to mr. farr. mr. farr: thank you for yielding. thank you for your leadership on this bill. i rise in support of this bill for many reasons. the first reason is that america needs to market itself. you'd think -- you think, oh, everybody loves america. what i found in my travels is that not everybody has the same opinion about america. if you turn on your television right now, the rest of the world is trying to get people who live in this country to go travel to their country, go to spain, go to the caribbean, go to new zealand, go everywhere. go to canada. it's all trying to get our people to be tourists in their country. well, finally, we did something about it. we've been doing this in agriculture for a long time work agriculture marketing act, we decided, let's market america. let's tell people what this great country is and how you can get here and what you're going to see when you get here. it's had a tremendous effect. it really has. to me the biggest jump starter for jobs you can do because tourism is everywhere. it's all those things. it's restaurants, it's museums,

mr. farr: thank you, madam ranking chair, for yielding. i rise, madam speaker, on this bill with great concern. i feel bringing a lot of fashions to this debate because i lived in the barrios, like the ones children were coming from, when i was a peace corps volunteer in latin america. this is not a border crisis. this is not a border security issue. this is a humanitarian crisis. it's caused by problems on both sides of the border. our country has a lot at fault here because we have not addressed comprehensive immigration reform, which means we have 11 million people living in the united states undocumented. they are essentially incarcerated in this contry. they are not allowed to go home because the minute they go home and try to get back to the united states, they get arrested and they are not allowed to ever return. or barred for 10 years to return. what happens? they have been living here for years and years. they have children that they left because there were job opportunities here. and those children are now living in places that a

mr. farr: thank you, madam ranking chair, for yielding. i rise, madam speaker, on this bill with great concern. i feel bringing a lot of fashions to this debate because i lived in the barrios, like the ones children were coming from, when i was a peace corps volunteer in latin america. this is not a border crisis. this is not a border security issue. this is a humanitarian crisis. it's caused by problems on both sides of the border. our country has a lot at fault here because we have not addressed comprehensive immigration reform, which means we have 11 million people living in the united states undocumented. they are essentially incarcerated in this contry. they are not allowed to go home because the minute they go home and try to get back to the united states, they get arrested and they are not allowed to ever return. or barred for 10 years to return. what happens? they have been living here for years and years. they have children that they left because there were job opportunities here. and those children are now living in places that a

peter welch, and my co-chair of the tourism caucus, mr. farr, who i believe will speak in a few minutes, for their work on this legislatn

mr. mccaul and the gentlewoman from new ork, ms. farr, each will control 20 minutes. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. mccaul: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mccaul: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mccaul: i rise in support of .r. 3696, the national cybersecurity and critical infra structure protection act of 2014. i've worked on this for a long time with my colleague, the gentleman from pennsylvania, congressman meehan. i'd like to thank ranking member thompson as well as ranking member clarke of the cybersubcommittee for their hard work in forging this bipartisan bill. these efforts once again prove that we can work together despite our differences to craft legislation that improves our national security and help prospect american critical infrastructure from devastating cyberattacks. just last week, the homeland security committee heard t