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maybe trillions of dollars over there 

and lost a lot of lives. And then in Afghanistan. And I support going after 

the Taliban. I think we ought to get rid 

of those guys. We ought to stop the terrorists. It’s extremely important. But 

the one thing that I think that’s very 

important when we go after these guys 

is we make absolutely sure that we’re 

going to get them and we’re going to 

win. And the problem we had with Afghanistan after losing all these lives 

and costing all this money is that 

we’re going to pull out in about a year 

and a half, and, in my opinion, that 

whole area is going to be again in a 

state of turmoil and we will have spent 

billions of dollars, our treasure, and a 

lot of lives, and it will still not be stabilized. And I think that’s really unfortunate because of the problems that we 

thought we were going to solve by 

going in there. 

One of the things that bothers me is 

every time we have a war, we think we 

can have a war that’s antiseptic. That 

we’re not going to kill any civilians. 

You can go in and attack an area and 

kill the Taliban or al Qaeda, and you 

have to be real careful that you don’t 

damage or kill civilians. And as a result, al Qaeda and the Taliban, they 

hide behind civilians. They go into 

schools and churches and they go into 

hospitals because they know that they 

can’t be attacked unless we go in and 

there are innocent lives lost. 

We’ve faced the same thing in World 

War II. And people don’t remember 

this, but we had to do things to win 

that war to stop Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo that we would never 

want to do. We firebombed Dresden, 

Germany. We firebombed Berlin. We 

dropped nuclear weapons on Hiroshima 

and Nagasaki. We killed millions of innocent human beings. But that was the 

horrible cost of war. 

Now, today, with the television and 

the Internet and everything else, we go 

to war and the next day you see somebody that’s injured, a woman, a child, 

and they say, This is horrible. We can’t 

conduct this war. So our military is 

handcuffed. They say that they can’t 

go in and go after these guys in certain 

areas because of the potential civilian 

casualties. And you can’t run a war 

like that. You either go in to win or 

you don’t go in at all. And we should 

not risk American lives and treasure 

unless we’re going in to win. 

That’s why when I think back on 

Iraq, I think that maybe we should 

have gone in and beat the hell out of 

Saddam Hussein, let them know that 

we weren’t going to put up with that, 

and then pulled out and say, Hey, 

you’ve got a country, you run it properly. But if you conduct yourself in the 

way you did before, we’ll be back. It 

would have scared Iran to death. It 

would have scared the Taliban to 

death. But instead, we went in there to 

nation build. And 10, 12 years later we 

face much of the same thing that we 

faced back then. 

The other thing I think that’s important for Congress to do—and we don’t 

do it—is when the administration, I 

don’t care whether it’s a Democrat or 

Republican administration, when they 

make a mistake, we in the Congress 

must speak out. We must not just go 

along with the administration, whoever it is, because we want to keep a 

good relationship with them. Our responsibility as Congress is to make 

sure that the Government of the 

United States doesn’t go awry. And I’ve 

seen time and time again in the years 

I’ve been here where Presidents have 

made a mistake and we stay here and 

we’re strangely silent. 

We have to speak up. We have to let 

the American people know when mistakes are made and that we have to 

correct them. And we must not let 

unelected bureaucrats decide all of our 

foreign policy. We have people at the 

State Department, people in our government, people who are unelected who 

make decisions that really lead us in 

the wrong direction. And I speak, 

again, for the administration and the 

State Department when I talk about 

Libya. We went in there and what did 

we get? We got rid of Qadhafi. Now 

there’s chaos. Now they’re attacking 

our embassy and burning our flag and 

waving around al Qaeda flags and talking about how the world will be better 

off if all the Muslim radicals are in 

charge. 

The same thing is true in Egypt. We 

went in and got rid of Mubarak. And 

what did we get? We got the Muslim 

Brotherhood, a radical Muslim fundamentalist group that wants to destroy the freedoms that we believe in, 

not to mention our best ally in the entire region, Israel. And Israel is the 

only place over there that we can 

count on if everything goes wrong. And 

so our State Department and the administration and previous administrations have made these kinds of mistakes, and we’ve been strangely, 

strangely silent. 

