mr. pearce: i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. chairman, i offer this amendment today which transfers funds from the office of nnfa administrator and into the defense environmental management fund which -- program, which funds the cleanup of radioactive waste. this program is important to our defensive mission, our environment and public safety. the defense environmental management program has demonstrated success in waste disposition, soil and groundwater remediation, facility decontamination and decommissioning and will continue to do so with sufficient funding. i would like to thank chairman frelinghuysen and ranking member visclosky for their hard work on this bill and for prioritizing this issue particularly. unfortunately the budget request from the white house did not accurately reflect the monetary needs to fully fund the project contained in the e.m. program. my amendment would simply put back $40 million into the environmental management program which will provide much-needed relief to the already constrained budgeted fo

mr. pearce. >> i was trying to get an estimate of $5.2 million is saying it's accurate. >> mr. lynch, let me say this. no one knows. i mean . >> that's why we have the witnesses so they can testify and not so you can is a sc to flaw them. >> your time is up. mr. pearce -- i mean, if you know how much the loss will be . >> that's a matter we're still reviewing under examination activity. >> thank you. mr. pearce? >> thank you mr. chairman. the if we were to kind -- if we're going look at derivative trading and we're going to priorize the risk that these major firms face. would that particular activity be on the middle or at the top? so is that a scary, risky thing or not very risky? >> what priority should we with looking at when we consider derivative trades? >> i'm not sure what priority congress wants to . >> no. >> regulate. >> you're in charge. we simply have the you're in charge of risk. that's what you say. >> from our perspective, we're taking two high priority approaches. one, is we think it's important to firms have good risk-management. >> my question is not that. my

mr. pearce, for 30 minutes. mr. pearce: thank you, madam speaker. i appreciate the opportunity to address the house on a matter of the west. there are major fires burning across the western united states. there's tremendous property damage and tremendous damage to the environment. habitat for endangered species is being purned up in the hundreds of thousands of acres. the species themselves are being killed in these massive wildfires, and the chief of the united states forest service says we need to introduce fire back into our forests. i asked the chief just this week as he visited the house here in rayburn with me, i said, chief, this is what it looks like when you reintroduce fire in the forest in the west right now. the forests are chalked full of fuel. decades of mismanagement by our forest service has allowed the fire to build up to where it's a dangerous explosive environment. the drought which actually occurs regularly in the west has caused those buildup of fuels to be explosive in nature and when fire gets there, this is what it looks like

what you're saying is while pearce to take a little bit of time, but we look forward to your testimony and we thank you for your willingness to come forward. so what not, mrnandes, we'll start with you. if you can summarize your testimony went five minutes or so will be flexible. we don't always get these opportunities. and then, all of your testimony will be included in the record. with that, [speaking in spanish] [speaking in spanish] >> translator: honorable member, rubio, thank you drainage for inviting me to testify. my name is normando fernandez and i am in a next prisoner from cuba, member of the world of 75. the topic of this hearing i did nothing bad. even like this, show the world that cubans are not allowed on the difficult world to freedom. to be against the world of cuba is to be against the totalitarian region. it is to be in favor of the true cuba society. i am still learning english, so please allow me to continue in spanish. [speaking in spanish] >> translator: i would like to highlight the emergence and growing civil society in cuba as different from the so-called civil society at the pass, which was created and manipulated by the govern