mr. walden votes no. mr. terry votes no. mr. rogers votes no. mr. mi rick votes no. mr. sullivan votes no. mr. murphy votes no. mr. burgess votes no. mrs. blackburn votes no. mr. bill brick e bray votes no. mr. bass votes no. mr. gingry votes no. mr. skalis votes no. mr. lada votes no. mr. mcmorris rogers votes no. mr. harper votes no. mr. lance. mr. lance votes no. mr. cassidy votes no. mr. guthrie votes no. mr. ool r ol von votes no. mr. mckinley votes no. mr. gardener votes no. mr. mom peo votes no. mr. kin singer votes no. mr. griffith votes no. mr. waxman votes aye. mr. dingle votes aye. mr. marky votes aye. mr. towns votes aye. mr. paloan votes aye. mr. rush votes aye. mrs. aschew votes aye. mr. engle votes aye. mr. green votes aye. ms. duget votes aye. mrs. caps votes aye. mr. doyle votes aye. ms. aye. mr. votes aye. ms. baldwin. mr. ross. mr. ross votes no. mr. mathisson votes no. mr. butterfield votes aye. mr. barrow votes no. mrs. christianson votesaye. ms. castor votes chairman upton. no. >> others wishing to cast a vote? seeing none, the clerk will report the

mr. walden: yeah, i'll yield to you. mr. pascrell: we could level the sail criticisms about bailing out the auto industry. some banks took advantage of it, some did not. mr. walden: reclaiming my time. i don't disagree with that, i don't support those, but i wanted to make sure the economy didn't collapse. we did face some problems. the interesting thing is my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are the ones who voted against the long-term payroll tax reduction that republicans put forward, who voted against the one-year extension of unemployment, the one-year extension of unemployment, and the two-year doc fix. just a minute. i've got a couple of other things i'm going to share with you first. that's what the house passed, right? so what we got back from the senate was the two-month short-term that we're all upset about. i agree with you. having been a small business owner, a couple of things bad about that two-month extension which in the end we tweaked and fix, one is just doing the payroll. trying to get the formul

mr. walden: will the gentleman yield? mr. rothman: the republicans wanted to privatize social security and the american people knows it. i will not yield. the republicans just voted last year to end medicare, so the american people are not fooled about what's -- who's side the -- whose side the republican are on. the democrats are for working people, for american hilled class, for seniors, for veterans, for labor. so the republicans say, mr. speaker, that they want 160 million americans to have their payroll taxes go up. they want 50 million senior citizens in americans to be thritened with the loss of -- threatened with the loss of health care because they want to deny the doctors who treat those seniors and they want to cut benefits which puts food on the table for tens of millions of americans who have looking for work because the republicans don't want to share the sacrifice. they want to cut spending on the backs of the middle class working americans and seniors. they voted to private sise social security. they voted to

mr. walden. mr. walden votes no. mr. terry. mr. terry votes no. mr. rogers. mr. rogers votes no. mrs. mi rick. mrs. mi rick votes no. mr. sullivan. mr. sullivan votes no. mr. murphy. mr. burgess. mr. burgess votes no. mrs. blackburn. mr. bill gray. mr. bill gray votes no. mr. bass. mr. bass votes no. mr. gingry. mr. ska lis. mr. ska lis votes no. mr. lata votes no. mrs. mcmorris rogers. mrs. mcmorris rogers votes no. mr. harper. mr. harper votes no. mr. lance. mr. lance votes no. mr. cassidy. mr. cassidy votes no. mr. guthrie. mr. guthrie votes no. mr. oleson. mr. oleson votes no. mr. mckinley. mr. mckinley votes no. mr. gardener. mr. gardener votes no. mr. pock peo votes no. mr. kin singer. mr. kin singer votes no. mr. griffith. mr. griffith votes no. mr. waxman. mr. waxman votes aye. mr. dingle. mr. dingle votes no. mr. marky. mr. marky votes aye. mr. towns. mr. towns votes aye. mr. paloan? >> mr. paloan votes aye. mr. rush votes aye. mr. engle votes aye. >> mr. green votes no. mr. duget votes no. mr. caps votes aye. mr. doyle. mr. doyle votes no. mr. shekowsky votes aye. mr. congal

