so congressman murphy. mr. murphy: thank you very much, congressman richmond. kind of scary i get senior status in my third term but things move fast in the united states house of representatives. i thank you for bringing us together for this special order hour. i have been here now for five years and when votes are done and you go back to your office to get some work together for the next day, we often flip on the tv and watch these special order hours as frankly millions of americans do across the country and you know what you see every night starts to look the same. you see republicans on one side having one hour, democrats on the other side having another hour and too often, that time is spent by both parties talking down the other side. this is unique to have members of both republican and democratic sides joining together in a testimony to something that binds us, it binds us as republicans and democrats, conservatives and liberals, whatever we are in this nation, we know how important it is to support our men and women abroad and to memorialize them when

. >> one young man was killed, mike murphy, who receive the medal of honor. did you know him? >> i did not know him. >> what happened to him? >> he was in a special operations team where three of them were killed. one of them managed to survive the engagement. he was in the sealed glass that i followed, so i -- in the sealed glass i followed, so i got to know him very well. there was a lot of taliban around them and they had a fight for their lives. they died fighting. >> what did you think of his book? >> it was difficult for me to read. i hate reading stories were you know the outcome, you know these men are going to die. i thought there was some very interesting, from an ethics perspective, discussions that took place about when and when not to take life. then the issue of hospitality within the muslim culture, i found compelling. most of us in the west don't understand what that means in the muslim culture, if you are someone hospitality. it has to be honored. >> is there a lot we don't know about what goes on behind the scenes? >> it is more on the operational level. the

murphy of connecticut. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 276, the gentleman from connecticut, mr. murphy, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from connecticut. mr. murphy: thank you very much, mr. chairman. the amendment before the house now is a relatively simple one. we have over the last 10 years lost 42,000 factories in this country. we have lost five million jobs in manufacturing. and we've got a long discuss here in this congress over the past three years as to what we can do to stimulate that engine of middle class job growth and security. this amendment seeks to increase our defense industrial capacity without spending any additional money. what the amendment before us simply allows is for the federal government to be able to consider at their leisure the amount of jobs being created here in the united states by a particular bid for u.s. defense work. frankly most of my constituents think this already happens. most of my constituents think th

murphy of connecticut. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. also a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas are 208, the nays are 212 with zero answering present. the amendment is not adopted. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on on amendment number 27 printed in house report 112-88 by the gentleman from oklahoma, mr. cole, on which further proceedings were postponed and which the ace prevailed by voice vote -- ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk: amendment number 27 printed in house report 112-88 offered by mr. cole of

murphy, for five minutes. mr. murphy: thank you, mr. speaker. a gallon of gas is over $4 heading to $5. the average spends over $2,200 per year on gas than they did a year ago. america's infrastructure is crumbling. a quarter of our bridges are structurally deficient. the american society of civil engineers says all of our infrastructure will cost over $2 trillion for roads, bridges, water, sewer systems, airports, locks and dams. where will we find the money? we send $1 billion each day for oil, opec controls oil and wants it to be $200 a barrel. we are 60% can he pendent on foreign oil -- dependent on foreign oil. mr. speaker, we want clean air and water. we want to see our highways and bridges fixed. we don't want to pollute our environment. but where will the money come from? today, my colleagues and i on the energy working group are introducing the infrastructure jobs and the energy independence act, a bipartisan bill that for the first time brings forward a comprehensive plan to rebuild america, take back our energy future and create milli

larry and i and and murphy have been working for years on this project and we finally got it through congress on a bipartisan basis. the idea is to create an entity that will be at the department of education to provide technological advances to the classroom for lifelong learning. we are very optimistic that this may greatly improve education. our original idea was to use the money from the auction of the spectrum for this purpose. just as the land grant colleges were established in the civil war with a similar gift. i later learned that i knew it senator stevens from alaska from having worked with him on a legal case before he went in the government. he was chairman of the senate appropriations committee. he said the money has all been scored. i said what does that mean? he said that means it has already been spent. it has already been assigned. i said you did that -- if you did that in private business, you would all go to jail. it's been spent before you got it. he said that's the way we do things here. so we did not succeed in getting that funding. congress did created and we ar

host: our sunday morning roundtable, welcome to mark murphy and jonathan allen. thank you for being with us. guest: congratulations on surviving the apocalypse, [laughter] host: an e-mail from its daniels to his supporters -- he is not running. your reaction? caller: -- guest: he cited personal reasons. often when politicians cite often when politicians cite personal reasons, there is usually more to the story. for mitch daniels it was the biggest obstacle for him. his wife and daughters did not want the scrutiny. a few days -- a few days ago sarah palin said that she had a fire in the belly, but the fire in the belly was definitely lacking from its daniels on whether or not he had the stomach to want to run. running for president is not easy. it takes a tremendous amount of time. there are many big highs and lows in his decision was not surprising. host: coming the same week as donald trump announced he was not running for president. michele bodman -- michelle bachman, plus stops in new hampshire. guest: it would appear that the entire state of minnesota is runn

murphy: three -- >> a plies chief in my district stopped a man for speeding. the driver was an illegal alien. he didn't speak lengish. a translator was called. the man had been in the united states for six years. he had been arrested before. he had no job. he didn't know where he lived. he had three dollars cash in his pocket, and he had two public benefit access cards. when police chief called immigration and customs enforcement, i.c.e. said, let him go. at a time when our nation is broke, and when programs for our elderly are being cut, i.c.e. must not allow people like this to defraud the american taxpayers. mr. barletta: mr. speaker, three weeks ago i asked i.c.e. to explain its decision and put in writing the policy regarding the detention of illegal aliens found by local law enforcement. why was this man let go? three weeks later, and i am still waiting. i demand andance. -- answer. my constituents deserve an answer and millions of americans deserve an answer. we are all still waiting. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gen

host: our sunday morning roundtable, welcome to mark murphy and jonathan allen. thank you for being with us. guest: congratulations on surviving the apocalypse, [laughter] host: an e-mail from its daniels to his supporters -- he is not running. your reaction? caller: -- guest: he cited personal reasons. often when politicians cite often when politicians cite personal reasons, there is usually more to the story. for mitch daniels it was the biggest obstacle for him. his wife and daughters did not want the scrutiny. a few days -- a few days ago sarah palin said that she had a fire in the belly, but the fire in the belly was definitely lacking from its daniels on whether or not he had the stomach to want to run. running for president is not easy. it takes a tremendous amount of time. there are many big highs and lows in his decision was not surprising. host: coming the same week as donald trump announced he was not running for president. michele bodman -- michelle bachman, plus stops in new hampshire. guest: it would appear that the entire state of minnesota is runn