mr. hastings: mr. chairman, i advise my friend that i am prepared to close if the gentleman will yield back his time, i'll be prepared to close. the chair: the gentleman from arizona. mr. grijalva: continue to reserve the balance of my time. we have no other people to talk. mr. hastings: mr. chairman, i have -- i am prepared to close if the gentleman is prepared to yield back. the chair: the gentleman from arizona. mr. grijalva: thank you, mr. chairman. among the many flaws in the legislation is a provision waiving compliance with the national environmental policy act of 1969, nepa. nepa has been under attack by the republicans for years. most famously former chairman led an effort before leaving congress. nepa stands for two very simple principles. the first is the federal government should think before it acts. and the second is that the federal government should listen to the american people before it acts. nepa does not dictate outcome, it requires federal agencies to gather information, consider a

mr. hastings: mr.suspend the rules and pass h.r. 3397 as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 3397, a bill to modify the forest service recreation residence program by implementing a simple equitable and predictable procedure for determining cabin user fees and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from washington, mr. hastings, and the gentleman from new jersey, mr. holt, each will control 20 mims. the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous con sense that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include this in the bill. the cabin which i have sponsored for several congresses sets a new fee schedule for the 14,000 privately owned cabins in our national forest. it creates the predictable fee schedule that is fair to cabin owners, the forest service and the american taxpayer. h.r. 3397 will replace the current co

mr. hastings: mr. chairman, 2008 campaign, president obama plainly declared the policies he supports would bankrupt american coal production. the obama administration has waged a war on coal, coal jobs and the small businesses in the mining supply chain and the low cost energy that millions of americans rely on. mr. chairman, the house is not in order. the chair: the gentleman is correct. the committee will be in order and the chair would ask members to take your conversations in the back of the chamber, to remove your conversations from the floor, please. take your seats. the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, amazingly, the obama administration has denied that they have launched a war on coal, yet the facts are stubborn things. just this week, alpha natural resources announced the closure of eight coal mines. aggressive regulations were specifically cited by the company for the closure of these mines. new regulations proposed by the obama e.p.a. threatened

mr. hastings -- >> is that what you want? >> mr. hastings -- >> put mr. hastings back in his chair until we are concluded. >> or? >> hold on until i'm done signing the papers. >> i thought you said they weren't supposed to react? >> sit down! >> judge wulle warns hastings his behavior won't help him later. >> you're really hurting your case in front of the court of appeals. they're going to see this entire record, sir. >> they're going to see your record, too. they're going to see how you're running your mouth, your honor. bye-bye, we know how to handle kids like you, son? okay, yeah, they're going to see that, too. remember, you're on record, just like me, pops. >> finally, the judge gets in the last word, sentencing hastings to the maximum, 120 years in prison. >> all right, thank you, gentleman. in my world, i deal with nothing but ugly features of the human personality. i have to find ways to not let that affect the work i'm doing so i can provide the next person coming into the courtroom with a fair environment. >>> coming up, a lawyer is shot. a defe

mr. hastings: thank you very much again, mr. speaker, and i thank my good friend from my neighboring state of georgia who i consider to be one of the most conscientious, hardworking individuals in the congress. and i appreciate the fact that he's 18 month -- his 18 months here in the congress, but he and i know that he understands this institution considerably, having worked here for a number of years. but i'm grateful the process allows and he has allowed that i receive the traditional 30 minutes. mr. speaker, this rule provides, as has been said for consideration of this bill -- two bills. and to identify them again, h.res. 117 is the continuing appropriations resolution and h.res. 6356 is the national security and job protection act. when my colleague began his remarks he said the magic words, this is a closed rule. when i was, as he, 18 months in the house in 1992, and i would be on radio and people were talking about how awful it was that the democrats had so many closed rules. the democrats lost the election that following

mr. hastings: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i support h.r. 5544, the minnesota education investment and employment act. this bill will rectify a decades-old injustice that was impose by congress during the carter administration to ensure that funding for schools and education in minnesota is carried on. when minnesota became a state, it received certain parcels of lands from the federal government set aside to help fund education. these lands known as school trust lands were specifically established to provide funding for minnesota public schools. responsible timber management, mineral development and other economic uses of these lands would generate the revenue that would benefit every child in the state. however, in 1978, congress designated the boundary waters canoe area wilderness in a portion of these trust lands -- and a portion of these lands became trapped inside the wilderness area and inaccessible therefore for economic development. this caused a decline in funding then for local schools. h.r. 5544 would imp

