he brought together hospitals across the region including the regional medical certainty, clearfield hospital, brookville hospital, and later the elk regional medical center. the system covers eight counties, employs more than 3,600 people, including 360 physicians. raymond's retirement caps a more than 40-year career in health care services and hospital administration. i concombrat late him on all his hard work and wish him the best of luck in retirement. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my ime. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer, for five minutes. mr. blumenauer: thank you, mr. speaker. the house is considering this week the appropriations for energy and water. these are important decisions, vital programs that seriously touch all of us across the country and have important decisions on resource allocation. there are two elements in the accompanying report that i'd like to highlight for a moment. one is that i am pleased that the committee has included language encouraging the core of engineers to continue efforts to construct new