mr. chairman, i yield to my -- mac mac mr. chairman, i yield -- mr. mcintyre: mr. chairman, i yield -- mr. macarthur: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the committee will be in order. please take your conversations off the floor. the gentleman deserves to be heard. the gentleman is recognized. art art thank you, mr. chairman -- mr. macarthur: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, my amendment deals with the kc-10 air to air refueling tanker. air superiority is critical if we're going to protect our men and women on the ground and our interests. and that requires that we have fighters in the -- in the air. it's of vital importance, it's why the air mobility command is so important. it may not be as exciting as fighters in close air support, but it's every bit as essential. the kc-10 air to air refueler is the larger, newer of the tankers and the cr -- kc-135 is the smaller, older version. this is the problem. the kc-46 is a new tanker that the air force is introducing. it has had development problems and it's not ready for primetime

chairman of the full committee, mr. upton for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to say in response to mr. rush's comments, i look forward to working with him and mr. pallone and all of our members on both sides of the aisle to do this right. i appreciate those kind words. we're delighted to welcome back secretary moniz to discuss the first stallment of the quadrennial energy review that focused on energy transport and infrastructure, something we need to do. our laws and regulations need to change with it. long-standing concerns about the declining domestic energy output have been erased by a rapidly rising oil and natural gas production. 2013 alone, according to the qer, the u.s. added 1.2 million barrels per day a record increase by one country in one year. domestic production and natural gas from related liquids has experienced equally dramatic increases. this became the number one energy producing nation. it's time that we start acting like it. unfortunately, rising energy production requires more energy infrastructure. what i have called the architecture of abundance. both the energy

mr. yoho: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, -- mr. frelinghuysen: would the gentleman yield? mr. yoho: yes, sir. mr. frelinghuysen: we're prepared to accept your amendment. mr. yoho: mr. chairman, i appreciate it and i yield back. thank you. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. any member wish to speak in opposition? the amendment is offered by the gentleman from florida. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? >> i have a resolution -- an amendment at the desk. 106. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. gosar of arizona. at the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following, section 1003, none of the funds made available by this act may be ex pended by the department of the navy to divest or transfer or prepare to divest or transfer any search and rescue units from the marine corps. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 303, the gentleman from arizona

mr. capuano. >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome back, mr. secretary. mr.retary, i know we've mentioned the fha. i want to be clear, if i'm correct, as i understand it, not a single penny of general fund taxpayer dollars has been spent to help the fha. is that correct? >> that's right. >> okay. and as i understand it, again, by the way, happy birthday, 50 years old and all that. in those 50 years as i read it, there have been five republican presidents serving 28 of those 50 years. did any of those five republican presidents, mr. nixon, mr. ford mr. reagan, mr. bush, and mr. bush, did any of them shut down hud? >> no of course not. >> did any of them admit defeat in hud's mission? >> no. >> but today we're hearing that hud is a failed agency and we should probably close it down. i guess that would come as a surprise to mr. reagan and others. prior to hud were there any programs anywhere to help seniors find decent, affordable housing? >> no. with the advent of hud that really led to the assistance -- >> without hud there who be no not less but none, there w

mr. o'rourke? >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, in the nine lines of effort that comprise our strategy, the first one to decide his political and you said that every other line of effort follows from that. we must be successful politically difficult to be successful at all. the other line for strategy and difficult achieve our goals in the region. you gave an example in your opening test on building government. can you tell us where we have built governors in that region successfully? and a follow-up question to that is how long will that take since everything follows the success of that first one of the? >> that's a very good question, a very complicated task. in iraq it will mean when helping the iraqis, helping them when they recover territory from isil to build a system of governance, people who live there support and are willing to support and defend in the long-term for you say where have we had success. my own view is we've had considerable success in afghanistan. i was just thinking to president ghani yesterday mo

mr. chairman. >> chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. griffith, for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i do appreciate that. let me reference the comments made by mr. mckinley of west virginia. we've had hundreds of layoffs in my district alone. of course in my neighboring state of west virginia and kentucky, there have been thousands. and it has been devastating. you reference natural gas in relationship to the closing of some of the coal fired power plants as one of the factors. of course it is one of the factors. but other -- the regulations coming in -- also yesterday we closed down another facility in my district. it was paid for by the rate payers. wouldn't cost them any additional. it was only being used at this point for peak periods. that's now gone. clinch river facility in my district had three egus, they are converting 2 of the 3 over to natural gas. however, the third one is not going to be converted. the two-thirds that used to be there will produce about half of the electricity. i'm just concerned that in t

