mr. franks votes aye. mr. lobesack, votes no. mr. schuster boats aye. miss tsongas votes. miss pengri votes no. mr. landborn votes eye. mr. kissle votes aye. mr. witman votes aye. mr. heinrich votes aye. mr. hunter votes aye. mr. owens votes aye. dr. fleming, votes aye. mr. garamendi votes no. mr. kauffman votes eye. mr. critz votes no. mr. rooney, mr. rooney votes eye. mr. ryan votes no plxt plats, votes eye. mr. rubbers burger. votes no. mr. ridgel votes eye. mr. johnson votes no. mr. gibson votes aye. miss sutton votes no. mrs. heartsler, votes aye. miss hanabusa votes no. dr. heck votes eye. miss hokele votes no. mr. schilling votes aye. miss spear votes no plxt runnion votes aye. mr. scott votes aye. mr. griffin, votes aye. mr. po lazo. votes aye. mr. west votes aye. mr. roby votes aye. mr. brooks votes aye. mr. young votes aye. mr. akin, votes aye. >> clerk will report the tally. >> 38 aye votes, 24 no votes. >> the amendment is agreed to. the committee postponed further proceedings on the amendment offered by mr. witman. the question now occurs on the amendment offe

mr. franks votes no. mr. loebsack votes no. ms. pi in pgree votes aye. mr. lamborn votes no. plrks kissel votes aye. mr. whitman votes aye. mr. hinrich votes aye. mr. hunter votes aye. mr. owens votes aye. dr. fleming votes no. mr. garamendi votes aye. mr. critz rotes aye. mr. rooney votes aye. mr. ryan votes aye. mr. platts votes aye. mr. ruppersberger votes aye. mr. johnson votes aye. mr. gibson votes aye. ms. sutton votes aye. ms. hartzler votes a ye. mrs. hanabusa votes aye. dr. heck votes no. m.hochul votes aye. mr. schilling? mr. schilling votes aye. ms. speier votes aye. mr. runyon votes aye. mr. scott votes aye. mr. griffin votes aye. mr. palazzo votes no. mr. west votes no. mrs. roby votes aye. mr. brooks? mr. brooks votes aye. mr. young votes no. oh, mr. jones. mr. brady is recorded as no. >> aye. >> mr. brady votes aye. >> and ms. davis? >> ms. davis votes aye. mr. mcintyre votes aye. >> mr. chairman, i would like to change my vote to an aye. >> ms. sanchez votes aye. >> let's not change anymore until we find out the results. >> mr. rogers votes aye. anyone else wi

now mr. frank is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate your acknowledgment of the work we did together. it actually is work that began with one of your texas colleagues, mr. gonzalez, who works down with us who was a pioneer in forcing the federal reserve to be open. he made them release information they claimed didn't exist. kind of a magical feat. one of the things that ought to be noted, in every instance, beginning with mr. gonzalez and maybe before, in the work we did as the information flow has increased, it has been beneficial. there have been none of the negative effects some people have worried about. at the same time, it ought to be clear that the release of all this information has, i think, helped dispel the notion that there were nefarious things going on. we've gotten a lot of information out under the legislation we have that there will be no transactions the federal reserve engages in with private companies that won't at some point be made public. i think that has reflected well on what they've done and sugges

i want to ask you a question, mr. frank, about, you know, the appointees, whether they're approved by the senate or not. because a lot of people that i talk to are very interested in this subject. you know, they -- they're very concerned about the fact that this isn't a government operation. this is a private operation. they don't like the private. now, do you think you fully answer that, or do you partially answer the question by saying people have to be approved by the senate? has this become less private and less sinister? >> i wouldn't say sinister. i don't think the people on the federal reserve regional boards who are predominantly from the financial industry in terms of influence, when they pick a president, who in turn picks the new people. that's not sinister. they're people of goodwill. i diminish the extent to which it's private sector by not having them vote. there's another thing we could do, mr. chairman. you were absent when we voted here during the reconciliation markup on whether or not to subject the feder

