mr. collins, reserves. mr. polis: i'd like to inquire of the gentleman from georgia how many speakers he has remaining. mr. collins: it looks like we have no more speakers. mr. polis: ok, i'm prepared to close and yield myself the bans of -- balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: mr. speaker, it's ironic that on this very day, lead thornse judiciary committee will introduce legislation designed to reform and rein in the federal government's surveillance programs and i haven't had the opportunity to review those bills yet so i can't speak to their merits. but i hope that if it's a strong bill it will make its way through both chambers and become law. today this body is considering a rule that would take us the wrong direction. recent history has shown that this body shares the american people's concerns that we don't take the threat of unwarranted surveillance seriously enough. and that congress needs to pass full reform -- pass meaningful reforms that balance our li

mr. collins. mr. collins: please join me in the pledge.dge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: the chair will entertain up to five requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> mr. speaker, request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker: without objection. >> mr. speaker, with great sadness i rise to mourn the passing of jim mcneil, a california business and civic leader who for decades guided one of the largest and oldest independent ambulance companies in california schaefer ambulance. mr. mcclintock: his work ethic was legendary. at the age of 83 he was still running the family business. for all those years he struggled with the challenges against -- challenges competing against his own tax dollars, facing and fighting government double standards at every turn and i know all about that. i'd get an earful

mr. president. i yield the floor. ms. collins: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maine. ms. collins: thank you mr. president. mr. president, first let me commend senator cornyn and senator klobuchar for the work that they have done on this antitrafficking bill. this is in fact a horrendous crime. just a few months ago in my home state in bangor a couple was arrested for allegedly trafficking a 13-year-old girl. that's what we're talking about mr. president. and that's why this legislation is so important. i'm proud to be a cosponsor of the bill and commend senator cornyn and senator klobuchar and others for working so hard on it. mr. president, the antitrafficking bill deals with the law enforcement piece of this horrendous problem but we also need to pay attention to prevention programs, and that is why this afternoon we will vote on a proposal that senator leahy and i along with senator heitkamp ayotte, murkowski and baldwin have put forth to reauthorize the runaway and homeless youth act programs which otherwise -- which already have expired. they expired in 2013. these ar

mr. collins hadn't done anything significant.uld suggest this is more murder than not, though we haven't see the fight itself. the fight itself would be critical in determining whether or not this is a murder or lesser charge of an offense. we don't know that yet. >> let me push you on that a minute, john. it came out that the national action network convention discussion, and thank you for being a part of it that we still have seen no real move from the prosecutor. we do not know what the prosecutor is going to do. he's been arrested and charged by police but he has to be charged by the prosecutor and then we see a jury selected we don't know what that's going to look like then a trial. even though clearly many of us including me feel that the mayor and police chief moved swiftly, we still have a lot of hurdles to go here if in fact it goes the way it appears to go. >> the d.a. is the one who makes the ultimate decision -- >> who hasn't done anything yet. >> not yet, but i think the d.a. needs to figure ute about this fight, the

mr. collins. mr. collins: this is an important debate and with many decisions that you have in florida, what amaze es me, as what was just stated i am not sure what the president's gentlelady is here. iran decided to negotiate is that stanchingses worked. they were struggling and having to deal with the world that and i'm telling you what is i'm tired with president trying to earn accolades on the back of israel. israel is the one that is the one that is suffering. and they are on the tip of the atmosphere. we know that iran iran was behind and is behind most of the terrorism in the world. yet, this administration turns a blind eye. they believe under the cloak of and iran comes to the table because they were suffering because sanctions were working. last week, the president gave an interview discussing a a plan of action. and the p-5 plus-1 action. they raised some flags for me. the first item of concern is to get a concession from iran is the need to cease this idea of a nuclear program. we didn't ge

mr. star good afternoon collin johnson legislative aide to board president london breed before i start since mr. sanchez mentioned the brrl before i came up here president with breed and the newest member rick had a small ceremony you have a full board of appeals which is great legislation before you is follow-up legislation to president breeds recently passed e.r. divisadero those were supported in june of 2014 and passed the land use committee in 2014 and passed the board unanimously and signed by the major in 2014 they became effective in december a few months ago it runs 12 blocks from hate at the south to the north and it runs 9 blocks from ma please call the roll. >> to bush street ems it is more denser and courage the diverse modes of transportation and invites a framework for the neighborhood planning controls to the unique needs and atmosphere those nc ds are important to create the vibrant neighbors and corridor all the legislation before i does it remove the arbitrary density control all the other controls remain i know for those of us this is pretty well logical and easy to compr

mr. collins, 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. 2028 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: bill making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2016, and for other purposes. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered read for the first time. the gentleman from idaho and the gentlewoman from ohio each will control 30 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from idaho. mr. simpson: thank you mr. chairman. mr. chairman i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. simpson: it's my distinct honor to bring the fiscal year 2016 energy and water bill before you today. before i go into the details i would like to recognize the hard work of chairman rogers and ranking member lowey on this bill and the appropriations process. i would also like to thank my ranking member, ms. kaptur. i appreci

mr. spivak: dr. king, you had your great demonstration, and governor leroy collins, head of the community relations service, hoped there would be a respite from demonstrations in alabama in order to give the state an opportunity to solve some of the problems. do you think there should be a respite in alabama now? dr. king: well, here again with the murder of mrs. luizzo on the night after the march, i can't see how there can be a respite. this is a state that continues to deal with human life as if it is nothing. this is a state that continues to make murder a sort of nice pastime and gives respectability to resistance and defiance of the law. this is a state that continues to do all of the things that are contrary to our democratic creed, at least the political power structure of the state. in the light of this, it seems to me that it will be necessary to continue to demonstrate until these conditions are removed. we don't believe in demonstrating for demonstration's sake. we don't have demonstration fever, but we do feel that as long as the conditions of injustice and man's inhumanity to man infiltrate t