chairman, i -- mrs. ellmers: mr. chairman, i rise today to continue my fight against the air force's misguided decision to shutter the 440th airlift wing. as i have stated time and time again, removal of the 440th airlift wing injects avoidable and unreasonable risks to our military readiness. given the instability and uncertainty in the middle east and around the world, i find it baffling that the air force has chosen to close such an efficient airlift wing that provides critical training to special operations forces and units such as the 82nd airborne's global response force. i fail to i fail to see the true cost savings or any benefits related to this shortsighted proposal and i will continue to work with my colleagues to pursue every option possible to flevpbt closure. furthermore, i find it troubling that the air force has hollowed out the wing before this. i will continue to work with my north carolina colleagues to prevent its closure. i reserve. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves. for what purpose does the ge

mr. burgess, no. mr. stivers, no. mr. collins? >> no. >> mr. collins. no mr. byrne? >> no. >> mr. byrne new. mr. new house? ms. slaughter aye. mr. mcgovern aye. mr. hastings, aye. mr. polis? mr. polis, aye. mr. chairman? >> no. >> mr. chairman, no. >> the clerk will report the total. >> four ayes, eight nays. >> chairman i move the committee make an order and give the necessary waivers for my amendment, which would say that no funds may be obligated or spent for u.s. armed forces engaged in combat operations in iraq or syria in the absence of the enactment of for the use of military force for such operation. i would say briefly that here we are appropriating money, a lot of money for the war in iraq and syria. but congress doesn't seem to have the stomach to vote for it or want to bring it up for a debate or consider uamf and vote on it. the president has done what he was supposed to do. he submitted to us. we may not like the strategy. we may not think it's a good enough strategy. but he did what he is required to do. it is now up to us to do what we're required to. do you can limit what the president has proposed. you can expand it. you can vote up or down yes or no on it. you can bring all of our

mr. capuano. >> thank you mr. chairman. welcome back mr. secretary. mr. secretary, i know we've mentioned the fha. i want to be clear, if i'm correct, as i understand it not a single penny of general fund taxpayer dollars has been spent to help the fha. is that correct? >> that is right. >> and as i understand it by the way, happy birthday at 50 years old and all that. in those 50 years as i read it there have been five republican presidents serving 28 of those 50 years. if any of those five presidents, mr. nixon, mr. ford mr. reagan and mr. bush did any of them shut down hud? >> no. >> did any of them admit defeat in hud's mission? >> no. >> but today yet we hear that it's a failed mission and we should shut it down. i guess that would come as a surprise to mr. reagan and others. prior to hud, were there any programs anywhere to help seniors find decent affordable housing? >> no, with the advent of hud, that really led to the assistance of the elderly -- >> so without hud, there would be no, not less but none, there would be no senior housing programings

mr. sires: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. shuster: that would cost billions of dollars is what you're saying? ms. feinberg yes. :mr. shuster: thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. first of all, mr. hart, i have a copy of the metro link crash report from 2008. you're familiar with that. mr. hart yes, i am. : and in that, you had two recommendations, major recommendations. one that we have cameras installed. inward looking cameras? yes. mr. micha: and then you also had the positive train control recommendation, correct? mr. hart yes. :mr. mica: i want to talk about both of those. let's go back to the 2008 report f you just look at it. that wasn't the first time you recommended cameras or audio devices, correct? mr. hart correct. :mr. mica: in 1997, after a 1996 crash and no operating crew members survived. this was an amtrak train near silver springs, maryland, you recommended. that's r 97-9 recommendation. then you had another accident with no surviving crew members that occurred in 1999 in bryant, ohio, is that correct? and a

mr. poe: dough -- mr. poe: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. poe: mr. chairman, my amendment cuts aid to pakistan in half. pakistan is the benedict arnold nation in the list of countries that we call our allies. before saddam hussein met his maker -- osama bin laden met his maker in 2011, bin laden was living in plain sight in a bustling military town. to think that the most senior levels of the pakistani government did not know he was there requires, as secretary clinton said, the willing suspension of disbelief. this february the former head of pakistan's version of the c.i.a. called the i.s.i. said that pakistan most likely sheltered osama bin laden. and just last month, three u.s. intelligence sources told nbc news that pakistan knew where osama bin laden was hiding all the time. not only did pakistan not help us get osama bin laden, pakistan threw the doctor who did help us under the bus and put him in jail for 33 years for cooperating with america. pakistan did not help us because pakistan was wo

