An amendment numbered 6 printed in House Report 110-759 to require the Director of National Intelligence to submit to Congress a National Intelligence Estimate on the production and sale of narcotics in support of international terrorism, including the support the Taliban and al Qaeda receive from the sale of narcotics and the shift in production from opium to hashish in Afghanistan.

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2009

The Committee resumed its sitting.

Amendment No. 5 Offered by Ms. Harman

The Acting CHAIRMAN. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 5
printed in House Report 110-759.
Ms. HARMAN. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The text of the amendment is as follows:

Amendment No. 5 offered by Ms. Harman:
At the end of subtitle A of title III, add the following
new section:

SEC. 310. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE NEED FOR A ROBUST
WORKFORCE.

It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) a robust and highly skilled aerospace industry
workforce is critical to the success of intelligence
community programs and operations;
(2) voluntary attrition, the retirement of many senior
workers, and difficulties in recruiting could leave the
intelligence community without access to the intellectual
capital and technical capabilities necessary to identify and
respond to potential threats; and
(3) the Director of National Intelligence should work
cooperatively with other agencies of the Federal Government
responsible for programs related to space and the aerospace
industry to develop and implement policies, including those
with an emphasis on improving science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics education at all levels, to
sustain and expand the diverse workforce available to the
intelligence community.

The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to House Resolution 1343, the
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Harman) and a Member opposed each will
control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from California.
Ms. HARMAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Harman-Ehlers
amendment, and I'm pleased to be here on the House floor once again
with my friend Vern Ehlers to call attention to a looming crisis in our
aerospace industrial base.
I represent the heart of the space industrial base and have long
called my district the satellite center of the universe. Most of the
intelligence satellites built in the United States are built in my
district, and that is why it was such an honor to serve for 8 years on
the Intelligence Committee and why I'm so proud of the work the
committee is doing.
I have always been mindful of the need for a skilled industrial base.
Simply put, rocket scientists don't grow on trees.
Earlier this year, on a visit to a major aerospace firm in my
district, there was a stark reminder of the crisis facing this
industry.

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Following a briefing on an important satellite program, I asked if
any of the employees in attendance had anything to tell me. A 31-year-
old engineer raised his hand and said, ``All my peers are gone.''
Engineers his age, he explained, are leaving the aerospace industry for
other fields, and very few are taking their place.
The problem is two-fold. More than 60 percent of aerospace industry
workers are over 45, and 26 percent of them are eligible for retirement
this year. So the result is a looming demographic cliff that leaves the
intelligence community and the industry without the intellectual
capital necessary to keep pace with global competitors. There are many
reasons for this. Part of it is the training we give kids in secondary
school. Part of it is Congress and the Department of Defense, who don't
necessarily provide predictable funding streams.
We saw the results of our failure in the 1990s, when we declared a
peace dividend, cut our procurement budgets, then tried to do defense
procurement and satellite manufacturing on the cheap, and guess what
happened? Launch failures, performance problems, and engineers
abandoning the industry in droves. We have finally managed to regrow
some of these specialties just at a time when, again, because of age
and because other careers are more sexy, we may lose these people
forever. This will hurt our national security. And this is why our
amendment

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expresses the sense of Congress that a skilled workforce is essential
to the intelligence community's success, and that the Director of
National Intelligence should work cooperatively with other government
agencies to sustain and expand a diverse workforce.
Mr. Chairman, before yielding to Mr. Ehlers, I would just like to say
that so much in the Intelligence bill before us--like multilevel
clearances, like very sensible comments on the National Applications
Office, like prohibiting the use of contractors for CIA detainee
interrogations, like the requirements for more briefings for more
Members of the Intelligence Committee--are ideas that were generated
some years back when I had the privilege of being ranking member on the
committee.
The committee matters. Bipartisanship matters. I want to commend my
coauthor for the enormous work he does on this issue.
Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to take the 5
minutes in opposition to the amendment, although I will not oppose the
amendment.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the gentleman from Michigan
is recognized for 5 minutes.
There was no objection.
Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 1 minute.
Mr. Chairman, I support the amendment. I appreciate the efforts of
the distinguished former ranking member of the committee to call
attention to the importance of the aerospace industrial base, which is
critical to our intelligence efforts. I applaud her work with my
colleague from Michigan (Mr. Ehlers) in bringing this amendment
forward.
This amendment also further highlights the need for a comprehensive
strategy for our Nation's intelligence overhead architecture.
Unfortunately, I do not believe a sufficient strategy is yet in place,
and I am concerned that the intelligence community is still not moving
with urgency to solve this problem. We must address these issues in the
interest of our national security, and just as importantly, to protect
and maintain our industrial base as highlighted in this amendment.
With that, I would yield back the remainder of my 1 minute and yield
the remaining 4 minutes to my colleague from Michigan (Mr. Ehlers).
Mr. EHLERS. I thank the gentleman from western Michigan for yielding
to me. And I certainly thank the gentlewoman from California for
offering this amendment.
As we discussed on the floor just a few weeks ago, I managed to get a
bill passed a couple of years ago to strengthen the aerospace industry
workforce just in order to help NASA, because they were having so many
retirements. Many joined their workforce in the 1960s to respond to the
call from President John Fitzgerald Kennedy that we go to the Moon, and
those individuals are all now retiring, and as a result we have a
serious shortage of workers in the aerospace industry. But there are
many other industries, including the intelligence departments of this
government, that have a desperate need of those knowledgeable about
aerospace and other science and mathematics areas.
As I suspect everyone in this House knows, I've worked very hard over
the last 15 years trying to improve the math-science education of this
Nation. It's beginning to pay dividends. Just at lunchtime today, we
had a very large room full of young ladies, all of high school and
college age, interested in getting into mathematics and science, so we
are making progress on that. But we need much more progress if we are
going to compete with China, with India, and with other nations in
regard to a trained, intelligent workforce.
That's especially true, of course, in the intelligence field and in
the NASA. We have some very skilled, very knowledgeable, very bright
people working there, but also, we are going to be losing a number of
them to retirement, in the last few years. We have to beef up that
force. And so this amendment will emphasize the need that we have to
encourage more individuals to go into science and mathematics at all
levels, ranging from high school graduates up through Ph.Ds. And we
definitely need to work at that as a Nation. I appreciate that the
amendment will direct the national intelligence effort in this
direction as well.
So thank you again to the sponsor of the amendment for offering this.
It is a great help to our Nation, it's a great help to the intelligence
service, and I'm pleased to be part of it.
Ms. HARMAN. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to how much time is
remaining.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gentlewoman from California has 1\1/2\
minutes remaining.
Ms. HARMAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the chairman of the
full committee, Mr. Reyes.
Mr. REYES. I thank the gentlelady for yielding.
I just wanted to add my support to this amendment. This is a critical
need that we depend on for our national security. And certainly this
amendment highlights that we need to refocus our attention in this very
critical area for our national security.
Ms. HARMAN. Mr. Chairman, in closing debate on this amendment, I
would point out that one of the words in it, one of the things we hope
to improve is ``diversity'' in the aerospace industrial base. This
matters for lots of reasons. First of all, it reaches the whole talent
pool in America, which is something we ought to be doing. But second,
it matters because, as we've learned, to our detriment, a lot of the
people we should be recruiting and retaining in intelligence fields, in
aerospace and elsewhere lack the diversity necessary to penetrate the
hard targets.
So I would call this a win-win. If America can't produce scientists
and engineers to protect our national security, we are at grave risk.
I urge an ``aye'' vote for this amendment. I urge an ``aye'' vote for
the underlying bill and salute both the chairman and ranking member for
bringing it to the floor on a bipartisan basis.
Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Harman).
The amendment was agreed to.

Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. Kirk

The Acting CHAIRMAN. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 6
printed in House Report 110-759.
Mr. KIRK. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The text of the amendment is as follows:

Amendment No. 6 offered by Mr. Kirk:
At the end of subtitle A of title IV, add the following new
section:

SEC. 418. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE ON PRODUCTION AND
SALE OF NARCOTICS IN SUPPORT OF INTERNATIONAL
TERRORISM.

Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall submit
to Congress a National Intelligence Estimate on the
production and sale of narcotics in support of international
terrorism, including the support the Taliban and al Qaeda
receive from the sale of narcotics (particularly heroin) and
the shift in production from opium to hashish in Afghanistan.

The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to House Resolution 1343, the gentleman
from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and a Member opposed each will control 5
minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Illinois.
Mr. KIRK. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Chairman, successful counterterror campaigns teach that to win,
you must attack both terrorists and their money.
Through our congressional partisan lens, the Iraq war is sometimes
described as the ``bad war'' while Afghanistan is described as the
``good war.'' Our partisan lens does not allow us to recognize any good
news from Iraq, and also blocks bad news from Afghanistan. But in
Afghanistan, we see that the Taliban is back, funded by billions from
the sale of heroin.
Last month, security situations in Afghanistan worsened, and the
Taliban set new records for intensity, scope and frequency of their
attacks. The numbers of districts under stress, the number of district
centers attacked, and the number of roadside car bombs and suicide
bombs all dramatically increased. In total, the death toll in June
alone numbered over 40 NATO casualties, including 27 Americans,
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any single month in 7 years of conflict in Afghanistan.
According to open-source reporting on NATO-Taliban fire fights, the
Taliban has not run out of people, ammunition or supplies. And NATO
ground forces did not win every battle, a new and troubling
development.
For many years, Afghanistan has become the world's leading producer
of heroin, responsible for roughly 92 percent of the world's supply.
But the U.N. now reports that in 2008, Afghanistan has become the top
producer of hashish as well. Money from heroin, and now profits from
hashish, total hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars. In
sum, the Taliban's drug profits may equal the operations budget of
General McKiernan and his NATO army. This amendment will help focus the
broader intelligence community on the clear nexus between narcotics and
terrorism.
The hot issue yesterday was a surge in troops to Afghanistan backed
by both Senators Obama and McCain. I would sound a note of caution,
though, that without aerial spraying and other counterdrug programs
that have worked in Pakistan and Colombia, such an Afghan move would
only accelerate violence between two now very well-funded opponents.
To turn the rising Taliban tide, we must now effectively move against
heroin, and now hashish, in the narcostate that is now Afghanistan.
This amendment will commission a National Intelligence Estimate to look
at the nexus between drug profits and terrorism.
We all note the record of the past. In 2001, the leader of the
Taliban, Mullah Omar, claimed to have eradicated the entire heroin crop
of Afghanistan. That is what his PR agents wanted you to know. What
they did not want you to know is Mullah Omar had stockpiled 300 tons of
opium paste in warehouses south of Kandahar in an effort similar to
what the Hunt brothers did with the silver market, trying to corner the
market in opium and heroin.
In 2002, after coalition troops moved to replace the Taliban plan,
our Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zal Khalilzad, convinced the new
President, Hamid Karzai, to be against aerial spraying, saying that it
would recall memories of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. That
single move crippled counternarcotic programs in that country. Without
aerial spraying, just to spray the leader's field, as has been done in
Pakistan and Colombia, heroin production rose from no provinces in
2001, to 29 of 34 provinces today.
Such a rise in drug production led to enormous profits. And when
asked the question, who is the chief financier of the Taliban, and
partially of al Qaeda, the leading counternarcotics adviser to
President Hamid Karzai told me it was Haji Bashir Noorzai, the banker
to the Taliban.
In a very successful operation by the DEA, Haji Bashir Noorzai was
lured first to the U.A.E., and then to New York City, where he was
indicted in the Southern District of New York and is currently
incarcerated. It was a great triumph for the United States, putting
Haji Bashir Noorzai on the cover of Time magazine and underscoring the
important contribution that the Drug Enforcement Agency can add to the
intelligence community.
At the time, DEA was not part of the intelligence community. By
action of the last Congress, we brought DEA into the intelligence
community and supplied them with new intelligence collection assets to
operate in Afghanistan. It is because DEA is in, that with their
intelligence, this amendment should pass.
Mr. REYES. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to claim the time in
opposition to this amendment; however, I do not oppose the amendment.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the gentleman from Texas is
recognized for 5 minutes.
There was no objection.
Mr. REYES. Mr. Chairman, the intelligence community has devoted
significant resources to collecting and analyzing intelligence on the
narcotics trade and on terrorism, but it has not performed an in-depth
analysis of the link between the two.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban and al Qaeda have benefited from the
greater cultivation, refinement, and trade of opium and hashish. The
dark world of narcotics has become a funding source for terrorist
groups in Afghanistan.
This amendment proposes to bring together all of the intelligence
agencies to analyze the connection between terrorists and their
narcotics-backed funding. I value Mr. Kirk's interest in the
narcoterrorist nexus, and therefore I support his amendment.
Mr. REYES. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Kirk).
The question was taken; and the Acting Chairman announced that the
ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. KIRK. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois
will be postponed.

