>> and mr. bill sky diver just drops off, oh, no. >> right. >> but something completely different is about to happen. not exactly what she was expecting. >> hey. i love you, more than anything. i want to show you this. >> what! no. >> this is too risky, right? >> oh, my god. >> of all the time, just hanging on for dear life, and now he pops the question? >> they are falling so fast, a gust of wind, comes in, the ring is gone. >> talk about taking the plunge. when you get married, you take the plunge, this is it. >> oh, no. >> the ring blew out of his hand. >> got to be a fake, right? a dummy ring. >> her engagement ring is now flying through the air, no parachute on that thing. watch what she does. >> oh, good, good for her. >> mr. bill goes fine, and they make a safe and smooth landing, both of them, but as you would think, he has the real ring in the pocket. he gets down on his knee and proposes on the earth. >>> that's all for us here at "right this minute," we'll see >>> that's all for us here at

mr. brad schneider, co-author of this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. schneider: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in strong support of h.r. 4411, the hezbollah international financing prevention act. i would particularly like to thank the ranking member for the time this afternoon and for the tremendous bipartisan support shown in the foreign affairs committee to atrezz one of our most critical national security challenges. the way this committee is run, both by the ranking member and chairman, making a difference and taking the chacks of our world in a bipartisan way is most remarkable and worthy of our nation. i want to thank my friend, mark meadow, along with the chairman and ranking member, for their tireless efforts on this important piece of legislation. i would also like to thank the outstanding effort of the majority and minority staff, along with many me des' staff and my own team that put so much time and effort into perfecting this bill. the united states has designated h

it's 356 bills, mr. speaker. 356 bills that have left this house, that sit collecting dust in the senate. we did a hashtag, mr. speaker. #stuckinthe senate. we remember that, i'm just a bill sitting on capitol hill, that saturday morning cartoon. this is not a dictatorship. we had that conversation a little bit earlier this afternoon. it's not a dictatorship. it's a collaborative effort and the house has collaborated to pass over 356 bills that have gone to the senate to do nothing. now, again, it's a good news-bad news day. let me start with something that is good news. because if folks don't believe we can get together, if folks don't believe there is opportunity for success, i can imagine how folks would give up. not just folks here in this chamber, but folks across the country. families across the country. this, mr. speaker, you may remember it, h.r. 803. the workplace innovation and opportunities act. i don't know if you can see it from you sit, mr. speaker. this passed the house, it passed the senat

mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. s the final amendment to the bill, mr. speaker. it won't kill the bill, and it won't send it back to committee. if this amendment is adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman deserves to be heard. the gentleman will continue. mr. tierney: thank you. student loan debt is at a crisis level in this country. outstanding student loans now total more than $1.2 trillion. that surpasses total credit card debt and every year students are asking for more and taking more. and as the 71% of college seniors had debt in 2012 with an average outstanding balance of $29,400, for those who war rowed to get a batch -- who borrowed to get a bachelor's degree. my constituents and the constituents of my colleagues are call, emailing, posting on facebook and approaching members on the street, asking to share their stories about how they've been buried in student loan debt. this debt is causing them to put on hold the rest of their life. decisions such as whether or not they can move out o

mr. speaker, the majority leader and i have worked together. we have sat down for lunch. we agree on the bill that i mentioned, mr. swalwell's bill, o try to make america more competitive by producing more rare earth here in this country. so essential in the electronics industry and other places. i can't control the senate, mr. speaker. the majority leader cannot control the senate. what the majority leader and i can do is control what we do. here in this house, to which we were elected. we can control either urging or in the majority leader's case and as a former majority leader of this house i can tell you, i could put a bill on the floor if i thought it was important for the american people and for the best interest of our country. i think export-import bank falls in that category, minimum wage falls in that cat gorery, comprehensive immigration compall falls in that category. -- comprehensive immigration falls in that category. i think the swalwell bill falls in that category. we cannot control what the senate does. but we can control what we do. and we can move in as responsible fashion,

