mr. poe: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house, revise and extends their remarks and include therein extraneous material. mr. burton for today, junn 23, 24 and 25, myself, mr. poe, for june 28 and 29, mr. bilirakis for today, mr. forbes for juue 23 and 24, ms. ros-lehtinen for today, june 23, 24, mr. jones for june 28 and 29, mr. gohmert for today and june 23 and 24, and mr. cao for june 29. the speaker prootempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman rom michigan rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consenttthat today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered iito, the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes, to revise and extends their remarks and include %- therein exttaneous materials. ms. woolsee of california, mr. murphy oo new york, myself, ms. kaptur of ooio, m

mr. poe: thank you, mr. speaker. the moratorium on deep water offshore drilling will prevent drilli in the gulf of mexico for the next six months or longer. and why do we have the moratorium? what is the purpose? when we have a plane crash, as big a disaster as that might be, we don't ose down the entire airline industry for six nths but now we want to close down the drilling offshore for six months. what is the reason? the six-month moratorium on drilli will be another economic catastrophe for the united states. six months is a long time in the drilling business. these wells can't start and stop overnight. anither do the support industries. mr. speaker, this chart right here shows the coasts of texas and louisiana and in this chart, out in the gulf of mexico, are about 4,000 offshore rills -- rigs. these 4,000 rigs will not be allowed to drill based upon the administration's moratorium for the next six months. all of these yellow dots represent a drilling rig that's offshore. and they go about 75 miles to 150 miles

mr. poe: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any specialereders heretofore entered into, the following persons may be permitted to address this house, revise and extends their remarks and include therein extraneous material. mr. burton for today, june 9, 10 and 11, myself, mr. poe, for today, june 9, 10, 11, 14 and 15, mr. jones for today, june 9, 10, 11, 14 and 15, mr. moran for today, july 9, 10, 14 and 15, mr. latta for june 9 and ms. ros-lehtinen for june 10. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes, to revise and extend their remarks and include therein ex cranious material. mr. connolly: ms. woolsey of california, mr. weiner of new york, ms. kaptur of ohio and mr. defazio of oregon. t

mr. poe: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address this house, revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material. myself, mr. poe, for june 30, mr. jones for june 30, mr. moran for june 25, 29 and 30, mr. paulson for today and june 24. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon rise? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be able to address the house for five minutes, ms. woolsey, mr. defazio, mrs. maloney, new york. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, and under a previous order of the house, the following members are recognized for five minutes each. ms. woolsey from california. for what purpose does the ge

mr. poe: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into the following members may be permitted to address the house, revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material. myself, mr. poe, for june 23. mr. jones for june 23. mr. wolf for today and june 17. mr. smith from new jersey for today. ms. ros-lehtinen for today. mr. moran for june 21, 22 and 23. and mr. lungren from california for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? ms. woolsey: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes, to revise and extend their remarks, and include therein extraneous material. ms. woolsey, california. ms. kaptur, ohio. mr. defazio, oregon. mr. klein, florida. the speaker pro tempore:

mr. poe: request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the house is not in order. will members take their conversations off of the floor. mr. poe: israel has the absolute right to defend itself. it c13 right to defend itself. it is under siege and has the terrorist group hezbollah and in the south terrorist group hamas firing missiles. six ships tried to break a blockade. israel defends its borders and searches ships to make sure aid going to gaza is not from iran and is not weapons. but this was not humanitarian aid, workers that assaulted these israeli commandos where 10 of them were hurt. their goal was to have an international incident, the rereason being after the ships were stopped and being allowed to proceed into gaza the humanitarian aid was denied and refused by hamas. obviously an international incident that had gone bad for hamas. recently, myself and the gentleman from michigan, mr. peters,

mr. poe, july 1, for five minutes, mr. jones, july 1, for five minutes. mr. burton, june 28, 29 and 30, july 1, for five minutes. ms. foxx, today, for five minutes, mr. mack today for five minutes, and mr. fortenberry today for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. for what purpose does the gentlelady from pennsylvania rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes, to revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material. mrs. dahlkemper: mr. towns from new york, ms. woolsey from california, mrs. dahlkemper from california, ms. kaptur from ohio and mr. defazio from oregon. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, and previous order of the house, the following members are recognized for five minutes each. moran, kansas, town, new york. without oojection, the gentleman from neb

mr. poe: request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. poe: madam speaker, the administration's knee-jerk banning of deepwater drilling for six months is the second disaster in the gulf. the government is intentionally putting companies out of business in the gulf with this unscientific moratorium. 50,000 workers are losing their jobs by government overreaction. the administration is not only purposely putting blue collar workers out of work, the government is sending those jobs to brazil and indonesia. in 2005 there was a b.p. refinery explosion in texas city, texas. 15 people were killed, 180 were injured. the government did not close all the refineries for six months in the united states to investigate the sins of b.p. then. that would have been foolish nonsense and would have destroyed jobs, the economy, and cause the loss of u.s. energy. so investigate the rig explosion. hold b.p. accountable for their conduct, but don't in a mome

