ari that these troops be equipped properly the new york times said in a front page story recently that eighty percent mr speaker of the marines that died in iraq would have lived those with upper body wounds would have lived with the proper equipment how can we live with that we know now that instead of sending useless humvees they were of no use at all to them against the i d f if we had a technology that we've known for thirty years heaven knows how many the nearly four thousand who died would have been saved and how many the more than thirty thousand who have been wounded would have been spared that that weighs heavily on the conscience of those of us in the house of representatives in angers the people that we represent we talk to the parents of those who've been sent back two three four times i have talked to one father who told me as his son was being deployed for the fourth time if he gets killed i will kill somebody these the anguish of these parents is palpable and as was stated before in my earlier statement we don't fight this war the one percent of the military people and their families are fighting this war we've been asked for no sacrifice of any kind how glib it is for us to stand on this floor and say leave it to the generals and look how well they are doing not a single gentler number of generals who have resigned their commission so that they could speak out against this carnage and this despicable war that was unplanned and planned by people who have left the scene cannot go on any longer and i will tell you that i don't want anyone to a the rest of us that have to go and look families and face and their number of times that i've gone to services and my position on why as well now and i wondered if the families had they would except my president i have never been to a single line where they didn't say to me bring them home bring them home for heaven's sakes address in a bipartisan way mr speaker democrats and republicans coming together now our former colleague mr hamilton cochairman of the iraq study group has made it very clear that the work product which was unleashed turned over last december is still applicable today this notion of saying that we need to look at bringing this group back together we have i don't have a with me here but i i have one downstairs in my office we have the volume the work of the iraq study group that we've all gotten copies of and all we're asking mr speaker is that this bipartisan work product be able to be voted on and supported here now what is it that we have before us we have a closed rule and i'm saddened greatly to report to the house that by virtue of this closed rule having come from the rules committee reported out last night we have far the we have by far exceeded the doubling the doubling of the number of close rules in this democratic majority that we had in the republican majority at this time of the beginning of the last congress and it sends me again i will say that mr speaker well we heard about this great new day a sense of openness transparency accountability what is it that we've gotten well we may not have been perfect we were in the majority but under this new majority that promised all these great things for the american people we've gotten now more than twice as many close rules in the first seven months of the year than we had in the first seven months of one hundred ninth congress and i just think it's a sad commentary on where we are now to the issue at hand mr speaker as we look at the challenge that the families of those loved ones face but i would like to share the remarks of some of the families that i have heard there is a young man who was killed tragically in the battle of fallujah his name is j p blecksmith from san marino california his father like j p was a marine and after his son was tragically killed at blecksmith said to me he said david if we don't complete our mission in iraq my son j p will have died in vain and he said we need to do everything that we possibly can to ensure victory and i will tell you that what we're doing here today under this close rule i believe creates the potential for undermining the success that as was pointed out and as i said in my last statement was outlined in the remarks and the in the article in the new york times the op written by ken pollack and michael o'hanlon and there's another statement that was made i met a woman just a couple of months ago denise cotton out of her name she came here to washington and she walked into my office mr speaker and her son kyle was killed in iraq nineteen years old he was in the army and she looked me in the eye and said my son wasn't killed in iraq my son proudly gave his life proudly gave his life for the cause of freedom and she said to me we must do everything within our power to ensure success and victory this war on terror has been very painful for us mr speaker very very painful for everyone involved especially the families of those men and women in uniform but we know there is an inner kid acted in this of this war on terror and that is the reason that on this rule we are going to continue our quest to deal with modernization of the foreign intelligence surveillance act now i know that my colleagues last night the rules committee we passed out a special rule that will allow for consideration of possible negotiations that would take place on this issue but mr speaker we have been waiting since april of this year when the statements began to come forward from the director of national intelligence intelligence mi mcconnell from the director of the central intelligence agency michael hayden from the secretary of homeland security michael chertoff the three michaels i call them who have come forward with this urgent plea for to take the very adequate and three decade old three decade old one nine hundred seventy eight foreign intelligence surveillance act and modernize it i'm going to move mr speaker to defeat the previous question and i'd ask my colleague i'd like to yield a minute to my colleague who's legislation will be made in order if we are successful in defeating the previous question my colleague from albuquerque and i thank my colleague from from california this is something we've been trying to get addressed sense april since the director of national intelligence came to this congress and said we need to fix the foreign intelligence surveillance act there are things we should be listening to that we are not listening to that we are missing and it is hurting the security of this country it continues to imperil the security this