mr. lankford: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. lankford: mr. president are we into quorum call in. the presiding officer: we are. mr. lankford: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vacated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lankford: i've come to wish a happy birthday message today. happy birthday to the fifth birthday to the dodd-frank regulations. where are we as a nation with this wonderful five-year-old running around our nation now pushing that birthday cake across every bank and financial institution across this country. how is that going? let me get a chance to share things. everyone in this nation remembers extremely well 2008, the financial collapse that happened. lehman brothers closing down causing panic. fannie and freddie rules finally reaping what the nation assumed would happen at some point from all these very low rates and pushing out and encouraging people that can't afford to pay back a loan what would really occur. the rise of a conversation, something called too big to fail that we had never heard before s

mr. lankford: mr. president, i want to speak for just a moment about -- are we in a quorum, mr. president? the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum. mr. lard lankford: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. lankford: i'd like to take just a moment to be able to speak about a subject that's very very difficult for me to speak about and, frankly, for a lot of americans to talk about and hear about. it connects to all of us in extremely personal ways. let me set some context. not long ago a group of annual rights activists gathered around a research facility is, a research facility that was using animals for their testing. the activists gathered around the facility and channeled and saying it's not soon, it's violence and other signs that said animal lives are their right, we have just begun to fight. as they protested to protect the lives of the animals that were being used in that facility for research. now, i understand their frustration there. but let me put it into context of some things that came

mr. lankford: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. lankford: mr. president in the 1960's the johnson administration led congress to start allot ago small amount of money of federal funding from the federal taxpayers to target schools and reach out for the poorest of the poor in america to try to help beat poverty back. five decades later we have an education policy in america that reaches out to every single school district in america millions of kids that continue to fail them, to fail their parents, and still have not solved the poverty issue. what we have is an ever-increasing federal bureaucracy that's reached well beyond what it was designed for in the 1960's. and i was sure it reaches well beyond what it was originally designed for, something that would just help the poorest of the poor and take care of kids on military bases and those on indian tribal bases. the goal was good, make sure ever child in america has the opportunity for success every teacher had teaching qualifications and every school had accountability. it was approved through

senator lankford. >> mr. chairman, you are right that this is not a loss when we would deal with. this is the latest technological battle. director comey, thank you for all your work and please pass on to the folks who worked so very long hours leading up to july the fourth, our appreciation of what he did for the nation for its citizens of my state and the people around the country. we do appreciate that work very much and you have a terrific team. the challenge we face is that only technology side dealing with terrorism comments also the benefit that is gained from this. i would say folks at opm would be glad to talk about encryption and the value of the writer if they've kept their data in a more encrypted location and stored a better and had greater security. whether that be retailers about the country or banks, whether it be government agencies, we are benefiting from encryption and from a technology that has been invented. the hard part is the other side of it. what i'd like to talk him we've got to have some balance in the conversation because we absolutely need encrypted t

senator lankford. >> thank you, mr. spires, let me ask you a follow up question. you said coming from the cio council before that many federal agency have similar issues? >> yes. >> twofold question, one is to define what issues mean on this. and second is give me a percentage when you say many other agencies. and again, i'm not asking you to articulate what are the security issues and specifically where are our vulnerabilities. >> right. >> not asking you to do that. give me a guess how many agencies we are dealing with and what those issues are? >> i would say many of the federal agencies -- and it's -- have a similar kind of problem that mr. esser alluded to about decentralization of i.t. in and of itself, that's not necessarily a bad thing. but it's been very, very difficult for many of these agencies as they have rolled out stills, and then have to support these systems. the complexity factors have grown so significantly that it's just very, very difficult for them to get their arms around systems. i mean we would do it at dhs to call out dhs specifically, i

lankford. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields bafpblgt for what purpose does the gentleman from -- yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent the text of h.r. 2722 as proposed to be passed under suspend the rules be modified by the amendment i have placed at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment to the manager's amendment offered by mr. luket mire of missouri, strike line 15 all that follows through page 8 line 12, page 12, strike lines 22 and all that follows through page 13 line 6 and insert the following b distribution. subject to section 5134-f of title 31 united states code all surcharges received by the secretary from the sale of coins issued under this act shall be promptly paid by the secretary to the breast cancer research foundation, new york, new york, for the purpose of furthering breast cancer research funded by the foundation. the speaker pro tempore