mr. lungren: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the committee on house administration be discharged from further consideration of senate joint resolution 9 and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the tight -- title of the senate joint resolutions. the clerk: senate joint resolution 9, joint resolution providing for the reappointment of robert p. cogante, as a citizen regent of the board of regents of the smithsonian institution. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection to the consideration of the joint resolution? hearing none, without objection the joint resolution is read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. lungren: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the committee on house administration be discharged from further consideration of house resolution 299, and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro

mr. lungren. mr. lungren is the chairman of the committee on house administration. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. lungren: thank you very much, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise in support of this legislation. you know, mr. speaker, my mom was born and raised in chicago, illinois, and listening to her stories about what transpired in the political process when she was growing up there, i used to think that the only place you could find immortality in this world was on the voting rolls of cook county. but i find here today that ronald reagan was right. immortality is in the name of a federal government program. this is supposed to be a temporary program. it was supposed to give temporary assistance to the states to make sure they could comply and it's done that. it has done that. it has let out all the money, billions of dollars that go to the states to assist in doing that, its time has come and gone. mr. speaker, if we cannot see that in these very difficult budget times we have to make some difficult decisions with respect

mr. lungren. >> thank you mr. chairman. the political correctness in this room is astounding. as someone whose district includes the new folsom prison with the plot was hatched to commit the crimes in southern california and as someone who represented the area at one time with those crimes were carried out, to ignore what that is is to may astounding, absolutely astounding. let me ask the experts we have on banks and terrorist. how many of the street gangs in either new york or california have any ideology which is dedicated to the destruction of the united states. mr. dunne led the? >> none. >> mr. della the? >> none that i know of. >> as serious as the gang problem is -- i spent most of my life working on that problem -- have you come across leaders in the various gangs have indicated specific purpose is to undermine the institutions of america and in any way associate themselves with any transnational terrorist organizations. mr. downey? >> i would say that both represent a type of insurgency. one is to overthrow the united states and kill innocent people. the other is to s

mr. lungren, for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i must say the political correctness in this room is astounding. as someone whose district includes the new fullsome prison where the plot was hatched to commit the crimes in southern california and as someone who represented the areas at one time where those crimes were carried out, to ignore what that is to me astounding. absolutely astounding. let me ask the experts here that we have on gangs and terror, how many of the street gangs in either new york or california have an ideology which is dedicated to the destruction of the united states? mr. dunleavy. >> none. >> mr. smith. >> none think a know of. >> mr. downing. >> none that i know of. >> as serious as the gang problem is and i've spent most of my life working on that problem, have you come across leaders in the various gangs who have indicated that their specific purpose is to undermine the institutions of america and in any way society them sem -- themselves with in -- associate themselves with any transnational terrorist or

mr. lungren. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. mr. lungren: thank you very much, mr. chairman. i might just say that in answer to the question raised by my friend from virginia, why would anybody oppose this, it is because of the constitution. this provision, section 18, is clearly vialtive of the constitution. it would have you believe that you can go to court, go to court , an article 3 court, and have a final decision, a final judgment rendered by a court, including a jury, and then after that, not an appeal to an appellate court but an appeal somehow back to the administrative agency? does anybody sense there's a violation of the separation of powers? does anybody understand what the court said in the plout case which said the constitution gives the federal judiciary the power to not merely rule on cases but decide them subject to review only by superior courts in article 3 hierarchy? you can argue all you want, but that's what the supreme court says. this is an obvious platent violation of the constitution -- platent violation of

mr. lungren for five minutes. >> thank you worcester chairman. just want to say the political correctness in this room is astounding. as someone whose district includes the new folsom prison where the plot was hatched to commit the crimes in southern california and as someone who represented the areas that one time where those crimes were carried out, to ignore what that is is to meet astounding, absolutely astounding. let chaos the experts here that we have on gangs and terrorism. how many of the street gangs in either new york or california have an ideology which is dedicated to the structure of the united united states? mr. dunleavy? esther smith? >> known that i know of. >> number that i know of. >> as serious as the gang problem is and i spent most of my life working on that problem, have you come across leaders in the various gangs who have indicated that there are specific purpose is to undermine the institutions of america and in any way associate themselves with any transnational terrorist organizations? mr. downing? >> no but i will say

mr. lungren, came down and he spoke and said something about, look what happened in the last election. well, i'll tell you what happened in the last election. it was in new york state and the people spoke loudly in a district that in 2010 was strongly republican. they said, we don't want medicare destroyed. we want to keep medicare and they elected a democrat. the people are seeing what the majority is doing. the reason we have need for w.i.c. programs and other programs is because the middle class is disappearing in this cupry. jobs are being shipped overseas, and the rich people get tax breaks and we say everybody should share but the rich people aren't having to share. the w.i.c. program should be the last place anyone consider cutting. it should be the absolute total last place. wret the cuts are there, 13%. the fact is, those people are in the place in life where if we don't give moneys to the food for the pregnant mothers, we'll have more infant mortality. in my district, we've got an infant mortality rate similar to third world countries. we tried to have programs passed up here

mr. rohrabacher: i hope everyone is paying attention to what this is all about tonight. first of all, we have dan lungren, one of our muslims, who is a former -- one of our members who is a chairman of the judiciary committees, all of them add mant that this bill is unconstitutional and we have a lot of people talking about backlogs and what is wrong with the efficiency of the patent office as if that is what this is all about. this is not what this is all about. this is a patent fight going on for 0 years. you have some very large corporations who are trying to harmonize patent law with the rest of the world even thousand patent law has been stronger throughout the rest of the world. you weaken the patent procks of the american people and weakening it. is that what we want to do? i don't think so. that will have dramatic impact on our country. one of the most highly respected think tanks in the united states have four of their scholars go after this bill and three of the points they have made, thumbs down on this american invents act, patent rip-off bill. here's what hoover institution says, it will pro

mr. rohrabacher: i hope everyone is paying attention to what this is all about tonight. first of all, we have dan lungren, one of our muslims, who is a former -- one of our members who is a chairman of the judiciary committees, all of them add mant that this bill is unconstitutional and we have a lot of people talking about backlogs and what is wrong with the efficiency of the patent office as if that is what this is all about. this is not what this is all about. this is a patent fight going on for 0 years. you have some very large corporations who are trying to harmonize patent law with the rest of the world even thousand patent law has been stronger throughout the rest of the world. you weaken the patent procks of the american people and weakening it. is that what we want to do? i don't think so. that will have dramatic impact on our country. one of the most highly respected think tanks in the united states have four of their scholars go after this bill and three of the points they have made, thumbs down on this american invents act, patent rip-off bill. here's what hoover institution says, it will pro