mr. tierney votes no. mr. clay. mr. clay votes no. mr. lynch. mr. lynch votes no. mr. cooper. mr. cooper votes no. mr. conley. mr. conley votes no. ms. spear. ms. spear votes no. r. cartwright. >> no. >> mr. cartwright votes no. mr. pokan. >> no to mccarthy. >> mr. pokan votes no. >> pardon me. are you voting no to what? >> voting no to the mccarthy tactics that we're having today that our side isn't allowed to talk about so i'm voting no. >> continue. >> ms. duckworth. >> no. >> ms. duckworth votes no. ms. kelly. ms. kelly votes no. mr. davis. mr. davis votes no. mr. davis votes no. mr. welch. mr. welch votes no. mr. cardenas. mr. horse ford. mr. horse ford votes no. ms. grish amount votes no. -- grisham votes no. >> how is mr. mchenry recorded? >> as voting aye. >> and mr. woodall, how is he recorded? >> mr. woodall has not been recorded. >> is there anyone else that seeks recognition to vote? > you are recorded voting aye. >> the clerk will report. >> on that vote, 22 ayes, 17 oes. > the resolution is agreed to. the resolution finding lois lerner waived her fifth amendment privi

mr. raidty votes aye mr. miller? >> no. >> mr. miller votes no. mr. andrews? >> no. >> mr. drews votes no. mr. wilson? >> no. >> mr. wilson votes no. mrs. davis? >> no. >> mrs. davis votes no. mr. langevin? >> no. >> mr. langevin votes no. mr. bishop? >> no. >> mr. bishop votes no. mr. larson? >> no. >> mr. larson votes no. mr. turner? >> no. >> mr. turner votes no. mr. cooper? >> aye. >> mr. cooper votes aye. mr. klein? >> no. >> mr. klein votes no. ms. bordallo? >> [inaudible] >> ms. bordallo? ms. bordallo votes no. mr. rogers? >> no. >> mr. rogers votes no. >> mr. courtney? >> no. >> mr. courtney votes no. mr. franks? >> no. >> mr. franks votes no. mr. loebsack? >> no. >> mr. loebsack votes no. mr. schuster? >> no. >> mr. schuster votes no. ms. son gas? >> aye. >> ms. tsongas votes aye. mr. conaway? >> no. >> >> mr. land bourne votes no. mr. johnson? >> aye. >> mr. johnson votes aye. mr. whitman? >> mr. whitman votes no. mr. hunter? >> no. >> mr. hunter votes no. ms. spear? ms. spear votes aye. dr. fleming? >> no. >> dr. fleming votes no. mr. barber? >> no. >> mr. barber

mr. cohen: -- mr. mckeon: mr. chairman, i yield to mr. king. the chair: the gentleman from new york is recognized for two minutes. mr. king: i thank my good friend and chairman for yielding and i rise in opposition to the smith-gibson amendment. having said that, let me express my deepest respect for the ranking member, mr. smith, and my colleague from new york, mr. gibson, who has served his nation long and well and certainly acts within -- with the very best of intentions and i admire his patriotism and dedication. having said, that i strongly identify with the remarks of chairman mccaul and congressman cotton. and i think the ultimate theory here or the ultimate fact here is that we would be giving terrorists more rights if they come to the united states than if they'd been captured overseas. and to say that everyone captured in the united states is entitled to the full rights of a citizen in this country takes away from the fact that in a nazi soldier had attacked the united states in world war ii, would he have been entitled all the rights

mr. veasey? >> no. >> mr. veasey votes no. mr. nugent? >> no. >> mr. nugent votes no. mrs. nome? >> no. >> mrs. nome votes no. mr. cook? >> no. >> mr. cook votes no. mr. briden stein? >> no. >> mr. briden stein votes no. dr -- [inaudible] votes no. mrs. velour sky? >> no. >> mrs. v.a. lore sky votes no. [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] >> clerk -- clerk will report the tally. >> mr. chairman, there were ten aye votes -- [inaudible] no votes. >> the amendment is not agreed to. if there are no further amendments, the chair recognizes the gentleman from ohio, mr. turner, for the purpose of offering a motion. >> mr. chairman, i move to adopt the subcommittee report of the subcommittee on tactical air and land forces as amended. >> questions on the motion of the gentleman from ohio? so many as are in fair will say aye. >> aye. >> those opposed, no. a quorum being present, the ayes have it, and the motion is agreed to. committee will now receive the report on the subcommittee on intelligence, emerging threats and capabilities. pursuant to committee rule 17 and in consultation with the ran

