The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 385, four nays and one present. 2 3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the resolution is agreed to, and, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The chair lays before the house n enrolled bill. The clerk senate 2040, an act to deter terrorism, provide justice for victims, and for ther purposes. The speaker pro tempore the chair will now entertain requests for oneminute speeches. For what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota seek recognition . I ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Paulsen mr. Speaker, im thrilled to recognize the minute tonka School District for being named the number one School District in minnesota by a website that analyzes Education Data across the country. The minnetonka School District has received an overall aplus grade based on their excellence in several areas, including academics, educational outcomes, teachers and extra curricular opportunities. The School District received an a grade or higher in nine out of 10 different categories considered in the analysis. Mr. Speaker, i commend the teachers and the administrators of the mennetonka schools for their commitment to going above and beyond and educating stunalts from preschool to graduation, by dedicating themselves to providing an enriching learning environment, these educators are equipping students with all of the necessary stools to not only tools to not only excel in the classroom but also contribute to leadership on sports teams, clubs and in our community. Were proud to have such an exemplary local System School system in our own backyard. Congratulations to the teachers, students, administrators and the parents of mennetonka for this distinguished recognition and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition . Mr. Thompson request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for one minute. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i know that i join a large number of my colleague here in the house in concern for the white nose syndrome, the devastating fun does has killed between 5. 7 million and six million bats across north america. Recently i received news of Grant Funding to combat this disease and that pennsylvania will receive more than 30,000. As a member of the house Natural Resource committee, ive been active in ensuring the effects of white nose syndrome were appropriately addressed and i participated in field hearings on the subject, habitats where bat populations have been devastated by this fungus. Theres an ecological importance to sustaining the bat population, as well as preventing the species from becoming endangered. Which will cause great harm to resource, production, agriculture and construction across the commonwealth and a large part of the country. The rule final itesed in 2015 which listed the northern longeared bat cleared the way for new conservation practices to be put in place for make new helping conservation measures possible without broadly prohibiting common land use activities. It is my hope that these measures will help us in the effort against white nose syndrome. Thank you, mr. Speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to discuss recent developments in the area of underwater resource mapping. Scientists at the scripts institution of oceanography used n. S. F. Funding to develop instruments to conduct marine electroman magazine netic surveys. This Technology Uses electrical currents and con dux to search for freshwater aquifers in the ocean. Which would reveal the location of Drinking Water supplies deep below the surface of the sea. Mr. Mcnerney its been clear to scientists that bodies of freshwater exist off the u. S. s coast. This research created the only noninvasive method capable of sensing an extraction the exact location of these valuable Drinking Water reserves. This technology has also attracted the attention of Oil Companies who continue to develop the system to map out underwater resource deposits in three dimensions across the globe. Important projects like these improve our search for Natural Resources and i commend the Scripps Institute and the National Science foundation. Mr. Speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from South Carolina seek recognition . Without objection, the gentleman from South Carolina is recognized for one minute. Mr. Wilson mr. Speaker, on the 15th anniversary of the murderous attacks of september 11, former Vice President dick cheney with liz cheney detailed how the next president will face greater risk to American Families and a weaker military than ever before. In an oped published in the wall street journal. With the president s legacy of weakness. Quote, the president who came into office promising to end wars has made war more likely by diminishing americas strength and deterrence ability. He doesnt seem to understand that the credible threat of military force gives substance and meaning to our diplomacy. Among the most important lessons of 9 11 was that terrorists must be denied safe havens from which to plan and launch attacks against us. On president obamas watch, terrorist safe havens have expanded around the globe. Generations before have met and defeated grave threats to our great nation. American strength, leadership and ideals were crucial to the allied victory of world war ii and the defeat of soviet communism during the cold war. Its up to todays generation to restore americas preeminence so that we can defend our freedom and defeat islamic terrorists. End of quote. In conclusion, god bless our troops and may the president by his actions never forget september 11 and the global war on terrorism. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from kansas seek recognition . I seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman from kansas is recognized for one minute. Mr. Yoder mr. Speaker, i rise today truly saddened. I rise to speak the name of a Slain Police Officer in our community for the third time in just a few short months. Jonathan kenny sheriff, master deputy brenledsen collins was hit by a car while making a traffic stop early sunday morning and tragically killed. He leaves behind his wife and two daughters who are suffering unimaginable loss. Deputy collins was only 44 years old and was just about to celebrate his 21st year with his department serving our community. Brook and i want to extends our deepence condolences to his family and freds. You are you are all and will remain in our thoughts and prayers. Deputy collins death is a devastating reminder, especially this light of yesterday being the 15th anniversary of the attacks on september 11, that our First Responders risk their lives all the time to protect us and keep us safe. We owe them a debt of gratitude, we will never be able to repay. Mr. Speaker, may god bless Deputy Collins and may he rest in peace. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman rom illinois seek recognition . Without objection, the gentleman from illinois is recognized for one minute. Mr. Dold september 11 is a day that will live in our memory forever. For those old enough to remember pearl harbor, that was a day that was sered into their memory. For those in the early 1960s, november, 1963rk the day that president kennedy was shot, will live in their memory forever. Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. But september 11, 2001, was a day that changed our world forever. And ultimately we know that on that day, as the first plane hit the world trade center, we thought it was a terrible accident. And when the second plane came in and hit that tower, we knew that it was something vastly different. We were under attack and frankly our way of life was under attack. And we are trained, mr. Speaker, as Young Children to run away from danger. But our First Responders are trained the opposite, to run towards it. So that fateful day, as people were exiting the world trade center, we had our First Responders that were running in to try to save as many people as possible. What was also interesting is that flight 93, we had those citizens on that plane that realized what was going on and as they got word to their loved ones, and put the lives of americans in front of their own. That plane was coming most likely to this building right here, mr. Speaker. So on the day after september 11, i want to make sure that americans realize that we thank our First Responders and we thank those that are in uniform, those that are in our Intelligence Community that are trying to protect and save the United States of america from ever experiencing that type of attack again, so, again, god bless america, god bless our First Responders and those in uniform. