mr. poe, each control 20 minutes. the house is not in order. the chair urges members to remove their conversation from the well and the aisles. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. mr. scott: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. scott: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. scott: the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the house is not in order. members will remove their conversations from the well of the house and the aisles. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. scott: thank you, madam speaker. the primary purpose of this bill is to provide for the specific program to assist children who are victims of the brutal and devastating scourge of child sex traffick

2009, and the previous order of the house, the following members are recognized for five minutes -- mr. poe of texas.

mr. poe, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr. conyers: thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members have fivive days to revise and extend their remarks -- five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material to the bill under consideration. i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. conyers: madam speaker, members of the house, this bill entitled help haiti act of 2010 was introduced by the gentleman from nebraska, mr. fortenberry. it is incredibly important that we finish the job we understood took when we rescued just over 1,200 haitian orphans immediately following the earthquake that devastated haiti on january 12 earlier this year. all in all, 1 1/2 million people were directly affected in terms of human and economic impact. it was one of the worst natural disasters ever recorded in the western hemisphere.

mr. poe: mr. speaker, i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. poe: it's widely recognized that patent litigation is too expensive, too time consuming and too unpredictable. h.r. 628 addresses these concerns by authorizing a pilot program in certain united states district courts to promote patent expertise among participating judges. the need for such a program becomes apparent when one considers that fewer than 1% of all the cases in the united states district courts on average are patent cases and that a district court judge typically has a patent case proceed through trial once every seven years. nevertheless these cases account for 10% of complex cases and they require a disproportion share of attention and judicial resources. notwithstanding the investment of additional time and resources, the rate of reversal on claim construction issues, the correct interpretation of which is central to the proper resolution of these cases, is u

mr. poe: request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. poe: madam speaker, i bring you news from the third front, the war zone that is our southern border with mexico. violent behavior is reaching new lows in the mexican border town of juarez. armed attackers busted into a kindergarten school and set it on fire. why? le with, the criminal drug cartels found out the teachers in juarez got a christmas bonus, so they set up an extortion racket. these outlaw ban deetos demanded a protection fee from the teachers to keep the students safe. when the teachers didn't pay up, armed attackers broke into the school and set it on fire. juarez is the most violent city in all of mexico. and the violent cartels are bringing the war to the united states. just last night border patrol agent brian terry was murdered by bandits in the border town of rio rico, arizona. our wide open borders are facilitating violence on both sides of the border w

mr. poe: permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. poe: the interior department said there will be a new drilling offshore drilling ban in the gulf of mexico. that will cost us thousands of good-paying jobs in the gulf region, especially around texas and louisiana. the administration promised us that domestic oil pralks was an important part of our energy future. but for the last six months, the federal government has blocked drilling at every turn, leaking a permit here and there. but now they say it's safe to drill again and what do they do, ban drilling? the cubans will partner with the russians and the chinese. since when is it ok for china, russia and cuba to drill off our shores and not the americans. the administration is sending money to brazil and mexico to let those countries drill off those shores. is united states at war with the american oil companies? maybe so. and that's the way it is. the speaker pro tempore: any further re

mr. poe, december 16 for five minutes. mr. jones december 16 for five minutes. ms. foxx today for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentlelady from california rise? ms. woolsey: 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. mr. frank from massachusetts. mr. defazio, oregon. ms. kaptur, ohio. ms. woolsey, california. mr. engel, new york. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, and the previous order of the house, the following members are recognized for five minutes -- mr. poe of texas. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask that i might speak at this time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. jones: mr. speaker, this past tuesd

mr. poe, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. berman. mr. berman: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the matter under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. berman: i rise in strong support of house resolution 1765 and yield myself three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. berman: i brought this resolution to the because i believe negotiations are the only path to a two-state solution to the israeli-palestinian conflict. for this reason, the united states congress has every reason to be concerned about efforts of some in the palestinian authority leadership to obtain recognition of statehood while bypassing the accepted negotiation process. these efforts run counter to the palestinians' own internationally witnessed commitments at the 1991 madrid conference or the 1993 oslo agr

