climate research in the next fiscal year buy $37.5 million below the current year or $69 million below what the president is asking for. noaa climate research funds atmospheric and oceanic research, climate research laboratories, cooperative institutes, regional climate data, and information, competitive climate research, global data collection, and sharing. as the climate changes, we will continue to experience deeper droughts, more intense wildfires, more frequent storms and floods, superstorms like hurricane sandy, higher sea levels, bigger storm surges. would we not want to understand what's going on? it's ironic that as members here tonight are trying to outdo each other in supporting weather research, they propose to cut climate research. i suppose when we come back to n.i.h. they will be tri

mr. hastings of florida on may 9, and mr. rush of illinois on may 9.the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the requests are granted. the chair lays before the house the following communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir. this is to notify you, pursuant to rule of the rules of the house of representatives, that the committee on ways and means has received an administrative subpoena issued by the nights security and exchange commission for documents. after consultation with the office of general counsel regarding this subpoena, i will make the determinations required under rule 8. signed, sincerely, dave camp, chairman. the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir. this is to notify you, pursuant to rule 8 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, that i have received, i, an administrative subpoena issued securities d states and exchange commission. for documents and testimony and , ii, a grand jury subpoena issued by the united states district court for the southern district of new york

are welcome >> if you could please move forward with a letter in haste and get that to the folksing on the committee and address it to mr. bradford, assembly member bradford as well. >> thank you. >> we have consent on that. okay, colleagues. >> i fully support that. i think it is often useful for the committees to have a formal action letter of support or opposition from board or commission. so i would hope that we could still bring that back next month and in the interim have a letter. >> okay. will do. >> and can i just add, can we make sure that we include in the letter specifically our desires to implement this program would not financially impact low-income communities, meaning no fee or anything -- i don't know if you want to put that level of detail, but i think it's important that we highlight how this program will not negatively impact low-income families. >> right. i will add in that we have encompasses the care program. we have a lot of ways of actually helping low-income families with this program. >> great, thank you. >> sure >> mr. chair, the mayor's position on the bradford bill, i did ask roger kim in t

mr. collins. >> thank you. >> for five minutes. concerned about the impact of the merger. we have had conversations on both sides. today's small businesses are able to use cable television to geo-target their ads. analysis hast competition would be reduced and cost would be raised. you provide information regarding the scope of the comcast cable advertising business if the merger is approved? thank you for the question. i will start by saying in the the nbc universal comcast transaction, advertising markets were not as important for those broadcasting. this one is different. there are a variety of ways that advertisers can get onto cable at this point. my understanding, it is a $5 billion market. wouldmbined company dominate two of the three ways advertisers can get on. in myedictable result, view, is that smaller going to getre not access to local cable. that time will be sold elsewhere. >> a negative impact. mr. polka, you said it would have a better mental effect for competitor such as netflix and amazon. i think there's an interesting argument that can be made. situations, it is a shortcut to grow instead of competing. in youre union -- opinion, does this merger remove the competitive dynamics from the m