mr. bilbray. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. mr. bilbray: thank you, madam speaker. first of all, this is not offshore. this proposal is next door. these are our neighbors. second of all, this is not just about great opportunities economically for america. we hear people talk about the environment. when you recycle so-called replace your cell phones, where do you think they go? they get rebuilt and shipped down to our neighbors to the south so they can have the economic opportunities, they can have the learning opportunities. this is the kind of cooperation we want to see in our hemisphere. but to attack panama, which is the leader of showing how they can stimulate an economy with almost 10% growth, to attack panama, showing, allowing the working class access to recycled material, environmentally friendly, but economically uplifting, to attack that kind of agreement on this floor and then say that you're for the environment and you're for helping the poor, don't come to this floor and say you care about the environment, you care abou

mr. bilbray, you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman.e an ax to grind with the secretary of energy. i just want on the record i think that finally we have a secretary of energy who is a scientist, physicist, not a political operative, and so this member's intention is to get to the fact and find out how this could have happened especially when you have somebody like secretary chu running a department and seeing what appears to have happened indicates to me that the biggest problem here was that it appears the politics and prejudice and bad policy created a situation that could have very possibly cross the line leader into a legal i come we will clarify in the coming weeks. but just for the record i just don't want anybody to think this member has an ax to grind against the secretary. i hope to god that this does not cause him to have to basically step aside and step out because this problem, so just so everybody understands where this member comes from in fact i think the secretary as a possibility of finally fulfilling the goal of the e

mr. bilbray, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. see there is a lot of statements about agendas here, i want to make it quite clear that this number does not have an ax to grind with the secretary of energy. i just want on the record that i finally we have a secretary of energy who is a scientist -- if this is, not political operative. and so, this member's intention is to get to the facts and find out how this could have happened, especially when you have somebody like secretary chu running a department in seeing what appears to have happened in a case to me that the biggest problem was it appears that politics and prejudice and bad policy created a situation that could have very possibly cross the line leader into a legal item that we will clarify obviously in the coming weeks. just for the record, i don't want anyone to think this member has an ax to grind against the secretary. i hope to god that this does not cause him to have to do with the listed. and that is basically step aside and stepped out because this problem. so every

mr. bill bray -- bilbray, five minutes. damascene there are statements about the agenda i just want to make it quite clear that this member does not have an axe to grind with the secretary of energy. i just went on in the record that i think finally we have a secretary of energy who is a scientist, physicists, and not a political operative. so this member's intentions is to get to the facts and to find out how this could have happened, especially when you have somebody like secretary chu running a department and see what appears to have happened indicates to me that the biggest problem is that it appears that politics and prejudice and bad policy created a situation that could have very possibly cross the line later into a legal item that we would clarify obviously in the coming weeks. budgets for the record, i just don't want anybody to think this member has an ax to grind against the secretary. i hope to god that this does not cause him to have to do what -- did, which is to basically step aside and step out because of hi