Chris stewart to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip , but in o five minutes no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. One of our responsibilities in this congress is to protect the men and women from iraq and afghanistan who put their lives on the line to assist the United States. Thousands of afghans and iraqis helped us as guides, as interpreters, must not be left to the tender mercies of al qaeda, the taliban and others with long memo
Iron clad very often in president ial statements. I havent. And i think that it is important to highlight. The quote is that this trip is a chance to reaffirm our iron clad commitment to article 5 at nato. There is always a great fear in the Baltic States they questioned whether nato would really have their back. I think it is clear with words and our soldarity. We put u. S. Soldiers and hardware in the baltic sea. I had the opportunity to be there in april participating in a conference. It was the day before u. S. Soldiers were due to arrive in estonia. My own impression is that the estonians just let out their breath. That was the most meaningful and significant event that u. S. Soldiers had arrived in estonia. This is why the president s visit is so important. Not only to provide our continued reassurance, to speak to the baltic nation. To get their feedback on the Current Situation and to be a physical presence in the Baltic States. And i am sure they are looking forward to hearing
Preventing more serious conduct. And wed be happy to meet with you or engage with you to provide a better seasons of how all this works from an operational perspective. I know that the key consumer of the information here, as your question alluded our state and local Law Enforcement, so i would to make sure we do it in a way we work with them as to what they would find most useful. As i said in response to senator feinstein, the volume of nix checks overall and as a small subset of denials has exploded over the curse of the last year. So i am mindful of the resource burden that it puts on everybody in the Law Enforcement system. But wed be happy to talk with you more about it. Thanks. I look forward to working with you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Senator sass. Thank you, chairman. Thank you, director, for being here and being available to us on this committee and on the intel committee. Weve always been grateful for your work and availability. Weve talked a good bit about the intelligenc
Invest invest investigative perspective in providing more conduct. We will certainly work with you on this on an operational perspective. I know the key consumer, as your question alludes, are state and local Law Enforcement, so i would work with them to see what they find more useful. Certainly what i told senator feinstein, the volume of nixed checks overall and the volume of a subset of denials has exploded over the course of the last year, so i am mindful of the resource burden that it puts on everybody in the Law Enforcement system. But i would be happy to talk with you more about it. Thanks. I look forward to working with you on that. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Senator sasse. Thank you, chairman. Thank you, director wray, for being here, and thank you for being available to us on this committee and the intel committee. Weve also been grateful for your work and availability. Weve talked a good bit about the intelligence failures around january 6, but some of it is how did we sort si
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