mr. bill, mr. jackson, mr. washington -- >> delivering this sermon. >> when you hear people say the men in black, they don't give a care, they don't have no love, i tell you yes, they do. understand, mr. bill, mr. jackson, mr. washington, this is your opportunity at this time to make a choice. >> it was almost like a warning, and then as i was listening to him and it just got loud somewhere more impassioned as he went, i realized he was making sure that everybody, all of the inmates, knew what was going on, these three guys were getting a second chance. >> now, i want you to show them, i want you to show this department that you can stand and make a difference. i know you might say, big sam, i don't think he's talking to me right. i just want you to know, that's just the way it is. nothing personal. this is a jail. you got a life ahead of you. what you do with it is on you. >> at one point in the speech, big sam was warning these inmates that because they were being let out of the situation, they may be viewed

bills. i want to thank mr. lipinski and ms. esty for introducing h.r. 5031, the stem education act of 2013. while we still have much work to improve high-quality access for stem education for all young americans, this bill is a good step in the right direction. american students and american companies are at a significant disadvantage when it comes to having a well-prepared information technology work force. while there's no silver bullet, it is important that we include computer science in the definition of stem. this bill also authorizes informal stem education grants at the national science foundation. learning happens in all settings at all times of the day, not just in the classroom. while we know that informal stem education holds great promise to increased engagement nd learning in stem by diverse populations, r&d and n.s.f. helps ensure that we're developing and implementing the most effective program. and finally, h.r. 5031 amends n.s.f. north master teacher fellowship program to expand eligibility to current math and s

this bill gives equal weight to both. mr. speaker, this is a bad bill and no amendment can make it a good bill. it should be rejected. rather than addressing some of the compelling challenges that this nation is confronting, we're wasting time on a bill that may pass the house but will go nowhere in the senate and certainly not become law. i urge its defeat. thank you, mr. speaker. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington is recognized. hays haste thank you, mr. chairman. -- mr. hastings: that you are, mr. chairman. i want to yield to the gentleman from michigan, mr. huizenga, two minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. huizenga: i rise in support of h.r. 4315, and i appreciate my colleague from urban northern virginia on his insight onto the endangered species act. those of us from more rural areas understand the challenges that are presented in this law as it currently stands beg for reform. this bill contains important reforms to the act, and it's been authored

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use's bill that passed 4440-0. mr. peters: that bill is connected -- is contained within the senate bill that i hope we're able to vote on. that's why we could kill two birds with one stone. frankly, if we can't get this kind of thing done it's no wonder that the approval rate of the body is at 9%. it's a shame. so i do urge my colleagues to adopt the motion to instruct so we can get this effort moving and provide our veterans with the educational opportunities that they deserve and with the support they deserve and with the opportunity that they deserve because they fought so hard and so bravely for us. mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman yields. all time for debate has expired. without objection, the previous question is ordered. the question is on the motion to instruct. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, he ayes have it. mr. peters: i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those fa

mr. green for their very good work making a good bill better. i want to thank working close partnership with mr. waxman and ms. eshoo. we have no more speakers. i urge a yes vote on this bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from oregon is recognized. mr. walden: i thank the gentleman from vermont for his kind works and work on -- kind words and work on this legislation. i mr. waxman and ms. eshoo have worked tirelessly on this bill. their staff, shawn, david, who worked hard on this. and my senior policy advisor, all of whom spent time working this through. it's interesting we get to this point and it kind of goes naturally. a lot of work went in to getting to this point. i thank our staffs and our members who really worked with us in a very good-spirited way. with that, mr. chairman, i'd -- mr. speaker, i'd urge the house approve this bill, without objection, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the question is will

bill. i have no idea, mr. speaker, where these motions to recommit are going, but i will say this. this bill deals with transparency in the federal government to the citizens of the united states. that ought to be number one on our mind and that's what this bill does. i urge my colleagues to vote against the motion to recommit and for the underlying bill. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the previous question is ordered. the question is on the motion to recommit. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the noes have it. the gentlelady from arizona. mrs. kirkpatrick: i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote's requested. those favoring a recorded vote will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule 20, this five-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by five-minute votes on passage of the bill, if ordered, the motion to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 4809, and agreeing to