mr. franks, five minutes. >> well, thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, first let me say it is very difficult to add much to the substance of mr. turner's response. first a few observations. a lot of us are familiar with the civil war, john sedgewick that was trying to upbraid some of his younger soldiers there for dodging bullets. and his comments, i'm told among his last words were they couldn't hit an elephant at this distance. and he was killed about a second later. and -- it is always astonishing to me that -- that we kind of cavalierly suggest that we don't need a redundancy when it comes to missile defense against dang has ever devised. i don't think one has to be a missile defense or nuclear expert to be able to suggest that a nuclear warhead going off in your backyard is a fairly negative development. it is always astonishing to me that when we have this debate that we overlook the fact that our system is the only tested system that we have that defends the homeland against intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warhead the mo

mr. franks: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on h.r. 3541 as amended. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. franks: thank you, mr. speaker. and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. franks: mr. speaker, the prenatal nondiscrimination act we are debating at this moment says that an unborn child cannot be discriminated against by subjecting them to an abortion based on the sex of the child. because between 40% and 50% of african-american babies, nearly one in two, are killed by abortion, that's five times, mr. chairman, the rate of white children, i believe with all my heart that this bill should also prohibit race-targeted abortion as it did when the bill was first introduced. it is my hope that by protecting unborn children from being aborted based to on their sex, that one day very soo

now mr. frank is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate your intelligent of the work we did together. work that began with one of your texas colleagues who works down, a pioneer in enforcing the federal reserve to be open. he made them release information they claimed didn't exist. kind of a magical feat, but one of the things that ought to be noted in every instance beginning with mr. gonzalez, and maybe before, and the work we did as the information flow has increased it has been beneficial. there have been none of the negative effects. at the same time in order to be clear that the release of all this information has i think dispel the notion that there were nefarious things going on. we've gotten a lot of information out under the legislation would have. there will be no transaction the federal reserve engages in with private company that won't at some point be made public. i think that has reflected well on what they've done and again suggested that there was something untoward going on. haven't been proven true. now, i f

mr. frank is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. just briefly. i noticed in the unblock amendment that there didn't seem to be the space interceptor language we were told was in the on block. for clarification, if i could yield to mr. turner to give me perspective on that. >> mr. franks, that's the second unblocked package. >> oh, that's the second one. forgive me. never mind. >> any other discussion? gentleman from new jersey. yes. i would like to thank you and the the chairman for some help with an issue that i want to engage on mr. turner, i would like to be thank you for including language in the sub committee mark that provides quit call oversight of the joint space operation mission center program. i think it's important that the fighter meet the

mr. franks, that's in a second en bloc package. >> it's a second one. forgive me. never mind, as the lady said. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. >> any other discussion? gentleman from new jersey, andrews is recognized. >> yes. i'd like the thank you and the chairman and ranking member sanchez for some help with an issue that i wanted to engage in a short colloquy with the subchairman committee mr. turner on. mr. turner, i would like to thank you for including language that provides critical oversight of the joint space operation center mission program. i think it's very important that the department meet the requirements of the war fighter and improve this program's current capabilities while maximizing cost-effectiveness by leveraging readily available government and commercial capabilities to the fullest extent practical. i would like to ask my friend the subcommittee chairman for his commitment to continue working with us on oversight activities of this important program. i would yield to the chairman. >> andrews, you do have my commitment to work with you

mr. franks. >> just a quick correction here. i believe i heard mr. andrews suggest that the sm 3 block 1a would be the answer to this problem. as i understand the sm3 block 1a would have to be stationed pretty perfectly in order to consistently approach speeds to be effective. and i also understand that we debated this when we were talking about the european site and the egis deployment that i believe mr. andrews is talking about indicated under the cost test to be much, much higher rather than stationing an entire ship and it having to be in that place that the silos with the gmd enter ten tors was significantly less costly. i would like to clarify the issue on the block 1a. is this something to the sm3 block # 1a would be an effective defense on the east coast for icbms? >> mr. franks, the sm 31 a. >> sm 3 block 1a? >> it has been tested medium range. it has not been tested against icbms. >> would the gentleman yield, my friend from arizona? >> yes. >> yeah. my source for my comments is ary lease dated april 15th of 2011. and i would ask unanimous