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 this house, revise and extend their remarks and therein extraneous material -- and include therein extraneous material. mr. mcconnell for today, mr. poe for today, mr. jones for december 15, mr. graves from georgia today, mr. rohrabacher bacher today and mr. mccotter for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? >> 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 extraneous material. ms. wasserman schultz from florida, mr. mitchell from arizona, ms. kaptur from ohio, mr. defazio from oregon, ms. woolsey from california, mr. grayson from flor

mr. poe of texas. >> i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. jones: mr. speaker, thank you very much. i have to my side faces of marines who have given their life for this country, they're from camp lejeune, in the district i represent. these are the faces of those young men and women who gave their life for this country. i come to the floor today because i joined the american people, i'm very concerned about committing our troops to four more years in afghanistan. afghanistan is a vast country, it's never been a nation, doesn't have a government, and we are trying to build a government in afghanistan. i want to share just a couple of comments, this is from the washington examiner, it says, catch and release -- the catch and release of taliban fighters in afghanistan angers troops. more than 500 suspected taliban fighters detained by united states forces have been released from custody at the urging of afghan government officials,ing anering both ame

mr. poe, december 17 for five minutes. mr. jones december 17 for five minutes. and mr. gormente, td, mr. gohmert for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. conyers: i ask unanimous consent that today following the 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 extraneous material. myself for five minutes, john conyers of michigan. ms. marchesy kaptur of ohio for five minutes. mr. courtney, connecticut of five minutes. mr. defazio of oregon for five minutes. ms. woolsey of california for five minutes. ms. jackson lee of texas for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. under the speaker's announced policy january 6, 2009 and under a previous order of the house, the following members are recognized for five minutes each, mr. poe of texas. mr. jones: i ask that i may take my time now. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman from north carolina will be recognized for five

mr. poe: mr. speaker, chief of police garcia is the latest victim in the land of lawless days in mexico. chief garcia was at her job 51 days when she was brutally murdered by drug cartel assassins. in a brazen ambush they shot her seven times when she was headed to work. so many police chiefs have been murdered in mexico no one wants the job. trained officers are refusing promotions. leaving untrained citizens to run the police department. and the border town two housewives are the top cops in town. in chihuahua a new police chief is a 20-year-old student. there is a border war going on and the violence will only get worse on both sides of the line of lawlessness. the rule of law is being stolen by the hand of the gun. and we must help our neighbors in mexico and also secure our border with armed national guard troops. otherwise this wind brewing from the south will bring america the whirlwind. that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman fr

mr. poe of texas for today after 4:00 p.m. mr. reyes of texas for december 21 and 22. mr. young of florida for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the requests are ordered -- are granted. the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. gohmert: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. gohmert: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, this bill that's just passed is a bit indicative of how things have gone here in the last two years. people didn't have a chance to read the bill. people didn't have a chance to make amendments to the bill. there is no question the heroes from 9/11 deserved our full attention. they deserved to have proper moneys raised in proper ways in order to fund their proper treatment. that should have been done, but it wasn't. now we come rushing here at the last minute, and in fact there were 176 democrats that voted. it took 42 republicans voting to give a quorum to get enough people

mr. poe: every time a child is born, the good lord is making a bet on the future of mankind. olivia carolyn shoemaker arrived on monday night, december 6, at seven pounds and 19 1/2 inches. she was affectionately referred to as baby shoe until she was named by her parents. her mother is our youngest child. like her mother kelly, she has her mom's happy spirit. having the intellect of her father anthony, i'm sure she'll be quoting the constitution soon. god sends little girls to the world to soften up the rough edges of dads and soften up grandfathers like me. i know she was born for a special reason to make a world of difference in a world that just needs little girls. that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> when i was a schoolteacher, i never knew how well my kids were doing until i gave them a test. we need to have a test here today in this chamber. with en

mr. poe: the federal highway administration is ordering all local governments to go out and purchase new road signs. why? because the brilliant bureaucrats say these signs are easier to read. it took 800 pages of easy to read regulations and red tape to mandate making letters two inches taller. the new signs must be reflective and cannot be in all caps? new york city alone will have to spend $27 million just to revamp their sufficient signs. millions will be spent by other financially troubled cities. why is this happening? because as the saying goes we are from the government and we are here to help you. what if the town refuses to replace their signs with the federally authorized signs? will the intrusive federal street sign police come out and cart the city officials off to jail for road sign violation? and what's next? will the feds soon require signs be multiple languages? once again big government solves problems that don't exist and answers questions that no one is asking. that's just

