mr. rohrabacher: reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from california reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from -- who seeks recognition? the gentleman from virginia. is recognized. mr. wolf: i have 2 1/2 minutes left. they have one minute? the chair: 1 1/2 minutes remaining for mr. rohrabacher. mr. wolf: i'll give the balance of the time to the gentleman from louisiana, dr. fleming. the chair: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for two -- for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. fleming: thank you, mr. chairman. -- thank you, mr. chairman. let me say that in this discussion you may have heard reference to the 10th amendment and the commerce clause. let me address. that i want to get that out of the way because i've talked tremendously over the past few days and weeks about the dangers of marijuana. this controversy came before the u.s. supreme court in 2005 in gonzalez vs. reesh. they reviewed the controlled substances act. in a 6-3 decision, justice scalia, a strong states' rights advocate, concurred with the m

mr. rohrabacher to stay because, in mr. weeden's test when he had a recommendation for the executive branch to clarify its strategy for assessing the orbital debris removal. it really struck a chord because it out of committee, bipartisan committee passed bill just a couple weeks ago we included a provision that would require nasa in collaboration with other relevant federal agencies to review the concepts and tactic coal options for removal or bottle debris -- technical options. said getting to this question of not just looking at it and know where it is all very important, but what will be our strategy for removing it? we need to free up some of that space for all the additional activity that's going on. so i wonder if any of you have any views, mr. weeden, starting with you, about what an effective approach and nasa might take to address this particular provision, assuming that it does become law? >> that's a very interesting question. it's a very challenging question because at the moment there's no single technology th

mr. rohrabacher of california. an amendment by mr. holding from north carolina. amendment by mr. massie of kentucky. amendment number 24 from mr. southerland of florida. amendment by mr. ellison of minnesota. an amendment by mr. grayson of florida. an amendment by mr. duffy from wisconsin. an amendment by mr. garrett of new jersey. an amendment by mr. king from iowa. an amendment by mr. modos of north carolina. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic vote after the first vote of this series. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 13 printed in the congressional record offered by the gentleman, mr. moran, on which further proceedings were postponed on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk: amendment number 13 printed in the congressional record offered by mr. moran of virginia. the chair: a recorded vote is requested. those in support of a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having risen a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be

mr. rohrabacher: would the gentleman yield? mr. gohmert: my time's about expired but certainty. mr. ohrabacher: i will like to note the gentleman, as i understand him and i'm sure we'll have your support, we are starting today, loretta sanchez and myself, egyptian support, egypt caucus, which will be imed at supporting the right to make sure radical islam does not take over egypt and thus threaten the entire stability of the world. mr. gohmert: i greatly appreciated being with you and ms. sanchez in egypt as we talked to those and my dear friend from california knows good and well, i'm totally onboard, count me in. on that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2013, the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. rohrabacher, for 30 minutes. mr. rohrabacher: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i rise today to discuss an issue that currently effects more than half the states in our nation. and that is the inconsistency etween federal and state predaning marijuana lawses -- pert

mr. rohrabacher: thank you mr. speaker. i want to thank ranking member engel of new york and ranking member karen bass of the africa subcommittee for working osely with me to craft the elect -- mr. royce: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank ranking member engel and ranking member karen bass of the africa subcommittee for working close he with me to craft this bill. china has stepped in and we are speaking at a time when the premiere of china son the ground -- premier of china is on the ground right now in africa. china is directing $2 billion to africa. this bill will counter china's growing influence. what else will the bill do? unlocking the constraint on african economic growth means a continent less reliant on aid. the bill promotes an all of the above approach to electricity that includes natural gas and clean coal and hide row. the c.b.o. estimates that -- and hydro. the c.b.o. estimate this is a this bill will save the u.s. treasury $86 million. electrify africa imposes permanent reforl on the overseas corporatio

mr. rohrabacher are you seeking recognition? >> yes, i am. >> mr. rohrabacher of california. >> i would yield one minute of my time to mr. smith. >> i'll only take about 30 seconds. i just want to make clear, too, some of our friends on the democratic side on the judiciary committee, again, they have worked very closely with us, but i would commit to working with them toward an additional amendment before the bill gets to the floor that would alert the child sex offenders when they arrive at the airport of an angel watch's notification action. so they're fully apprised about what has happened, regarding them. so that will be something we will do. >> thank you. yes, i would like to rise in support of this amendment, all three of them are fine examples of legislation based on those moral values that guide all of us here, and that we are so proud of that america officially stands behind. especially i'd like to thank miss ros-lehtinen for her leadership, and in providing us a vision of what goes on in venezuela and cuba and other countries, where we have

