mr. massie: thank you mr. chairman. i rise today with four of my colleagues to offer a bipartisan amendment simply requires the d.e.a. to comply with federal law. the passage of our amendment to the 2014 farm bill legalized the cultivation of industrial hemp for research purposes and has allowed for the establishment of industrial hemp pilot programs in states across the country. in fact, in my home state of kentucky alone, nearly 1,800 acres of hemp are projected to be grown this summer in these pilot programs however, despite the clear language of our farm bill amendment, the specifically states that state agriculture agencies and universities will be growing the industrial hemp for research, the d.e.a. has continuously ignored the plain text of the federal statute. the d.e.a. continues to waste valuable time and taxpayer dollars by holding up nonpsycho active hemp seeds destined for legitimate hemp pilot programs. last year, officials from the state of kentucky were forced to file a lawsuit in federal court to compel

mr. massie: mr. chairman. the chair: the gentleman from kentucky. mr. massie: i request a recorded vote, the yeas and nays. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from kentucky will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? >> mr. chairman, i have an amendment the desk. the chair: the clerk will read the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mrs. ellmers of north carolina. at the of the of the bill, before the short title, insert the following, section, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this act may be used to deactivate the 440th air wing -- airlift wing or to move the personnel or aircraft of the 440th airlift wing or to otherwise degrade the capabilities of the 440th airlift wing. mr. frelinghuysen: mr. chairman. the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman from -- mr. frelinghuysen: i reserve a point of order on the gentlewoman's amendment. the chair: a point of order is reserved. pursuant to house reso

mr. massie of kentucky. mr. massie: thank you very much. the chair: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for one minute. mr. massie: thank you, madam chair. i'm excited to report that thanks to the farm bill amendment that allowed for pilot programs we grew many -- many pilot programs in kentucky last summer and this summer there will be about 1,800 achers of hemp grown in kentucky in pilot programs. we have venture capital coming to kentucky. i met with two companies in kentucky that are investing in hemp but the problem is right now they can only do the pilot programs. yet they're still going to grow 1,800 ache evers of it in kentucky alone thafle grow 100,000 acres in canada. it's time to let our farmers have this opportunity. we need to take away the restraint that it's just a pilot program and we've addressed a lot of concerns people had last year that people had with the program. law enforcement are ok with hemp they have seen it's not its cousin. with that, i urbling passage and urge my colleagues to vote for this amendment. i y

mr. massie, for five minutes. mr. massie: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm here today because last night at midnight a wonderful thing happened. in what seems like a constant flow, a tide that's been washing away our liberty since the founding of this country we experienced something unique. the tide reversed thanks to one senator, senator rand paul. and now we have some of our civil liberties restored. if only but for a previous second in history, they are restored. it may registered only as an eddie current but clearly we -- eddy current, but clearly we changed the tide last night. now, what happened? the patriot act expired. how did the law expire, do you say? why do we allow them to expire? because when we enact laws, we know that we don't have the foresight to see how they will be carried out. we don't know everything that's going to happen as time transpires. so it's important that we revisit these laws. and in this case, this law expired. now, i'd like to pretend that if i were here when the patriot act passed after the attacks on our country, tha

mr. massie as always, this committee not only appreciates and respects you coming up here but i know you come up here and do a lot of study with us also. so thank you very much for coming up, not only prepared, but in the spirit in which you have done this. and i appreciate you very much. he does. he does. he does. >> thank you, chairman. >> thank you very much. appreciate that. this chairman does not see anyone else that seeks to offer any amendments or discuss hr-2393. this now closes the hearing portion of hr-2393. and the chairman will be in receipt of motion from the gentleman from oklahoma. >> mr. chairman, i move the committee grant hr-2685 the department of defense appropriations act 2016, the modified open rule. the rule provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member on appropriations. the rule waves all point of order. against provisions in the rule for failure to comply with clause 2 of 21. the rule provides after general debate, the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule except that, one,

mr. massie: that's absolutely correct. furthermore, the document we viewed was a draft it is not complete. if you read it virtually every page of it has a footnote that says, we're still working on this page. so yeah, we are fast tracking something that we can't see, we're not really going to be party to the negotiations, and we can't control the outcome of it. so i think we should do that with great caution. i just want to close with this. i want to say that the vote today was not a referendum on free trade. it was not a referendum on whether it benefit ours country to trade with other countries. we know that we believe it, we have seen it. trade is good. but this was a referendum on giving the president more authority. this was a referendum on voting for something we can't see, we can't verify, and this was a referendum on a huge, giant document, reminds me of some of the omnibus bills we're given two days to read that come to this body, 1600 pages. but this was a referendum on the process. that's why they couldn't get t