mr. chairman, i want to -- mr. mcgovern: mr. chairman, i want to yield mr. nolan for unanimous consent request. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. nolan: mr. chairman, i rise in support of the mcgovern amendment and i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the chair: without objection. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i also want to yield to the other member from minnesota, mr. ellison. mr. ellison: mr. speaker, i rise in support of the mcgovern and i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend and add my statement to the record. the chair: without objection. mr. mcgovern: mr. chairman, i yield myself three minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: thank you, mr. chair. this is a debate about priorities. this would restore the $20.5 billion in the supplemental nutrition assistance program, or snap, formally known as food stamps. it would restore those cuts by eliminating or reducing the excessive subsidies to the highly profitable big agribusiness and reduce the deficit $12 billion beyond the base bill. at a time when mi

mr. chairman. the chair: the gentleman from minnesota. mr. peterson: mr. chairman, i'm now pleased to yield to one of our ranking members, the gentleman from california, mr. costa, for one minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. two minutes. mr. costa: thanks very much, mr. speaker. the dairy security act in this bill is a result of four years of hard work on a bipartisan basis. it's intended to provide strong market-based safety net that will keep dairy producers afloat while providing stable prices to our consumers. simply put, the amendment being offered here, the goodlatte-scott amendment is about putting american taxpayers fully paying the bill for down prices that occur in down cycles in the dairy industry. the dairy industry, especially producers, have been victims of these down cycles and volatility in recent years because the old programs simply don't work. and they encourage overproduction. at the same time, producers have been forced to deal with increased feed costs that have increased from $2 a bushel to $7 a bushel. furt

mr. speaker, mr. speaker. mr. speaker. the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> i move to strike the last word, mr. speaker. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. i rise in support of this important amendment by mr. deutch and mr. foster. first of all, this is the right thing to do, but to bring the conversation back to what my colleagues on the other side of the aisle pivot to in almost every policy discussion we have in this body, cutting spending. in a budget age where many in this body celebrate the draconian and harmful cuts of the sequester, it seems week of come to accept as the norm indiscriminant, across-the-board cuts that in many cases fall on the backs of those most vulnerable among us. mr. quigley: cutting spending in this congress no longer equates to targeted cuts, to inefficient programs. cutting spending in this climate is simply about the bottom line. but it doesn't have to be that way. this amendment is the perfect example of how we can cut spe

mr. messer. mr. messer: i want to thank my good friend mr. collins for leading this freshman class special order on regulatory reform. i want to commend him and the gentleman from florida, mr. yoho, for their initiative in creating the freshman regulatory reform working group, of which i am pleased to be a member. a recent editorial written by george washington university professor jonathan turley declared that, quote, our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agcies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency, end quote. the voice of the american people is marginalized when this so-called fourth state of government, our federal agencies, fail to follow the wishes of their elected representatives. or make policy in the absence of direction by congress. and the american people are paying the price of this regular willer to maze created by this unelected government. for example, the heritage foundation has foun

mr. chairman. -- mr. mckeon: thank you, mr. chairman. i hope you appreciatey weak attempt at humor -- humor. i'd like to start by acknowledging the long-standing work mr. royce has done on this issue. he has spelled out this elinks between poaching and terrorist groups in after chasm i share these concerns. he's also correct that after come is continuing to engage with our african partners in a variety of pays. under chairman royce's leadership i understand the foreign affairs committee will be continuing to look into illegal wildlife trafficing in africa and the national security consequences. i fully support that effort. i believe we should seek a greater understanding of the linkages between these ill list activities and find an interagency approach to counter this threat. the u.s. military has a troll play in countering terrorist groups and their networks that bought target our national interest in this region. i look forward to our committees continuing to work together. mr. royce: i appreciate the gentleman's comments. the chair: th

mr. lee. the senator from utah. mr. lee: mr. president, this amendment, if enacted -- the presiding officer: may we have order, please. mr. lee: this amendment, if enacted, would require fast-track congressional approval at the introduction of the department of homeland security -- department of homeland security strategies before the award of registered provisional immigrant or r.p.i. status begins, and at the certification of the strategy's completion before those receiving r.p.i. status become eligible for green cards. the basic point of this is we've got a trigger, a trigger that needs to signal it is okay to open the r.p.i. process, a process by which illegal aliens will be legalized first. somebody needs to signal it's okay to pull that trigger, it's okay to proceed. i think that decision needs to be made right here in the united states congress. this would occur pursuant to a fast-track plan no more than 30 days. it would not be subject to a filibuster. it would subject only to a 51-vote threshold. a senator: mr. president