country and it is only because we are now forcing the democrats to deal with this publicly that we may be making progress on this issue i am disappointed though to hear some of my colleagues in this house suggest in these negotiations that we should have a judge overseeing foreign intelligence collection overseas that does not involve any americans that has never been the role of the foreign intelligence surveillance court the whole point in making these changes is to make sure that we don't have counterterrorism analysts who have very valuable highly trained people expert in languages in regions and organizations spending their time developing probable cause statements for foreigners in foreign countries who are going to  thirty seconds don't recognize an additional thirty seconds i thank the gentleman foreigners in foreign countries who are communicating with other foreigners there's absolutely no reason for any court to be involved in that kind of an effort big matters it matters in a war on terrorism where terrorists are using our communications networks in order to try to kill us it is vital absolutely vital that we fix the foreign intelligence surveillance act before the house adjourns for the august recess and i yield the balance of my time byard gentleman from new york next speaker and yield and please feel two minutes of the gentleman from florida and member of the all for over a year now all the intelligence committee and members of this body have been in negotiations with the administration regarding pfizer when i hear my colleagues talk about it i know that in the realm of the american public she's persuasive enough to make it appear that there's something that's happening  that is dreadful and america's about to be attacked all big calls no i will not you be called we don't have all about sufficient all information that we are receiving from those  going on with reference to five i don't have that same fear at serve on the same committee that she does i have every reason to believe that the negotiations are not causing this country to not receive the information that is necessary and if anyone with all if any and no i will not if anyone would argue that this nation all its fights a program is not on the courts at this particular time and that the i rather think that that is not the way to go about trying to change a law yes it's important that we receive information about those who are going to do us harm if they can and yes it's important that we be able to intercept their fore gentleman from california the speaker i understand that i only have one minute remaining and i know that my colleague from albuquerque would dream much like to have an opportunity to be heard on this issue i have some closing remarks i wonder if the distinguished share of the committee on rules has any time that she might recognize for thirty seconds i thank my colleague from new york for her graciousness i would just tell my colleagues that the director of national intelligence michael mcconnell has said quote we are missing things we should be getting on quote in i think it's been very very clear here this is a closed rule it's outrageous that we have continued down this pattern of close rules we were promised the american people were promised much better than that and the underlying legislation is legislation that the administration's just announced the president will veto if it were to pass we should be debating the work of the iraq study group the bipartisan package and unfortunately with this close rule were denied a chance to do that i also believe that my colleague from new mexico while the debate seem to be very personal among members of the intelligence committee it comes down to the very strong statements that have been made by the secretary of homeland security the director of national intelligence and the director of the central intelligence agency we need to immediately modernize the three decade old foreign intelligence surveillance act so i urge my colleagues to vote no on the previous question so that we'll have an opportunity to on the calendar for we go home weeks maybe the middle of next week that we're not going to leave here without getting that fixed let me also state that in addition to the dreadful awful iraq will cost the taxpayers of the united states one trillion dollars we are spending at the rate of ten billion dollars a month obviously this is money that we don't have we are borrowing mainly from four sources the first one being china japan south korea and mr speaker as this debt piles  it will take generations for our children our grandchildren our great grandchildren our great great grandchildren simply to pay off so let me start began to again express my sorrow to the people of minnesota and make it clear that the spending on this war which is rife with corruption i do need to say that in addition to one hundred sixty thousand military persons in iraq we have a hundred and eighty five thousand contractors spending tax money at an enormous rate we are beginning for the first time in six years since we've taken the majority to really look at where that money is gone and try to ferret out the really the the corruption the cronyism the own big contracts and all of the other scandals that have gone on there just this week again we learn that millions of dollars spent in construction to turn things over to the iraqi people is unacceptable to the people of iraq because of the sho workmanship this is a scandal of major proportions mr speaker it really is important that we bring this to an end and try to clean up and maybe hopefully get our international reputation back to and to some degree but the most important thing is that this bill says simply there are so disney breath how dare we send people into the battle day after day night after night without saying from this house and from this government that what we want for them is what military always had the bad and opportunity to rest in renu it's not only critical for them personally but it's incredible for the units in which they serve that they are a top form that we and the fact that we could do that quite simply here just today with this bill and also make certain that we don't ever again send one them out on one of those roads to patrol and prepare untrained and unprotected because we failed to spend that enormous amount of money on the right kind of equipment it's time mr speaker we owe it i'm shamed that all these years of the past six years no oversight not any no hearings have been held on this war no hearings have been