mr. wittman: mr. speaker, the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. mr. walz: i'd like to thank my co-chair of the congressional sportsman's caucus, the gentleman from virginia, and congratulate the republican team for strong showing this year. you certainly raised the bar for next year. but this event just highlights the work, the largest bipartisan caucus in congress, that we collaboratively work together to protect this nation's hunting, fishing and outdoor heritage. i'm proud of the members who come out there, they give to the great cause of this, and we continue that heritage. so, again, i congratulate the republicans for some fine shooting, look forward to next year and the work we do together. with that, i yield back. mr. wittman: mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, five-minute voting will continue. the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from oregon, mr. walden, to suspend the rules and pa

mr. wittman? >> no. >> mr. lamborn? >> i'm sorry. mr. gozart votes no. >> yes. mr. wittman votes no. >> votes no. >> mr. lamborn? >> no. >> mr. lamborn votes no. >> is that everybody? clerk will report. and actually, after this, we've got to do this? this is technical. mr. chairman, on this vote, the yay 29 and the nay 10. >> the bill is approved as amended. and the ordered -- favorably reported. slate on the table. if you guys want to go vote i have to do some other crap here. you might as well leave. minority? wait, wait. i don't have time for that. don't -- just go vote. minority has a motion. >> i here by reserve the right of the minority for views and order measured by the committee. >> please vote quietly. go away quietly. staff be allowed to -- so ordered. i ask consent the staff be allowed to make conforming changes and reported today hearing no objections so ordered. hearing nothing. i also ask consent for any bill ordered rorted today the bill reported with an amendment to strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the clause and adopted in the com

mr. wittman: i would like to eserve a point of order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the reading is dispensed with. pursuant to the rule the gentleman from california is recognized for five minutes in support of his motion. mr. peters: my amendment expresses something scientists know to be true and something recognized everywhere in the world that climate change is real and influenced by human activity. we need congress to get on board with the response and not stand in the way. that's important for three reasons. first, we are to lower the rate the impact of greenhouse gas emissions, we need federal action. it is from burning fossil fuels which raises levels of co-2, methane is many times more potent than co-2 and the significant driver of climate change. greenhouse gas emissions affects food supplies, wildfire preparedness and our quality of life. that's why just last month the united states signed the paris climate agreement to reduce emissions by 26% by 2025. as a country that contributes 17% of the world's greenhouse ga

mr. wittman. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. wittman: i thank the chairman and the ranking member for all of their efforts and chairman thornberry, over the past few months, you have highlighted the challenges and budget choices we are facing and the reality is that these zigs we make here will affect the strength of our national security for years to come. the american people are concerned and why shouldn't they be. the readiness obstacles force our military leaders choose between training and supporting our men and women who are already fighting on the front lines. we have heard media reports that aircraft mechanics have attempted to strip parts from museum pieces to keep our fighters and bombers flying. we have heard testimony from each of our service branches about how critical it us for us to address the military readiness shortfalls. today we are called to address these maintenance and readiness issues. that is our constitutional duty. i believe that this bill will move us towards that end goal of restoring spectrum readine

mr. wittman. >> mr. chairman, i would like to you to the gentleman from louisiana, dr.fleming. >> though, i get to tell you the hard-working people in louisiana, we're going to some difficult times. we are happy to close at $2 billion budget gap, annual gap. by law and the constitution. we have to actually balance our budget every year. we are not allowed to go out and borrow money which is exactly puerto rico does. all this amendment does is it correctly defines what raven and resources are. and currently a territory is considering borrow the money, the money that people get let in good faith to this territory are going to lose much of the principle, in many cases widows and retirees. all it says is, let's be honest about what a balanced budget but it does. the state of louisiana and the hard-working people that represent know what a balanced budget is, and they know they have to go through the tough times right now to make that happen. increased taxes, cuts to services. so what we're saying here is, well, we're going to put this oversight board in place, but puerto ri

mr. wittman. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. wittman: i want to reiterate the importance of funding defense at the president's request. f.y. .-2017 request the 2017 request is minimally adequate and we're taking high risk as an army and as a nation when the army is funded at this level. there's still risk there with this level of funding. as the chairman pointed out, we live in a more dangerous world today but we see our marine corps, our air force, having to go to aircraft that are museum exhibits to cannibalize parts to bring them in to have a minimally operational cadre of aircraft. we see too when we talk about only nine of the 20 b-1 bombers are available today because they are lacking parts. when we have 30% or less of our marine corps helicopters available because they are lacking parts. we see in a squadron of 14 jets, only three are available because they're lacking parts. it's irresponsible not to provide to the brave men and women who serve this nation the things they need. we ask them to go into harm's way, we're aski

mr. wittman. >> i would like to recognize the gentleman from louisiana dr. fleming. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding. again, the word respect is a weasel word here. it has no meaning. simply put if you don't have the requirement to comply with those priorities then the general obligation bond holders have no priority whatsoever. they could slide to the bottom and pensioners slide to the top. something all of us have a concern here that there would in fact be no meaning to a general obligation bond holders which is full faith and credit. so for that reason this bill this law should require that those priorities be fully put in place and complied with rather than at the last minute through some shell game be moved about. just like we saw in the general motors situation where priorities were turned upside down against law. i yield back. >> mr. chairman i yield back. >> is there further discussion? >> look, i'm going to weigh in with one word. because, to be honest, i don't know what to do on this one. originally i said this was can you believe. i'm now bei

mr. rafael: others like wittman's -- justice breyer: the closest you can come is the case of a lobbyist who is complaining about his reputation. mr. rafael: he was a state senator. justice breyer: is there anything better -- mr. rafael: the government argued in that case damage to reputation -- candidacy isn't enough because it depends on the actions of voters and third parties. not one justice dissented from the holding in niece that injury to candidacy was an adequate -- article 1, 3 injury. and clapper referred to standing for the proposition of impairment of political career. we read that case. looked at what the government say. we think it gives them standing. are we happy about it? no. we don't want intermeddlers to prolong litigation. but they -- we think they do have standing. justice breyer: do you think it's care to characterize forbes as -- mr. rafael: i couldn't mean to disparage him. chief justice roberts: his political career for 16 years. hank you, counsel. >> mr. jeff tusstiss, may it please the court. the state of virginia has twice decided not to appeal deet significance b

wittman. aguilar, 007 by mr. modifying a report by cyber training. amendment 032, modifying a report from the national bureau, requirements for domestic response. r1 by mr. jones, development of nuclear reaction television -- technology. directing a pre-fun the special operations forces education. to designate an official with responsibility for directed energy weapons. r1 by ms. sunk us, making permanent and authority for research and development funds -- by ms. tsongas, making permanent and authority for research and development funds. by ms. spear, directing a brief on data rewards data collection. directing a brief on software license inventories. chair thornberry: is there further discussion of the en bloc package? >> thank you, mr. chairman. support ofpeak in the package. it designates a single serving for energy weapons. it is increasingly becoming more of a part of our national capabilities. cost benefitgh potential and many applications across multiple domains. this amendment will get this critical technology out of the lab and into the fiel