Over the past 5 years, democracy and progress have been marching forward in Africa and the Middle East.

I think this subcommittee can be a great leader in this issue, and we can get in front of this movement.

I believe we have an opportunity to take some action prior to the start of other important ship programs by maintaining the national security cutter production line by adding a ninth ship.

We need to be sure that we provide the ships and equipment our men and women in uniform desperately need, so they can carry out their responsibilities and missions.

But in many cases, Mother Nature is just unpredictable, and nobody can predict exactly where the next storm is going to be and how deep the water is going to get.

I urge a yes vote, and believe we will get a yes vote on S. 611.

the most preeminent Mississippi jurist ever to live was L.Q.C. Lamar.

the Senate and the House continue to strongly support the FAA Contract Tower Program on a bipartisan basis

In 2013, FAA issued a final rule requiring all airline industry pilots and first officers hold Airline Transport Pilot, ATP, certificates.

I yield to the gentleman from Texas, my chairman. Mr. McCAUL. Again, I just want to clarify what I believe to be the record, and that was I was not opposed to this amendment going to the floor for a full and fair debate. I respect the…

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Chairman, I have no further requests for time. I am prepared to close if the gentleman from Mississippi is prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

I appreciate, as I said, the maker of this amendment. Let me be clear, I offered the very same amendment in markup. It failed on a party-line vote, and this is democracy; but a little thing that concerns me is that, when we went to the…

Reclaiming my time, I accept the gentleman's reinterpretation of the statement, and we will go forward. Let me just say that, yesterday, on a 7-year sunset on an Intelligence bill, the House resoundingly voted for this very same amendment…

I claim the time in opposition, although I am not in opposition to the amendment. The CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Chairman, I now yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Ratcliffe), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, my close ally and colleague on this legislation.

I have no additional requests for time, so I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hurd), a member of the Homeland Security Committee.

I yield to the gentleman from Texas. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman from Mississippi for his question and would say that I do not completely share your view of that clause. I assure you that incentivizing companies to do…

Thank you. Mr. Chairman, I will read for the Record the statement my chairman made in Rules. Mr. McCaul said: There is an amendment that has a 7-year sunset provision, and I will be honest, I will not oppose that. I think 7 years is ample…