Amendment No. 7 offered by Mr. Hinchey

The Acting CHAIRMAN. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 7
printed in House Report 110-759.
Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The text of the amendment is as follows:

Amendment No. 7 offered by Mr. Hinchey:
At the end of subtitle B of tile IV, add the following new
section:

SEC. 426. REPORT ON ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY IN ARGENTINA.

(a) In General.--Not later than 270 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees a report containing the following:
(1) A description of any information in the possession of
the intelligence community with respect to the following
events in the Republic of Argentina:
(A) The accession to power by the Military of the Republic
of Argentina in 1976.
(B) Violations of human rights committed by officers or
agents of the Argentine military and security forces.
(C) Operation Condor and the fate of Argentine people
targeted, abducted, or killed during such Operation,
including Argentine children born in captivity whose status
remains unknown.
(2) All information that may lead to the discovery of the
Argentine children born in captivity whose status remains
unknown.
(3) A compilation of information referred to in paragraphs
(1) and (2) that has been declassified.
(b) Update of Compilation.--Not later than one year after
the date on which the report required under subsection (a) is
submitted, and annually thereafter for three years, the
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency shall submit to
the appropriate congressional committees an update of the
compilation referred to in subsection (a)(3).
(c) Form.--The report required under subsection (a) shall
be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a
classified annex.
(d) Definition.--In this section, the term ``appropriate
congressional committees'' means the Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on
Intelligence and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate.

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The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to House Resolution 1343, the gentleman
from New York (Mr. Hinchey) and a Member opposed each will control 5
minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New York.
Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
In 1976, amidst social unrest and a deep political crisis in
Argentina, a military coup there installed the cruelest dictatorship
that South America has ever seen. Illegal detention, torture, and
summary execution of dissidents became routine.
Cross-country operations to capture and assassinate dissidents were
organized in cooperation with Southern Cone military regimes in what is
known as Operation Condor.
Over the years, as the victims of the repression increasingly went
missing, a new tactic of the Argentine security forces, so-called, was
revealed. It is estimated that nearly 30,000 people disappeared in
Argentina between 1976 and 1985. Many of these victims, known as ``the
disappeared,'' were abducted, tortured, and then dropped out into the
ocean.
During Operation Condor, approximately 500 Argentine women were
abducted and systematically raped and impregnated by Argentine security
forces. Their children were born into captivity and distributed to
members

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of these Argentine security forces, while the mothers are believed to
have been killed. The identity of only 80 of these children have been
discovered, but the whereabouts of the majority remain unknown.
My amendment seeks to shed light on the unknown fate of these
children, who would be roughly in their late 20s or early 30s at this
moment. The amendment would require the Central Intelligence Agency to
report to the House and Senate Intelligence panels on information, any
information, it has about the human rights violations of the military
government in Argentina from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, the rise
to power of that government, and the location of any Argentine children
born in captivity as a result of Operation Condor.
The amendment also instructs the CIA to include a compilation of
declassified documents, as well as any classified material that may
exist with regard to this issue.
Given the close relationship with their Argentine counterparts in the
intelligent, security, and military community, the documentation of the
American intelligence community is likely to contain invaluable
information to support ongoing justice investigations and the search
for the children of the disappeared.
This amendment is supported by the Argentine Embassy, of course; the
National Security Archive of George Washington University, and a wide
array of human rights organizations.
I urge you to join me in supporting this contribution to truth and
justice and something that is critically important to the future of
Argentina, particularly these children.
Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to claim the time
in opposition to this amendment, although I will not oppose the
amendment.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the gentleman from Michigan
is recognized for 5 minutes.
There was no objection.
Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Chairman, while we are still taking a look at
exactly what this amendment means, it raises some concerns because I
think the last thing that some of us want to do is to divert important
intelligence resources and assets to take a look at something that
happened 20 to 30 years ago at the same time that we are facing the
threat that we face today from radical jihadists and other challenges
on a global basis.
I think my colleague made some compelling arguments as to if there is
information available in the intelligence community that would shed
some light on these types of issues that the intelligence community
should at least report that information to the Intelligence Committee
so that we can determine how we should dispose of that information,
perhaps make it available.
I am assuming that my colleague doesn't envision the intelligence
community going out and doing new work to try to assess as to what
happened 20 to 30 years ago but to report on the information that they
have in their possession at that time.
I will yield to my colleague.
Is my understanding roughly correct?
Mr. HINCHEY. I think your understanding is correct. But I would just
say this: that there is unquestionably a large amount of information
that is available which would be very important to the Government of
Argentina with regard to the location of these children. I'll just give
you an example:
In 1999 the Justice Department asked for the release of this
information. The State Department then released 470,000 documents on
this subject; however, there was no release from other entities that
contain similar documents, and it's about time that those documents
become released.
Mr. HOEKSTRA. Reclaiming my time, I thank my colleague for that
clarification.
So I will not oppose this amendment, Mr. Chairman. I will support the
amendment. And I am sure that those of us on the Intelligence Committee
can work with the individual and the intelligence community to make
sure that we get the information that is out there that is available to
assess it and to go through it in such a way that will not take large
amounts of time from the intelligence community and divert their
attention from the tasks and the challenges that they face today.
With that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Chairman, I want to express my appreciation to the
gentleman from Michigan for his statements and for his cooperation with
this amendment. I am deeply grateful to him for that.
Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from New York (Mr. Hinchey).
The amendment was agreed to.

