ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. speaker. i have a substitute amendment at the desk. caller: amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in pambings -- part b of house resolution 522 offered by the gentlewoman from florida, ms. ros-lehtinen. the speaker pro tempore: ms. ros-lehtinen and a member opposed will each control 10 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for as much time as she may consume. ms. ros-lehtinen: this was drafted by the members on appropriations, on armed services, on homeland security and in intelligence. in so doing this approach immolated to some degree the administration's interagency strategic review. the substitute recognizes that of all the foreign policy challenges facing the united states stabilizing and reforming pakistan may be one of the most daunting. given the enormous complexities and the ever-changing nature of the situation in pakistan, we believe that

ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. chairman. i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from south carolina, mr. inglis, a member of our foreign affairs committee. the chair: the gentleman from south carolina is recognized for three minutes. mr. inglis: i thank the gentleman for yielding. my colleagues, here is an exchange in the foreign affairs committee that was very instructive when it comes to abortion and this bill. our colleague, chris smith, the tireless advocate for the unborn, was asking questions of secretary clinton. secretary clinton said these words to our friend, chris smith. so we have a very fundamental disagreement, she said, and it is my strongly held view that you, chris smith, are entitled to advocate and everyone who agrees with you should be free to do so anywhere in the world and so are we. so who is the we? if that we means the federal government, the united states of america through its state department, the secretary of state speaking we, then there's a real concern about whether this would the

ros-lehtinen: mr. speaker, i'd like to yield an additional minute to the ranking member on the intelligence committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for one minute. mr. hoekstra: i thank my colleague for yielding. but i felt i needed to respond as my name was brought up from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. the r.o.z.'s in this rule process regardless of the underlying bill will be part of the final package that moves through. what happens with the democrat base bill here is they undercut many of the things and put in a lot of restrictions that as congressman van hollen and i tried to craft a bill together, we wanted to make sure there was enough freedom for these programs to be successful. and the important thing here is can -- you can vote for the substitute. the r.o.s.'s become part of the program -- r.o.z.'s become part of the program when the substitute passes after it replaces the underlying democrat amendment. i thank you -- i think i understand

ros-lehtinen: thank you. claiming time in opposition, madam chair. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you. i thank the gentleman from massachusetts for his helpful and constructive amendment and i rise in support of this amendment and i had the opportunity to travel to these areas with the gentleman a few years back. madam chair, the congress has recognized the debt owed to iraqi and afghans who work at great personal risk in support of our troops and responded by creating two special immigrant visas, s.i.v. programs. one, an s.i.v. program for iraqi and afghani translators and interpreters and, a second s.i.v. program for contractors and their families along with providing refugee resettlement benefits. hour, as of 2008 report by the state department inspector general stated, the current process resulted in applicants receiving s.i.v.'s who, one, did not meet the program's criteria of working primarily as an interpreter or translator or, two, in the o.i.g. team's opinion, appear

ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. speaker. we have an impressive line-up of speakers on our side. i'd like to start by yielding five minutes to the gentleman from indiana, mr. pence, the author of the bill, republican conference chair and an esteemed members. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. pence: i thank the gentlelady for yielding and i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. pence: i rise with a great sense of humility and a great sense of moment before this body but a great sense of gratitude. to the ranking member for her extraordinary leadership in bringing this resolution to the floor, a resolution which as the chairman of the committee just stated quite eloquently, will give the american people through their elected representatives clear opportunity on this day after a week of violence and tumult in the nation of iran the opportunity to express the support for all iranian citizens who embrace the princ

ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. berman: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. quoip the gentleman is recognized. mr. berman: i rise in opposition to the amendment. i share a lot of the ranking member's concerns fundamentally about the countries named in her amendment, and about the issue of proliferation. but there's sort of three different levels on which i think her amendment raises serious doubts and causes me to want to oppose it. the first is the assumption that withholding assessed contributions produces the actions we want. we have had test cases of this. wouldn't it have been great if the money we withheld from the u.n. population planning account had stopped coercive abortions in china? wouldn't it be great if the due assessed to pay to the united nations had resulted in the kinds of reforms that eliminated the questionable conduct that the minority rightfully points to? there is a real challenge to this assumption that the withholding is what achieves the goal. we can wish it a lot.

ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. speaker. before yielding to my good friend from texas, i'd like to note this is supposed to be a national security bill yet the majority tagged on a trade bill to it and under the bill attaches it to the state bill. i am now proud to yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. braidy the ranking member on the ways and means subcommittee on trade. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. brady: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in opposition with the last minute of the pakistan opportunities zone bill. while i commend congressman van hollen for his commitment to this very important legislation, i'm concerned the bill fails to encourage significant investment in the afghan and pakistan regions under the trade program. i say that as a person who thinks that trade can lift themselves up out of poverty. unfortunately, i believe this will discourage economic investment -- development investment because it includes some dangerous eligibility criteria th

ros-lehtinen: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to mr. burton, on the subcommittee on the middle east and south asia. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. burton: i want to thank the ranking member and i want to compliment her opening staff, you covered just about everything and did it well. i want to compliment your staff for working hard on it. i'm perplexed by this bill. there is some language in there i like. for instance, the commitment to israel giving them support for their missile defense system. i think that's a positive. but there's so many negatives in this bill that it's going to make it very difficult for those who would like to support it to not be table. let me give you a couple of examples. the ranking member just mentioned that. north korea should be called a terrorist state. they're launching missiles and stretening the security of the entire region as well as giving nuclear technology to other countries. in addition to that, there's money in here, our tax dollars, that are going to defend mr. sav

roy blunt, and our ranking member, ileana ros-lehtinen. the amendment also updates language currently in the bill welcoming the end of sri lanka's 26-year war between the government and the liberation tigers of at that meal -- of tamil. these are provisions pushed particularly by the gentleman from new york, mr. mchew hon, a member of the committee. the united states standing with the international community eagerly looks forward to the government of sri lanka's putting forward a timely and credible proposal to engage its tamil community and address the legitimate grievances of its tamil citizens so that peace and reconciliation can be achieved and sustained. it also includes two requests by republican members of the committee on foreign affairs and including an amendment by mr. wilson from south carolina who i agreed to work with during the markup at the committee. it also increases the amount of funds in the state department inspector general anti-national endowment for democracy. as suggested by the minority in their views on the bill.

ros-lehtinen: i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from new york. mr. meeks: i yield one minute to the the gentleman from georgia, mr. scott. mr. scott: first of all, i would like to commend mr. meeks, the gentleman from new york, for his long service in this area of bringing attention to bringing equality to the cultures of central america, south america and latin america. he is to be commended. madam speaker, the united states and brazil are strong partners with a common history and ancestry that unfortunately includes experiences of slavery, racism and discrimination against citizens of african heritage. still the united states and brazil under the joint action plan are looking to learn from each other's experiences in order to combat racism and promote equality and education, culture, health and sports. madam speaker, because combating racism and discrimination requires constant dill gans, i support the gentleman's amendment which would move towards that end. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from new york. mr. meeks: how

ros-lehtinen will each control 30 minutes. the house will be in order.the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. mr. berman: mr. chairman, the united states now confronts the most complex array of threats in many decades, if not the entire history of our nation. afghanistan and pakistan, iran, north korea, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, drug trafficking and climate change all pose major challenges to our national security. we must confront these threats in the midst of a global financial crisis with enormous ramifications both at home and around the world. our brave men and women in uniform are making unbelievable sacrifices to protect our security interests around the globe. they and their families deserve our deepest respect and gratitude. we should not expect the military to shoulder the entire burden. the state department and our other civilian foreign affairs agencies have a critical role to play in protecting u.s. national security. diplomacy development and -- diplomacy, development, and defense are the three key pillars of our nationa