mr. hastings, and the gentleman from ohio, mr. kucinich, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hastings: i yield myself such time as i may consume. h.r. 5987 is a bipartisan bill that will establish the manhattan project national historical park. there's a like bill, bipartisan bill, also pending in the senate. the park will encompass three locations that were integral to the tremendous engineering and human achievements of the manhattan project. the three locations are the hanniford site in my home state of washington, los alamos, in new mexico, and oak ridge, in tennessee. the vast majority of the facilities eligible to be included in this park are already owned by the federal government. they are located on lands owned and controlled by the department of energy. our nation already possesses these p

mr. hastings: mr. speaker, this bill is not as complicated as my good friend from ohio tries to make it appear to be. now i recognize and we have had conversations on this when the bill was introduced and i respect his opinion, but i respectively disagree with his opinion and his arguments. there's nothing wrong with that. we are americans and we can do that in america. but i want to -- and the gentleman, what i heard him saying is what if, and what would be an ideal world. we would like to have an ideal world, but let's talk about reality at that time. we were forced into the second world war. germany, of course, had started that war with the blitz krieg into poland and japan started expanding and they were going into the pacific and they attacked us on december 7, 1941. whether we liked it or not, we were in a war for survival. no question about that. that is simply the facts and in the process of carriering out that war and let me say that war is absolutely unpredictable because if you are logically

mr. hastings a winner and ikea as well.re watching today's winners and losers on wall street. housing is a winner. we had great numbers for existing home sales in august. >> it is tough not to like these numbers. still of existing homes rose more than forecast. purchases of previously owned homes are up 7.8%. low mortgage rates and single home and family demand, the growing population, housing and started to do well. unemployment is the in panama but this improvement will lead to a rise in well for people and that will lead to more confidence and spending. >> when you talk about average gas price coming talk about average home prices. some >> ikea is planning to open more stores. >> they fresh drive me because putting together their furniture is a challenge. there are expanding in china in the united states. they do have lower costs from a shareef can get some good pieces if you're a good shopper of. >> the netflix ceo, he has joined the pledge of giving half of his money to charity. this is quite an endeavor. >> for him to

mr. hastings: on that i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman asks for a recorded vote. a recorded vote is requested. those favoring a recorded vote will rise. 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 speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 233. the nays are 179. the resolution is adopted. without objection, a motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. on the motion of the gentlelady from illinois, mrs. biggert, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 4264, as amended, on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 4264, a bill to help ensure the fis

haste surrounding the events of this past week. "the new york times" reported recently that, quote, mr. obama has placed himself at the helm on top secret nomination processes to designate terrorists for kill or capture of which the capture part has become largely theoretical. since 2004, u.s. drone strikes have killed 49 militant leaders in pakistan, according to analysis by the new america foundation. one of those leaders killed was abu alibi, a man recently named al qaeda's number two which turns out to be a dangerous job these days. foreign policy magazine connected the june strike on al libi with fatal attacks on the attacks on the consulate in benghazi, libya. quote, as details emerge, it appears increasingly probable that al qaeda linked groups were behind the violence. on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks ayman al zawahiri said, according to cnn, al libi's blood is calling, urging and inciting you to fight and kill the crusaders. from what we think we know attacks in benghazi were not about the weird internet video which created the attacks in egypt. the attacks

haste surrounding the events of this past week. "the new york times" reported recently that, quote, mr. obama has placed himself at the helm on top secret nomination processes to designate terrorists for kill or capture of which the capture part has become largely theoretical. since 2004, u.s. drone strikes have killed 49 militant leaders in pakistan, according to analysis by the new america foundation. one of those leaders killed was abu alibi, a man recently named al qaeda's number two which turns out to be a dangerous job these days. foreign policy magazine connected the june strike on al libi with fatal attacks on the attacks on the consulate in bengha benghazi, libya. quote, as details emerge, it appears increasingly probable that al qaeda linked groups were behind the violence. on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks ayman al zawahiri said, according to cnn, al libi's blood is calling, urging and inciting you to fight and kill the crusaders. from what we think we know attacks in benghazi were not about the weird internet video which created the attacks in egypt. the

hastings college of law, [wo-uflt/] and our media partner sfgtv. we're fortunate to have such an impressive field of candidates. i will begin with the questions. the first question is for miss breed. mr. davis, and mr. resignato. and for the benefit of the audience, i will also project the questions on the screen. please explain your position on whether or under what conditions the san francisco parks and recreation department should be parented to lease park facilitis to food vendors and other commercial enterprises? miss breed? >> hi. london breed. i think that what we see now in the recreation -- i'm sorry, what is the time limit on each of these questions? >> one minute, please. >> i think what we see now is a bit of an abuse in terms of the number of vendors that the city has leased space to in our parks. and parks and recreation is for parks and recreation and not necessarily should be a place where we are leasing space to more vendors than we particularly need in specific areas. there is a place for vendors, for food vendors for various vendors in certain areas of the parks, but i think we are focusing way too much time on trying to figure out how we generate revenue for the c