mr. bass votes no. mr. gingry votes no. mr. skalis votes no. mr. lada votes no. mr. mcmorris rogers votes no. mr. harper votes no. mr. lance. mr. lance votes no. mr. cassidy votes no. mr. guthrie votes no. mr. ool r ol von votes no. mr. mckinley votes no. mr. gardener votes no. mr. mom peo votes no. mr. kin singer votes no. mr. griffith votes no. mr. waxman votes aye. mr. dingle votes aye. mr. marky votes aye. mr. towns votes aye. mr. paloan votes aye. mr. rush votes aye. mrs. aschew votes aye. mr. engle votes aye. mr. green votes aye. ms. duget votes aye. mrs. caps votes aye. mr. doyle votes aye. ms. aye. mr. votes aye. ms. baldwin. mr. ross. mr. ross votes no. mr. mathisson votes no. mr. butterfield votes aye. mr. barrow votes no. mrs. christianson votesaye. ms. castor votes chairman upton. no. >> others wishing to cast a vote? seeing none, the clerk will report the tally. >> mr. chairman, there were 19 ayes and 34 nays. >> the amendment is not. the next vote will occur on the doyle amendment and those in favor will sayos opposed will say no. the clerk will call th

mr. bass. mr. bass votes no. mr. gingry. mr. ska lis. mr. ska lis votes no. mr. lata votes no. mrs. mcmorris rogers. mrs. mcmorris rogers votes no. mr. harper. mr. harper votes no. mr. lance. mr. lance votes no. mr. cassidy. mr. cassidy votes no. mr. guthrie. mr. guthrie votes no. mr. oleson. mr. oleson votes no. mr. mckinley. mr. mckinley votes no. mr. gardener. mr. gardener votes no. mr. pock peo votes no. mr. kin singer. mr. kin singer votes no. mr. griffith. mr. griffith votes no. mr. waxman. mr. waxman votes aye. mr. dingle. mr. dingle votes no. mr. marky. mr. marky votes aye. mr. towns. mr. towns votes aye. mr. paloan? >> mr. paloan votes aye. mr. rush votes aye. mr. engle votes aye. >> mr. green votes no. mr. duget votes no. mr. caps votes aye. mr. doyle. mr. doyle votes no. mr. shekowsky votes aye. mr. congal ez votes no. mr. insly votes no. ms. baldwin. mr. ross. mr. ross

. >> now i would like to recognize the chairman from new hampshire, mr. bass, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm not as familiar with the substance of this program and its history and so forth. i don't have a lot of facilities in my area. i am, however, very concerned about this memo. we're as subject to criticism in performing oversight and abusing taxpayers' funds, and that's why this memo is bipartisan buecaus we all know we have a responsibility to have this program run well. i'm also a businessman. i have to hire and fire people to do things. i don't like to fire people, but it happens. mr. beers, if you were in my position looking at this report, would you consider yourself to have done a good job in your role to date? >> as i said publicly before, i hold myself responsible for this set of problems, and i'm committed to fixing them. >> if you were your own boss, would you keep you on the job? >> i can't answer that question, sir. >> i mean, have you considered the possibility this might not be the right role for you? it might be time for y

now i would like to recognize the gentleman from new hampshire, mr. bass, 45 minutes. >> i am not as familiar with this program in its history and so forth. i do not have a lot of facilities in my area. i am, however, very concerned about this memo. we have oversight responsibility, and to some extent we are as a vulnerable to criticism for failure to perform adequate oversight and be vigilant about the use or abuse or alleged abuse of taxpayer funds, and that is why the memo is bipartisan, because we all know we have a responsibility to make sure government is run well. i am also a businessman and have dored and fired people to ts things. i do not like to fire people, but it happens. you were in my position looking at this report, would you consider yourself to a done a good job in your role to date? >> as i have said publicly before, i hold a self responsible for these sets of problems, and i commit myself to fixing them. boss,you were zeryour old would you keep yourself of the job? >> i cannot even sure that question, sir. >> have you consider the possi

there are new members of congress that had the highest scores like mr. bass from new hampshire.tive basis they were among the highest in republicans. there are republicans. historically, a lot of republicans understood this issue and our real leaders. sadly, most recently, in the congress there are not as many people, and the leadership in both houses has been anti- environmental. we need republicans to support these issues. host: looking at a story last fall in "rolling stone" that highlights 10 things obama must do to protect the environment. president obama said future generations would remember his election as lending climate began to kill. -- heal. environmentalists are -- that the indictment begin to heal. environmentalists have been disappointed. are you supporting president obama? are there things he must to do? guest: there are things we have been disappointed in. we supported him in 2008. we supported him in 2004 when hardly anyone ever heard of barack obama. he has made a lot of progress on a lot of issues. the challenge of addressing climate change has not been as ea

there are new members of congress that had the highest scores like mr. bass from new hampshire. on a relative basis they were among the highest in republicans. there are republicans. historically, a lot of republicans understood this issue and our real leaders. sadly, most recently, in the congress there are not as many people, and the leadership in both houses has been anti- environmental. we need republicans to support these issues. host: looking at a story last fall in "rolling stone" that highlights 10 things obama must do to protect the environment. president obama said future generations would remember his election as lending climate began to kill. environmentalists are -- that the indictment begin to heal. environmentalists have been disappointed. are you supporting president obama? guest: there are things we have been disappointed in. we supported him in 2008. we supported him in 2004 when hardly anyone ever heard of barack obama. his middle lot of progress and a lot of issues. -- he has made a lot of progress on a lot of issues. the challenge of addressing climate chang

