The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms washington, d. C. , january 16, 2015, i hereby appoint luke messer to act as speaker pro tempore on this day signed john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain. Jall mighty ever living god in the heart in all peoples. Graciously receive the prayers we pour out to you for our country, through the wisdom of our leaders and integrity of its citizens, harmony and justice may be assured and lasting prosperity come with peace. Look with favor, we pray on this house and in your mercy, we beg you to grant that its members may be your instruments for us and for the whole world, that the flourishing of peoples the establishment of peace and the freedom of religion made through your gift be made secure. Pour out upon these men and women o god, the spirit of your wisdom, so they may decide everything for the wellbeing and peace of all. And may they never turn aside from your will. We ask this, through christ our lord amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The chair will lead the house in the pledge of allegiance. Those on the gallery and the floor to join in. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, inib wh bey d justice r l. The chair announces the speaker aappointment pursuant to clause 11, rule 10, clause 11 rule 1 and the following members to the Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. The clerk mr. Gute res. Of illinois mr. Himes of connecticut, ms. Sewell of alabama, mr. Carson of indiana ms. Speier of california, mr. Quigley of illinois mr. Swalwell of california mr. Murphy of florida. The speaker pro tempore without objection the house stands adjourned until noon of tuesday, january 20 the house wrapping up a brief pro forma session, out until tuesday. Live house coverage as always is live on cspan. Next state, state of the union night, well have live coverage starting at 8 00 eastern followed live by the republican response by joni ernst, in the seat long occupied by tom harkin. We will open our phone lines taking Facebook Comments and tweets. Tomorrow morning, Michael Warren of the Weekly Standard looks ahead at the potential republican president ial field, and reports met only reports mitt romney may run again. And the standard of education testing in the u. S. Dr. Anthony fauci our just this sunday on q a, is battling infectious diseases. We have drugs that when given to people who are hivinfected i could show you the economy the dichotomy. In the early 1980s, if someone came in to my clinic with aids, their median survival would be 68 months, which means half of them would be dead in the months. Now, if tomorrow, when i go back to rounds on friday, and someone comes into our clinic who is 20 years old, who is relatively recently infected, and i put them on the combination of three drugs, a cocktail of retroviral therapy, i could accurately predict, look them in the eye and say, if you take your medicine regularly, you could live an additional 55 an additional 50 years. To go from knowing 50 of the people are going to die and eight months to knowing that if you take your medicines you could live essentially a normal lifes and, lifespan, just a few years last that is a huge advance. Director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases, dr. Anthony fauci, on q a. Homeland security secretary jeh johnson talks about global terrorism threats and Counterterrorism Measures in the u. S. And abroad, as well as legislation to fund the department and why he feels it is dangerous to put political volleyball with department funding. He spoke at the aero club in washington for about 45 minutes. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker today. Jeh johnson was sworn in on december 20 3, 2013, as the fourth secretary of Homeland Security. Prior to joining dhs secretary johnson served as general counsel for the department of defense, where he was part of a Senior Management team that led to more than 10,000 military and civilian lawyers across the department a big law firm. Secretary johnson oversaw the development of legal aspects of many of our nations counterterrorism policies, spearheaded reforms to the military Commission System at guantanamo bay, and coauthored a 250 page report that paves the way for the repeal of ask, dont tell in 2010. Dont ask, dont tell in 2010. Secretary johnson was general counsel of the department of the air force from 19982001, and served as assistant u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york. I first knew of secretary johnson from reading the memoir of former secretary bob gates. Secretary gates has been around a long time, seen a lot of impressive, and maybe not impressive people, during his time in town. Secretary gates has this to say about secretary johnson, and i am loading. He is the finest lawyer i ever worked with in government. A straightforward, cleanspeaking man of great integrity, with common sense to burn and a great sense of humor. I trusted and respected him like no other lawyer i had ever worked with. That is awfully high praise. You have had a lot of jobs that test that sense of humor havent you . Please join me in welcoming secretary of Homeland Security jeh johnson. [applause] and you very much. Thank you very much. I get more goodwill from that bob gates quote from months ago so thank you, bob