mr. gosar of arizona, at the end of the bill, before the short sitele, insert the follow, none of the funds made available by this act may be used to prepare, propose or promulgate any guidance that references or relies on the analysis coen tained in one secny -- technical support document -- mr. gosar: i ask unanimous consent that the amendment be considered as read. the chair: is there objection? without objection, ordered. pursuant to house resolution 743, the gentleman from arizona and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from arizona. mr. gosar: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise today to offer a commonsense amendment that will protect american jobs and our economy, by prohibiting fundses from being used and to implement the obama administration's flawed social cost of carbon valuation. this job-killing and unlawful guidance sneakly attempts to pave the way for cap and trade-like mandates. congress and the american people have repeatedly rejected

mr. gosar of arizona, at the end of the bill before show the short title instert the following, section, none of the funds made available in this act y be used to carry out the admgs' reminder regarding document requests dated april 15, 2009. the chair: the gentleman from arizona and a member opposed each will control five maines -- five minutes, the chair recognizes the gentleman from arizona. mr. gosar: i rise to offer an amendment which will prevent the administration from causing unnecessary delays in blocking information being releaseded to the public in the freedom of information act. in 2009, they released a secret memo urging them to consult with counsel at the white house before releasing documents or fulfilling requests that might deal with white house equities. last year, a report was released entitled the department of energy's freedom of information act product. in nurem race cases where the dotcht energy's counsel general had provided their foia response to the white house, the fi

mr. gosar: mr. speaker, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. gosar of arizona. insert the following. section. none of the funds made available by this act may be used for the veterans experience office. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 736, the gentleman from arizona, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from arizona. mr. gosar: thank you, mr. chairman. i offer a simple amendment that will prevent wasteful spending within the general administration account and ensure scarce resources that are not diverted away from the priorities that need the most. my amendment will strengthen the position of this committee tone sure none of the mundsfunds made available by this act may be used by the administration's bureaucracy quagmire called the veterans experience office. while the name may make this proposal new nationwide office sound like a good idea, this roposal

mr. gosar: 211. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. gosar, page 29 line 6 insert increase by $4 million, page 33 line 12 after the first dollar amendment reduce by $5 million. the chair: pursuant to the resolution, the chair recognizes the gentleman from arizona. mr. gosar: i rise to offer an amendment which redirects scarce resources. at a hearing evaluating efforts, chairman jeff miller stated that the latest data available from the v.a. reports that 22 veterans per day are committing suicide. the v.a. general administration account got $15 million increase for more bureaucracy within the v.a. this year, the obama administration has requested $81 million increase for that account. the committee chose not to provide funding stating and i quote, it has doubts about the wisdom of establishing a large new office with regional staffing. my amendment transfers a portion fft fiscal year 2016 increase for government bureaucrats to important mental health services for our nation's heroes returning from combat. ptsd is contributing to veterans

mr. gosar: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise to offer an amendment that will help reduce the large backlog of important army of engineers projects. it transfers $1 million from the department of energy departmentaled a budget to the investigations account to bring it up to fiscal year 2016 enacted levels. the investigations account funds the planning environmental studies required under the law for important corps projects prior to construction. there is a backlog of worthwhile corps projects throughout the country that are essential to improving water infrastructure for communities, improving ecosystem restorations, providing clean water and expanded much-needed water storage. these projects are especially critical to the drought-stricken communities in the west and in many parts of the nation. the committee showed great insight in recognizing the administration's request for the investigative budget was too low stating in the committee report, i quote, once again, the administration's in -- will ring hallow water infras

so, again, i don't know if mr. gosar was just wildly misinformed or was lying to the american public. but presumably, if he feels so strongly about this issue, he can explain himself under oath before the committee. he serves on the committee too. so it shouldn't be too hard to arrange his schedule. cynthia lummis, congresswoman, she explained that in

mr. gosar: thank you. -- mr. grijalva: i have a motion at the desk. the clerk: moves that the managers on the part of the house on the disagreeing votes of the two houses on the house amendment to the bill senate 2012 an act to provide for the modernization policy of the united states and for other purposes be instructed to insist -- clusion on section 0 5002. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arizona, mr. grijalva and the gentleman from utah, mr. bishop will each control 20 minutes. he gentleman will suspend. members, please remove your conversation from the house floor. he house will be in order. the gentleman from arizona is recognized. mr. grijalva: the democratic motion would instruct house conferees to insist that section 5002 of senate 2012 be included in the final conference report on this energy package. it would personal nantly re-authorize the land and water conservation fund and make other minor changes to the program. the land and water conservation act of 1965 is based on a simple idea. if we are going to allow big oil to make