. >> i don't know about that, mr. bill karins. >> a little kid.hings did you used to say when you were 4 years old that would ban you from many places of business? >> i don't even remember when i was 4 years old. >> exactly. >>> hundreds of clowns gathered for annual march in mexico city on wednesday. the clowns attended a mass at the end of the parade where the performers asked the saint to watch over their families started 30 years ago. this parade is a serious tradition. obviously there's no clowning around. >>> at 5:00 p.m. eastern, 2:00 p.m. steven leaseman sits down exclusively with president obama for a hard-hitting discussion on the economy. from talks of patriotism to the minimum wage and much more. 45 years ago today apollo 11 splashing down safely in the pacific ocean. the command module landed wrup side down, but was righted within ten minutes by floatation bags triggered by the astronauts. the mission landed the first on the middle school moon. >>> happy birthday to j. lo, 45, wonder woman, 63, michael richards, who is 65. this is "ea

this bill and mr. van hollen points out how inconsistent it is, but no matter how inconsistent, it's going nowhere. and it should go nowhere. essentially what it does is to make permanent what has always been considered temporary. bonus greeshation, which has been tell pore rare -- depreciation, which has been temporarily enacted during the previous two recessions, to help assist the economy during the short term, that's what it has been. allows companies to write off investments more quickly than normal. providing them an incentive to make capital investments now rather than later. and that incentive actually disappears when the provision is made permanent. and that's why c.r.s. has said its temporary nature, and i quote, is critical to its effectiveness. secondly, it's unpaid for. talk about consistency. talk about a budget bill that talks about the importance of deficit reduction. and here you have the republicans proposing a bill at would add $287 billion in debt. and that would bring the total of

mr. camp's committee. i am the ranking member of the surface transportation bill. mr. rayhall who is the ranking member of the full committee wouldn't be here and i'm placed to be here in his place and i am overjoyed that this bill is coming forward and i want to thank you for bringing this bill forward. not at the last minute but providing some certainty, especially now that you cannot do a long-term bill because the congress isn't quite ready for that yet. rationing has already started and you can imagine that the states and localities when rationing which means that they're already not getting the full amounts because nobody knew what would happen in the congress, that this bill is very, very welcome. obviously, not only on mr. chairman, but all of us who are sitting at this table would have preferred a long-term bill with the certainty every single district, there's no member that is not affected by this bill. and i don't think that there are many bills that come before you that have the effect that this bill would have, the short-term extension does not allow them

mr. salmon, the prime sponsor on one of these bills. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for four minutes. mr. salmon: i thank the speaker. i rise in support of the rule and the underlying bill, h.r. 313 , the advancing competency based education demonstration project of 2014. i'd like to thank chairman kleine and the subcommittee chairman -- chairman kline and their subcommittee chairman fox for their support on this legislation. i appreciate representative polis and all of his fine work. this truly is a bipartisan bill. i would also like to state how proud i am to be part of a body that has actually taken its job very, very seriously for the hard times that most americans have fallen upon. i'm proud that over the course of the last year and a half since i rejoined the congress, that we passed over 320 bills, 30 of them -- excuse me, 30 of them that would create jobs in this economy immediately that are languishing in the majority leader of the senate's drawer and have no action taken. a lot of the american public are f

