ms. ros-lehtinen, aye ms. slausestsh slaughter, no. mr. mcgovern, no. mr. hastings, no. mr. chairman? aye? >> nine yeas, four nays. >> the item is agreed to. i will be walking this downstairs. i'm going to walk down right now. >> mr. -- >> i assume it will take some period of time >> mr. chairman, could i just have one second. . it has nothing to do with today's activities but all the members should have got a dear colleague letter that we're going to be holding hearings here with regards to the rules of the neck house as we sit down for the 114th congress. so we're going to want input from all -- both sides of the sle, open to the sbifere body. that dear colleague letter should have been sent out and we expect to do something in september. >> thank you very much. we'll see you down stirs. excuse me? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i believe georgia tech is the finest engineering institution in america. >> i didn't hear him. >> we couldn't understand you there. >> i said i believe that georgia tech is the finest engineering institution in america. not m.i.t. >> i object! [laughter] [capti

ms. slotkin, you spoke about that, and chairman ros-lehtinen and i were there recently, and we appreciate that. i would like to talk about our regional partners in the gulf. the question is -- who is concerned? what are they doing about it? and who is concerned, but is not helping or maybe even making more things difficult? >> i can just say the conversation has shifted over the last 18 months from -- there used to be a conversation when you would talk about this rise of extreme virulent al qaeda-type groups that in a second. i think is the conversation is obviously these things would have to be done in parallel. there's a renewed focus. secretary kerry when in iraq last month immediately went to paris and held a meeting with the former ministers of jordan, and then went on to riyadh. we found a really new emphasis, a new colessens in terms of how we have to go about this threat of isil. they took a small town that has an open highway to saudi arabia. that's obviously very significant development. so, the saudis are focused on this and certainly, certainly are the jordanians and work with