[Congressional Record: May 12, 2011 (House)]
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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 754, INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT 
                          FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011

  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 264 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 264

       Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this 
     resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule 
     XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the 
     Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of 
     the bill (H.R. 754) to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
     year 2011 for intelligence and intelligence-related 
     activities of the United States Government, the Community 
     Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency 
     Retirement and Disability System, 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. 
     General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not 
     exceed one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair 
     and ranking minority member of the Permanent Select Committee 
     on Intelligence. After general debate the bill shall be 
     considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. It shall 
     be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose 
     of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in the 
     nature of a substitute recommended by the Permanent Select 
     Committee on Intelligence now printed in the bill. The 
     committee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be 
     considered as read. All points of order against the committee 
     amendment in the nature of a substitute are waived. No 
     amendment to the committee amendment in the nature of a 
     substitute shall be in order except those printed in the 
     report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this 
     resolution. Each such amendment may be offered only in the 
     order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member 
     designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall 
     be debatable for the time specified in the report equally 
     divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, 
     shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject 
     to a demand for division of the question in the House or in 
     the Committee of the Whole. All points of order against such 
     amendments are waived. At the conclusion of consideration of 
     the bill for amendment the Committee shall rise and report 
     the bill to the House with such amendments as may have been 
     adopted. Any Member may demand a separate vote in the House 
     on any amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to the 
     bill or to the committee amendment in the nature of a 
     substitute. The previous question shall be considered as 
     ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage 
     without intervening motion except one motion to recommit with 
     or without instructions.

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  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 1 
hour.
  Mr. SESSIONS. For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 
30 minutes to my friend the distinguished gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Hastings), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. 
During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the 
purpose of debate only.


                             General Leave

  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Texas?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. SESSIONS. House Resolution 264 provides for a structured rule 
designated by the Rules Committee for consideration of H.R. 754. This 
rules allows for nine of the amendments submitted to the Rules 
Committee to be made in order.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this rule and the underlying 
bill. The fiscal year 2011 budget process began last Congress with 
about a dozen hearings and Member briefings and continued into this 
Congress with more briefings and negotiations. This legislation was 
introduced by the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence, the gentleman from Michigan, Mike Rogers, and has gone 
through regular order to achieve its presence on the floor today. H.R. 
754 was marked up in the Intelligence Committee and the chairman of the 
Rules Committee, the gentleman from California, David Dreier, provided 
a structured amendment process for nine additional amendments from 
Republicans and Democrats to be considered today on the House floor.
  The bill we are discussing today authorizes the intelligence and 
intelligence-related activities of the United States Government for 
fiscal year 2011 in order to enhance the national security of the 
United States, to support and assist the Armed Forces of the United 
States, and to support the President of the United States in the 
execution of the foreign policy of the United States of America. This 
bill is a vital tool for congressional oversight of the classified 
activities of the intelligence community, and it is critical to 
ensuring that our intelligence agencies have the resources and 
authorities they need to accomplish this important work on behalf of 
keeping America free.
  The primary vehicle for exercising credible congressional oversight 
over our intelligence agencies is the intelligence authorization bill. 
Yet we have not passed a bona fide intelligence authorization bill in 6 
years. Although the National Security Act requires intelligence 
activities to be specifically authorized, in recent years certain 
appropriation bills have included language that would ``deem'' the 
intelligence funding to be authorized. This procedure meets the 
statutory requirement but has weakened the ability, I believe, of 
Congress in its oversight of intelligence activities in recent years.
  The U.S. intelligence community plays a critical role in the war on 
terrorism and securing our country from the many other threats we face 
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Nation. The recent killing of the terrorist Osama bin Laden is a clear 
example of the important work our intelligence agencies are doing 
behind the scenes every single day to protect America and Americans. 
Keeping the laws governing our intelligence operations up to date and 
ensuring that there are no unnecessary barriers in the way of future 
successes are exactly why we are here today and seek the authorization 
to pass an annual intelligence bill today.
  The intelligence authorization bill funds all U.S. intelligence 
activities, spanning 17 separate agencies. Last year, this funding 
totaled roughly $80 billion. Our Nation's current challenging fiscal 
circumstances demand that Congress fulfill its duties and provide the 
appropriate accountability and financial oversight of our classified 
intelligence programs through an authorization bill yearly. 
Additionally, this bill will ensure that Congress funds the 
requirements of the brave and dedicated men and women in the 
intelligence community, military and civilian, many of whom directly 
support the war zones or are engaged in other dangerous operations that 
keep Americans safe.
  The underlying legislation provides oversight and authorization for 
critical intelligence activities, including global counterterrorism 
operations such as the one that took out the terrorist Osama bin Laden, 
tactical intelligence support to support combat units in Iraq, 
Afghanistan, and wherever else they're needed around the world, 
cyberdefense, detecting and countering weapons of mass destruction, 
global monitoring of foreign militaries, weapons tests, and arms 
control treaties. Additionally, this bill's classified annex provides 
detailed guidance on intelligence spending, including adjustments to 
costly programs.
  This bill takes an important step forward in the intelligence 
community to help them meet the same financial accounting standard as 
other parts of the government. These accounting standards will help 
uncover savings in the current programs that can be reinvested into 
vital programs and priorities or returned to the American taxpayer.
  I was very pleased this week when the gentleman from Michigan, 
Chairman Mike Rogers, and the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. 
Ruppersberger), who represents the minority, came to the Rules 
Committee to talk about the needs of the intelligence community. In 
particular, I was very pleased as they worked so closely together to 
ensure that the issues that were contained within this document, the 
agreements that would be in law, and perhaps more importantly, the 
important relationships that would be shared by them as we work 
together to ensure that this country is safe, that we do so in a way 
where the American people see that keeping America safe, providing the 
necessary resources to the men and women of the intelligence community 
and expecting the results that would come from them, is a very 
important part of what our job as Members of Congress is all about.
  I applaud Chairman Mike Rogers of Michigan for providing this 
Congress with a much needed intelligence authorization bill, and I 
appreciate the exhaustive process on a bipartisan basis not only that 
Chairman Rogers has led but that includes a return to regular order in 
the authorization of this important legislation. I rise in support of 
the rule and the underlying bill.
  I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. I thank my friend from Texas for yielding 
the time.
  Mr. Speaker, H.R. 754, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2011, authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 2011 for U.S. 
intelligence and intelligence-related activities within the 
jurisdiction of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 
including the National Intelligence Program and the Military 
Intelligence Program, as well as for the Intelligence Community 
Management Account and for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement 
and Disability System.
  We are considering this legislation at an auspicious time. The death 
of Osama bin Laden and the disarray in the al Qaeda network comes as a 
result of years of painstaking effort by the hardworking men and women 
of the intelligence community, the military, President Bush, and 
President Obama's gutsy, courageous, and correct call on May 1 of this 
year. They succeeded admirably in carrying out a difficult and 
dangerous mission. This legislation codifies many of the lessons 
learned in recent years that led to Osama bin Laden's demise. It is 
important that we continue to provide the necessary resources to 
sustain the momentum the United States and its allies enjoy in the 
effort to protect our Nation and its citizens.
  As the former vice chair of the House Intelligence Committee, I 
personally know that the intelligence community is the first line of 
defense against those wishing to do us harm here at home and across the 
globe. Where terrorists or other elements, as we speak, are plotting 
attacks, planning operations, or are actively engaged in harming our 
citizens, the men and women of the intelligence community are devoted 
to acting on the information they gather to thwart those efforts. We 
owe them a debt of gratitude and our sincere thanks. These courageous 
men and women often work quietly, unnoticed, and too often, 
unrecognized, but nevertheless, they are critical to ensuring the 
security of our Nation.
  I have had the honor and privilege of meeting many of our 
intelligence professionals during my oversight travel as a member of 
the Intelligence Committee. I cannot overstate how much I appreciate, 
and am humbled by, their service. Over the past 10 years, our country 
has continued to make daily progress against threats, thanks to the 
service of those dedicated professionals. We must keep in mind, though, 
that in spite of our best effort, we still face many real threats, and 
we still have much work to do to get it right.
  Mr. Speaker, H.R. 754 provides detailed guidance and authorizes 
appropriations for the many agencies of the intelligence community, 
while also improving accountability and transparency. It is essential 
that we streamline and coordinate oversight for counterintelligence. 
H.R. 754 amends the Counterintelligence Enhancement Act of 2002 to 
require the national counterintelligence strategy to be aligned with 
the policies and strategy of the Director of National Intelligence.
  It is often reported that our government agencies come under 
cyberattack all day, every day, 365 days a year. International 
criminals, malicious individuals, and even other Nations are actively 
engaged in a constant effort to break into our cyber networks to obtain 
information, or to wreak havoc on the systems that govern our Nation's 
infrastructure, financial, military, diplomatic, and social networks. 
We must, of all things, be mindful of our responsibilities in that 
area. It can have a devastating impact if not properly attended.
  Finally, Mr. Speaker, we must consider diversity to be a mission 
imperative. I have stated time and again that the intelligence 
community is not diverse enough to successfully meet its requirements 
and achieve success on its missions. On February 26, 2010, the House of 
Representatives passed my amendment to H.R. 2701, the Intelligence 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, which required the Office of 
the Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with the heads 
of the elements of the intelligence community, to submit to Congress a 
report on the plans of each element of the community to increase 
diversity. The report is expected to be finalized in October of this 
year. Simply put, we need people who blend in, who speak the language, 
and understand the cultures in the countries that we are targeting. It 
is time for the intelligence community to get serious about improving 
diversity for the sake of our national security. If the intelligence 
community is to succeed in its global mission, it must have a global 
face.
  I reserve the balance of my time, Mr. Speaker.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to yield 3 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Lake Park, Minnesota (Mrs. Bachmann).
  Mrs. BACHMANN. I thank the gentleman from Texas, who's doing a 
wonderful job this morning managing this bill, Pete Sessions.

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  Mr. Speaker, all of our Nation's great liberties depend on our 
national security. I think that's something that we can all agree on. 
This is a bipartisan issue. We're a Nation at war, and we're pitted 
against terrorists who are bent on destroying our very way of life. As 
the treasure trove of evidence, which we were so grateful to receive 
from Osama bin Laden's compound, confirms to us, the enemy is always 
adapting, always evolving, always plotting further attacks. We have to 
be informed, and we have to be one step ahead of the enemy at least.
  It's our intelligence community, Mr. Speaker, that gives us heroic 
service, day in and day out. This morning I had the privilege of being 
at our Nation's Central Intelligence Agency, and I want to commend them 
for the work that they do, the brilliant work that they did most 
recently to secure this number one target. Nearly all of it goes 
unrecognized, Mr. Speaker, until a moment like last Sunday evening, May 
1, when a grateful Nation learned that the men and women of our 
intelligence services, working hand-in-hand with those in military 
uniform, had brought about the demise of the world's most prominent and 
notorious terrorist, Osama bin Laden. Years of relentless and diligent 
pursuit yielded an overwhelming success.
  And that's why I'm so honored to be here on the floor today with my 
distinguished colleague from Texas (Mr. Sessions) to stand here on the 
House floor as a member of the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence, calling on behalf of my colleagues, both Republican and 
Democrat, to pass the FY 2011 Intelligence authorization bill, because 
the American people have made it clear, Mr. Speaker.
  They've made it clear to us not only once but over and over again. 
They want this Congress to exercise the utmost seriousness when dealing 
with our Nation's spending crisis, and so this bill is a step in that 
direction. It ensures that there is proper congressional financial 
oversight, and I would like to tip my hat now to the Democrat ranking 
member, Dutch Ruppersberger, who has done a magnificent job, together 
with our chairman, Mike Rogers, in making sure that we work together as 
one, seamlessly, in a bipartisan fashion. I have been just so 
delighted. I've never served on a committee where I've seen greater 
bipartisanship because we've put down our partisan swords when it comes 
to securing the safety and security of our Nation.
  And this bill is a step in that direction, ensuring there's not only 
proper congressional financial oversight, something that was lacking 
unfortunately in the last 6 years, but we are dedicated to making sure 
that our responsible approach with intelligence does not sacrifice the 
security of our Nation, and this measure which funds our intelligence 
community will ensure that our intelligence community has the resources 
they so richly deserve.

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  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased at this time 
to yield 3 minutes to my good friend, the ranking member of the 
Committee on Intelligence, the distinguished gentleman from Maryland 
(Mr. Ruppersberger).
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. Mr. Speaker, first I want to recognize the 
distinguished vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Mr. 
Hastings, for his hard work over the course of his 8 years on the 
committee. I had the privilege of serving with Mr. Hastings, and know 
he was committed to supporting our intelligence professionals. He was a 
leader on the issue of diversity in the intelligence community, and I 
applaud him for those efforts. Having a diverse intelligence community 
workforce is not simply the right thing to do, but it is critical to 
our mission.
  Today, I am pleased to join my colleague and friend Michele Bachmann 
in support of H.R. 754, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2011. I thank her for her comments about partisan politics. The 
Intelligence Committee is a bipartisan committee that works together. 
The stakes are too high for us not to work together, and that's what 
we're attempting to do.
  Now, the killing of Osama bin Laden is clearly the most monumental 
intelligence achievement in recent history. Our intelligence 
professionals worked together as a team, brought Osama bin Laden to 
justice, and killed him. It was a risky mission that was executed with 
intense training and a high level of skill. These professionals risked 
their lives to keep our country safe, and no American lives were lost.
  I am pleased that Congress can provide the intelligence community 
with the resources, capabilities, authorities, and oversight they need 
to continue this great work. After months of negotiations and a number 
of changes to address many of the concerns of the administration, I 
believe this bill moves in a positive direction to assert congressional 
oversight over intelligence activities.
  I am also pleased that Chairman Rogers and I could come to an 
agreement to add additional counterterrorism positions to the CIA. With 
this change, I will support the bill. This bill adds several thousand 
civilian positions above the level enacted in FY 2010. There is also a 
large increase in personnel at the National Counterterrorism Center, 
which is the NCTC, among others. The bill adds hundreds of millions of 
dollars for intelligence above current levels. However, I urge a ``no'' 
vote on this rule because it does not allow all Members of Congress to 
offer amendments to this bill.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, with the election of this new large 
Republican class, some 87 new Members, we picked up, in particular, a 
Member who will speak here in just a second. He is a young man who 
devoted his life, not only to his country through his service in the 
military, but also to law enforcement. He comes to Washington from 
Florida where he had been a distinguished sheriff of a large 
department. He came to us with not only a thought and belief about 
securing this country and of making sure that we took care of our 
citizens, but perhaps more importantly, he is a clear thinker on seeing 
not only intelligence issues but also the broader context of protecting 
this country. He has a son who serves in the military, and he has been 
very thoughtful.
  I yield 3 minutes to a member of the Rules Committee, the gentleman 
from Brooksville, Florida (Mr. Nugent).
  Mr. NUGENT. I thank my colleague from Texas (Mr. Sessions), with whom 
I have the pleasure of serving on the Rules Committee.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the rule, H. Res. 264, and 
the underlying legislation, H.R. 754.
  About a week and a half ago, we all learned that justice had been 
served: justice for our civil servants working in the Kenya and 
Tanzania Embassies in 1998, justice for our troops serving on the USS 
Cole in 2000 and justice for the innocent victims of September 11, 
2001.
  After many years of hard, stealthy intelligence work, we found Osama 
bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan. Based upon this information, a highly 
trained team of Navy SEALs came in, performed its mission and rid the 
world of one of history's most evil and notorious terrorists.
  Mr. Speaker, this would not have been possible without the work of 
our hardworking intelligence community. It was President Bush who laid 
the groundwork for this intelligence that ultimately made all of this 
possible, and it was President Obama who put this information together 
and made the gutsy call that only a Commander in Chief can make. Both 
of these men deserve our thanks for the work they did to make this 
possible.
  It is our duty as Members of Congress to ensure that our intelligence 
community has the tools it needs to continue to keep our Nation safe. 
That is what H.R. 754 does. As a prior law enforcement officer, I can 
attest to the value of good Intel in apprehending those who would do 
dastardly things to our country.
  With that, I encourage my colleagues to support the rule, to support 
the underlying bill, and to support the intelligence community, which 
is keeping this Nation safe.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased at this time 
to yield 2 minutes to my good friend, a member of the Judiciary 
Committee, the distinguished gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Hastings, thank you for your service 
years on the Intelligence Committee, and I thank the ranking member and 
the members who are on the floor.

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  I rise to support the underlying bill and the rule, recognizing that 
human intelligence and the resources that provide a safety net for the 
American people are crucial--the CIA, the Department of Defense and 
other intelligence civilian agencies, along with the United States 
military.
  I introduced H. Res. 240 to chronicle the successful apprehension and 
demise of Osama bin Laden, to actually emphasize, when combined 
together, the brawn and intellect of the United States military. The 
human intelligence over the years and the work of President Clinton, 
President Bush and President Obama in the strategic decision that had 
to be made by the civilian minds, in working with the military minds, 
has emphasized the constitutional values of this country that 
civilians, in working with the military, can, in fact, provide the 
armor protection of the United States of America. I am very grateful 
for that genius, and I want to thank them. Our legislation had over 50 
cosponsors.
  As well, I believe now that we can actually say in good conscience: 
Bring the troops home from Afghanistan. Our mission is accomplished. We 
realize that human intelligence can help us target those who want to do 
us harm, and we have the constitutional fabric, along with the United 
States military, the likes of JSOC and many others in the intelligence 
community, who work on behalf of the American people. We can bring home 
the men and women--over 100,000--who are based now in Afghanistan.
  Do you know what? Mother's Day was this past weekend, and sadly, 
soldiers fell in battle on Mother's Day. Let us not have another 
Mother's Day when some mother in America, somewhere, loses a child to 
the battle in Afghanistan, not when we can use smart power and use 
intelligence and use a minimum of force.
  It is time now for America to welcome home her heroes with honor and, 
as well, to thank those who dedicated the brawn and the intellect that 
could make good on a promise that, yes, you will come to justice if you 
do harm to the American people.
  I ask support for the underlying legislation and the rule.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I do understand that the Democratic Party 
is interested in leaving Afghanistan now that Osama bin Laden has been 
killed.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. SESSIONS. I yield to the gentleman.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. I would just urge my colleague not to use a 
broad reference with reference to the Democratic Party. Everybody in 
the Democratic Party does not agree that we should leave Afghanistan 
until the administration and the military and the intelligence 
community have completed their work.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Thank you.
  Reclaiming my time, I appreciate and respect the words, not only from 
my friend, but I believe he is absolutely correct. I simply hear the 
drumbeat that comes out of this town about leaving now that there has 
been a big victory in dealing with the number one terrorist in the 
world.
  I would suggest to you that there is still much work left to be done 
and that we must not change the focus of the men and women who today 
are in harm's way. We should not change the focus of the American 
people in getting them away from the job that is being done on a day-
to-day basis and that we should not begin the drumbeat until we have 
further completed the work that is necessary to ensure that this 
country is safe.

