mr. gibson will be postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment 6 printed in house report 112-75. the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise? mr. ruppersberger: i rise to offer the amendment for ms. waters, the designee. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 6 printed in house report 112-75 offered by mr. ruppersberger of maryland. the chair: pursuant to house resolution number 264, the gentleman from maryland, mr. ruppersberger, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from maryland. mr. ruppersberger: i yield all my time to congresswoman waters. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized for five minutes. ms. waters: i have an amendment at the desk. thank you very much. my amendment requires the inspector general of the intelligence community to report to congress on racial and ethnic diversity in the intelligence community. diverse work force is essential to intelligence work. pe

mr. gibson. >> well, thanks, mr. chairman. and like my previous colleague and also my colleague allen west, i've commanded units. i took my battalion twice to iraq and brigade combat team, over 3700 men and women strong went to haiti as part of the relief. last year i opposed lifting the ban. i was concerned about quite frankly the friction that would be involved for unites moving forward. life in a combat zone is hard. and i believe our leadership can over come anything. includes this. but i wanted our leadership focused on winning. on winning the war and protecting our servicemen and women. now this vote has been taken. and it was the vote of the american people as expressed by the representatives dually elected. and i will tell you that this amendment here tonight, i don't think that it's going to substantially change things. because the chain of command throughout the arms services are actively engaged on the issue. you just heard dr. heck moments ago. certainly the chiefs of staff are engaged on the issue. i saw it in a h

lewis and mrs. gibson may be arguing in a moment, i don't want to put words in their mouth, but my understanding is they're going to claim that of the three types of projects, that it's not that first type that you're arguing but it's the second type of project which are the installation of small, new equipment and facilities in small structures that should apply and not -- doesn't involve limited numbers but i'll just ask to you respond, why does your type one apply and not type two of this class three of categorical exemptions? .my point is that if you read those they are almost an identical. one is to locate in limited numbers of small structures. the second is installing new equipment and facilities in small structures. what is the difference? the only logical answer is one of them talked about locating them and one talks about installing equipment in them. that was my interpretation. i do not think it matters very much. the limited number i think is important. but even if it fits -- even if there is s

mr. gibson of new york, amendment number 7 by mr. hinchey of new york, amendment number 8 by mr. carney of delaware, amendment number 9 by mr. reed of new york. the chair will reduce to five minutes the minimum time for elect tropic -- electronic votes after the first series of votes. the question is on the amendment 1 offered by mr. rogers of michigan, on which the -- a recorded vote was ordered and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 1 offered by mr. rogers of michigan. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordereordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by

mr. gibson, is recognized for five minutes. >> thanks, mr. chairman. i speak today as somebody who voted to eliminate close to $500 million for the second engine of the joint strike fighter at a time that clearly we all need to do more with less. i think what's happening here today is quite remarkable, if you think about it. action that the congress took, a tough decision, something that had been an issue for several years, certainly strong arguments on both sides, we can respect all those. but to the fact today that we have a private company that's coming forward to continue this research on their dime, the american people get competition at no cost. so we get savings and we'll see what happens at the end of this. but this is something i can support and i'm pleased to do so. i yield back, mr. chairman. >> gentleman from tennessee, mr. cooper, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to ask the author of the amendment, my friend from new jersey, mr. andrews, this question -- "fr free sounds really good. but as the gentle

mr. gibson, the chair recognizes mr. gibson from new york. thinks mr. chairman. i just want to express my appreciation to you and your staff. we've worked together on a number of issues throughout this process and i want to mention the role in the insert we've done to the mark. as you know, i've been critical of the cutie our process and i do think that this is a good first step in addressing the role of the missions and i want to express my appreciation. the chairman is going to make and his staff are going to come forward with the assessment there and work its way through and i think we may get two different perspectives and it could be helpful but i think what is really needed is much more comprehensive analysis and i think that was writ large to us as we move through the process and we got to the questions of the president's budget and we talked about the force structure and the fact the services were going to cut the structure beginning in 2015 assumption completed the operations in afghanistan and iraq but when we ask for more analysis analytics just weren'

mr. gibson, for five minutes. >> i recommend we delay a vote on this. i think the testimony from the general is material at least to my decision on the vote. i'd like to have something on the record. further more, i've had staff come up oments ago, telling me th regard to the c-12 variant, there's protest. i haven't heard that from the subcommittee chair, that's not submitted for the record. i don't think we have enough on the record for any kind of positive vote on this. >> would the gentleman yield? obviously we have the -- testimony that has occurred -- would the gentleman yield? >> i field. >> our subcommittee spent a significant amount of time in public hearings putting this together. as all of the subcommittees did. we can't take each item for them to review testimony and report that is have been available through the whole process. this important for us to move forward. it would obviously delay the whole bill. the whole process is based on the active participation. these are programs -- the secondary amendment has the support of the chair, and ha