meehan, and the bill under consideration today is sort of a fusion of mr. meehan's original text and the f.y. 2014 omnibus appropriations act, as well as ms. jackson lee's bill on this topic also. and it was very carefully crafted after numerous consultations with the department of homeland security, the airline industry and, again, members from both sides of the aisle. it really sets the contours for future preclearance notifications and certifications including a justification that outlines the homeland security benefit and impacted domestic staffing and wait times at any new preclearance operations would have. moreover, mr. speaker, this bill requires congress to be notified in the event that the department of homeland security modifies or changes an existing agreement. i certainly want to be clear that the house homeland security committee supports preclearance where it makes sense. preclearance, of course, has been around as the security screening and trade facilitation tool since the 1950's, really, and since 9/11, the security of these have been heigh

mr. camp and i that carried the bill. mr. thompson: it's important and since its first passage in 2006, farmers, ranchers, hunters and conservation groups alike have waited a long time to -- for the security provided in this measure. it needs to be extended and it needs to be made permanent. conservation easements help protect valuable natural resources and scenic open spaces by allowing private landowners to permanently retire the development rights on their lapped. this provision, this bill -- land. this provision, this bill keeps farmers and ranchers on the farms and on the ranches. this provision is more than just about landowners, however. more than 70% of our wildlife gets food and shelter from our privately owned working farms and ranches and forest lands. but we're losing these habitats to the development by an alarming rate of about 5,000 acres per day. as an outdoors person, a hunter, a fisher, i'm well aware of the importance of having places to hunt and fish and the importance that that is to our community. i also

i would invite my friend if he has an opportunity to look at a bipartisan bill that mr. delaney from his side and i have on social security reform. it doesn't really deal with a lot of reform, but it's a process bill. it would set us down the road to have a bipartisan proposal, which i can assure you would have things that your side doesn't like and things that my side doesn't like. then we would have to vote on it up or down. a thoughtful way to try and begin to deal with some of these and genuinely bipartisan. i hope my friend would look at that. in terms of my friend from new jersey mentioned the ex-im bank, couldn't agree with you more. support t i have consistently supported it. i know there is a disagreement on our side of the aisle largely about that. i hope that it's resolved in regular order. that is that the committee votes on it and it comes down to the floor. when that happens i look forward to working with my friend to enact that legislation. i am intrigued by what my friend from new jersey had to say about the tax proposal because i think at the minimum he h

mr. speaker, the majority leader and i have worked together. we have sat down for lunch. we agree on the bill that i mentioned, mr. swalwell's bill, o try to make america more competitive by producing more rare earth here in this country. so essential in the electronics industry and other places. i can't control the senate, mr. speaker. the majority leader cannot control the senate. what the majority leader and i can do is control what we do. here in this house, to which we were elected. we can control either urging or in the majority leader's case and as a former majority leader of this house i can tell you, i could put a bill on the floor if i thought it was important for the american people and for the best interest of our country. i think export-import bank falls in that category, minimum wage falls in that cat gorery, comprehensive immigration compall falls in that category. -- comprehensive immigration falls in that category. i think the swalwell bill falls in that category. we cannot control what the senate does. but we can control what we do. and we can move in as responsible fashion,

mr. speaker, i'm happy to yield to the author of this bill, the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer, who has been a tremendous advocate to make sure that america does the right thing, four minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized for four minutes. mr. blumenauer: thank you. i appreciate the gentlewoman's courtesy. i appreciate her leadership on working with us on this challenging problem. mr. speaker, in a way this represents an amazing positive development. i've been working in this area for 10 years, dealing with the plight of the foreign nationals that too often america was at risk of leaving behind. but in the course of our work, what has been set -- celebrated here is the challenge here today is the result of the administration listening to congress and improving a system that was fatally flawed. there's no polite way around it, but they've worked hard to improve it. as a result, the visas that we granted have expired. they're gone now. there are no more to be issued, and this additional 1,000 is critical to be able to get us through