Announcement By the Acting Chairman

The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings
will now resume on those amendments printed in House Report 110-759 on
which further proceedings were postponed, in the following order:
amendment No. 2 by Mr. Hoekstra of Michigan;
amendment No. 4 by Mr. Hoekstra of Michigan;
amendment No. 6 by Mr. Kirk of Illinois.
The Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the time for any electronic vote
after the first vote in this series.

Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Hoekstra

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

Recorded Vote

The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 414,
noes 10, answered ``present'' 7, not voting 8, as follows:

[Roll No. 499]

AYES--414

Ackerman
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Allen
Altmire
Andrews
Arcuri
Baca
Bachmann
Bachus
Baird
Baldwin
Barrett (SC)
Barrow
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Bean
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boozman
Boren
Boucher
Boustany
Boyd (FL)
Boyda (KS)
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Broun (GA)
Brown (SC)
Brown, Corrine
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Buyer
Calvert
Camp (MI)
Campbell (CA)
Cannon
Cantor
Capito
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson
Carter
Castle
Castor
Cazayoux
Chabot
Chandler
Childers
Christensen
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Cole (OK)
Conaway
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cramer
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cubin
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Davis, Lincoln
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Donnelly
Doolittle
Doyle
Drake
Dreier
Duncan
Edwards (TX)
Ehlers
Ellsworth
Emanuel
Emerson
Engel
English (PA)
Eshoo
Etheridge
Everett
Faleomavaega
Fallin
Farr
Fattah
Feeney
Ferguson
Flake
Forbes
Fortenberry
Fossella
Foster
Foxx
Frank (MA)
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Giffords
Gillibrand
Gingrey
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Gordon
Granger
Graves
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Hall (TX)
Hare
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hill
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hodes
Hoekstra
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hooley
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Inglis (SC)
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Jones (OH)
Jordan
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Keller
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Klein (FL)
Kline (MN)
Knollenberg
Kuhl (NY)
LaHood
Lamborn
Lampson
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lee
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lowey
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Mack
Mahoney (FL)

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Maloney (NY)
Manzullo
Marchant
Markey
Marshall
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul (TX)
McCollum (MN)
McCotter
McCrery
McGovern
McHenry
McHugh
McIntyre
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
McNulty
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Melancon
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Mitchell
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy, Patrick
Murphy, Tim
Murtha
Musgrave
Myrick
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Neugebauer
Norton
Nunes
Oberstar
Olver
Ortiz
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Pearce
Pence
Perlmutter
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Platts
Poe
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (GA)
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Putnam
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Regula
Rehberg
Reichert
Renzi
Reyes
Reynolds
Richardson
Rodriguez
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Salazar
Sali
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Saxton
Scalise
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schmidt
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Sestak
Shadegg
Shays
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Solis
Souder
Space
Speier
Spratt
Stearns
Stupak
Sullivan
Tancredo
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Tierney
Towns
Tsongas
Turner
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Upton
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walberg
Walden (OR)
Walsh (NY)
Walz (MN)
Wamp
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch (VT)
Weldon (FL)
Weller
Westmoreland
Wexler
Whitfield (KY)
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (OH)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman (VA)
Wolf
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

NOES--10

Ellison
Filner
Hinchey
Kucinich
McDermott
Moore (WI)
Obey
Paul
Payne
Stark

ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--7

Abercrombie
Clarke
Cohen
Edwards (MD)
Hirono
Lofgren, Zoe
Sutton

NOT VOTING--8

Bordallo
Boswell
Delahunt
Fortuno
Gilchrest
Green, Al
Lucas
Rush

{time}  1538

Messrs. HINCHEY, STARK, PAYNE, and Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin changed
their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Messrs. TIERNEY, JOHNSON of Georgia, BISHOP of Utah, HERGER, NADLER
and Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California changed their vote from ``no''
to ``aye.''
Mr. COHEN and Ms. SUTTON changed their vote from ``aye'' to
``present.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated for:
Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Chairman, I was delayed in arriving to the Chamber
this afternoon and the vote on the first amendment offered by Mr.
Hoekstra of Michigan to H.R. 5959, the Intelligence Authorization Act
of Fiscal Year 2009, closed before I could cast my vote. Had I been
able to cast my vote on this amendment, rollcall No. 499, I would have
voted ``aye.''

Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Hoekstra

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

Recorded Vote

The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. This will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 249,
noes 180, not voting 10, as follows:

[Roll No. 500]

AYES--249

Ackerman
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Allen
Arcuri
Bachmann
Bachus
Barrett (SC)
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Bean
Berkley
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boozman
Boren
Boucher
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Broun (GA)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Calvert
Camp (MI)
Campbell (CA)
Cannon
Cantor
Capito
Cardoza
Carney
Carter
Castle
Cazayoux
Chabot
Chandler
Childers
Coble
Cole (OK)
Conaway
Costa
Costello
Crenshaw
Cubin
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Davis, Lincoln
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Donnelly
Doolittle
Drake
Dreier
Duncan
Ehlers
Ellsworth
Engel
English (PA)
Everett
Fallin
Fattah
Feeney
Ferguson
Flake
Forbes
Fortenberry
Fossella
Foster
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Giffords
Gillibrand
Gingrey
Gohmert
Goode
Goodlatte
Gordon
Granger
Graves
Hall (TX)
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Herseth Sandlin
Hill
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hulshof
Hunter
Inglis (SC)
Israel
Issa
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Jordan
Kagen
Keller
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Klein (FL)
Kline (MN)
Knollenberg
Kuhl (NY)
Lamborn
Lampson
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
LoBiondo
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Mack
Mahoney (FL)
Manzullo
Marchant
Marshall
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul (TX)
McCotter
McCrery
McHenry
McHugh
McIntyre
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
McNulty
Melancon
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mitchell
Moran (KS)
Murphy, Tim
Musgrave
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nunes
Pearce
Pence
Perlmutter
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Platts
Poe
Porter
Price (GA)
Pryce (OH)
Putnam
Radanovich
Ramstad
Regula
Rehberg
Reichert
Renzi
Reynolds
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Sali
Saxton
Scalise
Schmidt
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shays
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Souder
Space
Stearns
Stupak
Sullivan
Tancredo
Tanner
Taylor
Terry
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Turner
Udall (CO)
Upton
Walberg
Walden (OR)
Walsh (NY)
Wamp
Watson
Weiner
Weldon (FL)
Weller
Westmoreland
Whitfield (KY)
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (OH)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman (VA)
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

NOES--180

Abercrombie
Altmire
Andrews
Baca
Baird
Baldwin
Barrow
Becerra
Berman
Berry
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Bordallo
Boyd (FL)
Boyda (KS)
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown, Corrine
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Carnahan
Carson
Castor
Christensen
Clarke
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Conyers
Cooper
Courtney
Cramer
Crowley
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Edwards (MD)
Edwards (TX)
Ellison
Emanuel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Faleomavaega
Farr
Filner
Frank (MA)
Gonzalez
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Hare
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Higgins
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hodes
Holt
Honda
Hooley
Hoyer
Inslee
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Johnson (GA)
Jones (OH)
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind
Kucinich
LaHood
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Maloney (NY)
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum (MN)
McDermott
McGovern
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy, Patrick
Murtha
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Payne
Peterson (MN)
Pomeroy
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Reyes
Richardson
Rodriguez
Ross
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Salazar
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sestak
Sires
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Solis
Speier
Spratt
Stark
Sutton
Tauscher
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Towns
Tsongas
Udall (NM)
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch (VT)
Wexler
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth

NOT VOTING--10

Boswell
Delahunt
Emerson
Fortuno
Gilchrest
Green, Al
Johnson, E. B.
Lucas
Norton
Rush

[[Page H6626]]

Announcement by the Acting Chairman

The Acting CHAIRMAN (during the vote). There are 2 minutes remaining
on this vote.

{time}  1546

Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Messrs. JEFFERSON,
BISHOP of Georgia and MOORE of Kansas changed their vote from ``aye''
to ``no.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated against:
Ms. NORTON. Mr. Chairman, on rollcall No. 500, had I been present, I
would have voted ``no.''

Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. Kirk

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

Recorded Vote

The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. This will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 426,
noes 2, not voting 11, as follows:

[Roll No. 501]

AYES--426

Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Allen
Altmire
Andrews
Arcuri
Baca
Bachmann
Bachus
Baird
Baldwin
Barrett (SC)
Barrow
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Bean
Becerra
Berkley
Berry
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boozman
Bordallo
Boren
Boucher
Boustany
Boyd (FL)
Boyda (KS)
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Broun (GA)
Brown (SC)
Brown, Corrine
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Buyer
Calvert
Camp (MI)
Campbell (CA)
Cannon
Cantor
Capito
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson
Carter
Castle
Castor
Cazayoux
Chabot
Chandler
Childers
Christensen
Clarke
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Cohen
Cole (OK)
Conaway
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cramer
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cubin
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Davis, Lincoln
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Donnelly
Doolittle
Doyle
Drake
Dreier
Duncan
Edwards (MD)
Edwards (TX)
Ehlers
Ellison
Ellsworth
Emanuel
Emerson
Engel
English (PA)
Eshoo
Etheridge
Everett
Fallin
Farr
Fattah
Feeney
Ferguson
Filner
Flake
Forbes
Fortenberry
Fossella
Foster
Foxx
Frank (MA)
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Giffords
Gillibrand
Gingrey
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Gordon
Granger
Graves
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Hall (TX)
Hare
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hill
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hobson
Hodes
Hoekstra
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hooley
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Inglis (SC)
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Jones (OH)
Jordan
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Keller
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Klein (FL)
Kline (MN)
Knollenberg
Kucinich
Kuhl (NY)
LaHood
Lamborn
Lampson
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lee
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Mack
Mahoney (FL)
Maloney (NY)
Manzullo
Marchant
Markey
Marshall
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul (TX)
McCollum (MN)
McCotter
McCrery
McDermott
McGovern
McHenry
McHugh
McIntyre
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
McNulty
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Melancon
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Mitchell
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy, Patrick
Murphy, Tim
Murtha
Musgrave
Myrick
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Neugebauer
Norton
Nunes
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Payne
Pearce
Pence
Perlmutter
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Platts
Poe
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (GA)
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Putnam
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Regula
Rehberg
Reichert
Renzi
Reyes
Reynolds
Richardson
Rodriguez
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Salazar
Sali
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Saxton
Scalise
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schmidt
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Sestak
Shadegg
Shays
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Solis
Souder
Space
Speier
Spratt
Stearns
Stupak
Sullivan
Sutton
Tancredo
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Tierney
Towns
Tsongas
Turner
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Upton
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walberg
Walden (OR)
Walsh (NY)
Walz (MN)
Wamp
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch (VT)
Weldon (FL)
Weller
Westmoreland
Wexler
Whitfield (KY)
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (OH)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman (VA)
Wolf
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