gates. Also, i want to begin by saying that im a big fan of aviation a big fan of commercial aviation , the airline industry, the airport industry. When i was a kid growing up in new york, i used to date my down on saturday mornings dad, please take me to the airport to go see the jets. Please take me to idlewild, laguardia, to see the planes. When i was at kennedy a couple summers ago, my heart was broken when i saw they had torn down the pan am terminal there, which was such an object of excitement and futurism for me as a kid in the early 1960s. I actually thought about becoming a pilot myself when i was in high school, looking for something to do, and rarely showing an interest in anything really of focus. I set my parents when i was about 17 or 18, i would like to try being a pilot. Can i take flight lessons . There was a deal at some Flight School where you get an hour for free. So i went up with this pilot in the single engine cessna. He let me take the controls. It was a copy day. A bumpy day. And i never again thought about flying an aircraft. [laughter] as general counsel of the air force, i did have the obligatory f15 orientation right out of langley. I put it out i procrastinated as long as i could and finally got the obligatory ride, with a pilot who was an Academy Graduate named sumo. I am proud of the fact that i did not lose it, literally. I have, as secretary of Homeland Security, flown commercial from time to time, to show my support for the Aviation IndustryAviation Security, our men and women in tsa. I go through the tsa line like everybody else. My staff was not so excited with me doing that, so the first time we went out to Reagan National a couple months after he took office a year ago, we went through the tsa line without incident. We got to gate 42 444 without incident. 42 without incident. And then my flight was canceled. I will not mention the airline. But i flew commercial again just last week. Thank you for the opportunity to be here. I wanted to take this opportunity to preview some of my thoughts for a state of dhs speech that i intend to give in about two weeks and some of my overarching thoughts about our departments mission. I intend to focus on Aviation Security in particular, but it did want to preview some of the things that are on my mind about the state of the department that im privileged to leave lead. The department of Homeland Security is the thirdlargest of our government, with 240,000 employees, and budget which consists of appropriate money the Disaster Relief fund, and fees collected by various components of 60 billion. We are responsible for counterterrorism, Cyber Security, order security, port security, maritime security, Aviation Security, enforcement of immigration laws, protection of Critical Infrastructure, protection of our chemical, bio and Nuclear Threats to the homeland, protection of our national leaders, and responses to natural disasters. Within the department of Homeland Security, there is customs and border protection, which itself is the largest federal Law Enforcement agency. Immigration, Customs Enforcement, citizenship services, tsa, the coast guard secret service fema, and the federal Protection Service. In my judgment, counterterrorism must remain the cornerstone of our department mission. We were formed, after all, in the wake of 9 11. And 13. 5 years after 9 11, it is still a dangerous world. In my view, we have evolved to a new phase in the global terrorist threat. We are in a new phase of the global terrorist threat. I have said before, on several occasions, that many of core al qaedas leaders are now dead or captured. We have seen the rise of al qaeda affiliates such as al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula which remains active. It remains active in plotting attempts to attack our homeland. We saw that on december 20 5, 2009, with the attempted bombing of an airliner headed to detroit , the ups farm package threat. We see the rise of terrorist organizations that even the core of al qaeda has announced isil the most prominent example on the world stage. Isil itself represents a terrorist threat globally because of their resources capability, and the property. What is new about and depravity. What is new over the last 13 years . Here is a list. Foreign fighters, the phenomenon of foreign fighters. I sold isil consists of scores of people from countries other than iraq and syria, foreign fighters. Use of the internet, social magazines, literature, and open public calls by terrorist organizations for attacks on western objectives, in europe and in this country public calls by terrorist organizations for attacks, openly discussing how, for example, one might bring an explosive device onto a near thing an airplane. Coupled with increased savvy in how to communicate internally without being detected, as the director of the fbi has spoken out. Add to that the threat of the socalled loan will lone wolf, the independent actor lurking within the homeland, who could strike on little or no notice. We see, as a result of this new phenomenon, attacks of the type we have seen recently in ottawa, sydney paris, and yesterday in belgium the rate their raid there, the threat presented. All this represents a new phase in the terrorist global threat which we must respond to. So what are we doing about this . The