mr. speaker. this is a bill i introduced to address fundamental challenges in the cyber work force at the department of homeland security. it has gained bipartisan support as acknowledged by our chairman, mr. meehan. since the attacks of september 11, the urgent need to fill critical national security positions at times has led to actions that may have inadvertently heightened our vulnerability and fostered an overreliance on -- over-reliance on private contractors. from a recruitment and retention standpoint, it is critical that the department of homeland security clearly identifies job classifications for the cyber positions it seeks to fill. that was one of the major conclusions of the task force that the homeland security advisory committee assembled at the request of then d.h.s. secretary janet napolitano in 2012. i introduced the homeland security cybersecurity boots-on-the-ground act to implement a number of the task force's key recommendations. first, the bill directs d.h.s. to develop and issue comprehe

mr. camp's committee. i am the ranking member of the surface transportation bill. mr. rayhall who is the ranking member of the full committee wouldn't be here and i'm placed to be here in his place and i am overjoyed that this bill is coming forward and i want to thank you for bringing this bill forward. not at the last minute but providing some certainty, especially now that you cannot do a long-term bill because the congress isn't quite ready for that yet. rationing has already started and you can imagine that the states and localities when rationing which means that they're already not getting the full amounts because nobody knew what would happen in the congress, that this bill is very, very welcome. obviously, not only on mr. chairman, but all of us who are sitting at this table would have preferred a long-term bill with the certainty every single district, there's no member that is not affected by this bill. and i don't think that there are many bills that come before you that have the effect that this bill would have, the short-term extension does not allow them

i appreciate that this legislation includes important reforms this bill improves an already existing partnership, mr. speaker. i thank chairman upton for his leadership, again, subcommittee chair, chairman terry, doing an outstanding job, all those who have contributed to this bill. our lead co-sponsor, mr. peter welch, and my co-chair of the tourism caucus, mr. farr, who i believe will speak in a few minutes, for their work on this legislation and also the ranking member of the subcommittee ms. schakowsky. i support this prudent, narrow, re-authorization of the travel promotion act. thank you, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from illinois is recognized. ms. schakowsky: it is now my pleasure to yield to the gentleman from california, from . beautiful area of the country carmel. there it is. to mr. farr. mr. farr: thank you for yielding. thank you for your leadership on this bill. i rise in support of this bill for many reasons. the first reason is that america needs to market itself. you'd think -- you think, oh,

this bill, mr. speaker, this bill now sits on harr -- in harry reid's in box. across the nation, charter schools are leading the way in nnovation and improving school outcomes. school, rict, tinley expects every child to have a llege acceptance letter upon college graduation. no matter their background. their curriculum and focus has helped 100% of their students, to date, gain acceptance into college. this bill sits awaiting action in the senate. not leadership. i yield to the gentleman from georgia. mr. woodall: i would like to ask my friend, because, serving on the committee you have an insight most of us don't have, i'm looking at those numbers, 360 members of this house voting yes. that's more than you need to pass a constitutional amendment for pete's sake. that's about as close to unanimous as we generally get. and i'm looking, hasn't been -- it hasn't been in the senate a week or two weeks, it's been there almost three months so far. what have they said? have they said, we've got a better idea, they sent back an alternative to the committee? what have y

bill. we have seen again and again legislating by crisis is not effective. as -- can i have 30 seconds? mr. rahall: i yield the gentlelady an additional 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for 30 seconds. ms. johnson: we owe our constituents no less than best and enacting a long-term bill is needed. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. shuster: it's now my pleasure to yield to one of the committee's true experts on infrastructure, smalltown mayor, small city mayor, construction business owner, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. barletta. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for two minutes. mr. barletta: mr. speaker, i rise in support of this legislation that will keep our highway trust fund solvent until we agree on a long-term solution. if we fail to act, the money to fund surface transportation projects will soon run dry. that could result in a stoppage of more than 7,000 projects. we would lose countless jobs across the country and in my home state of pennsylvania as w