So I would just like to end up by saying to my colleagues we should profit 

from our past mistakes. We should 

make sure that we don’t try to nation 

build. We can’t make the world over in 

our image. It’s not possible. We have to 

work with unsavory leaders sometimes, 

people that we don’t like, that we don’t 

think are good people, because of stability in the region and because of 

America’s interests. Our interests 

ought to be number one. 

The protection of our country ought 

to be number one. The protection of 

our soldiers and the people who go to 

war and the people of this country 

ought to be number one. And of secondary importance are the lives of 

these people in these countries that are 

radical. But we haven’t been doing 

that. But that ought to be our number 

one goal, the United States, first, last, 

and always. And we should not turn 

over to unelected bureaucrats the control of our foreign policy. We should 

listen to them. We should have our ambassadors over there. We should have 

good people over there like the ambassador that just lost his life. But the 

final decisions ought to be brought before the committees of the Congress, 

and we ought to discuss them and we 

ought to participate in the decisionmaking process with the Commander 

in Chief and not let unelected leaders, 

bureaucrats make those decisions. 

Finally, we must remember we 

should never go to war unless we realize the cost that is going to be involved. You cannot win an antiseptic 

war. You can have a tenuous peace. We 

had that in Korea. We still have a potential war over there in the 38th parallel. We didn’t go in, and we didn’t win 

it, so now we have the Communists up 

north and the freedom-loving people 

down south. We went into North Africa, into Somalia, and we tried to nation build there. And we had to pull 

out because you couldn’t get it done. 

We’ve gone all over the place and tried 

to nation build, and we’ve gone all over 

the world and tried to make the world 

over in our image, and we’ve gone all 

over the world and tried to fight antiseptic wars, and they just don’t work. 

If you’re going to fight a war, you 

have to go in and win it and then leave 

and do what is right for America. You 

can’t stay there for 8, 10, 12 years and 

try to nation build. Because ultimately 

you lose a lot of life, you spend our 

treasure, and you don’t get the job 

done. And I’m a conservative. I’m one 

of those guys that is one of the strongest supporters of the military in the 

entire Congress, and I’m one of those 

people they call a hawk and one of 

those people that says: Get the bad 

guys, wherever they are. 

But I’ve learned over the past 30 

years that you have to do certain 

things if you’re going to make America 

great and survive as a Nation. And 

those things are very important. You 

can’t make the world over in our 

image. You have to work with some 

leaders in other parts of the world that 

are not savory people because of our interests and our stability. You can’t 

spend our money and our treasure and 

the lives of Americans without going in 

to win. And you can’t fight an antiseptic war. 

If we go in, and we go in to win, we’re 

going to have to take some innocent 

lives. And it’s a tragic thing. But that’s 

the way that war is. And the reason 

Dwight Eisenhower and the American 

forces were so great and so successful 

in World War II in Europe and in Japan 

was because we went in and we did 

what had to be done to win. And if we 

hadn’t done that, we might all be 

speaking German today. 

I yield back the balance of my time. 

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FROM HISTORY 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under 

the Speaker’s announced policy of January 5, 2011, the Chair recognizes the 

gentleman from Texas (Mr. GOHMERT) 

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Mr. GOHMERT. Thank you, Madam 

Speaker. 

The things that are going on right 

now in the world are deeply troubling. 

For those of us who have studied history, it becomes even more disturbing 

when we make the same mistakes 

again, mistakes that get people killed 

who have entrusted their lives to their 

government, who say, I’m willing to 

lay down my life for you. I give my life 

in service to you. 

As some of the military, some of our 

outstanding military in Afghanistan 

this year have told me sincerely, I’m 

willing to lay down my life for my 

country. Please don’t waste my life. 

The decisions of a President who has 

never really gotten involved in foreign 

affairs, his experience before coming 

into public office is as a community organizer. That can be fine if you adequately study history and really understand, not from the standpoint of an 

Indonesian school child and the limited 

viewpoint that that may yield, but 

from the standpoint of someone who 

has studied history inside and out and 

understands such things as the axiom 

that when a nation’s enemies see that 

nation’s strongest ally or allies pulling 

away from it, that’s when they move. 

The old axiom that among nations, 

weakness is provocative. 

