mr. mcarthur. voting yet. mr. moony. mr. hardy. mr. hardy votes no. mr. la hood. voting no. >> the clerk will report. >> the ye a's are 19 and the nays are 18. >> you all won. do you really want to? motion accepted. amendment passes. turn to mr. hice. number 22. you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. i'm offering an amendment this morning that i believe will address an issue within this whole debate about puerto rico that has long been overlooked and that is the influence of private market competition. unfortunately for far too long there has been way too much reliance on the public sector within puerto rico. in fact, in the energy and mineral resources sub-committee hearing this past january that was held on preppa, we saw an incredible example of why the puerto rico government has failed, the 3.5 million american citizens on the island. mr. chairman, instead one of the key objectives that i believe should be part of this legislation is to ensure that we promote and encourage free market competition in order to improve the over all economy

mr. mcarthur? russell? mr. russell votes no. mr. rogers. mr. rogers votes no. mr. shuster? mr. hunter?r. hunter votes no. mr. macarthur? >> the clerk will report the tally. >> mr. chairman, 20 aye votes, 41 no votes. the amendmentry: is not adopted. >> mr. chairman i moved to adopt the subcommittee report on land forces. chair thornberry: those in favor will say aye. those opposed say no. a quorum being present, the ayes have it and the motion is adopted. the committee will now receive postponet on -- will until the end of the subcommittee mark. the chair recognizes the joe manchin meant from south carolina, mr. wilson. mr. wilson: thank you, mr. chairman. thisleased to present report on the tree 17 national defense authorization act. i appreciate we are a subcommittee that oversees some of the most critical aspects of the department of defense including cyber command and major origins of the national security agency. andnse wise, science technology efforts such as the defense advanced research project or dark but and the military service labs. operations forces and programs that count

mr. mcarthur is trying to accomplish trying to be done without throwing into question whether there's a constitutional issue or not. since i'm not ready to do that, i'm going to vote no on this particular amendment, recognizing that i still would like to try and go forward working to see if we can folsom language that will be comfortable, to everybody, including the treasury department and white house on this particular point going forward. i do understand the premise of what you're saying and i actual agree with the premise of what you're saying. i'll be happy to bring it up there instead if it will be approved as floor amendment. if that will be more productive use and withdraw it at this time. >> yeah, actually, i think it would be. >> i'll withdraw the amendment and we'll work on it and bring it back to the floor. >> and my intention is to actually get something that we can bring to the floor. >> okay. >> i'll withdraw, then. >> amendment is withdrawn. thank you for your cooperation in working that way. i understand you're involved in this issue and a lot and been involved in this legislation. you