mr. massie spst: it's bad for private -- mr. massie: it's bad for privacy, as my colleague from california mentioned, because it makes us less competitive overseas. who wants to buy a piece of defective software that was made defective by our country. i urge members to vote for this amendment because it would prevent these bad thing from occurring. i yield back to mr. poe. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. culberson: which gentleman from texas. the chair: the gentleman from texas, mr. poe. mr. poe: how much time do i have? the chair: two minutes. mr. poe: i want to thank the support from the minority and from ms. lofgren and the co-sponsors on this, as well as the chairman of the subcommittee and the issue of privacy in this time where we have threats to this country, we can have security and we can certainly have privacy and we can have the constitution to be followed as well and the fourth amendment requires, and has always required that if the government wants to search, the government must follow certain

mr. massie, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i ask about the date that lois lerner's hard drive failed. you gave us more specificity today here and i appreciate that. what day did her hard drive fail? >> we believe it failed on june 11th, which is a saturday, between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. >> this hard drive failed conveniently. do you know where it was when it failed? >> we believe, based on log activity, that the laptop was in her office at the time that the hard drive failed. >> so on a saturday, it was just sitting there and it just sort of failed on its own, on a saturday. on june 11th. can you tell if there was any computer activity at the time that it failed, from log activity? >> there was. we were unable to determine if a program was in place that would remove another program from the computer. it was a silent deployment, if you will. that deployment was scheduled to occur between two dates, but we weren't able to a definitively say there was computer activity on june 11th when it was deployed. >> on june 3rd, the chairman

mr. massie, for five minutes. mr. massie: thank you, mr. speaker. americans want to know where does their food come from? parents want to know before they give it to their children how is this food raised? where did it come from? moms want to know. dads want to know. today they can. when a proposed legislation passes this body this week, we won't have that information necessary to make those decisions for our family's health. what legislation am i talking about? i'm talking about the country of origin labeling. in other words right now if you buy food and it comes from a foreign country, it must be labeled. if you buy pork beef, you buy chicken wouldn't you want to know where that food came from? why would you want to know? different countries have different rules and different cultures. if you remember back in 2007, we had some pet food that came from a foreign country and killed a lot of pets. it was enhanced with melo anyone to up the proteins in it. it was unsafe for pets and a lot died as a result. it came from a different country that has diff

mr. massie. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognize for two minutes. mr. massie: i thank the gentleman from massachusetts. i think some words from james madison are instructive to this debate. he said, in no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war and peace to the legislature and not to the executive department. because the objection of such a mixture of heterogenerals you powers, the trust would be too great for any one man. in war, a physical force is to be created and it is the executive which is to direct it. in war, the public treasures are to be unlocked and it is the executive hand which is to dispense them. hence it has grown into an axiom that the executive is the department of power most distinguished by its propensity to war. hence it is the practice of all states in proportion as they are free to disarm that propensity of its influence. that was a warning that he gave us and unfortunately, after being in this conflict for several years without an authorization from congress, we ha

mr. massie, on which further proceedings were postponed and the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the chair: amendment offered by mr. massie of kentucky. the chair: a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] c0eu7 on this vote the yeas are 255. the nays are 274. the amendment is adopted. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. frelinghuysen: mr. chairman i move the committee do now rise and report the bill back to the house with sundry amendments and the recommendations the amendments be agreed to and the bill as amended do pass. the question is on the motion of the committee rise. those in favor will vote aye. t

mr. massie, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to ask about the date that lois lerner's hard drive failed. because you gave us more specificity here today and i appreciate that. what day did her hard drive fail? >> we believe it failed on june 11th, a saturday, between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. >> this hard drive failed conveniently. do you know where it was when it failed? >> we believe, based on log activity, that the laptop was in her office at the time that the hard drive failed. >> so on a saturday, it was just sitting there and it just sort of failed on its own, on a saturday. on june 11th. can you tell if there was any computer activity at the time that it failed, from log activity? >> there was. we were unable to determine if a program was in place that would remove another program from the computer. it was a silent deployment, if you will. that deployment was scheduled to occur between two dates, but we weren't able to definitively say there was any computer activity on june 11th when it was destroyed. >> on june 3rd, the

