. >> reporter: a couple of days ago brownlee roberts' business partner and friend nicholas disappeared in the sierra with his three and five-year-old kids. bradley says he just left a campground with his parents and decided to go off roading before rushing to his oakland home. >> he is an experienced off roeder used to being in the woods and driving on jeep trails. >> reporter: he is an avid outdoorsman who often took his kids along for the ride. bradley says he had just gone on a trip with him to the mojave desert. >> he has ridden a motorcycle from alaska to the tip of south america through the jungles of colombia. he is very experienced. >> reporter: he cuts hair. he coowns two barbershops. >> my name is nicholas and i have been a barber for for seven years. >> reporter: bradley believes his friend has enough water and food but the challenge for search-and-rescue teams is that no one knows exactly where he may be. tonight a storm is expected to bring snow to the sierra. how do you think this is going to end? >> they are going to find him stuck somewhere and we're going to laugh abou

. >> chairman, ranking member brownlee and members of the sub committee, i welcome and appreciate the opportunity to testify on behalf of the american podiatric association. i commend the the sub committee for the focus to assist the veterans administration to effectively and efficiently recruit and maintain qualified medical professionals and improve access to quality health care in the va i am a member and director of young physicians at apma. i'm also a practicing podiatrist. i am before you today representing apma and the podiatric medical profession. while i do not represent va, i do bring firsthand knowledge of hiring practices within va and widespread disparaging between other physicians. mr. chairman, when the v.a.'s qualification standards for podiatry adopted in 1976 i was not yet born. podiatry starkly contrasted with that of physicians at the time and a far cry from podiatric medicine as it is today. it has vastly expanded. back then, residencies were few and were not required. today there are mandated standardized comprehensive three-year medical residencies to satisfy al

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during the summer of 2001, an fbi agent by the name of choline brownlee discovered that illegal aliensrom the middle east were taking classes on flying airplanes in venice florida and the aviation operator was a little suspicious of these people because they were not concerned about learning how to take off a large airplane or land airplanes. they were only concerned about flying them in the air. prior to that time, a few months before that, the authorities had learned that al qaeda was planning some type of activity in this country, some type of terrorist attack involving airplanes and crashing them into buildings. so it was not necessary for the patriot act, for the government to know what was going on. the government just simply dropped the ball. by the way, those individuals in venice florida, were taking those plain lessons. those were some of its apertures on 9/11. that suit -- those were some of those saboteurs on 9/11. so there you go. if the government had responded properly to these provisions they could have prevented at least some of the activities on 9/11. host:guest: supp

defeat the previous question i'm going to offer an amendment to the rule to bring up representative brownlee's help hire our -- brownley's help hire our heroes act, h.r. 607. it would re-authorize the veterans retraining assistance program which expired in march of 2014. that program paid for veterans to get training for high he had -- manned occupations and -- high-demand occupations and it helped more than 76,000 veterans. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert the text of the amendment in the record along with extraneous material immediately prior to the vote on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: any objection? no objection, so ordered. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to vote no and defeat the previous question and to vote no on the underlying bills, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back his time. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. stivers: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate the remarks from the gentleman from florida, but i'd like to respond to a few of the comments. the r&d tax credit has