chu, and the gentleman from texas, mr. poe, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from california. ms. chu: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. chu: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california is recognized. ms. chu: mr. speaker, this bill seeks to create a pilot program that will enhance district court expertise in patent cases. patent litigation is complex and highly technical. this makes litigation expensive, time consuming, and unpredictable. moreover, the reversal rate of district court decisions is high, hovering around 50%. the bill before us today, h.r. 628, seeks to increase efficiency and consistency in patent protection litigation and reduce the reversal rate. the pilot program created by this bill would enable interested judges in certain district courts to develop expe

mr. poe, texas. ms. richardson, california. mr. garrett, new jersey. ms. kaptur, ohio. mr. burton, indiana. ms. jackson lee, texas. mr. moran, kansas. mr. defazio, oregon. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. klein: madam speaker, i rise today to thank all my colleagues here in the house and especially my constituents back home in south florida. the opportunity to serve in this body has been the privilege and honor of a lifetime. i truly have been honored and feel honored to have been entrusted with the responsibility of fighting for families, businesses, seniors and veterans in our community every single day. and fight we did. when i came in four years ago we were challenged with a war. we were challenged with a lot of other things. as those years have passed there have been new challenges, the economy and others. together we fought to take on skyrocketing homeowners insurance costs in florida and other places. we wrote a commonsense solution that makes insurance look and work like its suppos

mr. poe, december 7, for five minutes. mr. jones december 7 for five minutes. mrs. miller of michigan today for five minutes. mr. frank today, december 1, 2, 3, five minutes each. ms. foxx today for five minutes minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. garamendi: i ask unanimous consent that following legislative business and any special -- mr. filner: the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material, mr. frank from massachusetts, mrs. richardson, mrs. cupttur, mr. defazio and mrs. woolsey. 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. mr. jones of north carolina. for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina soak recognition? ms. foxx: secretary permission to address the house for -- seek permission to address the house five

the speaker pro tempore: mr. poe of texas. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house out of order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to pay tribute to petty officer zarian woods of houston, texas. zairian, known as z to his friends, was killed on october 16, 2010, by a bomb blast while on foot pal pa troll in afghanistan. mr. olson: he was 29 years old. after serving combat in iraq from 2007 to 2008, zarian volunteered for a second combat tour. this tour sent him on a seven-month stint to afghanistan where he was assigned to india company, third battalion, first marine regiment, first marine division, first marine expeditionary force. z was trained to be a corpsman, first out of the fox hole to rush to a wounded comrade. in afghanistan, he was known as doc. serving on the frontlines alongside infantrymen from camp pendleton, california. z was the a 1999 graduate of south houston high school where he competed on the trojan wrestling team. after high school, z worked as a y

mr. poe: i appreciate my friend from iowa yielding exactly what you're talking about in my case was a great aunt, predeceased by her husband, they had 2,500 acres in south texas, built up over 100 years, they'd done exactly what you're talking about. they worked and by the sweat of their brow and all the sweat equity, scraping together money, they kept accumulating land and passed that on. along comes a greedy congress that decides when you're dead, we're going to do what, as our friend said talked about in his court, a case tried in his court, where a guy died in an accident and a thief came in and stole his wallet out of his pocket while he was dead. well, that guy went to prison for a long time because he was caught. the government is doing that. so anyway work my great aunt, her husband predeceased her, when she died she had a will that set aside one section of land to be sold to pay off the estate tax. unfortunately, this was this was 1986 and that also happened to be a time when fdic an

mr. obama touted a breakthrough, new agreement with south korea on the tariff lowering trade pact, poe ten shapoe -- potentially the biggest of its kind since nafta. >> including the opening of the korean services market will support 70,000 american jobs. >> lester, that trade deal is is not a done deal quite yet. it requires congressional approval and while trade is one area where republicans are expected to cooperate with the president, already one prominent democrat has come out against the deal. lester? >> thanks. long time nbc capitol producer, ken strickland joins us now to offer his insight. based on what we saw today the votes are not there to limit tax cuts to the middle class. so what happens behind closed doors now? >> we move from the public spectacle of partisan bickering and move into closed-door, hard-core negotiations. republican leaders are going to meet with democrats in this very, very small group with two white house officials to hammer this out. with only a few weeks left to go in this congressional session, many of the president ae priorities are also on the table as