mr. issa. mr. mica. mr. turner. mr. duncan. mr. mchenry. mr. jordan. mr. chafe its. -- mr. chaffetz. mr. lankford. mr. mosh. mr. meehan. mr. gaudi. mr. ferrin told. mr. hastings. mr. woodall. mr. massey. mr. collins. mr. meadows aye. mr. bent avolio aye. mr. desantis aye. mr. cummings no. no.norton mr. tierney no. mr. clay no. mr. lynch no. mr. cooper no. mr. connolly no. .r. cartwright >> no. >> mr. poe can. >> no to mccarthy. >> voting no to what? >> i'm voting no to the mccarthy-ite tactics that our site is not even allowed to vote, so i'm voting no. >> continue. >> ms. duckworth no. mr. davis no. mr. welch no. mr. cardin us. horseferdfurred -- no. >> how is mr. mchenry recorded? aye. is recorded as voting woodall?. >> not recorded. >> is there anyone else who seeks recognition to vote? >> sir, you are recorded voting aye. >> the clerk will report. >> 22 aye's, 17 no's. >> the resolution is agreed to. the resolution finding lois lerner waived her fifth amendment privileges on may 22, 2013, is approved, and we stands adjourned. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [c

mr. castro -- aye, mr. scott -- no. mr. peters -- aye. mrs. robie -- no. mr. brooks -- no. mr. vc -- no. mr. bija nugent -- no. mr. cook -- no. winthrop -- no. mr. jones. >> ayes, 16, no 45. >> little louder. 45. 16, no quite the amendment is not agreed to beard if the chair recognizes the gentleman from for the purpose of offering a motion. >> i moved to adopt the mark as amended. >> the question is on the motion from the gentleman from texas. .hose opposed no the motion is agreed to. >> i knew the canadian reports the bill as amendment favorably to the house with the recommendations that it houses. quite so many in favor will hold this. those opposed no. >> i am sorry to interrupt. of our staffber birthday as well today. [laughter] >> we do not have a song. sing.will you sent an outstanding job for us. likes of you want to quickly sing the republican song. your birthday song, it doesn't last too l ong. verse is like the first. >> i went giving you a chance to learn this. take some of us years. happy birthday. thank memberso for working in such a harmonious, bipartisan manner.

mr. hastings: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i'm very pleased to yield two minutes to mr. murphy, two minutes. the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for two minutes. mr. murphy: thank you, mr. chairman. ok. let me make this simple. we need 20 million barrels of oil each day. we need this for oil and natural gas for plastics, feed stock. almost 20% of our oil comes from opec. our 10-year trade deficit with opec is over $1 trillion. we can buy their oil or we develop our own. ours or theirs. opec money funds the taliban, al qaeda and terrorism, and thousands of servicemen have been killed and thousands more have been wounded by them. we have vast supplies. more than 86 billion barrels offshore. we can develop our own safely and responsibly or we can rely on opec. so the real question is this -- where do you want our men and women to work? do you want them to wear a helmet or a hardhat? do we want them carrying rifles or wrenches? driving tanks or trucks? do you want them to be protecting foreign wells a

mr. president. i yield the floor. mr. barrasso: mr. resident, i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. barrasso: mr. president, we've heard a lot of talk this week about the big push by president obama and his allies to promote the health care law. we're less than 100 days out from the implementation of that law. people in wyoming are already feeling the effects of the democrats' health care law. the law says that employers with more than 50 full-time employees have to provide expensive one-size-fits-all health insurance. so employers all across the country are cutting full-time workers back to part-time status, cutting their shifts to less than 30 hours a week. that's the cutoff point, mr. president, to be considered a full-time worker under the democrats' health care law. well, that's why we're starting to get stories like the one from the "rocket-miner" newspapers in rock springs wyoming that came out yesterday. the headlines is school district looks at cove

mr. lucas: mr. chairman, i yield to the gentleman from tennessee, mr. fincher, one minute. mr. chairman, how much time do i have remaining? the chair: the gentleman from oklahoma has 2 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. lucas: i yield to the gentleman from tennessee. the chair: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for one minute. mr. fincher: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in opposition to this amendment. this amendment favors our foreign competitors over american-grown products, american-grown industries and jobs filled by americans. unlike foreign aid programs, the food for peace program is america made through and through and is tied to approximately 44,000 american jobs in the agriculture, transportation and maritime industries. an american is employed in every step of the process of the food for peace program. americans grow the crops, the commodities are processed and packaged in the united states, those packaged are carried by our railroads and barges to american sea ports. and finally delivered to the receiving nations by u.s. flagged vessels. i urge my colleagues to vote

mr. brady, is recognized. mr. brady: mr. speaker, mr. chairman, chairman johnson, thank you for your leadership on this issue and to mr. doggett, for your eloquent support. you know, when american families are fortunate to have children, they often face an important decision. can they afford to have one parent stay at home to care for the children or is it financially necessary that both parents continue to work outside the home? well, if they choose to have one parent, a mom or a dad, stay home it's often a great financial sacrifice. it affects not only their day-to-day living but their retirement security as well. i believe the government should support their decision by encouraging them to save for their retirement by using the spousal i.r.a. tax provision which became law in 1996. this provision brings the measure of quality to the code and allows parents to contribute to i.r.a. retirement accounts whether they work outside the home or not. while the spousal i.r.a. provision was included in the contract with america, in contract with

