lowenthal. the chair: mr. lowenthal is recognized for one minute. mr. lowenthal: thank you. and i thank the gentleman from pennsylvania for yielding. i strongly agree with my friend that states must be given the right to implement a stream buffer rule that works for them, given the fact that local conditions will vary from state to state. states, what we are saying is, they should have the ability to protect their natural resources at a level beyond the requirements of the federal government when they see the need. what we are saying is the federal government sets a floor and the states have a right to protect their citizens from public health crisis and illness by setting their own requirements. h.r. 2824 keeps the states from tailoring stream safeguards and requires the states to waste taxpayers' dollars by adopting a vacated by a en federal court. mr. speaker, for these reasons i urge support of the cartwright amendment and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from washington seek recognition? mr. hastings: i under

lowenthal, on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk: amendment number 1 printed in part bs before -- b of house report 113-374 offered by mr. lowenthal of california. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. 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 expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas are 188. the nays are 231. the amendment is not adopted. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 2 printed in rt b of house report 113-374 by the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. cartwright, on which further proceedings were post

people at state are really bitching things up, niles wrote lowenthal. president truman agreed saying to critics like marshall and forestal, i'm sorry, gentleman, but i have to answer to the hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of zionism. he took the palestine portfolio away from henderson's near eastern desk and gave it to clark gifford, niles and lowenthal. it would henceforth be managed for its domestic political dividends, strategy be damned. lloyd henderson was then sent off to be ambassador to india. marshall rebelled, telling the president that he was weakening the u.s. globally by his uncritical support for the zionists. marshall and henderson were for an arab state in the palestine with guarantees for a jewish minority. truman and the back room boys wanted partition with the very best areas, 55% of the total land mass, to the jews which would, of course, imperil any cold war coalition against the soviets. u.s. policy, marshall scolded the president, has to be based on u.s. national interests. three days before the british scutt

lowenthal: i agree completely. you know, people decide to run frequently -- or want to run, maybe even better than decide, they don't decide, they want to run because they believe that they can be the voice for those that do not have a voice, for people in their community who feel disenfranchised. people like themselves who just want to participate and feel that they have no voice. and then they get involved in this process or they think about it and they realize that they -- that doesn't matter. it doesn't matter who you're listening to, it doesn't matter who you're accountable to, it doesn't matter that you really care about creating a sense of community and involvement and that people have a responsibility to participate themselves, all that matters is how much large money you can raise. and that's what the rules are. and i think that we have that balance between funding elections and listening to people has gotten way out of black and that has to discurrentlied so many people from wanting to run. because they'r

lowenthal? >> thank you, mr. secretary, for joining us and for spending so much time. i'll shorten my questions. we sometimes provide assistance to countries with startling human rights records. we've talked much about that today. for example, i'm most interested in the government of vietnam has been ranked as one of the ten worst countries for press freedom. in addition, vietnam has undertaken authoritarian assault on internet, restricted usage of the internet. how do we balance, mr. secretary, our goals of stability and prosperity for developing countries with our duty to protect the human rights of all people? so, for example, what are we doing to leverage what was in this budget, the increased economic development -- developmental assistance to vietnam with our goal that they should begin to end human rights violations? is there a balance? and the second question has to do with overseas security for employee engagement. post benghazi we had a hearing here. the department of state made a number of efforts to improve the physical security of our foreign service emplo

lowenthal. the sections of the bill regarding visa sanction, including the procollusion of judicial review, these are not eamdable at our markup. those portions which concern the immigration and nationality act and parts of title 28 of the u.s. koez, that deals with the judicial proceeding portion of this, they're in the legislative jurisdiction. is judiciousry committee. so that will be part of the process. we go now to mr. weber. of texas. >> thank you, mr. chairman, with great respect for my friend from california who is from the best named city there, sherman oex, i want to address the idea that there's a brewing stroefrs over drilling and selling natural gas, and i want to bring my colleague's attention to the fact that when president bill clinton was in office t there was a controversy other drilling in the anwor. and i think my colleague from california said drill, the brewing controversy of drill, baby, drill. there was a bumper sticker that was prevalent in texas back there that said dr