mr. chairman. mr. secretary, thank you for being here. 20 years ago this month president clinton announced the national home ownership strategy, and he said, and i quote, i want to stay this one more time, our home ownership strategy will not cost the taxpayers one extra cent. it will not require legislation and it will add -- will not add more federal programs to a growing federal bureaucracy. i think we can all agree that that vision did not turn out that way. if you recall back in february with you and i had a conversation about the fact that you were about to lower your guarantee fee by 50 basis points. and the fact that you were still not meeting the federally mandated reserve ratio for the funded fha. i guess -- and i think back then the number was 0.41%. you know, the mandate is 2%. i wonder if you could tell us today, mr. secretary, what is the current status? >> yes. thank you very much for the question. we do not do that analysis. that analysis is done by a neutral third party. we expect to h

mr. chairman. event chair now recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. griffey for five minutes. >> thank you mr chairman. i do appreciate that. let me reference to comments made a mr. kenley of west virginia. we have had hundreds of layoffs in my district alone. of course in my neighboring state of west virginia and kentucky there have been thousands and it has been devastating. the reference national gas is one of the factors. of course it is one of the factors. but the regulations coming in us that yesterday they closed down the facility and my district. it was paid for by the ratepayers. it was only being used at this point are the peak. that is now gone. the clinch river facility in my district had three electric generation power plants. they are conspired in two the three to natural gas. however the third is not converted in the two thirds of used to be there will produce half of the electorate d. i am concerned in the peak periods of years now that they are gone how it plays in southwest virginia and other parts of the aep footprint. >> i don't know well enough the exact geography and dis

mr. pinkham for five minutes. >> turn one. trent seven -- thank you mr. chairman. mr. secretary, i don't know i see joe barton, i don't know if members have heard but his mom as well as we. mr. secretary, welcome back. according to the d.o.e. website for projects across the u.s. international border, d. we must comply with requirements to consider primitive consequences of project. are you for me with the requirement speak with yes spent when making cross-border decisions the d. we adhere nepa regulations? >> yes spend does this include punitive indirect impacts? >> i'm sorry mr. green. could you clarify the question? >> when making these decisions the d.o.e. here, nepa regulations and guidelines set forth by the ceq coming to suggest. but does that analysis included cumulative and indirect impacts? >> i guess i'm not quite sure that's actually part of the nepa process or not. >> cpq requires -- >> clearly there are, in general, women make public interest determinations, cuba to impacts are part of it. >> okay. cpq requires environmental impact for major federal actions

mr. pascrell. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for three minutes. mr. pascrell: thank you mr. speaker. mr. chairman, mr. ranking member, my brother in law enforcement law enforcement caucus david reichert from washington. i want to thank my colleagues who have joined in a strong bipartisan support for the cops program. mr. butler and mr. dent included. let us be clear what this amendment does. the reichert amendment would increase funding for the burn jag by $1 million, a critical step, i think an important message. our amendment is supported by the major voices in the law enforcement community. the national association of police organizations the major county sheriffs' association. fraternal order of police. so i urge my colleagues to support it. but despite all the debate about community policing happening across our nation as mr. reichert referred to the american people need to know that despite what our amendment does, the underlying bill eliminates the federal cops hiring program. it is simply unacceptable that every year we ask the law enforcement community to do more and more with less and l

mr. chairman i thank you and i yield back the amount of my time. >> thank you, mr. rush for that opening statement. at this time i'd like to recognize the chairman of the full million, mr. upton for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. i just want to say in response to mr. rush's comments i look forward to working with him and mr. palone to do this right. and i appreciate those kind words. we're delighted to work back secretary moniz so work on the first installment of the -- that focused on energy transport. america's energy structure is rapidly changing and our laws need to change with it. it has erased by rap idealy rising oil and natural gas production. 2013 alone, the u.s. added 1.2 million barrels per day of oil production, a record increase by one country in one year. the record production of natural gas and related liquids has experienced equally dramatic rises in recent years. unfortunately the scarcity mind-set is still embedded in our energy policy. what i have called the architecture of abundance. both the energy legislation and the qer include a numb

mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. duncan. with that, mr. serros is recognized for five minutes. mr. serros: thank you, mr. chairman. you know, i ride the amtrak just about every week. i ride the amtrak just about every week. and this accident really hit home. miss feinberg and mr. boardman, can you speak to the future of amtrak and passenger rail if congress continues to use patchwork approach to funding improvements? mr. boardman: well, i would like to say, mr. sires, that my concern has been the reliability of the railroad. the reliability of what we do for our hardware on our system. the reliability of our use of tunnels. whether it's in new york or through the baltimore tunnels. that our reliability on the portal bridge that's ready to be rebuilt that doesn't always shut properly. so the funding for infrastructure on the northeast corridor is absolutely behind the curve. in the last reauthorization of our funding in the pria act, there was a commission established out of all the states, the federal government and amtrak, along the northeast corridor, and that's where the $21 bill

