mr. clawson of florida, second amendment by mr. poe of texas. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic votes in this series. the unfin herbed bids is the request for a recorded vote on the amendment. the clerk willres. designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. lowenthal of california. the chair: the house will come to order. the house will come to order. the house will come to order. the house will come to order. recorded vote has been requested, those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be downed. the chair reminds all that this is a two-minute vote series. a two-minute vote series. members will record their votes by electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this amendment the yeas are 195, th

mr. curt clawson. mr. clawson: you do not have an easy job. thank you for coming and thank you for your service. it sounds to me that the rest of the world gets a great deal here. the oil companies get to run great surpluses. we fund their economies. the manufacturing outsourcing countries of the world shine in the top-of-the-line run grade -- run great trade surpluses with us. i to the u.n. and pound on us and israel. i heard earlier from congressman deutsch and others, not objective in respect to israel slavery and cuba. overall not objective. we get to pay for it. in nominal terms, we are over 20% of the world to gdp. we are paying over 20% the cost of the u.n.. -- the cost of the u.n. there's something wrong with this picture. we are not using our money at the yuan to create leverage. nor are we using our markets to create leverage. we fund everyone else's economy. then we turn around and tolerate the kind of things you have been talking about today. being mr. and mrs. nice guy does not seem to be working. it feels like people only underst

mr. clawson: thank you. i'll be brief and improve just a little bit on a very good bill and my congratulations to the team and to the ranking member and to the chairman. including -- included in the u.s. fish and wildlife resource management account is funding for the national wildlife review system. by my amendment, we ask an extra $1 million be added to this account. we are offsetting the increase by taking $1 million from the $2.4 billion environmental protection agency programs and management account. hardly a stretch. the national wildlife system has grown to over $-- 563 national wildlife refuge and 38 wetland management districts. 150 million acres in all. we have several of these national wildlife refuges in my district or near my district, including darling national wildlife refuge on santa bell island and the florida panther national wildlife refuge outside of naples. darling national wildlife refuge in particular sets itself apart as a leading contributor to the economy with 816,000 visitors a yea

mr. clawson, any chance the plant's going to open back up? i'm having a hard time making ends meet and paying for my kid's college education and unfortunately, i can't give them much hope. if those plants close because of lack of american competitiveness, i can swallow hard and i can accept. but when those plants close because of currency manipulation which is an after thought today, then i don't accept it. and my sadness for this unemployment turns to hardness, which is where i am today. this is not about american competitiveness. this is about getting a chance for world class manufacturing facilities who eliminate jobs. i say currency manipulation no way. i say t.p.a., no way. i say vote no. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: may i inquire as to how many speakers are left on the other side? mr. levin: we have one and i'll close. mr. ryan: same as us. i yield one minute to the distinguished chairman of the house rules committee the co-author of the t.p.a. bill mr. sessions. the

mr. clawson: with respect to china, the american consumer is funding the building of their military and their economic prowess. did we ever talk about not only having them pay for what they pay for what that -- pay for what they know at the u.n., -- u.n.? ambassador power: the fact of the matter is we as a nation have an interest in global health security, because of the globalized economy, goods of people are crossing the border. i think it doesn't really get at the core national security linkages and human security linkages that exist in 2015. i would note on peacekeeping that peacekeeping is a major prosecution, it is not all forces that are going in and protecting civilians. we are taking advantage of the global system as well, in order to ensure issues of shares security are being patrolled and demand about -- patrolled and manned by other individuals that americans. peacekeeping share that we pay still leaves the rest of the shares. to put aside the fact that there are other countries going to the dangerous places. other countries are paying 72% of the bill. if you look at nato expense

mr. clawson, any chance the plant's going to open back up? i'm having a hard time making ends meet and paying for my kid's college education and unfortunately, i can't give them much hope. if those plants close because of lack of american competitiveness, i can swallow hard and i can accept. but when those plants close because of currency manipulation which is an after thought today, then i don't accept it. and my sadness for this unemployment turns to hardness, which is where i am today. this is not about american competitiveness. this is about getting a chance for world class manufacturing facilities who eliminate jobs. i say currency manipulation no way. i say t.p.a., no way. i say vote no. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: may i inquire as to how many speakers are left on the other side? mr. levin: we have one and i'll close. mr. ryan: same as us. i yield one minute to the distinguished chairman of the house rules committee the co-author of the t.p.a. bill mr. sessions. the

mr. clawson of florida, page 14 line 1, insert increased by $2 million. page 25 line 3 after the dollar amount insert reduced by $2 million. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 287, the gentleman from florida and a member opposed each will control five minutes. mr. clawson: i'm introducing an amendment that would take $2 million for general activities current budget of $885 million, which has been flat over the last several years. and i would put this $2 million instead to noaa in their department of operations, research and facilities fund, specifically directed to noaa's national marine fishery service, habitat conservation and restoration initiative. this nationwide initiative includes hundreds of community-based habitat restoration projects that conserve or restore america's precious native species and critical water quality restoration. this amendment is consistent with the focus of my office to cut government spending and motivate our civil servant management teams to achieve higher cost efficiencies throughout the federal government and to focu

mr. kirk clawson of florida. thank you for coming. thank you for your service to our country. it sounds to me sometimes after listening today, which i did both when i was in the room and when i was not that the rest of the rocket great deal here. the oil companies get to read great surpluses with us. we find their economies. the manufacturing outsourced countries of the world are a great trade surplus with us. then they'll go to the u.n. and pound on us. they pound on israel. i heard earlier from congressman deutsch and others not object with respect to israel. not object with slavery and cuba. just overall not object to it. on top of all of that we get to pay for it. in nominal terms where 20% of the world's gdp but as i understand we pay 20% to the u.n. there's something wrong with the picture. it seems we are not using our money at the u.n. to create by rage and nor are we using market to create that page. so we find everyone else's economy and in the global economy we are the antigen and then we turned around and tolerate the kinds of things you are talking about today. be

mr. clawson of florida for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the request is granted. the chair will now entertain requests for one-minute speeches. the speaker pro tempore: if members please take your conversations out of the chamber so we can get started. member -- member -- members and staff please clear the well. for what purpose does the member from florida seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute.

mr. clawson offered with equal numbers of democrats and republicans, 22 of us to deal with currency man national park plays, was not made in order because it would not align with the already negotiated transpacific partnership. most everybody agrees it would be goodpolicy. this deal is already written and now we are trying to back a t.p.a. bill in that will accommodate t.p.p. it's rather difficult for me to accept the argument that this t.p.a. question has nothing to do with the transpacific partnership when everybody in this house of representatives knows that it has everything -- will i not yield. i have limited time. the other thing that's important for to us keep in mind is that this is the worst piece of legislation than the bad one that came before the house last week. because of the modifications to t.p.a. that came through in the customs bill, as my colleagues have said despite the fact that many on the other side have argued our attempts to deal with climate change here in the u.s. alone will not be affected because it's not a global approach, when we have an opportunity to take a broad