during a prevents . 2824 the government waste and protecting coal mining jobs in america on the lowenthal amendment number one. if i had been present, i would have voted yes, i ask unanimous consent to place anymy vote in the appropriate place of the congressional record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady's request will appear in the record. ms. jackson lee: in addition, mr. speaker, on h.r. 3370, the homeowner insurance affordability act, i was unavoidably detained with my constituents in my district and i would have wanted to have a resounding yes, i ask unanimous consent for this legislation will bring much needed relief to our constituents on the gulf coast. i ask that my vote of yes be placed in the record as at the appropriate place in the congressional record, i ask unanimous consent. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the gentlelady statement will appear in the record. s. jackson lee: thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the chairs lays before the house the following personal requests. he clerk: leaves of abscense requested for ms. delbene for today

lowenthal of california. >> thank you, mr. chair.have one statement i would like to before ask any questions, act with the chairs comments. i recently visited taiwan and found it met with many government officials and found it very, very educational. and i, too, believe very strongly that the state department and the government should understand the importance of taiwan being part of the tpp. and i think that should be a message back. so before ask a question, that many of us i think really strongly believe, and that we should do whatever we can to encourage that. when i was there i was very impressed with the cross strait dialogue that was going on between -- between taiwan and the people's republic of china. and i would like to know what is our state department, or our involvement in that dialogue between taiwan? how can we be helpful in promoting engagement between taiwan and china? it seemed to me that president ma was very proud of the agreements that already had been made, especially the trade agreements, the increased tourism

lowenthal of california. >> thank you, mr. chair. you rankingank mumble angle for bringing -- member engel for bringing forward this law. i strongly support the sanctions for individuals responsible for the loss of ukrainian assets who have undermined problems. however, i would like to raise an issue that is contained in the support ukraine act, which probably is not within the jurisdiction of the committee. as we seek to promote democratic values in ukraine, and to support those democratic values, we must not lose sight of our own democratic values here in united states. the bill provides broad discretion to the administration and the staff in the department of state and homeland security. it it is for individuals they determined to meet certain criteria. while i understand and support the need to provide discretion to the administration under these extraordinary circumstances, i remain concerned about the lack of any judicial recourse for those affected. as the bill moves forward, which i do support, and hope that it does, i will r

lowenthal of california. >> thank you. have one statement i would like to, before i ask any questions, echo the chair's comment. andcently visited taiwan met with government officials and found it very educational. i believe very strongly that the state department and the government should understand the importance of taiwan being part of the tpp. i think that should be a message back. before i ask a question that many of us really, strongly believe, we should do whatever we can to encourage that development. when i was there, i was very impressed with the cross-state straight dialogue between taiwan and the people's republic of china. is the like to know what state department's involvement in that dialogue between taiwan? how can we be helpful in promoting engagement between taiwan and china? it seemed to me that the president was very proud of agreements that had been made, especially the trade agreements, the increased tourism that was going on, the increased flights that were going between mainland china -- i would lik

i think senator lowenthal answer that completely to my satisfaction. there is no reason to stop the intelligence process. we are talking about appealing it. i mean surveillance all by itself doesn't kill anybody. search warrants are issued all the time that are later held not to be appropriate so i'm not worried about the timing issue and i don't agree with him about counterproductive but other than that john bates has most of it write anything. >> thank you for the good words on behalf of judge dates who is indeed a distinguidistingui shed and principled judge. i'm going to ask a follow-up question. as i hear your reasons for resigning from the fisa court the main objection was the meta-data collection program was not being brought to the attention of the court in the first place. since you left the court has been reviewed by the court and the fisa court upheld its constitutconstitut ionality but now the federal district courts are divided on the question. judge leon in washington is denounced the program as of trouble will violation of the force amen

lowenthal: i think she yielded. mr. lowenthal: i thank the gentlewoman from illinois for yielding and being a steadfast leader on this issue. mr. chairman, this amendment confirms what the world's scientists already know that greenhouse gases contribute to long lasting changes in our climate that can have a range of harmful effects. this information by entities with conflicts of interests have fueled reports of scientific disagreement. however, the scientific community is not divided, because there is no compelling scientific evidence denying human's role in climate change, period. case closed. every minute we waste on the myth of disagreement is a minute longer we wait to take concrete ction, making our inevitable energy transition even more expensive. mr. chairman, we will be judged by our children for what we do here today. i urge an aye vote and yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. whitfield: how much time do i have remaining? the ch