mr. barletta: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from west virginia is recognized. mr. rahall: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentlelady from texas, ms. sheila jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from texas is recognized for two minutes. ms. jackson lee: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. miss jackson lee: -- ms. jackson lee: madam speaker, i absolutely agree with my colleagues of the necessity of an absolute firewall around a the protection of the first amendment. and i do believe that members understand the sacred aspect of freedom of religion and the separation of church and state. i rise today to support h.r. 592 , and i support it so that it can be considered by the senate and that we can reinforce the distinctive separation between church and state. but coming from hurricane, if you will, valley, coming from the gulf, living through hurricane rita an

mr. barletta spks madam speaker, i demand the -- mr. barletta: madam speaker, i demand the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise an remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having risen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this motion will be postponed. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause of rule 20, proceedings will resume on motions to suspend the rules previously postponed. votes will be taken in the following order. h.r. 592, by the yeas and nays. h.r. 267 by the yeas and nays. the first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. remaining electronic votes will be conducted as five-minute votes. the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. barletta, to suspend the rules and pass h r. 592 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 529, a bill to amend the

mr. barletta. >> thank you. i'd like to thank the chairman for this very, very important hearing today. i come from a much different perspective, being a mayor, former mayor of a city that has 2,000 miles away from the nearest southern border. we have an illegal immigration problem, some of you may have known i was the first mayor in the country to pass a law dealing with illegal immigration over 10%, it was estimated at the time, in my city. was in the country illegally. and they didn't cross the majority -- the majority did not cross a southern border. our population grew by 50%, but our tax revenues stayed the same. i see this from a different police. , as many others, there's an economic side to this problem of illegal immigration as well as a national security side. i disagree, i'm listening here today, i guess my first disagreement is, how we even define our borders? i believe there's an important piece to this issue that's missing here. any state that has an international airport is a border state. any state with an international airport is a border state. 40% of the people that