held and where all of that money has gone and we're just beginning now to scratch the surface but the first obligation that we have far more than money involved the largest obligation we have is to the men and women that we say would you please set your life aside and go and fight we owe them everything in the world that we can give them i'm happy that we've put a lot of money this year on our side into the veterans administration and certainly into traumatic brain injury which we see so much and that the veterans administration was in no way quit to handle we have enough money now in the bills so that we can send them to the places where they can get the very best help available but young men and women in their eighteen eighteen nineteen twenty years old old maimed for life and mr speaker it is time that some intelligence here in the house reigned and so with that i will kneel back the balance of my time and move the previous question the question is on ordering the previous question those in favor say  for what purpose of the gentleman from ohio writes mr speaker by direction of the committee on rules i call up house resolution six zero two and ask for its immediate consideration a quarter report the resolution house calendar number one zero three house resolution six  two resolve that upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider the conference report to accompany the bill h r twenty two seventy two to invest in innovation through research and development and to improve the competitor ness of the united states all points of order against the conference report and against this consideration are ways the conference report shall be considered as read the gentleman from ohio is recognized for one hour for the purpose of debate yield the customary thirty minutes to the gentleman from washington mr hastings alltime yielded during consideration of the roll is for debate only i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days within which to revise and extend their for the consideration of the conference report to accompany h r two to seven to the twenty first century competitiveness act the role waive all points of order against the conference report and its consideration and considers the conference report as read mr speaker i rise today in support of house resolution six o two and the underlying conference report on the twenty first century competitiveness act too often we hear that our nation is struggling to properly educate our students in math and science and as a result we are falling behind in this world this is an unacceptable to me and it should be unacceptable to this congress but today we have the chance to change this today we make a true commitment to our future today we can make it clear that we support american innovation and understand the vital need for our nation to remain competitive in the global economy the twenty first century competitiveness act will help ensure that our students teachers businesses and workers are prepared to continue to keep this country at the forefront forefront of research and development our bill increases funding and makes improvements for the national science foundation the national institutes  standards and technology and at the department of energy office of science the bill increases funding for science technology engineering and math also known as stem research and education program this bill also allocate funding for the manufacturing extension partnership these m e p programs leverage federal state local and private investments to stimulate new manufacturing processes and technologies it's through these new processes and technologies that we can ensure american manufacturers have the tools to compete effectively and efficiently against overseas manufacturers the m e p program has proved to be remarkably effective in my home state of ohio where small and midsize manufacturers face limited budgets lack of in house expertise and lack of access to the newest technologies and the p s systems provided training expertise and services trailered to the critical needs of ohio small and mid sized manufacturers through this assistance many manufacturers in ohio have increased productivity achieve higher profits and remain competitive by providing the latest and most efficient technologies processes and business practices in two thousand and six in fact as a direct result of m v p assistance my state enjoyed over one hundred fifty million dollars of new investments and over five hundred million dollars in increased or retained sales companies in ohio participating in the n d p reported cost savings over one hundred million dollars through the continued funding of this vital program we can bring these vast benefits to even more small manufacturers across the country our efforts here today are vital to stopping the offshoring and outsourcing as well that may have hurt many communities in my home state of ohio and all across this nation mr speaker this congress can send a strong message today that we want to ensure that our nation is prepared for the future let's pass this role and the twenty first century competitiveness act i reserve the balance of my time gentleman from ohio reserves a bounce of our time gentleman from washington thank you mr speaker  conference report that in conference it incorporates several similar measures that have bass passed the house in the senate authorizing funding for scientific research an increase in number of students majoring in math science engineering and foreign languages the several bills that passed both houses were approved by overwhelming bipartisan votes the authorization level for all of these bipartisan bills combined total twenty four billion dollars in the house i am concerned however that the conference report today contains over forty three billion dollars in overall authorizations nearly double it is vital that the united states continue to grow more globally competitive in the areas of scientific research and technology federal and private investment in supporting research and development is essential to the health of our economy and our competitiveness as a nation we must plan for the future by investing in of areas of basic research and science today however mr speaker there is also something we must do today and that is update our foreign intelligence surveillance act laws this body has missed several important opportunities to consider changing our laws to account for technological advances and now we are faced with a limited time remaining before congress recesses for the august district