Two years ago, I’d seen an article, 

and this may have been the one I’d 

seen because the title is ‘‘Obama votes 

against Israel.’’ This is an article dated 

May 29, 2010. And it points out in the 

article that the White House sided with 

Israel’s enemies, something that this 

Nation didn’t normally do, and basically demanding that Israel disclose all 

their nukes. 

Well, those who study the Bible, biblical history, may recall that King 

Hezekiah was a very good king in 

Israel, and things went pretty well, but 

Isaiah was sent to confront Hezekiah 

about what he had done with visitors 

who had come from Babylon. 

God knew what had been done. But 

Isaiah asked and Hezekiah explained, 

and this is the New Texas Paraphrase 

Version, but in essence he said, You 

know, all of these wonderful leaders 

came over from Babylon, so I showed 

them all of our treasure, and if you get 

into the strict interpretations, the 

translation, he basically says, I showed 

them our armory, all of our defenses. 

Isaiah points out, You fool. You’re 

going to lose the country because 

you’ve done this. No matter what point 

in history you are, when a nation 

shows all its defenses to its enemies, 

that information at some point in time 

will be used to take down such a foolish nation. 

Even when a nation discloses all of 

their defenses to friends, to staunch allies—because as we’ve seen, we thought 

the U.S. had an ally in Castro in Cuba, 

and yet once he was in power, he 

turned rather remarkably against the 

United States. Those things happen. 

Power changes in different countries; 

and if they have information, if they 

have weaponry, if they have the wherewithal, then sometimes a former friend 

can turn into an enemy. 

So it was no surprise to me, being a 

student of history, that when it came 

out through the media that, gee, the 

Obama administration has taken a 

shocking position when looked at historically against Israel’s well-being, 

then was it a shock that the flotilla 

left within only mere days to go challenge the blockade at the Gaza Strip? 

Nobody should have been surprised by 

that because the world, Israel’s enemies, had been shown that this administration was willing to pander to 

Israel’s enemies to try to make Israel’s 

enemies think, you know, hey, we’re 

one of you guys. We’re just friends. We 

want to be friends with everybody. 

It doesn’t work that way. You don’t 

throw your friends under the bus, and 

you don’t gain friends by paying off enemies. It has never worked. It will 

never work. It gets people killed. 

So Israel’s been in a bit of a bind. 

When we see the way this fiasco over 

the last year and a half has been handled, some might say, look, this is no 

time to be talking about these things. 

For goodness sake, decisions are being 

made as I speak that will either let 

people live or get people killed. If we 

don’t talk about it now, when will we 

talk about it? Let the historians write 

that nobody would stand up and say 

this is a mistake? Let’s don’t repeat 

the terrible chapters of history. Let’s 

get it right. 

All of us who served in the United 

States armed services took an oath and 

had it cross our mind, you know, the 

time may come where I do have to lay 

down my life for my country. But after 

I had a soldier say that in Afghanistan, 

I had to realize, you know, I had that 

in the back of my mind. I’m willing to 

lay down my life. I hope it doesn’t get 

wasted. 

Well, the thing is every American 

that has laid down their lives for their 

country didn’t do it for this administration or any other. There are ideals 

that this country was founded on and 

stands for even now. 

But we’re in the midst of a crisis, and 

part of it created by our own mishandling, and we have got to make 

sure that we do not continue to make 

the same mistakes and continue to 

pander to our enemies and continue to 

provoke them by showing weakness. 

We owe the lives that have been laid 

down that are even now coming, being 

brought back into this country. We 

owe them an obligation to make sure 

that others do not lose their lives unless it really counts. 

I come over here nauseated today 

upon hearing reports about—and I pray 

God they’re not accurate—about what 

may have happened during the 8 hours 

or so the body of our great ambassador 

was missing. 

But, we also know, well, gee, the Embassy in Cairo released a statement 

and they were basically condemning 

anybody that would produce a provocative film that might offend Muslims. 

Good grief. How many movies have 

been produced that provoke and insult 

those of us who are Christians? Thank 

God that most of us, as Christians, understand that that does not justify 

going and killing people and burning 

people and burning up buildings. 