mr. gosar votes yes. mr. labrador? mr. labrador votes now. mr. lamotta? they vote yes. single votes no. mr. dunham votes no. mr. cook? mr. cook votes yes. this cap's votes no. mr. polis votes no. mr. clay? did mr. clay votes no. mr. newhouse votes no. --chers and give votes now mr. macarthur? mr. mooney? mr. hardy? mr. hardy votes no. they vote yes. >> has anyone not voted? gomer? mr. gomer votes yes. >> anyone else? the clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, the ayes are 12, the nays are 26. >> will go through several of the amendment right now. to be very careful with the president we said in this a bill. we are, in many ways, in uncharted waters. most glaring examples is the stay on lawsuits. this was first introduced from the minority leader, nancy pelosi just looking at the policy without consideration of the politics, it deprives american citizens of access to the judicial system with respect to defending their private property rights. you get my republican colleagues quite a chill, unlike those who advocate for socialism, we believe in private property and the ameri

mr. gosar. mr. beyer votes yes. mr. labrador. voting no. miss torres. mr. la mafla. no. miss dingell votes yes. and mr. gallego. he votes yes. mr. cooke votes no. miss caps. she votes yes. mr. westerman. mr. polis votes yes. mr. graves. he votes no. mr. clay. mr. knew house. mr. knew house votes no. mr. zinke. mr. zinke votes yes. mr. hice. mr. hice votes no. miss rad wagon. voting yes. mr. mcarthur. voting yet. mr. moony. mr. hardy. mr. hardy votes no. mr. la hood. voting no. >> the clerk will report. >> the ye a's are 19 and the nays are 18. >> you all won. do you really want to? motion accepted. amendment passes. turn to mr. hice. number 22. you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. i'm offering an amendment this morning that i believe will address an issue within this whole debate about puerto rico that has long been overlooked and that is the influence of private market competition. unfortunately for far too long there has been way too much reliance on the public sector within puerto rico. in fact, in the energy and mineral resources sub-committ

mr. gosar votes no. mr. labrador. mr. lab roh dor votes no. miss torres. miss torres votes no. mr. lamalfa votes yes. mr. dingell votes no. mr. denham. mr. gallego votes no. mr. cook. mr. cook votes yes. miss capps. miss capps votes no. mr. westerman votes yes. mr. polis. mr. polis votes no. mr. graves. >> no. >> mr. graves votes no. mr. clay. mr. clay votes no. mr. newhouse. mr. newhouse votes yes. mr. zinke votes no. mr. heiss. mr. hytes votes yes. miss radewagen votes yes. mr. moony. mr. hardy. mr. hardy votes yes. mr. lahood votes yes. >> is there anyone here who hasn't voted or wishes to change votes? the clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, on this vote the yeas are 12 and the nays are 27. >> amendment does not pass. going to ask at this point for the clerk to pass out all of the remaining ones that were filed late specifically fleming 8 0rks fleming 92, bishop 2 and fleming 91. as revised. the revised fleming 91. and then as soon as that's done mr. labrador i think you're the next one in line. and labrador 043. no, no, no. that's the next one we'll be doing. just pass the cra

so again, i don't know if mr. gosar was just wildly misinformed or was lying to the american public, but presumably, if he feels so strongly about the issue, he can explain himself under oath before the committee. he serves on the committee, too, so it shouldn't be too hard to arrange his schedule. cynthia loomis, congresswoman, she explained that in september of 2015, she claimed that the proposed deal, quote, will lead to a nuclear armed iran. that, of course, has not turned out to be true. and in fact, we can verify that that is false. so congresswoman loomis serves on committee. why don't we swear her in and explain where she got this information. and she can explain whether she was just wrong or lying. she may also explain why she continues to make this argument. i don't know what the protocol is for swearing in members of the united states senate to participate in these kinds of hearings, but there are any number of senators who can participate. senator cruz could certainly participate. he claimed in august of 201

we'll go to mr. gosar now of arizona. i recognize him for five minutes. paul gosar: thank you mr. chairman. mr. rubin, mr. doran, mr. hannah, thank you for your testimony and for providing valuable information to this committee, which sheds lights on the deceptive manner in which the obama administration sold out the american people and our allies across the globe with the iran capitulation agreement. even when presented with the facts, like the facts each of you have laid in your testimony, the administration balks, doubles down and tries to discredit anyone who disagrees with their false narrative, including me. when asked about ben rhodes revelatory interview with the new york times magazine, press secretary josh earnest dodged and decided to lambast several members of congress, including me as liars, truly eliciting alinsky's principles to their core. why? because i said that under this illegal iran deal and lifting sanctions that iran would be able to assess up to $100 billion that was previously frozen? his treasury secretary, jack lew stated yet the sanction really could be