mr. gohmert: i was struck by the comments by the minority whip instructing us to check the constitution. that really struck me, because i believe i recall him standing up and applauding in this chamber when the president said if congress doesn't do its job, i'll basically do it for them. so someone that would do that doesn't need to be giving lectures on the constitution. we have powers under the constitution we got to protect. and when someone stands up and exerts their innocence repeatedly and then attempts to take the fifth amendment right, it's not there. this is the next step. it will preserve the sanctity and the power of this body whether it's democrats or republicans in charge for anyone who attempts to skirt justice and provide truth. and with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california reserves? is is i reserve subject to the close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. cummings: mr. speaker, as i close, i want to remind all of my colleagues several references hav

mr. gohmert of texas. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 585, the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. gohmert: at this time, i would like to yield to the chairman of the committee for a colloquy with unanimous consent to do so. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mckeon: thank you, mr. chairman. and i want to thank the gentleman. we just had a little discussion. the amendment that he plans on presenting tonight is something that we have not in the committee been able to hold hearings on and to really discuss fully in the committee. it didn't come up at the full committee or the subcommittee level. but he has an issue that is very important to him, it's very important to his state, it's very important to many people around this nation. . what i told him is this is a continuation of a process we started here in january with hearings work subcommittee hearings, subcommittee markups, full committee markup but we're not even halfway through the process yet. after we pass

mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker.r. speaker, i want to read background of an incredible woman. we have different religious views because i'm a christian and she is apparently an atheist at this time. but what an extraordinary woman. ayaan hirsi ali. she is a visiting fellow with the american enterprise institute. ayaan hirsi ali, an outspoken defender of women's rights in islamic societies, was born in mogadishu, somalia. she escaped an arranged marriage by emigrating to the netherlands in 1992 and served as a member of the dutch parliament from 2003 to 2006. in parliament she worked on furthering the integration of nonwestern immigrants into dutch society and defending the rights of women in dutch muslim society. in 2004, together with director theo van gogh, she made "submission," a film about the oppression of women in conservative islamic cultures. the airing of the film on dutch television resulted in the assassination of mr. van gogh. .y an islamic extremist at a.e.i., ms. hirsi ali researches the relationship b

mr. gohmert. you'reomes out that making programming decisions politically based, i think there's going to be a problem. i certainly hope that's not the case. i do want to talk about a couple of issues that were brought up. you mentioned that the cost of adding additional ports, the hardware was trivial. there's more to it than just hardware. you actually have to get the pipes. >> comcast has sold its customer service that if they actually use the service at the rates that comcast is holding, the network would fail to operate. in order to mask the problem, they have limited the boundary capacity between their network and the public internet to help reduce consumer's use of broadband. makes the deal with netflix sound good. they've immediately opened up 30% more bandwidth. netflix isn't coming through your peering point. >> there is so much additional traffic beyond netflix that wishes to go to comcast paying customers that the ports still remain constrained. >> mr. cohen, that makes you look like a

mr. gohmert, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. i also want to thank my dear friend, colleague, mrs. frankel, for a wonderful presentation. i know having traveled with congresswoman frankel that we share a great respect and miration for the nation of israel. and we should be the best friend israel has in the world. because they believe in the hings we do. i mean, where else in the middle east do people get to vote, whether you're muslim, jewish, christian, except in israel? where do you have the rights if you're a woman, where are you respected as a woman and given full rights that men have except for israel? where in the middle east are homosexuals not persecuted and even killed? we ought to be israel's best friend in the world. and i'm very concerned that at times it feels like we may not be. so i join my friend in wanting to do everything we can to shore up that relationship with israel. and i thank her for her dedication. i also believe firmly that it is true, those who bless israel seem to end u

mr. gohmert: i was struck by the comments by the minority whip instructing us to check the constitution. that really struck me, because i believe i recall him standing up and applauding in this chamber when the president said if congress doesn't do its job, i'll basically do it for them. so someone that would do that doesn't need to be giving lectures on the constitution. we have powers under the constitution we got to protect. and when someone stands up and exerts their innocence repeatedly and then attempts to take the fifth amendment right, it's not there. this is the next step. it will preserve the sanctity and the power of this body whether it's democrats or republicans in charge for anyone who attempts to skirt justice and provide truth. and with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california reserves? is is i reserve subject to the close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. cummings: mr. speaker, as i close, i want to remind all of my colleagues several references hav