ros-lehtinen: mr. chairman, i rise in opposition to the amendment although i do not oppose the substance of the amendment. the chair: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. chairman. the amendment by the gentleman from new york, mr. bishop, requires a g.a.o. report on the effects that waivers of the buy america act for the purchase of h.i.v. test kits under the president's emergency plan for aids relief, pepfar, have had on american manufacturers. pepfar, as we know, is one of the largest and most successful foreign assistance programs of our country. and it was re-authorized just last year for an astounding $48 billion over the next five years. expanding access for testing is a vital and core component of pepfar, both in terms of prevention and treatment. and in some cases the purchase of test kits manufactured outside of the outside has been deemed a more cost-effective and efficient means by which to expand testing and access to testing. still some have ex

ros-lehtinen: thank you, madam chair. the congress put the force of law behind its condemn nation of the use of child soldiers through the child soldiers prevention act authored by my good friend from nebraska, mr. fortenberry. this was incorporated into the william which will berforce trafficking victims protection reauthorization act and became public law in december, 2008. we further opined on this matter in the child soldiers accountability act of 2008 which became law in october of last year. however, a sense of congress reaffirming that the use of child soldiers is unacceptable must be supported. i applaud my good friend from texas for bringing this important issue to our attention. again, it is right and just to do so. i encourage our colleagues to support this amendment. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlelady from texas. ms. johnson: i have no requests for time. i yield back the balance of my time. mr. berman: will the gentleman yield? ms. johnson: yes. mr. berman: i just want to express my

ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. speaker. at this time i'm pleased to yield five minutes to the gentleman from indiana, mr. burton, the ranking member on the subcommittee on middle east and south asia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from yun is recognized for five minutes. mr. burton: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: proid. mr. burton: -- without objection. mr. burton: first of all, let me congratulate our chairman on crafting a bill that in large part is very good. it increases the aid to pakistan by triple in some areas. and i think it's very positive. it deals with economic and humanitarian assistance that will help pakistan build schools, roads, hospitals, and help pakistan's economic infrastructure and all that's good. and i know that the president and the administration supports that as well. unfortunately, here comes the but part, unfortunately the chairman and our democratic colleagues decided to load this bill up with ill-conceived provisions to micromanage u.s

ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to yield five minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. conaway, who's district covers -- whose district covers sweet water, texas, which is home to the wasp. this is where they train and where their museum is. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for five minutes. mr. conaway: thank you, mr. speaker, and i thank the gentlelady forgiving me some time to speak. it's my great pleasure to rise it to recognize the invaluable service by the women's air force service pilots during world war ii. their history is one of many surprising and impressive stories that helped define a generation. the early 1940's, as it became apparent that the united states could not avoid the wars that plaguing europe and the far east, many accomplished pilots volunteered their services to our country. they were thanked for their offer but refused because they were women. their argument that women -- female pilots could free up male pilots to serve in combat roles was initially

ros-lehtinen: thank you. mr. speaker, as the house sponsor of this legislation, i rise in strong support of senate bill 614, a bill to award the congressional gold medal to the women air force service pilots of world war ii. wasp. here is a picture, mr. speaker, of the wasp, one of the many pictures, but as the previous speaker pointed out, not enough recognition was paid to them. special thanks for this bill go to financial service chairman, barney frank, and ranking member spencer bachus. and their staff as well. for their assistance in bringing this legislation to the floor today. i would also like to thank my staff, mr. speaker, particularly captain deana, united states marine corps, who is serving as a defense fellow in my office for the remainder of the year. her efforts were instrumental in achieving the required number of co-sponsors for this bill in record time. and sarah sitting next to her worked so hard on all of our office projects. thanks to all the great staff work on this bill. mr. speaker, as has

berman introduced earlier this year, along with congresswoman ros-lehtinen. this bill would impose badly needed sanctions on iran. we feel that this bill is the right way to proceed and should be acted on immediately. the legislation currently has 155 co-sponsors, with wide bipartisan support. this legislation would mandate the state department to open immediate investigations into alleged violations of the iran sanctions act. this legislation would implement sanctions on companies who do business with iran. this legislation implements sanctions on those who supply refined fuels to iran. and this legislation expands sanctions on iranian exported petroleum -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the house will be in order. the gentleman from indiana deserves to be heard. the house will be in order. the gentleman from indiana. mr. burton: mr. speaker, this legislation expands sanctions on iranian exported petroleum and petroleum byproducts as well as those who help facilitate its export. iran can only threaten us and the world because of the for