this bill and mr. van hollen points out how inconsistent it is, but no matter how inconsistent, it's going nowhere. and it should go nowhere. essentially what it does is to make permanent what has always been considered temporary. bonus greeshation, which has been tell pore rare -- depreciation, which has been temporarily enacted during the previous two recessions, to help assist the economy during the short term, that's what it has been. allows companies to write off investments more quickly than normal. providing them an incentive to make capital investments now rather than later. and that incentive actually disappears when the provision is made permanent. and that's why c.r.s. has said its temporary nature, and i quote, is critical to its effectiveness. secondly, it's unpaid for. talk about consistency. talk about a budget bill that talks about the importance of deficit reduction. and here you have the republicans proposing a bill at would add $287 billion in debt. and that would bring the total of

if she does, i would ask her to urge her leadership to bring the minimum wage bill to the floor. mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to this bill which takes from those who have little in order tomorrow give to those who have more. for many working families, the child tax credit helps parents keep their children and themselves out of poverty. it is a program that ronald reagan liked. it's a program that works. and it's program we ought to reform and expand. sadly this republican bill would allow provisions that most directly support low-income working parents to expire. while expanding the credit to families making up to three times what an average household brings home. how perverse, how predictable. $115 do so by adding billion to our deficit. in a time of economic recovery, mr. speaker, we should be doing the opposite. providing a leg up for struggling families while paying for what we buy. members on both sides of the aisle agree that the right way to do this is comprehensive tax reform. the chairman of the ways and means committee, mr. camp, again i commend him for putting on the

mr. rogers: that the not this bill. reclaiming my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky has the floor. mr. rogers: this bill has been available to you since tuesday. may i inquire the time we have remaining, madam speaker? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky has 7 1/2 minutes. the gentlewoman from new york has 14 minutes. mr. ronellers: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman -- mr. rogers: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: madam speaker, i am pleased to yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. fattah, the ranking member of the commerce, justice, and science subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognize for two minutes. mr. fattah: i thank the gentlelady. we are here because the president of the united states has requested a -- an emergency supplemental appropriation of about $3.7 billion. the senate has acted in the range of about $2.7 billion. the house now co

and you would think with 26 republican cosponsors, this is a bill we could move forward on. but, mr. president, as usual, they come down here and they say well, a good bill but we just want to have a bunch of amendments. mr. president, i'm open to consideration of amendments on this bill. we all are. but they can't -- they, the republicans, can't agree on what amendments they want. i just met with people earlier today, the press, and explained to them how we used to do things. there wasn't on virtually every piece of legislation a necessity to get cloture on the bill, but now to even get on the bill, we need cloture, as we find on that bill we just finished some procedural work on, that is, the sportsmen's bill. it affects millions and millions of americans. but they want amendments. they want amendments because they want to kill the bill like they have tried to kill everything the last six years. so i repeat, i'm open to consideration of amendments, but as we have repeatedly done, we need to start with a list of amendments from which to work. senators have for decades and decades s

mr. courtney: thank you, madam speaker. i rise in support of this bipartisan consensus bill and i want to congratulate mr. tierney for his steadfast work going back years and getting this to this point today. i also want to congratulate the members from across the aisle, who in agreeing to this bill, rejected the sequester level of spending which was in the original bill that was passed earlier this session. that sequester level of spending was going to handcuff job training efforts so that we could not in fact achieve the goals that this bill will in fact get us to, when it passes later today. for example, the bill allows the employer support to go to 75% for on the job training and 20% support for incumbent worker training. allowing that support to rise will give employers the flexibility and the opportunity to give new workers the skills that they need for advanced manufacturing and high-skilled jobs that they can't take that risk on for people with the cost that it would bear. this bill gives them that support and that help. but it's because we rejected the unrealistic sequester levels, which the ryan

