under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2013, the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. poe can, is recognize -- mr. pocan is recognized for 60 minutes as a designee of the minority leader. mr. po caan: i'm here on -- mr. po can: i'm here on -- before i start on my special order hour, i would like to yield to the gentlelady, ms. sinema. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady may proceed. ms. sinema: i rise today as a proud college instructor of over a decade and perhaps most importantly a proud sun devil from arizona state university in tempe, arizona. the largest and, yes, the brightest university in our country. may 9 is graduation day for many of my students and while i cannot be with them on their special day, i bro deuce a bill today in their honor. in honor of their hard work and future contributions to our community and our economy. today, i have introduced the stability to ensure the american dreams for youth act. the steady act. he steady act extends the 3.4% rate for stafford student loans until june 30 of 2017. as we all know if congress fails

we support this bipartisan legislation from mr. poe the committee to making marking it up a priority. thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. the chair will recognize members to ask questions under the five, minute rule, and the first up will be chairman of the full committee, the gentleman from virginia. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate your whole worlding this hearing and for your forebearance. i would ask that my opening statement be made part of the report. >> without objection. >> thank you. mr. villasenor? which do you believe are in the best position to regulate uas on privacy grounds, courts, congress, or the states? >> in terms of actually regulating, the question specific to privacy or -- >> primarily. >> privacy, with respect to law enforcement use, i'm on record stating i do believe the fourth amendment is going to provide quite a bit more protection than are recognized in state courts. with respect to private use, it's state level you have statutes against invasion of privacy, stalking, harassment and anno

there being none, yes, mr. poe. there are a number of items. he wants to speak on five items. >> on the consent calendar, it's 10 a, c and d. actually, it's just a general comment that pervades some of the other items. i've spoken before about environmental review with respect to the environmental review of those three items. and i believe elements of 11 and 12. there is reference in the cover page about the determination of environmental review, but there's no attachment and the resolutions make general reference without, in some cases -- well, there is data in one case, but not the city planning file number. when i try and chase down the environmental review documents it proves very difficult. as the board of supervisors is considering both the wiener and kim legislation to change chapter 31 of the admin code, i think it would be good for us to get ahead of that and to either list as attachments those documents where they're short, or at a minimum, to include the city planning item number and information where someone can find those determina

under that procedure, the chair yields his five minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. poe >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate you yielding and all of you for being here. , guess the crowning decision the concept, is the supreme expectation of privacy down the road is going to be not expanded but made smaller, i think that is what the court members are saying, which concerns me. so it seems to me that congress in the area of drones need to set a standard rather than let the courts down the road set a standard. i am from houston, and our local sheriff and county, the third largest county in the country, he will not use any kind of drones because he does not know what the law will be and does not want to wait for the supreme court to rule 10 years from now on a search and throw out a case where he has arrested some bad guy, put him in jail. so he is not using them. he is waiting for somebody to give him and other law enforcement agencies some direction on the use of drones. there seemed to be two issues. law enforcement use and private use. what is the expectation of pri

mr. poe: ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. poe: mr. speaker, benghazi happened a long time ago. what difference does it make? let's get done with this, folks, i don't think anybody lied to anybody. i do not want to spend the next year coming up here talking about benghazi. mr. speaker, these are statements made by the president's pinocchio puppet press secretary, jay carney, and both the current and former secretaries of state. americans are learning the white house bungled benghazi, now it faces accusations by whistleblowers of intimidation and hiding the facts. fearful of a terrorist attack, ambassador steveness asked for more security, called for -- stevens asked for security, calls for help were ignored and he and three errs were murdered. but the white house spin master said after the attack it was a spontaneous protest cause bade video. that was a made-up yarn. the attack was a carefully coordinated, calculated terrorist attack. s