worth work period mr speaker you can all agree or disagree that  need to be updated all i will be asking my colleague to do is to vote no on the previous question so that members will have the opportunity to debate and consider fixing our outdated faisel laws  currently requires our intelligence community to ask a judge permission before listening to telephone conversations of foreign terrorists in foreign countries who threaten our nation's security let me be clear also mr speaker if the previous question is defeated and america completes a conference report will still be on the floor today this is not an attempt whatsoever to delay this conference report mr speaker before i yield i just want to make it clear as has been stated on this house floor many times in recent days that the size of legislation will be on the floor of this house before the august recess so we're happy that we're here today to  pass this rule in this legislation and we're also able to deal with vice the south at this time mr speaker i will yield two minutes to the gentleman from vermont mr welch gentleman from vermont is recognized for two minutes only on the rules committee from ohio first ball i want to congratulate the outstanding work of the science committee under the leadership of mr gordon and mr hall that committee has produced more bipartisan useful legislation  maybe than any other committee so far in this body and they are to be commended this bill is yet another nail in the ladder of creating opportunity and making this country competitive in the twenty first century global economy i want to talk a little bit about what can happen if you have companies large and small that make it make a difference and commit themselves to training their workforce commit themselves to participating in a local community to advance science and math we have small companies in vermont that have done this we also have a big company i b m it is celebrating mr speaker its fiftieth anniversary in vermont and that be later this summer i b m is a major employer it is a company that transformed itself from computers to services in a whole array of of of activity that has been beneficial in relied on having the best training for new employees the best science and math that companies not only helped provide good jobs to vermonters as well as people around the world it has participated very actively in our state efforts to improve science and math training this legislation is going to focus resources on that effort in vermont in across the country  congratulations to the science committee for the good work that it's done to the companies large and small across this state that help be a partner in these policies that are essential for the future i yield the balance of my time gentleman  gentleman from washington i thank him very much a speaker i rise to express my deep concern over the process really with which we are proceeding today on such an important matter and i recognize as a member of the science committee all the hard work has gone into the america's compete act to mankind and hance our nation's investment in the core stim feel science technology engineering and mathematics and i believe that every member of our committee understands well that the future of our competitive economic edge rest in energizing our nation's students at every level so they can pursue these fields of study misspeak i want to com step of the way but i am very concerned with this conference report and the process this lightning speed quickness that it's been brought to the floor of this house is absurd and i want to ask what is the rush of technology and innovation subcommittee i was very pleased to be be picked as a conferee i don't get that opportunity often in the five years that i've been a member of this congress but however i was only made aware of the appointment tuesday at three thirty and i immediately that the full conference committee would be holding the one and only formal meeting at five o'clock and i f later mr baker this is a four hundred seventy page document that was not even available to conferees until four thirty p m yesterday i can't speak for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle but i don't want to go back home to georgia next week and explain to my constituents that spent as the representati n just said forty three billion dollars of their tax money on this measure that need i know most of the members of this house on both sides of the out even had an opportunity to read much less think about before casting that vote on the floor she knows the rules require that it shall not be in order to consider a conference report that has not been available to members delegates and resident commission or in the congressional record for at least three calendar days this only bipartisan the extent we were invited to the party but we were told to please just observe the dancing about the why don't any of the refreshments the house did not use proxy votes and yet that rule was also wave yesterday for the purpose of the formal conference in addition by a vote of two hundred fifty eight to one sixty seven this house passed a motion to instruct conferees the tuesday to insist on the house authorization levels and to restore language on coal to li s technology that had previously been accepted in this house babbo mr speaker of to sixty four to one fifty four both instructions were ignored in conference the coal to liquids technology provision was offered as an amendment in the conference yesterday and was voted down despite the wishes of this whole house what's a point of having rules if we're not going to follow them and what's the use of holding votes if we're not going to adhere to their outcome and insist in a recognizer and national one minute thank you mr speaker i thank the gentleman my point is this this rush to get things done so you can go home and say that you know you accomplished this and and that's fan but we got to get it right and we got to follow the rules and i mean whether this side when we win the majority if we're guilty of doing the same thing on occasion it may be that was done on appropriations bills but when you're dealing with something like this and this is the policy and science education and trying to stimulate our young people and make this country more competitive in the global economy we've got to get it right and when we we have a bill come in and out of the house that very generously authorizes almost twenty three point five billion dollars and all of a sudden it's forty three i have some real concerns about