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, it is my you understanding that the immigration bill was reported. so we're on that bill right now, is that right? the presiding officer: that's correct. mr. reid: okay. and the pending amendment is? it is my understanding -- the presiding officer: the pending amendment is grassley number 195 -- 1195. mr. reid: mr. president, in just a brief moment i am going to move to table that amendment, but i want everyone to understand that i have talked to senator grassley yesterday and told him i was going to do this, and the staffs have been advised this is the case. so my unanimous consent request is that i'm going to move to table grassley, and i have just done that but i ask unanimous consent that the vote on the motion to table occur at 10:00 a.m. and the time following senator mcconnell's remarks be five minutes for the opposition and five minutes for

mr. mckeon. mr. mckeon: continue to reserve. mr. smith: i yield two minutes -- the chair: the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. smith: thank you. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from virginia, mr. connolly. the chair: the gentleman from virginia is recognized for two minutes. mr. connolly: i thank the chairwoman. i thank my colleague. i thank the distinguished chairman of the committee as well. i want to talk about the federal information technology acquisition reform act that i am a co-author of with the distinguished chairman of the oversight and government reform committee, mr. issa. this is the most sweeping reform legislation since kwlinger-cohen. today federal i.t. acquisition, madam chairwoman, is a cumbersome bureaucratic and wasteful exercise. in recent decades taxpayers have been forced to foot the bill for massive i.t. failures that ring up staggeringly high cost and exhibit astonishingly poor performance. cost overruns plague the vast majority of the i.t. investments. while federal managers report that 47%

mr. mcgonch: i'm happy -- mr. mcclovenn govern: i'm -- mr. mcgovern: i'm happy to yield three minutes to mr. langevin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from rhode island is recognized for three minutes. the angevin: i thank gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker, while i rise in opposition to this rule, i want to express my strong support for the underlying bill, h.r. 19 0, the national defense authorization act. this legislation is not perfect, however it ensures support for our men and women in uniform who sacrifice so much on our behalf. it includes provision that is are crucial to our military's future capabilities in this fiscally constrained environment. among other things, it fully supports the president's request to the virginia class submarines, as well as critical future enablers, such as the ohio class replacement. it also includes the oversight of sensitive military operations act, which, for the first time, requires prompt notification to the defense committees of any overseas lethal or capture operation outside of afghanistan,

mr. president. mr. grassley: mr. president? mrs. hagan: i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: the gang of eight in their framework for comprehensive immigration resomer said the following -- as i said "our legislation will provide a tough, fair, practical road map to address the status of unauthorized immigrants in the united states that is contingent upon our success in securing our borders and addressing visa overstays." sounds good, doesn't it in they said their plan would be, "contingent upon success." but the bill doesn't do that. the bill doesn't say the border has to be secured. it doesn't say that we need to see results. it only throws more money at the problem, puts more boots on the ground. of course that's a good start, but as we've seen before that's not enough. it's not enough to ensure that we won't be back here in the same place 25 years down the road devising new plans. so i'm going to fake a few minutes to -- take a few minutes to discuss the legalization program created in this bill. since i was here

mr. tierney: as do i. mr. crawford: are you prepared to have any other speakers? mr. tierney: nope. mr. crawford: if the gentleman's prepared to close i'll follow and close. mr. tierney: close. the chair: the gentleman from arkansas has the right to close. he's on the committee. mr. tierney: i just reiterate what i said earlier. these people are in dire straits. there's nothing we can do even though they've been declared eligible for disaster relief. this congress has yet to afford them any of that relief. the fleets are shrinking, they're going out of business, they have all sorts of debt and problems with their gear. and their property on that. they need the access to this low-interest loan, 2.25%. it gives them no more preference than anybody else on this and it makes it available too them, a much-needed supply. it passed the senate version and the senate version score showed there was no increase in the scoring on that. and i would hope that my colleagues would have some compassion for the fishing industry as they do for others in this country that are in this type of situation and w

mr. culberson: mr. speaker, mr. chairman, i have no objection to the amendment, we are all committed to make sure our veterans when they return home are fully employed, well taken care of and i think i thank my friend from the texas legislature for offering his amendment and we have no objection. the chair: the gentleman yields back. he gentleman from georgia. mr. bishop: mr. chairman, after returning home from the war, veterans now are fighting for jobs back home. according to the bureau of labor statistics, last year's unemployment rate for veterans was 1.1%. a significantly higher figure than -- 12.1%. a significantly higher figure than that of nonveterans. even more staggering, 19.1% of young veterans between the ages of 20 and 24 are unemployed. all veterans, because of their service, have basic skills. and the only thing that they're missing is formal job training to match their abilities for the specific needs of an employer. this is another issue on secretary shinseki's plate. i believe that anything that we

