cummings of maryland for today and the balance of the week, mr. lamb born of colorado for today, mrs. napolitano of california for mr. suozzi of new york for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the requests are granted. under the speaker's announced poll oy bush policy, the gentleman from california, mr. rohrabacher, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. rohrabacher: thank you, mr. chairman. before i get into a rather elongated discussion of one fundamental issue i'd like to mention we have just heard severe criticism of our president and let me just note about president trump and his rhetoric, supposedly, making things worse this korea, the rhetoric of our president has not made the situation worse in korea. what made the situation in korea a major threat to our country and to our people and to the world was that during the clinton administration, president clinton pushed through this congress a package of aid for north korea, yes, we gave billions of dollars of aid in the form of energy and other type