We understand that we believe in 

freedom of speech, that God gave us 

freedom to make choices. So in the 

most ideal country, others will have 

freedom to choose right and freedom to 

choose wrong. 

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But if it’s too wrong, we have criminal laws, domestically, to deal with 

those issues. But you would hope someone, before any further action is taken 

to condemn Americans for using freedom of speech here, would analyze the 

situation—as they did not before they 

first condemned and even had a general 

officer of our military call and ask 

about maybe not producing a film, not 

pushing it out there, whatever it was 

he asked: Don’t use your First Amendment rights that I’m supposed to be 

fighting for you to have. Don’t use 

those. That will make my job easier. 

Well, actually, the general doesn’t 

know, it makes it more difficult. 

Let’s look at this. Let’s analyze it a 

moment. A friend, Patrick Poole, 

asked a question that made me start 

asking questions. Let’s look at it. We 

heard about this film that all of a sudden on 9/11—shouldn’t that ring a bell— 

on 9/11 provoked riots. It provoked people in Cairo climbing up the walls of 

our Embassy. And it’s easy to watch 

these things happen. You know historically that people will push the envelope, and these people did in Cairo: 

Well, I wonder if the soldiers will stop 

us if we go up to the wall. 

And maybe they go up and spraypaint on the wall: Ooh, nobody stopped 

us from there. How about if we climb 

on the wall? 

Well, no soldiers. They watched. 

They didn’t do anything; they just 

watched. 

Oh, let’s push it a little further. Let’s 

climb up the walls. Wow, we’re up here 

on top of the walls and these soldiers 

that are supposed to protect the Embassy have done nothing. Let’s take 

down the American flag; that’s always 

popular here. Let’s run up an al Qaedatype flag. 

And nothing was done. That is provocative in its weakness. 

Now, this film is still a mystery. It 

should make people go: Wait a minute. 

This doesn’t make sense that all of a 

sudden this film provoked nations of 

people, masses of people to come out 

and riot and it would cause them to 

kill an Ambassador and innocent people, this film. 

Let’s look at this a little more carefully. Then you find a story that it actually turns out there’s a report that 

this movie came out in July. So a 

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July. Well, if this ridiculous movie, 

this insulting movie that insults Muslims, we’re told—I haven’t seen it, 

don’t plan to—but it came out in July, 

how on 9/11, all of a sudden, does this 

movie cause people to be killed? 

I would humbly submit that a lesson 

to learn here is that when American 

citizens utilize their free speech rights, 

their freedoms of religion, that the 

President and everyone under his command is not to direct that people can’t 

use their freedom of speech and freedom of religion; they’re to protect 

them. The messages that should come 

out from an administration are not: 

Don’t use your freedom of speech and 

freedom of religion because we don’t 

want to offend anyone. I’m offended all 

the time. You don’t go kill people because of it. 

Although it’s not recognized under 

shari’a law, under Western law in a 

Western civilization—we dealt with 

this all the time in the court over 

which I was a judge—provoking words, 

no matter how insulting, provoking 

words are never a defense to a physical 

assault, much less murder. That’s what 

we believe in this country. That’s what 

Western civilizations believe. We 

should be defending that civilized concept, not pandering to people who are 

being inflamed by our enemies. 

So then we find out that the inflammation of people who would kill American citizens and an American Ambassador were inflamed by this film that 

came out in July, but it was not until 

it was released through the Egyptian 

media that it started firing people up. 

Wow, isn’t that remarkable? Right before 9/11. Well, now, if it’s an insulting 

movie—and from the information we 

have, the Muslim Brotherhood is basically in control in Egypt. The Muslim 

Brotherhood basically could shut down 

any Egyptian media source, but yet 

they produce or they get this information, they get the film out. Not only 

that, because there are some Muslims 

that may not speak English that might 

be inflamed into a fire that will burn 

down buildings and kill people, we’d 

better interpret that into their language. 

Gee, why would a foreign country— 

who this President says has been our 

ally, and then he said they’re not our 

ally, but they’re not our enemy, and 

then we hear, well, actually, we do consider them an ally. Whatever they are, 

a friend does not take some obscure 

film that nobody noticed, interpret it 

into a language that it knows will inflame people who will kill Americans 

and put it out there. That’s not a 

friend. That’s an enemy of the United 

States of America. And it is an insult 

to this government and to the American people that this body would vote 

for a continuing resolution that allowed the potential for more money to 

go to enemies that would put out films 

that will inflame people, that get 

Americans killed. 