mr. walden? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i just want to remind us that we're here to find a long-term solution. the house republicans and the house were here for a one-year extension of the payroll tax cut, for working americans. a two-year fix so that senior s could have access to their doctors and a one-year extension to help people through that phase. we offered that up. the senate came back with a two-month proposal, which we ultimately agreed to, because we could never have a meeting like this, because we could never get conferrees prior to christmas in the senate. as we look at these things, we tried to find offsets and pay-fors where we thought there was some level of common ground. this is a bipartisan offset. every democrat on the conference committee is voted to increase the maximum amount of exchange subsidy overpayments that need to be repaid. every member. hhs secretary sebelius described this offset as it was used as making it fairer for all taxpayers. the democrats' health care law fails to adequately protect

mr. walden, for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i wanted to follow up on something that my colleague from nebraska, mr. terry, had raised. regarding putting things on the website. and it's my understanding that you're an advocate for the policy and trying to open up our process, make it more transparent to the public, because that's who we both work at the end of the day. my understanding is that there are situations where groups file suit against your agency. and literally on the same day there are settlements entered into by your agency within those groups. i guess what we're trying to get here at is trying to make sure that the public has an awareness of that sort of litigation. and so when it's filed against your agency, are you willing to notice that on your website in a very timely manner? this would be the notice of intent to sue. so you get a notice of intent to sue. >> yes, sir. >> so when you get those, is there a way you could just put those up on the website? so that the american taxpayers would know. would that be a ha

mr. walden. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized for two minutes. mr. walden: thank you, madam speaker. thank you, mr. camp. i want to thank my colleague from michigan for his extraordinary leadership in pulling the house and senate together as chairman of our conference. one of the key elements of this piece of legislation is freeing up enormous swath of spectrum for use in the -- to grow jobs in technology and innovation, generate $15 billion to the treasury to help pay for some of the things that are being discussed today to extend the middle class tax cut, to provide unemployment for those who are seeking work, and in the process here there are estimates of building up the 4-g network which will take spectrum like that that will be made available here could generate between 300,000 and 700,000 american jobs and unleash technology and innovation in america. in addition to doing that, the republican house in concert with our colleagues across the aisle and chambers have come together to finally take care of you are public safety officials who on that t

mr. walden. at this time i recognize the gentleman from illinois, mr. rush, for five minutes. >> i want to thank you, mr. chairman, for holding this important hearing. the minority side requested in order to hear from some of the important take holders who were not invited to participate in last week's hearing and to shed light onto some of the ramifications of the legislation before us, h.r. 3548. mr. chairman, this bill is simply another bite at the apple in the majority's attempt to back door the obama administration and green light a project that has not yet been fully vetted. what would amount to being an application of the federal government's oversight responsibilities. in fact, why don't we call this bill for what it really is? instead of the north american energy assets act, this bill should be renamed the republican s in congress -- [inaudible] through transcanada act. this bill does not make sense legally or technically because it shifts the responsibility for approval of the cross-border pipeline from the state department to ferc, an agency

mr. walden. give us a sense. before we do that. how are you doing?etter now, thank you. i was in shock like most of the world. now i want to celebrate her life and to pass on the love for her music and the love for her and help us all heal about all of this. >> and so let's go back to the beginning. you know as they call her nippy. she is a young kid. she has this talent. she puts out these albums and it was a rocket ride to the top. >> that's correct. she has all the talent in the world and all the good looks to go with it. the big push from clive davis and the company behind her and all the crate producers. an absolute wonderful time in life. >> did you guys become close and if so did you remain close through the years? what was your relationship like? >> i remained close with her all through her life. i was very happy to be there from the beginning. >> what was it like seven or eight number ones on that first album? >> i'm not exactly sure of the number. >> amazing. so tell me about your relationship because we saw the public part of her. we saw h

mr. walden. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized. mr. walden: thank you, mr. speaker. let me make a couple of points about this motion to instruct which i oppose. section 2123 which is the issue here allows up to 10 states per year to apply for waivers to test innovative ideas to help people get a job, to help people get back to work. so it's only up to 10 states and waiver programs would have to be cost-neutral, rigorously evaluated and then we could understand the policies. look, i think the folks at home in my great state of oregon are just as compassionate if not more so than what happens here in washington. i think they can be creative, too, in helping and in fact in 2011 oregon launched its version under a waiver of the national career readiness certificate program. now what that did was certify 10,000 -- 10,760 work-ready individuals in the state that they have the appropriate math, reading and other skills necessary to get back and contribute to the work force. now that hiring tool brought nearly 400 businesses, communities and wo