mr. rohrabacher i want to thank mr. smith. mr. smith should be nominated for the nobel peace prize. mr.smith has done more on these issues than any other member of congress that i have ever served with a, so i just want to thank mr. smith for being tenacity and just say, and i think a great idea, members ought to circulate a letter nominating mr. smith for the nobel peace prize. but again, thank you for your courage. >> mr. wolf, thank you very much for that. but, frankly, we're here to hear from the five heroes of tiananmen square. dr. yang? >> thank you. i totally agree with you, congressman wolf, about congressman smith, our great leader here. and i want to respond to your comment about the missed opportunity. truly there were missed opportunities in the aftermath of the tiananmen square massacre. as we can remember, just not long after the end of cold war, china was very weak, was in much more, almost everything from western democracies, especially united states, economically, politically. and china was very isolated because of the massacre. but i think there was theory relating and

mr. rohrabacher: i appreciate all the great things the chairman has done and i echo my remarks of the praise that was sung by our friends from texas to the great job that speaker or chairman wolf has done in his career. i appreciate, for example, tonight that he's yielding me this time, knowing that he has strong disagreement about which i will be speaking. tomorrow i will be offering an amendment to the c.j.s. appropriations bill, along with my colleague sam farr, dan young, earl blumenauer, mr. mcclintock, brown, polis, stockman, barbara lee, amash and tight us. very simply, our amendment -- titus. very simply, our amendment would prohibit the department of justice from preventing states from implementing their state medical marijuana laws. importantly, this amendment gives us an opportunity to show our support and how we -- what we really believe about the 10th amendment to the constitution. and it gives us an opportunity to support the intentions of our founding fathers and mothers. they never meant for the federal government to play the preeminent role in criminal justice. it should be

mr. rohrabacher, for five minutes f questions. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. as i say, perhaps the focus of this hearing, which we originally thought would be our weapons, nuclear weapons and the relationship between the united states and russia in terms of cooperating on reducing and restricting the number of nuclear weapons, the threat to human kind, we have gone beyond that and we of course, however, i believe the purpose of that is to put in perspective the decisions we must make in terms of weapons control, after the events that have happened in ukraine. let me just note that from my perspective, there's been too gleeful a response from so many of my former colleagues and i'm not talking about members of the house, i'm talking about people who worked with me over the years in various administrations and various anticommunist causes, there seems to be a gleeful response to what's happened in ukraine because it then gives them yet a purposeful -- a purpose in going back and beating up the old enemy. frankly the soviet union was our enemy because it was dire

mr. rohrabacher. >> i thought you were going to go first, mr. chairman. thank you very much.foremost -- first and foremost, let us be very grateful that we have such wonderful people that live to our south. and i'm a californian. we're very proud of our heritage that we share with our brothers and sisters to the south, and america could have people as our neighbors that we didn't like. but i will tell you this much, the people of mexico are wonderful people. i've spent a lot of time with them as a young person and as i as. being a surfer, i've spent a lot of time with mexican surfers down in baja, and so let's just start with that, that we should be grateful as a country for having such wonderful neighbors as we have. .. is there a problem with internal drug use in mexico? >> i don't see anyone else grabbing for the microphone, congressman, so i will take a crack at that. may i offer one lesson of history? and that is, there is no such thing as a country that sir solely as a transit country in the drug trafficking pipeline. and the reason is very simple. over the last 30 or 4

mr. rohrabacher, is recognized for 42 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. rohrabacher: thank you very much, mr. chairman. one of the things that makes america great is that our country is a country that regardless of one's race, one's religion, or one's ethnicity we as citizens of the united states make up a collective family, the a diverse mily, yes, family but one -- but a family in and of itself composed of all the people, the great variety of people we have here from every part of the world who have come here to live in freedom and enjoy the opportunity and the liberty and the justice that america represents. and here despite where one was born or whose ones parents are, or when one became a citizen, we are all equally part of that family. and just as many families across our nation have come to discover at one point or another, in a time when there are scarce resources, we are going through perhaps an economic crisis or trying to avert an economic crisis, it is not unreasonable to provide for one's family before helping others. it is not selfish to watc

mr. rohrabacher: over half the states have gone through every argument presented and decided against what you just heard. there are doctors in every one of those states that participated in a long debate over this and found exactly the opposite of what we've heard today. some people are suffering and if a doctor feels that he needs to prescribe something to alleviate that suffering, it is immoral nor government to get in the way. that's what's happening. we -- the state governments have recognized that a doctor has a right to treat his patient any way he sees fit and so did our founding fathers. i ask for support for my amendment. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed to. >> i ask for a roll call vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california will e postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> i have an amendme

rohrabacher. i want to thank you, mr. chairman.s man is such a heroic champion of human rights and he has dedicated his life bigger people all over the world who wouldn't be alive today and they would be freedom movement all over the world that would have no hope of success it wasn't for the dynamic energy that you put into this here in congress, and i'm very pleased to sit with you and actually work with you, grateful for your leadership. what we do today is we are commemorating, looking at what happened 25 years ago. it's something that has had dramatic impact, not only to the people of china but the entire world. and what happened in tiananmen square has dramatically impacted on the life that we live today in the united states, and, of course, the people of china. i happen to believe that had ronald reagan -- i worked with reagan in the white house. i was a special assistant to the president and i was a speechwriter for president reagan for seven years had he been president of the united states when this happened, this would be