mr. cardenas, is recognized. mr. cardenas: thank you. i'd like to yield the balance of my time to congressman schiff. the chair: congressman from california, mr. schiff, is recognized. mr. schiff: i thank the gentleman, my colleague, for yielding. for a large business, a cyberattack can be costly and damaging. for a small business, a cyberattack can be fatal. wiping out a family's dream or a lifetime of work in a few clicks of a mouse. small businesses and small financial institutions also don't have the large legal shops that are sometimes necessary to keep up with the latest changes or regulations coming from washington. that's why i'm so pleased that my california colleague offered this important amendment. while i don't expect that any sharing mechanism will ultimately be costly to maintain or access, there will be some cost, especially in the early stages of implementation. and there will be some new procedures to navigate. this amendment will help put the reach and authority of a small business association in the service of cyberse

cardenas. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6 2015, the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert, for 30 minutes. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate my friend, rob woodall so much. what clarity. we lost a good man when john lender didn't run again and we gained a good man when rob woodall ran for that seat. so it's a good day. there's a matter of concern, let me just say this. we have forgotten god. we have forgotten the gracious hand which preserves us in peace. and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us. and we vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the god that made us. it behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness. now there's some people these days -- these days that say, it's not appropriate to mention god. that tha