mr. massie. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognize for two minutes. mr. massie: i thank the gentleman from massachusetts. i think some words from james madison are instructive to this debate. he said, in no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war and peace to the legislature and not to the executive department. because the objection of such a mixture of heterogenerals you powers, the trust would be too great for any one man. in war, a physical force is to be created and it is the executive which is to direct it. in war, the public treasures are to be unlocked and it is the executive hand which is to dispense them. hence it has grown into an axiom that the executive is the department of power most distinguished by its propensity to war. hence it is the practice of all states in proportion as they are free to disarm that propensity of its influence. that was a warning that he gave us and unfortunately, after being in this conflict for several years without an authorization from congress, we ha

mr. massie. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognize for two minutes. mr. massie: i thank the gentleman from massachusetts. i think some words from james madison are instructive to this debate. he said, in no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war and peace to the legislature and not to the executive department. because the objection of such a mixture of heterogenerals you powers, the trust would be too great for any one man. in war, a physical force is to be created and it is the executive which is to direct it. in war, the public treasures are to be unlocked and it is the executive hand which is to dispense them. hence it has grown into an axiom that the executive is the department of power most distinguished by its propensity to war. hence it is the practice of all states in proportion as they are free to disarm that propensity of its influence. that was a warning that he gave us and unfortunately, after being in this conflict for several years without an authorization from congress, we ha

mr. massie, as always, this committee not only appreciates and respects you coming up here, but i know you come up here and do a lot of study with us also. so thank you very much for coming up, not only prepared but in the spirit in which you have done this. and i appreciate you very much. he does. he does. he does. >> thank you, chairman. >> thank you very much. appreciate that. this chairman does not see anyone else that seeks to offer any amendments or discuss hr-2393. this now closes the hearing portion of hr-2393. and the chairman will be in receipt of motion from the gentleman from oklahoma. >> mr. chairman, i move the committee grant hr-2685 the department of defense appropriations act 2016, the modified open rule. the rule provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member on appropriations. the rule waves all point of -- points of order against provisions in the rule for failure to comply with clause 2 of 21. the rule provides after general debate, the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule, except

mr. massie requested and received time from the democratic sponsor, mr. mcgovern. i did not want to do that. but i add least wanted to point out today that there has been nothing conservative about our policy of permanent forever endless war in the middle east. president eisenhower in his most famous speech warned us against the military industrial complex. we should not be going to war in wars that are more about money and power and prestige than they are about any serious threat to the united states. i think president eisenhower would be shocked in how far we have gone down that path he warned us against. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york, mr. nadler, for five minutes. mr. nadler: thank you mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise to express the profound hope that the supreme court in its upcoming decision will strike down laws that prohibit same-sex couples from marrying and ensure all states recognize lawful marriages performed elsewhere. these four cases are an opportunity for the court to en

mr. massie: universities, students and professors come on up with new ideas, pursue their dreams late into the night. backed by venture capitalists who fund their ideas. why would entrepreneurs, inventors and universities be against the bill called the innovation act? i will tell you act. because it stifles innovation. would you take a lawn mower to your flower garden if you saw a weed in it. i wouldn't. that's what the innovation act does. it will destroy and degrade our patent system and i urge my colleagues to vote against h.r. 9. thank you. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from state of illinois seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. dold: i rise today to recognize lg electronics for winning design for recycling award. it is one of the activities that each of us can do on a daily basis to protect the environment and protect natural resources. it is some of our country's and largest best manufac

mr. massie: we had a vote on the t.p.a. here and i just wanted to spend some time to explain, and i think my colleague from texas probably feels the same way that i am for trade. i think trade is good. i'm not against trade. but today i voted against the trade promotion authority, which would fast track the t.p.p., and i just wanted to take a second to explain why i was compelled to vote against this legislation today. first of all like my colleague, i've read the t.p.p., i've been down to the confidential room and it's a very thick document. there are two bound vols and there's a binder that goes with its, as sort of a guide. but what struck me the most about this t.p.p. document is the enormity of it. my staff aren't even allowed to read the document, we're not allowed to have access to the internet while we're in there. when we're looking at the document. not allowed to take notes from the room. and this document references other bound documents. so how could i possibly, one person, by myself in a confidential room, how