mr. franks votes aye. mr. loebsack votes no. mr. shuster votes aye. ms. tso 234 gas votes no. mr. conaway votes aye. ms. pingree votes no. mr. lamborn votes aye. mr. kissell votes no. mr. wittman votes aye. mr. heinrich votes no. mr. hunter votes aye. mr. owens votes no. dr. fleming votes aye. mr. garamendi votes no. mr. coffman votes aye. mr. critz votes no. fwlchlt rooney votes no. mr. ryan votes no. mr. platts votes no. mr. ruppersberger votes no. mr. riggell votes aye. mr. johnson votes no. mr. gibson votes no. ms. sutton votes no. mrs. hartzler votes aye. ms. hanabusa votes no. dr. heck votes aye. ms. hocl votes no. mr. schilling votes no. ms. speier votes no. mr. runyan votes no. mr. scott votes no. mr. griffin votes aye. mr. palazzo votes aye. mr. west votes aye. mrs. roby votes aye. mr. brooks votes aye. mr. young votes aye. mr. jones. mr. jones? >> how is mr. shuster recorded? >> mr. shuster is recorded as aye. mr. shuster votes no. >> clerk will record the tally. >> mr. chairman, the nos are 36, the ayes are 25. >>> and the amendment is not agreed to. >> if there are no

mr. franks: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 8 printed in the congressional record offered by mr. franks of arizona. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. franks: mr. chairman, i rise today in support of this amendment to h.r. 58 a 4, the military construction veterans affairs and related agencies appropriations act of 2013. also i want to thank my colleagues, mr. gosar, mr. steve king, and mr. amash, for joining me in co-sponsoring this amendment. mr. chairman, my amendment would ensure that no funds made available by h.r. 5854 could be used to implement, administer or enforce the davis-bacon act requirements for government contracts. mr. chairman, the davis-bacon act is an -- is law that was enacted during the great depression to preventwayfairing contracters from low-balling local construction bids. the sponsors of the of this act were originally to discriminate against nonuniized black workers in favor of white workers belon

mr. franks and the other cosponsors and the politicians that voted for this anti-abortion but bill, theye voted for a series of anti-women bills. the one thing they have right is that there is a war on women, and women are watching their hypocrisy and are not impressed. >> the last time we heard from franks, he was proposing a bill to limit voting rights for people in the district of columbia even though he is from arizona. now she is back with this. >> a number of papers said that sex selection growing especially in the asian immigrant community. >> congresswoman, academic papers that established this, how do you respond? >> i would say everybody opposed to any form of discrimination and sex selection, but that is not what was on the floor. it was a sham bill limiting a woman's access to health care and to reproductive rights. and this is the same team that voted to defund planned parenthood earlier in the house of representatives which supplies health care to one in five women in america. it's the primary health provider for millions of women. so they're extreme in their actions. the v

bradley did an excellent job working with john hughes and my staff and the financial services staff, mr. frank, miss mccarthy, mr. miller. ought to do more of and we passed a bill which, as you know, she supported unanimously because we believe it does in enact in the international mark place. so i want to thank the gentleman for his work on that and thank mr. bradley and mr. hughes for their work on that and hopefully the senate will act on that with dispatch. and unless the gentleman wants to say anything further, i'll yield back. >> mr. speaker, i just jond the gentleman in thanking both our staffs. they did tremendous work as well as mr. miller on the financial services committee and the staff there. your office can be instrumental in helping move the senate along. everyone from the chief of staff on down, your office, we want to thank you as well for your team's commitment to working in a very -- again, a very difficult equation where there were a lot of differences that we tried to work through but at the end didn't want to unilaterally disarm american business in the name of the competi

from groups dominated by labor union, the analog to the fomc votes from regional presidents. >> mr. frank, still have a little time left, on this issue of more diversity on the board, we just talked about professional diversity, also, it seems like there's been a lack of ethnic and racial diversity, too. do you think that including more voices from consumers who are -- from urban areas, rural areas, people who have dealt with hard hit neighborhoods with foreclosure, do you think these kind of experiences -- >> i think that would be good on the board. but even with that, even if i picked the boards personally, i wouldn't want them voting on federal government policy. i do not think that private citizens should pick other private citizens with no intervention from any electoral process no appointment by anyone elected and not approved by the senate. it's anomalous for people who believe in democratic self governance. yes, i would like to have better representation on these local boards. even with that, i would not want them -- by the way, they tend to be self-selected, i wouldn't want them