mr. cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be rescinded. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendments and to call up my amendment number 1251. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from texas, mr. cornyn, for himself and others, proposes an amendment numbered 1251. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i ask consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i have been working on immigration policy for all the time i have been in the united states senate, about 10 years now, so i have some familiarity with the issues and the arguments that have been made and it's always amazing to hear a lot of the same arguments being repeated now that we have heard before in 2007 and before, but one of the differences is we have 43 senators, new senators who weren't here in 2007, the last

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. mr. reid: i ask consent it be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: it's my understanding regular order would be my calling paul amendment 1200 as modified, is that right? the presiding officer: the senator may call for regular order with respect to that amendment. mr. reid: i so move, mr. president. the presiding officer: the amendment's now pending. mr. reid: pardon me? the presiding officer: the amendment is now pending. mr. reid: it is pending? i move to table the paul amendment and ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote:

mr. rigele: thank you, mr. speaker. -- mr. rigele -- mr. rigell: thank you, mr. speaker. before i begin my remarks i express my appreciation to my colleague, mr. fleischmann, and the tribute he paid his father who was part of the greatest generation. we thank his father to his service to our country. i rise this morning to talk about my number one priority in serving the second district of virginia in this incredible country we live in and that's jobs. number one focus of our office and i rise in strong support of house resolution 2231, offshore energy and jobs act, that will come before this house either today or tomorrow. that bill includes language that i authored and introduced and it creates a clear path, an opportunity that can really change the lives of hardworking americans, and i'm awfully proud of what the bill will do. ideally when it's passed through the senate and made into law by the president and job creation. before i share with this house what the bill actually does and what the language does, i want to make clear what it's not. it's not a bill that spends

mr. cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican whip. mr. cornyn: i'd ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be resnded. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i'd ask notice from the chair after i've spent 10 minutes of my 12 minutes of time. mr. president, i've been here several times over the last couple of weeks to talk about my -- the presiding officer: the senator has eight minutes. mr. cornyn: thank you. i'd like to get a two-minute notice, please. the presiding officer: the senator will be notified. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i've been here numerous times over the last couple of weeks to tractalk about why the essential bargain that needs to underlie this bill has to be one that's not based on phony promises like the ones that have been made in the past about restoring legality and order to our broken immigration system. it actually needs to be on a mechanism that will compel results and realign all of the incentives for people across the political spectrum -- republicans and democrats alike -- to mak

mr. jones, for five minutes. mr. jones: mr. speaker, thank you very much. mr. speaker, i continue to be disappointed in the house leadership that we are not looking into this issue of the c.i.a. giving tens of millions of dollars to karzai, the corrupt leader of afghanistan. we don't hold any hearings about it. we're spending money there. our kids are still dying. we had four killed yesterday in afghanistan. i would like to take this opportunity to thank senator corker from tennessee for taking the lead on monday in writing a letter to the secretary of state john kerry and demanding an explanation of the secret payments by the c.i.a. i fully agree with the senator's decision to place a hold on u.s. funding for afghanistan. mr. speaker, we're having -- still having kids killed in afghanistan, severely wounded, and yet there is no full debate on the floor of the house. that to me is a tragedy, that we should be debating the issue of afghanistan. mr. speaker, to make things worse, yesterday in "the new york times," karzai's office made the following statement, and

mr. rubio: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i wanted to come here today and talk a little bit about this immigration bill as we head to the end of this week because we're obviously hearing from many people outside of the building that are concerned about this issue, and i think it's important to make a few things clear as we head into next week and what i hope will be final passage of this measure. first, let me describe how this program works because i think this is -- you know, immigration is complicated. it can sometimes even be confusing. we throw around these terms here in the building and we assume that everybody back home understands what they mean, so i wanted to explain. the way i'm going to explain it is how this bill will work if we pass the amendment filed by senators hoeven and corker, which i believe would pass and should pass with significant bipartisan support. and here's how it would work. first, let's describe the problem we have today. the problem we have in the united states today is, number one, w

mr. pitts: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, the bill before us today is important and necessary legislation to strengthen the prescription drug supply chain and to provide greater safety for our nation's patients. safeguarding our prescription drug supply chain is important to protect against counterfeit drugs. it is necessary to help prevent increases in drug prices while also ensuring adequate supplies of much-needed prescription drugs. equally important, h.r. 1919 includes reforms that will eliminate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of duplicative government red tape on american drug manufacturer, wholesale distributors, and pharmacies. sadly, counterfeit prescription drugs have proven to be a lucrative business. with many of these illegal counterfeit drugs finding their way to some of our sickest patients, including those with cancer. additionally, some states have taken draconian actions to safeguard their prescription drug supply chain, but many of these steps will force small and large businesses to implemen