that so mr speaker it's extremely unfortunate that we're russian this through and it is american public who has been left with an the washington reserves about this time gentleman from ohio mr speaker at this time it's my great pleasure to yield twenty minutes to the distinguished gentleman from tennessee the chairman of the committee on science and hasting for not being too ugly about this bill i want to make my friend on sat committee mr gingrich feel better about this bill you know in the last few hours of every session it doesn't matter who is in the majority  who's a minority things get a little bit tense folks want to get get get going for their district work period and so this is an opportunity for us all to come together this is a bill that was based on a suspension that passed out of this house unanimously based on a bill out of the senate that passed eighty eight to eight this is a bat partisan back  the national chamber of commerce supports this bill the manifest national social manufacturers support this bill the business roundtable supports this bill every university that is represented in this body supports this bill because it is a good bill it's going to help american workers businesses it's going to help students and teachers be able to compete in the world is going to help us regain and maintain a leadership in research innovation and technology so let me just take a moment and tell you a little bit about about the bill it really covers well it's also based on reports sherry boehlert the former a very good chairman republican chairman of our back and they norm augustine the former head of the lockheed martin martin craig barrett at entail many other scholars as well as academic and in business and vigils came together and they told us in a very sobering way that america was heading in the wrong direction in terms of competitiveness in the twenty first century and how this this is not just an adult fault for the ones of us that have kids and grandkids because i'm very concerned that the next generation of americans could be the first generations of americans that in her a national standard of living less than our parents if we don't do something this bill will help change the corner turn that corner let me tell you about it it deals really with three main areas first of all following the recommendations of the rising above the gathering storm we're going to increase our expenditures  in research in this country in the national science foundation that does such a good job that the national institute of standards technology and again from my friend from georgia these are just authorizations if the if they can't justify what they're doing then appropriations will not appropriate those funds this is just authorization it don't spend any money but it does give us a great blueprint and so the next thing we're going to do we have to recognize that there are about seven billion people in the world half of which make less than two dollars a day we can't compete with that we don't want to compete with that we don't our kids and grandkids to have to be in that situation so what do we do where we have to compete at a higher level if they're going to make one widget in china or india or elsewhere we've got to make fifty in this country at the same time and we need to be inventing the widget maker and we need to be manufacturing the widget maker and that's what this bill is going to help us do but to do that our workers have to perform at a higher skill level and we've got to help them do that because when you look and it's a sad situation right now but only cypress and south africa have lower overall math and sat scores and we have in this country right now and what's the reason for that is that we're not as smart as other countries no that's not the case the problem is we have very good and talented teachers in this country but unfortunately when it comes to math and science about seventy about sixty three percent of the math teachers at the middle school have neither a matter have neither a major or a sort of occasion to teach math science teachers in this country are trying to do a good job but eighty seven percent of them have neither a major or certification the teach the physical sciences it's hard to inspire it's hard to really convey information when you don't have a good background and let me get want to give you an example of that my father was a farmer he went to world war two and he came back because of the g i bill he was able to go to college and he got a degree in agriculture and i come along and my mother had to give up her job at the cafeteria so my father needed a second job so he applied to teach and he got the last teaching job at summer and a half school in my own my home county and so since he was the last person to get a job they assigned him to teach haskell science and to coach the girls basketball and i'm not sure what my which one of my father knew the least about he was a bright able fella but they put him in a difficult situation and it was tough for for his students i'm sure well we've got to do better than that and so what this bill is going to do is to really two things in that area we're going to take those good teachers like my father bring them back into school during the summer so that they can get their certification hopefully go ahead and get a master's get an a p certification so they can do a better job we're also going to provide scholarships for approximately ten thousand students each year on a competitive basis that want to go into math science and education and agree to teach for five years in high need areas this is going to go a long way to to helping our skills and so finally we're going to look at one other area one other area that the rising above the gathering storm mentioned was we have to become energy independent in this country and we've been talking about a lot of energy bills that we're going to hopefully pass an energy bill that least in the house the senate has done it's a long way to getting something and getting something  today this is a conference report this is not just a bill that then goes to the other body goes to conference this is a conference report that was passed out of that conference on to baptise and back cameral basis and it does something about energy independence today and let me tell you about that and again this is a recommendation that came from the national academies of science we're going to set up an agency within the department of energy modeled after darpa which is in the defense department a high risk high