mr. walden. mr. walden: thank you very much. mr. speaker, on behalf of the entire republican delegation from oregon, i extend a very warm welcome to the newest representative from the beaver state, suzanne bonamici. she cuts a similar path to the people's house as the one i traveled, having served in salem as a state representative and a state senator and as my colleague from eugene points out is a fellow duck. having also earned a journalism degree as i did from the university of oregon. she joins a congressional delegation that has a long history of embracing what we call the oregon way. to set aside our differences and pursue solutions to take care of the state's most pressing priorities. from congressman defazio and schrader and blumenauer to senators widen and americaly who are on the floor today, we have mounted a number of bipartisan efforts in the congress. so we are delighted to have you as part of this team. i can speak for the entire gellgation in saying we look forward to working with you and continuing on in the great s

mr. walden: thank you, madam speaker. thank you,r. camp. i want to thank my colleague from michigan for his extraordinary leadership in pullinthe house and senate together as chairman of our conference. one of the key elements of this piece of legislation is freeing up enormous swath of spectrum for use in the -- to grow jobs in technology and innovation, generate $15 billion to the treasury to help pay for some of the things that are being discussed today to extend the middle class tax cut, to provide unemployment for those who are seeking work, and in the process here there are estimates of building up the 4-g network which will take spectrum like thathat will be made ailable here could generate between 300,000 and 700,000 amecan jobs and unleash technology and innovation in america. in addition to doing that, the republican house in concert with our colleagues across the aisle and chambers have come together to finally take care of you are public safety officials who on that terrible day in september of 2011 discovered their devices did

mr. walden. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized for two minutes. mr. walden: thank you, madam speaker. thank you, mr. camp. i want to thank my colleague from michigan for his extraordinary leadership in pulling the house and senate together as chairman of our conference. one of the key elements of this piece of legislation is freeing up enormous swath of spectrum for use in the -- to grow jobs in technology and innovation, generate $15 billion to the treasury to help pay for some of the things that are being discussed today to extend the middle class tax cut, to provide unemployment for those who are seeking work, and in the process here there are estimates of building up the 4-g network which will take spectrum like that that will be made available here could generate between 300,000 and 700,000 american jobs and unleash technology and innovation in america. in addition to doing that, the republican house in concert with our colleagues across the aisle and chambers have come together to finally take care of you are public safety officials who on that t

mr. walden has just pointed out, to have to go through bureaucratic red tape that this project has gone through for the reasons it has been subjected to it does not seem to make good sense in any way. i look forward to hearing. there's another hearing downstairs on the chemical facilities act, so i will be shuttling back and forth. i do appreciate you holding the hearing. i appreciate being allowed to speak. i would like to yield the balance of my time to mr. kerrey from nebraska. mr. terry -- mr. kerrey from nebraska. >> the state department issued three statements over the summer that they would have all the information and were doing due diligence to have a decision made by the end of 2011. we took them at their word. it turned out not to be true. one of the key point missed in the state department testimony is that they are using nebraska as the excuse to deny a permit. the reality is in the legislation the president signed exempting nebraska, this was going forward on the other parts of the pipeline in the other states. there was a trigger the would review the nebraska portion -- that woul

walden? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i appreciate the discussion and the senate's openness to provide us with an offer. i think that's very good faith and we look forward to receiving it. i think it's important to remind people that the house did approve a full one-year extension of unemployment. the house did approve a full one-year extension of the middle class payroll tax cut. and a two-year fix of the physician payment schedule so that seniors could have access to their doctors. that is what went to the senate. what came back was the two month proposal that has us together here as a 20-member family trying to work out how we go forward. on the issue of helping, people on unemployment have a better chance of getting a job. that's how i look at this and the reforms that the house passed. having been a small business owner since 1986, in my little company we didn't do drug screening or testing, i know in talking to bigger employers they do. if you can't pass a drug screening when you go to get a job, something's wrong.

mr. clinton, we appreciate your testimony. next our final witness is phyllis schneck, executive of mcaffry. we look forward to your comments. >> good morning chairman walden and other members of the sub committ committee. thank you for your interest in cyber security. my testimony will focus on four areas. the communications unique role in cyber security, policy recommendations to enable greater cross sector cyber reexhilararezi reexhilarare -- may father is one of the first in super computing in the country. and taught me how to write code and i know how to exploit code but i am passionate about protecting that. outside of our company, i ran the fbi program and grew the program from 2000 to 33,000 and today chair the national board of -- has companies with the fbi under the same roof and other organizes in government. a bit about my country, we are based in santa clara, we protect businesses and individuals and government all over the world from security attacks. we enjoy driving the innovation that goes directly to the hardware, the buck stops at the hardware, the attackers can get in several ways but when a hardware knows when to not follow a attack di