We owe those who have given their 

lives better than this, and we owe 

those who are serving us abroad and 

serving here at home and may be sent 

better than this. So there are those 

who may say we should not be talking 

about this. If we don’t talk about it 

now, others may give their lives. Let’s 

save their lives for something more important than a mistake by an administration. 

Our Ambassador to Libya is a hero. 

I’ve been to too many funerals of brave 

men and women who have given their 

lives for this country. So when I read a 

report or a media source that discloses 

the name of a former SEAL team member who is acting as private security at 

our facility in Libya and the report is— 

doesn’t put it in quotes, but the report 

says that the administration released 

the information that this former SEAL 

member was killed while running for 

cover. 

Now, I recognize that there are 

enough in the mainstream media who 

are so loyal, they take their marching 

orders—they may not lay down their 

lives, but they will lay down their reputations for this administration. Somebody may be willing to come forward 

and say, You know what? It’s not exactly what the administration said. 

Maybe we misinterpreted that in the 

story. 

It doesn’t matter. The story came 

out, and the administration owes those 

who have given their lives for this administration better than that. Because 

I can guarantee you, I know enough 

SEAL members and I know enough 

SEAL team members that that SEAL 

team member was not running for 

cover when he was killed. If he was 

running, it was to get to a place from 

which he could conduct a better assault upon the enemy. That’s the way 

they think. They don’t think, ‘‘Run for 

cover.’’ They think, ‘‘Where can I get 

to the best position to fight, to save 

those entrusted to my care?’’ 

That’s an insult, and I hope I never 

see another report like that from this 

administration or any Republican administration, because it’s an insult and 

we owe better than that to those who 

are fighting for us. 

Who made the decision in the Egyptian Government, in the Egyptian 

media to take this July obscure, and 

from what we hear, pitifully made film 

and blow it up in the Middle East, figuratively speaking—figuratively speaking, blow it up in the Middle East—so 

that people who heard it and saw it 

would blow up Americans? 

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Who made that decision? And who 

made the decision—we need to know— 

who made the decision to release a 

statement that was provocative in its 

weakness in saying, you know what, 

people over here are getting upset because some idiot made a film back in 

the United States, and so we need to be 

sure not to insult Muslims. 

When have I ever seen anything from 

this administration say, you know 

what, we need to not make films in 

Hollywood that insult Christians, people like Mother Teresa, that deserve 

better treatment than that. When have 

I seen that? 

We haven’t, because this has been, in 

the past, a free country, where we have 

freedom of speech and freedom to make 

stupid, ridiculous, insulting movies. 

But the obscure film this State Department apologized for had to be 

translated. It was translated by somebody. It had to be put on Egyptian television by somebody. Who could that 

have been? 

And I would submit that until we 

find out, there should not be a dime of 

American money nor money that 

Americans have had to borrow in order 

to send to Egypt. It shouldn’t go over 

there. It shouldn’t go to Libya. 

And it’s time we wake up and quit 

playing stupid, silly games like this 

administration is doing with our dear 

friend, Israel, and understand decisions 

have consequences. And when this administration sided with Israel’s enemies in May of 2010, it had consequences. People were hurt. People 

were killed. 

When this administration, perhaps 

pouting, whatever the reason, well, I’m 

going to—and Beyonce, Jay-Z, I understand they’re fantastic entertainers. 

But you’ve got a country named Israel 

that has been a friend, that has enemies at the gate, and there’s not a 

better way to say it. 

While we are pandering and playing 

and actually trying to make our enemies like us by offering to buy them 

offices in Qatar, to let their murdering 

thugs out so they can murder again, 

while we’re playing these games thinking, gee, maybe our enemy will start 

liking us, the enemy is at the gate. 

And those centrifuges that are spinning in Iran are a modern-day mass of 

gas chambers that are being constructed for Israelis and for Americans. 

Read what their leaders have said. 

Listen to what their leaders have said. 

