I yield to my good friend from Colorado. He will tell us more about the alternate reality, I think.

If I can ask the chairman a question on this, it says none of the funds made available by this act may be used for the purchase, operation, or maintenance of armed unmanned aerial vehicles; is this from Homeland Security? Is this…

Reclaiming my time, again, I would just ask the gentleman to contemplate that if we have a Secure Communities program that is dealing with this same issue and doing it at 10 times less for the taxpayers and this 287(g) program has had the…

Reclaiming my time, do you think they deserve a trial? Do these people deserve a trial.

Will the gentlewoman yield? Just very briefly, we're confused again because the gentlelady is referring to section 1 of her previous amendment, which is now taken out. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Tennessee controls the time…

Thank you. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to the order of the House of today, the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Tennessee.

I withdraw my point of order. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman withdraws his point of order. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn). The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced…

It just seems to me that, we shouldn't be doing an amendment here on the floor when we really don't have all the information before us. Your side is in charge of Homeland Security. Peter King is the very able chairman of the Homeland…

Again, the gentleman from Arizona would eliminate this entire program; we think that is overstepping. With that, I yield back the balance of my time.

The amendment prohibits funds for the Wind Powering America program, which has been funded since 1999 to increase information-sharing in support of expanding domestic wind power. Madam Chairman, I rise to oppose the amendment. I appreciate…

I thank my good friend from Alaska for yielding, and I thank the gentleman for raising this important issue. The dramatic reduction in the Arctic sea ice that is happening at the North Pole is leading to substantial growth in activity in…

I would just like to associate myself with the gentleman's remarks. I feel these programs are very important and that there have been major cuts made in the last 2 years, as I understand it, and that this would just be another major cut on…