Congressional Budget Office testify before the Senate Subcommittee on physical response ability and Economic Growth. Thank you all for participating. I think it will be good. Im sorry we cannot have it in a more, what to say, a more kind of formal setting because it may have been better because im not sure if there is any hearing we have that was more important than this. Our Witnesses Today will be philip schlagel, director of the congressional Budget Office and jean todaro who is the comptroller general of the United States and head of the u. S. Government accountability office. With that i will make my Opening Statement and then turned to maggie, my Ranking Member, and then Ranking Member wyden for the entire committee has a statement he would like to make as well. Again, thank you all for being here and im grateful to all who are there during us by internet. Todays hearing will address the topic that was shied away from Syrian Refugees and when it comes to our health we make choice
Here and i want to salute tim kaine and this has been a passion of his for decades or years . Somewhere between decades and years. Tammy duckworth, dick durbin, they all work dedicated lee on this but i want to speak and say a few words and then i will have to go and then tim will it take over, i guess. Okay. Look, what the senate did today behind the leadership of the colleagues behind me is what we should be doing every day. Working on a bipartisan basis to make a real impact for our country. It is a rare day here in the senate and i wish we did not have to say that but it is. The senate just sent a clear shot across the bow of bipartisan majority of senators dont want the president waiting war without congressional approval. That sums up the whole thing. The president does not have the authority to go to war but democratic and publican senators have made that Crystal Clear and no president s, no president can sidestep congress when it comes to matters of war and peace. That is what