mr. poe: i ask unanimous con tonight is address the house for one minute -- consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. poe: there's a troubling pattern here in washington. when wrong doing occurs involving federal government employees, blame falls away from the white house and the wrong doctors get a pass. no one -- wrong doers get a pass. no one is held accountable. fast and furious. government walks guns into mexico. hundreds are killed. white house blames bush and a low-level employee. employee resign, government gets a pass. exhibit b, benghazi. government denies requests for support before and during the attack. four americans are killed. investigation is bungled. blame placed on a youtube video. one federal employee placed on leave but still getting a paycheck. government gets a pass. exhibit c, i.r.s. target list. i.r.s. unlawfully targets conservative organizations, blame placed on low-level employee and we're awaiting for accountabili

mr. poe: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. poe: when i went to the soviet union in the 1980's, the communist leaders told me they believed in and had a free suppress and also had free speech. however i also learned that soviet law prohibited these free throw doms when they jeopardize state secrets or national security as we call it in america. the state secret provision was so broad the soviet press and speech were gagged and shackled. they certainly were not free. now we learn that our department of justice improperly seized without notice phone records of over 100 associated press journalists, all in the name of national security concerns. to me, this is a clear violation of the spirit and letter of the first amendment. these actions border on the soviet method of legalizing these freedoms but never allowing them system of it's time to revis

mr. poe: mr. speaker, sunday is mother's day where we honor our nation's mothers. my mom is still alive. i got to know my grandmothers, both of them, until they died in their 90's. my three daughters all have children. but i want to talk about a mother that most americans probably have never ever heard of. her name was maddy ripkowsky. let me tell you about her and her family. she's the first generation polish immigrant back in the 1800's, the polish community came into texas through the port of galveston. they settled there while texas was an independent country. in fact, some polls voted, fought at the battle of san jacinto where texas won its independence from mexico in 1836. but she was born in 1896 in texas. at the age of 17 she married stash ripkowsky, both ewlyweds, a smalltown guy from waverly, texas. after several years this was their family. yes, madie -- maddie had 16 children, four daughters and 12 sons. they were all born by natural childbirth with a mid wife except one. and they lived, this whole family, lived in southeast texas in a small 200-acre fa

the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. poe, for five minutes. mr. poe: mr.peaker, early last year i spoke with businesswoman katherine engelbreck and also founder of true the vote and king street patriots in houston, texas. true the vote is a nonpartisan organization whose purpose is to train poll workers to uphold voter integrity at the polls. because despite what many says, voter fraud is rampant in america. the patriots group is a group of individuals of liberty minded philosophy. they are patriotic houstonians who meet weekly to discuss what's going on here in washington. katherine told me both of these groups and her family had not only been harassed by liberal progressive groups but also by the federal government. it all began when katherine applied for nonprofit status in 2010 for true the vote and king street patriots. so began the tidal wave of government inquiries and harassment. in a recent interview katherine said this. we applied for nonprofit status in 2010. since that time the i.r.s. has run us through the gauntlet of analysis and hundreds of

mr. poe: mr. speaker, they are from every state and territory, they are of all races, both sexes, they are from farms, ranches, and cities. they are rich and poor, but generally, they are young. they all, to a person, are volunteers. the all-american volunteers. volunteers to defend america. some have gone off to war in iraq and afghanistan. some have returned, some have returned with the wounds of war, and some have returned with an american flag draped over their coffin. here are 37 warriors from the second congressional district in texas who died protecting us from the forces of evil in afghanistan and iraq. you see, they are very diverse. they are all races, they are young, they are old, they are from privates to colonels, enlisted, to even west point graduates. they are all from different bramples of the service. so this memorial day, we remember them all. those who gave all. and we thank their families for giving america their sons and their daughters. for the worst casualty of war is to be

mr. poe: mr. speaker, cara was in the third grade when the school notified hire parents about her difficulty in processing words. her speech pattern was different. it affected every aspect of her life, including her self-esteem. so kara's third grade teacher, mrs. morgan, was determined to help the little girl speak better so the teacher and the pupil worked very hard together on talking. the success of both of them occurred this way. later that little girl who couldn't speak very well woke off the stage in high school as valedictorian. she also obtained her bachelor's degree, her master's degree and today she's an associate professor at baylor university in the department, yes, english. the little girl with word problems is teaching about word patterns. i come from a family of teachers. my mother, my mother-in-law, my wife and my three daughters are teachers by profession. and kara is one of those daughters. so today being teacher's appreciation day we thank mrs. morgan and all of america's teach