NOES--2

Paul
Stark

NOT VOTING--11

Berman
Boswell
Delahunt
Faleomavaega
Fortuno
Gilchrest
Green, Al
Johnson, E. B.
Lucas
Rush
Watson

Announcement by the Acting Chairman

The Acting CHAIRMAN (during the vote). There are 2 minutes remaining
on this vote.

{time}  1554

So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The question is on the committee amendment in
the nature of a substitute, as amended.
The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended,
was agreed to.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. Under the rule, the Committee rises.
Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr.
Serrano) having assumed the chair, Mr. Ross, Acting Chairman of the
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported that
that Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 5959) to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for intelligence and
intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the
Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency
Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes, pursuant to
House Resolution 1343, he reported the bill back to the House with an
amendment adopted by the Committee of the Whole.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is
ordered.
Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment to the amendment
reported from the Committee of the Whole? If not, the question is on
the amendment.
The amendment was agreed to.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third
reading of the bill.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was
read the third time.

Motion to Recommit Offered by Mr. Hoekstra

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

Mr. Hoekstra moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 5959, to the
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence with instructions
to report the same back to the House promptly in the form to
which perfected at the time of this motion with the following
amendment:

[[Page H6627]]

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

SEC. 418. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT ON ENERGY PRICES
AND SECURITY.

Not later than January 1, 2009, the Director of National
Intelligence shall submit to Congress a national intelligence
assessment on national security and energy security issues
relating to rapidly escalating energy costs. Such assessment
shall include an assessment of--
(1) the short-term and long-term outlook for prices,
supply, and demand for key forms of energy, including crude
oil and natural gas, and alternative fuels;
(2) the plans and intentions of key energy-producing and
exporting nations with respect to energy production and
supply;
(3) the national security implications of rapidly
escalating energy costs;
(4) the national security implications of potential use of
energy resources as leverage against the United States by
Venezuela, Iran, or other potential adversaries of the United
States as a result of increased energy prices;
(5) the national security implications of increases in
funding to current or potential adversaries of the United
States as a result of increased energy prices;
(6) an assessment of the likelihood that increased energy
prices will directly or indirectly increase financial support
for terrorist organizations;
(7) the national security implications of extreme
fluctuations in energy prices; and
(8) the national security implications of continued
dependence on international energy supplies.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Michigan is recognized
for 5 minutes.