mr. gohmert: i move that we do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly the house stands >> attorney general eric holder announced the indictments of chinese military who hacked into the computer ervers of u.s. businesses and stole proprietary information. that's next on c-span, a of sexual discussion assaults on college campuses. later former treasury secretary talks about his new book on the 2008 financial crisis. >> on the next washington journal, we'll get an update on the justice department dietingment that it was five chinese military officers for computer hacking. we'll talk to ben fitzgerald for a center for a new american security. for the ichael bell centers for disease control and prevention of the threat of the mers virus. and you can join the facebook and n twitter. washington journal live each morning at 7:00 eastern on c-span. filed justice department charges against five members

mr. gohmert, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. r. gohmert: mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. tonight i wanted to discuss issues regarding the patriot act and as i understand it, we will be taking up a vote come thursday on what's called the u.s.a. freedom act, i believe. i know that there was a lot of work that was put into negotiating a compromise there and i still had a concern, as i did when i was a freshman, with language in the patriot act and this is language here from the patriot act, 50 u.s.c., section 1861, that allows the federal government to go into very personal matters, very personal documentation, of individuals. some of us felt like it was allowing the federal government to get more than the federal government should be entitled to get. there's similar language in the fisa act, but this language says that the director of the f.b.i. or a designee of the director may make an application for an order requiring the production of tangible things including books, records, papers, documents and other items, for an investigation to obta

mr. gohmert, for 30 minutes. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. i don't know if my friend, my dear friend from california had seen this but following up on his comments, this is part of the front page of the army times, april 28, says here, thousands more will be forced out. staff sergeants now on hit list. and it talks about the career killers. but because of the cuts to our military, we are forcing out thousands and thousands of patriots who wanted to make a career of the united states military. and i along with my friend from california don't think it's necessarily a good idea to be saying, look, if you're illegally in the country, all you have to do is go displace yet another american patriot and take their job in the military, force them out into the civilian sector where our united states military veterans have a much higher unemployment rate than the general population. that's not a good idea. it's not fair to our patriots, and it should not be something that this congress passes doing to once again not only run out patriots who wanted to m

mr. gohmert, page 17 after section 109 insert the following, section 110 clandestine effort jim's activities section 501, 50 usc 1861 a speech without objection the amendment is considered as read and the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i do appreciate the incredible amount of work that was done by those negotiating this agreement, but what makes the committee structure in congress strong is when the committee itself gets to participate, it's to look for little nuances that make a bill better. remembering my freshman term in 2005-six when we took up our renewal of the patriot act, we had a lot of discussions behind the scenes with administration officials, justice department intelligence, people from the white house. we talked to a lot of people. and a question that i asked back at the time that we were told repeatedly that this only pertains to getting information about someone or from someone who is either a foreign agent, engaged in foreign intelligence, or has contact with a foreign agent or a foreign government. and, in fact, we were so assured of t

mr. gohmert, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority eader. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. i wanted to comment about the work done on the national defense authorization act. i know chairman mckeon has done a tremendous amount of work. i know it's from dealing with the uring this week on defense budget, it has been extremely difficult for him. . our main concern where we have an administration that has kept our people in afghanistan with less than favorable rules of engagement, but we have people harm's way and constantly being called on to be alert, be may be ons where they the m's way, and yet authorization ends up being $45 billion less than the president's own projection for fiscal year 2014 budget request, and $30.7 billion less than that that was enacted for fiscal year 014 in the ndaa public law 113 -66. ck in the summer of 2011 i ld our leadership that the deficit was a major problem, of course, as all of our conference realizes as those on the other side of the aisle are used to talk about until they got into the majority and blew the

mr. gohmert: madam speaker, i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question are postponed. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from west virginia seek recognition? mrs. capito: thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent that the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 2672, as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 2672, a bill to amend the dodd-frank wall street reform and consumer protection act to provide for an application process for interested parties to apply for a county to be designated as a rural area, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from west virginia, mrs. capito, and the gentlewoman from california, ms. waters, each