Living allowance and the personal independents payment, we see that the overall amount of money were spending on disability is going to go up and knocked down. My right honorable friends admiration for the economic and political wisdom of our noble friend board heseltine as well known. And in light in light of his speech, would he consider inviting lord assault kind to conduct an inquiry into the consequences for the uk if we leave at the European Union . Lord heseltine to conduct an inquiry into the consequences for the uk if we leave at the European Union . Idol always listen closely to what he says. On the issue of europe, we have not always agreed. He was a leading proponent of a joint of britain of britain joining the single currency. I have always been opposed to that. On the issue of the referendum, a gently remind my right honorable and learned friend that referendum was very much a part of his manifesto at the last election. In the interests of coalition harmony, i think we wi
Again, i appreciate everybodys concern with the process here but you put a situation with all these amendments were things would get messed up. Last congress is any judge, this is a committee that had 77 restricted rules, and 55 closed rosato think anybody will have any problems for limiting the number of amendments year. But i would also say this about those who were talking about oversight, oversight, oversight. We have borrowed like 1. 5 trillion for wars and iraq and afghanistan. And have argued have not been given oversight. And time and time and time again we tried of an miniature called for more oversight. We dont get them allowed. I mean, i which is to say these are people in our country who are hurting and they need money now. And i think you have done a very good job of scrubbing what the requests are to make sure that this is all needed. There will be future oversight as the funds are given out. But i will also say its hard to do the kind of recovery in a piecemeal fashion.
I reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. The gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Nugent i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida reserves. The gentleman from massachusetts. The gentlewoman from ohio is recognized for two minutes. Ms. Kaptur mr. Speaker, i want to thank the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. Mcgovern, for yielding to me. And also thank our Ranking Member of the defense subcommittee, mr. Visclosky of indiana, and our mutual friend and colleague, chairman bill young of florida, for their hard work on this bill. And it will benefit our nation, our men and women in uniform, our armed forces and all of those who are touched by what is contained in this legislation. Within the limits provided and despite severe cuts, this bill has been written in a bipartisan way by our subcommittee. I thank the members for working so collaboratively together. It is a model for this house and our committee o
Americans crammed in customs as they try to return home. Did this just make the situation worse . The governor telling everyone to just stay home. President ial primaries are going on. The expectation for voter turnout tuesday. We begin with the coronavirus pandemic here in the u. S. There are at least 2,980 confirmed cases. This as coronavirus hits across 49 states as well as puerto rico. The death toll now 60. A warning today from the administration and new questions over what the next steps for combating this crisis may be. Would you prefer a 14day just sort of National Shutdown to slow this . I would prefer as much as we could. I think we should be overly aggressive and get criticized for overreacting. I think americans should be prepared that theyre going to have to hunker down a significantly more than we as a country are doing. Local leaders are sounding the alarm. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo one of the many telling con city ed constituents to stay home. Were playing a huge g
I want to thank you for your unbelievable strength and courage and leading that conversation. Thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] out hearing of the subcommittee will resume. Thank you, e. G. , for your service, for dedications, for your sacrifices youve made for country. Im so grateful you are here today with this important hearing. Am also incredibly grateful that many of you came this morning and participated and listened to the first two panels. That means a great deal, not just to our witnesses but also to their families and all of our military families. We appreciate it very, very much. I know that this is becoming very debated issue, both within the military and in everyday conversation. I also know that many of you have seen the film the invisible war, so the jumping off point on how important this issue is for our military and their families. Im very, very eager to hear your testimony, and