mr. poe: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the houue, revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material. mr. moran for july 1 and 2, ms. ros-lehtinen for today, dr. paul for june 30 and july 1, ms. foxx for today, mr. fortenberry for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts rise? >> i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following member mace be permitted to address the house for five minutes to revise and extend their remarks and include thereon extraneous material. mr. mcgovern, mr. ween over new york, mr. perriello of virginia, mr. defazio of oregon, mr. quigley of illinois. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, and under

mr. poe: i ask permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. . mr. poe: four christians were arrested because they were peacefully handing out the gospel of john outside an arab cultural festival. it was not a private or muslim event. it was an arab festival free and open to the public. a video shows the christian group that included a former muslim outside a block away from that event. they were standing quietly on the corner handing out bibles when they were arrested by no less than eight police officer. under shari'a law it is forbidden to preach christianity to muslims. but, madam speaker, these arrests against christians did not occur in a minimums limb country. they occurred in dearborn michigan. the first amendment safeguards freedom of speech and religious expression even for christians. maybe the police in dearborn, michigan haven't read the constitution. these arrests are shameful. whether the police like it or not. that's just the way i

mr. poe from texas, mr. burton from indiana, mr. mack of florida. for what purpose does the gentleman rise? the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. boozman: thank you, mr. speaker. as the ranking member on the subcommittee on water resources, i rise today to thank colonel ed jackson, commander of the little rock district of the u.s. army corps of engineers, for his service, especially his last three years in little rock. colonee jackson has provided forward thinking and visionary leadership for an organization with a complex mission. this mission includes the planning and management of civil works projects ranging from navigation, flood control and hydroelectric power to recreation, water supply, environmental protection and fish and wildlife mitigation. most importantly during colonel jackson's time at little rock, his team members have provided vital support to our war fighters deployed on the front lines in afghanistan and iraq. colonel jackson has experienced first hand with the dangers confronted by our soldiers, sailors, airmen and m

mr. poe: i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any ecial orders heretofore ented into, the folling members may be permitted to revise and extend. myself many, mr.oe, ne 17, mr. boozman for today, mr. burton from inana fojune 14, 15, 16, and 17, mr. smith from new jersey for today, a mr. duncar today. the speakerro tempore: without objection. for what purpose ds the getlady from california rise ms. woolsey: i ask unanimous consent that today followin legislative business and y special orderseretofore entered into, the following mbers m be peitted addresshe house for five minutes, revise and extend eir remarks and include therein extraneous materials. s. woolsey, california, ms. kaptur, ohio, mrs. maley, new york. speaker pro tempor without objeion. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, and undeprevused orer of the use, the following members are recogned for five mites ea. mr. burton of indiana. r what ppose does the gentlemanrom texas rise? mr

mr. poe: mr. speaker, over a month ago the administration promised to send 1,200 national guard troops to the border, but the troops still aren't there. now the white house is saying it will be another month before there is a steep ramp up of the troops and they'll be there only four months and there will be a complete ramp down by june of 2011 and they'll be unarmed national guardsmen. you see the troops aren't actually going to the border, there will be unarmed guards guarding computers 50 miles north of the border and 1,200 troops but they all won't be there at the same time. that's like saying the store's opened 24 hours but not 24 hours in a row. what kind of border security plan is that? there is no sense of urgency to stop the violence and the killing along the border. too much rhetoric and too little action coming out of the white house. like my grandfather used to say, there's more thunder than rain. that's just the way it is. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance

mr. poe: mr. speaker, real people in the gulf region are affected by the hasty pverreaction by the federal government to shut down deepwater drilling for six months in the gulf of mexico. the obama-tori mufment will brut businesses and put thousands out of work. the feds are in apparent violation of the law which involves affected parties to be conultsulted before regulators dictate new regulations. affected p%%arties would be the oil industries and the people that have been shut down. so a judge is -- in just the last hour a u.s. district judge has ruled the administration was wrong in illegally summarily stopping deepwater drilling. it's unfortunate the administration has to be sued by the people of this country to keep it from destroying american jobs. that's just the way it is. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the the gentlewoman from, kirkpatrick, from arizona rise? mrs. kirkpatrick: i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. t

mr. poe: i ask permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. poe: madam speaker, mexico has joined a lawsuit against arizona's new illegal immigration enforcement law. in its legal brief, mexico says the arizona law is unconstitutional. that's right, the foreign country of mexico is lecturing us on our constitution. i guess president calderon, like our attorney general, hasn't read arizona's law either, because the arizona law is constitutional. president calderon just doesn't want the law enforced. he wants open borders so illegals can illegally come to america. and by the way, hypocritical mexico enforces its own immigration laws but doesn't want us to do the same. president calderon should not meddle in u.s. affairs. if the feds joined the lawsuit against arizona, it will be mexico and the u.s. government vs. arizona. ironically, mexico and the u.s. government together will be arguing against bord