mr. reed. mr. reed: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today to talk about an issue i deeply care about, and that issue is the affordability and ability of students across america to get a college degree. mr. speaker, as we face this impending student interest loan cliff on july 1, i want to share with you and with the american public a personal story. i'm the youngest of 12. i have eight older sisters, three older brothers, and my mother and father made a commitment to each other that each and every one of us would get some sort of the clerk will designate the amendment degree or advanced degree. my father passed when i was 2 and there were six of us left in our household that my mother had to raise on her own. and i went to college, went to law school and i watched in her eyes the fulfillment of that promise that her and my dad made to each and every one of us. now, not all of my siblings went to law school. one got a vocational degree cutting hair working in arizona. i have a law degree and there is a whole mix in betwee

mr. farr: i will yield to you for a question if you'll -- mr. cassidy: sure. mr. farr: explain to me what is broken that needs $11 billion more right now, with the $150 billion that you've already been given or will be given. mr. cassidy: this is what is broken. this is our coast line which is melting away. this is what increases our risk. we've lost the land mass equal to rhode island in louisiana. now, the money that is received, our share, will go to this but it is not adequate to rebuild this coast line. and the other thing which is broken -- mr. farr: you've lost the coast line why? mr. cassidy: because we channeled the mississippi to create navigational services for the rest of the inland nation. as you channel that mississippi, the wetlands lost the nourishing settlement that comes to them. mr. farr: and those are the states that have also in-state waters onshore and offshore drilling? mr. cassidy: yes, absolutely. mr. farr: which are very lucrative revenues for the state? mr. cassidy: all i do is ask for a same deal that every other state has. no. every oth

mr. speaker, unless the majority leader wants to say something further -- mr. cantor: i would just join the gentleman, mr. speaker, in congratulating mr. dingell for an incredible, first of all, milestone and i know he will continue in that service to the people of the great state of michigan. i yield back. mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that when the house adjourns today it adjourn to meet at 3:00 p.m. on monday, june 10, 2013. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? seek recognition? >> i just need one minute, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that my name be removed -- co-sponsor of h. h.j.resolution 43. my name was incorrectly added to the bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the chair is prepared to entertain requests for one-minute speeches. and for what purpose does th

mr. poe, or five minutes. mr. poe: mr. speaker, when there is a blaze, when there is a fire, when there is an explosion, when someone has an emergency medical problem, the firefighter, the e.m.t. rushes in. that is what they do. while others flee danger, the firefighter with sirens, red lights, horns, trucks charges into the jaws amidst danger. sometimes the danger is overwhelming and firefighters are injured and some are killed. this has been a tragic year in texas for firefighters. on april 17 in west, texas, 10 firefighters were killed while putting out the fire at a fertilizer plant that had exploded. last friday in the heat of the texas noonday sun a restaurant on the highly traveled southwest freeway caught fire. then with the high winds, the fire spread to a nearby hotel. houston firefighters arrived at the scene in minutes. they heard screams from citizens, and they rushed into the hotel to find potential trapped guests. the hotel suddenly became a hellish inferno. first, a two-alarm and then a five-alarm fire and i

mr. lee mr. udall of colorado, mr. blumenthal, and mr. tester. the presiding officer: the bill will be received and appropriately referred. mr. leahy: mr. president i ask we go out of morning business and i suggest the absence of a quorum with the time equally divided. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from north dakota. mr. hoeven: mr. president i ask that the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. hoeven: i ask unanimous consent that i be recognized for up to ten minutes of senator leahy's time. the presiding officer: without objection. i rise today to address comprehensive immigration reform and to talk specifically about the hoeven-corker amendment. the focus of the hoeven-corker amendment is to secure the border. what senator corker, myself, and the 11 republican cosponsors on the bill and our four democrat cosponse others the bill, bipartisan legislation this is all about securing the border first as a first ste

mr. speaker. mr. courtney: mr. speaker, in two days at midnight by law the interest rates for the subsidized stafford student loan program will double from 3.4% to 6.8%, raising interest rates for 7 1/2 million college students at exactly the time they are taking out loans for next fall's semester. what a terrible statement about this congress that we failed to move forward with legislation to protect those rates. my legislation, h.r. 1595, which had 195 discharged signatures, would have protected that rate. again, the leadership of this house turned a deaf ear and insisted their bill, passed on may 23, somehow protected those college students. well, the congressional budget office looked at that bill that passed that day and they concluded that that bill was worse than doing nothing and allowing the rates to double to 6.8%. it is again a bill which will put kids into a variable rate system, that over time we know will be higher than 6.8%. the disgust that america will feel on july 1 when they see that a critical ne

