mr. gardner: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank him for doing tremendous good in our states for water conservation delivery efforts. i urge support of the amendment and yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. pursuant to house resolution -- -- on tion is will the the amendment offered by the gentleman from colorado. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. he amendment is adopted. for what purpose does the gentlelady from south dakota seek recognition? mrs. noem: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: page 12, line 25, after the dollar amount insert increased by $10 million. page 19, line 12, insert reduced by $7 million. page 26, line 24, after the dollar amount insert reduced by $6 million. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 641, the gentlelady from south dakota and a member opposed will each control five minutes. mrs. noem: thank you, mr.

mr. gardner: it is a vital piece of commur tissue of our economy. -- vital piece of our economy. overall, these employees earn $4.4 billion annually, contributing to state revenue through income tax and in fact it's a little-known fact that without the taxes that are paid by tourists who visit from out of country, out of state in colorado, the average colorado family would have to pay an additional $407 a year in taxes to make up for the money that would be lost if we didn't have those tourism dollars being spent in colorado. it has been a tremendous success. when it comes to brand u.s.a. a quick look at the work that brand u.s.a. has done in colorado, partnering with colorado to market the state to international visitors, marketing activities include traditional media, tv display out of homes, social immediate qua. but our work in colorado when it comes to craft beer being the feature -- being featured as part of brand u.s.a.'s 2014 great american road trip, talking about the work we're doing in colorado. thousands of people employed in a new and growing industry. colorado featu

mr. gardner while he was laying on the ground?that's the subject of a separate investigation being carried out by the fire department. >> we've heard this as being political, and this could become a political issue with the new mayor and the police chief. why is it important that the city deal with this and deal with it the right way? >> we're hearing about it being called political on both sides. this is a time to take a breath and cool down a little bit and let the investigations take their course. we shouldn't prejudge, we should wait to see what the investigators say. to me what opportunities do we have to learn from this? you can have a hypothetical issue where nothing goes wrong. or spray him with place, many police departments do, he is asthmatic, he would have gone into arrest. how do we change the tactics or train the polic police officersd assure the public that everything was done in the correct way? >> they had spond because they had been the victim of soful, law enforcement and the african american community. so how d

mr. gardner was arrested and his subsequent unconsciousness and brought them together in an inflammatory. >> we know mr. gardner was allegedly selling what's called lucys, cigarettes, untaxed cigarettes at 75 cents apiece. allegedly he had broken up a fight on the street previous to that. police came on the scene. they decided to arrest him. the video apparently shows that he resisted arrest and one police officer, along with other police officers, uniformed and nonuniformed, came up behind him. i'll show you exactly what he did. we'll talk about what the controversy is. the allegation is that he performed a choke hold with his hand behind him in an attempt to bring him down. >> you can't have the arm right there. >> a choke hold is something that will crush the wind wipe and can cause you to die. the issue, is it a choke hold? the second issue, which is illegal under new york police department patrol regulations, did the choke hold cause his death? >> 'cause he did die later. >> he did die. an autopsy is going on now. as i said, the d.a. and staten island is looking at it, the f.b.i. ha

gardner's assessment. >> the spatter places the shoe within an area capable of receiving spatter, and the spatter is being generated by some impact into a blood source, which, in this case, is mrslton. >> and blood spatter found four inches up inside of his right shirt cuff was most telling. it was direct spatter, meaning the blood landed directly on the shirt. for spatter to get up inside the cuff meant it had to be traveling at some speed. >> for it to get on the inside, the blood has to be coming at an angle capable of missing the wrist and the edge of the cuff and the outside and going on the inside of it. that puts very limited positions with which that could have occurred. >> the only way that could have happened is from somebody using their hand to either hold a weapon or something like that, and beat -- beat susan hamilton and the blood droplets come spewing off to be driven up in that angle. >> scientists performed dna testing on each and every bloodstain on dr. hamilton's shirt and shoes. it was all susan's blood. luminol tests revealed even more of susan's blood on the inside of dr. hamilton's car. >> there was blood found on the steering wheel. there was blood found