reward group that's going to look at the seven or eight most cutting edge types of new technologies and we're going to bring our private sector the public sector the national labs the universities all together with a very narrow bit of management that's only going to be like project directors to bring all these folks together and just like in the department of finance the internet was developed stealth technology was developed but there were a lot of things that didn't work out because they want to pray to try have a risk high reward that's what we're going to do we're going to get in there and we're going to find those areas that are new technologies they're going to bump up our ability to create renewable energy in this country which is going to help us become energy independent it's going to create jobs and going to create exports this is a very good bap artists and back cameral the all that's indorsed by the chamber of commerce by the national association of manufacturers by the business roundtable universities and this afternoon we talk about this more i'm going to bring you a list of businesses and organizations that support this that's going to go on and on and own so my friends let's put aside that just i guess the natural bit of tenseness it goes with with ending a session let's work together and get something good today and pass this bipartisan back camera bill your back to balance my heard when speaker say this is a bad bill and should not be passed you've heard another say it's a good bill and it should be passed there are good points on both sides of that argument but i would point out that i have never seen a perfect bill reach the floor of this house and on balance i believe this bill is good and should be passed and i will be supporting the bill and presumably the rule that is presenting it to us and i do this in spite of the fact that d our ranking member mr hall whom i have a great respect for have serious doubts about the bill let me explain why i am supporting this america is in trouble it is in trouble in several areas in trouble  science it's in trouble in education manufacturing outsourcing let me examine some of those just example science education had i the time i could give you a chart after chart after chart showing you where american students stand on the international scale compared to other high school graduate students in physics dead last of all developed nations mathematics high school mathematics graduates second from the bottom of all state and all developed countries general science about fifty from the bottom in the pieta studies united states last of twenty one in mathematics we think we are the leading nation we think we are doing a good job of educating our students we are not and we must face the this bill addresses much of that problem by improving the education and training for teachers both incoming teachers and existing teachers it will improve the curriculum it will help students achieve higher and we must bring that back to china and india recognize this issue twenty years ago that the future belongs to the nations that educated their children in mathematics and science china to the dictators way you will learn math and science india did it through inducements but as a result they are now ahead of us and we know these losing jobs to those nations because we have neglected our math and science education in our research efforts we have always been the leader in scientific research for half a century ever since world war two we are losing ground believe it or not korea is starting to put more than we are as a percent of g d p into the basic research efforts and that's being joined by other countries as well manufacturing tremendous problem we are losing jobs to other countries constantly and it is not just the wage base i come from a manufacturing district i have many conversations with manufacturers it is not just the wage base they are getting better quality higher more highly educated workers abroad for lower pay that's a hard combination to be and we really have to work hard in this nation to improve education improve manufacturing now where how does that affect this bill this bill is designed to affect and improve all of those areas it does not do it ideally i disagree with a number of things in the bell i join my republican colleagues in doing that but on balance it is a start if this were an appropriations bill i might have some reservations but it's an authorization bill we get another bite of the apple each time we decide which programs we're actually going to fund i could meant in our party and here i'm less than  enthusiastic about it if it works i would be delighted but i'm skeptical but why not authorize it we will let the appropriators work with us and decide whether or not we should fund america as a nation is based on competition we are not afraid of competition and this bill will engender competition it will give us the opportunity to compete face to face at level to level with other countries and give us an opportunity to restore our manufacturing base improve our science education improve our manufacturing facilities and really do a better job you have heard before this is indorsed by many major organizations in this country all of whom have a deep interest  improving manufacturing improving our competitiveness this bill was suggested by president bush in his american competitiveness initiative in the state of the union speech last year this is not a fly by night idea this is something that i have been working on for almost every year since i came here fourteen years ago and particularly the last ten years it's coming to fruition i've worked with the white house on it i've worked with many scientific societies and much of the genesis of this comes from the national academy of sciences and the gathering storm of report which is head headed very ably by norman augustine one of our leading industrialist and scientists so it's not a perfect bill i wish it were but it's not but in this process this is the best we can get and it gives us a base to build on and to appropriate use of this our civilization and appropriate appropriations bills we will strengthen our nation we will strengthen our manufacturing base we will strengthen our schools we will strengthen our math and science education and we will have a better nation and a stronger nation as a result one last comment we spend a tremendous amount of money on defense tremendous amount of money and defense we have always managed to succeed in situations like this because of our sapir your