larsen of washington. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 522, the gentleman from washington, mr. larsen, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington. mr. larsen: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. larsen: mr. chairman, this amendment will protect intellectual property rights or i.p.r. for american businesses by ensuring robust compliance with international legal i.p.r. requirements and the enforcement of those requirements related to energy and environmental technologies. congressman kirk, macaulay from illinois and i recently returned from china where we met both with chinese leadership and american companies doing business in china. you first, there is a great deal of enthusiasm regarding the interest in energy and climate change cooperation between the u.s. and china. second, however, is a concern that the intellectual property rights owned by those companies sell

larsen: mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and agree to resolution 484, expressing support for the designation of june 10 as national pipeline safety day. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 484, resolution expressing support for designation of june 10 as national pipeline safety day. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from washington, mr. larsen, and the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. petri, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington. mr. larsen: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on house resolution 484. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. larsen: mr. speaker, i yield myself as much time as i may consume. mr. speaker, today, i rise to ask house of representatives to support the designation of june 10, tomorrow, a

larsen: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extends their remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. larsen: mr. speaker, i yield myself as much time as i may consume. i rise today recognizing the numerous contributions of the recreational boating community and the boating industry to the continuing prosperity and affluence of the united states. this bipartisan resolution was introduced by representatives ron klein of florida and henry brown of south carolina, along with the could he chairs of the boating caucus,. house resolution 410 honors the 59 million boaters in the united states. as evidenced by the bipartisan co-sponsors to this resolution, american boaters span all across american boaters span all across the country, including my

larsen of washington. amendment number 10 of ms. brown-waite of florida. amendment number 15 of mr. royce of california and amendment number 19 of mr. kirk of illinois. the chair will reduce to two minutes the voting. the unfinished business is the request of a recorded vote of amendment number 1 by the gentleman from california, mr. berman, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the yeas prevailed by voice vote. the clerk: amendment number 1, printed in part b printed in house report 111-143 offered by mr. berman of california the speaker pro tempore: a -- the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. those in favor say aye. in favor of the amendment will votea. those opposed, no. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-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 e

[laughter] in the 1980's i remember there was a wonderful cartoon you may remember gerient larsen cartoons, little animals and they would say these funny little things. i remember one it is a single panel, it has got two deer standing in the forest. one has a bull's-eye on his chest and the one without bubbles i says to the one with a bull's-eye heck of a birthmark, pal. [laughter] that is what it feels like to be jewish. you woke up thinking what did i do? why are people targeting me? why are people at the other end of the sniperscope, why do they want to tell me? what did i do to them? i am not saying the jewish people or the state of israel has never done anything wrong. but no more wrong than everybody else in the world we are all sinners. the bible says we all stand and have fallen short of the glory of god so why is everyone he doesn't want to annihilate us? throughout history this has happened. throughout history people have had to make choices. whose side are you on? are you going to be on the side of evil or are you on this side of god? are you on the side of the am i leaders or w

larsen? >> chairman bernanke, there is escape hoods here in front if you need one. >> that's okay. >> to get away from that question. but i wanted to chat a little bit about -- ask a question, but i want to clear something up. i was just in china as well this week and visiting with a lot of their leaders on the economy, trying to get some perspective. and the characterization that my colleague from new jersey made about mr. geithner's reception was inaccurate. and may have been a little bit accurate when he spoke at peking university but i never spoke to a group of college students that didn't take me on either. so there is perhaps a disconnect there. but in our discussions with folks from the central bank, and from the ministry of commerce and vice premier wong and others, there is a real desire for cooperating on the economy with the chinese. i want to give you a few assessments and ask a few questions based on those meetings. the first, i guess headline, there is a general concern regardin

larsen: it's because we neglected this in the past. cutting dollars in environmental cleanup continues to neglect the obligation we have to communities all over the country to clean up america's most toxic asset, cold war waste in communities. i ask my colleague to oppose this amendment. with that, i yield back. the chair: members are reminded to address their remarks to the chair. mr. franks: i yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from alaska, mr. young. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. young: permission to revise and extend. the chair: without objection. mr. young: i ask that the statement of pete sessions of texas be made part of the record. the chair: without objection. mr. young: i'm closer to korea than anybody in this room and they are launching a missile on july 4. we have a missile event site in alaska that has missiles that can shoot that down. we just want to finish it. this money would finish it. it sends the wrong message to our enemies if we retreat from the defense we have today. some people say it

larsen of washington. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request of the recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronidevice. this is a two-minuteote. [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 chair: on this vote, the yeas are 4312, the nays are zero. the amendment is adopted. the request for recorded vote on amendment number 10 printed in part c house report 111-143 by the gentlelady from florida, on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 10 printed in part c of house report 111-143 offered by misbrown-waite of florida. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the