Transcripts For CSPAN2 U 20120601
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Transcripts For CSPAN2 U 20120601
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relocation retention alone, almost 60,000 recipients received over $450,000 in cash bonuses so my simple amendment is saying enough is enough. what we want to do is say all of government should make a sacrifice, particularly the v.a. if they re giving out these huge bonuses, why don t they cut back on their senior, senior employees? we re not saying anybody mr. dicks: will the gentleman yield? mr. stearns: yes. . mr. dicks: could we take the savings from the gentleman s amendment and use that to pay the workers half of 1% raise that is denied. is there a way we can work this out? mr. stearns: i m going to go with my amendment at this point and having an opportunity to look this over, i think we have talked to the veterans committee and it is a viable amendment. as we go into conference, we could look at your suggestion. mr. dicks: i appreciate the gentleman yielding. mr. stearns: with that, i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the q
today. this is reflected in the bipartisan resolution that i join my colleagues in introducing yesterday, and today s hearing along with the bipartisan congressional internet caucus briefing which i m co-sponsoring next week, are an opportunity to discuss these issues and send a strong message that intergovernmental control over the internet will uproot the innovation, openness and transparency enjoyed by nearly 2.3 billion users around the world. we want to keep it that way. we want that to double, we want it to quadruple, we want it to keep growing. and so it seems to me that what we discuss today is of great, great importance. i also think we need to inoculate other countries with the ideas that will help take them away from where they are now. i don t think this can be america against the rest of the world. i think we need to form coalitions around the ideas that have worked. and that they, too, can share in what we know as one of the most exciting inventions and adventur