ros-lehtinen: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: i want to thank the distinguished chairman of the foreign affairs committee, mr. berman, for working with us in a bipartisan manner, reaching out to our side to bring this timely resolution to the floor. i especially want to thank our republican conference chair and a great member of our foreign affairs committee, mr. pence, who authored this legislation and i rise in strong support of the fundamental, universal human rights and civil liberties to which the iranian people are entitled. for 30 years, these rights and freedoms have been thenied again and again by an -- denied again and again by an oppressive iranian regime which uses a sham process with candidates hand-picked by the ruling apparatus. there has been no election in iran for decades. the candidates and winners were picked in advance by the regime. real reform, real democracy were never an option. this repressive regime relies on so-called elections t

ros-lehtinen, for their leadership and their support in bringing this bill before the floor. i ask my colleagues to join me in supporting this resolution and offering president lee our best wishes for a pleasant visit to washington and successful summit with president obama sometime this week. with that, mr. speaker, unless my good friend wishes to yield first. mr. bilirakis: i'd like to close if that's ok. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. the gentleman from florida. mr. bilirakis: once again i want to thank my good friend, peter king, the ranking member on the homeland security committee, for introducing this very important resolution, very timely as well. and i urge quick and unanimous passage. i yield back the balance of my time. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from american samoa. mr. faleomavaega: i also yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and agree to house r

ros-lehtinen, two minutes. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized for two minutes. ms. ros-lehtinen: i thank the chairman and thank you so much, the gentleman from california. i rise in strong opposition to the amendment on afghanistan offered by the gentleman from massachusetts, my friend, mr. mcgovern. in late march of this year, the president announced his comprehensive outline for afghanistan and pakistan. highlighting the threat to critical u.s. security interests that would arise should al qaeda and the taliban reclaim or establish safe havens in those countries. the president clearly outlined our goals. to disrupt, to dismantle, and to defeat al qaeda. i agree with him on those goals. but success requires a sustained commitment and sustained support for both the mission and tra

substitute printed in part b of the report of the committee on rules if offered by representative ros-lehtinen of florida or her designee which shall be in order without intervention of any point of order except those arising under clause 9 or 10 under rule 21. shall be considered as read, and shall be separately debatable for 30 minutes equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent. . and, three, one motion to recommit with or without instructions. section 2,at any time after the adoption of this resolution the speaker may, pursuant to clause 2-b of rule 18, declare the house resolved into the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration of the bill h.r. 2410, to authorize appropriations for the department of state and the peace corps for fiscal years 2010 and 2011, to modernize the foreign service, and for other purposes. the first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. all points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule 21. general debate shall be confined to the bill and shall

ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise to commend my good friend, rabbi solomon schiff, for the uplifting prayer that he delivered for all of us today as well as for his tireless effort to strengthen our religious communities in my home district of south florida. rabbi schiff serves as a director of chaplaincy emeritus. in this role rabbi schiff offers educational support and comfort to those in the jewish communities in the united states, in israel and indeed throughout theorld. i have long been aware of rabbi schiff's commitment and contributions to academia, to the jewish community and to the social welfare of all residence of south florida. his spirit of optimism and determination that rabbi schiff possesses can be seen in this week's torah portion. after returning from the land of israel, caleb reports to the jewish people that we should surely go up and inherit the land for we are certainly able. rabbi schiff's hard work on behalf of the jewish community has been tireless and always with contagious optimism. n

