mr. rohrabacher. mr. engel? >> well, thank you very much, mr. chairman. i won't take the whole time, but i want to start by, first of all, telling you how much i have appreciated our friendship through the years and the time we both served on the western hemisphere subcommittee, first you as chair and me as ranking member, then me as chair and you as ranking member. we've always been friends, and you've always been a gentleman and a very good student of foreign policy, and it's just been a pleasure working with you. personally, i'm going to miss you. so i hope you'll come back and visit. i hope your district and the country understands how, what a patriot you are and how much you care even when we've disagreed on things. i never have had doubt for one moment that you didn't say anything that you didn't believe. you're a patriot, you're a truemen, and you really -- true american, and you really love this country. and we love you, even on this side of the aisle, we're going to miss you. i want to say something to my good friend, dear friend, jean schmidt, i

mr. rohrabacher: thank you very much. i rise in strong opposition to h.r. 6621. the bill being considered promotes and is being promoted as a technical corrections piece of legislation and by and large that's exactly what it is. but it also -- there's one provision of this bill that raises significant concerns and needs to be addressed, and i have asked my friend from michigan, perhaps, to consider this and perhaps reconsider his position on the bill, because i'm sure he does not know about this. one of our country's patent -- our country's patent system has long been one of the strongest in the world, and one of its basic tenets has been the steadfast adherence to the principle of total confidentiality of a patent application until the patent is granted. the congress has repeatedly stood by that principle even though there have been many powerful forces in this country trying to eliminate that concept, but we have stood by this principle that these applicants should have confidentiality as their application works its way through the patent system. it prevents th

mr. rohrabacher the chairman of the subcommittee on oversight and investigations is recognized. >> .. that can be reprioritized and i'm waiting for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to address the chairman suggestion if we are spending a million dollars on global warming in this budget, wouldn't it be better for all of us, and more faithful to those serving us to allocate those funds for security if we think there's a security problem rather than for global warming which is not necessarily the purview of the state department? but in terms of, and remember that secretary lamb, assistant secretary lamb stated emphatically because it was my question and i wanted to get a specific answer, were bit just consider -- budget considerations your consideration at the benghazi consulate and her answer was an emphatic no, no. so there must be policies then that we need to look at to see if it wasn't a result from budget considerations, why did wind up having them? it was obviously a bad call on her part and just let me say she has given this country i think 20 years of decent and good