mr. haring ton, city funded projects hire local workers and unite lied local contractors: business enter tried tried for puc project. >> now, this commission thereby congratulates from harening ton, staff, and p*ux, for your leadership of this agency, and forward thinking. [applause]. (people were reading from letters). [applause] >> i suppose we should do that. so moved. >> seconded. [laughter]. >> and by acclimation, i adopt it. >> [inaudible] .). thank you. okay. and we have several people who want to adds their voices to that, and we should start with mr. thomas, thank you for your patience. >> good afternoon. mr. harrington, we would like to thank you for your leadership, your aability to mentor and lead your staff in this community. first of all, when we embarked on the water system in the region, mr. harrington leaded charge for preapprentices. we went through many zip codes, making sure there's state law for apprentice unite lie station, which includeed preapprentice programs. today we have 4 community based organizations. san juaquin, cypress mandella, alameda county, citybuiod,

we're capable of putting down talking points and red harings and straw arguments and picking up something called responsibility. mr. speaker, to say that this re-authorization has bipartisan support is an understatement. this bill passed unanimously in the house intelligence committee. and for those in shock back home, mr. speaker, i'm going to repeat this. this bill passed unanimously. all democrats, all republicans on the house intelligence committee with access to the most amount of information, not a single no vote. president bush supported this, mr. speaker. >> if the gentleman will yield? mr. gowdy: i will when i'm through. president obama supports this. law enforcement officials support it. our colleagues, mr. speaker, who served in the f.b.i. and federal prosecutors and in the military, they support it. the democrat-led house passed this bill in 2008 with former speaker pelosi giving a glowing speech extolling the virtues of the underlying bill and excourting her colleagues about the necessity of passing it. and all of this happened, mr. speaker, because intelligence is the lifeblood of our ability to defe

we're capable of putting down talking points and red harings and straw arguments and picking up sometng called responsibility. mruthorization has bipartisan support is an understatement. this bill passed unanimously in the house intelligence committee. and for those in shock back home, mr. speaker, i'm going to repeat this. this bill passednanimously. all democrats, all republicans on the house intelligence committee with access to the most amount of information, not a single no vote. president bush supported this, mr. speaker. >> if the gentleman will yield? mr. gowdy: i will when i'm through. president obama supports this. law enforcement officials support it. our colleagues, mr. speaker, who served in the f.b.i. and federal prosecutors and in the military, they support it. e democrat-led house passed this bill in 2008 with former speaker pelosi giving a glowing speech extolling the virtues of the underlying bill and excourting her colleagues about the necessity of passing it. and all of this happened, mr. speaker, because intelligence is the lifeblood of our ability to defend ourselve it happened, mr. speaker