The law that is in the legislative language that is in this supplemental. Because i agree with our distinguished whip, mr. Hoyer, and others who have said there are two things happening here. One is we need to address the challenge, the humanitarian challenge. We need resources to do that for particular purposes, and we should do that in the supplemental. Another is to change the law which we shouldnt do in a supplemental. It is legislative legislating on an appropriations bill in a manner in which all kind of statements can be made which may be anecdotally significant but not significant in terms of the difference that they make a difference enough to change the law. And so when people talk about witnesses in one context or another, just saying something on the floor of the house, its interesting. But there should be hearings, if were going to change the law, there should be hearings where testimony can come forth, challenged, confirmed, whatever it may be. But a serious discussion wo
Of cloth thats of course the mask. The mask the lifesaving object that supposedly is robbing america of its promise of life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness it is the mask picking away at our humanity apparently. Rather than say Police Officers disproportionately are killing people of color on tape, or a government that puts kids in stages or sterilizes immigrant women, no, this belief that mask wearing, really all covid restrictions are somehow assaults on our freedom is being legitimized, not just by donald trump but william barr, your attorney general, who instead acts like trumps personal lawyer and fixer, who made this outrageous statement at a conservative college in michigan putting a National Lockdown, stay at home orders is like house arrest its, other than slavery which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on Civil Liberties in American History [ applause ] lets just be clear 245 years of forced labor, rape, breeding and violent sub jog agency o
Thats the way its always worked. Were taking away the incentives for people to use their minds to create new things that will sell all over the world. Thats whats brought prosperity to the United States, inventiveness. We invented a new government, and its worked pretty good up till now. And weve invented all kinds of things that the world has benefited from. We need to make sure that what we do encourages that, instead of discourages it. This thing that the government knows best . I just dont run into many people that think thats right. Most of them think that the government doesnt have enough experience in business. I go back to wyoming almost every weekend and i travel to a different part of the state all the time and over the weekend i try to get into a business or two. I try to find out what it is they do, how they do it, and most importantly how the federal government might interfere or help them. And its very valuable. I have found that if a person hasnt been in business, that e
I offer a gesture of hasty bialty. I will assure that your question is asked. Its exactly one of the questions i have of dr. Collins of the impact of sequester on nih, and your staff is more than welcome to accompany me on that visit so that they can receive the firsthand briefing that i will receive. [inaudible] as will, of course, senator hard kips saf. Harkins staff. As you know, in his new role, senator pryor . Thank you, madam chairwoman. Let me just follow up on one of senator blunts points he made about the department of agriculture, if i may. You know, the law on meat inspectors says that the inspectors that the plants cant operate unless the inspectors are there. So closing these plants for 15 days could result in reduction of sol volume of 200 pounds of meat, 2. 3 billion pounds of poultry and more than 200 billion pounds of egg products. So this is going to adversely effect every consumer in america, its going to be very disruptive to our food supply and the chain that we ha
And they comprehensive, joint effort to reach a longterm resolution. Anything short of that will place the American Economy on an irreversible, downward path. We will hear about the past consequences of the impending cuts. I do not doubt that they will be painful to bear. If there is a way to mitigate the pain,im open to discussion. I believe it is important to emphasize that the sequester of whatever temporary solution we have made is just a precursor to the main event. Thank you. Thank you, senator shelby. We will go to the panel. I am going to explain how this is going to work. We would have begin with omb and wrap up with National Security. In the interest of time and efficacy, we will have one panel and be able to ask questions where we can get cross communication going. We will start with you and then secretary donovan and secretary napolitano. We will go to questions and alternating on both sides of the aisle. Right off with senator shelby and myself. You are representing omb. T