mr. garamendi. mr. garamendi: mr. panetta, thank you so much for joining us this evening and thank you for your statement of your life, your family's work. we know your father. leon has been a dear friend of mine and most of us here in the house. you're going to really be a tremendous addition to this house. your experience as a prosecutor and in local government, county government, positions to bring the message and the salinas valley is one of in which the immigrants are the history and reality of today. thank you so much for looking out for them and your extraordinary background of making us aware of what happens when sanctuary cities and immigration laws and others are tossed around without much thought of what the impact is in the community to families as well as to the economy of the community. i appreciate that. i hope you come back and join us on another special order. thank you very much. well, from the other side of the country we have mr. raskin, another new member of the house of representatives. we welcom

mr. garamendi: thank you for joining us, mr. khanna. i'm going to run through a quick list here, oil and gas companies operate around the world, our new secretary of state was the c.o. -- c.e.o. of exxonmobil, the world's biggest oil company. did exxonmobil pay a fee or a gratuity or corruption to a foreign country? we'll never know now because the congress has passed a regulation that required oil and gas companies to disclose any fees, any money that they have paid to a foreign government for the opportunity to extract oil or gas from their country. we happen to know that manufacture--- that many of the countries in which these american oil and gas companies operate are rife with corruption. anthis is a way for us to do anti-corruption program around the world that involves our national oil companies. that's been -- that's on the way to being repealed. how about mentally ill people being able to get a firearm? i suspect 80% of americans, maybe 100% of americans think that somebody that is seriously mental ill ought not be able to get

mr. garamendi. mr. garamendi: thank you, mr. chairman. gentlemen, thank you so much for your service. i don't know how many of these hearings we have gone to and all this comes down to more money. then somebody mentions sequestration. it seems to me that with the unified control of congress and the administration that if sequestration is a problem then perhaps it could be solved. quickly. nonetheless the money problem is likely to persist. a couple of questions just to follow up on the question about the airmen and the pilots that are necessary. i understand that the air force is now moving to provide or to allow pilots that are not officers to fly certain missions. general wilson, if you could comment on that briefly. is it going to help solve this problem? general wilson: congressman, we think so. we have the initial group of enlisted aviators into our rq-4 global hawk program. we think over the next few years we'll be able to grow it so that a majority of the pilots in the global hawk will be enlisted. we'll learn from that, we'll see if we can take that chample and do that in othe

mr. garamendi, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. garamendi: i see a couple of my colleagues have arrived and would like to do one-minutes. so i would yield one minute to .y colleagues rassrass mr. speaker, thank you very much -- mr. raskin: mr. speaker, thank you very much. mr. garamendi, thank you for that exemplary act of civility in allowing me and another late arriving colleague to be part of the freshman class presentation about our collective commitment to promoting and practicing civility, both within our class and within the congress of the united states, as long as we're here. it's a great honor to be part of the freshman class of the 115th congress. i'm thrilled to make this commitment to civility. and even friendship. across the aisle, with whatever republican colleagues are willing to hang out with a liberal constitutional law professor. despite my great passions as a liberal and a progressive, i dedicate myself to civility for three reasons. and i think they're all consistent with my political values and beliefs. first,

mr. garamendi. mr. garamendi: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on february 3, 2017, at 8:11 a.m. that the senate agreed to without amendment house joint resolution 41. signed, sincerely, karen l. haas. the speaker pro tempore: the -- the speaker: the chair will entertain up to five requests one minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentlelady from knack north carolina seek recognition? ms. foxx: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker: without objection, the gentlelady is recognized. ms. foxx:

mr. garamendi: i'll just finish this up very quickly. i think we need to look where this problem emanates. it emanates from the president's advisor, mr. bannon. he's been at this for some time talking about the nature of america being a white nationalist nation. and so if we look beyond the horror that this ban places, we need to look where it emanates. mr. bannon, this clearly comes from him, and we need to focus our attention on what he has done to this nation's values. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. mr. raskin: thank you very much. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? mr. raskin: distinguished congressman king is going to go. and we have people left over who will stay for one minute after. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rom michigan seek recognition? r. raskin: mr. raskin: i'm sorry. am i being recognized. mr. king: mr. speaker. i do now object. i've been waiting for a half-hour. r. speaker, i do now object