mr. schiff: mr. chairman may i inquire, we have no further speakers. does the majority have further speakers? mr. nunes: i'm prepared to get to the amendments, mr. schiff if you are. mr. schiff: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the intelligence authorization act is the vehicle by which we ensure that u.s. intelligence professionals and programs have the funds and the authorities that they need. it's the single most important means by which congress can conduct its oversight. we need to pass this legislation just as the committee has done over the last several years. it's my hope as the legislation moves forward we will be able to dispose of the guantanamo provisions. i will have an amendment to address that in a few minutes. and that we can also resolve the issues regarding the overseas contingency account. and i look forward to working with my colleague as the bill moves forward to address those issues, and i want to join the chairman in saluting the members of the intelligence community, the men and women who do such an extraordinary job for us each and every day. they ha

mr. loebsack: thank you, mr. speaker -- mr. lobiondo: thank you mr. speaker. first i'd like to thank chairman gibbs and chairman shuster and ranking member defazio, napolitano, for helping to bring 944 the national estuary program re-authorization, to the floor. i'd also like to thank colleagues, mr. posey and murphy of florida, and especially mr. larsen has been great to work with on a number of issues. this version of the national estuary program re-authorization is fiscally responsible by reducing the authorization levels by $8 million while ultimately increasing the amount of money each estuary program will receive. it's a very commonsense approach that helps get the job done. this re-authorization will detail just how the e.p.a. is to spend the authorized and appropriated money. unlike many of the programs under the clean water act, the national estuary program is a nonregulatory program. that was mentioned before but i think it bears repeating. it's a nonregulatory program. instead it is designed to support collaborative voluntary efforts of federal, state and local stakeholders to rest

mr. chairman: mr. brydon stein. mr. bridennstine: general, you mentioned earlier about general mcchrystal and you have to defeat a network with a network and his commitment to that. certainly he was also very committed to the counterinsurgency strategy deployed in afghanistan. you were the deputy commander of centcom when we employed counter insurgency in iraq and i think you eventually became the acting commander of centcom under the counterinsurgency policy. my understanding is we employ that kind of strategies of that we can come to the diplomatic and political solution that she was just talking about. at idea is that we have space to maneuver so parties can come together and come to a governing solution that is reasonable for all involved. can you share with us your time there, why was it successful? why was the counterinsurgency strategy in iraq successful? general martin dempsey: i think that the counterinsurgency is effective when the lines outlined in the beginning are applied, not just as a military instrument.

mr. chairman. >> gentleman yields back the remainder of his time. the chair recognizes another gentleman from missouri mr. cleaver, the ranking member. >> thank you mr. chairman and ranking member waters and mr. secretary, good morning. the secretary visited the fifth district of missouri and visited the other side of our state with mr. luetkemeyer came to the better part of the state and spent time in kansas city. and so we're here today with the hearing entitled "the future of housing in america." i think it's always important to look to the future and hopefully this hearing will deal with the future more than the past or otherwise we are like somebody trying to drive a car looking through a rear-view mirror. i think we've got to go to the future, figure out the things that we can do. that would be important. but if we look at the past i think it's important for us to think about the fact that when the economy teetered on the brink of catalysmic collapse, home sales ground to a holt and prices skyrocketed. our economy has slowly improved. the bureau of labor statics announced that the economy added 280,000 new jobs and the 63rd consecutive month o

mr. chairman, mr. ranking member, i yield back the time. mr. green: mr. chair, i yield back. mr. pitts: the chair thanks the gentleman. now i recognize the gentleman, mr. upton, five minutes. mr. upton: thank you, mr. chairman. back on september 11, 2001, the world as we knew it was turned upside down by the unthinkable acts of terrorism, which took the lives of nearly 3,000 individuals in new york, pennsylvania and virginia. left a mark on every american. everyone -- every one of us was impacted. from the smoldering ruins of the twins towers and the pentagon, to the wreckage of united airlines flight 93, the painful images and heartbreaking personal stories of that day every minute, will not be forgotten. we remember the thousands of innocent lives lost and the communities and loved ones they left behind and many of us met with those. we also honor the countless actings of heroism and leadership shown by the brave american men and women during those hours of pandemonium and in the days, weeks, months and now years that have followed. then for me, as chair of the telco subcommitte