farr: thank you, chairman berman, and ranking member, ileana ros-lehtinen. i want to rise not on this amendment but to make a comment on the peace corps because i was just thinking as i was hearing about the amendment that had we fulfilled john f. kennedy's dream in the 1960's to have 100,000 peace corps volunteers serving overseas throughout the 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's this decade we might have avoided this disaster in sudan. i want to commend the committee because they have on the anniversary of the 50th anniversary of the peace corps which is 2011, we now have only 6,000 volunteers serving in 78 countries. and the price tag of that is less than weapons system. it's a drop in the bucket. $350 million for that incredible service that we are having from our country. what i want to commend the committee on and all of them is the strong support for strengthening u.s. diplomacy. with a consistent new vision for a global engagement. i think that's the global engagement that president obama has promised this country and is now seeing delivered. with th

ros-lehtinen, each will control 20 minutes. each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the >> mr. speaker, the streets of tehran have been filled with demonstrators, and each day this past week, the number seems to be growing. even state-run media in iran has put the number of demonstrators in tehran at hundreds of thousands. one british newspaper reports that there were a million demonstrators in tehran yesterday. what do these demonstrators want? are they simply in favor of the candidates

ros-lehtinen: i ask to claim time in opposition even though i do not oppose the amendment. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized. ms.s are lehtinen: with the fall of the taliban, afghan women came back from the brink but the gains made since 2001 have been fragile. we recognize that any prospect of better lives for the women of afghanistan and girls are inherently linked to the success of the development and reconstruction of their country. furthermore, we all desire greater levels of accountability, quality, and impact from foreign development assistance to afghanistan. all aimed at creating the enabling environment necessary to sustain women's development successes, their security, and their basic rights. mr. chairman, this amendment has that noble purpose. it would require the inspector general of the department of state, the department of defense, the united states agency for international development, and the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction to include the impact that u.s. development assistance has on the social, economic, and political empow

ros-lehtinen: yes. mr. berman: and then he'll have the time. ms. ros-lehtinen: so i'll give 30 seconds of my time and to any time to the gentleman from south carolina. mr. berman: one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has yielded one minute. so the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. >> i saw this morning that the supreme leader of iran said that street challenge is not acceptable. this is challenging democracy after the elections. well, we beg to differ. and the people of iran are begging to differ. when you can count paper ballots, millions of them within a couple of hours, something's funny. and when you declare the results of the election is fine but say they're going to be some investigations, what's the value of the investigation if you've already certified the election? so what we're begging to differ with the stream leader of iran is that it's not challenging democracy after elections, it's saying that the elections were rigged. and rigged elections don't produce outcomes that people can believe in. furthermore, what's hap

ros-lehtinen: mr. speaker, on that i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: those favoring a vote will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. this is a 15-minute vote and a 15-minute vote only. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 173, the nays are 246. the amendment is not agreed to. the question is on engrossment and third reading of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. third reading. caller: a bill to authorize democratic, economic and social development assistance for pakistan, to those supreme court assistance for pakistan and for other purposes. -- and those assistance for pakistan and for other purposes. the speaker pro

ros-lehtinen, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the yeas prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 2 printed in part b of house report 111-143 offered by ms. rapet of florida. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in favor of the recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. those in favor say aye. of the amendment will votea. those opposed, no. members will record their votes by electronic device. and members are advised this will be a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote, the yeas are 205, the nays are 224. the amendment is not agreed to. the unfinished business is the request for recorded vote on amendment number 6 printed in part c of hous

ros-lehtinen, and others said we should have an open amendment process that will allow a free-flowing debate on all of these issues. with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida's time has expired. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, this is a good rule that paves the way toward improving our relations around the world. as i listen to the ranking member, my good friend on the rules committee, i thought he was going to support the rule because he's so impressed with the work that was put forward in this bill that covers developing democracies which has been such a tremendous champion of over a period of time. i'll yield for five seconds. mr. dreier: i thank my friend for yielding. i say i think it can be even better if we could have an open amendment process. i thank my friend for yielding. mr. hastings: reclaiming my time. clearly it covers what you like, and i'm delighted. after years of neglect, now is the time to inject the critic