the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. poe, or five minutes. mr. poe: mr. speaker, peace officers are the ones who diligently protect and serve the people. they are the first to respond to the call for help in time of trouble. they go after the bad guys and provide us safe communities to live in. some take extra jobs to make ends meet. they wear the badge of commitment over their heart. sheriffs' departments in texas where a star over their heart. today in houston, texas, they have placed a black band across their badges in honor of one of the fallen among their number. sergeant duane polk, 47, of the harris county sheriff's department, was killed about 3:00 a.m. sunday morning. he was headed home in his uniform after working a contract assignment. sergeant polk grew up in houston, texas, with his three sisters and two brothers. his mother always encouraged him and the other kids to read the bible. he had worked for the sheriff for 16 years. sheriff garcia said it was tough talking to his son, but he will have many big brothers in the sheriff's department.

mr. poe: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. poe: mr. speaker, big snoopy government agencies can read emails that are over 180 days old without a person's knowledge or consent. that is just wrong. it takes a warrant to eavesdrop phone conversations but no warrant required to per reuss a erson's email? that's why congresswoman lofgren and i introduced the online communication act. it would require a search warrant to seize a person's email. when a person mails a letter, the government cannot open the mail from the time it is placed in the mailbox, travels throughout the fruited plain and ends up in another mailbox. the law protects the privacy of this snail mail. when a person sends an email through cyberspace, the government should not be allowed to seize the content without a search warrant. at a time when we see more and more government in

yield one minute to the gentleman from texas, mr. poe. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. poe: i thank the gentleman. five years. five years and still no decision. what does five years mean? well, world war ii, where we mobilized america, we went to war, we fought for our liberty and our national security on two fronts, thousands and thousands americans worked in our factories, went off to war in less than five years. but yet we can't get a decision out of the white house for five ars on this project, are you kidding me? if we had to wait for the environmentalists to make up their mind, we never would have made the panama canal. 20% of the refineries is a national security interest. some of my friends on the other side have been badmouthing canada. let me tell you something, if canada, the united states and mexico work on an energy policy and make a north atlantic, north american energy policy, we can make middle eastern politics irrelevant. this pipeline will bring in as much crude oil as we get from sa

as mr. poe's legislation indicates, there's a strong emergency exception that allows in the cases of danger to life or limb, the use of droneness order to provide a -- have to play out the scenario in terms of where they are in the investigation, but, yes, there's clearly a strong emergency exception as well as the ability to act before a warrant is issued. >> mr. maclin, can you explain how uas may affect police discretion and whether police discretion is something shoot be limited by statute? >> i think it should be limited by statute. when i talk about police discretion i'm talking about the ability of law enforcement to simply fly a drone over, examine, surveil, without any probable cause or reason suspicion, and certainly if you don't have either one of those two things you can't get a warrant. i would take slight objection with the notion that if we're going to require warrants, we should allow possibly allow warrants based on reasonable suspicion. the court, i think, albeit other than the a

mr. poe: the benghazi whistleblowers have spoken publicly. the administration failed before, during, and after the terrorist attack in benghazi. head of tip lomatic security libya, eric nordstrom testified that his calls for more curt ask before the attack were dismissed by a negligent state department. during the attack counterterrorism official mark thompson said the rescue team was told to stand down instead of try to save americans under attack. deputy chief of missions in libya, greg hicks, said in chilling testimony that when ambassador stevens frabtcally called him, they both knew this was a terrorist attack. the information was reported to washington. but back on the ranch, the administration ignored the obvious terror attack and blamed the situation on a video. what a yarn. the libyan president even told our goth this was a terrorist attack and he was ignored. the result, four americans murdered, an administration missing in action that didn't attempt to rescue americans a bungling state department that misled us, and a secretary of

