Into the overseas contingency account, which this Committee Said last year was against the budget process, was at abuse to the process. This is a lot of mealymouthed words to justify a run around the budget process area im glad the Senate Republicans in their budget today, they dont play these games. They take the president s level. They take the joint chiefss level. This is a lot of running around. It is going to undermine the integrity of this body. This doesnt send any message of certainty to our troops. In fact, it tells our troops their republican colleagues are totally uncertain and undecided about how to meet our basic commitments. The president s budget does it in a straightforward way. We should too. [applause] clerk the gentleman chairman price the gentleman yells back. Rep. Blackburn i thank you, mr. Chairman. The world is a dangerous place. We talk about that in this amendment. It is imperative that we lay out a way to work through the sequestration. This is something the p
She was very excited. My name is hellen and welcome to cleveland. We love this city, hard working city and hard working county. So thank you for coming. I have a twopart question. First, who is in your bracket . I wasnt that creative. I think kentucky is going to take it. But you know i had the one in i havent won since my first year in office. Clearly im not spending as much time watching College Basketball as i once did. So i wasnt necessarily wouldnt necessarily take my bracket and copy it. Although i expect im not the only person picking kentucky. I have, too. The second part of my question is since youve been in office, what has surprised you the most . Thats an interesting question. Whats surprised me the most. Ill start by saying what has not surprised me. Im not surprised by that desensey and determination and grit and resilience and hard work of the American People and the fact that they are not as divided as washington would seem to reflect. Because i travel around the countr
Important that is for a young person to not only have dreams and believe those dreams are possible. If i worry about anything, i spoke about this last night, Young Americans arent dreaming or arent believing the dreams are accessible to them. You mentioned mitt romney who until three weeks ago was the leader of the party. Mitt romney going to disappear or does he have a continuing role . I hope he doesnt disappear and hope he has a continuing role. First of all, very few people have done what he has done, run for president and be the nominee of the party. And get crushed. Thats not accurate. He got 47 . He won a lot of states. He didnt lose 491. He won places and has a lot of supporters. But he has been successful at life. And i told him this, too. Mitt romney is a role model as a person, a father, husband, community leader. He has a lot to offer the Republican Party and our country and i dont know what that role is going to be but im excited because he has a lot to continue to contrib
Secretary of defense leon panetta visits the Walter Reed Medical Center followed by david coombs, Bradley Mannings of turning. The hearing on the republic of mali. The Supreme Court will look at what was passed in 2008 by a majority of 63. Theyre going to say that this president. They decided it was constitutional for them to establish i. D. S they did not say all of those states. Correct. Let me finish. You are misrepresenting what i am saying. When i hear these accusations that black people, voter i. D. Laws a disproportionately affect us. If white people can go through all the laws, what are you telling back people . They are less than . That is what bothers me about rhetoric. We always have to make special there has to be a specialist when we deal with minorities. It there too feeble mind it appeared we need to make concessions. They cannot follow the rules. We treat people like victims, i do not think they want to aspire. Defense secretary leon panetta visited the Walter Reed Medi
Because they are not able to have the Home Construction and home sales taking place so clearly right away we are seeing in the past few weeks a drop in their draw requests, demand and housing. Jeanne shaheen. I wanted to make the point for all of you who are involved with government contracting, the department of defense, that this is not the first hit the folks of gone. This comes on top of sequestration, those automatic cuts which already had a huge impact in the state of New Hampshire. The defense spending accounts for 17,000 employees, 1 billion in payroll. Economic activity. It is a huge impact and this is a double wendy. Excellent point. I will end with two questions very briefly. The first to barun singh and if anyone wants to john in i think lot of people besides thinking this is a pinprick, not really hurting anyone, it will go away shortly and will be back on the road which you spelled out in your comments very well. A lot of people are also saying shutting down the governmen