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  Mr. Speaker, at this time I would like to yield 2 minutes to a young 
member of the Rules Committee, a gentleman who served as mayor of 
Corning, New York, and a man who has dedicated himself to public 
service, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Reed).
  Mr. REED. I thank my colleague from Texas for the opportunity.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the rule for H.R. 754, the 
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011.
  Mr. Speaker, the intelligence community works long hours in distant 
parts of the world to keep our country safe. But the thing about the 
United States intelligence community is that when they do their job 
right, no one knows about it. When they are successful in that 
diligence that they perform every day of the week, 24 hours a day, 
every day of the year, we often do not hear about that success.
  I stand here today, Mr. Speaker, to commend the diligent, painstaking 
work of the United States intelligence officials for all that they do. 
And in particular, I stand today to recognize the hard work of our 
intelligence community which resulted in capturing and killing the man 
who masterminded the multiple attacks which killed thousands of 
Americans, bringing him to justice this past week. Thanks to the 
intelligence professionals who work for our country, the world is a 
safer place without Osama bin Laden.
  I have an amendment with my colleague from New York (Mr. Grimm) that 
will be discussed on this floor tomorrow, and hopefully supported and 
voted upon in a bipartisan fashion, to recognize the efforts of those 
intelligence officials.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise also today to commend the work that is being done 
here in this Chamber, that is being led by this side of the aisle in 
having an open dialogue, in having an open process. We have nine 
amendments that are going to be considered under this rule and in this 
Chamber tomorrow. Mr. Speaker, that is a direct change from the history 
that has been demonstrated here for years prior to us coming here. It 
is time that we on this side of the aisle recognize that we are going 
to listen to the American people. We are going to have an honest 
conversation with the American people about the issues that we face on 
a day-to-day basis. And as such, I stand today and urge my colleagues 
to vote ``yes'' on this rule and ``yes'' on H.R. 754.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Corpus Christi, Texas (Mr. Farenthold), another one of 
our brand-new Members, who brings to this House and to the floor not 
only a commonsense element but the insistence that people from Corpus 
Christi be represented on the floor of this House in such a way that 
will benefit not only our country but also the United States military 
and, in particular, the United States Navy that has a large base in 
Corpus Christi.
  Mr. FARENTHOLD. It's almost like a fog has been lifted over America. 
We sought to capture or kill Osama bin Laden for 10 years; and just 
recently, that was accomplished. And it's almost as if the sun is a 
little bit brighter and the can-do American spirit has been revived, 
that same spirit that took us to the Moon, that same spirit that has 
led us to victory in the past.
  Our intelligence community is key to that success, as is our 
military. It is absolutely imperative that we support and back the 
intelligence community that provides us the knowledge and information 
that not only helps us win wars but, more importantly, keeps us out of 
war.
  Knowledge is power. What we know about beforehand gives us the 
opportunity to stop conflicts before they happen. We are also in an era 
of a tight budget now. We are looking at an authorization bill that 
increases and provides adequate oversight to our intelligence to make 
sure those resources are being spent wisely and are being spent in the 
defense of this Nation, in the furtherance of our interests, and in the 
furtherance of freedom.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. SESSIONS. I would like to yield such time as he may consume to 
the young gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier), the chairman of the 
Rules Committee.
  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, let me begin by expressing my appreciation 
to the distinguished vice chairman of the Rules Committee, my friend 
from Dallas, Mr. Sessions, for his management of this very important 
rule. And I think it's appropriate that Mr. Sessions is a manager of 
legislation that enjoys strong bipartisan support because he's always 
seeking a consensus on issues where we can find areas of agreement. And 
the fact is, we have been able to see the chairman and the ranking 
member of the Select Committee on Intelligence work together

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in a bipartisan way to deal with the very important security and 
intelligence needs of the United States of America.
  My new colleague from Corpus Christi has just said, What a great day 
for America, the day that we were able to see Osama bin Laden captured 
and killed, brought to justice. And I congratulate President Obama and, 
of course, all those who were involved. I congratulate President Bush 
who, from September 11 forward, was determined to bring Osama bin Laden 
to justice. And I congratulate all of the men and women in uniform, 
including those who, as of September 11, 2001, became part of the 
frontline--that being firefighters and law enforcement--right here on 
our soil because that was the day, for the first time ever, that we 
faced an attack on our soil.
  But this legislation, Mr. Speaker, is specifically designed to extend 
our appreciation and thanks, based on an amendment that we've made in 
order from our colleague from Staten Island, Mr. Grimm, to those in the 
intelligence community who have done such a spectacular job in dealing 
with the challenge of capturing and bringing to justice Osama bin 
Laden.
  We are going to have in this bill a number of amendments made in 
order. I am particularly proud that as we worked with the members of 
the Intelligence Committee, recognizing that obviously this bill deals 
with some very, very sensitive items that, frankly, can't be discussed 
here on the House floor, but with that in mind, we were able to make in 
order nine amendments that are going to be offered by Members; five 
amendments that will be offered by Democrats; four amendments offered 
by Republicans; and, as I said, the amendment that will allow for the 
longest period of debate to provide an opportunity for the Members of 
this House to discuss, and I know it will be, again, bipartisan 
appreciation to those in the intelligence community who have been able 
to have the success that we've witnessed most recently.
  So, Mr. Speaker, I think it's a great day for the United States of 
America to once again demonstrate the global leadership role that we 
provide not only economically and geopolitically but through our 
security, intelligence, and military strength.
  I urge my colleagues to support both this rule, which, again, will 
allow for free-flowing debate and an opportunity for both parties to 
participate, and the underlying legislation itself.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I would in some respects 
reiterate much of what our colleagues have said with regard to Osama 
bin Laden. For 10 years, he held the title of scourge of the Earth. And 
I believe all of us are pleased that to the degree that he contributed 
to injustice, justice, as it pertains to him, has finally been served.
  It is my hope that the families of the terrible events that 
transpired on 9/11 and the USS Cole and the families of the East 
African embassy bombings can find just a little more solace and just a 
little more closure as a result of his demise at the hands of 
extraordinary work on behalf of a substantial number of courageous 
Americans.

                              {time}  1300

  As a Nation, I would ask that we be extremely mindful that al Qaeda 
has not been removed, nor has the sentiment of this very dangerous 
societal element, nor are they the only organized structure of radical 
extremists that would attack our Nation. We must remain ever vigilant.
  There was a bit of irony on May 1, 2011, that should not be lost on 
any of us. One of the events that transpired on that same day was that 
the late John Paul II, the Pope, was beatified and moved closer to 
sainthood. On May 1 that occurred. He spent his life blazing a path of 
enlightenment, peace, love, and uplifting humanity.
  The second event that occurred on that day was the demise of bin 
Laden, who spent his life lighting a path of murder, deceit, and the 
destruction of humanity. While one found, and is finding, sainthood, 
the other found Satan.
  It is a good thing that he is no longer a plague on the Earth, and 
the hope for humankind is that Pope John Paul II would be our exemplar 
of goodness.
  Given the immense security challenges facing our Nation, Congress 
should pass this legislation so that we may continue to fulfill our 
commitment to the safety and well-being of the American people.
  The men and women of the intelligence community may operate in the 
background, but they are at the forefront of our national defense and 
deserve every resource necessary to do their jobs.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote on the rule because, in spite of 
Mr. Reed, my colleague on the Rules Committee, and the distinguished 
chairman, my good friend, touting the fact that we do have a number of 
amendments and the time, this is not an open rule; and I would have 
them to know that if it were an open rule, then all Members would be 
able to offer an amendment to the bill.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, today we've had a distinguished group of 
speakers, including the gentleman, Mr. Hastings, who spent years of his 
service, not only on behalf of the people of Florida, but on behalf of 
all of us as he served on the Intelligence Committee.
  We have had Members walk in and out of here: the gentlewoman from 
North Carolina, Virginia Foxx, who brings a thoughtful articulation 
about her ideas about the protection of this country, not just for the 
people of North Carolina, but for the people of the United States.
  We've had the gentleman, a former sheriff, Mr. Nugent, a Member of 
Congress from Florida, also come and talk about their ideas about how 
you protect this country by protecting the men and women who are 
engaged in the active and day-to-day business.
  The gentleman, Mr. Hastings, referred to al Qaeda as not defeated. We 
still have a threat that is out there. The gentleman, Mr. Farenthold, 
talked most forthrightly and honestly about the need of the American 
people to have confidence and thanks for the intelligence community and 
that which they do.
  The gentleman, Mr. Ruppersberger, the ranking member of the 
Intelligence Committee, as they bring their ideas forth in an open 
process that would be allowed in the committee, Intelligence Committee, 
and then to bring that forward as they would discuss that at the Rules 
Committee.
  Here on the floor of the House of Representatives it's an interesting 
dialogue that we get into about our hopes and desires about supporting 
the intelligence community. But we must remember that the need for our 
intelligence community and for them to have clear direction from this 
Congress is important.
  The killing of the most wanted terrorist in the world, Osama bin 
Laden, is a perfect example of the necessary intelligence information 
and support from this Congress for funds and the authorizing process, 
the oversight that is provided by the Congress.
  The men and women in this intelligence community and the Armed Forces 
serve this Nation; and they provide us victories, day-to-day victories, 
not only in keeping America safe, but victories with finding and 
killing terrorists around the globe who would harm America and our 
allies.
  The underlying bill today allows for that continued service by these 
brave men and women for the benefit of the American people.
  Six years ago is far too long for Congress to have skirted its 
responsibilities to aid and help the intelligence community with an 
authorization. Now is the time to ensure the appropriate 
accountability, responsibility, and that funding is given to the 
intelligence community to carry out their mission to keep America safe 
and to look forward, as might be said, over the horizon to ensure that 
whatever is next, they are prepared for it.
  I would like to applaud the chairman, the gentleman from Michigan, 
Mike Rogers; and the ranking member, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. 
Ruppersberger); and the Intelligence Committee for this authorization 
bill as they work so well with the men and women of the intelligence 
community on a mission which is important for us to join in with the 
administration to ensure that our intents are very clear to them.
  We live in a dangerous time and in a dangerous world, and I feel much 
better protected knowing that this hard work is done by so many 
dedicated people.

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  So I encourage a ``yes'' vote on the rule.
  I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the previous question 
on the resolution.
  The previous question was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and 
nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further 
proceedings on this question will be postponed.

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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 754, INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT 
                          FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the vote on 
adoption of the resolution (H. Res. 264) providing for consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 754) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2011 
for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United 
States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central 
Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other 
purposes, on which the yeas and nays were ordered.
  The Clerk read the title of the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution.
  This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 251, 
nays 133, not voting 47, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 322]

                               YEAS--251

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Amash
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Capito
     Cardoza
     Carney
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Chandler
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Connolly (VA)
     Costa
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Hinojosa
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Reyes
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NAYS--133

     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baldwin
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Castor (FL)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Cohen
     Cooper
     Costello
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hirono
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Levin
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moran
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Pelosi
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stark
     Thompson (CA)
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--47

     Bass (CA)
     Bilbray
     Bishop (GA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Camp
     Cantor
     Carson (IN)
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Conyers
     Davis (IL)
     DeGette
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Giffords
     Hastings (WA)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Lee (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Meeks
     Moore
     Paul
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Ribble
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rush
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sullivan
     Sutton
     Thompson (MS)
     Van Hollen
     Watt
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)

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                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes 
remaining in this vote.

                              {time}  1439

  Mr. GARAMENDI changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  So the resolution was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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[Congressional Record: May 12, 2011 (House)]
[Page H3244-H3257]
                     

 
          INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 264 and rule 
XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House 
on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill, H.R. 754.

                              {time}  1442


                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill 
(H.R. 754) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2011 for 
intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States 
Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central 
Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other 
purposes, with Mr. Yoder in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The CHAIR. Pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered read the 
first time.
  The gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Rogers) and the gentleman from 
Maryland (Mr. Ruppersberger) each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Michigan.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I 
may consume. All time yielded is for the purposes of debate only.
  Mr. Chairman, I wish to announce that subsequent to reporting the 
bill, the committee has modified the classified annex to the bill with 
respect to the authorized level of funding for certain programs, with 
bipartisan agreement between myself and the ranking member, Mr. 
Ruppersberger. The classified annex containing the modified schedule of 
authorizations is available for review by all Members of the House, 
subject to the rules of the House and the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence, under which procedures were described in my announcement 
to the House on May 3, 2011. The modified schedule of authorizations is 
and has been available for review by Members and the period of time 
required by the rules of the House.
  Mr. Chairman, the annual intelligence authorization bill, I do 
believe, is one of the most important bills that will pass in the House 
each year. I want to thank my ranking member, Mr. Ruppersberger. We sat 
down at the beginning of January and decided that matters of national 
security were too important for infectious partisan debate and rhetoric 
and we decided that we would work out through every cause, as 
congenially as possible, and agree where we could, on every matter that 
we had a difference on, moving forward on, again, matters of 
intelligence and matters of national security.
  I think the product we see on the floor today reflects that 
commitment and that working relationship, and I want to commend Mr. 
Ruppersberger and the entire House Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence for their work, their cooperation, and their commitment to 
our national security to the United States.
  We recently saw the successful mission against Osama bin Laden. Our 
intelligence professionals remain on the front lines in America's 
defense against our enemies. For the last 6 years, Congress has failed 
to pass a bona fide intelligence authorization bill with funding 
authority. Instead, yearly appropriation bills have simply deemed 
intelligence funding to be authorized.
  We must, and I think we agree in a bipartisan way, stop that trend 
and stop it this year. The continued success of our intelligence 
community requires effective and aggressive congressional oversight. 
Such oversight can only be achieved if we get back in the habit of 
meeting our responsibility of passing an intelligence authorization 
bill every year.
  Mr. Chairman, we have men and women scattered all across this globe 
who are engaged daily in sometimes often very dangerous work of 
collecting information to provide our policymakers and our warfighters 
the information they need to defeat our enemy. From trying to catch 
spies here in the United States by our FBI to recruiting people who 
want to cooperate and help the United States on tough issues like 
nuclear proliferation or terrorism efforts targeted against us or our 
allies, these folks log countless hours, risk their lives, spend time 
away from their families, and deserve our praise and our commitment 
that we will work with them to give them the tools that they need to be 
successful.
  I can't think of a more important time in our history where I have 
seen intelligence play such an important

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role in our world affairs. The world is changing before our eyes, and 
our intelligence community is providing us the information we need, not 
just to be safe, but to make good decisions on what that world looks 
like and what our national interests are country by country, region by 
region.
  I am particularly pleased that this bill has such strong bipartisan 
support. The legislative provisions are intentionally limited to focus 
our attention on providing necessary resources to the men and women of 
the intelligence community as provided in the classified annex. The 
secrecy that is a necessary part of our country's intelligence work 
requires that the congressional Intelligence Committees conduct strong 
and effective oversight on behalf of the American people, and that 
strong and effective oversight is possible. But without that annual 
intelligence authorization bill, the bill that we will pass today--we 
must get back in the habit of passing that bill every year.
  We make important commitments in this bill, Mr. Chairman, for the 
priorities of the intelligence community. Technology has fused in the 
intelligence collection like I have never seen it, and its increase is 
exponential over the past 10 years.
  We make important investment in the new technologies that allow our 
intelligence officials and professionals to do the work they need to 
do. It makes them more effective, and it also makes the investment in 
the people who oversee that technology even more important. We make 
that important investment in this FY 2011 intelligence authorization 
bill as well.
  Nothing brings that home like the broad scope of what we saw 
participate in the Osama bin Laden event of last Sunday. Every single 
intelligence agency, and I do mean every single one, played a part in 
that operation, from collecting small bits of information, from putting 
that piece together, signals intelligence, satellite intelligence, 
MASINT intelligence, all of those things came together over the course 
of 10 years.
  I credit George Bush and his administration for assembling this new 
intelligence community that really started after 9/11 and President 
Obama for making the authorization and the continued policies that 
allowed us to have that information to go after Osama bin Laden. It was 
really quite an impressive thing. Both administrations deserve credit 
for that, and I would hope that today the people of the House of 
Representatives would celebrate that victory and all the work of the 
unsung heroes who work in the shadows by passing this FY 2011 so they 
can get about the business of protecting the United States.
  I appreciate, again, this bipartisan consensus.
  I reserve the balance of my time.