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mr. president, this is a $2.7 billion bill, all money borrowed. as a result of a crisis that the president has created at the border, money this country does not have and there's zero policy changes in it. mr. president, republicans on the floor today and have filed and argued for a number of amendments and attempted to offer them that are focused on critical policy changes to strengthen this legislation and make it more effective. unfortunately, the parliamentary maneuver has been executed, the tree is filled, the amendment tree is filled, and we have been prevented from offering any amendments at all. that are necessary to establish a lawful system of immigration that works and that we can be proud of. so, mr. president, i would move to table the reid amendment on the tree, 3751, for the purpose of offering the cruz amendment. this amendment would prohibit the president of the united states from expending any funds to unilaterally provide amnesty and work authorizations for millions of people as has been reported in the press, and i ask the -- th

mr. rogers: that the not this bill. reclaiming my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky has the floor. mr. rogers: this bill has been available to you since tuesday. may i inquire the time we have remaining, madam speaker? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky has 7 1/2 minutes. the gentlewoman from new york has 14 minutes. mr. ronellers: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman -- mr. rogers: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: madam speaker, i am pleased to yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. fattah, the ranking member of the commerce, justice, and science subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognize for two minutes. mr. fattah: i thank the gentlelady. we are here because the president of the united states has requested a -- an emergency supplemental appropriation of about $3.7 billion. the senate has acted in the range of about $2.7 billion. the house now co

they don't want to talk about the bill mr. camp: the deficit has gone up every year the democrats were in the majority, every year the republicans were in majority. when this legislation was created it was not paid for. created for two years. when it was renewed in 2010 for two year, not paid for. when it was renewed in 2012 for five years, it was not paid for. what we have in this country is repeatedly renewing tax policy for short terms, not paying for it, not making it reliable. we're the only nation in the world that does this. what we're looking for is not only making this policy simpler and easier to understand as the sponsor of the bill has explained very well, but we also want to make this permanent. so we don't have to come back and wonder. so families that are planning for three or four of their kids to go to college over the next 10 years don't have to wonder, are these provisions going to be there? am i going to finally figure out these 1 hurricanes pages of instructions and start a plan for my children's college e

mr. bill's in winslow's new jersey has best canoli ice cream that sounds fabulous. >> my god. >> hold, holden we started asking people is what your guilty pleasure. what do you watch. this is interesting. antoinette says i watch true blood, it is, so good, you know, it is bad. >> yeah. >> she comes from a religious family. >> she can't admit it. >> it is like committing a sin but i just told her family she watches it. >> she tweeted us she did put it on twitter. >> i have never seen that, i watched for first couple years and then it got too weird. >> okay. >> reason i bring that up netflix may have come up with a way to keep others from seeing what you are watching because sometimes you watch shows that are embarrassing to admit, right. folks at netflix are aware some people want their viewing happen to its remain private. a web site is reporting on a new private viewing list. >> how does it work. >> this is on line movie providers. they are testing it out. it is in the in fully affect. according to company representative this new feature will let you view stuff in a privacy mode. so that m

bill and fund it. and guess who said no. our president. mr. obama. his secretary a dear friend of mine, came down and said there's no way we're going to pass a long-term bill with full funding. did not support jim oberstar. if they had done so, had even done what i wanted to do, fully fund it and i was opposed then by president george w. bush, if he was in fact, mr. oberstar had the opportunity, with the senate being in control of the president's party, and the house being in the control of the president's party, we would not be here today. we would have infrastructure bar none. we wouldn't be discussing what we're doing today. this measure today is a short stop measure but this congress has to wake up and the president should have woke up then when he had control to pass legislation for the infrastructure of this country. when we get accused on this side of not doing anything, making a short stop measure, go back in history this president has failed to recognize the importance and for those interest groups, they should have been on it at that time an

mr. crowley of new york. at the end of the bill bmbing she -- mr. crowley: i move that we waive the reading of the amendment. the chair: seeing no objection to the waiving of the reading of the amendment, pursuant to house resolution 661, the gentleman from new york and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. crowley: thank you, mr. chairman. y amendment, i say this in anticipation and hope that the gentleman from florida doesn't think i'm tampering, tampering is a very negative connotation to it. what i'd like to think we're doing is legislating today. i would hope that it's taken in that light. mr. chairman, my amendment would decrease part of the bill before us by $7.25 and increase the budget of the white house by that same amount. why would i offer this amendment? it's such a small amount of money, after all. $7.25. but just ask the millions of americans who make only $7.25 an hour, otherwise known as the current minimum wage. what can the executive branch do with this money? they c

