mr. defazio: if the gentleman would yield for one second. mr. broun: one second. sure. mr. defazio: give me four, maybe. i did not mean to direct the remark to you. so that was -- it was a generic statement out of concern. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. broun: the gentleman did obviously direct the remarks towards me. he pointed at me when he said, why do you hate america so much. i love my country. i'm a u.s. marine. i'm trying to save my country from financial collapse. and that's what this is all about. stop spending money that we don't have. we've got to finish a project that we've already started. those that have already been approved and funded, before we start dipping into the general fund. it's estimated that we'll have a short fall of $8 billion to $9 billion if this motion to instruct is not put in place. we cannot afford status quo. their argument is to continue spending money, continue down a road that is going to cause a financial collapse of this nation. in my opinion. we need to create jobs. we need to get thi

mr. defazio: i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: amendment number 2 offered by mr. defazio of oregon. the chair: the gentleman from florida, -- oregon, mr. defazio, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon. mr. defazio: i thank the chair. my amendment is simple. what it says is that should this legislation pass in the 100,000 acres of forest pass over to the sea alaska native corporation, a for-profit corporation, that we would ban the export of unprocessed logs from those lands. this would be consistent with the law that applies to the lower 48, west of the mississippi river. in 1990, i partnered with senator bob packwood from oregon to make permanent what had then been an appropriations rider ban since the era of wayne morris. and the rationale for that was that, you know, we should not be a tree farm for other nations. we want to be an industrial nation, we want to get value added, we want to export infish -- finish if -- finished products overseas. we've seen in the last couple of years a flood of private

mr. defazio, for three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized for three minutes. mr. defazio: i thank the gentleman for yielding time. since the founding of our nation there has been bipartisan agreement on the need for the federal government to play a strong role in interconnecting the states of our country. it was george washington who said the only binding cement and no otherwise to be affected but by opening such communications as will make it easier and cheaper for them to bring the product of their labor to our market and that's relevant today. i'll address that in a moment. the second quote, which is relevant to the dispute today, is, we're either united people under one head for federal purposes or we are 13 independent subentities, eternally counteracting each other. this is the need, the gentleman knows this photo well. there are more than 70,000 bridges that are structurally deficient in this country. there are others, another 70,000 or so that are functionally obsolete.

mr. defazio. mr. zio: i would like to key in on one of the aspects of the proposal, to invest $450 billion in our crumbling infrastructure. some people say to me, well, congressman, i don't work in construction. these aren't just construction jobs. we have the strongest buy america requirements in the area of transportation investment. underlie -- underline two words. investments and jobs. now, those investments, if made under buy america in, say, transit vehicles, involve engineering, manufacturing, they involve, you know, steel manufacturing, they involve sophisticated fabrication of vehicles, tires for buses, all those sorts of things. we could put millions of people back to work and begin to revive the devastated american manufacturing sector and for once keeping the chinese from stealing our jobs because of the buy america protections. but no, the republicans don't want to do that they don't like the buy america provisions in the bill and they don't want to make the investments. we were here until

mr. defazio of oregon. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. rahall: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon will control the time. mr. mica: i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from tennessee who chairs the wonderful job of the highway and leading the highway subcommittee, mr. duncan, the gentleman from tennessee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for three minutes. mr. duncan: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of the conference report on h.r. 4348, the surface transportation re-authorization bill 2012. i first want to salute chairman mica for the tremendous job he has done in bringing this bill to the floor today. and i want to thank him for allowing me to serve as chairman of the highways and transit subcommittee. this monumental reform package will be considered the signature jobs bill for the 112th congress. i'm pleased to have been a conferee on the negotiations of the conference report. states will have over two years of funding certain

mr. defazio of oregon, at the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following -- the chair: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. frelinghuysen: i reserve a point of order on the gentleman's amendment. the chair: point of order is reserved. the clerk will continue reading mr. defaso: i ask unanimous consent that the reading be suspended. the chair: is the objection to suspense with further reading of the amendment? without objection, so ordered. the gentleman from oregon is recognized. mr. defazio: i thank the chair. this is a very, very dramatic map. the colors indicate gasoline prices across america as of last week by county. as you can see, the entire west coast of the united states is in bright red. now, we often hear from the oil and gas industry, prices are set. internationally. this is an international market. you have to understand that. it's kind of interesting. crude oil prices are down dramatically. u.s. production of crude is up 1.5 million perils a day. we are exporting gasoline from the united states of america. but somehow we are missing that intern

mr. defazio section 9104-d of the title 48 code of federal regulations which shall be debatable for 20 minutes. an amendment by mr. denham regarding section 10011-b of public law 11-11. an amendment by mr. engel limiting funds for the new light duty vehicles which will be debatable for 20 minutes. an amendment by mr. flake regarding an across the board direction. an amendment by mr. flake regarding the wind power america initiative. an amendment for the batteries electric drive technology program. an amendment by mr. flores limiting funds to enforce section 526 of the energy independence and security act of 2007. an amendment by mr. fortenberry regarding funding levels for defense nuclear nonproliferation. an amendment by mr. fortenberry for the proposed energy conservation program, energy conservation standard for battery charges and external power supplies. an amendment by mr. frelinghuysen regarding funding levels. an amendment en bloc by mr. frelinghuysen consisting of amendments specified in this order not disposed -- earlier disposed of. an amendment by mr. gardner regarding energy manag