                              {time}  1450

  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  First, I rise in support of H.R. 754, the Intelligence Authorization 
Act for FY 2011.
  The men and women in the military and intelligence community who 
helped locate al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden exemplify the 
extraordinary courage and skill of those who work tirelessly to keep 
our community safe. They should be commended for a job well done. But 
our fight against terrorism is not over. We have severely weakened al 
Qaeda, but we must remain vigilant as we work to eliminate this threat. 
I believe that it's our responsibility to give our intelligence 
professionals the resources, capabilities, and authorities they need to 
do their jobs successfully.
  The Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2011 has thousands of 
civilian positions above the level enacted in FY 2010 and above the 
level of people currently on board. This includes counterterrorism 
positions at the CIA and a large increase in personnel at the National 
Counterterrorism Center, the NCTC. The bill also adds hundreds of 
millions of dollars for intelligence above current levels. In response 
to the Web site WikiLeaks, the bill includes an insider threat 
detection program that automatically monitors unauthorized access to 
classified information.
  The way Congress conducts effective oversight of the intelligence 
community is by passing an Intelligence authorization bill to give the 
intelligence community budgetary direction.
  When I first got to the Intelligence Committee 8 years ago, right 
after 9/11, I was concerned with the lack of coordination and 
communication within the intelligence community. In the different areas 
in intelligence--the CIA, NSA, FBI--there was not the communication or 
coordination that was necessary. But this has definitely changed today. 
The Osama bin Laden mission proved that. Professionals from all across 
the intelligence community, including the CIA, NGA, NSA, and Special 
Ops, all came together as a team to get the job done. We are now on our 
game. We're working together. We're better than we've ever been. And we 
clearly have sent a message to the world: If you're going to attack 
Americans, if you're going to kill Americans, we're going to find you 
and we're going to bring you to justice.
  On the House Select Intelligence Committee we work together. Chairman 
Rogers, as he stated before, and I have agreed to work together in a 
bipartisan manner. The stakes are too high not to do so. I join 
Chairman Rogers in saying politics has no place in the Intelligence 
Committee. The threats are real and the stakes are too high. Sure, we 
will have disagreements. We will disagree from time to time on policy. 
But we will work together to work through these issues to do what is 
right for the intelligence community to protect our country and our 
national security. This is what we did in this budget.
  After months of negotiations with the majority and a number of 
changes to address many of the concerns of the administration, I 
believe this bill moves in a positive direction. It goes a long way to 
help our intelligence professionals get the job done.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. I yield 1 minute to the distinguished member 
of the Intelligence Committee, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. 
LoBiondo).
  Mr. LoBIONDO. I would like to start out by thanking you, Chairman 
Rogers and Mr. Ruppersberger, for refocusing the efforts of the Intel 
Committee on that which is critically important with the authorization 
and oversight for our intelligence community.
  We have incredibly dedicated men and women who are putting their 
lives on the line every day in a way that almost all of America will 
never know. These individuals deserve nothing less than the full 
attention and help from Congress in the authorization and helping them 
with the programs that are necessary to continue the dramatic successes 
such that we've seen with Obama bin Laden.
  They have successes every day, ladies and gentlemen. They're not as 
high profile as the one we had last week, but many of them are just as 
important. Without the Intelligence authorization bill, we're having 
them go out with one arm tied behind their backs. It's unfair to them; 
it's unfair to the country. In these times of turbulence, with an enemy 
that is bound and determined to hurt our country, we rely on our 
intelligence community and the great work that they do. This bill will 
help them do that.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I yield 3 minutes to a senior member of the 
Intelligence Committee, the ranking member of the Terrorism 
Subcommittee, the gentleman from California (Mr. Thompson).
  Mr. THOMPSON of California. I thank Mr. Ruppersberger for yielding, 
and I thank Mr. Ruppersberger and Mr. Rogers for their good work in the 
committee.
  As ranking member of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human 
Intelligence, Analysis, and Counterintelligence, I'm pleased that we 
were able to work through our differences to bring a stronger and now 
bipartisan Intelligence authorization bill to the floor today.
  H.R. 754 will support critical U.S. intelligence capabilities by 
increasing resources for our country's counterterrorism efforts while 
also providing needed flexibility to the Central Intelligence Agency to 
hire the analysts that it needs.
  Last year, under the leadership of then-Speaker Pelosi and Chairman

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Reyes, President Obama signed the first Intelligence Authorization Act 
in 6 years. That bill included a number of long overdue provisions that 
supported critical U.S. intelligence capabilities, significantly 
enhanced congressional oversight, and improved accountability across 
the entire intelligence community. Today's bill builds on that effort 
and represents an important step forward towards enacting an 
Intelligence authorization bill for the second year in a row.
  Unfortunately, the process used to produce this bill was badly flawed 
and there weren't proper hearings to get to where we are now. And 
that's evidenced by the amendments that we are able to get into this 
bill to bring it up to the position that it's in. However, with the 
changes made to the classified annex, I believe this authorization will 
strengthen our national security and is in the best interest of our 
intelligence community.
  Specifically, the additional funds authorized by this bill to hire 
more counterterrorism analysts will make our country safer and more 
secure. It was, after all, counterterrorism analysts that located Osama 
bin Laden after he had disappeared for nearly 10 years and that are now 
tracking senior al Qaeda leadership around the globe. By providing more 
resources to this critical effort, our intelligence community will be 
able to confront head-on the threat posed by al Qaeda and other 
terrorist organizations throughout the world. In fact, given the recent 
success of our counterterrorism effort, this is the strategy we should 
pursue over our counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan, which has 
not shown the results Congress expected or that the American people 
demand. This tactical change would significantly reduce our military 
footprint in countries around the world while allowing our military and 
intelligence assets to confront terrorism threats wherever they're 
developed.
  Mr. Chair, our intelligence community must be prepared for any and 
all threats, making it all the more critical for Congress to pass an 
Intelligence authorization that furthers our national security.
  The CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I yield the gentleman 30 additional seconds.
  Mr. THOMPSON of California. This legislation is necessary, will 
enhance the capabilities of the intelligence community, specifically 
our counterterrorism efforts, and will make our Nation safer.
  I urge my colleagues to support this bill and thank the members of 
our intelligence community and their families for their great work and 
their sacrifice.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to 
gentlewoman from the great State of North Carolina (Mrs. Myrick), a 
distinguished member of the Intelligence Committee.
  Mrs. MYRICK. I'm delighted to be here today because this is a good 
moment for our intelligence community that we are going to pass an 
Intelligence bill.
  You've heard it said it has been 6 years since there has been an 
authorization for these people. They are out there every single day in 
every single agency doing what they do so we can be here to be able to 
discuss this on the floor and to live freely in this country and around 
the world. It's extremely important that they have the knowledge and 
security of knowing that what they do is approved of and authorized by 
this committee in the House.
  It has been good to have a bipartisan agreement in the sense that we 
worked very well together. Mr. Rogers and Mr. Ruppersberger worked 
extremely well. Myself and Mr. Thompson, who chair one of the 
committees, work very well together. The committee members do. And so 
it's encouraging that we're able to move forward in a way that's very 
positive for the people of this country relative to their national 
security.
  So I urge all of my colleagues to support this bill.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished gentleman 
from Kentucky (Mr. Chandler), a hardworking member of the Technical and 
Tactical Subcommittee of the Intelligence Committee.

                              {time}  1500

  Mr. CHANDLER. I thank the gentleman from Maryland for yielding.
  Osama bin Laden, one of the worst men to walk the Earth since Adolf 
Hitler, is dead. While on the run for many years, bin Laden continued 
to plan and coordinate attacks against Americans. He was only found and 
killed because of the brave men and women in our military and in our 
intelligence community. We have some of the best intelligence 
operations in the world, and if we want to continue the fight against 
terrorism, we need to keep it that way. This bill does just that.
  The bill authorizes funding for the dedicated men and women of the 
intelligence community to help them do their jobs and protect American 
citizens. In my tenure on the intelligence committee, I have had the 
privilege of visiting with many of the courageous and extremely bright 
people who work in intelligence. After meeting them, there is no doubt 
in my mind that we are in good hands, and I have a greater appreciation 
for the work they do to keep America safe every day. It is incredibly 
important that we support those efforts, especially in light of the 
extraordinary job the intelligence community did in finding and killing 
bin Laden.
  These are tough times with our budget, but the security of our people 
has got to be our priority.
  Last year, under the leadership of Chairman Reyes, Congress passed 
its first Intelligence authorization act since the 2005 bill. I applaud 
both Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Ruppersberger in their efforts 
to work out a bipartisan compromise that would help maintain and 
strengthen our impressive intelligence community. They've done a 
tremendous job, and it's a breath of fresh air to see everybody working 
so well together.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
distinguished gentleman from Texas and a member of the Intelligence 
Committee, Mr. Conaway.
  Mr. CONAWAY. I thank the gentleman for yielding, I appreciate the 
chairman's words, and I hope those aren't mutually exclusive, being 
distinguished and being from Texas.
  I rise in strong, strong support of this year's Intelligence 
authorization bill and encourage my colleagues, all of them, to support 
this. But with that strong support comes a modest amount of 
disappointment in that, through no fault of anyone in particular, we 
had to make a tough decision to strike section 412 from the bill, which 
would have allowed certain elements within the intel community to set 
up their own direct accounts with Treasury. It's a bit of an arcane 
statement, but it allows greater steps toward achieving auditability 
across the intelligence community. This provision was intended to 
promote this goal of better financial accountability and insight into 
our classified spending.
  The intelligence community, Mr. Chairman, must meet the same 
financial accounting standards as the rest of the government. Those 
accounting standards will help uncover savings in current programs that 
can be reinvested into vital intelligence priorities or returned to the 
taxpayers.
  While I am disappointed that the provision was not in the 2011 bill, 
I have already had good conversations with the chairman in reference to 
the 2012 bill, which will be in committee in the next couple of weeks, 
so that we can continue to move the intelligence community, their 
various slots, toward accountability, which is important for the 
taxpayer, and it helps give management a reliable tool. If they've got 
those systems, got the internal controls in place, it will give them 
tools in order to manage the money, the precious resources that we take 
from the taxpayers and entrust to the intelligence community to do the 
great work that they have done over these past years.
  There is no greater example of that, of course, than the find-and-fix 
portion of the bin Laden experience that we saw play out on May 1 and 
2, a terrific achievement by folks whose faces will never be seen, 
whose names will never be known except to them and their colleagues. 
They'll know who they are. They'll have that great pride of knowing 
they've done great work for this country using the tools that we 
provide them.

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  I urge my colleagues to support the reauthorization bill.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. Mr. Chairman, how much time is remaining?
  The CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland has 21\1/2\ minutes remaining, 
and the gentleman from Michigan has 20 minutes remaining.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. I yield 2 minutes to the appropriator member 
of the House Intelligence Committee, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. 
Frelinghuysen).
  Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I thank the chairman for yielding, and I rise in 
support of this reauthorization.
  Mr. Chairman, I also rise to pay tribute to the dedicated men and 
women of our intelligence community. Their work is not an easy job in 
the best of times, but over the last 10 years, they've carried an 
especially heavy day-to-day burden. They work long hours under 
tremendous pressure, mostly in obscurity, to ensure that Americans are 
protected everywhere. They are the unsung heroes of national security, 
and we owe them more than we can possibly repay.
  My colleagues, as a Member of the House from a ``9/11 State,'' I take 
very seriously the findings of the 9/11 Commission. One of the key 
recommendations of the commission was the need to improve coordination 
of the numerous congressional committees charged with overseeing and 
funding the intelligence community and its many activities.
  To this end, I commend Chairman Mike Rogers for including me as part 
of the intelligence team in his committee. I would also like to thank 
Chairman Hal Rogers of the Appropriations Committee for seeing fit to 
appoint me as one of three liaisons to the Intelligence Committee. We 
are working closely with the Intelligence Committee to eliminate the 
daylight that has existed in the past between these two important 
committees and the legislation that's produced.
  The bill Chairman Rogers and Mr. Ruppersberger have constructed does 
ensure that our intelligence community has the tools and resources to 
analyze, predict, respond, and counter all the threats to America and 
Americans. I commend them for their effort. I am proud to be part of 
their team.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I continue to reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Georgia, also a member of the committee, Mr. 
Westmoreland.
  Mr. WESTMORELAND. I thank the chairman for yielding me this time.
  I cannot stress enough the importance of passing this FY 2011 
Intelligence authorization bill. This legislation will not only ensure 
that our intelligence agencies are sufficiently funded to carry out 
their functions, but it will hold them fiscally accountable.
  It has been 6 years since Congress has passed a complete Intelligence 
authorization bill. In years past, we have simply continued to ``deem'' 
funding for our intelligence programs to be authorized through other 
appropriations bills. Well, our law expressly requires that we 
explicitly authorize intelligence funding, and that is what we need to 
do here. We need to start passing an authorization bill each year in 
order to maintain the success of our intelligence communities and spell 
out exactly what will be provided. I want to commend Ranking Member 
Ruppersberger and Chairman Rogers for their work in working together to 
make sure that this is made possible.
  The significance of our country's intelligence cannot be overstated. 
The killing of Osama bin Laden is a direct example of the meaningful 
work that these agencies perform in order to protect us. We must 
continue to provide these men and women with the resources and 
capabilities that they need and not just place obstacles in their way 
but give them the resources that will make their job easier and more 
efficient. This authorization bill provides a detailed blueprint of 
necessary budget needs for the 17 separate agencies that it covers. It 
funds both military and civilian members of our intelligence community 
and directly supports those involved in dangerous operations at home 
and abroad. They are the very operations that are countering global 
terrorism and monitoring foreign militaries. These are the operations 
that make sure America stays on the cutting edge of intelligence 
technology to be able to detect and thwart threats before they become 
imminent. These are the people we must ensure are adequately funded.
  I ask all my colleagues to support this bill.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I continue to reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Flake).
  Mr. FLAKE. I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I would just like 
to engage in a colloquy briefly if we can.
  As the gentleman knows, I have worked and he has worked to decrease 
funding for the NDIC, the National Drug Intelligence Center. This is a 
center that has received hundreds of millions of dollars over the 
years, yet in 2005 a White House OMB report said that the NDIC ``has 
proven ineffective in achieving its assigned mission.'' Reports 
subsequent to that have pointed to similar failures and problems. Yet 
it still received last year, I think, $44 million.

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  I had intended to bring an amendment to this authorization bill, but 
I don't want to hold up this important authorization for FY 11. If I 
could just ask the chairman if he plans to bring an authorization bill 
for 2012.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. FLAKE. I yield to the gentleman.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. We plan to bring a bill for 2012, and I will 
work with you on the NDIC. I couldn't agree more: it's important that 
we continue to have the government effort focus on illicit drugs; 
however, the National Drug Intelligence Center has done very little to 
address this national priority, and I look forward to working with the 
Member.
  Mr. FLAKE. I thank the chairman.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to a 
distinguished member of the Intelligence Committee, the gentleman from 
Nevada (Mr. Heck).
  Mr. HECK. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
  I would like to begin by recognizing our military's extraordinary 
efforts to successfully close a painful chapter in American history. Of 
course, the military could not have performed their mission so 
successfully without our intelligence community's unflagging efforts. 
The men and women of the intelligence community are the unsung heroes 
of not only the mission to bring Osama bin Laden to justice but many 
other successful counterterrorism operations, and they deserve 
tremendous credit.
  The successful bin Laden mission highlights the critical role our 
intelligence community plays in protecting our national security. Two 
of the intelligence community's chief weapons against terrorism are 
information and the ability to communicate that information swiftly. 
I'm proud to say that the airmen at Creech Air Force Base in my home 
State of Nevada are critical to both capturing and communicating 
information that is necessary for intelligence operations.
  One reason Nevadans elected me last fall was to restore government 
accountability and oversight. Secretary of Defense Gates and Chairman 
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen both identified America's 
growing debt as our number one national security concern.
  As we're fighting the war on terror, we must not allocate resources 
without due process.
  The CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. I yield the gentleman an additional 30 
seconds.
  Mr. HECK. And we must ensure the intelligence community is 
accountable for their operations because most of their operations occur 
outside of the public's view.
  Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Ruppersberger are doing incredible 
work to make these ideas that we share a reality. I applaud their 
dedication to restoring proper accountability and oversight to the 
intelligence community. I am confident the Intelligence Authorization 
Act provides the resources and latitude our intelligence community 
needs while ensuring fiscal and operational responsibility.
  That is why I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on H.R. 754.