mr. martin, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman and mr. secretary welcome back. mr. rush and you seem to have a mutual admiration relationship going on. >> do not get jealous. >> what? >> do not get jealous. >> well, i wouldn't go quite so far as superstar but my daughter has a saying that she learned in college when something's really cool, it's money. and i would say -- it's money. when you say it's money, it means that, man, that's hot and it's cool and it's right on the bean. i would say moniz is money. so not superstar but money. now, you know what i'm going -- i'm going to i have go you a chance to show just how money you are. what do you think i'm going to ask you right now? >> i don't know but i'm covering my wallet. >> you heard the chairman's opening statement. he talked about oil exports and, as you well know, mr. secretary, back in the '70s we had the opec embargo and this committee and the congress passed legislation, most of which has been repealed. we had price controls on the well head natural gas prices, price controls on crude oil, we had even retai

mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. duncan. with that, mr. serros is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. you know, i ride the amtrak just about every week. i ride the amtrak just about every week. and this accident really hit home. miss feinberg and mr. boardman, can you speak to the future of amtrak and passenger rail if congress continues to use patchwork approach to continued improvements? >> well, i would like to say mr. sires that my concern has been the reliability of the railroad. the reliability of what we do for our hardware on our system. the reliability of our use of tunnels. whether it's in new york or through the baltimore tunnels. that our reliable on the portal bridge that's ready to be rebuilt that doesn't always shut properly. so the funding for infrastructure on the northeast corridor is absolutely behind the curve. in the last reauthorization of our funding in the pria act, there was a commission established out of all the states, the federal government and amtrak, along the northeast corridor, and that's

mr. chairman. john katko: thank you, mr. keating. the chair now recognizes mr. carter from georgia for five minutes of questioning. mr. carter: thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate your leadership in this most disturbing situation we find ourselves in. mr. roth, i read your report and i appreciate it very much, but there were several things in your report that were very disturbing to me, very disturbing. first of all, it's my understanding that security credentials are being given to individuals regardless of their worker authorization dates. is that correct? john roth: that's correct. what we had found was, in fact, let's say you were authorized to work for 18 months, you would get a security badge that would not turn off at the determination of your end to work. mr. carter: so what you're telling me is that we might have people, and we may have people, we probably do have people who are walking around, unescorted in our airports and secure areas who are here illegally? john roth: who do not have authorization to work, yes. we identified that as a vulnerability

mr. chairman, i yield back. >> mr. smith of nebraska. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ank you for allowing me to join the committee today. i appreciate our panel today. i wish we had more time because i think we are covering some very important topics, and i'm concerned about the consumer operated and oriented plans. it may be no surprise to you from tennessee being from nebraska we have had some issues. to date hhs has awarded a reported $2 billion in federal loans to establish these plans to divest hhs and questions about what the answers even still. company opportunity in nebraska and iowa, served over 100,000 individuals. and he was seized by the state of iowa after only one year and this has been liquidated as you know. people who are these plans have been less than left confused understand and frustrated as well. and once again being forced to look for other insurance. so even lost the blood they were told that the they were told to keep and so that's why they went to go opportunity and yet lost that as well. -- co-opportunity. it serves some folks. it's my unders