mr. poe: benghazi bungled, propaganda kratz mislead citizens, change talking points 12 times. people die, white house ignores knowledge. i.r.s. intimidates targets and audits conservative opposition groups, white house denies knowledge, lower-level operatives blamed. government snoopers secretly seize phone records of 100 journalists to locate their sources. white house denies knowledge, lower-level operatives blamed. a.t.f. smuggles guns to mexican drug lords. white house denies knowledge, attorney general held in contempt of congress for withholding evidence. lower-level operatives blamed. meanwhile, the president self-reach outly proclaims -- self-righteously proclaims citizens should trust his government. people distrust the government, especially the i.r.s., because of the melancon tent, then the president doesn't adequately hold them accountable. s need to roll, people need to be fired. others need to go to the jail house. that's what americans expected of the so-called most transparent administration in history. this administration that is incredible with words can earn

the gentleman from texas, mr. poe. the gentlelady from california, ms. pelosi. the gentleman from maryland, mr. hoyer. the gentleman from south carolina, mr. clyburn. the gentleman from california, mr. becerra. the gentleman from new york, mr. crowley. the gentleman from new york, mr. israel. the gentleman from new york, mr. engel. the gentleman from virginia, mr. moran. the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pascrell. the gentleman from california, mr. honda. the gentleman from maryland, mr. van hollen. the gentlewoman from california, ms. matsui. the gentlewoman from california, ms. chu. the gentlewoman from alabama, ms. sewell. the gentleman from new york, ms. meng. >> the president of the senate at the direction of that body appoints the following senators as members of the committee on the part of the senate to escort her exlancey, park geun-hye, president of the republic of korea, into the house chamber. the senator from nevada, there reid. the senator from alaska, mr. begich, the senator from new jersey, mr. menendez. the senator from maryland mr. cardin, the

. >> time of the gentleman has expired and the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. poe, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. general, attorney general, for being here. yesterday i sent you a three-page letter with seven questions on it. i know you haven't had time to go over those so i ask unanimous consent, mr. chairman, to introduce that letter with the seven questions for the attorney general into the record to be answered at some appropriate time. >> without objection, the letter will be made a part of the record and the questions will be submitted to the attorney general. >> let me approach this kind of historically, way i see things occurring. then i have two questions at he end of this dialogue. over the last several years, government action has become suspect to many of us. in fast and furious, government action. and we haven't resolved that yet. we're in court and we still haven't got a resolution on the issue that -- whether the subpoena should be or should not be upheld. people died in fast and furious. then there's benghazi. there's s

mr. miller and i were were on the hot seat accused of targeting one particular side of the poe let cal spectrum. if i had information that i had done the same thing with the other side i would have said how about this, do you want this information. and would you expect that from the wet necessary today or is that something that you wouldn't expect? >> i think you would expect that. i got to tell you, i didn't get this sense that he was outraged at the end of all of this. that, you know, this was just sort of not that big a deal to him. and i don't think he really fully even yet understood just how much a problem this was in terms of breaking faith with the the american people and really almost going to the level of abuse of certain individuals in terms of the questions asked and the length they had to go to simply to exercise their rights under the law. >> greta: what do you make of the fact that there was this sort of staged question to ms. lerner before the report came out? what was that all about? explain what happened and what was the point of all of that? >> we just learned of that in the

mr. speaker. so i ask the question of one of my friends from texas who happens to be on the judiciary committee and as a member of the immigration subcommittee, congressman ted poe of texas. he always pays attention to what went on with santa ana and the battle of the alamo and he can quote for you colonel travis, his letter. i asked him, what was the size of santa ana's army when they invaded texas? he said, 5,000 to 6,000. think of that, mr. speaker. twice the size of santa ana's army, 11,000 people a night, every night. that's just the peak. probably half that by now. more likely now, although it's increased over the last few months since we have this dialogue of immigration going on and those border crossings are up dramatically, but during the lull we still had the equivalent of santa ana's army coming across our southern border every night. we are not alarmed? when 80% to 90% of illegal drugs consumed in america come from or through mexico? and of all the pain, price, and heart take comes from that, it's not all the fault the people here. we have an illegal drug consumption and demand in this country that is a magnet for those illegal drugs, and that's som