mr. irving first. at the conclusion of those remarks we are going to excuse him so he can tend to the duties of escorting the prime minister into the house of representatives. mr. irving you are now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. good morning mr. chairman mr. cummings and member of the committee. i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today. as sergeant in arms and chief law enforcement officer of the house of are representatives i'm fully dedicated to ensuring the safety of the entire capitol complex, a permission formed in close consultation with the capitol business board and capitol police. before i begin i'd like to extend my thanks to all the men and women of the u.s. capitol police for their professional response to the incident on april 15th. u.s. capitol police officers and officials romtly sobbed to the west frond and arrested the individual and ensured the craft was harmless. we're currently working closely about with our partners in federal law enforcement, the depart

mr. irving first. at the conclusion of those remarks we are going to excuse him so he can tend to the duties of escorting the prime minister into the house of representatives. mr. irving you are now recognized for five pins. >> thank you. good morning, mr. chairman. mr. cummings and members of the committee. i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today. as sergeant in arms and chief law enforcement officer of the house of representatives i'm fully dedicated to ensuring the safety of the entire capitol complex, a mission performed in close partnership and cooperation with the u.s. capitol police board and member and women of the united states capitol police. before i begin i'd like to extend my thanks to all the men and women of the u.s. capitol police for their capable and professional response to the incident on april 15th. us clog police officers and officials promptly responded to the west front and arrested the individual and ensured the craft was harmless. we are currently working close

mr. irving. we have had a lot of interactions with the secret service which haven't been the most pleasant but i thank them for being so accessible. mr. chancey has made himself available on the mobile phone, calling us and making sure he is available for that. so i publicly thank him for that. we understand the mission is difficult to fulfill but you are here today because you have been entrusted to accomplish it. we want to help that. we can't have ever have this mission fail. so we look forward to hearing more about that. i now recognize mr. cummings for five minutes. >> thank you so much mr. chairman. unlike previous hearings, our committee has involves the d.e.a. today's hearing presents a different question. how should our nation deal with the relatively new and evolving threat of unmanned or small manned aerial vehicles entering the air space over our nation's capitol? this is a question of technology and policy both of which are rapidly evolving. in this case, i do not personally believe t

mr. irving first. we will then excuse him to eesscort the prime minister into the house of representatives. >> thank you. good morning, mr. chairman, mr. cummings, and members of the committee. i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today. as sergeant at arms and chief law enforcement officer of the house of representatives i am fully dedicated to ensuring the safety of the capitol complex, a mission performed in close cooperation with the u.s. capitol police and men and women. before i begin i would like to extend my thanks to all the men and women of the u.s. capitol police for their capable and professional response to the incident on april 15. police officers and officials promptly responded to the west front and arrested the individual and ensured the craft was harmless. we are currently working closely with our partners in federal law enforcement the department of defense transportation and homeland security to maintain robust air space security within the challenging confines of the ur

mr. irving for their response to this request. we've had a lot of interactions with the secret service that haven't been the most pleasant but i will thank that agency for being so accessible in their communications, and he has made himself available on the mobile phone and calling us and making sure that he's available here. and i want to publicly thank him here, even though we have had our differences. we understand that the mission is difficult to fulfill but you're here today because you've been entrusted to accomplish that. we want to help that. we're in the my of our appropriation season. we can't ever have this mission fail. so we look forward to hearing more about that. with that, i will recognize the ranking member mr. cummings for five minutes. >> thank you very much mr. chairman. unlike previous hearings our committee has held with the secret service and the dea which involves misconduct by individual agents. today's hearing presents a different question. how should our nations deal with the relatively new and evolving

mr. veasey: madam speaker, i rise today to congratulate the irving independent school district for being recognized by the college board as the 2015 advanced placement district of the year in the mid-sized category. this award recognizes the effort that irving i.s.d. in ensuring the academic success of our local schoolchildren. since 2008, irving i.s.d. has increased over 70% the number of students taking the a.p. exam and has increased by over 80% the number of students who scored a three or higher on the a.p. exam. not only are more students taking the a.p. test in irving but also more students are earning good scores and that's really important. i represent almost all of south irving in district 33 and three out of the five schools in the -- high schools in the irving i.s.d. are located in south irving. to every teacher, principal staffer and parent at cardwell, macarthur, nimitz and singly high, thank you for making all of us texas crowd. madam speaker, i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back his time. are there further one-minute requests? under th