There’s one way to stop them, that 

is, to be serious that we will take out 

anyone who wants to annihilate Americans or America. And when they know 

we’re serious, we may not have to go 

do it. But it cannot be a bluff. People 

need to know the American people will 

not allow innocent American citizens 

to be target practice. 

And for those who do not know 

enough history to know that in the 

song that our marines are so proud of, 

that I, as a grade school child, learned 

to sing in public school, to the shores 

of Tripoli, marines have been fighting 

our country’s battles. Those shores of 

Tripoli came when the Muslim Barbary 

pirates were attacking American ships. 

And at that early time in our history, 

we didn’t have a navy. Earlier we did 

not have marines. And it was flabbergasting to people like Thomas Jefferson who were sent over there to negotiate. 

Why in the world would you attack 

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told that actually, under our religion, 

we believe that if we die while attacking infidels, which we consider you to 

be, we go straight to paradise. 

Jefferson and others were shocked. 

This doesn’t mesh with most world religions. What religion would think it 

okay where actually you would get to 

paradise by killing innocent people? 

Thank God that the vast majority of 

Muslims don’t believe that. But it is 

pure folly to ignore those that do. 

We owe those who serve the United 

States of America better than this. 

And to those who would say this is a 

political season, we should not be talking about anything but jobs, I would 

say before this economy can thrive, we 

have got to fulfill our oath to provide 

for the common defense because an 

economy won’t last much longer if we 

don’t protect those who are Americans 

here and abroad. 

I pray for the wisdom of President 

Obama, for the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for those who are serving 

abroad these United States of America, 

and for our leaders in Congress, that 

though we are so close to an election, 

what will matter more is the fulfillment of our oath and the protection, as 

best we can, of those who are trying to 

protect us. 

With that, I yield back the balance of 

my time. 

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LEAVE OF ABSENCE 

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted to: 

Mr. JONES (at the request of Mr. CANTOR) for today after 11:40 a.m. on account of personal reasons. 

Mr. HEINRICH (at the request of Ms. 

PELOSI) for today. 

Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas 

(at the request of Ms. PELOSI) for today 

on account of district official business. 

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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 

REFERRED 

A joint resolution of the Senate of 

the following title was taken from the 

Speaker’s table and, under the rule, referred as follows: 

S.J. Res. 44. Joint resolution granting the 

consent of Congress to the State and Province Emergency Management Assistance 

Memorandum of Understanding; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 

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ADJOURNMENT 

Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Speaker, I 

move that the House do now adjourn. 

The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 3 o’clock and 18 minutes 

p.m.), under its previous order, the 

House adjourned until Tuesday, September 18, 2012, at noon. 

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ETC. 

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communications were taken from the 

Speaker’s table and referred as follows: 

7675. A letter from the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting the Department’s final rule — Final 

Flood Elevation Determinations (Unincorporated Areas of Mingo county, West Virginia, et al.); [Docket ID: FEMA-2012-0003] received August 28, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Financial 

Services. 

7676. A letter from the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting the Department’s final rule — Final 

Flood Elevation Determinations (Unincorporated Areas of Chickasaw County, Iowa, et 

al.); [Docket ID: FEMA-2012-0003] received 

August 28, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Financial 

Services. 

7677. A letter from the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting the Department’s final rule — Final 

Flood Elevation Determinations (Maui County, Hawaii, et al.) [Docket ID: FEMA-2012- 

0003] received August 28, 2012, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Financial Services. 

7678. A letter from the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting the Department’s final rule — Final 

Flood Elevation Determinations (Unincorporated Areas of Washington County, Alabama, et al.); [Docket ID: FEMA-2012-0003] 

received August 28, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Financial 

Services. 

7679. A letter from the Assistant Secretary 

for Special Education and Rehabilitative 

Services, Department of Education, transmitting the Department’s final rule — Final 

priorities and definitions; State Personnel 

Development Grants [CDFA Number: 

84.323A] received August 22, 2012, pursuant to 

5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on 

Education and the Workforce. 

7680. A letter from the Under Secretary, 

Department of the Treasury, transmitting as 

required by section 401(c) of the National 

Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1641(c), and section 204(c) of the International Emergency 

Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(c), a 

six-month periodic report on the national 

emergency with respect to Libya that was 

declared in Executive Order 13566 of February 25, 2011; to the Committee on Foreign 

Affairs. 

