Coverage right here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, 24, ngton, d. C. , september 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Ofned, nancy pelosi, speaker the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore order of thehe house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated each n the parties and member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 10 50 a. M. Chair now recognizes the gentleman from south carolina, mr. Cunningham, for five minutes. Mr. Cunningham thank you, mr. Speaker. Rise today to honor the life of amare. Amare was only 16 years young wis
Committee meets to receive the testimony of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chief of staffs on the administrations fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee and we welcome chairman dunford back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing, is how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring in both the external threats and the current state of our military. This committee has repeatedly heard testimony over the past two years that our country faces more serious complex security challenges now than we have faced before. The hearings and briefings we have held on the current state of our military have been disturbing. The administrations budget request of 603 billion for base requirements is 6 above the 17 enacted level and 3 above the last Obama Administration Budget Proposal. Its 37 billion below what this committee assessed last fall was needed and 58 bi
Focused on the stale Campaign Pledge from 2008. The president would spend the remaining months to defeat isil but he should work with us to prepare the mistakes he is ju leaving behind. Just about every detainee that could be released from the secured detention facility has already been released. Some have already returned to the fight just as we feared. Some have taken more innocent b American Life according the Obama Administration. The bottom line is the people remaining are among the worst of the worst. Nt this is how the secretary of defense put it there are people in Guantanamo Bay that are so dangerous we cannot transfer them to the custody of another government no matter how much we trust that government. I cannot assure the president it is safe to do thad. There is the mastermind behind 911. He has declared himself the enemy of the United States. There is the 9 11 coordinator who was planning more strikes when he was captured. And there is bin ladens former body guide who trai
Deficits in the out years. I remember our Health Care Costs coming back under control. I learned that the projections of the balanced budget within ten years which would be six years from now. Do you have no recollection of those . Payware that kennedy is projections. Cbo doesnt do projections of resolutions only of bills that are being considered and under the current law. On the estimates weve done sometimes they are putting the assembly of them as the bottom line for the resolution that doesnt come from us. The last time we had a High Percentage was during world war ii. In fiscal year 1945 we grew out of that it be not . What happened after world war ii is the budgets were more or less balanced. In fiscal year 1945. Truman abolished the tax and in fiscal year 194016 produced the income tax rates. He took in fiscal year 46 the federal spending from 85 billion down to 30 billion in a single year. He fired a 10 million federal employees in the deep mobilization and projected unemployme
Enforcement matter in the european union, based on a theory that goes beyond international rules, well allow you to file a lawsuit here and collect the money back. In fact, you can auction off the embassy of the country that sues you. We could do a lot to make it clear that were tired of this onesided debate in which we demand and they give a live, and we give a little more. Because they are threatening to hurt our industry. Its the wrong approach. We need to get much more tough minded. If i could add to that, i agree with the questioner in the main, but i also agree with stu. In the sense of, there is a whole lot of, oh, im shocked that theres gambling in this establishment going on. And there is certainly some hypocrisy, some double standards, and indeed, a lot of the stuff the nsa is doing is doing in cooperation with some of these governments. I dont think that and, also, and again, ive conceded as much, sometimes this is being used as an excuse to justify positions that were alrea