mr. shimkus: a felony. mr. o'quinn, also a delegate, i guess, that's what you call in virginia, part of this debate early in the health care law was the same debate we have here in energy and commerce is that there was a concern that if we don't have a -- this is not put in a national bill there would be maybe local community movements or county movements or even state would then disrupt national chains so the national chains said save us from ourselves, or save us from the different parts of the country who may do individual referendums and have multiple -- can you speak to that? from both positions that you, as a representative, not representing the state but you know, can you address that? mr. o'quinn: yes, sir. i think that certainly states and individual localities across the country adopting menu labeling laws. i think that becomes difficult for single store operators even a medium-sized grocery chain like we are to comply with this patchwork of regulations. none of those have been in our area but they've

mr. shimkus: i recognize the member from illinois, mr. ahood. mr. lahood: thank you, speaker boehner for swearing me in today and it is a true honor to be here and i'm humbled to be part of this body and thank my colleagues, congressman shimkus and the rest of the illinois delegation for being here today. i look forward to working with them and being a productive member of this body. and i would like to say i want to thank my constituents that voted for me in this special election. we worked hard in this race and proud to be entrusted with the responsibility that 710,000 people gave me in my district in illinois. and proud of that district and proud of my record in the state senate. and i look forward to bringing the values that i have had in illinois to this body. and i also want to thank my family, the family are the pride nd joy of who imand my three boys, mckay who is 13 and teddy who is eight and lucas and my wife. risten, please stand up. and i guess would just say that i look forward to working hard in this body to meeting my colleagues and do

mr. shimkus: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. chairman, this chamber has a lot of heroes. sam johnson is one of them, and i'm proud to have followed them and i salute them. i've been fortunate to do many things. i was an army officer in west germany, a high school student, a local official. now as a member of congress i'm honored to cast votes for people i represent. my constituents wants the president to follow the lawal as is his responsibility under article -- law as is his responsibility under article 2 of the constitution. the president did not submit necessary documents as required under law. i and my constituents want to know what's in these side agreements. when we're going down this path of peace and war to trust the iaea with no documents, not being able to see that. our primary responsibility here is to protect our citizens against all enemies, foreign and domestic. this deal gives iran more money . they will remain the number one state sponsor of terror. they will continue to chant "death to america" and "death to israel." they will not free our citizens, so no

mr. shimkus, five minutes for questions. mr. shimkus: i was almost going to sneak out from the hearing. i understand there's some people who want to see this information. and i think if you did national polling, people say sure i'd like to have it on. i don't think i've ever in my life read a menu, i don't think i've ever looked for calorie numbers. on anything i've consumed. and it's obvious that i am in the majority -- and i bet i'm in the majority of americans, so -- i -- i am just rowing that out there. i -- i -- i really struggle with this! this is the perfect example of a nanny state, of a national government telling individual citizens and saying what is best for them and directing and pushing private sector individuals to -- to push people to consume things that they -- that they feel that it is, and it is unfortunate, but we are here. and so we have some issues to address. and i was here when we passed the health care law. all we passed was the senate version of a bill. we -- we -- obamacare that passed, the health care law, was a senate bill. that was a senate bill that we pas

mr. shimkus: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. chairman, this chamber has a lot of heroes. sam johnson is one of them, and i'm proud to have followed them and i salute them. i've been fortunate to do many things. i was an army officer in west germany, a high school student, a local official. now as a member of congress i'm honored to cast votes for people i represent. my constituents wants the president to follow the lawal as is his responsibility under article -- law as is his responsibility under article 2 of the constitution. the president did not submit necessary documents as required under law. i and my constituents want to know what's in these side agreements. when we're going down this path of peace and war to trust the iaea with no documents, not being able to see that. our primary responsibility here is to protect our citizens against all enemies, foreign and domestic. this deal gives iran more money . they will remain the number one state sponsor of terror. they will continue to chant "death to america" and "death to israel." they will not free our citizens, so no

mr. shimkus from illinois and mr. jones from north carolina. so as not to risk matching the jaws of victory, i will be brief. i would like to say this was my idea but this represents taking care of business that has been knocking around for more than a decade or more. we are not moving the frontier into national forests but to dispose of those lands that have become not attached to the national forests and have no management for land use characteristics with with respect to the managing of the national forests. so therefore, the other thing i want to point out is, it will allow them the ability to dispose of well into six figures worth of acres potentially in the next few years, as opposed to last year. the resources generated by this will stay with the forest service for use under their various charges as opposed to disappearing into that sometimes black hole in space sometimes referred to as the united states treasury. i urge nationwide bipartisan support and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his