mr. franks, five minutes. >> mr. chairman, thank you. i guess i would just really begin by reiterating the point that you just made. when one runs into difficulties in almost any low skwreus cal system you don't throw up your hands and give up. i know of no completely solved problem in the world almost. i never run into it. but when it comes to our gmd system, mr. chairman, it's important to note this is our only tested and proven system to defend the homeland of the united states against incoming intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles. and to me that puts them in a fairly important category for all the consideration we might have. there has also been some discussion about some of the recent test failures. it almost hearkens back to some of the earlier debates in the first place. there was a time when people said this is star wars. this is an utterly unworkable, unreachable system. that's like hitting a bullet with a bullet. so many times i remember that debate two decades ago, hitting a bullet with a bullet. how impossible. how rid

mr. franks to amendment section 252 and concerning nerve agent research and an amendment regarding a report on efforts to field new directive energy weapons and concerning an act of denial road map, an amendment by miss davis regarding a joint task force at the u.s. northern command. >> the question is on adoption of the amendment offered by mr. thornberry. those in favor, be say aye. >> aye. >> those opposed say no. the ayes of it. the amendment is agreed to. we have an amendment now by mr. johnson? >> yes. >> will the clerk please pass out the amendment. >> without objection, the amendment the reading of the amendment will be dispensedreade dispensed with. the chair now recognizes the gentleman the purpose of explaining his amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment would defend so-called io in the budget for overseas contingency operations. information operations are described in an unclassified u.s. army war college report aspirations to convey selected information to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, actions to deliberately mislead the enemy, electronic warfare,

. >> here with the president and coo, mr. frank stronach. winner, paul reddam, governor. >> thank you very, very much. it's my honor, mr. stronach and in the company of mayor and lieutenant governor anthony brown to present to you, mr. reddam, the most coveted trophy in all of sport, the woodlawn vase. congratulations. >> thank you. >> i think i owe it to these guys, really. >> paul, can you take us through your emotions as you're watching that epic stretch unfold. >> well, i knew it was a long stretch. and i have to say, there was a point where i didn't think we were going to get there and we keep digging and bodemeister was running his guts out. it was a fantastic race. i didn't feel confident we were going to get there until about ten yards from the wire, and then it just all let go. >> no horse has won a triple crown since 1978, 34 years, the longest drought in racing history 37 what would it mean to paul reddam to own the next triple crown winner? >> 34 years? i didn't know that. no, i'm kidding. you know, laffit, i haven't thought past

mr. franks of arizona for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, briefly, i wanted to thank the gentleman for bringing this amendment forward. i think it's very insightful and it is a clear example of long range thinking. historically each time that the united states has entered into almost any kind of treaty we have been very assiduous in doing everything we could to follow that treaty. we have not always been afforded the reciprocal courtesy. i suggest that a new start is a good example of what happens when we don't negotiate in a way that is only in the best interest of the united states. we in the first phase of new start reduced our strategic war head counts significantly without really impacting the russians a great deal when the tactical war heads were left completely out of the equation and part of that promise was that we would modernize our nuclear weapons capability. and that promise now is being debated in this committee whether it's still offerable. and it just seems like over time things degrade. and to give a president as f

now mr. frank is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate your acknowledgment of the work we did together. it actually is work that began with one of your texas colleagues, mr. gonzalez, who works down with us who was a pioneer in forcing the federal reserve to be open. he made them release information they claimed didn't exist. kind of a magical feat. one of the things that ought to be noted, in every instance, beginning with mr. gonzalez and maybe before, in the work we did as the information flow has increased, it has been beneficial. there have been none of the negative effects some people have worried ant. at the same time, it ought to be

