rogers and mrs. lowey for bringing this to the floor so quickly and decisively and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlelady from new york. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from florida, mr. hastings, a member of the rules committee and the ranking member of the helsinki commission. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. mr. hastings: thank you very much, mrs. lowey. i rise in very strong support of this legislation which is a beginning step in which i hope we will follow with all that we can to assist those ukrainians who are courageous and forward-leaning, to be about the business of determining their own fate. i had the good fortune of being the election monitor immediately after the orange revolution and i spent a lot of time talking to the people there. and what

mrs. lowey: madam speaker, i will reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. hastings: madam chairman, i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from missouri, another member of the natural resources committee, mr. smith. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. smith: madam chairwoman, i'm proud to stand here with my colleagues today in support of h.r. 31 9, the water right pross text act. with the drought going on in california and the federal government strong arming private property owners into giving up their water rights, i'm afraid that some of my colleagues may think that the federal confiscation and mismanagement of water resources only affects the west. but let me tell you, this issue of the federal government intruding on private property and water rights is not just limited to the west. in my district, in southeast missouri, time and time again, ill thought federal policy has threatened and will continue, unfortunately, to threaten privat

mr. hoyer and nita lowey. i ask the senate to act promptly and send it to the president for his signature. i expect the house to consider a resolution under suspension next week to express our support for the people of ukraine and their territory integrity. in addition, the house will consider a number of bills to address executive overreach of the department of administration. mr. speaker, these bills are designed to restore the balance of power created by our founders and require that this president faithfully execute our nation's laws. the house will consider the following bills to re-establish the rule of law, h.r. 3973, the faithful execution of law act, to require federal officials to report to congress whened a -- when the administration fails to faithfully enforce current law. h.r. 4138, the enforce act, sponsored by trey gowdy, to establish procedures under which the house or the senate may authorize a lawsuit against the executive branch for failure to faithfully execute laws. and the water rights pr

mr. chairman thank you. because the ranking member from the full committee is here i want to yield to nita lowey at this time mr. chairman. >> thank you very much in welcome and thank you mr. chairman mr. ranking member. we are trying to expedite the process so there are about three hearings at the same time. thank you for your consideration. as we all know as the chairman stressed stressed the fbi is in the midst of a sea change. for much of the 20 century the fbi was the world's best law enforcement agency. now with cyberattacks which we have been discussing becoming more frequent the local war on terrorism continues. the fbi is leading the charge in cybersecurity and counterterrorism. and i certainly wish you the best of luck and if the chairman and ranking member have made clear we really want to work with you because we know the challenge. we want to make sure that you have the tools, the resources and the staffing to ensure that the job is done. following up on this cyberissue cyber criminals including hackers for practicing to be finding vulnerabilities in cybersecurity faster than we can protect agai

mr. speaker, i want to thank the original co-sponsors of this resolution as well -- majority leader cantor, minority leader pelosi, majority chip mccarthy, minority whip hoyer, appropriations chairman rogers and ranking member lowey and the ranking member of the foreign affairs committee, eliot engel, with whom i worked particularly closely in trying to advance the values of vaclav havel and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. moran: mr. speaker, we want to thank mr. royce, the chairman of the foreign relations committee, for introducing this resolution and promoting the idea of having a bust of vaclav havel in the u.s. capitol. and we completely agree with his motivation and the words that he has shared with us today and with that we would yield back the balance of our time and we would urge unanimous support for this resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentlewoman from michigan is recognized. mrs. miller: mr. speaker, i would simply close by saying vaclav havel passed away on december 18, 2011, in the czech republic. he was 75 years old. what an incredible life this man led, and i