mr. schiff. >> mr.chairman, follow up on that because i hope that the egyptians, chinese, ukrainians are paying attention and i want to read a great complete support for what the chairman mentioned that mr. schiff on the foreign operations committee on that package was put together do you all remember when the chairman and the subcommittee very successfully persuaded them to finally build a heavy lift rocket and they were ignoring the statutory language the authorization bill said they had a heavy lift rocket to go beyond low earth orbit? i think that we should pursue and i would certainly support your efforts on chairman and granger to make the second part of the satisfied because i think you did that mr. chairman. you don't get the second half of the money for the commercial until you can play with the statute. you want to think about putting contingencies on the a2 ukraine and egypt until they give you access. >> i agree with you not so much on this particular part of it. i mean from egypt decided th

mr. schiff said not understand the response. they had time to come up with some kind of defense.hat we are hearing you do not like. it is a separation of powers issue. we want more intel. this is a guy you can get it done. i think you're going to see a lot more criticism of her and in particular. his response is not been up to the standards of what congress things that should be. to some degree the debate is because of the pressure that has been put on the existing policies and legislation. there's also a sunset provision facing the original patriot act in 2015. how will that meet the requirement to visit some of these approaches to the discussion? >> i live as i think the safety net to do something. there are three provisions which expire june 2015. 215 includes the section under which the bulk phone records are collected. the main thing is done, the deadline looms. it will force them to do something. think that is something down the road that is the deadline. there seems to be a sense to do something sooner than later. going back to the issue of the tension that exists between

mr. schiff in saluting you. you have made a decision to retire from politics, something i did a few years ago. you have made a significant difference not just in fairfax county and the united states, but around the globe. you have carved out hard work and effective efforts on trafficking issues and religious freedom. your constituents and the country are proud of that effort. we thank you for that heard work. i would ask mr. chairman that my formal statement be entered into the record. i will make some informal statements and comments. my comments -- then a comment about the very good presentation. then i will talk about what makes commissions successful. as you have seen from the front page of the new york times this morning, our intelligence community is talking about their concern about the extremist carving out new territory in syria and learning skills and tradecraft there and coming back to the united states. this is oxygen for al qaeda. safe havens and possession of and access to territory and safe havens

mr. schiff and saluting you. and you made a decision to retire from politics, something out voluntarily did a few years ago. you have made a significant difference, not just in fairfax county in the united states but around the globe in carving out hard work and effective efforts on trafficking issues, religious freedom and human rights and, i think, your constituents in the country are proud of those efforts. we all thank you for that hard work. are would ask, mr. chairman, that my formal statement be entered into the record. i would just make some informal statements and comments. first of all my colleagues comments and then may be, to about mr. cummins very good presentation and then talk from and are to about what makes commissions successful. as you have seen from the front page of the new york times this morning our intelligence community is talking about their concern about the extremists carving out new territory in syria and potentially learning skills and tradecraft and training there and coming back to

mr. schiff: he had worked as a field training officer before returning to patrol in the hollywood division in 2008. in 16 years of service he received more than 0 commendations but even as -- more than 70 commendation bus even as a police officer, family came first, who had a wife -- he had a wife and two young daughters. tragically and much too soon he, passed away when a truck hit his patrol car in beverly hills. we depend on the bravery and dedication of police officers every moment of every day and we often forget the dangers and challenges they face on our behalf. i ask all members to join me in expressing our condolences to the lee family and the entire lapd and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank youer -- thank you so much, mr. speaker. amos rojas jr. was sworn in yesterday as the u.s. marshal for our southern district of florida. a consummate public servant, marshall served 24 years of his career with the florida department of law enforcement, including eight years as the s

mr. schiff: i thank the gentlewoman for yielding. mr. speaker, i stand today with the people of ukraine and in strong support of this legislation. which will provide the administration with additional and immediate flexibility to assist ukraine and i look forward to working with the gentleman from kentucky and my good friend from new york on further ways to assist ukraine in the appropriations process. but this effort cannot be just about helping ukraine. it must also be about reversing russian aggression and curbing vladimir putin's policies. president obama's action this morning to cut off access to assets and place travel restrictions on those involved in the violation of ukraine's sovereignty is a positive first step. but the pressure must be increased in the coming days if russia fails to reverse course. i support a slate of economic sanctions led by the united states and europe to isolate russia's economy and its leadership. so that putin is made to understand that his violation of international law and the sovereignty of his neigh

just left, we just love you dearly and i just want you to know and california my good friend adam schiff and mr. honda we are all devoted to you and all of these concerns we raise are not intended as criticisms or intended in any way to be hostile. it is truly as though i got an appropriation site to be in the subcommittee. the only reason i accepted the assignment to be on appropriations i could be here to help support law enforcement community and everyone on this committee knows how passionate i am by the sciences and nasa and the fbi. the questions we raise in the work that you do we want to help you pursue that. i want to encourage you and all the folks who work with you to do everything we can to work with chairman wolf's commission to review the 9/11 recommendations to see how you were implementing those and to be as forthright as you can and do your best to encourage her folks internally to overcome the instinctive reaction they have. don't criticize the bureau. don't be negative. don't mess with texas. don't mess with the fbi. we do it out of love and support. i hope none of you would

congressman schiff just mentioned, putin is determined to force the annexation of crimea and the united states and hopefully the european allies will impose the biting sanctions on russia, but let's remember, mr. putin has his equivalent of a monroe doctrine in eastern and southern europe and he's determined to pursue it. the question is, what happens to the rest of ukraine when he manages to get his hands on crimea? it's a kpcomplicated country wi a complicated history. there's going to be more secessionist votes and i don't believe no matter what secretary kerry and mr. lavrov, the foreign minister of russia, tries to do, it's going to unwind essentially what mr. putin's accomplished. >> we have this longstanding list of connections crimea has with russia, part of russia until 1954, home to the black sea naval base, 60% of crimean citizens identify themselves as russian, so this declaration yesterday has been reported as extremely popular among ethnic russians on the crimean peninsula, ambassador, so how difficult is it to convince putin to leave after being given what some people see as a very big opening? >> well, he's not going to leave. let's understand that our policy here has got to b