mr. gibson of new york. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas are 273. zero answering present. the unfinished business is a request for a recorded vote on amendment number 7 printed in house report 112-75 by the gentleman from new york, mr. hinchy, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the nays prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 7 printed in house report 112-75 offered by mr. hinchey of new york. the chair: a recorded vote

mr. gibson. >> well, thanks, mr. chairman. and like my previous colleague and also my colleague allen west, i've commanded units. i took my battalion twice to iraq and brigade combat team, over 3700 men and women strong went to haiti as part of the relief. last year i opposed lifting the ban. i was concerned about quite frankly the friction that would be involved for unites moving forward. life in a combat zone is hard. and i believe our leadership can over come anything. includes this. but i wanted our leadership focused on winning. on winning the war and protecting our servicemen and women. now this vote has been taken. and it was the vote of the american people as expressed by the representatives dually elected. and i will tell you that this amendment here tonight, i don't think that it's going to substantially change things. because the chain of command throughout the arms services are actively engaged on the issue. you just heard dr. heck moments ago. certainly the chiefs of staff are engaged on the issue. i saw it in a h

mr. gibson, is recognized for five minutes. >> thanks, mr. chairman.i speak today as somebody who voted to eliminate close to $500 million for the second engine of the joint strike fighter at a time that clearly we all need to do more with less. i think what's happening here today is quite remarkable, if you think about it. action that the congress took, a tough decision, something that had been an issue for several years, certainly strong arguments on both sides, we can respect all those. but to the fact today that we have a private company that's coming forward to continue this research on their dime, the american people get competition at no cost. so we get savings and we'll see what happens at the end of this. but this is something i can support and i'm pleased to do so. i yield back, mr. chairman. >> gentleman from tennessee, mr. cooper, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to ask the author of the amendment, my friend from new jersey, mr. andrews, this question -- "fr free sounds really good. but as the gentlem

mrs. hutton gibson of verplank.hat's this small river town in upstate new york where the family lived for a few years in this modest home. it still stands just down the road from the catholic congregation of st. patrick where mel's father sang in the choir. gibson was the sixth child in a brood of 11. >> his older brothers and sisters -- >> reporter: writer lawrence got a look at his strict upbringing in an interview with the actor. >> one day the father got so fed up that he grabbed the two of them and knocked their heads together. >> reporter: they're lucky they didn't have to go to the hospital. >> exactly. but mel believes his father had wisdom doing this to his kids. >> reporter: mel's father hutton rooled the roost. a conserves ive cast li s iquef considered priesthood. instead he worked the railroad until a bad accident put him out of a job and out of a paycheck. >> he started going on game shows. he went on "jeopardy!." >> reporter: hutton would go undefeated and later be invited back for the show's tourname

mr. gibson. the chair: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. gibson: i thank the speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. it's great to be here on the floor today and i see we have the chair and ranking member of the intelligence committee today, too. it's an honor to be in their presence. we are here today, this amendment, to commend and honor the hardworking professionals in our intelligence community on the successful operation against osama bin laden. the leader of al qaeda, who attacked our country on the 11th of september of 2001. and from my experiences in the army deployed forward in iraq, i know cnterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations are difficult, complex, and requiring detailed analytical work to establish patterns, situational awareness, and understanding. fortunately for us we have the very best. from the tactical to the operational to the strategic level, our intel community is filled with incredibly talented people. the strength of any organization. i recently had the opportunity to meet with the director of the c.i.a. and the director of the f.

mr. gibson's bill, h.r. 1609, would revise the war powers resolution, replacing its current congressional procedures with a shorter provision tied more directly to congress's power of the purse. regardless of where one comes down on war powers issues and whether the administration requires express authority to continue its limited engagement in libya, we can all agree that the administration must address certain critical questions that congress and this committee have been asking for weeks. what are the specific goals and should teach again games that our armed forces are pursuing in libya? are we willing to accept any role for gadhafi in libya's future? who exactly are the armed rebels and the transitional national council, and what safeguards are in place to ensure any u.s. assistance does not fall into the hands of those working against u.s. national security interest. two weeks ago this committee favorably reported a resolution of inquiry seeking information from the department of state. we will press for answers from the administration at the classified interagency briefing for membe

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