{time}  1600

Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Speaker, this motion to recommit sends the bill
back to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence with
instructions for an amendment requesting a national intelligence
assessment on the strategic implications of high oil and energy prices
for America.
I would like to remind my colleagues in the House today that last
year, when we did the Intelligence Authorization Bill, over 230 of my
colleagues voted for an amendment that would require a national
assessment on global climate change and asked the intelligence
community to investigate that. This is a much more pressing and a much
more serious issue and a much more immediate issue.
This assessment would constitute the best analytical judgment of our
intelligence community as to the outlook for supply, demand and prices
for a variety of strategic energy sources. This assessment would also
examine the plans and intentions of key energy-producing and exporting
states. But most importantly, this assessment explores the national
security implications of America's sworn enemies, such as Iran and
Venezuela, using increased energy prices as leverage against us and our
foreign policy goals. This assessment is timely and directly relevant
to America's national security interests.
This amendment stands in sharp contrast to the repeated attempts to
divert precious time and scarce intelligence resources to discuss
topics such as global warming, topics that merely advance an
ideological agenda, rather than keeping this country and the American
safe.
Take a look at specifically what this motion to recommit asks the
intelligence community to do. It asks the intelligence community to
look at the plans, the intentions of key energy-producing and exporting
nations with respect to energy production and supply.
Energy-producing nations are changing their behavior. Why? For them
it is less about increasing supply today because they are now flush
with cash. Their behavior is changing.
It also asks the intelligence community to look at the national
security implications of potential use of energy resources as leverage
against the United States by Venezuela, Iran, or other potential
adversaries of the United States as a result of increased energy
prices. Some call this the ``Iran premium.'' 80 percent of the world's
oil reserves are controlled by government or national oil companies,
many of them unfriendly to the United States.
This assessment also would ask for the national security implications
of increases in funding to current or potential adversaries of the
United States as a result of increased energy prices. This year there
will be a transfer of over $2.3 trillion from energy-consuming nations
to energy-producing nations. The intelligence community should assess
what the impact of that wealth transfer should be.
In addition, the community would do an assessment of the likelihood
that increased energy prices will directly or indirectly increase
financial support for terrorist organizations.
In an environment where America receives 60 percent of its energy
overseas, where we are dependent on foreign supplies of energy, and
where there are no indications that there will be decisions made to
increase U.S. production, it is absolutely essential and vital that our
national intelligence community does this assessment so that we, as
policymakers, can understand the implications of the decisions that we
make.
We need this assessment. We need to understand how vulnerable we are
and the tools that our adversaries may use against us in the future.
For that reason, I urge my colleagues to support this motion to
recommit. Send this bill to committee, where, on the Intelligence
Committee, this can be done in a very expeditious way. To make sure
that we get this information, this assessment will be required to be
brought back to the House of Representatives by January of 2009.
With that, I ask for my colleagues' support, and yield back the
balance of my time.
Mr. HOYER. Will the gentleman yield for a question?
Mr. HOEKSTRA. I will yield for a question.
Mr. HOYER. Am I correct that if this was forthwith--you said it could
be soon. If it was forthwith it could be done now, couldn't it?
Mr. HOEKSTRA. This motion to recommit is promptly.
Mr. HOYER. I understand that. My question to the gentleman is, if it
were forthwith, what you want done could be done right now, could it
not?
Mr. HOEKSTRA. I believe that the way the amendment is written, the
committee can do the work, do it very, very quickly and get this bill
and get this amendment back.
Mr. HOYER. I ask my friend the question again. If it was forthwith we
could do what you want to do right now, could we not?
Mr. HOEKSTRA. If the amendment were forthwith, there would be another
avenue to deal with it.
Reclaiming my time. The amendment is promptly, so that the committee
can do the work that it is required to do and that the committee is
required to do. This says we will have the committee do its work, and
that the DNI will report back by January with this information that is
critical to the House of Representatives.
With that, I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman's time has expired.
Mr. REYES. Mr. Speaker, I rise to object to the motion to recommit
because essentially it would kill the bill and it would----
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. REYES. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would ask for
unanimous consent to strike the word ``promptly'' and replace it with
``forthwith.'' Would the gentleman agree? Is there an objection?
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does the gentleman from Michigan yield for
such a request?
Mr. HOEKSTRA. Reserving the right to object.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does the gentleman yield for that request?
Mr. HOEKSTRA. Reserving the right to object, I would like to enter--I
have a question for my colleague.
Mr. REYES. I asked you for unanimous consent to strike the word
``promptly'' and replace it with ``forthwith.''
Mr. HOEKSTRA. Reserving the right to object.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is recognized on his
reservation.
Mr. HOEKSTRA. I would like to suggest to my colleague that he amend
the unanimous consent request to include putting on the House Calendar
the opportunity to vote on, to schedule and vote on ANWR and other
production issues.
Mr. REYES. Mr. Speaker, I reclaim my time, and I withdraw the
request.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The request is withdrawn. The gentleman from
Texas is recognized.
Mr. REYES. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to strike the word

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``promptly'' and replace it with ``forthwith.''
Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Will the gentleman from Michigan yield for
such a request?
Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleague again to amend his
unanimous consent request.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is recognized on his
reservation.
Mr. HOEKSTRA. My reservation is, I request, I reserve the right to
object and will not object if my colleague amends his unanimous consent
request to include putting on the House calendar H.R. 3089, H.R. 2279,
H.R. 5656, H.R. 2208, H.R. 2493, H.R. 6107 and H.R. 6108.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas is withdrawing his
request?
Mr. REYES. The answer is no. And I reclaim my time.
Mr. Speaker, I object to the motion to recommit because it simply is
intended to kill the bill. Communities all around this country are
hurting with $4 gas and all we get from the other side are charades as
we've seen here tonight. The whole world watches as we try to do what's
right. The whole world heard them say earlier that this was a vital and
important piece of legislation that would fund the intelligence
community. This is a betrayal of the work that is being done by men and
women in the intelligence community that are putting their lives on the
line to keep us safe. This is an outrage put forth by the politics,
rather than wanting to get things done in this House.
I will tell you Mr. Speaker, why would they want to derail----
Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Speaker, I demand that these words be taken down.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas will suspend.
Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Speaker, the use of the word ``betrayal'' in regard
to my actions I believe warrant that those words be taken down.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the words.
The Clerk read as follows:

Communities all around this country are hurting with $4 gas
and all we get from the other side are charades as we've seen
here tonight. The whole world watches as we try to do what's
right. The whole world heard them say earlier that this was a
vital and important piece of legislation that would fund the
intelligence community. This is a betrayal of the work that
is being done by men and women in the intelligence community
that are putting their lives on the line to keep us safe.
This is an outrage put forth by the politics, rather than
wanting to get things done in this House. I will tell you Mr.
Speaker, why would they want to derail----

