mr. landry: thank you, mr. chairman. madam chairman, i ask unanimous consent to withdraw my amendment. the chair: is there objection? without objection, the amendment is withdrawn. it is now in order to consider amendment number 15 printed in house report 112-267. for what purpose does the gentleman from puerto rico seek recognition? mr. pierluisi: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: amendment number 15, printed in house report number 112-267, offered by mr. pierluisi of puerto rico. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 455 the gentleman from puerto rico, mr. pierluisi, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from puerto rico. mr. pierluisi: thank you, madam chair. i understand the other side of the aisle needs a colloquy so i yield one minute to mr. mica. mr. mica: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i'd like to yield to the gentleman for -- from texas for the purpose of entering into a colloquy. >> i thank chairman mica, i rise to enter into a colloquy with him. chairman, mica, h.r. 2830 requires standby vessels near oil rigs

mr. landry. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, i want to commend you and thank you and your staff for getting involved and helping get a meeting down in the regional office in new orleans because i believe that it's important for congress, it's congress' role to regulate the regulator. and so i appreciate you getting involved and seeing that it's important to allow congressmen to go down there and visit the regional offices and so forth. so i thank you. um, i don't know if you had a chance to read "the wall street journal" today because there was an article that said that crude cruises just shy of $900. and -- $100. and if you read through the article, you'll see the reason crude prices are escalating according to "the wall street journal" which is a periodical that was used in telling us that the gulf was back to work, said that the reason crude prices are up is because domestic supplies are on their way down. they're predicting that domestic production -- i'm sorry -- domestic production is on the decline. and, you se

mr. landry may have some further questions. referencing that. as those come into you, if you could respond in a very timely manner so that we can have that and make it part of this record, would appreciate. >> you will do our very best. our congressional affairs. providing a response. >> as you said that. we can expect that. and finally, i asked in his consent to enter a copy of the august 2001 draft analysis which includes the draft solicitor's opinion of a much smaller consolidation proposal between ellis as referenced by mr. johnson and his comments to be included in the record without objection that will be included with the record. come before the committee again. thank you, again. >> great. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> on c-span2 tonight, a hearing on the restructuring of the securities and exchange commission. then, we talk about the national review cover story titled what is constitutional conservatism. that is followed by today's pent

mr. lobiondo: i have an en bloc amendment at the desk, consisting of lobiondo, 31, rule one, mcintyre, 29, rule 11, cummings-landry, rule six, murphy of connecticut, brown of florida, number 20, rule 17, and ribble, number 2, rule 18. i support the amendment. i urbling everyone to do so. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendments en bloc. the clerk: amendments enblk con sents of amendments one, two, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 printed in house report 112-267, offered by mr. lobiondo of new jersey. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 455 the gentleman from new jersey, mr. lobiondo, and the gentleman from washington, mr. larsen, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new jersey. mr. lobiondo: i urge all members to support the en bloc amendment and reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from washington. mr. larsen: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in support of mr. lobiondo's manager's amendment and en bloc amendments. it provides helpful clerical and text changes. in particular the provision that deprants the coast guard discr