mr. rohrabacher, i would be happy to. mr. rohrabacher: let me note that i've been here 26 years and i have tried to vote for encreases in the level of funding for the national institutes of health which of course oversees much of this health research we're talking today. i know we have people coming in all the time talking, they want us to sign on to a bill to increase this particular disease or that particular disease. but i think the approach that we have to have is basically let's provide as much money as we can to this type of research and programs by people who are the experts, let them determine where the best money is, where is the best money, use of our limited research money. so i have been very much supportive of your efforts and the other efforts of many bipartisan people in this congress. i would like to add that we can't just rely on the government the next speech i'll be giving in a few moments deals with the patent issue. we need to make sure that people in the private sector will be encouraged to invest in new

mr. dana rohrabacher of california. >> well, thank you very much, secretary jacobson. this is a difficult task for you to be here. i am only -- i think one of the main concerns we have here instead of changing the castro regime into a more democratic regime, the president is acting as if he has the right to rule by dictate and over his presidency is changing our country to be more like castro than having castro change to be more like a free and open society. these ruling by dictate and having secret negotiations is not what america's all about. that's not how we make policy here. many of us are very disappointed. this isn't the first case of this, however. dealing with a regime that is oderous -- is that the word i want? onerous and oderous, i think it's both. there you go. but we have a regime that stinks one way or the other and it's oppressive one way or the other that we're dealing with, but yet we have had secret negotiations and deals that are announced to us, and you were here to explain it. so let me ask this -- when you said there are no concessions, we go int

mr. rohrabacher backer, is recognized for -- mr. rohrabacher, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. rohrabacher: thank you very much mr. speaker. today i rise to have a discussion with my fellow colleagues and with those people throughout the united states who are watching this and reading this in the congressional record. the issue i wishes to discuss is a matter of grave concern to me and i think i believe, to the american people as well. i came here 26 years ago. i had served seven years prior to my arrival here in the united states congress, i served for seven years in the reagan white house. i was a speech writer to president reagan and i was a special assistant to the president, which is a designated rank at the white house. i recall what it was like in the time leading up to ronald reagan's election and i recall specifically how ronald reagan dealt with the great challenges he faced. before ronald reagan came to the white house, america was in retreat, there was a sense of pessimism throughou

mr. rohrabacher. mr. sears of new jersey. >> thank you, chairman. and thank you for your service to our country and being here. every time i sit here and i hear witnesses talk to me about training the iraqi army, it just shears because of the experience we have had with this ideal training. i don't know where we get the confidence that if we train this army it's going to solve our problems. because, you know, we spent billions and they took a shot out of them, they ran. so to go back and start training people again and spending all that money -- i'm just concerned that at the end of all this people are going to say, the only people that can solve the end of all this, people are going to say that the only people who can solve the problem are us putting troops on the ground and i would never vote for that. you lost 6,000 lives. countless people coming back. we have soldiers coming back, committed suicide and for what? we saw one problem, one group, another one pops up. you know, i don't know the answer, obviously. you're the experts. i just take your

mr. rohrabacher: i do here now move that the house adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. accordingly, pursuant to house resolution 99 the house stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning for morning hour debate. as a further mark of respect to the member memory of the late honorable alan nunnelee. >> watch house floor coverage right here on c-span starting at noon tomorrow. coming up, the senate health committee examines the rise of unvaccinated children in the current measles outbreak. the senate finance committee hears from former senators on the 1986 tax deal. congressman luke messer of indiana talks about the president's request to lose -- use military force against isis. according to the cdc, 121 cases of measles have been reported in 17 states and the district of columbia. tuesday, the director of the cdc's national center for immunization and respiratory diseases testify on capi

mr. rohrabacher. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from california for three minutes. mr. rohrabacher: i rise in strong support of h.r. 10. . -- of 810, the i would like to compliment chairman palazzo and ranking member edwards for a job well done. it has been tough and now we are getting behind the product of all of that labor thrfment was a great deal of work and negotiations on these provisions over the past year and the outcome of that work is in this legislation, which embodies the bipartisan leadership both here at the subcommittee and committee level and bipartisan support in this house of our nation's civil space programs. i would like to note that significant differences of opinion remain on many of the provisions of this bill. but i won't go to any of them now. i might have worried some of my colleagues on that. but despite those differences, we share a set of common goals for nasa. the objective is america must return to international preeminence in human space fli