mr. wilson: mr. speaker, i can unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker: without objection. mr. wilson: mr. speaker, last monday i attended a briefing by the american enterprise institute concerning foreign policy issues. i particularly appreciated the presentation by fred kagen, and he provided a map which i believe should be known by the american people of the al qaeda and associated movement areas of operation and safe havens. by said somalia is led warlords. in mali, there are new reports of terrorist training with surface to air missiles. this war began with safe havens in afghanistan on september 11, 2001. i believe we should be proactive, working with our allies to stop terrorists overseas. we cannot wish the threat away because in fact threats are growing.

mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, let me explain a little bit about rattlesnake mountain and where it's located. i mentioned it was on the hanford nuclear site and the hanford nuclear site was part of the manhattan project in which we built and assembled weapons that won the second world war, and then for 40 years after the second world war, this was a defense production where we were employee deucing our a-- where we were producing our atomic fuel for our atomic weapons. rattlesnake mountain is 3,600 feet and it was closed off for access because you had top secret -- there is a secret site producing weapons of war and you didn't want people to have access to look down the hanford site. that's totally understandable. for that reason nobody really rejected to having the top of rattlesnake open. however, now that hanford is no longer in defense production and hasn't been for nearly 25 years, it's now in a cleanup mode. things have really changed, and i -- when i typically have town hall meetings

mr. president? mr. sessions: mr. president? mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. a senator: mr. president, because there were some comments made about the amendment that senator tester and i have offered, let me just be very clear, this is about making the underlying bill work. i do not believe that it will work if we do not have strong workplace verification, simply. both because, as the senator from arizona said, 40% of the people who are here illegally didn't come across the border. they came here because they overstayed their visas and they're here illegally now and because when folks want to come here badly enough to get work, they will go over, under and around whatever barriers we put on the worried about. i'm for more border security. it's a good part of the bill. but it does not solve the problem. 54% -- remember that, that's the pilot program for ai everify, over half the people who attempt to get work are getting through. i don't think that satisfies anybody in this chamber. i don't think the bill will work.

mr. fortenberry, for five minutes. mr. fortenberry: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. for thein berry -- mr. fortenberry: mr. speaker, in a few days, china's new president will conclude a tour of the western hemisphere by meeting with president obama in an informal summit in california. the leaders of the pacific rim's two most powerful countries will discuss many issues of mutual concern. this important relationship, which continues to evolve dynamically, in spite of the difficulties that we both have, radically rom some different philosophical outlooks on both life and government and they deserve our attention and cannedor. -- candor. mr. speaker, it was 24 years ago this week, june 3, 1989, there was a massacre in china in a place called tiananmen square. student protestors who were seeking some form of liberty for their interest gathered there and i remember very vividly two very stark images from that time. one was the home made replica of the statue of liberty th

mr. markey, mr. reid, mr. swalwell -- mr. reed, mr. swalwell and mr. cook, all of whom we have worked together with, for it is interesting that this has come to a point where today we can thank administrator pistol for his thoughtfulness in this process and the deliberations that took place, that the announcement comes that he too understands that allowing knives on planes is not the right decision. but in addition to the important statement of knives, we now know that other accessories such as baseball bats and ski poles and hockey sticks and la crosse sticks, among others, and golf clubs, are likewise -- likewise have been included in his statement. this amendment deals with knives. and the reason why this is very important -- because we should reaffirm the fact. as a member of the homeland security, and for many of us who started on this committee, after the heinous tragedy of 9/11, many of us who went to ground zero during the recovery period, because of the horrific tragedy, smoke was still billowing from those terrible, tragic ashes, we too know w

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mr. cornyn: mr. president? mr. schumer: but this amendment, as i said, for a variety of reasons, is a nonstarter. the presiding officer: the senator from texas has the floor. mr. cornyn: mr. president, what is this, th, the third days bill has been on the floor? there's been to scoring of the bill by the congressional budget office. so no one knows what the official scorekeeper of the united states congress has too say about the bill. but my amendment does not appropriate any additional money other than the money in the bill. and indeed, this leaves it up to the department of homeland security within 120 days to render a plan and then under the underlying bill you can transition after ten years for r.p.i. status to legal permanent resident by substantial completion of a plan that we don't know anything about. i mean, i don't think we are the experts in how exactly this should be done, and i would hope that technology, which i think is fantastic, what answers that may provide to us ten years hence in terms of how to

mr. vitter. mr. leahy: mr. ident, before we do that, i have been asked to make a request that the -- i just want to remind everybody the next vote will be a ten-minute vote. mr. vitter: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. vitter: mr. president, this amendment is very simple but it's important. it would finally demand and require execution and enforcement of the so-called us-visit system, an entry-exit system to catch visa overstays. mr. president, this system was first mandated by congress in 1996. we've had six additional votes demanding it by congress since then. the 9/11 terrorist or visa overstays. as a result, this system was strongly, strongly recommended, one of the top recommendations of the 9/11 commission. we must put this in place as we act on immigration, mr. president, and this amendment would get that done. i reserve the balance of my time. mr. leahy: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: mr. president, i agree that we need to b

