mr. burton. mr. burton: thank you, mr. speaker. i would now like to go through a minute by minute description of what happened and once again it's an article written on national security by the secret team that killed bin laden, it was an article written for the national journal -- byfish the "national journal" by mark m. ambender, it was very well done, it tells almost everything that took place in this operation. the two sides of the joint special operations command challenge coin, which was given out by the j.s.o.c. commander vice admiral william mcraven from gazi air base in pakistan, the maryland fied mr--- mh-60 choppers made their way to babbot -- abbottabad along with intelligence collectors and navigateors using classified hyperimagers. after bursts of fire, 22 people were killed or captured. one of the dead was osama bin laden, done in by a double tap, boom, boom, to the left side of his face. his body was aboard the choppers to made the trip back. one had experienced mechanical failure and was destroyed by security force

mr. burton, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. burton: thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. burton: madam speaker, about a week or so ago a good friend of mine from indiana, rex, who has been very active not only political circles but civic events for a long time brought to my attention some extraordinary things that has been done by a young man who is in our military. corporal sean leahy, graduated from hamilton southeastern high school in 2006 at fishers, indiana, he's now a 23-year-old marine and squad leader in the first platoon kilo company. he recently completed his second tour of duty initially having served with distinction in iraq. he was preparing to leave the marine corps to pursuit a college degree. when he was made aware his unit would be sent to afghanistan, instead of leaving to pursue college, he again decided to answer the call and he re-enlisted instead of going to college. he didn't have to risk his life again but he wan

mr. fred burton. he is here to talk about his new book "chasing shadows" a special agent's lifelong hunt to bring down a cold war assassin to justice" fred started the career as a police officer in merrill lynch but as the mid '80s he joined the state department where he served for 14 years in the diplomatidiplomati c security service and became deputy chief of the counterterrorism division. he left the department in 1999 and went to work for another organization that you are familiar with. perhaps some of you were here after hearing the speaking already publishing his memoirs confessions of the counter terrorist agent and in that book he describes working on the investigation, in many cases but also on the investigation of the death of pakistani president, the hostage crisis of beirut and the struggle against hezbollah against many other things. he is here today to talk about his new book chasing shadows. he talks about how he was fascinated with the 1973 assassination of the 10 it renault josef alon

mr. burton: i certainly agree with him. i would just like to inform him that right now the foreign affairs committee is holding hearings on the number of pieces of legislation that will deal with and refine the war powers act and hopefully correct some of the loopholes in it so that congress is included in the loop. so i'd just like to inform him of that because although i would like to see this in this particular legislation that we are talking about and discuss this in some detail, i think the hearings going on right now will go into in depth the problems that we face with that bill. the one thing i would say is that i think we all agree, democrats and republicans alike, that this body and the other body ought to be involved in the decisionmaking process before we go into any conflict. and this issue of libya is a perfect example of where the executive branch has run away from the congress without consulting with us. and that's something that should never happen in the future, especially when we are risking american lives

mr. burton's method. it's an outdated process but the outdated tax subsidy still remains on the books, amazingly enough. with oil hovering at a hundred dollars a barrel and big oil reaping record profits, it defies logic for the government to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on these subsidies. we are writing out a check, $4 billion, to the big oil companies. does that make sense, when we have so many other needs and we have a huge deficit? to me it doesn't. at the same time americans get hit with a double whammy. when they drive up to the pump, they're paying $4, close to it, a gallon for gasoline, diesel fuel, and big oil is taking some dollars out of their pockets because their taxes, a small percentage of it, goes to pay these big oil subsidies. how galling. in my home state of new york, the price of gasoline is up 35% on average compared to this time last year. economists estimate that a typical new york family, a typical american family will pay as much as a thousand dollars more on gas this year

mr. burton: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i don't know there is a great deal to add what he said about permits and the issue that's been discussed just recently. the thing that really bothers me is just a few years ago, 25 years ago we were importing about 28% of our oil. today, we're importing 62% of our oil. more than double what we were doing just a few years ago. and the american people are paying the price instead of $1.50 or $2 a gallon, they're spending $4 a gallon for gasoline. in the gulf of mexico there's an estimated $86 billion barrels -- nationwide there's 86 billion barrels of oil, 51% of that is in the guffleguffle which means there's -- in the gulf of mexico which means there's 240 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. for us to continue to be dependent on foreign energy sources is crazy. we ought to start drilling and doing what needs to be done here in america and we can do it in an environmentally safe way. we can do it in alaska offshore and we can do it in a number of places. to continue to send our money t

mr. burton's method. it's an outdated process, decidedly, but the outdated tax subsidy still remains on the books, amazingly enough. with oil hovering at $100 a barrel, big oil reaping record profits, it defies logic for this government to spend billions of dollars, for these taxpayers to give dollars out of their pocket every year when they're struggling to tax giveaways to big oil which is making record profits. believe me, the free market gives the oil companies enough of an incentive to produce. when oil is $100 a barrel, they don't need an extra subsidy from the federal government to produce. they're going to produce every bit of oil they can. they make huge profits. so they don't need a financial nudge from washington. and at the same time, middle-class americans get hit with a double whammy. they're paying $70 or more to fill up their gas tank and then their -- some of their hard-earned tax dollars are being used to line big oil's pockets. in my home state of new york, the price of gas is up 35% on

mr. burton: -- mr. boucher: thank you. i rise. this is -- mr. bucshon: thank you. this is another slush fund of mandatory spending in the bill, $200 million with no congressional oversight over the next four years, where the secretary of health and human services can grant construction and renovation for school-based health centers, again at their own discretion. again, as was just stated, none of this money can go to actually providing health care. it's deseptember to have say that this section of the obamacare bill is to promote health for our students and others at schools. this is another indication of uncontrolled federal government spending with no congressional oversight and i speak today on behalf of the bill to rescind that and with that, mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. thank you. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas has 3 1/2 minutes remaining. the gentleman from new jersey has four minutes remaining. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. pallone: mr. chairman, i have no additi