nature of this threat is such that notice of a terrorist plot the first notice of a terrorist plot against the homeland may be detected by a cop on the beat just as easily as the Intelligence Community given the nature of how this threat is evolving more involvement of the potential lone wolf factor. So what are we doing about it . We are taking the fight directly to terrorist organizations in iraq, syria, and young yemen with an International Military coalition, and we will continue to do so. But there are other things that must be done and are being done to chuck todd, on nbc, you cant kill the enemy but not necessarily defeat the enemy. There needs to be a Law Enforcement response, given the domesticbased nature of what we are seeing now. The fbi doesnt excellent job at the tech thing terrorist the fbi does an excellent job at detecting terrorist threats interdicting individuals at home. On monday, i directed that we enhance our federal protective Service Presents at federal presence in major u. S. Cities. That is in place now. We need two more fundamentally on we need to more fundamentally and permanently worked at the federal level more intensely with state and local Law Enforcement, state and local police departments, active Shooter Training of the state and local Law Enforcement agencies informationsharing through dhss intelligence and analysis directorate as well as the fbi and other federal agencies, vertical integration vertical intelligence sharing. That has become all the more important through joint task forces, fusion centers. Vertical intelligence sharing with state and local Law Enforcement has become more and more important. To deal with the foreign fighter potential, the foreign fighter threat presented now globally we need to develop more robust informationsharing with our key counterterrorism allies overseas , to share information about individuals of suspicion. There is much work to do there. Some are concerned about the visa waiver program, through which we permit countries have their citizens travel to our country without a visa. Some are concerned about that program, because many of these countries are countries that also have a foreign fighter concern. The answer is not to discard the visa waiver program. It represents an important element of lawful commerce between and among our international partners. Late last year in november, we added information fields to what we call esta the Electronic System for travel authorization. I asked my staff to develop additional methods we might take to tighten security assurances we have with countries that participate in visa waiver, the visa waiver program, pursuant to the Human SecurityCouncil Resolution u. N. Security Council Resolution passed last year on foreign fighters. Information sharing generally with our foreign allies, state and local Law Enforcement, must be undertaken. We must keep this up, and indeed enhance it. Here at home, given how the terrorist threat has evolved in the manner in which i described earlier, our engagements with Community Organizations in this country are all the more important, what we refer to in government cbe engagements engagements with Community Organizations to counter violent extremism here on. I personally participate in these around the country. In columbus, ohio, chicago boston, los angeles, minneapolis last year, i have personally gone to Islamic Cultural Centers and other Community Organizations to talk about the issues that members of the community cap with my department have with my department through our immigration system at airports, some of the issues that people in the Muslim Community face at airports with profiling. I have in turn talked to them about how we can together develop a counter narrative to what terrorist organizations are putting on the internet and social media, how we counter that narrative to engage Community Organizations and our joint effort at home charity Homeland Security. I am pleased there will be a white house summit on countering violent extremism in just a few weeks. The if you see something, Say Something campaign has to mean more than just a slogan. It means Public Engagement in Homeland Security, Public Safety. Efforts will be rolling out, a new stateup spiffed up Campaign Around the time of the super bowl. Public engagement has become all the more important, Public Participation in our efforts. Much of our concern continues to center around Aviation Security which the experts in this room know much about. In july, i directed that we enhance Aviation Security at last point of departure airports overseas, in reaction to some of the threat streams we were seeing in. Then. We continually evaluate whether more enhancements were necessary without burdening the traveling public. The enhanced we enhanced Aviation Security just last week, and are looking at doing more and the short term in reaction to some of the right streams we are seeing this threat some of the threat streams we are seeing right now. Tsa last year seized a Record Number of weapons from carryon luggage, from passengers, many of them quite lawful who simply forget they are carrying a gun in carryon luggage. Last year, tsa seized over 2100 weapons, guns in carryon luggage at airports. That number is astounding to me. That is a record in any year. Guns, many of which were loaded in ca