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mr. brown of georgia, an amendment by mr. amodei of nevada, an amendment by mr. moran of virginia. an amendment by mr. king of owa. the unfinished business is request for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from georgia, mr. broun, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. broun of georgia. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-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.] the chair: on this vote the . as are 148, the nays are 269 the chair: on this vote the yeas are 151,

mr. ve la: mr. speaker, i thank -- mr. vela: mr. speaker i thank mr. o'rork for putting together this special order and i rise in opposition to provisions which condition a pathway to citizenship on the construction of additional border fence. historically our country has criticize the construction of barriers of all time. for instance new york 1987, president reagan stood at the brandenburg gate near the berlin wall and said, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. two years later the wall was demolished, ushering in a new era of economic harmony. as someone who lives on the board for the brownsville, texas, i can state with certainty the argument that construction of additional border fence will stem the flow of undocumented migration and increase border security is flawed for many reasons. first, directing more border fence drives a wedge between border communities which are culturally united. many who live on the u.s. side of the southern board ver family an friends who live on the mexican side and vice versa. the current border fence has come to symbol

mr. quigley, for five minutes. mr. quigley: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, after 23 nhl playoff games, 10 overtimes and 64 goals the chicago blackhawks have won their second stanley cup in the last four years. congratulations to the greatest team in hockey on being the 2013 stanley cup champions. the impressive regular season began with a record breaking streak of 24 straight games with a point earned and it ended with the president's trophy for the most points in a regular season. this success set the stage for an outstanding playoff run, a promise of things to come. the hawks made good on that promise this week in one of the most incredible and improbable stanley cup final games in nhl history. having already tamed the minnesota wild, taking down our arch rifle, the detroit red wings, and dethrowned los angeles kings, the blackhawks grinded through the finals to one of the craziest and most exciting stanley cup wins ever witnessed. to say this championship winning game was a nail biter would be an understatement. the blackhawks came from behind twi

mr. baucus: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. baucus: mr. president, might i ask the senator from rhode island how much time he wishes -- how much time he has remaining? mr. whitehouse: i have about another ten minutes of speaking. what i propose to do is yield to the senator, senator graham, for such time as he may need -- mr. graham: two minutes. mr. baucus: mr. president, i am fine. i think we should wait -- let the senator from rhode island proceed with his statement, if the senator from south carolina wants to go ahead. whatever you two work out. mr. graham: great. mr. whitehouse: i'll yield the floor to senator graham. mr. graham: to all my senate colleagues, today was a good day, an historic day for the senate. thank you all, whether you opposed or supported the bill. it was a great debate. to the staff, this bill could have died aa thousand times. you wouldn't let it. to ma. -- to matt, you're great. sergio, mark in mccain's office, thank you for working for senator mccain. your reward will be in heaven. chandler, yo awesome working f

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, law enforcement officials who made the arrest and looked at this called it a modern day plantation. what happened is a string of very profitable convenience stores, they had undocumented immigrants from pakistan and philippines routinely working up to 100 hours a week for very, very below minimum wage, and although their employers made $180 million over a dozen years while pocketing much of their employees' wages, these workers lived packed into apartments unfit for human habitation. but because they lacked the proper immigration paperwork, the workers were simply too afraid to speak up for themselves. it happens all the time. they were the -- these were the circumstances at more than a dozen 7-eleven stores in long island, new york, and in virginia. they were raided last week by federal immigration officials, but the unfortunate conditions exposed by t

mr. renacci and then mr. griffin. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. werfel, urbina. i was watching all this questionnaire and all this questionnaire and mining of the day semi-private sector like when i was hired to go into a bad situation and turned him around and that's exactly what you've had to do and had to report every week in bankruptcy and the situations as a trusted representative. so one of the things that people always wanted to note in those was what he going to do change things, how are you going to fix things? things? i can those are the light of questions that american people want to be. and want to the answers. i've got a lot of questions i want ask you for just yes or no answer to could want to go back to the weekend. did you talk to the treasury about your testimony, in discovery today? >> i consult with the treasury about visiting. >> did you supplied in your testimony or submit your testimony? >> my test but today was the report, so they had to report. >> did a treasury make any corrections or revisions or make suggestions on what you would say or