mr. farenthold, for five minutes. mr. farenthold: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. horowitz mr. lynch really hit on something with respect to the good old boy culture and this is my concern that i'm seeing more and more of the good old boy culture as this committee continues its investigation. i mean, we've seen it with the d.e.a. sex parties. we've seen it with some of the things going on in the secret service admittedly, not subject to this. we see -- we see it in a lot of government agencies. in your investigation, do you get a sense that there is a good old boy mentality? is it as bad as i think it is? inspector general horowitz: it's interesting, congressman, you used those words. because our was the good old boy roundups in the 1990's. we did a report in the 1996 about the culture and the need to make it clear about what is permissible and what clearly isn't permissible off-duty and yet we're 20 years later and there are still no departmentwide policies or training. ms. farenthold: ms. leonhart, you run the d.e.a. do you think it's appropriate in your offtime do engage pro

mr. farenthold for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. store which, mr.ch really hit on something with respect to the good old boy culture. and this is my concern that i am seeing more and more of the good old boy culture as this committee continues its investigation. i think, we have seen with the dba six parties. we've seen with some of the things going on in the secret service admittedly, not subject to this period we see we see it in a lot of government agencies. in your investigation, you get a sense that there is a good old boy mentality, that this is as bad as i think it is? >> it's interesting you use those words because this all our first review was of the google blog roundup events back in the early '90s. we did report in 1996 about the culture and the need to make it clear -- good old boy roundup -- what clearly is a permissible on and off today we're 20 years later and there's still no depart what policies or training training. >> you run the dea. do you think it's appropriate in your off time, even in the country where prostitution is illegal

mr. farenthold. >> thank you. mr. lynch hit on something with respect to the good old boy culture. this is my concern that i'm seeing more and more of the good old boy culture as this committee continues itself investigation. i mean we've seen it in the d.e.a. sex parties. we've seen it with some of the things going on in the secret service, admittedly, not subject to this. we see it in a lot of government agencies. in your investigation, do you get a sense that there is a good old boy mentality? is it as bad as i think it is? >> well it's interesting, congressman, you use those words, because our first review was of the good old boy roundup events back in the early '90s. we did a report in 1996 about the culture and the need to make it clear about what is permissible and what clearly isn't permissible on and off duty. yet, 20 years later there are still no department-wide pollicy policies or training. >> ms. leonhart you run the d.e.a. is it appropriate in your off time, even in a country where prostitution is illegal, to engage with prostitutes? >> absolutely not. it's against po

mr. farenthold and myself and mr.issa were down in central america recently, and that's a big part of the epa's mission is really to combat human trafficking. would actually give grants to the department, to the dea into the fbi and the state department as part of the trafficking victims protection act and the violence against women act. we give grants to your agency to prevent human trafficking prevent prostitution. and get the very people, and their departments that are getting this money come in this case, are engaging in human trafficking. and it just brings me, you know back to the unbeliever ability of what has happened here -- and believability. it is really unbelievable. under the douglas factors that we use in determining discipline, one of the factors is the seriousness of the offense and whether the offense is in direct violation of the agency policy. and the notoriety of the offense, and whether that offense prohibits that individual from doing their job. so in this case we have dea agents that are still o

mr. farenthold and myself and mr.issa were down in central america recently, and that's a big part of the epa's mission is really to combat human trafficking. we actually give grants to the department, to the dea into the fbi and the state department as part of the trafficking victims protection act and the violence against women act. we give grants to your agency to prevent human trafficking, prevent prostitution. and get the very people, and their departments that are getting this money come in this case, are engaging in human trafficking. and it just brings me, you know, back to the unbelievabilityof of what has happened here. it is really unbelievable. under the douglas factors that we use in determining discipline, one of the factors is the seriousness of the offense and whether the offense is in direct violation of the agency policy. and the notoriety of the offense, and whether that offense prohibits that individual from doing their job. so in this case we have dea agents that are still on the job, that are rec

mr. farenthold: thank you, mr. chairman. my amendment is very straightforward. if an employee of the department of veterans affairs has received a work performance review rated as unsatisfactory in the last fiscal year, they'll not be able to receive a salary for this fiscal year 2016. mr. chairman, there have been all sorts of media reports about how secretary mcdonald has been trying to reform the v.a. but it's been having trouble getting rid of the bad apples. this is one way we could help him do that. for instance, the v.a. employees in the 27th congressional district of texas that i represent and across the nation continue to provide vital care to our veterans. in the 27th district, our local medical center's well below the national standards for both customer service and phone standards. mr. chairman, an official report from the v.a. inspector general found that about 1,700 veterans were in need of care and were at risk of being lost or forgotten after being kept off official waiting lists. schedules for the veterans administration were told to hide delays

mr. farenthold: i appreciate you yielding time to me even though i'm in support of this amendment. listen, we need this legislation because our companies and our industries, our government and even our individual citizens are under attack by foreign cyberhackers, under attack from criminals. we need the cooperation between the government and the private sector. but unfortunately, we see that well-meaning folks in the government sometimes get overzealous in their data collection. we section 215 of the patriot act, we saw in the snowden revelations that metadata on phones was being collected. we didn't know that when we passed the patriot act. we can take a look a few years down the road and making sure this this isn't being misinterpreted not in line with the constitution. this sunset is a critical piece of the bill. the bill's not perfect, but makes it a whole lot better and gives us a second bite at the apple should things be going wrong. and i appreciate your yielding. the chair: the gentleman from california has 1 1/4 minutes remaining. and the gentleman from south carolina has