mr. franks from arizona for two minutes. >> mr. chairman, i just wanted to encourage my colleagues to support the kaufman amendment. i they mr. kaufman's exactly on the right track here. it gives the pentagon and the defense democrat more latitude, and the fact is all of us know the examples of allowing government and the private sector to compare prices with each other and allow the pentagon to seek out private sector advantages is something that's good for both our national security and our economic well-being and i just want to encourage everyone to support mr. kaufman's amendment, and i yield back. >> the chair recognizes ranking member. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i oppose this for many of the yeez reasons i'm opposing the previous one. goes in the balance of obstructing what is competed, contracted out and i fear from the complains these last two amendments, the impreshgs the federal government no longer outcontracts work. quite certainly does and there has been a long, long history of the laws developed to govern how that is

mr. franks is so into taking care of all of our urban problems. one thing he could do is make sure there's continued federal funding for the metro. aarp eugene kinlow brought a for the -- >> reporter: eugene kinlow brought a photo about a pothole. >> he might as well take care of these potholes, too. >> reporter: some came to get the arizona congressman to intervene on confusing parking regulations. many referred to the arizona republican as mayor franks. >> one thing he can deal with is the anacostia river. it's dirty. it needs to be cleaned and i brought that plunger along to give to mayor franks so that he could help plunge the river. >> reporter: congressman trent franks sees the office was closed for the day. the house is on recess, although most other offices were staffed. the protestors tried to leave their ironic suggestions on the door of the arizona congressman's office but capitol police would not allow it. we tried to get a response from trent franks' office in arizona but were not successful. process for the passage of his bill bannin

mr. franks to amend section 2.52. and one concerning alluded nerve research. an amendment regarding new energy weapons. an amendment concerning an active technology road map. an amendment regarding a report on a task force at the u.s. northern command. >> any members wish to discuss the on block amendment? if not the questions on adoption on the amendment so many in favor say aye. those opposed say no. the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. we have an amendment now by mr. johnson. >> yes. >> will the clerk please pass out the amendment? without objection reading of the amendment will be dispensed with. chair recognizes the gentleman for the purpose of offering and explaining his amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment would defund so-called information operations or i.o. in the budget for overseas contingency operations. it is described in an unclassified army war college report as operations to convey selected information to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, actions to deliberately mislead the enemy, electronic warfare and co

anmondment by mr. frank, sources of electricity to defense critical assets are protected from electromagnetic pulse. amendment by mr. runyan, to carriers participating in civil air reserve fleet. an amendment by mr. andrews and runyan to unify base security standards and require photo i.d. for most base visitors and an amendment by mr. bartlett to recognize direct solar as an energy efficient technology available to d.o.d. to reduce energy consumption and enhance energy security on military installations. >> is there any other discussion? if not, the question kims on the amendment block. those in favor say aye. opposed say no. in the chair the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. >> are there further amendments? for purposes of the gentleman from washington. >> mr. chairman, amendment at the desk. >> the clerk will pass out the amendments. >> mr. chairman, without objection, the reading of the amendment will be dispensed with but the gentleman will hold on while staff has a chance to distribute the amen

bradley did an excellent job working with john hughs and my staff and the financial services staff, mr. frank, mrs. mccarthy, mr. miller's staff and the senate. i think we did what we ought to do more of, we passed a bill which as you know my party supported unanimously because we believe it does in fact make us more competitive in the international marketplace. and will help keep and grow jobs. so i want to thank the gentleman for his work on that and again thank mr. bradley and mr. hughs for their work on that and hopefully the senate will act on that with dispatch. unless the gentleman wants to say anything further, i'll yield back. mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i just join the gentleman in thanking both our staffs. they did tremendous work as well as mr. miller on the financial services committee and the staff there, mr. bachus' staff. your office can be instrumental i think in helping move the senate along. and -- but everyone from the chief of staff on down, in your office, we want to thank you as well for your team's commitment to working in a very -- again, a very difficult equation, where

mr. franks that would report language regarding improvements to army vehicles to include thermal prevention and report language reporting aircraft survivability amendment and an amendment by mr. and drews that would require a report on the vertical lift consortium. and an amendment by mr. and drews that would authorize the program to develop and flight demonstrate vertical lift platform technologies. an amendment by myself that would clarify section 214 in the subcommittee mark regarding ground and dismount moving target indicator air force aircraft to apply only to manned systems. and an amendment by mr. and drews that would amend report language regarding the joint tactical radio system. >> any discussion of the amendment? the question is on adoption of the amendment, offered by mr. bartlett. so many as are in favor will say aye. >> aye. >> those opposed, no. the aye's visit. the amendment is agreed to. if there are no further amendments, the chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland, mr. bartlett, for the purpose of offering a motion. >> mr. chairman, i move to adopt the subcommittee