collins: thank you. senator feinstein. senator feinstein: thank you very much, madam chairman. mr. secretary, welcome and thank you for your service. i would like to view it about two issues. the first is drones and the second is positive train control. on the first we have been working on some of your people on legislation and i want to thank you for that. i have been very concerned about where the faa is going to go and whether it is sufficient. it is going to permit sufficient regulatory authority. they have the authority over large drones and small commercial drones, but not over small recreational drones. it is clear to me that these drones can also provide a substantial safety risk in untrained hands. i think this is a gap in the legislative authority of the regulatory agency. it also prevents faa from regulating drone manufacturing currently exempt from faa regulation if the drones might be used for recreational activity. the faa should have the ability to require that manufactures put a safety brochure like that quote, "know before you fly," and every box sold. they should

mr. gasby. >> thank you chairman collins. i want to thank you for having me. ranking member mccaskey and to the members of the committee, i love my country. proud to be an american. i'm a kid from brooklyn. and i never thought i would have an opportunity to try to make a difference. and this is the one time that i know that i can make a difference. because i've seen what my wife has gone through. i've seen a woman who virtually could do everything, who could sing, who could dance who could look at food and taste it and then cook it exactly the way it could be in a cookbook. who did a television show, who did a hundred radio and television commercials, who basically always gave back. and now has to wait and help -- wait for people to help her. you know i'm reminded of a song that of all people jay-z and kanye west wrote. and there is a lyric in there called "the pain ain't cheap". and the pain ain't cheap for the five million americans who are suffering with the alzheimer's disease. the pain is not cheap for the 15 million care givers that each and every day, e

mr. chairman madame secretary. let me focus on a topic that senator collins and i have been committed to ensuring there are adequate resources i'm pleased to see your budget request is a slight increase the still 200 million below the previous authorization and appropriation. what can we do to further fund? it is not just the cold in the northeast. it is increasingly hard summers in which air conditioning is air-conditioning is essential to people in the southeast, southwest command west coast. can you help us? >> in the budget proposal what we did was propose the base level. last year's level and we proposed a contingency fund which gets to the issue of variability in that we are having huge changes. but we were trying to do is create a fiscally responsible way to respond to the type of increasing, erratic whether and that the contingency fund would be our ability in terms of how much we need to put in the budget so that we have the contingency fund that would allow us to have flexibility, so fond of the base level and data contingency fund. that was our approach. >> i commend you for the increase. i think we need

mr. chairman. >> thank you for your testimony. let me focus on the topic of why he. senator collinsand i issue have been committed to ensure adequate resources. i am pleased to see there's a slight increase by $200 million below the previous authorization and appropriations. what can we do to get why keep further funded? with whether patterns as they are smudges the cold and the northeast it's increasingly hot summers in which air-conditioning is essential to people in the south and the west coast. can you help us? >> in the budget proposal what we did was propose the base level at lester's level. we also propose a contingency fund. this gets to the issue of the variability and what liheap is about and we are having these huge changes. what we were trying to do is create a responsible way to respond to the type of increasing erratic weather we are seeing in the contingency fund would be our ability. it's obviously scorable in terms of how much money to put in the budget so we have the contingency fund that will allow us to have flexibility. then add a contingency fund that could hel

mr. chairman. >> senator reed. >> thank you madam secretary for your testimony and great leadership. let me focus on a topic of why senator collins have been as you know, for years committed to ensuring adequate resources. i'm pleased to see your budget request is a slight increase from previous years but still $200 million below the previous authorization and appropriation. what can we do to get la hee further funded. with weather patterns the way they are it's not just the cold in the northeast and families dealing with that it's increasingly hot summers to which air conditioning is essential to people in the south, southeast and east coast. can you help us? >> in the budget proposal, what we did was provide the base level of laheep. we also proposed a contingency fund. this gets to the issue of variability and what it's about and we have having these huge changes. what we were trying to do is create a fiscally responsible way to respond to the type of increasing erratic weather that we're seeing and that the contingency fund would be our ability. it's obviously scorable in terms of how much we need to put in the budget so we h

collins: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maine. ms. collins: mr. president i ask unanimous consent that proceedings under the call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. collins: mr. president i ask unanimous consent that i be permitted to proceed as if in morning business in order to introduce a bill. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. collins: thank you mr. president. mr. president, i rise to introduce the small business taxceptor and growth act -- tax certainty and growth act of 20 2015. i am very pleased to be joined by my friend and colleague from pennsylvania senator casey in introducing this bipartisan bill. mr. president, i know it will come as no surprise to the presiding officer that small businesses are our nation's job creators. firms with fewer than 500 employees generate about 50% of our nation's g.d.p., account for more than 99% of employers and employ nearly half of all workers. according to the bureau of labor and statisti

mr. president, today i want to tell you about two students shot that day but survived. they offer a powerful lesson about the resilient human spirit and also a challenge to this bo -- body. collin goddard was badly wounded, shot four times that day. my wife and i visited him in the hospital two days after the shooting and wreef we've seen he and his parents often. they live in richmond, where we live. since his graduation, hayes become a passionate advocate for gun safety, especially focusing on the need for a national system of background record checks. he helped produce and was part of an award-winning documentary about his friends called "lisk "living for 32," that is really powerful. alilta lily hobto was also a senior maining in psychology when she was shot and badly injured that day. she is with us today in the gallery. lily was already focused on helping people, but the shooting put her on a new path. along with other survivors she founded goings students for gun-free schools," a grass-roots movement to keep campuses safe. she received a master's degree in conflict analysis from george mason university and she's used that training to work on a number of gun safety issues