poe. we welcome our witnesses. ralph nader, professor steve vladeck, mr. gabriel schoenfeld, attorney kenneth wainstein, thomas blanton, director of the national seurity archive, attorney abby lowell, well known to this committee in two previous congresses. and our first witness, professor jeffrey stone, professor of law and former dean at the university of chicago law school. he is -- he has written quite a bit of constitutional law, several folks, the first amendment, government power. one of his books, perlis times, free speech in wartime was just recently praised by justice elena kagan is a masterpiece of constitutional history an promises to redefine the national debate on civil liberties and free speech. we are honored by you being here and we ask you to be our first witness in all statements of all of our witnesses will be introduced in their entirety into the record. welcome. >> chairman conyers, judge gohmert, members of the committee, thank you for inviting me and giving me the opportunity to speak with two of these issues. i'd like to address th

poe. we welcome our witnesses. ralph nader, professor steve vladeck, mr. gabriel schoenfeld, attorney kenneth wainstein, thomas blanton, director of the national security archive, attorney abby lowell, well known to this committee in two previous congresses. and our first witness, professor jeffrey stone, professor of law and former dean at the university of chicago law school. he is -- he has written quite a bit of constitutional law, several folks, the first amendment, government power. one of his books, perlis times, free speech in wartime was just recently praised by justice elena kagan is a masterpiece of constitutional history and promises to redefine the national debate on civil liberties and free speech. we are honored by you being here and we ask you to be our first witness in all statements of all of our witnesses will be introduced in their entirety into the record. welcome. >> chairman conyers, judge gohmert, members of the committee, thank you for inviting me and giving me the opportunity to speak with two of these issues. i'd like to address

poe. we welcome our witnesses. ralph nader, professor steve vladeck, mr. gabriel schoenfeld, attorney kenneth wainstein, thomas blanton, director of the national security archive, attorney abby lowell, well known to this committee in two previous congresses. and our first witness, professor jeffrey stone, professor of law and former dean at the university of chicago law school. he is -- he has written quite a bit of constitutional law, several folks, the first amendment, government power. one of his books, perlis times, free speech in wartime was just recently praised y justice elena kagan is a masterpiece of constitutional history and promises to redefine the national debate on civil liberties and free speech. we are honored by you being here and we ask you to be our first witness in all statements of all of our witnesses will be introduced in their entirety into the record. welcome. >> chairman conyers, judge gohmert, members of the committee, thank you for inviting me and giving me the opportunity to speak with two of these issues. i'd like to address t

mr. chairman, for your leadership over the years. i'd like to associate myself with the concerns of congress poe in terms of the citizens of camp ashraf, and i think that it's disconcerning to understand that we have to play games with the government of iraq after we have invested such a massive amount of treasure and blood. we need to hear from iraq, from the government of iraq, a solid commitment that they will not betray the people of camp ashraf to the mullah dictatorship. that would be terrible, and we would lose leverage ect.. if you could pass that on, i would appreciate that. thank you, secretary burns, for your analysis there of the relationship we have with russia in dealing with iran. it's easy to see and put this in one dimension to understand russia's built that nuclear power plant, and we also understand when they signed the contracts, they were in a horrible economic situation and felt they were being pushed to make such deals, and so you have testified today that we have cooperation from russia now in dealing with iran, but i think also this hearing has dmon -- demonstrated that our china policy has been a dismal, dism

mr. chairman, for your leadership over the years. i'd like to associate myself with the concerns of congress poe in terms of the citizens of camp ashraf, and i think that it's disconcerning to understand that we have to play games with the government of iraq after we have invested such a massive amount of treasure and blood. we need to hear from iraq, from the government of iraq, a solid commitment that they will not betray the people of camp ashraf to the mullah dictatorship. that would be terrible, and we would lose leverage ect.. if you could pass that on, i would appreciate that. thank you, secretary burns, for your analysis there of the relationship we have with russia in dealing with iran. it's easy to see and put this in one dimension to understand russia's built that nuclear power plant, and we also understand when they signed the contracts, they were in a horrible economic situation and felt they were being pushed to make such deals, and so you have testified today that we have cooperation from russia now in dealing with iran, but i think also this hearing has dmon -- demonstrated that our china policy has been a dismal, dism