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  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I continue to reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to another 
distinguished gentleman from the House Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Rooney).
  Mr. ROONEY. I thank the chairman and ranking member for their 
leadership.
  I rise today, Mr. Chairman, in support of the fiscal year 2011 
Intelligence authorization legislation. On September 11, 2001, our 
Nation faced the deadliest act of terror in U.S. history. On the 
evening of May 1, 2011, the mastermind of those attacks, Osama bin 
Laden, was brought to justice and killed while hiding in a compound in 
Abbottabad, Pakistan.
  Along with the sacrifices our Nation's troops have made over the past 
10 years, our intelligence community has played an integral role in 
fighting the war on terror and keeping America safe. The behind-the-
scenes work of the intelligence community leading up to the attack and 
the raid in Abbottabad was critical to the success of the mission and 
will continue to be a crucial asset to winning the war on terror.
  Completing the Intelligence authorization bill is critical to 
ensuring that our Nation's intelligence agencies have the tools they 
need to remain at the forefront of global and national security. This 
bill provides vital congressional oversight and policy guidance to the 
intelligence community on behalf of the American people. Congress must 
ensure these agencies are acting in our best interest and spending 
taxpayer dollars wisely.
  As a member of the House Intelligence Committee and the House Armed 
Services Committee, I urge my colleagues to support this bill.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  There are two issues that I would like to discuss that we don't talk 
about a lot, but I think it is important that we do raise the issue. I 
know Chairman Rogers and I and the rest of the committee do work on 
this issue, and that's our space program and that's also cybersecurity.
  We, years ago, responded to Russia's putting up Sputnik by, in 10 
years, putting a man on the Moon. What we did basically is we helped 
create the science of rocket science. We did research and development, 
and we were able to put a man on the Moon. That was a great day for the 
United States of America when we did put a man on the Moon.
  Now we're in a situation where our space program needs to move 
forward. We have a lot of issues that we have to deal with in our space 
program; and the main reason for that is that, if you control the 
skies, you basically control the world. Space and satellites are so 
important to what we do, not just from an intelligence point of view, 
getting the information, taking the pictures, dealing with all sorts of 
communications. These are things that we do in space, and we have to 
keep moving ahead. We have to get our younger generation graduating 
from our colleges to continue to go into space.
  And the big threat there is China and Russia. China is putting 
billions of dollars into space. Their goal is to go to the Moon, and it 
is our concern that if they do that we have to be with them there. We 
have to continue our research and development, and we have to be 
vigilant in our space program. Russia, also, is very active in the 
space area.
  So it's something that isn't talked about a lot, but there's a lot of 
money that goes into space; and I think we have to do a better job in 
our military, in our space and intelligence, and let the public know 
how important space is.
  There's also another issue which is of great concern, I think, to the 
United States of America's national security, and that is the issue of 
cybersecurity. As we speak, we're being attacked by different 
governments and who knows what else we're being attacked by, getting 
information, relevant information, every day we speak. It's a very 
serious issue; and, unfortunately, the public does not really 
understand what cyber is about.
  Our NSA is as good as any operation in the world in their technology 
and developing the technology in order to protect our country. We don't 
control the Internet other than a small part, our dot-mils, the 
military part. So we have to make sure that our public understands how 
important cybersecurity is, how we could be attacked.
  We just recently had an attack about a month ago on NASDAQ. Just 
think if we had a cyberattack on our banks and what the lack of 
confidence would be for our public, and the government can't afford to 
pay for it all. So there has to be an effort between our government, 
our military, our NSA, between our private sector and between 
individuals who have their personal computers. This is an area of the 
future we need to focus on.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I want to commend Mr. 
Ruppersberger for the last remarks. Cybersecurity is a real and growing 
threat for the United States. We make serious commitments in this FY 11 
bill, and we have pledged to work together on separate pieces of 
legislation to put the United States in a better position to defend 
itself against cybersecurity. Something that started out so long ago as 
somebody in their mother's basement hacking into the local school to 
change their grades has become whole nation-states using the Internet 
and all of cyberspace to not only steal intellectual property from 
private enterprise, attempt to hack and steal information from the 
United States, but also use it for offensive purposes where we have 
seen the Russians who when they went into Georgia use aggressively 
cyber to prep the battlefield for their invasion, something that we all 
need to worry about.
  I want to, again, pledge to work with the ranking member on this 
very, very important issue so that we can get on better footing as we 
move forward.
  Also, on the space, it is one of the things that has given the United 
States a technological advantage in the world, something that we need 
to continue to make those investments into the overhead architecture of 
the United States from communication satellites to all of the things 
that we do from space. And it is a serious investment on this country, 
but when you look at the success of something like the Osama bin Laden 
raid, you realize all of it, from space, to cyber, to signals 
intelligence, to human intelligence, is something that was invested in 
in this money; and I'm glad that the ranking member used this 
opportunity to talk about those very important issues and the 
commitment in this bill to start to put us on better footing for that.
  I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. Mr. Chairman, I believe many valid points have 
been made in support of H.R. 754, the Intelligence Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2011.
  First, I want to thank Mr. Rogers for his leadership and for working 
together in a bipartisan way to do what's right for our country's 
national security and to make sure that we do our job in the oversight 
of all of the intelligence areas. Hopefully, we will continue this 
relationship as we go forward.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Nunes), a distinguished member of the 
House Intelligence Committee.
  Mr. NUNES. I would like to say thank you to Chairman Rogers and to 
Ranking Member Ruppersberger for really taking the Intelligence 
Committee and establishing its relevance back in the House. I know 
we've had some disagreements in the past, but Chairman Rogers, along 
with a lot of new members on the committee, have been working closely 
with the Democrats in a bipartisan way to, I believe, make a real 
difference in Congress' role in the intelligence community. I want to 
commend both of them for their honest and hard work. It's never easy 
because, as I'm learning now since being on the committee, it takes a 
lot of hours, and it's a lot of hours on behalf of the members that 
they have to commit to this committee; so having a chairman and a 
ranking member to really lead us in that effort makes a big difference.
  Mr. Chairman, let me speak to the issue at hand, which is that it is 
very concerning that Congress has not completed an authorization bill 
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even though the terrorist threat has not lessened since September 11, 
2001. This has limited an important oversight responsibility of the 
Congress. The world is too dangerous for Congress not to be more 
engaged in overseeing 16 intelligence agencies. We simply cannot 
maintain the status quo of the 111th Congress and ignore laws that 
require congressional oversight and the authorization of intelligence 
operations by the House Intelligence Committee.
  Congress must meet its responsibilities and again begin to pass 
annual intelligence authorization bills, which are vital to ensuring, 
among other things, that the men and women who really risk their lives 
to be part of this intelligence community are properly funded to carry 
out their critical mission of defending our country, such as the 
mission we just saw a couple of weeks ago, that of the killing of Osama 
bin Laden.
  The CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. I yield the gentleman 1 additional minute.
  Mr. NUNES. Congress can no longer avoid its responsibilities when our 
counterintelligence operations provide critical support to our combat 
units in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and in other important places across 
the world or when our intelligence agencies require new, cutting-edge 
technology or during a time of unprecedented unrest in the Middle East, 
Southeast Asia or in other parts of Central and South America.
  This does not mention the ever-growing threat that we face in the 
cyber community, with cyberspace, which is an area that this committee, 
I believe, will have to spend some significant time on.
  The CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has again expired.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. I yield the gentleman an additional 30 
seconds.
  Mr. NUNES. It also doesn't mention the time that we will have to 
spend on some foreign countries that are quickly gaining access to 
minerals that are very hard to come by. So many foreign nations are 
investing a lot of time, energy and effort into locating not only these 
minerals, oil, and natural gas all over the world, but they're coming 
together and working outside the interests of the United States. We 
have to have intelligence in these areas.
  This isn't your typical authorization bill, but it funds 17 
intelligence agencies which are critical to the defense of our country. 
Each agency has a unique perspective on the world, and Congress should 
be bipartisan in its partnering in these missions throughout the 
authorization and oversight processes. I look forward to voting ``yes'' 
on the 11th bill and to working in a bipartisan way on the 12th bill.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to an outstanding 
member of the Terrorism Subcommittee, the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Boren).
  Mr. BOREN. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of the Intelligence 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011.
  I want to thank Chairman Rogers, and I also want to thank Ranking 
Member Ruppersberger for working together in a bipartisan way to 
produce this bill. Their leadership was invaluable in moving this bill 
forward, and it has been critical to all of the committee's efforts 
during the 112th Congress.
  Last year, the President signed into law an Intelligence 
Authorization Act for the first time since 2005. That bill included a 
number of important provisions to address the foreign language needs of 
the intelligence community, including a provision I sponsored, which 
created a pilot program in African languages under the National 
Security Education Program.
  I am glad we can build upon the FY10 bill and can get another 
authorization bill signed into law for the second straight year. This 
bill authorizes the annual funding for the 16 member agencies of the 
intelligence community; aligns the national counterterrorism strategy 
with the policies and strategies of the DNI; and requires the DNI to 
establish an insider threat detection program to prevent unauthorized 
leaks of classified information.
  While this bill is important to our intelligence community's ability 
to be the first line of defense for America, as we recently saw with 
the killing of bin Laden in Pakistan, the intelligence community often 
forms the first line of offense against our enemies as well.
  Last month, I traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and witnessed 
firsthand the tremendous challenge of locating bin Laden and other 
members of al Qaeda. Finding him would not have been possible without 
the robust capabilities that are available to the dedicated 
intelligence professionals at the CIA and other agencies. That is why 
Congress must continue to provide the intelligence community with every 
resource it needs to complete its missions.
  Again, I extend my gratitude to Chairman Rogers and to Ranking Member 
Ruppersberger for their exceptional work on this legislation, and I 
also thank the Intelligence Committee staff for its tireless efforts in 
preparing this year's bill.
  I urge my colleagues to support this legislation.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I now yield 2 minutes to a 
former Army captain, the great new Member from Kansas (Mr. Pompeo).
  Mr. POMPEO. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
  I wanted to come to the floor today and thank Chairman Rogers and the 
ranking member for the great work they've done.
  I do not sit on this committee, but I did have the opportunity to 
serve in uniform our country. We witnessed what happened in the capture 
of the world's greatest terrorist, and we saw the great military feats 
which took place, but we also know all of the enormous work that our 
intelligence community did to make that happen.
  I served in a unit that patrolled the East German and Czechoslovakian 
border. Every day, we relied on the fact that our intelligence 
community was providing our military with the finest information and 
the finest data in as near realtime as it possibly could to make sure 
that we knew how to deploy our forces and knew the things that needed 
to be done to keep America safe.
  So I want to applaud the efforts of the Intelligence Committee. I 
want to urge all of my colleagues to support this legislation and the 
intelligence community, which keeps everyone in America safe.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. Mr. Chairman, in closing, the Intelligence 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 provides policy guidelines and 
sets classified funding levels for the 16 agencies in the intelligence 
community. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is gone forever, but our 
fight against terrorism is far from over.
  I believe this bill moves us in the right direction to ensure our 
topnotch intelligence professionals have the resources, capabilities 
and authorities they need to keep our country safe.
  I also want to acknowledge our staffs on both the Democratic and 
Republican sides, who worked together very closely with us to help put 
together this bill. I've always said that you're only as good as your 
team. We talk about teamwork. You need a good team and a good staff.
  I yield back the balance of my time.

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  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I will just take this 
opportunity to thank both the Democrat and Republican staff members who 
helped us prepare this bill. For the first time since I have served on 
the committee, we had both Democrat and Republican staff briefed in a 
bipartisan way at the same table, all Members in the room. And we think 
that that improved the value of this product tremendously, something we 
are hoping to continue.
  So my hat is off to all of the staff. We hire professionals from the 
community, from all walks of life as well to provide us the expertise 
that we need to provide the proper oversight for the intelligence 
community. And I do believe, in this great spirit of bipartisanship 
with Mr. Ruppersberger, that this will give the tools to those 17 
agencies who work in secrecy on behalf of the United States the things 
that they need to accomplish their mission and to keep this great 
country safe.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIR. All time for general debate has expired.
  Pursuant to the rule, the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
printed in the bill shall be considered as an original bill for the 
purpose of amendment under the 5-minute rule and shall be considered 
read.

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  The text of the amendment in the nature of a substitute is as 
follows:

                                H.R. 754

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

       (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the 
     ``Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011''.
       (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act 
     is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions.

              TITLE I--BUDGET AND PERSONNEL AUTHORIZATIONS

Sec. 101. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 102. Classified Schedule of Authorizations.
Sec. 103. Intelligence Community Management Account.

 TITLE II--CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY SYSTEM

Sec. 201. Authorization of appropriations.

           TITLE III--GENERAL INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MATTERS

Sec. 301. Restriction on conduct of intelligence activities.
Sec. 302. Increase in employee compensation and benefits authorized by 
              law.
Sec. 303. Non-reimbursable detail of other personnel.

  TITLE IV--MATTERS RELATING TO ELEMENTS OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

      Subtitle A--Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Sec. 401. Schedule and requirements for the National 
              Counterintelligence Strategy.
Sec. 402. Insider threat detection program.

                       Subtitle B--Other Elements

Sec. 411. Defense Intelligence Agency counterintelligence and 
              expenditures.
Sec. 412. Accounts and transfer authority for appropriations and other 
              amounts for the intelligence elements of the Department 
              of Defense.

     SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

       In this Act:
       (1) Congressional intelligence committees.--The term 
     ``congressional intelligence committees'' means--
       (A) the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and
       (B) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
     House of Representatives.
       (2) Intelligence community.--The term ``intelligence 
     community'' has the meaning given that term in section 3(4) 
     of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(4)).

              TITLE I--BUDGET AND PERSONNEL AUTHORIZATIONS

     SEC. 101. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
     year 2011 for the conduct of the intelligence and 
     intelligence-related activities of the following elements of 
     the United States Government:
       (1) The Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
       (2) The Central Intelligence Agency.
       (3) The Department of Defense.
       (4) The Defense Intelligence Agency.
       (5) The National Security Agency.
       (6) The Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, 
     and the Department of the Air Force.
       (7) The Coast Guard.
       (8) The Department of State.
       (9) The Department of the Treasury.
       (10) The Department of Energy.
       (11) The Department of Justice.
       (12) The Federal Bureau of Investigation.
       (13) The Drug Enforcement Administration.
       (14) The National Reconnaissance Office.
       (15) The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
       (16) The Department of Homeland Security.

     SEC. 102. CLASSIFIED SCHEDULE OF AUTHORIZATIONS.

       (a) Specifications of Amounts and Personnel Levels.--The 
     amounts authorized to be appropriated under section 101 and 
     the authorized personnel levels (expressed as full-time 
     equivalent positions) as of September 30, 2011, for the 
     conduct of the intelligence activities of the elements listed 
     in paragraphs (1) through (16) of section 101, are those 
     specified in the classified Schedule of Authorizations 
     prepared to accompany the bill H.R. 754 of the One Hundred 
     Twelfth Congress.
       (b) Availability of Classified Schedule of 
     Authorizations.--The classified Schedule of Authorizations 
     referred to in subsection (a) shall be made available to the 
     Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives, and to the 
     President. The President shall provide for suitable 
     distribution of the Schedule, or of appropriate portions of 
     the Schedule, within the executive branch.

     SEC. 103. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT.

       (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated for the Intelligence Community Management 
     Account of the Director of National Intelligence for fiscal 
     year 2011 the sum of $660,732,000. Within such amount, funds 
     identified in the classified Schedule of Authorizations 
     referred to in section 102(a) for advanced research and 
     development shall remain available until September 30, 2012.
       (b) Authorized Personnel Levels.--The elements within the 
     Intelligence Community Management Account of the Director of 
     National Intelligence are authorized 787 full-time equivalent 
     personnel as of September 30, 2011. Personnel serving in such 
     elements may be permanent employees of the Office of the 
     Director of National Intelligence or personnel detailed from 
     other elements of the United States Government.
       (c) Classified Authorizations.--
       (1) Authorization of appropriations.--In addition to 
     amounts authorized to be appropriated for the Intelligence 
     Community Management Account by subsection (a), there are 
     authorized to be appropriated for the Community Management 
     Account for fiscal year 2011 such additional amounts as are 
     specified in the classified Schedule of Authorizations 
     referred to in section 102(a). Such additional amounts made 
     available for advanced research and development shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2012.
       (2) Authorization of personnel.--In addition to the 
     personnel authorized by subsection (b) for elements of the 
     Intelligence Community Management Account as of September 30, 
     2011, there are authorized such full-time equivalent 
     personnel for the Community Management Account as of that 
     date as are specified in the classified Schedule of 
     Authorizations referred to in section 102(a).

 TITLE II--CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY SYSTEM

     SEC. 201. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       There is authorized to be appropriated for the Central 
     Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund for fiscal 
     year 2011 the sum of $292,000,000.

           TITLE III--GENERAL INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MATTERS

     SEC. 301. RESTRICTION ON CONDUCT OF INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES.

       The authorization of appropriations by this Act shall not 
     be deemed to constitute authority for the conduct of any 
     intelligence activity which is not otherwise authorized by 
     the Constitution or the laws of the United States.

     SEC. 302. INCREASE IN EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS 
                   AUTHORIZED BY LAW.

       Appropriations authorized by this Act for salary, pay, 
     retirement, and other benefits for Federal employees may be 
     increased by such additional or supplemental amounts as may 
     be necessary for increases in such compensation or benefits 
     authorized by law.

     SEC. 303. NON-REIMBURSABLE DETAIL OF OTHER PERSONNEL.

       (a) In General.--Section 113A of the National Security Act 
     of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 404h-1) is amended to read as follows:


              ``non-reimbursable detail of other personnel

       ``Sec. 113A. An officer or employee of the United States or 
     member of the Armed Forces may be detailed to the staff of an 
     element of the intelligence community funded through the 
     National Intelligence Program from another element of the 
     intelligence community or from another element of the United 
     States Government on a non-reimbursable basis, as jointly 
     agreed to by the heads of the receiving and detailing 
     elements, for a period not to exceed two years. This section 
     does not limit any other source of authority for reimbursable 
     or non-reimbursable details.''.
       (b) Table of Contents Amendment.--The table of contents in 
     the first section of such Act is amended by striking the item 
     relating to section 113A and inserting the following:

``Sec. 113A. Non-reimbursable detail of other personnel.''.

  TITLE IV--MATTERS RELATING TO ELEMENTS OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

      Subtitle A--Office of the Director of National Intelligence

     SEC. 401. SCHEDULE AND REQUIREMENTS FOR THE NATIONAL 
                   COUNTERINTELLIGENCE STRATEGY.

       Section 904(d)(2) of the Counterintelligence Enhancement 
     Act of 2002 (50 U.S.C. 402c(d)(2)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``Subject'' and inserting the following:
       ``(A) Requirement to produce.--Subject'';
       (2) by striking ``on an annual basis''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(B) Revision and requirement.--The National 
     Counterintelligence Strategy shall be revised or updated at 
     least once every three years and shall be aligned with the 
     strategy and policies of the Director of National 
     Intelligence.''.

     SEC. 402. INSIDER THREAT DETECTION PROGRAM.

       (a) Initial Operating Capability.--Not later than October 
     1, 2012, the Director of National Intelligence shall 
     establish an initial operating capability for an effective 
     automated insider threat detection program for the 
     information resources in each element of the intelligence 
     community in order to detect unauthorized access to, or use 
     or transmission of, classified intelligence.
       (b) Full Operating Capability.--Not later than October 1, 
     2013, the Director of National Intelligence shall ensure the 
     program described in subsection (a) has reached full 
     operating capability.
       (c) Report.--Not later than December 1, 2011, the Director 
     of National Intelligence shall submit to the congressional 
     intelligence committees a report on the resources required to 
     implement the insider threat detection program referred to in 
     subsection (a) and any other issues related to such 
     implementation the Director considers appropriate to include 
     in the report.
       (d) Information Resources Defined.--In this section, the 
     term ``information resources'' means networks, systems, 
     workstations, servers, routers, applications, databases, 
     websites, online collaboration environments, and any other

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     information resources in an element of the intelligence 
     community designated by the Director of National 
     Intelligence.

                       Subtitle B--Other Elements

     SEC. 411. DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND 
                   EXPENDITURES.

       Section 105 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
     403-5) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)(5), by inserting ``and 
     counterintelligence'' after ``human intelligence'';
       (2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
       (3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
       ``(c) Expenditure of Funds by the Defense Intelligence 
     Agency.--(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the Director 
     of the Defense Intelligence Agency may expend amounts made 
     available to the Director for human intelligence and 
     counterintelligence activities for objects of a confidential, 
     extraordinary, or emergency nature, without regard to the 
     provisions of law or regulation relating to the expenditure 
     of Government funds.
       ``(2) The Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency may 
     not expend more than five percent of the amounts made 
     available to the Director for human intelligence and 
     counterintelligence activities for a fiscal year for objects 
     of a confidential, extraordinary, or emergency nature in 
     accordance with paragraph (1) during such fiscal year 
     unless--
       ``(A) the Director notifies the congressional intelligence 
     committees of the intent to expend the amounts; and
       ``(B) 30 days have elapsed from the date on which the 
     Director notifies the congressional intelligence committees 
     in accordance with subparagraph (A).
       ``(3) For each expenditure referred to in paragraph (1), 
     the Director shall certify that such expenditure was made for 
     an object of a confidential, extraordinary, or emergency 
     nature.
       ``(4) Not later than December 31 of each year, the Director 
     of the Defense Intelligence Agency shall submit to the 
     congressional intelligence committees a report on any 
     expenditures made during the preceding fiscal year in 
     accordance with paragraph (1).''.