mr. hochberg's remarks as the committee takes another hard look at the export-import bank. senator brown. >> thank you, mr. chairman or holding today's hearings and thank you care man hochberg for joining us again today. i especially want to thank you chairman hochberg for the outreach you've done to small businesses in my state, to the global access for small business forums that you held in cincinnati and mentor, ohio and northeast ohio and youngstown and the round tables in both toledo and columbus. i know you've done the same kinds of outreach virtually almost everywhere in the country. congress does our country no favors when it lunches from oneself-inflicted crisis to another. at the end of the year we saw an ideological fight over an event actual expiration of the terrorism risk insurance program. last sunday portions of the national security agency's authority expired. when we've dealt with the highway trust fund it's been in the short -- it's been in the form of short-term patches one after another. i believe 30 extensions something like that. now we're 27 face away from the export-import bank's authority expiring expiring. one member of the republican leadership is committed to a floor vote in june, another said it should happen on the highway bill extension at the end of july which most notably is after had this expires. this is not a way to do business for this committee, for this senate, for this congress. xm should be bipartisan and always has been since first authorized at the end of world war ii. according to the wall street journal prior to 2012 the senate had only once required a roll call vote only once in 70 years, a roll call vote to reauthorize x. am. the bank was reauthorized for example, by unanimous consent for the senate in 2006 under president bush and republican majorities if in the house and senate. the 2006, five-year reauthorization was followed by a five-month reauthorization in 2011, a two-year reauthorization in 2012 a nine-month reauthorization at the end of last year. this history, this this recent history, the long-term history has been done right, this recent history of limping from one short-term authorization to another is bad for small business owners who want certainty to plan their investment and hiring, but can't make long-term decisions because of congressional inaction. it's bad for the export-import bank to attract business that will expand u.s. exports and retain the necessary number of talented employees to oversee an expanding portfolio. it's bad for our economy because it makes the bank riskier, not safer, it makes it riskier it hurts our competitiveness. of course, xm is not perfect no person or institution in a country had large can be, but the work is so important and in today's global economy we need to support businesses when they sell their products around the globe. many on this committee have argued for fast track authority and will support the trans-pacific partnership which arguably, very arguably may or may not mean an increase, a net increase in jobs, but there's no question the xm bank means jobs it's not easy for small businesses to export but making sure they are aware of and have access to tools like xm can help them grow. we know that competitors around the world have their own version of export-import bank. there are about 60 export credit agencies worldwide. we shouldn't put our manufacturers and our exporters at a disadvantage to china, india, to european countries. it means more manufacturing, more exports more jobs particularly higher paying hurg jobs, it's why the work of xm is so important and why reauthorizing it by june 30 is essential. i look forward to working with colleagues, especially appreciated the comments on tuesday from smarts kirk and heitkamp and donnelly and others who are committed to ensuring that this authority doesn't lapse for the first time in seven decades. mr. chairman. >> mr. chairman, your written testimony we've reviewed it, it will be made part of the record in its entirety. if you would sum up your testimony we're going to -- after that we will -- if the senate is on schedule we will have a vote and break but we will wait and see. you're recognized. >> thank you. chairman ranking member, distinguished members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify about how xm ee kwips u.s. businesses to complete -- compete in the global economy and add jobs here at home. xm compliments and works with the private sector. we provide backstop financing so american entrepreneurs can seize global opportunities to create jobs and not get left behind by their foreign rivals. and we've been successful supporting 164,000 jobs last year alone. xm does not pick winners and losers, rather it serves any eligible american business seeking competitive financing. we are by definition demand driven. of course our customers pay fees and interest for th

mr. posey. mr. posey: thank you mr. chairman. with all due respect, there's nothing in this amendment that adds any restrictive impediments whatsoever. it only requires that the florida -- or that the department of transportation follow the law when they allocate these funds. although this is being called a private project the taxpayers will be on the hook for over $1.7 billion. that's $1.7 billion. so i think it's important, in the interest of protecting our taxpayers, certainly that we make sure the department of transportation follows the law. if there wasn't a propensity already demonstrated not to follow the law, i would not have to bother with this amendment. but it's clear there's some intentions to violate different provisions of the law and do things that they're not authorized to do and so that's why i urge my colleagues to support this commonsense amendment, to bring accountability and protect taxpayers for $1.7 billion. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time.

mr. chairman. >> mr. perry's recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, gentlemen, for being here. this is a difficult subject trying to fine the line between privacy and security, as we've -- i think everybody's alluded to. let me ask you this. there are folks that might wear their heart on their sleeve regarding this circumstance radical islam, attacks and so on and so forth. and they might be having a conversation openly on the social media where they espouse their opinions which might lead them to be a target for some of these individuals, if you know what i mean. and maybe even some of the folks in the building, somebody that's having this hearing today or asking questions like this. do you folks have any way or do the platforms have any way of monitoring traffic about those individuals that might have had a conversation with a friend openly on open source, online about their disdain for radical islam, for attacks, and might have been disparaging about it, did they become a target? does that individual become a target? any way that the social platforms have a way of monitoring

mr. chairman. mr. chairman: we recognize mr. carter for five minutes. mr. carter: thank you, mr. chairman, mr. chairman, members of panel, in preparation for this hearing, i actually used my search engine on my computer to look up foia request and i was quite surprised and somewhat disappointed, i have to be honest with you that one of the results is what i hold in my hand and this is handout from the website of the minority leader, the minority party leader in the senate, senator harry reid. i is a document that encourages deferred action, applicants to file foia requests, to file foia requests for records and immigration files so the lawful permanent residents here now can actually find out and be prepared when the parents of their child file for deferred status. i was shocked. it's quite impressive and offers tips as to what they should do to file the foia requests but clearly states in this handout it clearly states that the united states citizenship and immigration services is not currently accepting any applications because of the court order that we're familiar with. yet, i