you could call it opening up a new front in the republican war against women to make matters worse mr franks is bahrain dc's only elected lawmaker delegate eleanor holmes norton from testifying at the hearing on the bill which directly affects her district representative franks won't say if the reason he kept her out was because she represents the women in the district being targeted because or. is she's a woman after all republicans in the house have a history of denying women a voice on issues that affect the most like a few months back when congressman darrell i sailed here in one contraceptives refused to allow even one woman to testify so it's one thing to steal rights from women but it's another thing to steal rights and then not even give women a say in the matter but that's quite literally what's going on right now in the house republican of representatives of the republican rule for more on this lose winstead joins me she's a political satyrs co-creator of the daily show and author of the book lose free or die essays lose welcome thanks tom thanks for joining us do republicans not g

mr. franks: i certainly thank the gentleman. mr. speaker, i believe it's important first of all in this challenge that we have with our federal budget to realize that all budgets, whether they are personal budgets or business budgets or budgets by governments, all of them eventually and inevitably come to balance. they either do so by wise fiscal policy or by catastrophic failure. the fact is that this administration has spent us into the stone age and added to our deficit approximately $1 trillion a year since they came into office. and, mr. chairman, the result is that we have more people living in poverty under this administration than ever before. so, there is something wrong with the equation. now, having listened to the debate over this reconciliation bill, it's clear to me that republicans and democrats have a very fundamental philosophical difference over whether or not we should take steps to reduce the federal deficit and avoid the arbitrary and inflexible automatic spending cuts that are set to go in effect next year. rep

mr. franks provides minutes. >> mr.chairman, i want to remind all of us today that the freedom of religion is probably the cornerstone of all of our freedoms. i think we could miss the forest and the trees if we are not careful. the expression of true tolerance is not preventing you have no differences. we certainly have differences on the committee that are being expressed tonight. but we are kind and decent to each other in spite of our differences. this simply says that a chaplain cannot be held in some adverse personal action for not wanting to do something that is contrary to their religious beliefs. we allow soldiers not to pick up a gun. we say that if your conscious subjects you and your religious perspective on 10 permits you to do that, we will let you into the service they do not have to take up arms against you or neighbor, even though that is a pretty basic thing for a soldier at times. we go to great lengths to allow people religious expression. i think that sometimes we get focused on one aspect. it seems

mr. franks, for five minutes. >> thank you. let me say that it is very difficult to add much to the substance of mr. turner's response. a few observations -- a lot of us are familiar with the civil war and general john sedgwick who was trying to upgrade some of his younger soldiers for dodging bullets. his comments on told among his last words is that they could not have an elephant at this distance and he was killed about a second later. it is always astonishing to me that we cavalierly suggest we don't need age redundancy when it comes to missile defense against against the most dangerous weapons mankind has ever devised. i don't think one has to be a missile defense nor a nuclear expert to suggest that a nuclear warhead going off in your backyard is a fairly negative developments. it is always astonishing to me that when we have this debate that we overlook the fact that our gmb system is the only tested system we have that defends this homeland against intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads, the most dange

mr. frank: mr. chairman, i salute -- i seek to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. frank: thank you. if i could i would strike many of the words we've heard today. i first want to acknowledge the leadership of my colleague from california. he has a characteristic that is all too rare in politics, an intellectual consistency. we have people who on the one hand talk about freedom and individual liberty and respect for states' rights, but when it comes up against some pet project of theirs, all that goes out the window. let's be very clear. this is not a case of people advocating that other people smoke marijuana. it is, for me, an advocacy that we allow people some degree of free choice. i listen to the gentleman from virginia and i admire his diligence, but i have to say, i disagreed with almost everything he said. there was one thing he said that i thought was appropriate. he said, he would shouldn't be debating this -- debating this at 7:30 and i agree. we should have been debating it at 4:20. that would