     SEC. 412. ACCOUNTS AND TRANSFER AUTHORITY FOR APPROPRIATIONS 
                   AND OTHER AMOUNTS FOR THE INTELLIGENCE ELEMENTS 
                   OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       (a) In General.--Chapter 21 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by inserting after section 428 the following 
     new section:

     ``Sec. 429. Appropriations for defense intelligence elements: 
       accounts for transfer; transfer

       ``(a) Accounts for Appropriations for Defense Intelligence 
     Elements.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall establish one 
     or more accounts for the receipt of appropriations and other 
     amounts transferred pursuant to subsection (b).
       ``(b) Transfers Authorized.--(1) There may be transferred 
     to an account established pursuant to subsection (a) the 
     following:
       ``(A) Appropriations transferred by the Secretary of 
     Defense from appropriations of the Department of Defense 
     available for intelligence, intelligence-related activities, 
     and intelligence-related communications.
       ``(B) Appropriations and other amounts transferred by the 
     Director of National Intelligence from appropriations and 
     other amounts available for the defense intelligence 
     elements.
       ``(C) Amounts and reimbursements in connection with 
     transactions authorized by law between the defense 
     intelligence elements and other entities.
       ``(2) The transfer authority of the Secretary of Defense 
     under paragraph (1)(A) is in addition to any other transfer 
     authority available to the Secretary by law.
       ``(c) Availability of Appropriations and Amounts 
     Transferred.--(1) Appropriations transferred pursuant to 
     subsection (b) shall remain available for the same time 
     period, and shall be available for the same purposes, as the 
     appropriations from which transferred.
       ``(2) Appropriation balances in an account established 
     pursuant to subsection (a) may be transferred back to the 
     account or accounts from which such balances originated as an 
     appropriation refund.
       ``(d) Defense Intelligence Elements Defined.--In this 
     section, the term `defense intelligence elements' means the 
     agencies, offices, and elements of the Department of Defense 
     that are included within the elements of the intelligence 
     community specified in or designated under section 3(4) of 
     the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(4)).''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of subchapter I of chapter 21 of such title is 
     amended by inserting after the item relating to section 428 
     the following new item:

``429. Appropriations for defense intelligence elements: accounts for 
              transfer; transfer.''.

  The CHAIR. No amendment to the committee amendment is in order except 
those printed in House Report 112-75. Each such amendment may be 
offered only in the order printed in the report, by a Member designated 
in the report, shall be considered read, shall be debatable for the 
time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the 
proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall 
not be subject to a demand for division of the question.


           Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mr. Rogers of Michigan

  The CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 1 printed in 
House Report 112-75.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the 
desk.
  The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 12, line 10, insert ``under the National Intelligence 
     Program'' after ``the Director''.
       Page 12, line 17, insert ``under the National Intelligence 
     Program'' after ``the Director''.
       Strike section 412.

  The CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 264, the gentleman from 
Michigan (Mr. Rogers) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Michigan.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, this is a manager's amendment 
to the bill that contains two provisions.
  The first provision would simply clarify that section 411 of the 
bill, which relates to certain Defense Intelligence Agency 
expenditures, applies only to the National Intelligence Program funds. 
This clarification was requested by the Committee on Armed Services and 
is largely technical in nature.
  The second provision would strike section 412 of the reported bill, 
which provides for the creation of certain accounts for intelligence 
funds. While this provision is an important one, intended to promote 
auditability of intelligence funds, some technical issues have arisen; 
and I believe it was prudent to hold this over until the FY12 bill. It 
is something that I support and hope to return to the bill in FY12. I 
do not believe that either of these changes are controversial and urge 
Members to support the amendment.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. Mr. Chairman, I rise to claim the time in 
opposition, though I am not opposed to the amendment.
  The CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Maryland is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. In this era of tight budgets, I believe it is our 
responsibility to manage every taxpayer dollar efficiently and 
effectively. Section 412 of the bill provides the Secretary of Defense 
authority to transfer certain funds into specific accounts to provide 
more accurate accounting of money spent. The manager's amendment 
strikes section 412 from the bill.
  Section 412 will allow for an accurate audit of taxpayer dollars. 
This important tool will save us money in the long run. We must 
identify programs that are not working and trim those costs. A thorough 
audit will help us do that. We must ensure any cuts do not negatively 
impact on the performance of the mission. The administration supports 
section 412, and so do I.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. I thank the ranking member. I look forward to 
working with him on this particular issue.
  As I think the ranking member understands, Mr. Chairman, we've 
brought in auditors on the committee. This is something we're very 
committed to in a bipartisan way, to actually have funds that can be 
audited. It's a bit shocking, I think, to both of us that they have had 
these funds for such a long time that have not been able to be audited, 
and we hope to do that on behalf of the taxpayers of the United States.
  With that, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I agree with the chairman. Staff is working 
together to try to resolve the issues involving section 412. We look 
forward to a positive resolution.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman 
from Michigan (Mr. Rogers).
  The question was taken; and the Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on 
the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan will be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Barrow

  The CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 2 printed in 
House Report 112-75.
  Mr. BARROW. I have an amendment at the desk.

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  The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       After section 303, insert the following:

     SEC. 304. INTELLIGENCE OFFICER TRAINING PROGRAM.

       Section 1024 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
     U.S.C. 441p) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``subsection (b)'' 
     and inserting ``subsections (b) and (c)'';
       (2) by redesignating subsections (c) through (f) as 
     subsections (d) through (g), respectively;
       (3) by inserting after subsection (b), the following:
       ``(c) Grant Program for Historically Black Colleges and 
     Universities.--(1) The Director may provide grants to 
     historically black colleges and universities to provide 
     programs of study in educational disciplines identified under 
     subsection (a)(2) or described in paragraph (2).
       ``(2) A grant provided under paragraph (1) may be used to 
     provide programs of study in the following educational 
     disciplines:
       ``(A) Intermediate and advanced foreign languages deemed in 
     the immediate interest of the intelligence community, 
     including Farsi, Pashto, Middle Eastern, African, and South 
     Asian dialects.
       ``(B) Study abroad programs and cultural immersion 
     programs.''; and
       (4) in paragraph (g) (as so redesignated)--
       (A) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3);
       (B) by inserting after paragraph (1), the following:
       ``(2) Historically black college and university.--The term 
     `historically black college and university' has the meaning 
     given the term `part B institution' in section 322 of the 
     Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1061).''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(4) Study abroad program.--The term `study abroad 
     program' means a program of study that--
       ``(A) takes places outside the geographical boundaries of 
     the United States;
       ``(B) focuses on areas of the world that are critical to 
     the national security interests of the United States and are 
     generally underrepresented in study abroad programs at 
     institutions of higher education, including Africa, Asia, 
     Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the 
     Middle East; and
       ``(C) is a credit or noncredit program.''.

  The CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 264, the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Barrow) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Georgia.
  Mr. BARROW. Mr. Chairman, I want to begin by thanking Chairman Rogers 
and Ranking Member Ruppersberger for their hard work on this important 
legislation.
  We face a diverse and growing array of threats around the globe, and 
we need an intelligence community as diverse as the threats we face. My 
amendment directs the national intelligence director to create a pilot 
program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities to help 
develop critical language curricula and study abroad programs. Our 
defenses have to be as advanced as the means used by our enemies. That 
means that our human assets have to be as diverse as our enemies. 
Cultural, language, and educational barriers affect the quality of 
intelligence we can gather; and it's critical that we have the human 
assets to overcome these barriers.
  The area of Georgia I represent is home to several HBCUs with 
specific expertise in critical languages. Engaging centers of academic 
excellence such as these will help the intelligence community meet our 
strategic security goals and will produce more sophisticated 
intelligence officers. This, in turn, will make our country more 
secure. I, therefore, urge my colleagues to support this amendment and 
support passage of the bill.
  With that, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, while I do not oppose the 
amendment, I would ask unanimous consent to claim the time in 
opposition.
  The CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Michigan?
  There was no objection.
  The CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  While I support the intent behind the amendment, I believe it is also 
important to note for the record--and I appreciate the gentleman's work 
on this--that the Intelligence Committee has already a number of 
existing programs and initiatives in this area. I think this will, in 
fact, enhance that effort.
  The proposed amendment has the goal of assisting Historically Black 
Colleges and Universities in creating and maintaining academic 
curricula that help the intelligence community meet its workforce 
diversity and critical language goals. I am happy to say that the 
community already understands well that a diverse workforce enhances 
its mission performance. For example, Director Panetta has launched his 
own initiative at CIA to enhance the diversity of that agency's 
workforce.
  Additionally, there are other initiatives under way to increase the 
employment and retention of the diverse candidates throughout the 
intelligence community. And I won't go on, other than to compliment the 
gentleman for his interest in exposing the number of people who would 
have the skills to apply and diversify our workforce at the CIA.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman 
from Georgia (Mr. Barrow).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                  Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. Dent

  The CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 3 printed in 
House Report 112-75.
  Mr. DENT. I offer an amendment, Mr. Chairman.
  The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of title III, add the following new section:

     SEC. 304. INFORMATION ON PURSUIT OF ANWAR AL-AWLAKI.

       Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Director of National Intelligence and the 
     Director of the Central Intelligence Agency shall jointly 
     submit to the congressional intelligence committees--
       (1) all information in the possession of the Office of the 
     Director of National Intelligence and the Central 
     Intelligence Agency relating to the pursuit and targeting of 
     Anwar al-Awlaki by the Federal Government; and
       (2) an analysis of the legal impediments to pursuing the 
     capture of Anwar al-Awlaki.

  The CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 264, the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Dent) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. DENT. Mr. Chairman, I first want to commend the chairman and the 
ranking member for the very good work they have done on this bill. They 
really have worked in a bipartisan manner, and they are really trying 
to advance the best interests of the intelligence community and this 
Nation's national security. So I applaud them for the spirit in which 
they have taken on this legislation.
  I will withdraw this amendment after having conversations with the 
chairman. But the point I want to make about the amendment is that the 
amendment simply directs the Director of National Intelligence and the 
CIA that within 90 days of this act to provide the congressional 
intelligence committees all information possessed by the DNI and the 
CIA relating to the pursuit and targeting of one Anwar al-Awlaki by the 
Federal Government as well as an analysis of the legal impediments to 
pursuing the capture of Anwar al-Awlaki.
  Americans are all very much familiar with who Osama bin Laden is. 
Everybody knows who he is, and we're all extremely gratified about his 
demise. At the same time, we should all be aware too that Anwar al-
Awlaki seems to be the leader of many of the operational aspects of al 
Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula. He is a real threat. He is an American 
citizen. He is also a Yemeni citizen. He has targeted Americans. We 
always thought he was a spiritual adviser and certainly a recruiter for 
al Qaeda. But now it's quite clear that he has also gone operational.

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  We're aware of that as it relates to the underwear bomber, 
Abdulmutallab and his attempt to the blow up the airliner near Detroit.
  So the point of this amendment is to raise awareness on Anwar al-
Awlaki, also to point out the fact that he is a citizen, to point out 
the fact that I think it's important that we consider essentially that 
he has committed expatriating acts. I mean, the fact that he has 
targeted American citizens, that he has called for the death of many

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Americans, I have legislation that is also prepared to deal with his 
citizenship issue, that it should be revoked, or at least we should 
seriously do that, just as we would for any other individual who takes 
up arms against this country. We have laws on the books from 1944 when 
there were individuals who were signed up with the Nazi army or the 
Imperial Army of Japan who took up arms against this country as 
citizens. Those are expatriating acts.
  I simply believe that if an individual takes up arms with al Qaeda or 
the Taliban or any other terrorist organization, foreign terrorist 
organization that is intent on killing Americans, that we should treat 
them just as we would an individual who is an agent of a foreign 
government or part of a foreign army. That's the whole point.
  But recognizing this is probably not the best place to offer this 
amendment at this time, I have agreed to withdraw it. I appreciate the 
chairman's consideration, and I will be working to make sure that this 
Congress has the opportunity to address the citizenship issue of Anwar 
al-Awlaki. It has reported in the press that our government has a kill 
or capture order on Mr. Al-Awlaki. I don't know if that is true or not. 
I read it in the press.
  Just last week we saw reports that Anwar al-Awlaki was supposedly the 
intended target of an attack, unsuccessful, in Yemen, and so he is 
still alive. And the point I want to make is that I think that if we're 
targeting an American citizen for assassination, then I think we should 
at least take up the issue of his citizenship and revoke it if at all 
possible. So at that point I will address it in another forum.
  At this time I would again urge everybody here to support the 
underlying legislation. I will withdraw this amendment, and I 
appreciate the chairman and ranking member's consideration.
  Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment.
  The CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania?
  There was no objection.


                 Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. Gibson

  The CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 5 printed in 
House Report 112-75.
  Mr. GIBSON. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of subtitle A of title IV (page 11, after line 
     20), add the following new section:

     SEC. 403. REPORT ON POTENTIAL CONSOLIDATION OF ELEMENTS OF 
                   THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.

       Not later than December 31, 2011, the Director of National 
     Intelligence shall submit to congress a report containing any 
     recommendations the Director considers appropriate for 
     consolidating elements of the intelligence community.

  The CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 264, the gentleman from New 
York (Mr. Gibson) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New York.
  Mr. GIBSON. Mr. Chairman, I actually want to begin this afternoon by 
praising the chairman and the ranking member, all of the members of the 
intel committee and their staff for truly magnificent work here on 
behalf of the American people. I've spent some time down in the SCIF 
and have been through the bill, and I think it's something that 
everyone can be proud of. And clearly, the operation that occurred 
about 2 weeks ago that ended in the death of Osama Bin Laden is an 
example of how intel and operations can be fused for successful 
operations.
  And I'm rising today to offer an amendment to the intel authorization 
bill that I hope the committee will be willing to accept. It's based on 
my experiences from the 29 years I served in the United States 
military, nearly 5 in the New York Army National Guard, and then 24 
years in the United States Army.
  And I will tell you that, particularly, my experiences in Iraq 
commanding an airborne infantry battalion task force, and then later as 
a Division G-3, that's an operations officer for Multinational Division 
North, I saw firsthand the virtues of intel and operations being fused 
for successful operations.
  And so what concerns me today is the fact that since the 11th of 
September, we've had significant growth in the intel community to 
address various concerns. And what I think we need to do now is pause, 
reflect, and look for ways to consolidate all that growth so that we 
can continue to have effective intel operations in a manner that's 
consistent for Republicans, and one that we can afford.
  So what I offered is actually a very simple amendment. It asks the 
Director of National Intelligence to provide his recommendations on 
consolidation with an eye towards effectiveness and efficiency.
  When we initially created this position this, of course, was a result 
of the Kean Commission after the horrific attacks of the 11th of 
September, 2001. We created the DNI to help us to really provide 
leadership in the intel community. In my estimation, we did not provide 
the adequate budget and legal authorities for him to really accomplish 
all those duties that we expected of him. So I would think that he 
would welcome this task to provide his recommendation to us on how we 
might better organize, consolidate the intel community to perform its 
very critical function for the American people.
  I urge my colleagues to support the amendment. And again I want to 
thank the intel committee, the leadership and all those who provided 
the work for this bill.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I appreciate Congressman Gibson's intent. And I 
also want to thank him for his service in the military. But I believe 
we should always be looking for efficiencies to help reduce costs 
throughout the government.
  The Director of National Intelligence is conducting a similar review 
that will identify redundancies without sacrificing core missions. I 
want to see the product of those efforts before asking the DNI, 
Director of National Intelligence, to submit an additional report. For 
this reason I oppose the amendment.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. GIBSON. I certainly respect my colleague for all his experiences 
that he brings before he comes to the Congress, and for the tremendous 
work he's done in the time that he's been here serving the American 
people in the United States Congress.
  I respectfully disagree with the position, and would like to hear 
directly from the Director of National Intelligence. I know if I were 
in his shoes I would welcome this task. I would want to provide the 
United States Congress, the American people, by way of the United 
States Congress, to provide the recommendations on the way that he, in 
this case, the way he sees fit on better organizing the intel 
community.
  So, with a very heavy respect for the ranking member, I still urge my 
colleagues to support the amendment.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. GIBSON. I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman 
from New York (Mr. Gibson).
  The question was taken; and the Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on 
the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York will be postponed.

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              Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. Ruppersberger

  The CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 6 printed in 
House Report 112-75.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I rise to offer the amendment for Congresswoman 
Waters as her designee.
  The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of subtitle A of title IV, add the following new 
     section:

     SEC. 403. INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION 
                   OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES.

       (a) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Inspector General of the 
     Intelligence Community shall submit to Congress a report on 
     the degree to which racial and ethnic minorities

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     in the United States are employed in professional positions 
     in the intelligence community and barriers to the recruitment 
     and retention of additional racial and ethnic minorities in 
     such positions.
       (b) Form.--The report required under subsection (a) shall 
     be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a 
     classified annex.