mr. poe: thank you, madam speaker. i'd like to thank the gentlelady from florida for yielding some time. this is an important resolution. it puts the united states on record as to where we stand. and our part of the world when it comes to democracy and supporting our allies. colombia is an ally of the united states. when i was in colombia in april down in the jungle with the ppnarcotics police, with gerald fortuno, helping them fight the cartels and farc, i found out they like the americans. that's not universally true in south america. there are a lot of folks that don't care much for the united states. but the colombian people are our allies. not only politically but also they like americans for who we are. and they support us and we should support them. it's a good day for democracy when president santos was elected this past weekend. we should show colombia and the rest of the world that we support this democracy in south america. but we also should support the colombian-american free trade agreement. this is an im

mr. poe: mr. speak, free eech is under assault from islamic errorts worldwide. they usehrts and political correctness toilence anybody that speaksut about thr violent belis. dutch lawm gre wilder hamade a movie about these slassic clerics who inght violenn the name of relion. but the dutch government is putting him on trial for incitement to hatred thepessive dutch vernment sa it's irelevant the speech in t mov may b true you setheriso fr trade agreement speech inhe netherlas if a pers is critical of radical ism. freedom ofpeech is basic human right. pocal speech and relious speech are the most ntroversial types a speech. that is why th types of speecheshould be protected the most benjamin franklin said there can be no such thing as public liberty wiout eedom of speech. wilders is a champn of public liberty d the free speech that guarantees that liberty that's just thway it is. thspeaker pro tempore:or what purposeoes the gentlelady from maryland rise? ms. edwards: to address the house r onminute the spear pro tempore: without jectio ms. ear: mr. speaker, i rise

mr. poe: thank you. i appreciate the gentleman for yielding. i rise totally in support of h.r. 3360, the cruise vessel security and safety act of 2009. this legislation passed the house with strong support in november of last year and i am pleased to see it return from the other body as an improved bill ready for final passage. i commend my colleague, ms. matsui of california, who has been relentless as an advocate for protection of the cruise line passengers. mr. speaker, every year cruise line companies carry over 10 million americans to and from american ports. the cruise lines promise american safety, security, fun and relaxation aboard the ships, but as we have seen, safety is not something the cruise lines are always prepared to guarantee. according to the f.b.i., sexual assault is the leading crime reported and investigated by the agency among crimes that occur on the high seas. in fact, in 2005 a hearing before the committee on government reform, assistance director of criminal investigation of f.b.i. noted that, quote, sexual assaults

mr. poe: a federal judge stated yesterday the administration's ban on deep water drilling was improper and iilegal. the government imposed a six-month moratorium after the b.p. disaster, nonb.p. businesses sued saying it would put them out of business. the government tried to -- tried to justify the ban but the judge said, quote, the government's explanation abuses -- abuses reason and common sense. the government claimed its engineers supported the ban but that's not true. the judge granted the injunction saying the ban was punitive. in other words, the administration had no scientific basis for the moratorium. the judge stated the oil industries would suffer irremember rabble harm. of course the administration doesn't care. determined to stop deep water drilling, the administration will appeal. why does the administration hate the energy industry in the gulf. why do they want to purposely destroy american jobs? reagan was right, the government is the problem. that's just the way it is. the

mr. poe: request permissioto address the house foone minute. the speaker pro tempore: without jection, so ordered. . poe: the israelis check cargo for hidden weapons shipped into gaza. last week's six ships ran a security blockade and were boarded. people on one ship attcked and stabbed the israeli soldiers and beat them with pipes. it was seen on television throughout the world. 10 israeli soldiers were jured as they defendedhemselves. of course they have the legal and moral rit of self-defense. but the hate israel any price crowd denounce the israelis and now our administration is telling israel they shldn't be so security conscious. back off a litt on the blockade the white house says. and just so won't hurt anybody's feelings, the administration is sending $400 million to gaza. why? what are the palestinians going to do with that money? buy more rocketso shoot into israel? who knows. who arwe to tell our ally, isel, how to secure its borders? we are giving advice to a country smuggling securi when we can't keep smuggling outf our country. t

mr. poe: madam speaker, when kagan was dean of the harvard law school, for personal and biased reasons she banned military recruiters from campus. by her actions she violated the right of free speech. in a university setting of all places. a college campus is just the place for free expression, free speech from all points of view. kagan's actions also denied the students the right to hear the information. she denied the students the right to even discuss military career as a choice because of her own prejudices. and when kagan personally joined a lawsuit to uphold her banishment of the military recruiters, the very supreme court she wants to join unanimously said she was wrong. in her judgment. she's hostile to the first amendment. she wants control over free thought and free expression unless she personally agrees with it. kagan's attack on the first amendment chose her dangerous distrust for the principles of the constitution. her lack of objective judgment shows she has no business giving

mr. poe: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. our quarrel is not with the people of iran but with the government of iran and its consistent philosophy to did he instruct israel and also to the violations of human rights that it commits against its own people. the people of iran have spoken out against their government and because of that, they have been brutalized, jailed, shot and they have been imprisoned for a long time all because of freedom of speech. the sanctions in this resolution go against those in the government of iran who deny human rights to their own people. and that is one aspect of this resolution that is very important to make sure that the people of iran, the good folks in iran who want to replace the government have the ability -- human rights and especially that ability of freedom of speech, freedom to speak out against their illegitimate government that seeks to destroy not only the state of israel, but the entire west. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. berman: yes, mr