mr. speaker. the bill before us is actually a package of four bills, h.r. 4315, h.r. 4316, h.r. 4317, and h.r. 4318, which aim to derail the endangered spees see act. the four bills are -- species act. the four bills are the product of the natural resources committee endangered species working group, a group that had not one democrat member on it so there was no bipartisan discussion. there's always room to discuss how we can improve legislation but the negotiations should not be limited to backroom negotiations with a select few from a single party. it's ironic the bill is entitled 21st century endangered species transparency act when the process to create the bill was anything but transparent. if the endangered species act needs to be improved in order to better achieve the bill's purpose, then let's have a robust, bipartisan conversation in an open forum which is what we call the committee process. now the package we're considering today, however, does not have any bipartisan support because it would cr

and while i may disagree with how some of the bill came out, i've made it clear to mr. crenshaw that what i disagree with the most is the riders and the allocation. with a different allocation we would have had a different bill. so to now cut 1% to the committee that took the biggest hit is really to just try to cripple the bill completely. tanned serves no purpose. other than -- and it serves no purpose. other than to be able to say that you cut. it would be nice to see if these kinds of things for me would happen on the military budget every so often but we're not going to see. that we're only going to see it on bills like this one which really service a lot of people and i think that the chairman is right and i join him in opposing this amendment and would hope it would be defeated. thank you. mrs. blackburn: reclaiming my time. mr. crenshaw: i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from tennessee is recognized. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. chairman. i do appreciate the work that the chairman h

mr. chairman, looking for lower costs. this bill addresses all of that. . to give more students, more people, more families a chance, an opportunity and a way to do it at a lower cost. . i know my friend, mr. polis, mentioned a couple of time of sleep with students. it may happen to do with a new baby in the family, but he makes a good point that they are families and they have jobs and they need to demonstrate they have the skills, the knowledge to go forward and get that degree or certificate. so i'm very, very pleased with this bill. i will emphasize that it is not the complete re-authorization of the higher education act. we need to continue to move to get that done, but it is an important first step and i'm pleased that this bill was the first step that has strong bipartisan support, strong recognition in the administration, in congress, in colleges and universities that this is the direction we need to go. as the ranking member pointed out, the demonstration projects part of this is important because while we are filled with enthusiasm about the potent

bill. i am compelled to do so, mr. president, because several of my colleagues on the other side have come to the floor to defend the hobby lobby decision using my words. these were arguments i made back in 1993 when we passed, first passed the rfra and we were dealing with the protection of individual -- underline individual -- liberties. the quotation they used dealt broadly with the importance of religious freedom of expression in our country. i said the rfra would help restore the american tradition of allowing maximum religious freedom. that is as true today as it was then. i believe strongly in rfra as it was written then as i do now. but it was misinterpreted and wrongly expanded by the supreme court. when my colleagues use this quotation as a point of argument, they completely miss the point of the debate. the debate is not about the conflict between freedom of religious expression and government mandated health coverage. that's a false choice. the debate is really whether or not the supreme court appropriately

mr. president, let's bring this bill to the floor. let's ensure that american seniors can stop worrying about these assaults on their retirement, the retirement security that they so much deserve. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from nevada. from flake: thank you, mr. president. mr. flake: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, today, my colleague, senator leahy, the chairman of the judiciary committee, introduced legislation that would amend the patriot act. this new legislation reflects a bicameral and bipartisan compromise that ends the bulk data collection practice that's currently being used. it also gives our intelligence officials specific rules to follow so that they can keep the operational capabilities necessary to protect the united states from a terrorist attack without compromising the 4th amendment of the constitution. i'd like to thank senator leahy for his work and i'm grateful for his partnership. this important step is necessary for restoring