  The CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 264, the gentleman from 
Maryland (Mr. Ruppersberger) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Maryland.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I yield to the gentlewoman from California, 
Congresswoman Waters.
  Ms. WATERS. I thank the gentleman.
  My amendment requires the inspector general of the intelligence 
community to report to Congress on racial and ethnic diversity in the 
intelligence community.
  A diverse workforce is essential to intelligence work. People from a 
variety of backgrounds bring a variety of perspectives to the table to 
understand the world in which we live. A diverse workforce provides 
intelligence agencies critical insights into different cultures around 
the world, where information about potential threats to our national 
security is being collected and analyzed.
  Many leading intelligence officials understand the importance of a 
diverse workforce. The Web site of the Central Intelligence Agency 
includes the following statement:
  ``In order for the CIA to meet our mission of protecting our national 
security interests, we need to employ a workforce as diverse as America 
itself, the most diverse Nation on Earth. Diversity reflects the unique 
ways we vary as intelligence officers. Our nationality, race, 
ethnicity, gender, age, language, culture, sexual orientation, 
education, values, beliefs, abilities, and disabilities. These assorted 
attributes create different demographic, functional, and intellectual 
views which are so vital to our innovation, agility, collection, and 
analysis.''
  And I really do think that says it all.
  Unfortunately, there is virtually no data available to Congress and 
the public regarding the degree of racial and ethnic diversity in the 
intelligence community. The most recent publicly available report that 
discusses this subject is a 1996 report by the Government 
Accountability Office on personnel practices at intelligence agencies, 
which focused on equal employment opportunity practices.
  The report concluded that intelligence agencies have workforce 
diversity programs, but results lag far behind other Federal agencies. 
This report was written more than 5 years before the terrorist attacks 
of 9/11 and 15 years before the death of Osama bin Laden. Needless to 
say, both the intelligence community and the world in which it operates 
have changed tremendously since then.
  My amendment states that, within 180 days after the enactment of the 
bill, the inspector general shall submit to Congress a report on the 
degree to which racial and ethnic minorities in the United States are 
employed in professional positions in the intelligence community and 
barriers to the recruitment and retention of additional racial and 
ethnic minorities in these position. The amendment requires that the 
report be submitted in unclassified form, but allows the inspector 
general to include a classified annex.
  It is long past time for Congress to reevaluate the diversity of the 
intelligence community workforce, and I urge my colleagues to support 
my amendment.
  Again, I thank the gentleman, Mr. Ruppersberger, for yielding.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, while I do not oppose this 
amendment, I ask unanimous consent to claim time in opposition.
  The CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Michigan?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I support efforts to create a 
diverse workforce within the intelligence community. A diverse 
workforce is instrumental to effectively respond to the complex global 
threats faced by the United States.
  I do have so many concerns that this amendment is duplicative with 
many efforts which are already under way within the intelligence 
community to address this issue.
  For example, section 338 of the Intelligence Authorization Act of 
2010, passed after the fiscal year last year, requires the DNI to 
coordinate with each element of the IC to provide a report of plans to 
increase the employment and retention of diverse candidates. Moreover, 
the DNI has already created a strategic plan on equal employment 
opportunity and issued Community Directive 110, the Equal Employment 
Opportunity and Diversity Program.
  It is my hope that the inspector general will consider all of these 
existing initiatives in the report and use the substantial body of work 
that has already been done on these issues in completing it.
  Nonetheless, I will support the amendment and its laudable goals.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman 
from Maryland (Mr. Ruppersberger).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 7 Offered by Mr. Hinchey

  The CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 7 printed in 
House Report 112-75.
  Mr. HINCHEY. I have an amendment at the desk.
  The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the appropriate place in the bill, insert the following 
     new section:

     SEC. __. REPORT ON ACTIVITIES OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY 
                   IN ARGENTINA.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 270 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Director of National 
     Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
     committees a report containing the following:
       (1) A description of any information in the possession of 
     the intelligence community with respect to the following 
     events in the Republic of Argentina:
       (A) The accession to power by the military of the Republic 
     of Argentina in 1976.
       (B) Violations of human rights committed by officers or 
     agents of the Argentine military and security forces during 
     counterinsurgency or counterterror operations, including by 
     the State Intelligence Secretariat (Secretaria de 
     Inteligencia del Estado), Military Intelligence Detachment 
     141 (Destacamento de Inteligencia Militar 141 in Cordoba), 
     Military Intelligence Detachment 121 (Destacamento Militar 
     121 in Rosario), Army Intelligence Battalion 601, the Army 
     Reunion Center (Reunion Central del Ejercito), and the Army 
     First Corps in Buenos Aires.
       (C) Operation Condor and Argentina's role in cross-border 
     counterinsurgency or counterterror operations with Brazil, 
     Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, or Uruguay.
       (2) Information on abductions, torture, disappearances, and 
     executions by security forces and other forms of repression, 
     including the fate of Argentine children born in captivity, 
     that took place at detention centers, including the 
     following:
       (A) The Argentine Navy Mechanical School (Escuela Mecanica 
     de la Armada).
       (B) Automotores Orletti.
       (C) Operaciones Tacticas 18.
       (D) La Perla.
       (E) Campo de Mayo.
       (F) Institutos Militares.
       (3) An appendix of declassified records reviewed and used 
     for the report submitted under this subsection.
       (4) A descriptive index of information referred to in 
     paragraph (1) or (2) that is classified, including the 
     identity of each document that is classified, the reason for 
     continuing the classification of such document, and an 
     explanation of how the release of the document would damage 
     the national security interests of the United States.
       (b) Review of Classified Documents.--Not later than two 
     years after the date on which the report required under 
     subsection (a) is submitted, the Director of National 
     Intelligence shall review information referred to in 
     paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (a) that is classified to 
     determine if any of such information should be declassified.
       (c) Form.--The report required under subsection (a) shall 
     be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a 
     classified annex.
       (d) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
     means the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the 
     Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
     and the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the Senate.

  The CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 264, the gentleman from New 
York (Mr. Hinchey) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New York.
  Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Chairman, in 1976, amid social unrest and a deep 
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crisis in Argentina, a military coup installed one of the cruelest 
dictatorships South America has ever seen. Illegal detentions, torture, 
and summary executions of dissidents became routine. Cross-country 
operations to capture and assassinate dissidents were organized by 
Argentina in cooperation with Southern Cone military regimes in what is 
known as Operation Condor.
  Over the years, as the victims of the repression increasingly went 
missing, a new tactic of the Argentine security forces was revealed. It 
is estimated that 30,000 people disappeared in Argentina between 1976 
and 1985. Many of these victims, known as ``the disappeared,'' were 
abducted. They were tortured and then dropped far out into the ocean.
  During the dictatorship, hundreds of children were born into 
captivity and distributed to members of the Argentine security forces, 
while their mothers are believed to have been killed.

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  The identity of some of these children has been discovered, but the 
majority of their identities and whereabouts remain unknown. My 
amendment seeks to shed light on the unknown fate of these children, 
who would be now in their twenties and early thirties.
  Given the close relationship with their Argentine counterparts in the 
intelligence, security and military community, the documentation of the 
American intelligence community is likely to contain invaluable 
information to support renewed justice investigations and the search 
for the children of ``the disappeared.''
  This amendment that I am offering would direct the Director of 
National Intelligence to report to the House and Senate Intelligence 
panels on information it has regarding the human rights violations of 
the military government in Argentina and also seeks to help shed light 
on the unknown fate of the Argentine children who were born in 
captivity. The amendment instructs the DNI to include an appendix of 
declassified documents used for the report and gives the authority for 
the inclusion of a classified annex.
  Thousands of families have waited more than 30 years to learn the 
fate of their loved ones, and today we have an opportunity to make a 
significant contribution to truth and justice and help bring to a close 
this troubling chapter in Argentina's history.
  In 2008, this amendment was made in order by the Rules Committee and 
agreed to on the House floor without objection from either party by 
voice vote. At that time, my dear friend and colleague Peter Hoekstra 
said, ``I will not oppose this amendment, Mr. Chairman. I will support 
the amendment.''
  So I urge all of us to join in supporting this contribution to truth 
and justice in the country of Argentina.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. I must unfortunately oppose this amendment.
  I certainly can sympathize with the gentleman's intention to try to 
bring some closure for families in this particularly difficult issue in 
Argentina, and it may certainly result in some information to those who 
are conducting maybe historical research and analysis and certainly to 
mend the wounds that have been created in this particular situation.
  It would also do something, I think, equally damaging to today's 
effort in the war on terror. It would divert the intelligence community 
from its mission of protecting the United States and our interests from 
current threats. When you think about how difficult it was to take a 
small piece of information and stretch a nickname, an Arabic nickname 
applied to someone who is using an alias, who is likely associating 
with individuals who had Arabic nicknames associated to aliases, and 
from that little scrap of information, the entire intelligence 
apparatus spent years trying to develop the right lead to lead us to 
last Sunday's event to bring Osama bin Laden to justice.
  This year, the intelligence community came forward and said, We need 
more analysts. We need more human resources in order to accomplish this 
mission. There are too many threats in too many places for our people 
to handle it. And what this amendment does, although it is very well 
intended, it takes resources away to apply it to a problem that is 20 
to 30 years old. I am sorry, we just don't have that luxury today.

  We are concerned, the intelligence community is concerned that the 
next few months, the next 6 months are crucial when al Qaeda is trying 
to get its act back together after losing its operational and 
inspirational leader and how they reach out or lash out in some kind of 
an attack. It is imperative that every minute of every day be spent 
targeting those who are seeking to kill Americans or our allies 
overseas now.
  I hope that we find some other alternative to what the gentleman 
proposes in maybe another way. But redirecting the valuable assets in 
the fight on terror today I just think is a misuse of our resources and 
may, in fact, be a dangerous one at that. This is not the time to be 
disrupting our counterterrorism analysts, our case officers, or anybody 
in the CIA or other intelligence agencies away from disrupting, 
dismantling and defeating al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations 
for the activities of the Government of Argentina nearly 25 years ago.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Chairman, how much time do we have remaining?
  The CHAIR. The gentleman from New York has 2 minutes remaining, and 
the gentleman from Michigan has 3 minutes remaining.
  Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Chairman, I deeply appreciate what has just been 
said. But the fact of the matter is that there are no significant costs 
involved in this. This operation has been looked at in the past. The 
information that we are asking for in the context of this amendment is 
readily available. It is not going to take any significant costs 
whatsoever and it can be done very, very quickly.
  This is a situation that really needs to be corrected. It is a 
violent, deeply disturbing activity that took place in the context of 
many, many families, many of whom are completely innocent, and the 
effects of that were in many cases deeply disastrous.
  This is something that can be done easily and can be done quickly, 
and it was supported by the opposition almost unanimously--in fact, 
unanimously--the last time that this bill came up and this amendment 
was brought forward.
  So I ask the opposition here to reconsider this. Think closely about 
this, how important this is, how significantly important it is for 
Argentina and for the United States, and how it can be done readily and 
easily, and how the results of it being done would be happily taken 
care of by these two countries. There isn't anyone who is going to 
deeply object to this, anyone who is significant at least in the 
context of this operation who is going to deeply object to this.
  We need to do this. It is an honest thing and it is something that is 
going to be positive. It will be deeply positive and effective for us 
in the context of bringing this about. So I hope that everyone in this 
body will recognize the significance of this and vote in favor of it.
  The CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, again, with deep respect to the 
Member from New York, and I appreciate your passion on this, I can tell 
you as a former FBI agent, when you take 1 minute away from your case 
to cull information, it does take somebody who is operational in some 
sense, either an analyst or an operator or even on the IT front, to 
gather, collect, sort that information, to go through it, to put it in 
the proper form and to get it in the right place.
  Really, every minute of every day is so precious to these individuals 
who are trying to focus on al Qaeda and the current threat. My argument 
is that this is something that can wait. It has waited 25 years. 
Probably the next few years won't make a difference, but the next few 
years in the fight against al Qaeda can mean the life and death of U.S. 
citizens.
  So, again, I hope the gentleman doesn't think it is any condemnation 
of his effort. I think the time and the place and the resources that 
would be lost are just not meeting the national security priorities as 
we look out across what the threat stream is today.
  So, unfortunately, I will continue to oppose it. I would like to work 
with the gentleman on something in the future.

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  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman 
from New York (Mr. Hinchey).
  The question was taken; and the Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on 
the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York will be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 8 Offered by Mr. Carney

  The CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 8 printed in 
House Report 112-75.
  Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the bill, add the following new title:

                         TITLE V--OTHER MATTERS

     SEC. 501. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE PRIORITY OF RAILWAY 
                   TRANSPORTATION SECURITY.

       It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) railway transportation (including subway transit) 
     should be prioritized in the development of transportation 
     security plans by the intelligence community; and
       (2) railway transportation security (including subway 
     transit security) should be included in transportation 
     security budgets of the intelligence community.

  The CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 264, the gentleman from 
Delaware (Mr. Carney) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Delaware.

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  Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Chairman, over the past week, officials have 
announced that preliminary intelligence gathered from Osama bin Laden's 
Pakistan hideout shows that al Qaeda had been plotting a terrorist 
attack on our Nation's rail system. While roughly 1.7 million 
passengers ride on domestic and international flights daily, every 
weekday 34 million Americans ride on trains and transit systems. The 
issue of rail security is more relevant now than ever. And I'm here 
today to argue for making rail security a national intelligence 
priority.
  On March 11, 2004, nearly 200 people were killed in Madrid as a 
result of a terrorist bombing while riding the commuter rail to work. 
In 2005, over 50 people were killed and 700 injured on the London 
transit system in a series of explosions during the morning rush hour. 
An attack on our rail system here in the United States would be 
devastating. It would almost certainly result in the loss of life.
  Clearly, terrorist organizations around the world have made rail 
systems a target. I strongly believe that we need to address the 
vulnerabilities in our rail system by ensuring that rail security is 
one of our Nation's top intelligence priorities. That's why I offered 
this amendment directing the intelligence community to include rail and 
subway transit security in its transportation security plans and 
budgets.
  The 9/11 Commission report found that over 90 percent of the Nation's 
annual investment in transportation security is spent on aviation 
security. While addressing security vulnerabilities within aviation is 
critical, this allocation leaves too little for surface transportation 
security, particularly on our rail systems.
  ``For now, riding trains is safe.'' That's how Transportation 
Secretary LaHood described the state of our rail system in light of the 
intelligence found in Osama bin Laden's compound. But we need to do 
better than that. As a near daily rider of Amtrak myself, I want to 
know that the United States Government is doing all it can to keep my 
fellow passengers safe. I urge my colleagues to support this amendment 
so that our intelligence community is able to identify and prevent a 
terrorist attack on our rail system.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. While I agree with the need for strong 
security in the railway sector, I just don't believe this amendment is 
best suited for the Intelligence authorization bill, as it seems to 
address the policy issues that are not authorized or otherwise 
addressed in the FY11 Intelligence authorization bill. The intelligence 
community does not have transportation security plans or transportation 
security budgets, nor do individual intelligence community agencies. In 
order to meet the requirement of this, they would have to restructure 
themselves to bring in the right people to do the plans for security 
for the railway. I don't think that's what the gentleman intends, but 
that's clearly what the gentleman's amendment would do.
  I would argue that this amendment would be better focused on the 
Transportation Security Administration, or TSA. That agency, however, 
falls under the jurisdiction of the Homeland Security Committee and not 
the Intelligence Committee. The intelligence community does not develop 
transportation security plans. Rather, the intelligence community, 
through DHS, provides threat information to the transportation sector 
to better enable it to develop security plans.
  Additionally, I note that this amendment simply expresses the sense 
of the Congress on the issue. It does not actually compel any action. I 
would question the real improvement to security on the railway sector 
from its adoption because, again, it appears that the amendment would 
not have a real impact. This is really out of the scope of the 
intelligence community.
  I would urge the gentleman to reconsider and contemplate maybe 
addressing it in the TSA. If the gentleman would like any help and 
assistance in doing that, I would be eager to try to help the gentleman 
do that.
  Again, given the time pressures on our intelligence community to stop 
real-time threats and pass that information on to people in the TSA and 
others, I would argue that this is an amendment that we should all 
oppose and look for a better opportunity.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CARNEY. I would just like to add that I listened to the gentleman 
and I appreciate his comments. I listened to his remarks earlier on the 
previous amendment, and he said that the intelligence agencies spend 
all their time, every waking hour, targeting people trying to kill 
Americans every day. The facts are that these terrorists are trying to 
kill Americans on American rail transit systems. And that's the purpose 
of this amendment--to make sure that this is given a priority in our 
intelligence plans.
  With that, I yield such time as he may consume to the ranking member, 
the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Ruppersberger).
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. I thank the gentleman for his amendment.
  I disagree with the chairman. I believe it's vitally important that 
we protect our railway infrastructure from terrorist attacks. Just last 
week, the Department of Homeland Security issued an intelligence 
message about potential al Qaeda contemplation in February 2010 of 
plots against the U.S. rail sector.
  While there was no imminent threat at that time, we must remain 
vigilant. It's important that we devote resources to this issue. I hope 
that we could work together with the chairman if the amendment does not 
pass so that we can focus on this serious area of threat to our 
national security.
  I urge a ``yes'' vote on this amendment.
  Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Chair, how much time do I have remaining?
  The CHAIR. The gentleman from Delaware has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.
  Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Chair, I would just like to add a few more things 
before finishing up here. Between 2004 and 2008, there were 500 
terrorist attacks waged worldwide against mass transit and passenger 
rail targets, resulting in over 2,000 deaths and over 9,000 injuries. 
Five billion passenger miles, intercity and commuter rail, are logged 
every day in the northeast corridor alone here in the U.S. That 
represents more than one-third of the daily vehicle miles logged on I-
95 between Washington, D.C. and New York City.
  My amendment will ensure that the U.S. Government places a priority 
on ensuring the safety of rail passengers around the country by working 
to prevent a terrorist attack on our rail system. And I would ask 
support for this amendment.
  I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Again, I appreciate both of the gentlemen's 
perspectives on this, but this is about the right tool for the right 
job. The intelligence community is the one that's supposed to develop 
the intelligence, the threat stream, the lead, and pass it to somebody 
who is in charge--the TSA in this case--of protecting the 
transportation sector.
  Again, I make the argument it is important, but I just think this is 
misplaced. The intelligence community would have to try to create this 
expertise, which they do not have today in the entirety of the 
intelligence community, to make security plans. This is not what they 
do. It's not what they're equipped to do. They are not, in most cases, 
with the exception of the FBI and DEA, they're not domestic agencies. 
They're agencies that are designed to collect overseas. So it is just 
not a good fit.
  Again, I appreciate the gentleman's position. I just think the 
community would have to spend a lot of time and resources diverting 
from its real intention and mission to keep us safe.
  Just quickly and just for the record--I think it's important--the 
information that the gentleman referenced was aspirational. We saw a 
lot of press reports that I think misrepresented the information that 
was provided. It was something that Osama bin Laden thought about. It 
is not something that the intelligence community believes was 
operational, which means you have to be vigilant all the time on all 
these issues.
  So I commend the gentleman in his effort on trying to bring better 
security to our railways. Again, just the right tool for the right job. 
This is not the right place. Unfortunately, I will oppose it but would 
like to work with the gentleman on the right place to get the job done.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIR. The gentleman from Delaware has 30 seconds remaining.
  Mr. CARNEY. I certainly thank the gentleman and appreciate his 
comments and certainly respect his expertise. But I can't imagine that 
the intelligence agencies aren't, as they're doing their activities--
intelligence activities overseas--aren't finding out that there are 
threats to the U.S. rail system. My amendment would just make that a 
priority within all the things that they do.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman 
from Delaware (Mr. Carney).
  The question was taken; and the Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on 
the amendment offered by the gentleman from Delaware will be postponed.