mr. franks is so into taking care of all of our urban problems. one thing he could do is to continue the federal funding for the metro. >> reporter: eugene kenlow brought a photo of a d.c. pothole. >> and going to be into our d.c. government, he might as well take care of the potholes, to. >> reporter: some came to get him to intervon on confusing parking regulations and many referred to the arizona republicanman as mayor franks. >> and one thing he could do is the anacostia river. it's dirty and needs to be cleaned. i brought the plunger along to bring to him to help plunge the river. >> reporter: and his d.c. office was closed for the day. the house is on recent, though other members' offices were staffed with workers and the protestors tried to leave their ironic suggestions on the door of the congressman's office but capitol police would not allow it. we tried to get a response from the congressman in arizona but we were not successful. the prospects for his bill passing the house, the bill would ban late-term abortions in d.c. are very good.

. >> yeah, they had to change the rules to become a state because -- >> go ahead, your thoughts, mr. frank. >> well, first of all, he says god decided. as i have read in the bible, the old testament, marriage was a contract between one man and one now, he kied out the second wife and her child. there was polygamy in the bible, the notion of one man and one woman was not only what god said. secondly, mr. perkins said it has social consequences. no, it does not. there would be a problem for the republican party taking any. but the point is this, we have had same-sex marriage since 2004 in a number of states. many millions of americans and none of the negative consequences people like mr. perkins said have come true. there's been no higher divorce rate. again, it is illogical. the notion that because two women are in love it's going to undermine the marriage of a man and woman in love makes no sense. there's been no negative evidence. there hasn't been any. >> okay. let's switch to the new testament for a minute. more familiar territory for you and a lot of our audience. let me ask you this.

. >> yeah, they had to change the rules to become a state because -- >> go ahead, your thoughts, mr. frank. >> well, first of all, he says god decided. as i have read in the bible, the old testament, marriage was a contract between one man and one woman. abraham, the founder of the religions, took a second wife because his wife couldn't give him children. now, he kicked out the second wife and her child. there was polygamy in the bible, the notion of one man and one woman was not only what god said. secondly, mr. perkins said it was too social. there would be a problem for the republican naert taking any. >> but the point is this. marriage 2004. . mr. perkins said. >> again, it is illogical. t the. it makes no sense. in fact, there has been no negati negative. >> let's switch to the new testament for a minute. more familiar territory for you and a lot of our audience. let me ask you this. i am struck, as a straight guy, with these wonderful relationships that have come out. people have been together for 20, 30, 40 years. women, when they come out, they're the most familial people in the wo

mr. franks, is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. director, glad you're here, sir. with that unceremoniously i'll yield my time to my colleague from texas, mr. gohmert. >> thank you, appreciate my friend from arizona. i have a last, it was emailed out from the islamic society of north america director on february 14, 2012, which they were basically spiking the football. they left the meeting again with you. and they said the director's also important participants that to date nearly all related f.b.i. training materials, including more than 1,600 -- 160,000 pages of documents were reviewed by subject matter experts multiple times. they also said material was pulled from the curriculum lum if even one component was deemed to, one, include factual errors. two, be in poor taste. three, be stiro typical, and -- stereotypical, and point for -- one of the lines that had been purged simply says in training other self described jihadist groups can differ with al qaeda and like-minded groups in targeting tackical preference and their ultimate political goals, although many j

remember the notorious shootout between me and congressman barney frank, that happened in 2008 when mr. frank came on the factor and said he had little to do with the collapse of fannie mae and freddie mac when that was simply not true. if you have never seen the back and forth on that, it's worth looking it up on the net. well, yesterday, frank was at it again, this time with republic congressman woman marcia blackburn. >> the job losses came about because of the terrible recessions that nonregulation in the economy brought about under george bush. we have been gaining jobs since then. and it's true by the way that jobs for women have lagged. >> i have to correct that. that is. >> i'm sorry, may i continue, george? george, what are the rules here. >> congressman blackburn to respond. >> bill: i think the rules are these, barney, you should always tell the truth. that's what got you in trouble here. check two, "saturday night live" this season has been largely an equal opportunity mocker. vice president biden was in the zone over the weekend. >> in the room all day. what's wrong? >> what's wr