knowledge our superior research and her superior resources we are in danger of losing that edge and i have met with people from the pentagon suggesting scientific ideas to them that they can use to improve the situation in iraq we need that kind of interaction between the scientific community and the military community and i hope ohio and i thank her for leadership not only on the rules committee but on the judiciary committee it is a pleasure to have the opportunity to to work with her mrs speaker let me acknowledge the chairman of the science committee mr gordon and the ranking member of the science committee as in a lot of this of this committee let me applaud this effet and indicate that this is not the end but it is  beginning it has been a long journey but it is premised on very important challenges would begin to look around the world and we notice that nations who in years past were looking to the united states for the cutting edge of technology now are graduating more mathematicians and engineers in one month such as china than we might be graduating in a year we understand the premise of this competitive legislation h r twenty two seventy two is long overdue and it is reaching to answer a crisis early this morning we heard  reference to president john f kennedy about his pronouncement that america was going into space it was said at that time that the president didn't know how we were going into space did not have a grasp of the  possible technology but yet by his pronouncement it opened the doors of america's inventiveness to be able to create this pathway to space well now that we have been to six behind us of leave no child behind a bill that we hope we will truly reform we do have numbers suggesting that america's children are short changed in math and science we do know that america's schools are failing with respect to equipment in laboratories and we do know america's schools need the kind of training teachers professional teachers who can emphasize math and science and so i am very grateful that this particular legislation allows for twenty five thousand new teachers over the next three years  professional development summit training institutes graduate education focusing on math and science today in my own district i'm working with private the private sector to help fund one of the failing school districts to give them what you call  professional teachers or master teachers in math and science to build up their laboratories but we're using private dollars because we can't get the public dollars this maintains the importance of qualified teachers in mathematics and science it does something that is key that many of us have been working on who have been advocating for nasa for many years and that is a partnership between the public and private i hope that nasa will be one of those who can be utilized to engage more heavily in the community on the issues a man science and engineering and something that we have worked on and i've worked on all my years on the science committee working with historically black colleges and hispanic serving colleges only quickly warming eld to the gentlewoman an additional two minutes gentlemen recognize an additional two minutes we now have a focus on minorities and women in the science area when i first came to this congress i passed legislation that would allow excess equipment from the nation's laboratories to be used in our secondary and primary schools anything to put a nexus between research and science and development to the nation's education system this puts it squarely on the front burner and i think what also happens is that we have revitalize the national science foundation the national institute of standards and technology and the department of energy's office of science the key element of this legislation is that without ideas we are not competitive that is why it is so named and i hope that as this moves call it the president and presidents to come will make this a cornerstone of their administration that is that america failed when her inventiveness when our scientists and engineers are stifled and america fails when all of these people when all of this people are in essence divided and some go forward and some don't and so the idea that we must see again the emphasis on math and science for girls as we do boys is crucial let me just simply say as a partner to this effort we recently passed the nasa koin bill interestingly enough in that legislation opportunities to embrace children focus program that would encourage the research on the science at a primary school level so that children grow up saying i want to be and i know they want to be basketball players and they want to be maybe astronauts because they look great but i want to grow up and say i want to be a math teacher or a mathematician i want to be a biologist or a chemist or a nuclear physicist or an engineer of many different types as we reflect on the tragedy of the minnesota bridge collapse we need engineers and technicians to help build america and to create jobs i close up mr speaker by simply saying left before the august break and i would ask my colleagues to oppose the previous question on this conference report so that we may mediately addressed problems in the foreign intelligence surveillance act we have now reached a point where the majority is committed to bring legislation to the floor and that is a very big step forward and i regret that it is taken so much public pressure to get us to this point i'm actually a believer that intelligence matters are best dealt with quietly but when quiet encouragement does not work and national security is at stake we have an obligation to increase the public pressure in order to get a political decision to move and get things done when it's important to this country now that that political decision has been made and the majority has said they will bring legislation to the floor we need to make sure those legislative fixes that those that legislation fixes the problem in other words we have to get this right it is critical to get this right several democrat leaders have put forward some ideas but there are two of them that don't make any sense to me they want first only temporary authority to listen to foreigners in foreign countries and second they want to still be in a situation where you have to get a court of court order to approve your eavesdropping on foreigners in foreign countries let's look at that for a second my colleagues want to things they want only temporary authority to listen to foreigners in foreign countries