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  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Committee do 
now rise.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Benishek) having assumed the chair, Mr. Yoder, Chair of the Committee 
of the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported that that 
Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 754) to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2011 for intelligence and 
intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the 
Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency 
Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes, had come to 
no resolution thereon.

                          ____________________


[Congressional Record: May 13, 2011 (House)]
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          INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 264 and rule 
XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House 
on the State of the Union for the further consideration of the bill, 
H.R. 754.

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                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union for the further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 754) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2011 
for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United 
States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central 
Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other 
purposes, with Mr. Bishop of Utah (Acting Chair) in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose on Thursday, 
May 12, 2011, a request for a recorded vote on amendment No. 8 printed 
in House Report 112-75, offered by the gentleman from Delaware (Mr. 
Carney), had been postponed.


                  Amendment No. 9 Offered by Mr. Reed

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 9 
printed in House Report 112-75.
  Mr. REED. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the bill, add the following new title:
 TITLE V--HONORING THE MEMBERS OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY FOR THEIR 
     ROLE IN THE MISSION THAT KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN ON MAY 1, 2011

     SEC. 501. HONORING THE MEMBERS OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY 
                   FOR THEIR ROLE IN THE MISSION THAT KILLED OSAMA 
                   BIN LADEN ON MAY 1, 2011.

       Congress--
       (1) commends the men and women of the intelligence 
     community for the tremendous commitment, perseverance, 
     professionalism, and sacrifice they displayed in bringing 
     Osama bin Laden to justice;
       (2) commends the men and women of the intelligence 
     community for committing themselves to defeating, disrupting, 
     and dismantling al Qaeda; and
       (3) reaffirms its commitment to using the capabilities and 
     skills of the intelligence community to--
       (A) disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda and affiliated 
     organizations around the world that threaten the national 
     security of the United States;
       (B) eliminate safe havens for terrorists in Afghanistan and 
     Pakistan; and
       (C) bring terrorists to justice.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 264, the gentleman 
from New York (Mr. Reed) and a Member opposed each will control 15 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New York.
  Mr. REED. Mr. Chairman, I rise today to join with my colleague, the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Grimm), to offer an amendment honoring the 
brave members of the intelligence community for their role in the 
mission that killed Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011.
  As we all know, Osama bin Laden was killed on May 1 by members of the 
SEAL team 6. The heroics of this SEAL team have been well documented in 
the press over the past weeks, but the work of other professionals in 
the intelligence community is less well known and has received less 
attention.
  Bringing Osama bin Laden to justice was the result of over 10 years 
of hard work and dedication. This historic operation was truly a team 
effort and an achievement shared by members of every intelligence 
agency and our entire Armed Forces.
  The diligent, painstaking work of our intelligence services made 
possible the recent successful action carried out by our military 
against Osama bin Laden. For this reason, Mr. Grimm and I feel the 
intelligence community is also deserving of recognition as a whole. 
They worked long hours in distant parts of the world, far from their 
families, far from their friends, to keep our country safe.
  When the members of the American intelligence community do their job, 
no one really knows about it. They are silent warriors who keep us 
safe. They are deserving of our deepest gratitude.
  Mr. Chairman, this amendment does exactly that. It commends our 
intelligence community for a job well done in bringing Osama bin Laden 
to justice. Thanks to the diligence of these intelligence 
professionals, the world is a safer place without Osama bin Laden.
  Mr. Chairman, even though Osama bin Laden has been brought to 
justice, the war on terror is not over. This amendment commends the men 
and women of the intelligence community for committing themselves to 
defeating, disrupting, and dismantling al Qaeda and all terrorist 
organizations that will do harm to our great Nation.
  This amendment also reaffirms our commitment to using the 
capabilities and skills of the intelligence community to disrupt, 
dismantle, and defeat terrorism once and for all from the face of this 
earth.

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  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this amendment.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. Mr. Chairman, I rise to claim the time in 
opposition to this amendment, even though I am not opposed to Mr. 
Reed's amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Maryland is 
recognized for 15 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. The killing of Osama bin Laden was a great 
achievement for our intelligence professionals, who have been working 
to eliminate this threat to our national security for years.
  Osama bin Laden was a terrorist leader who was responsible for 
killing thousands of innocent Americans, moms, dads, brothers, sisters, 
friends, and loved ones. As we all know, 9/11 changed America forever.
  On May 1, 2011, our military and intelligence professionals took 
extraordinary steps. People from the CIA, NSA, NGA, and elsewhere 
worked together as a team to get this job done. The mission was risky, 
but it was executed with great skill and precision. These professionals 
risked their lives to keep the country safe, and no Americans were 
lost.
  The men and women who carried out this operation exemplify the 
extraordinary courage of those who serve our Nation, including our 
special operations.
  The countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who 
have pursued bin Laden for years have the satisfaction of a job well 
done. I am glad we are able to honor those intelligence professionals 
in this Intelligence Authorization Act, including the military 
professionals. A grateful Nation thanks them for their service.
  I reserve the balance of my time.

                              {time}  0920

  Mr. REED. Mr. Chairman, at this time I am glad to yield such time as 
he may consume to my great colleague from New York (Mr. Gibson).
  Mr. GIBSON. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  It is great to be here on the floor today. And I see we have the 
chair and the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee today too. 
It is an honor to be in their presence.
  We are here today with this amendment to commend and honor the 
hardworking professionals in our intelligence community on the 
successful operation against Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, 
who attacked our country on the 11th of September of 2001.
  From my experiences in the Army deployed forward in Iraq, I know 
counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations are difficult, 
complex, and require detailed analytical work to establish patterns of 
life, target development, situational awareness and understanding. 
Fortunately for us, we have the very best. From the tactical to the 
operational to the strategic level, our intel community is filled with 
incredibly talented people, the strength of any organization.
  Recently, I had the opportunity to meet with the Director of the CIA 
and the Director of the FBI to hear from them and to praise those who 
work in those organizations, and today we expand that to all those 
involved in the intelligence community: in uniform, out of uniform, 
here in the Congress, all the way across.
  Going forward, we know that we are going to need organizational 
changes to consolidate the intel community which has grown 
significantly since the 11th of September; but, fortunately for us, we 
have the smartest, the most knowledgeable professionals in the world 
who will help us make those reforms so we can continue to protect our 
cherished way of life.
  So once again, congratulations to all those who serve in the 
intelligence organizations. I urge my colleagues to support this 
amendment, and may God bless America.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman 
from New York (Mr. Nadler).
  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Grimm-Reed 
amendment to commend our intelligence community for their role in 
eliminating Osama bin Laden.
  Mr. Chairman, the killing of Osama bin Laden is the most significant 
victory over our most significant enemy. It deserves recognition in the 
Halls of Congress. That is why I was disappointed that the House 
Republican leadership chose not to bring up something similar to Senate 
Resolution 159. That resolution recognizes the hard work by all facets 
of our government, from the President to the military to the 
intelligence community. It honors the victims of 9/11 and their 
families, and it is bipartisan, having passed the Senate 97-0.
  I felt this type of resolution would be an appropriate vehicle with 
which to commend those responsible for the death of bin Laden, so I 
filed it as an amendment with the Rules Committee. But it was held not 
to be germane.
  I also filed the more narrow, more germane version with the Rules 
Committee, a version that commended only the members of the 
intelligence community who played a role in the operation. The 
amendment before us from Representatives Grimm and Reed is identical 
word for word to the version I originally filed with the Rules 
Committee, and I am gratified that they saw the merit in the wording 
that we drafted. While it does not adequately honor all those 
responsible for our great victory over al Qaeda, the President and the 
military in addition to the intelligence community, it does allow the 
House to express its appreciation and commendation to the intelligence 
community, and therefore I support it.
  The recent death of Osama bin Laden is a measure of justice that was 
long overdue. Hopefully, it will bring some comfort to the victims of 
9/11 and their families, many of whom live in my district where the 
World Trade Center was, of course, located.
  I ask all Members to support the amendment.
  Mr. REED. Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
chairman of the Intelligence Committee, my colleague from Michigan (Mr. 
Rogers).
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Thank you very much.
  And I congratulate Mr. Reed on the amendment. I think it is wholly 
appropriate that we commend all of the intelligence services and our 
elite Special Forces who participated in bringing Osama bin Laden to 
justice. And it really wasn't a victory over one person or one leader, 
but a blow to the entire network, to the belief system of those that 
believe violence, killing innocent men, women and children of all 
religions, is a way to promote your political gains.
  If you think about the incredible accomplishment that happened after, 
and started really after 9/11, we had to make up for huge gaps in 
humint intelligence. And through the help of this body and this 
Congress and President Bush and then on to President Obama, we began to 
reassemble the abilities and capabilities of our intelligence 
community. Through interrogations, information was developed about how 
al Qaeda works and we understood its logistics, how it finances and 
recruits and moves people, how it recruits people to do suicide 
bombings, how it plans operations. All of that came in the early days.
  Then 5 years ago through an integration, there was a little piece of 
information, a nickname applied to an alias with someone who was 
hanging around other folks who were probably using nicknames applied to 
an alias who may be a courier for Osama bin Laden. And through all of 
our collection agencies, signals intelligence, satellite intelligence, 
other forms of intelligence, a case was slowly and surely developed 
that finally allowed, with a few lucky breaks and some great 
determination from our intelligence community, the ability to locate 
the place where they believed Osama bin Laden was hiding out. Once that 
was determined, they brought in our Special Forces community, who did 
an exceptional and superb job in bringing him to justice in what was a 
difficult situation.
  So I want to compliment Mr. Reed and Mr. Grimm for bringing this 
amendment forward to give a small sense of recognition to all of the 
work on behalf of the entire intelligence and Special Forces community, 
and the soldiers too who risked their lives in holding ground in places 
like Afghanistan to reestablish security there so that al Qaeda won't 
find safe haven there when they leave. All of those

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things and all of those capabilities are incredibly important. All of 
that service and all of that sacrifice led to last Sunday's successful 
event.
  Let us not forget, al Qaeda may be hurt, they have lost their 
operational and inspirational leader; but they are not down. This is 
not the time to back off. This is not the time to say that we should do 
other things or maybe we shouldn't be places at all. This is the time 
to step on the gas and break the back of al Qaeda as a threat to the 
world as we move forward.
  Again, I want to congratulate Mr. Reed and Mr. Grimm, and I 
wholeheartedly support this amendment.
  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. First, I thank the chairman for his comments. We 
will work together on behalf of our country. It was a great day for 
America when we brought bin Laden to justice. I think we can be proud 
of the accomplishments of our intelligence community, our military, all 
Americans that were involved in helping to bring this individual to 
justice.
  As the chairman said, we have a lot more to do. But let the word go 
out to the world that if you come and you attempt to attack or kill 
Americans, we will find you and we will bring you to justice.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. REED. Mr. Chairman, I want to again, in closing, offer my support 
for this amendment. But I want to make sure the record is extremely 
clear.
  When Mr. Nadler, in his comments, commenting on his support of this 
amendment, indicated that the Rules Committee was going to rule his 
proposed amendment out of order for being non-germane, as a member of 
the Rules Committee, I know that the chairman of the Rules Committee 
had indicated that he was more than willing to accept Mr. Nadler's 
amendment, germane amendment, but that amendment was withdrawn by Mr. 
Nadler.
  So I want the record to be very clear that we on this side of the 
aisle were ready and very eager to support the amendment offered by Mr. 
Nadler. And Mr. Grimm and I sought to make sure that this amendment was 
brought to the floor of this House, because it is right to stand here 
on this floor to recognize the intelligence community that had such a 
great success in the taking and bringing to justice of Osama bin Laden.
  So we ask that the record be clear on the issue and that all of our 
colleagues rise today, and across the Nation, and take a moment to 
recognize and applaud the efforts of our intelligence community; that 
the men and women who work day in and day out in silence, with little 
recognition, are recognized for at least one moment here on the floor 
of the House and in the official records of this great body for the 
great work that they do, and we applaud and we will always remember and 
honor that work on a regular basis in our thoughts and in our prayers.
  So I urge my colleagues to join us and support this amendment.
  Ms. HAYWORTH. Mr. Chair, I rise today in strong support of the 
amendment offered by Mr. Grimm commending our intelligence services' 
``commitment, perseverance, professionalism, and sacrifice they 
displayed in bringing Osama bin Laden to justice.''
  Mr. Speaker, it is clear that the effort to bring Osama bin Laden to 
justice was the result of countless hours of intelligence gathering, 
analysis, sharp thinking, skilled interrogation, and mission execution. 
The men and women who serve in our intelligence services, often 
anonymously, are true professionals, and they deserve our utmost thanks 
and gratitude.
  I would also like to take this opportunity to commend President Obama 
for his leadership in overseeing the mission that brought Osama bin 
Laden to justice, and Leon Panetta for his stewardship of the Central 
Intelligence Agency.
  The death of Osama bin Laden closes a painful chapter in our Nation's 
history. While I hope that the victims of, not only 9/11, but the 
countless other acts of murder, terror, and brutality he perpetrated 
can find some solace in his demise. But two headlines today remind us 
of the challenges that we still face in the threat of terror.
  In Islamabad today, a pair of suicide bombers struck paramilitary 
recruits at a training center in northwestern Pakistan, killing at 
least 80 people. And in New York City on Wednesday two individuals were 
arrested with a hand grenade, three semiautomatic pistols, 150 rounds 
of ammunition, and intentions to blow up a synagogue.
  The fight against terror is ongoing, and because of the tireless work 
of our intelligence agencies, we have not had a single deadly act of 
terror perpetrated on U.S. soil since 9/11. Our neighbors abroad have, 
unfortunately, not fared as well, as the attacks in Pakistan remind us.
  There is a reason for this, and it is the professionalism, 
patriotism, and perseverance of the professionals in our intelligence 
services. I again commend them for a job well done in bringing Osama 
bin Laden to justice, and wish them godspeed as they continue to 
protect our Nation.
  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Chair, I rise in strong support of this amendment to 
recognize the remarkable work done by Federal employees in the 
intelligence community and by our Federal law enforcement officers. 
Their tireless work over the last 10 years led to finding Osama bin 
Laden and the raids on his compound which resulted in his death--an 
extraordinary victory in the War on Terror.
  This important victory has come at a great cost to the brave men and 
women in our intelligence community and Federal law enforcement 
communities and their families. The first American killed in 
Afghanistan after 9/11, Mike Spann, was a CIA agent and a constituent 
from my congressional district. In January 2010, I attended funerals 
for some of the seven CIA agents who were killed by a Taliban suicide 
bomber at Forward Operating Base Chapman near the Afghanistan-Pakistan 
border.
  As we recognize this important victory, we must also remember those 
Federal employees in our intelligence and Federal law agencies who 
continue to risk their lives every day on the front lines side by side 
with our Armed Forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other fronts in the 
Global War on Terror. The American people appreciate their sacrifice 
and tireless work to protect our country.
  Mr. GRIMM. Mr. Chair, I rise today to offer an amendment honoring the 
brave members of the intelligence community, military and civilian, for 
their role in the mission that killed Osama bin Laden on May 1st, 2011.
  On September 11th, 2001, Osama bin Laden and members of his terrorist 
network struck at the heart of our Nation, carrying out attacks that 
took the lives of nearly 3,000 innocent Americans in New York, Virginia 
and Pennsylvania.
  Of those killed, 2,752 were in my hometown of New York City, 
including over 400 Firefighters, Police Officers and First Responders. 
The largest percentage of these Americans, and their families, called 
my district of Staten Island and Brooklyn home.
  So I have good reason to stand here today and congratulate the men 
and women of our intelligence community for the role they played in 
locating and killing Osama bin Laden, a man who was the embodiment of 
evil and oppression.
  To this day the wounds of 9/11 still run deep within all our 
communities: every night in my district, families sit down to dinner at 
tables with empty chairs and children grow up without their parents.
  I stand before you today to give voice to all those who demanded 
justice. I speak for them when I express our profound gratitude to the 
members of our intelligence community for their commitment to making 
sure Osama bin Laden received the proper punishment he was long 
overdue.
  The result of over 10 years of hard work and dedication, this 
historic operation was truly a team effort and an achievement shared by 
the members of every intelligence agency and our Armed Forces.
  But we must remember those who put the pieces together to make this 
possible. Intelligence gathered from detainees played an important role 
in the successful takedown of bin Laden. While we're all congratulating 
the CIA and everyone else responsible for this victory, we must 
recognize that behind the scenes the Department of Justice is still 
considering prosecution of CIA interrogators who most likely gathered 
pieces of the important information that helped us find bin Laden, 
using techniques that were authorized by the Department of Justice, 9 
years earlier. You can't have it both ways.
  The members of America's intelligence community are faceless warriors 
whose heroic accomplishments rarely see the light of day. They deserve 
our undying gratitude for their role in this extraordinary mission and 
deserve our praise, not prosecution.
  With mission and purpose, they have reaffirmed America's commitment 
to follow those who wish to do us harm to the ends of the earth in the 
pursuit of justice. After the attacks of 9/11 the American people have 
demanded nothing less, and I am proud to commend them on a job well 
done.

                              {time}  0930

  Mr. REED. I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Reed).

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  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. REED. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York 
will be postponed.


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings 
will now resume on those amendments printed in House Report 112-75 on 
which further proceedings were postponed, in the following order:
  Amendment No. 1 by Mr. Rogers of Michigan.
  Amendment No. 5 by Mr. Gibson of New York.
  Amendment No. 7 by Mr. Hinchey of New York.
  Amendment No. 8 by Mr. Carney of Delaware.
  Amendment No. 9 by Mr. Reed of New York.
  The Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any 
electronic vote after the first vote in this series.


           Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mr. Rogers of Michigan

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan 
(Mr. Rogers) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 224, 
noes 174, not voting 33, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 323]

                               AYES--224

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Altmire
     Amash
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Dreier
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Himes
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Peters
     Petri
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--174

     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--33

     Alexander
     Bilbray
     Brady (PA)
     Cardoza
     Chaffetz
     Denham
     Duffy
     Flores
     Garamendi
     Giffords
     Hastings (WA)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     King (IA)
     Latham
     Lofgren, Zoe
     McCarthy (NY)
     Paul
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Platts
     Ribble
     Rooney
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Ryan (OH)
     Serrano
     Speier
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Young (AK)

                              {time}  1003

  Ms. BASS of California, Messrs. JACKSON of Illinois, QUIGLEY, BARROW, 
CARSON of Indiana, Ms. ESHOO, and Mr. HINCHEY changed their vote from 
``aye'' to ``no.''
  Messrs. MARCHANT, FLEISCHMANN, HUELSKAMP, and GINGREY of Georgia 
changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Mr. ROONEY. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 323, I was unavoidably 
detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.''
  Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 323, I was unavoidably 
detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.''


                 Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. Gibson

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York 
(Mr. Gibson) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 278, 
noes 123, not voting 30, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 324]

                               AYES--278

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Altmire
     Amash
     Andrews
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Bartlett
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Connolly (VA)
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     DeFazio

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     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (FL)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Heinrich
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Holden
     Holt
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Jones
     Jordan
     Keating
     Kelly
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neal
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Rahall
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Sutton
     Terry
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Tonko
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     Weiner
     Welch
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Womack
     Woodall
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--123

     Ackerman
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Boren
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Cohen
     Conyers
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Higgins
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Kaptur
     Kildee
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Loebsack
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Olver
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sires
     Stark
     Thompson (CA)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey

                             NOT VOTING--30

     Alexander
     Barton (TX)
     Bilbray
     Brady (PA)
     Cardoza
     Chaffetz
     Denham
     Flores
     Giffords
     Grijalva
     Hastings (WA)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     King (IA)
     Lofgren, Zoe
     McCarthy (NY)
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paul
     Pelosi
     Ribble
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Serrano
     Smith (NE)
     Speier
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Young (AK)

                              {time}  1010

  Mr. PALLONE changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                          personal explanation

  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Chair, I was unavoidably detained and unable to be in 
the Chamber for two rollcall votes on H.R. 754 due to a meeting with 
constituents at the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce.
  Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on the Rogers 
amendment and ``yea'' on the Gibson amendment.


                 Amendment No. 7 Offered by Mr. Hinchey

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York 
(Mr. Hinchey) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 194, 
noes 214, not voting 23, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 325]

                               AYES--194

     Ackerman
     Amash
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Costa
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gibson
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hanna
     Harris
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Loebsack
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Pingree (ME)
     Pitts
     Platts
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--214

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Altmire
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cooper
     Costello
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Holden
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan

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     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson
     Petri
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--23

     Alexander
     Bilbray
     Brady (PA)
     Cardoza
     Chaffetz
     Denham
     Flores
     Giffords
     Hastings (WA)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     King (IA)
     Lofgren, Zoe
     McCarthy (NY)
     Paul
     Ribble
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Speier
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Young (AK)

                              {time}  1019

  Messrs. BISHOP of Utah, COSTELLO, and LIPINSKI changed their vote 
from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Ms. McCOLLUM and Mr. PERLMUTTER changed their vote from ``no'' to 
``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall vote No. 325, the 
Hinchey amendment to H.R. 754, I voted ``aye'' when I intended to vote 
``no.''


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. WITTMAN. Mr. Chair, on rollcall Nos. 323, 324, and 325, I was 
unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted: 323, 
``yes''; 324, ``yes''; 325, ``no.''


                 Amendment No. 8 Offered by Mr. Carney

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Delaware 
(Mr. Carney) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 221, 
noes 189, not voting 21, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 326]

                               AYES--221

     Ackerman
     Adams
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bilbray
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cassidy
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gerlach
     Gibson
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hanna
     Harris
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Landry
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTourette
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nugent
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Pitts
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Renacci
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Stark
     Stivers
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Webster
     Weiner
     Welch
     West
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--189

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Amash
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Barletta
     Barton (TX)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Chabot
     Cleaver
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Westmoreland
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--21

     Alexander
     Brady (PA)
     Cardoza
     Chaffetz
     Denham
     Flores
     Giffords
     Hastings (WA)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     King (IA)
     Lofgren, Zoe
     McCarthy (NY)
     Paul
     Ribble
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Speier
     Wilson (SC)
     Young (AK)

                              {time}  1027

  Messrs. FRANKS of Arizona and BILBRAY changed their vote from ``no'' 
to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  (By unanimous consent, Mr. Reichert was allowed to speak out of 
order.)


                     Law Enforcement Memorial Week

  Mr. REICHERT. Mr. Chairman and Members of this great body, this week 
is Law Enforcement Memorial Week. We have thousands of police officers 
from across the Nation here in Washington, D.C., to honor those fallen 
officers of last year and years before.
  Last year we lost 156 police officers who were killed in the line of 
duty protecting each and every one of us. This year we are on track to 
beat that record, unfortunately. Sixty-eight police officers have 
already been killed. I stand today to have all of you recognize their 
sacrifice and the families who have survived and the police officers 
who continue marching on.
  I yield to the gentleman from New York.
  Mr. WEINER. I thank the sheriff for yielding.
  When we lay down at night to sleep and we kiss our children to bed 
and we thank God for the country we live in and pray for good things 
for the day ahead, we know that whether we're in a small town with one 
sheriff or a police department like New York City that has over 38,000, 
that somewhere there are men and women who are out

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there protecting us. And unfortunately, as the sheriff points out, 
sometimes they don't come home. This is the time of year that we join 
together to pay tribute to them.
  We know as we stand here today that we do all we can to give them the 
tools to do their job, but at the end of the day, they are out there 
every single day. Rarely does someone stop a police officer and thank 
them because their car didn't get stolen, or their house wasn't 
burglarized, or they woke up in the morning and their home was safe, 
but this is the time of year we recognize that all of them are prepared 
to make sacrifices for us, and we should join in paying tribute to 
them.
  Mr. REICHERT. If we may have a moment of silence.
  The Acting CHAIR. Will all Members and guests in the gallery please 
rise and observe a moment of silence.


                  Amendment No. 9 Offered by Mr. Reed

  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, 5-minute voting will continue.
  There was no objection.
  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York 
(Mr. Reed) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the 
ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 406, 
noes 0, answered ``present'' 4, not voting 21, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 327]

                               AYES--406

     Ackerman
     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Altmire
     Amash
     Andrews
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Baldwin
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Berg
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (FL)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castor (FL)
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cohen
     Cole
     Conaway
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Filner
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gallegly
     Garamendi
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grijalva
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hall
     Hanabusa
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (FL)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Heinrich
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Langevin
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Maloney
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Olver
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Quayle
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross (FL)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Sutton
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tipton
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Webster
     Weiner
     Welch
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--4

     Kucinich
     Lee (CA)
     Stark
     Woolsey

                             NOT VOTING--21

     Alexander
     Brady (PA)
     Cardoza
     Chaffetz
     Denham
     Fattah
     Flores
     Giffords
     Hastings (WA)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     King (IA)
     Lofgren, Zoe
     McCarthy (NY)
     Paul
     Ribble
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Speier
     Wilson (SC)
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Latham). The question is on the committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended.
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The Acting CHAIR. Under the rule, the Committee rises.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Bishop of Utah) having assumed the chair, Mr. Latham, Acting Chair of 
the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported 
that that Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 754) 
to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2011 for intelligence and 
intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the 
Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency 
Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes, and, pursuant 
to House Resolution 264, reported the bill back to the House with an 
amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is 
ordered.
  Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment to the amendment 
reported from the Committee of the Whole?
  If not, the question is on the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute, as amended.
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third 
reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.

                              {time}  1040


                           Motion to Recommit

  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?
  Mr. NADLER. I am opposed in its current form.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Nadler moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 754, to the 
     Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence with instructions 
     to report the same back to the House forthwith with the 
     following amendment:
       At the end of title III, add the following new section:

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     SEC. 304. PRIORITIZATION OF FUNDING TO COMBAT TERRORISTS.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) Under the leadership and direction of President Barack 
     Obama, the intelligence community performed with exceptional 
     bravery, commitment, and professionalism in the pursuit of 
     Osama bin Laden, who was killed on May 1, 2011, by the Naval 
     Special Warfare Development Group.
       (2) The tremendous dedication and personal sacrifice of the 
     anonymous men and women of the intelligence community over 
     the course of nearly two decades, including under the 
     leadership of former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill 
     Clinton, finally brought a measure of justice and relief to 
     the families and friends of those who lost their lives on 
     September 11, 2001, and those killed around the world in al 
     Qaeda-sponsored attacks.
       (3) Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Leon 
     Panetta, the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, and all 
     those involved in the intelligence operation against bin 
     Laden and in ongoing intelligence-related counterterrorism 
     operations are to be commended for their vigilance in 
     protecting the United States.
       (4) The death of bin Laden marks the most significant 
     achievement to date in the efforts of the intelligence 
     community to defeat al Qaeda, but the al Qaeda network and 
     its affiliates still pose a critical threat to the national 
     security of the United States and must be pursued.
       (b) Prioritization of Funding.--In obligating and expending 
     funds authorized to be appropriated in this Act, the head of 
     each element of the intelligence community shall place the 
     highest priority on funding activities that will contribute 
     to the continued disruption, dismantlement, and defeat of 
     remaining al Qaeda terrorists and affiliated organizations 
     that threaten the national security of the United States.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New York is recognized 
for 5 minutes in support of his motion.
  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden 
murdered almost 3,000 Americans in cold blood. As the House Member 
representing Ground Zero, many of these innocent men, women, and 
children were my constituents and my friends. Words cannot do justice 
to the toll taken by this mass murderer. Of course, the attack on 
September 11 was part of a war Osama bin Laden and his terrorist 
organization al Qaeda had declared long ago and waged against the 
United States for years.
  After September 11, we vowed as a nation to wage war against al Qaeda 
and in particular to bring Osama bin Laden to justice. When President 
Obama made his dramatic announcement almost 2 weeks ago that American 
troops had killed bin Laden, we knew that our country had finally 
fulfilled that part of the promise.
  While I supported and we passed an amendment today to commend our 
intelligence community for their role in eliminating bin Laden, I stand 
by my earlier statement that it was inadequate. This motion to 
recommit, which I am offering with Ms. Jackson Lee and Mr. Ellison, 
properly honors all those responsible. It appropriately commends 
everyone involved in the long road we took to bring bin Laden to 
justice--President Obama, President Bush, President Clinton, our Navy 
SEALs, and our intelligence community.
  The death of Osama bin Laden was a triumphant victory, but our work 
is not done. This final amendment reminds us that we cannot rest on our 
laurels. The threat of al Qaeda remains real and continuing. That is 
why in this final amendment we make clear to our intelligence community 
that the highest priority for funding in this bill is the disruption, 
dismantlement, and defeat of al Qaeda. We must focus on the materials 
captured from bin Laden's compound so we can stop them from striking 
again. I urge my colleagues to join us to ensure that we continue to do 
all we can to avoid another 9/11.
  In closing, I want to state my hope that we have a bipartisan show of 
support for this final amendment. Commending those who worked so hard 
to bring justice to bin Laden and recognizing our number one 
intelligence priority is the defeat of al Qaeda should be expressions 
that can be supported across the political spectrum.
  I yield to a cosponsor of the amendment, the gentleman from 
Minnesota.
  Mr. ELLISON. I urge all Members to join in supporting this very 
important motion to recommit.
  We have seen a great victory for our country, and yet we have 
suffered a tremendous loss, 3,000 of our countrymen lost because of al 
Qaeda and al Qaedaism and their belief system. But you know what? They 
have wreaked havoc all across this world. Whether it is Tanzania or 
whether it is Nairobi, they have brought murder and destruction across 
the globe. Even in Pakistan, 80 dead just recently. So we have got to 
make sure they are the priority, they are the focus, so we can rid the 
world of this pernicious, evil philosophy that has caused so much harm 
to so many.
  Mr. NADLER. I now yield to another cosponsor of the amendment, the 
gentlelady from Texas.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. I thank the gentleman.
  I rise to support this motion to recommit.
  I introduced H. Res. 240, and 50 of you supported it, because we 
believe that all of those involved should be thanked, that all of 
America should be thanked. So many of us remember standing on those 
steps and singing ``God Bless America,'' singing it loudly. As others 
in America sang and joined together, we were not to be daunted.
  And, yes, this particular resolution thanks President Clinton and 
President Bush. It talks about the bravery and the courage. And it also 
acknowledges President Obama calling and directing the order and making 
sure that all of our resources were used. And it also shows that our 
Navy SEALs, in spite of the loss of life of so many soldiers, our Navy 
SEALs came back alive and they captured Osama bin Laden.
  Isn't it important to make the statement that the prioritization of 
our intelligence community should be focused on getting rid of al 
Qaeda, disrupting them and those affiliated? Vote for this motion to 
recommit because it does, in fact, provide the opportunity to thank 
everyone, and it says again, God bless America.
  Mr. Chair, as a Senior Member of the Judiciary Committee and 
Committee on Homeland Security, I want to make sure that this Chamber 
fully recognizes and acknowledges the exemplary bravery, courage, and 
patriotism demonstrated by the Special Operations Command, the Naval 
Special Warfare Development Group, the intelligence community, and 
President Barack H. Obama for successfully bringing Osama bin Ladan to 
justice for acts of terrorism committed against the United States on 
September 11, 2001.
  This is a Bipartisan, American issue. We have a rare opportunity to 
give some measure of relief to all those victims of the 911 tragedy and 
to acknowledge the efforts to bring Osama bin Laden to justice that 
spanned three Presidential Administrations beginning with the efforts 
of President Bill Clinton's Administration, continuing with the efforts 
of President George W. Bush's Administration which all set the stage 
for President Obama to move with swiftness, decisiveness and leadership 
to finally bring Osama bin Laden to justice.
  We must be mindful that this does not end our efforts to protect 
America from terrorist threats like that of Al Qaeda. We still have 
much to do in that effort, but we should not miss this historic 
opportunity to thank three Presidents, our intelligence community and 
our military for their 10 year of persistence and their successful 
mission to bring the Terrorist Osama bin Laden.
  Today, a large number of lives were lost in Pakistan; an al Qaeda 
associated organization attacked innocent persons. We must continue to 
stamp out this violence.
  So, I urge my colleagues to join me in voting for the motion to 
recommit.
  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, in closing, I again want to stress that this 
amendment commends all those who worked so hard to bring justice to bin 
Laden and recognizes that our number one intelligence priority is the 
defeat of al Qaeda. It should get bipartisan support. A very similar 
resolution passed the Senate 97-0. I ask for support.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the 
motion to recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, it's laudable that they would 
commend the men and women of the intelligence community. We certainly 
thank them for that. We just did that a few minutes ago. That would 
certainly qualify for the department of redundancy as we would move 
forward.
  The one that I find mystifying, we came so close, so close, to 
finally making this a bipartisan product. So the

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first part was great. You said thank you very much to the folks and hid 
behind the great work of the men and women of the intelligence 
community. But then you blow up the entire intelligence bill by 
prioritizing of funding.
  Two things that does. One, it blows up the work, the framework. 
There's a priority framework in the intelligence community that sets 
these standards and tells the intelligence community, here are your 
priorities, given place, given region, given resources. That happens 
already. So you basically say, well, we don't believe that you ought to 
be doing that. We should be doing that. Wrong answer.
  The second part of it is we have a classified annex and it talks 
about very important investments that we in a bipartisan way have 
worked to get to--code breaking, cybersecurity. What you are saying is 
cybersecurity isn't as important. You think this is more important. 
That is not for us to determine.
  We just went through months and months of work to tell the 
intelligence community to put the classified annex together to say, 
here are the intelligence priorities as we go forward. This bill is 
intended to gut the work of the last few months that we have just done 
in a bipartisan way.
  I tell you, it's a little frustrating knowing that we came that 
close, Mr. Speaker, to getting a bipartisan product that represents the 
values of the intelligence community, the resources that they need, 
and, yes, says thank you to the men and women who will never be known 
for the work they do to keep America safe.
  I recommend a strong rejection of this amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is 
ordered on the motion to recommit.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair 
will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on 
the question of passage.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 182, 
noes 228, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 20, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 328]

                               AYES--182

     Ackerman
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kissell
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--228

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Amash
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     Kucinich
       

                             NOT VOTING--20

     Alexander
     Brady (PA)
     Cardoza
     Chaffetz
     Denham
     Dold
     Flores
     Giffords
     Hastings (WA)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Lofgren, Zoe
     McCarthy (NY)
     Paul
     Ribble
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Speier
     Wilson (SC)

                              {time}  1107

  Mr. STUTZMAN changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mr. DOLD. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 328, I was unavoidably 
detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 392, 
noes 15, not voting 24, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 329]

                               AYES--392

     Ackerman
     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Baldwin
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Berg
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (FL)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Calvert

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     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
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     Cassidy
     Castor (FL)
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cohen
     Cole
     Conaway
     Connolly (VA)
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Fudge
     Gallegly
     Garamendi
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grijalva
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (FL)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Heinrich
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Jordan
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Langevin
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Maloney
     Manzullo
     Marino
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Moore
     Moran
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Quayle
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Reyes
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross (FL)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Sutton
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tipton
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Webster
     Weiner
     Welch
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                                NOES--15

     Amash
     Clay
     Conyers
     Duncan (TN)
     Filner
     Jones
     Kucinich
     Lee (CA)
     McDermott
     Olver
     Payne
     Richardson
     Stark
     Woolsey
     Wu

                             NOT VOTING--24

     Alexander
     Brady (PA)
     Cardoza
     Chaffetz
     Denham
     Flores
     Frelinghuysen
     Giffords
     Hall
     Hastings (WA)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Marchant
     McCarthy (NY)
     Miller, George
     Paul
     Rangel
     Ribble
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Speier
     Wilson (SC)

                              {time}  1114

  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

                          ____________________