mr. cartwright for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. george, i want to ask you about your ever-changing estimates of the new e-mails that you recovered from mrs. lerner. your numbers started at 80,000 e-mails in february. then it dropped to 32,000 e-mails at the end of february. then last week, it fell to 6,400. nine days later, now, it has sunk to about 1,000. your new number today is 98% lower than the first number you gave us. you know, there's -- this is a nk.][ room where we like to hear the truth. there was a great justice of the supreme court of the united states, oliver wendell holmes, and he talked about the truth. he said, the truth is tough. it's not like a bubble that you can prick and it'll explode. it's more like a rugged football that you can kick around all day, and it doesn't lose its shape and doesn't lose its form and it stays the same. the truth doesn't change. when you're talking about a story that's true, mr. george, it's the same the first time you tell it, the second time you tell it, the third time you tell it an

mr. collins, is recognized. mr. collins: thank you, mr. chairman. i just want to thank, and i watched my time here, both of you on floort, defending and working nuclear weapons this area and continuing this process. i appreciate what has been done here. i know it's an intricate proposition. we have already said and i believe that this issue of o.c.o. funding and base funding needs to be resolved. it needs to be resolved in a way that reflects just a simple back to what will become more straightforward budgeting process. that's something we can get there. it also goes back to the last few minutes of conversation here. i know myself and other members have had conversations. this is a conversation that needs to happen. i do think it is very disturbing in light of your conversation just now, you are exactly right. there is a bigger picture here than an isis or isil centered centric response or authorization. we have other issues in that area. and i think just going simply off of the really over decade old authorizations that we are currently under which

mr. rangel. >> thank you, mr. chairman but i do want to thank my colleague mr. johnson, for not drinking all that kool-aid that you have in the back against obamacare. people know we're trying to provide health care is very healthy and i certainly, i can't try that kool-aid because i was a former altar boy and i went to school and all the religions, and i just thought that the right thing for americans to do is to believe in health care was part -- it doesn't even seem like a political thing if a kid is sick and someone says that you can't have health care, it should paint us as human beings if a person goes to a doctor and find out that the child has a disease but he can't get insurance. if we find the good samaritan on the side of the road we know that most people, middle-class people have a choice but poverty sometimes restrict people from getting there. it just seems to me that instead of tearing out a system where you know in your hearts you for getting health care that you would say, i don't like the way you have done it mr. president. i don't like the way

mr. o'rourke. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, in the nine lines of effort that comprise our strategy, the first one you cited is political and you said every other line of effort follows that and we must have successful politically. if we're going to be successful at all in any of the other lines of strategy and if we're going to achieve our goals in the region. you gave as an example in your opening testimony building governance. can you tell us where we have built governance in that region successfully, and the follow-up question to that is how long will that take since everything follows the success of the first line of effort? >> that's a very good question and it's a very complicated task, and in iraq it will mean when helping the iraqis, helping them when they recover territory from isil to build a system of governance that the people who live there support and are willing to support and defend in the long term. you said where have we had success? my own view is we've had considerable success in afghanistan, just

mr. cartwright for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. george, i want to ask you about your ever-changing estimates of the new e-mails that you recovered from mrs. lerner. your numbers started at 80,000 e-mails in february. then it dropped to 32,000 e-mails at the end of february. last week, it fell to 6,400. nine days later, now, it has sunk to about 1,000. your new number today is 98% lower than the first number you gave us. you know, there's -- this is a room where we like to hear the truth. there was a great justice of the supreme court of the united states, oliver wendell holmes, and he talked about the truth. he said, the truth is tough. it's not like a bubble that you can prick and it'll explode. it's more like a rugged football that you can kick around all day, and it doesn't lose its shape and doesn't lose its form and it stays the same. the truth doesn't change. when you're talking about a story that's true, mr. george, it's the same the first time you tell it, the second time you tell it, the third time you tell it and the fourt

mr. king: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, this amendment addresses the circumstances around the trade promotion authority and later on perhaps the trans-pacific partnership but it addresses any trade negotiation that might take place that would be funded under this bill. and the rationale is this that there's been much concern about the negotiations with regard to trade promotion authority in particular, enabling the discussion about immigration visas as being part of the trade negotiations. it's a long-standing pattern and practice of this congress to assert our constitutional authority over immigration visas and when our u.s. trade representative or other negotiators bring in negotiations that have to do with visas, it complicates our trade negotiations and makes us -- puts us in a place where when we see a trade agreement come before us, perhaps it's under a trade promotion authority that it would be negotiated and this house votes on it. then it may well have in it visas agreements that have been negotiated with

