mr. pompeo: i reserve the balance of my time. mr. waxman: i want to yield two minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts who authored this particular provision in the consumer products -- the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. markey: i thank the gentleman from from california. this language is going to destroy the early warning system that has been put in place in order to give parents the information they need in order to protect their children. if this amendment passes it will grant industry's wish to make the government its secret partner in crime by keeping reports of serious injury or death hidden from public view. mr. stark: the safety products safety commission documented children suffering intestinal injuries after swallowing small but powerful magnets that had fallen out of toys and the public didn't know and the cpsc did nothing. by mid 2005 after more reports of safety concerns associated with the magnets and two reports of serious life-threatening injuries, the public still didn't know and the cpsc

mr. pompeo of kansas. mr. pompeo: this $115 million is aimed at alternative energy and alternative energy inside the defense department appropriations budget. i will assure you that with the president having advocated for, in his budget, billions of dollars of alternative energy research, development, and other types of research that we don't need $115 million of that in our department of defense budget. this funding is wasteful, it's duplicative and won't help our soldiers. in five different parts of the appropriations legislation, in small amounts, and this is new money. it's above and beyond that which the president had requested. we are not underfunding alternative energy research. just this week, the rand corporation came out with a study talking about alternative energy research in the defense budget and they concluded it was not helping our soldiers, our sailors, our airmen and fighters. i would urge support of this amendment, reducing by $115 million the deficit that our nation faces. i yealed back. the

mr. pompeo of kansas. the chair: the gentleman from kansas is recognized for five minutes on his amendment. mr. pompeo: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise to offer an amendment that will reduce spending for the international forestry program by $7.4 million. some on the other side said $7.4 million isn't a lot of money when we have a deficit over $1.5 trillion, in kansas that's still a little bit of money. this program started out a long time ago to provide funds for saving the brazilian rain forest. but like so many programs that had good intentions, it's morphed, it's morphed into something terribly different. just this past year, this program funded field trips for students in mexico to follow the migration of monarch butterflies. it funded research in china to protect panda habitat and make sure we didn't have the infestation of forest fests in china. i think the chinese can fund that themselves if someone thinks that's a worthy task. last year it funded the international forestry program, funded a study

mr. pompeo of kansas. the chair: a recorded vote has been requeed. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made posble by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of e house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas are 234, the nays 187. the amendment is agreed to. the unfinished business is a request for a recorded vote on amendment number 200 printed in the congressional record offered by the gentleman from texas, mr. burgess, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by a voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 200 printed in the congressional record offered by mr. burgess of t