The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the opinion of the Chair, the words
complained of were not directed in such a way as to constitute a
personality or otherwise transgress the bounds of decorum in debate.
The gentleman from Texas may continue.
Mr. REYES. Mr. Speaker, ironically enough, I think this is a good
idea. I would gladly accept this because I think it's important that we
get the information that Mr. Hoekstra is asking.
I yield to the gentleman from Missouri.
Mr. SKELTON. In matters of national security, we should be forthright
and not engage in political back-and-forth. This is a replay of what we
experienced with the national security bill, named after our friend
Duncan Hunter from California.
I just think it's a play on words. The word ``promptly'' kills the
bill. If it were to say ``forthwith,'' it would be a more proper word
and we could proceed.
Mr. REYES. Thank you, Mr. Skelton.
Mr. Speaker, I'm still puzzled why they would want to derail this
important authorization that funds the intelligence community, why they
would want to destroy the bipartisanship that they bragged about
earlier.
I think it is important that we let this bill go forward. I think
it's important that we do what's right. I think it's important that we
stop this foolishness here on the House floor.
I now yield to the distinguished majority leader.
Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the word
``promptly'' be stricken and that the word ``forthwith'' be substituted
in the motion to recommit.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Maryland?
Mr. HOEKSTRA. I object.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objection is heard.
Mr. REYES. I will continue to yield to the distinguished majority
leader.
Mr. HOYER. Ladies and gentlemen of the House, you heard me ask the
question of Mr. Hoekstra. Wouldn't it be true that if he would use
``forthwith,'' what he wants to do could be accomplished right now? We
would all support it. It is a worthy objective.
Unfortunately, Mr. Hoekstra, in the same motion where he says I want
to do something says but I don't want to do it now; I am not sure when
I want to do it.
I asked for unanimous consent, and I didn't get to do exactly what I
think everybody in this House thinks is a good thing to do, and I will
tell my friend we're going to do this. It's a good idea. But the advice
you're getting is not good advice.
Ladies and gentlemen of the House, ladies and gentlemen on my side of
the aisle, this continues to be a political game. If you want to take
my words down on that, you can do it. This is not accomplishing the
objective.
This continues to be a pattern, and the American voters are pretty
smart, and they understand when somebody says I want to do something,
but by the way, I want to kill the vehicle at least temporarily that
accomplishes my objective, at the same time, they think to themselves
something is not right.
So, ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you. We're hopefully going to
reject this motion, which sidetracks this important intelligence
authorization bill, which everybody has said is an important bill, but
I will tell you further, we're going to accomplish the objective of Mr.
Hoekstra next week because it's a good objective.
But the fact of the matter is we could accomplish it right now if you
didn't want to try to make some political point out of it on this
intelligence bill, and you can say ``oh'' all you want. You can say
``oh'' all you want, but that is the truth and you know it. You know it
in your heart, and you know it in your mind.
I urge my colleagues: reject this killing motion.

Parliamentary Inquiry

Mr. WESTMORELAND. Parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Speaker.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman may state his inquiry.
Mr. WESTMORELAND. I think I know the answer to this, but if this
motion to recommit did pass and the bill was sent back to the committee
from which it came, could the bill not be reported back to this House
on the next legislative day?
The SPEAKER pro tempore. As the Chair reaffirmed on November 15,
2007, and at some subsequent time, the committee could meet and report
the bill back to the House.
Without objection, the previous question is ordered on the motion to
recommit.
There was no objection.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the noes appeared to have it.

Recorded Vote

Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair
will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on
the question of passage.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 200,
noes 225, not voting 9, as follows:

[Roll No. 502]

AYES--200

Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Bachmann
Bachus
Barrett (SC)
Barrow
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boozman
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Broun (GA)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Calvert
Camp (MI)
Campbell (CA)
Cannon
Cantor
Capito
Carter
Castle
Cazayoux
Chabot
Coble
Cole (OK)

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Conaway
Crenshaw
Cubin
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Doolittle
Drake
Dreier
Duncan
Ehlers
Emerson
English (PA)
Everett
Fallin
Feeney
Ferguson
Flake
Forbes
Fortenberry
Fossella
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Giffords
Gingrey
Gohmert
Goode
Goodlatte
Granger
Graves
Hall (TX)
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Hobson
Hoekstra
Hulshof
Hunter
Issa
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Jordan
Keller
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Kline (MN)
Knollenberg
Kuhl (NY)
Lamborn
Lampson
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
LoBiondo
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Marshall
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul (TX)
McCotter
McCrery
McHenry
McHugh
McIntyre
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mitchell
Moran (KS)
Murphy, Tim
Musgrave
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nunes
Paul
Pearce
Pence
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pitts
Poe
Porter
Price (GA)
Pryce (OH)
Putnam
Radanovich
Ramstad
Regula
Rehberg
Reichert
Renzi
Reynolds
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Sali
Saxton
Scalise
Schmidt
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shays
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Souder
Stearns
Sullivan
Tancredo
Terry
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Turner
Upton
Walberg
Walden (OR)
Walsh (NY)
Wamp
Weldon (FL)
Weller
Westmoreland
Whitfield (KY)
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman (VA)
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

NOES--225

Abercrombie
Ackerman
Allen
Andrews
Arcuri
Baca
Baird
Baldwin
Bean
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boren
Boucher
Boyd (FL)
Boyda (KS)
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown, Corrine
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson
Castor
Chandler
Childers
Clarke
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cramer
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Davis, Lincoln
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Donnelly
Doyle
Edwards (MD)
Edwards (TX)
Ellison
Ellsworth
Emanuel
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Foster
Frank (MA)
Gillibrand
Gonzalez
Gordon
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Hare
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hill
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hodes
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hooley
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Johnson (GA)
Jones (OH)
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind
Klein (FL)
Kucinich
LaHood
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lynch
Mahoney (FL)
Maloney (NY)
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum (MN)
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
McNulty
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Melancon
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy, Patrick
Murtha
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Payne
Perlmutter
Peterson (MN)
Platts
Pomeroy
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Reyes
Richardson
Rodriguez
Rohrabacher
Ross
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Salazar
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sestak
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shuler
Sires
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Solis
Space
Speier
Spratt
Stark
Stupak
Sutton
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Towns
Tsongas
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch (VT)
Wexler
Wilson (OH)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth

NOT VOTING--9

Boswell
Delahunt
Gilchrest
Green, Al
Inglis (SC)
Johnson, E. B.
Lucas
Pickering
Rush

{time}  1656

Messrs. LaHOOD and STUPAK and Ms. RICHARDSON changed their vote from
``aye'' to ``no.''
So the motion to recommit was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
The bill was passed.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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