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May 2, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2929 pressures that the entire military was ligence analysts from the NSA and the REPORT ON RESOLUTION PRO- experiencing. Not anymore. The mili- NGA. Such analysis helped the CIA to VIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF tary found a way, largely by reducing establish with a high degree of prob- H.R. 1213, REPEALING MANDA- contracting and borrowing others ability that and his TORY FUNDING FOR STATE from Special Operations Command, to family were hiding in that compound HEALTH INSURANCE EX- add 50 positions to the JSOC. And where he was hit. CHANGES, AND PROVIDING FOR Votel wants to add several squadrons ‘‘These technicians could ‘exploit and CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 1214, RE- to the ‘Tier One’ units—Delta and the analyze’ data obtained from the battle- PEALING MANDATORY FUNDING SEALs.’’ And, boy, he will have my field instantly, using their access to FOR SCHOOL HEALTH CENTER vote for that. the government’s various biometric, fa- CONSTRUCTION ‘‘When Stanley McChrystal cial-recognition, and voice-print data- Mr. REED (during the Special Order became JSOC’s commanding general in bases. These cells also used highly ad- of Mr. BURTON of Indiana), from the 2004, he and his intelligence chief, vanced surveillance technology and Committee on Rules, submitted a priv- Major General Michael Flynn, set computer-based pattern analysis to ileged report (Rept. No. 112–70) on the about transforming the way the subor- layer predictive models of insurgent resolution (H. Res. 236) providing for dinate units analyze and act on intel- behavior into real-time observations. consideration of the bill (H.R. 1213) to ligence. Insurgents in Iraq were ex- ‘‘The military has begun to incor- repeal mandatory funding provided to ploiting the slow decision loop that co- porate these techniques across the States in the Patient Protection and alition commanders used, and en- services. And Flynn will soon be pro- Affordable Care Act to establish Amer- hanced interrogation techniques were moted to a job within the Office of the ican Health Benefit Exchanges, and frowned upon after the Abu Ghraib Director of National Intelligence, providing for consideration of the bill scandal. But the hunger for actionable where he will be tasked with trans- (H.R. 1214) to repeal mandatory funding tactical intelligence on insurgents was forming the way intelligence is gath- for school-based health center con- palpable.’’ ered, analyzed, and utilized.’’ struction, which was referred to the I want to add one more time, and this That article tells just about every- House Calendar and ordered to be was not in the article, but I really be- thing about how this all came about printed. lieve when we are talking about deal- and how it was carried out. But the one ing with terrorists and getting infor- f thing that isn’t really hit hard enough, mation that will stop terrorists from in my opinion, is the men and women REPORT ON RESOLUTION PRO- attacking us in the United States or in the military who do the job for us VIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF elsewhere in the world, we ought to use every single day. Sometimes we fight H.R. 3, NO TAXPAYER FUNDING whatever techniques that we possibly about spending in this body. We fight FOR ABORTION ACT can to get that information. And I’m about who gets the money. But the one not talking about . Some of the Mr. REED (during the Special Order thing we should never fight about is newspaper people and news people that of Mr. BURTON of Indiana), from the the money that goes to our Armed we see on television have actually ex- Committee on Rules, submitted a priv- Forces, our men and women who do perienced on television ileged report (Rept. No. 112–71) on the risk their lives every single day. to show how it works, and it was not resolution (H. Res. 237) providing for torture and it is not torture, and we My hat goes off to those who were in consideration of the bill (H.R. 3) to pro- ought to use those techniques to make the command that got Osama bin hibit taxpayer funded abortions and to sure we protect our homeland and our Laden, and the people, the Navy SEALs provide for conscience protections, and people here and abroad. that got the job done, even though for other purposes, which was referred ‘‘The way JSOC solved this problem their helicopter failed to work. They to the House Calendar and ordered to remains a carefully guarded secret, but went in, 40 of them, and risked their be printed. people familiar with the unit suggest lives, knowing that they might not f that McChrystal and Flynn introduced come out. They got Osama bin Laden, ADJOURNMENT hardened commandos to basic criminal they got 22 others, they got his body forensic techniques and then used high- out of there, and they got back to free- Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speak- ly advanced and still-classified tech- dom without any casualties. er, I move that the House do now ad- nology to transform bits of informa- So my hat goes off to you, Navy journ. tion into actionable intelligence.’’ SEALs, and to all of those in the mili- The motion was agreed to; accord- tary who risk their lives every single ingly (at 7 o’clock and 42 minutes b 1940 day protecting and preserving our free- p.m.), under its previous order, the ‘‘One way they did this was to create doms. And for those Special Ops guys House adjourned until tomorrow, Tues- forward-deployed fusion cells, where in all the branches of the service, well day, May 3, 2011, at 10 a.m. for morn- JSOC units were paired withh intel- done. ing-hour debate. EXPENDITURE REPORTS CONCERNING OFFICIAL FOREIGN TRAVEL Reports concerning the foreign currencies and U.S. dollars utilized for Speaker-Authorized Official Travel during the first quarter of 2011 pursuant to Public Law 95–384 are as follows: REPORT OF EXPENDITURES FOR OFFICIAL FOREIGN TRAVEL, DELEGATION TO ITALY AND AFGHANISTAN, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, EXPENDED BETWEEN MAR. 18 AND MAR. 23, 2011

Date Per diem 1 Transportation Other purposes Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name of Member or employee Country Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Arrival Departure currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency 2 currency 2 currency 2 currency 2

Hon. Nancy Pelosi ...... 3/18 3/19 Italy ...... 1,257.00 ...... (3) ...... 1,257.00 Hon. Rosa DeLauro ...... 3/18 3/19 Italy ...... 1,248.66 ...... (3) ...... 1,248.66 Hon. John Mica ...... 3/18 3/19 Italy ...... 1,257.00 ...... (3) ...... 1,257.00 Hon. Leonard Boswell ...... 3 /18 3 /19 Italy ...... 1,248.66 ...... (3) ...... 1,248.66 Hon. William Pascrell ...... 3 /18 3 /19 Italy ...... 1,248.66 ...... (3) ...... 1,248.66 Wilson Livingood ...... 3/18 3/19 Italy ...... 1,248.66 ...... (3) ...... 1,248.66 Dr. Brian Monahan ...... 3/18 3/19 Italy ...... 1,248.66 ...... (3) ...... 1,248.66 John Lawrence ...... 3/18 3/19 Italy ...... 1,248.66 ...... (3) ...... 1,248.66 Jim Coon ...... 3/18 3/19 Italy ...... 1,248.66 ...... (3) ...... 1,248.66 Bridget Fallon ...... 3/18 3/23 Italy ...... 3,790.93 ...... (3) ...... 3,790.93 Kate Knudson ...... 3/18 3/23 Italy ...... 3,790.93 ...... (3) ...... 3,790.93

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