murphy, mr. bass mr. gerlach mr. dingell, mr. kind and i see mr. dold of illinois here. almost five decades ago, the land and water conservation fund was created on a sound and fair principle. oil companies who drill on public lands and are therefore taking a resource that belongs to all citizens of the united states should in return, out of fairness give americans the protection of land so that as they take this resource and refine it and sell it, they preserve these resources, parks, recreation, direct preservation of cultural and land resources. the bill before us today aims to increase the amount of oil and gas production in federal waters as a means to raise revenue for transportation funding. these oil fields belong to all americans. just as the revenues generated fromoff shore oil drilling must be shared with all americans a portion of those rev lieu -- revenues should be used toward conservation and preservation of public lands that belong to all of us. that has been the principle now for four decades almost five decades of the land and water conservation fund. t

bass. >> thank you. thank you, mr. secretary for your time. i just wanted to ask you a couple of questions, and then thought before my time is ended that you might want to take a few minutes to respond to several things that you didn't really have an opportunity to respond to because your time ran out. you said a few minutes ago that you felt that the budget that you are presenting stabilizes the debt burden in a few years as a percentage of the gdp, i think you said down to 3%. i wanted to know if you could specifically describe a few ways that that happens. >> it takes $4 trillion in spending in deficit reduction over ten years to get the deficit down to the level you achieve that measure of sustainability, and we propose to do that with a mix of spending cuts and increases in the ratio of roughly 2.5 to 1, the spending cuts in the form of the trillion dollars in caps and cuts on discretionary meaning defense and non-defense discretionary spending we agreed to in august combined with an additional 1.5 trillion spending cuts that compose part

achl bass door to afghanistan, ryan crocker. mr. ambassador, let me ask you first, the u.s., over more than ten years, has spent half a trillion dollars in afghanistan, almost 2,000 american lyes have been lost. and the american people wake up this morning to find that two high military officers sitting inside a secured afghan government building were murdered, basically, by someone who was, you know, freely walked into that building and the burning of the u.s. flags, two soldiers killed in trying to combat these protests. why in the world should not americans be waking up saying we've got to get out of there? >> well, candy, it was a terrible event, strongly condemned by secretary panetta and others. general allen and i are just back from the ramp ceremony for these two fallen heroes in which we saw them off on their last journey home. we all feel it out here. that said, and as president obama said yesterday, we remain committed to a partnership with the afghan government and people as we seek to achieve our shared goal of disrupti

, to eat 65% to 90% -- say that again, 65% to 90% of the juvenile salmon are being eaten by this bass. mr. hastings: i yield the gentleman one additional minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> and here we have evidence of this. you can see the bass, and i know it's gruesome for some folks at home, but here you have the smelt. inside the -- inside the bass. but yet this government is allowing this nonnative species to eat the thing that they so love, the delta smelt. mr. nunes: so what's been the result, mr. speaker? food lines. food lines. in the breadbasket of the world , they used to grow the nation's carrots. we now import carrots from china to feed the people in the food lines. this is what this is about, mr. speaker. this is what this is about. these are children in a food line eating carrots imported from china. does this congress have a moral compass to do the right thing? and i ask the chairman for an additional one minute. mr. hastings: recognize the gentleman for one minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. nunes: children in

mr. moonbase they won't take ron paul seriously. and that's why i'm going make ron paul my first ambassador to moonlandia. he's out there. so what exactly are we supposed to do with this moon bass? >> when we have 13,000 americans living on the moon they can competition to become a state. >> jon: 13,000, that's not a state, that's like a condo development. that's not a state. you want to be a condo developer on the moon. you want to be like a lunar trump. and may i say this, like earth trump, you will not shall president. here's the interesting thing-- (cheers and applause) >> jon: as if there is anything not interesting about newt gingrich's moonbase, so in 1993 when democrats floated the idea of state hout for washington, d.c. with 500,000, or like 40 moon cole onee. newt gingrich said the whole idea was crazy. >> of those people in d.c. unhinged. nobody will take an idea like that seriously unless you move it to the moon. i see what's going on here. this isn't about making new states. newt gingrich did that global warming ad with nancy pelosi realized that the earth is very sick, and now he wants to leave it for a younger planet. we'll be right back. >> stephen: welcome back

mr. speaker, just yesterday i had the opportunity to visit with one of the special olympic athletes, an am bassor that program -- an ambassador for that program, chris geleski and the first thing that chris did in coming to my office was to express his sorrows for the loss of coach joe paterno. paterno wrote that he had been strongly influenced by this line from st. iginatus. always work as though everything depended on you yet always pray knowing that everything depends on god. over the years that dynamite thought has exploded to something larger and larger in life. it means to me now never be afraid to accept the limitations of you or others. accept that we are all pretty small potatoes but always know how great each of us can be. so the winningest coach in college football history, i think, was among the most humble of men based on those remarks that he made. the enormous positive impact that joe paterno has made on thousands of players, hundreds of thousands of students and millions of fans and admirers across central pennsylvania and around the world cannot be understated. he was a man but

mr. speaker, the clock is ticking on extending the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits for millions of americans. ms. bass: in three short weeks, people barely surviving on unemployment benefits will be out on the streets. in three short weeks 160 million people who get paychecks would have to pay the government nearly $1,000 more. unfortunately house republican leadership insists on unrelated ideological legislation, freezing the pay of middle class public servants for a third time in three years, slashing unemployment benefits by 40 weeks, and drug testing americans who lost their jobs through no fault of their own. i don't think my republican colleagues understand the plight of americans who lost their jobs through no fault of their own, so i'm asking my constituents and people from around the country to go to my website, karenbass.house.gov and send in stories about their efforts to look for work. i will share these stories with my republican colleagues to help them understand in hopes they will do the right thing. mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what pur