7681. A letter from the Director Office of 

Sustainable Fisheries, NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, transmitting the Administration’s final rule — 

Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; North 

and South Atlantic Swordfish Quotas and 

Management Measures [Docket No.: 

120606145-2251-01] (RIN: 0648-BB75) received 

August 28, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Natural 

Resources. 

7682. A letter from the Director Office of 

Sustainable Fisheries, NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, transmitting the Administration’s final rule — 

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, 

and South Atlantic; Comprehensive Annual 

Catch Limit Amendment Supplement [Docket No.: 120409403-2218-02] (RIN: 0648-BB93) received August 28, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Natural 

Resources. 

7683. A letter from the Deputy Assistant 

Administrator for Regulatory Programs, 

NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration, transmitting the Administration’s final rule — Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Chinook 

Salmon Bycatch Management in the Gulf of 

Alaska Pollock Fishery; Amendment 93 

[Docket No.: 110627357-2209-03] (RIN: 0648- 

BB24) received August 28, 2012, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Natural Resources. 

7684. A letter from the Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, transmitting the Administration’s final rule — Fisheries of the 

Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Gulf of 

Alaska; Final 2012 and 2013 Harvest Specifications for Groundfish; Correction [Docket 

No.: 111207737-2232-03] (RIN: 0648-XA711) received August 28, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Natural 

Resources. 

7685. A letter from the Director Office of 

Sustainable Fisheries, NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, transmitting the Administration’s final rule — 

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, 

and South Atlantic; Reef Fish Fishery of the 

Gulf of Mexico; Amendment 32 Supplement 

[Docket No.: 100217095-2258-06] (RIN: 0648- 

AY56) received August 28, 2012, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Natural Resources. 

7686. A letter from the Director Office of 

Sustainable Fisheries, NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, transmitting the Administration’s final rule — 

Fisheries Off West Coast States; Coastal Pelagic Species Fisheries; Annual Specifications [Docket No.: 120312182-2239-02] (RIN: 

0648-XA882) received August 28, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee 

on Natural Resources. 

7687. A letter from the Attorney-Advisor, 

Department of Homeland Security, transmitting the Department’s final rule — Safety 

Zone; Electric Zoo Fireworks, East River, 

Randall’s Island, NY [Docket No.: USCG2012-0588] (RIN: 1625-AA00) received August 

28, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to 

the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7688. A letter from the Attorney-Advisor, 

Department of Homeland Security, transmitting the Department’s final rule — Special 

Local Regulation; Battle on the Bay Powerboat Race Atlantic Ocean, Fire Island, NY 

[Docket No.: USCG-2012-0629] (RIN: 1625- 

AA08) received August 28, 2012, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on 

Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7689. A letter from the Attorney-Advisor, 

Department of Homeland Security, transmitting the Department’s final rule — Safety 

Zone, Temporary Change for Recurring Fifth 

Coast Guard District Fireworks Displays, 

Cavalier Golf & Yacht Club Independence 

Day Fireworks Display, Broad Bay; Virginia 

Beach, VA [Docket No.: USCG-2012-0227] 

(RIN: 1625-AA00) received August 28, 2012, 

pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7690. A letter from the Attorney-Advisor, 

Department of Homeland Security, transmitting the Department’s final rule — Safety 

Zone; Sheboygan Harbor Fest, Sheboygan, 

WI [Docket No.: USCG-2012-0539] (RIN: 1625- 

AA00) received August 28, 2012, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on 

Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7691. A letter from the Attorney-Advisor, 

Department of Homeland Security, transmitting the Department’s final rule — Special 

Local Regulation and Safety Zones; Marine 

Events in Captain of the Port Sector Long 

Island Sound Zone [Docket No. USCG-2012- 

0111] (RIN: 1625-AA00; 1625-AA08) received August 28, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7692. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, 

Department of Homeland Security, transmitting the Department’s final rule — Safety 

Zone; Artic Drilling and Support Vessels, 

Pudget Sound, Washington [Docket Number: 

USCG-2012-0508] (RIN: 1625-AA00) received 

August 28, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 


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