in the 1990's, throughout the darkness of the balkan war, ray sturge was a powerful, persistent, reasonable, and dynamic voice for peace, human -- for peace, human rights, the rule of law and accountability for genocide. ray is a good friend of mine and truly an inspiring man of god. madam speaker, i'd like to address another issue before the house today. five years ago, about five feet from where i'm standing right now, president obama told lawmakers and the american public at a specially called joint session of congress on health care reform that, quote, under our plan, he said, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortion. that was september 9, 2009. in an 11th hour ploy to garner support from a remnant of pro-life congressional democrats, absolutely needed for passage of obamacare the president issued an executive order on march 24, 2010, that said, and i quote, the act, the affordable care act, that is -- maintains current hyde amendment restrictions governing abortion policy and extends those restrictions to newly created health insurance exchanges. turns out, madam speaker, that