mr. garamendi, is recognized. mr. garamendi: mr. speaker, i yield two minutes to the good lady from los angeles, ms. hahn. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california is recognized for two minutes. ms. hahn: thank you, mr. gar omblend, thank you for yielding -- mr. garamendi, thank you for yielding. today i'd like to discuss the importance of an amendment that i offered to this bill but withdrew it because of jurisdictional concerns. an exchange for dropping this amendment, the language was supposed to be included in the manager's amendment but unfortunately the suspension calendar precluded this from happening. it's my hope that with the help of the chairman, this issue will be taken up during the conference with the senate. under current law, port authorities are required to develop port security plans which are then submitted to the u.s. coast guard for review. however, ports are not required to address cybersecurity in these plans. and without a requirement, many of our ports have not addressed this issue, creating

mr. john garamendi. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general kelly, your testimony indicates that you are basically pulling your assets out of the caribbean area. what percentage of your total budget is consumed by guantanamo ? >> you mean that detainee ops at guantanamo? >> yes. >> it is a separate budget. it is a very separate mission. i own it, and we do it really well. it is a separate budget, but it is about -- we spent just for the detainee ops right at about 1,204,000,000. of course, as you know, we are tenants on the biggest donor. just by being there we don't have to buy electricity. $124 million is a good, round figure. >> our task is to make choices about how we spend our taxpayers' money. soak guantanamo and the continuation of it is expensive. that is money that might have been spent elsewhere. let's start about the deployment of uav for patrol. you mentioned to a coppers off the coast of california and other places. what used -- what is the use or the potential of using uav to increase your patrol capacity? lets start. it.

mr. garamendi is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. garamendi: mr. speaker, thank you for the opportunity to talk about a couple of issues that are on the floor. i really want to spend this evening talking about an enormous opportunity that america has to further jobs in this nation. it's a piece of legislation that passed off the house floor this afternoon. house resolution 4405. a piece of legislation that deals with the coast guard and the maritime industry. but just a few words about the previous hour that was spent here talking about the 40-hour workweek. there's nothing in the affordable health care act that d does away with the 40-hour workweek. not at all. the 40-hour workweek remains and in fact democrats are trying to strengthen the overtime provisions that we need to put into effect when men and women across the united states work more than 40 hours and do not receive overtime, time and a half pay. so that's another thing. we just basically heard jet one more effort by our republican colleagues to eviscerate and otherwise put aside the aff

mr. garamendi: thank you, mr. chairman. let's see, there's 435 of us in this house and maybe 100 over on the other side give or take a few who may be retiring or going to other jobs. each and every one of us have constituents that come to us seeking help and seeking our assistance in solving a problem. it's our work. that's what a representative is. the people in our district. and we help solve their problems. the veterans have a very special place in our office. in my own notion of what i'm supposed to do as a representative, i know they do for mr. lamalfa, probably every other member of this house. we have over 130 active cases with veterans in our district working through the problems that they have with the veterans administration. and i must tell you that one thing that sets me off is when my staff tells me, we're not able to contact the veterans administration because they ave sent the case to another office. and that office won't respond to us. we talked about this amongst ourselves. mr. lamalfa and i and other repre