the war on terrorism is not a temporary thing and spying is not new as early as the invention of the telegraph and listen reading people's mail during world war one that was going back and forth to europe and world war two much of the war was won because we broke codes that the germans and japanese were using and listen to their communications during the cold war we listen to our enemies we have a foreign intelligence apparatus and we spy on our enemies foreign intelligence collection is not new and it is not temporary we need to fix this law and get it right now secondly and several of my democrat colleagues have put forward the idea that you should still need court approval to eavesdrop on foreigners in foreign countries it takes about two hundred man hours to develop a probable cause statement a packet to go to the court that's about that thick to get approval from a court to do a wiretap now these people who have to put these together  not clerks or even lawyers they are experts in counterterrorism and their time is much better spent tracking these people than putting together paperwork more importantly the foreign intelligence  surveillance act was never intended to put a u s judge in charge of deciding whether we can listen to foreigners in foreign countries that is why we spy and what we do we don't need judges to be considering those kinds of things and the only reason they are is because technology has changed faster than the law pfizer the foreign intelligence surveillance act was never intended to require warrants to listen to foreigners in foreign countries in one nine hundred seventy eight when the law was written almost all long haul communications were over the year that's where international calls were almost all local calls were on a wire when they wrote the act they froze the law in time they required a warrant for anything on a wire and over the air communications didn't require warrants at all because that's where we collect foreign intelligence in a bill that comes to this floor we need to do two things first no warrant or court intervention should be required to listen to foreign terrorists in foreign countries speed matters and second we must continue to require warrants to united states the foreign intelligence surveillance law was intended to protect the civil liberties of americans was it was intended in as an actually a very good job at rolling back the abuses that intelligence community was involved in hundred fifty s and one nine hundred sixty s let's get this court back to focusing what it was intended to do which is to protect the civil liberties of americans and allow our intelligence community to do what they are intended to do which is to keep this country safe and prevent the next terrorist attack i would yield the balance of my time about the balance of our time gentleman from ohio mr speaker at this time it's my honor to yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from florida and then brad was the rules committee and the select committee on intelligence mr hastings gentleman from florida is recognized for two minutes i thank my good crim from ohio awful yielding if it is that we must say just so is how we assure everybody all the matter of five is on the agenda it will be taken up before we leave and i can only say that they are romney any of us in this body who do not feel that it is inappropriate to establish an appropriate entity for oversight no matter where information may be coming from the thing that i wish to dispel is that there is no reason for us to be fearful of us not having information that is needed that is needed it is true that the director of national civil liberties are important to american civil liberties are paramount when it comes to our consideration of gathering information we don't want to troll and catch some american citizen and have their information posture that we are him because i would not want this attorney general making bold decision thank you gentlemen time has expired gentlemen from washington amidst the gentle eighty's new mexico gentleman from mexico is recognized for one minute you mr speaker the director of national intelligence has said that there are things we should be listening to which we are not getting all of us remember where we were on the morning of nine eleven remember who we were with what we were wearing what we had for breakfast i would guess that nobody listening to me here today or very few remember where they were the day that the british government to arrested sixteen people who were within forty eight hours of walking on two airliners at heathrow and blowing them up over the atlantic it was successful intelligence cooperation between the british pakistani and american governments that prevented that attack and you don't remember it because it didn't happen intelligence is the first line of defense in the war on terror and we must fix this law and get it right and i would yield the pound my talk with you about the balance of our time gentleman from ohio speaker i would inquire  gentlemen to recognize the speaker i urge my colleagues to vote no on the previous question by defeating the previous question we will give members the ability to vote today on the merits of changing current law to ensure our the fields of math and science it's time that we help our manufacturers and promote innovation and industrial competitiveness with this legislation we are setting our course while there are many things that must be done on many different issues to see real improvements passing in the twenty first century competitiveness act today is one very positive and enormous step in the right direction we are saying we want to invest in our teachers we want to invest in our students best in science and research and development and innovation we are developing our workforce for the jobs of today and tomorrow mr speaker we are preparing our nation for a bright future i urge a yes vote on the previous question and on the role i yield back the balance of my time and i move the previous question on the resolution the question is on ordering the previous question on the resolution those in favor say aye those or ordered member of the record their votes by electronic device pursuant the clause eight and clause nine of rule twenty this fifteen minute vote on ordering the previous question will be followed by five minute votes on adoption of house resolution six zero two ordering the previous question on house resolution six zero one and adoption of house resolution six zero one if ordered this is a fifteen minute vote