mr. chairman, i yield back. >> mr. o'rourke. >> thank you mr. chairman. mr. secretary, in the nine lines of effort that comprise our strategy, the first one you cited is political. and you said every other line of effort follows that and we must be successful politically if we want to be successful at all and the other lines of strategy and to achieve our goals in the region. you gave as an example in your opening testimony, building governance. can you tell us where we have built governance in that region successfully. the follow question is how long will that take since everything , follows the success of the first line of effort? secretary carter: that is a very good question. it's a very complicated task, and in iraq, it will mean when helping the iraqis, helping them when they recover territory from isil, to build a system of governance that people who live their support and are willing to support and defend in the long term. you say where have we had success? my own view is we have had considerable success in afghanistan. i was just speaking to president

mr. chairman. >> mr. hunter. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general, mr. secretary thanks for being here. i guess i don't know they've been asking about isis pretty shot and heavy here, we will keep it in the middle east. you're familiar with two years ago i asked secretary hagel to institute a hostage policy review, i asked him to appoint a hostage point person for dod, it ended up going mike lumpkin who is now asd solic and secretary agel did that, the white house instituted a hostage policy review. all of this came about because things were brought to my attention by a lieutenant colonel a approximate marie special forces sold earlier, fought in afghanistan, was working in a section of dod working in hostage policy and hostage recovery for dod. he is now being investigated. he's being basically drummed out of the army. you would not have a hostage policy review unless secretary agel started it on my own without my request. i would not have requested it you would not have had a hostage point person in mike lumpkin is not for lieutenant colonel amarie. senator johnson wrote you a letter a

mr. frelinghuysen: mr. chairman, i yield to the gentleman from mississippi, mr. palazzo, member of the appropriations committee for the purposes of a colloquy. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. palazzo: thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you, chairman frelinghuysen. i'd like to thank you and your staff for all your hard work in crafting this defense appropriations act. as a marine veteran, current member of the mississippi national guard, as a former member of the house armed services committee, i fully understand the importance of this legislation. mr. chairman, as you well know, the united states navy and marine corps are the nation's forward deployment response force in times of crisis. the ability to responds to all types of conflict as well as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief is what separates the united states navy and the marine corps team from the rest of the world. however as a result of declining resources, the navy has struggled to reach oates h its own stated goal of 306 ships. a not insignificant portion of this fleet consists of

mr. pozzi. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, in october of 2013 the online publication repeal factor.com, submitted a freedom of information request for documents concerning the intergovernmental agreements with the united kingdom, switzerland and canada. the department promptly acknowledged a request on october 24th 2013 stated that expedited treatment has been approved. this is a letter from your agency. however since then, there have been no responses from the department. despite repeated follow-up inquiries from the requester. on january 27th of this year, 15 months after the initial request, i sent you a letter asking for prompt action on the request, and to keep me informed on the response that would be fourth coming. despite additional inquiries, the only answer i received so far is we're working on it. it's now been 20 months. almost two years since their simple initial request under the freedom of information act, and five months since my letter inquiring about the status of that request. is this the treasury

mr. latta for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman mr. secretary, welcome back to the committee. always good to have you here. if i could follow up with the gentleman from pennsylvania mr. fitz was asking, you mentioned the swap for light versus heavy with mexico. maybe some folks may not understand why you would have to have a swap. why is that that you have to swap light for heavy crude? >> i mentioned that's what the mexicans have petitioned for. currently we do not have authorities for exporting oil directly to mexico, so they -- my understanding, this isn't d.o.e., but my understanding is they asked for this idea of a swap, under consideration. i believe at department of commerce. >> thanks very much. another issue not only has this subcommittee taken up but especially the telecom subcommittee in regards to cyber attacks, physical attacks that could occur to our infrastructure in this country. something of growing concern and great concern we all have as to what could happen. the committee discussion draft for energy reliability and security provides the secretary of energy t

mr. rangel. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i don't want to thank my colleague mr. nson for not drinking the kool-aid in the back against obamacare. obamacare. >> try that kool-aid. >> i can't try that kool-aid i was a former church boy and i thought that the right thing for americans to do was to believe that healthcare was a part of the pursuit of happiness. it doesn't even seem like a political thing. if a kid is sick and someone says you cannen have healthcare it should pain you see as human beings if a person goes to a doctor and finds out that the child has an illness, but he can't get insurance. if we find the good samaritan on the side of the road and we know that most people middle class people have insurance but that pofr sometimes restricts people from getting this it just seems to me that instead of tearing down the system where you know if in your hearts people are getting healthcare, that you would say, i don't like the way you've done it, mr. president. i don't like the way you democrats have done it. let us help you to do it better. but to take some s