mr. hastings: mr. speaker i yield 10 seconds to the gentlelady from ohio. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from ohio is recognized for 10 seconds. ms. kaptur: yes mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that the house bring up h.r. 861, the clean department of homeland security funding bill, that would keep the department open so it can carry out its vital mission of keeping the american people safe. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentleman from georgia yield for purposes of unanimous consent request? mr. woodall: mr. speaker, i'm prepared to yield back my time when my friend is, as soon as we pass this bill, it will be in order to bring up any additional funding bills that come before the house today. but i cannot yield during this time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia does not yield. therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i yield to the distinguished leader of the democratic caucus for purposes as she sees fit. the speaker

mr. hastings: thank you very much mr. speaker. i thank my friend from georgia for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. mr. speaker, you're not permitted to sing in the house of representatives and i shall not do that but i will take this opportunity to do as my colleagues in the rules committee did yesterday a little bit in advantage of my friend's birthday, but today is the birthday of my friend mr. woodall and as one who has had many more birthdays than he, i hope he has as many as me and many, many more. happy birthday to you, rob. as my friends are well aware, the president has already said that he's going to veto this measure. we introduced last night the statement of the administration with reference thereto. that means that the likelihood that this bill will become law, is highly improbable at best. i wish i was standing here under different circumstances. i wish that the house was about to vote on something it knows that the president will sign into law. i wish we were working on something that will actually help our econ

mr. hastings. >> thank you thank you for the opportunity to speak. >> commissioners it's in our court now what would you like to do you want to wait and give them their 5 minutes or deliberate now. >> it makes sense to wait. >> items concluded - >> we could go ahead and deliberate and come to a conclusion and it's pend the receipt of the presentation if they need to do on both parties by reviewing the final thing and concurred it will be turned into a victory does that make sense madam clerk. >> i'd like rather not take a vote. >> i'll be prepared to do you want support the extension with the permit with the agreement it's reached by all parties. >> madam president a question to the commission do you have concerns that i might want to us address before we deliberately to put in print. >> no, but i have a question. >> okay. >> how do you have a 5 dba over ambient with construction noise i don't see how it's possible that's in our standard contract. >> i'll express to the commission we're considering changing in our spifkdz we have more work of the nature coming down the pique your correct

mr. hastings. mr. chairman? aye. >> clerk will report the totals. >> seven ayes, two nays. >> and i will be doing it for the democrats. and i love texas. and the gentleman from massachusetts will be handling this. in fact, i love our united states. and i would say that it is a great country. and that for us to work together is important. and i want to thank the committee for it's time today. i want today let the committee know that we expected to meet tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. the committee is now through with it's work for the day. >>> they have finished meeting on a bill to replace the affordable health care law. they made nearly 60 attempts to ae peel all or part of the affordable health care act since 2011. this is will be the first time it comes up in congress. go to c-span.org to see it from the beginning. >>> the political landscape has changed with the 114th congress. there are 108 women in congress including the first african-american republican in the house. and keep track using congressional chronicle. vo

mr. hastings you are recognized. >> madam chair, before i begin i ask unanimous consent of the letter dated january 30 from the congressional budget office, that it be made part of the record. i ask unanimous consent that the statement of the administration also be admitted. and at some point, when we are in the amendment process i would like unanimous consent going forward i would like unanimous -- mr. mcgovern leaned over to me a minute ago and said something that is so very true. he said that you have to want -- wonder if any of us on the rules committee recognize that this is the rules committee. he did not put it that way, but what i'm saying is that it would seem to me that this particular committee should come to our senses here. for example, when mr. scott and i came to congress, in 1992, i did not know much at all about the rules committee. how i learned about the rules committee was from a very vocal echo chamber in the media particularly radio. i was doing a lot of radio at that time. others on the committee have heard the tell the story. i was being bombarded by people saying, w

mr. hastings said, had governors worked in the administration -- and then, he is asking for an apology andting response, you can wait for hell to freeze over before any apology. >> i've worked with congressman burgess on health care. obviously, we have some differences. i love texas, but i want texas to actually cover our own constituents and they could. we have a lot of texas pride. i want a texas plan to cover the people in texas? florida is probably a nice place to visit, though i do not know i would lock -- would want to live there. i know hastings and would serve with him since he got elected. he is a good guy and tempers were flaring in the rules committee, which is not unusual. they have a lot -- free speech and the rules committee. i am sure there will be, we've been doing it almost every week since we came back in. the joke was, insanity is doing the same thing every day is nothing to do the -- expecting a different outcome. we have done the same thing with the outcomes there. it would be vetoed. we are covering out 10 million plus evil under the affordable care act who did not ha

mr. chairman, we noticed. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for "the haste word with lawrence o'donnell." >> rachel no one would have noticed without you. great job. >> thank you. >>> today, king abdullah of jordan called for a relentless war against the islamic state. last night, the king ordered the executions of two terrorist prisoners in response to a 22-minute video showing a jordanian combat pilot being burned to death. now the white house is considering its next move. >> president obama said today that the u.s. was going to double down on the efforts to defeat and degrade isis. or icesilisil. what dose does that mean the >> nothing is going to slow down. we're going to continue to put as much pressure on them as possible, with our partners in iraq and in syria. >> we did see reports that the jordanian government did carry out the execution of two prisoners. these were two individuals that did go through the jordanian justice system. >> the white house is not criticizing that? >> we need partners on the ground to beat isis. >> do you believe that we ne

mr. chairman, we noticed. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for "the haste

haste arksa horam. >> leader of the subcommittee on europe. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank the witnesses for your testimony today. i look at these hearings as i did back in 2001 when we were endeavoring to try to decide what was the best thing to do there. and i also try to utilize where we are now understanding what took place in 2001 so that we could have learned from it. and sometimes i think what the president is talking about when you say patience et cetera, we didn't have any patience. in fact, we thought that -- and sometimes we think it's a quick hit. i remember very well when shotgun happened, and the next day we heard the president say mission accomplished. once we got in there, they said individuals would be waving a flag and saying, thank you america. and we bring in all of our values to them and they would just embrace it and that would be the great thing and everything would be different. 10, 11 years later, we still had troops on the ground. we have committed more in the region than anyone else and still hear folks say we didn't do anything. n

mr. -- undersecretary connor wants to address this issue because i know that i'm pretty sure you visited with congressman hastings and myself, and then interior secretary to this yackmaw -- yacka maw basin project. but it does reeffect so much of what we are asking people to do. the integrated plan is part of an ongoing water enhancement program through the bureau of reclamation. so my question is what do we need to do to not only use the resources -- to implement this plan through the department of intouror, but providing adequate levels of funding not just for projects like the yacamaw basin but other areas. can you say the same of the klamath, you could say the same i'm assuming california has more than the san joaquin issue. there's many of these issues. what do we need to do knowing that we are facing serious drought in these areas? >> thank you, senator cantwell. you're absolutely right. yacamaw is a great model what we need to doing from a strategic standpoint. the federal government working closely with the state and all the different constituencies in developing a plaven action in dealing with the long-t