ms. speier votes aye. mr. runyon votes aye. mr. scott votes aye. mr. griffin votes aye. mr. palazzo votes no. mr. west votes no. mrs. roby votes aye. mr. brooks? mr. brooks votes aye. mr. young votes no. oh, mr. jones. mr. brady is recorded as no. >> aye. >> mr. brady votes aye. >> and ms. davis? >> ms. davis votes aye. mr. mcintyre votes aye. >> mr. chairman, i would like to change my vote to an aye. >> ms. sanchez votes aye. >> let's not change anymore until we find out the results. >> mr. rogers votes aye. anyone else wish to change. the clerk will report the tally. start over? >> at ayes are 41, the nos are 20. >> anybody else want to change? >> i ask that be i recorded as aye on the garamendi amendment. >> now on the amendment offered by mr. smith and shall now resume on the amendment offered by mr. smith. the clerk will call the role. >> mr. mckeon, no. mr. smith? >> mr. smith votes aye. mr. reyes swreets aye. mr. thornberry votes no. mrs. sanchez votes aye. mr. jones? mr. jones, mr. mcintyre. m

ms. speier votes no. mr. runyan votes no. mr. scott votes no. mr. griffin votes aye. mr. palazzo votes aye. mr. west votes aye. mrs. roby votes aye. mr. brooks votes aye. mr. young votes aye. mr. jones. mr. jones? >> how is mr. shuster recorded? >> mr. shuster is recorded as aye. mr. shuster votes no. >> clerk will record the tally. >> mr. chairman, the nos are 36, the ayes are 25. >>> and the amendment is not agreed to. >> if there are no further amendments, the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. thornberry for the purpose of adopting a motion. >> i look to adopt the full committee provisions as amended. >> the question is on the motion from the gentleman from texas. if you're in favor, say aye. those opposed no. >> no. the quorum being present, the ayes have it and the motion is agreed to. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. thornberry, the vice president of the house for the purpose of a motion. >> i move that the committee approve hr-410 favorfulliabliabo the house with the recommendation that it do pass. the question is on the motion of

ms. speier: hopefully it will be sooner than later. mr. garamendi: thank you so much. ms. speier: i think at this point we have covered all the issues we wanted to cover during this special order tonight and i wanted to leave my colleagues with this message. again, this was quoted in "usa today," stigroup analysts declared, energy independence in the united states is not a pipe dream. the u.s. is already the world's fastest-growing oil and natural gas producer, countying the output, north america is the new middle east. we have a lot of new things happening in the oil and gas industry. and with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 5, 2011, the gentleman from illinois, mr. hultgren is recognized as the designee of the majrt leader. mr. hultgren: thank you mr. speaker. mr. speaker, while, it is with mixed feelings that i come to this body tonight and many of my colleagues will join me to remember someone who had had a huge impact, not only on this city and this nation, but on our world, a gentleman who had a very persona

ms. speier: thank you, mr. speaker. our nation is great because in times of trial, when we do the wrong thing, we will come back and do the right thing. what this amendment does is attempt to address a wrong that we did many years ago and right that wrong by restoring a promise that we made to filipinos that fought side-by-side with us in world war ii. we promised them in no uncertain terms that they would enjoy the same veterans' benefits that others reseaved for putting their lives at risk. more than 200,000 filipinos fought in defense of the united states in the pacific theater against the japanese in world war ii and more than half of them were killed. as citizens of a commonwealth of the united states and before -- before and during the war, filipinos were legally american nationals and they were promised the same benefits afforded to those serving in the united states armed forces. but in 1946, congress passed the rescission act a law that stripped filipinos of the benefits promised to them by president franklin d

ms. speier has been amendment. while the clerk please distribute the amendment?ithout objection come everything that the amendment will be dispensed with. the chair now recognizes the gentlelady from california to offer and explain her amendment. >> mr. chairman, thank you erato offered with job, but i do think is worth two minutes of our time to talk about service contractors, which is the largest area of cost growth for the department of defense. the american society of military controllers on the contractors for services have increased 187% while the cost for civilians have only increased the percent during that time. 2001 until 2010. reducing cost requires having better data to be able to assess the real cost of contractors. this amendment requires to collect more information on labor hours and costs. improving cost assessments are already showing significant potential for savings. the army has found collecting and using this data resulted in savings of 16% to 30% improved cost analysis help you rediscover that outsourcing operations research analyst position

ms. speier: i thank the ranking member for yielding and the chair for his leadership as well. as has been mentioned this bill is important in our efforts to make sure that mass transit is under the umbrella for the sharing of information. let us not forget that in 2004, al qaeda detonated multiple explosives in rush hour on a packed commuter train in madrid, spain, killing 900 people. a little more than a year ago, a group linged to al qaeda killed more than 50 people on the london underground. we have not experienced mass transit attacks. in september of 2009, someone was arrested in new york city for plotting to blow up new york city's subway and a man was arrested in 2010 who was plotting attack here in washington, d.c. he was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison. recently we learned from dumonts taken from the commound of osama bin laden following the successful navy seal raid that al qaeda was plotting to attack u.s. mass transit systems to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11. millions of americans travel each day on mass transit to work but these systems, such as