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Without objection, the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. Mr. Lamalfa thank you, mr. Speaker. Yesterday being the 15th anniversary of the september 11 terrorist attacks, i just wanted to commend the people in northern california, my district, the efforts they made to remember that and also say thank you for our firefighters, all up and down the district. The city of clmbings hico had chico had much positive participation as well. One way to start the day by saying thank you to our First Responders. The city of chico with their fire department, led by chief bill heck, was able to have a ery, very moving and well done 9 11 commemoration, starting at the elks hall because the fire station is no longer large enough to house all the people showing up and participating which is a good thing. But also the solemnnyity they use in presenting on behalf of the firefighters lost 15 years ago, as well as remembering the First Responders need to be respected and properly taken what so they can see they need done in the line of duty. We commend the city of chico, the fire department, for making the Community Part of this, culminating in the bell ringing they have on scythe at station 5 and the brand new facility they have which was a Ribbon Cutting for yesterday for the new building they have with 9 11 memorial inside as well. God bless our First Responders, our firefighters, and good job city of chico for making 9 11 on the 15th anniversary a good public event. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. The clerk of kentucky for today and for tomorrow. Ms. Jackson lee of texas for today. Mr. Poe of texas for today. And mr. Ross of florida for today. The speaker pro tempore without objection the requests are granted. The clerk the honorable, the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to section 214a of the help america vote act of 2002, 52 u. S. C. 20944, i hereby appoint dr. Philip b. Stark of berkley, california, to the u. S. Election Assistance Commission board of advisors. Thank you for your attention to this appointment. Signed, sincerely, nancy pelosi, democratic leader. The speaker pro tempore the chair lays before the house a communication. The clerk the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to section 803a of the congressional recognition for excellence in Arts Education act 2 u. S. C. 803a, im pleased to appoint mr. Steven l. Roberts of st. Louis, missouri, to the congressional award board. Thank you for your attention to this appointment. Signed, sincerely, nancy pelosi, democratic leader. The speaker pro tempore under the speakers announced spoil of january 6, 2015, the gentleman from iowa, mr. King rks is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. Mr. King thank you, mr. Speaker. Its my privilege to be recognized to address you on the floor of the house of representatives here on this evening as we move toward a september session that perhaps gets concluded in a way that we go back to the november elections and hopefully were bridged over any Big Decisions that might come in a lame duck session. It is something that i wanted to address to you, mr. Speaker, as the circumstances of lame duck sessions and i look back on the history of them and its hard for me to find happy conclusions drawn in lame duck sessions. Thomas jefferson once made the statement that large initiatives should not be advanced on slender majorities. And what he meant by that was, if you have a large initiative and its going to move this country and stress a lot of people in this country, then if you move that large initiative and its margins are essentially close to a jump ball, youre going to have almost half the people that are unhappy, maybe even more than half the people who are unhappy so that large initiative should not be advanced on a slender majority because you get so much pushback you dont have public buy. In you need the public to embrace it. Hopefully we get to a supermajority on large initiatives because then we go forward in lock step defending and promoting those decisions that we made by this country. Worse than advancing a large decision on a slender majority is pushing large decisions in lame duck sessions. Because the reality of it is, however long and nobly members of the house and members of the senate have served, however long the obodyably the nobly president and members have served, for them to come back here after the election and push large initiatives in a lame duck session, theyre not held accountable for it any longer. The people that are retire, those that we voted out of office and a president who is term limited, all together packaging things up and shoving them at us and the American People, sometime after november and before christmas, where we have cliff hangers that go on until Christmas Eve. I remember Christmas Eve in about 2009. In fact, it was 2009. And obamacare legislation was hanging in the balance over in the United States senate. And there, i recall my communications with the gentleman who the esteemed gentleman who is now chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee and procedurally youre down to the last piece here. This is the eve of Christmas Eve day. December 23. And i sent an email over which often, almost immediately responded to by my senior senator and i said, procedurally, youre going to hold up obamacare until 9 00 tomorrow night on Christmas Eve but it looks like the question is, will the obamacare legislation be brought before the senate before earlier in the morning on the 24th so that everyone can catch their plane and fly back home . And fly back home and get home in time for christmas . The price for this, sacrificing godgiven american liberty to move a leftist agenda, mr. Speaker, was what was going on over in the senate. And they brought this leverage right up until Christmas Eve day. But the deal was that they could, they had a couple of appointments, judicial appointments that they wanted to get a vote on as i understood. That could come along in january as a promise if they allowed the obamacare legislation to be 24, on on december Christmas Eve day. That agreement was reached in the Senate Conference in some negotiated fashion or another and the last delay that was hanging on to godgiven american liberty in the face of obamacares hook, crook, and legislative shenanigans which they used to pass that through this house and senate, in components, by the way, the last one was removed and they aloud that vote earlier in the day so senators could fly home and be home with their family. I said if youre going to take away godgiven american liberty, make them pay that price. Hold that vote up until 9 00 on Christmas Eve. Let them stay in washington, d. C. On Christmas Eve. If they love their socialized medicine that much, let them pay the price of being away from their family to impose that on the American People. But that wasnt the agreement. So i sent the email back which said, what are we going to do now . The answer i received was, were going to pray, were going to pray for a legislative victory in the special election in the senate race in massachusetts, scott brown. I thought that was a bit of a reach to have the audacity to ask for that. Beended up with that. Scott brown far while did delay he socialized Medicine Program and