The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , july 24, 2014. I hereby appoint the honorable john j. Duncan jr. To act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip imited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise this morning to urge, indeed to plead with my colleagues to cosponsor Bipartisan Legislation that representative kinzinger
That interview is sat 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Michele flournoy is our guest on this weeks q a. In government, youre dealing with the daily tyranny of the inbox. Youre focused on the crisis of the day. Part of my responsibility as undersecretary of defense was representing the secretary of defense on the socalled deputies committee, which is sort of the senior level group thats working through the issues, developing options for the principals and the president. A lot of Crisis Management focus. When youre in a think tank, your real utility is not trying to second guess the policymaker on the issues of the day but help to do some work to raise their day, help them look over the horizon to see what are the issues that im going to confront a year from now, five years from now, ten years from now, and how do i think more strategically about americas role in the world . Former undersecretary of defense and cofounder of the center for National American security, Michele F
Is, if we are better at providing highquality and timely care, thats going to affect veterans coming to the v. A. They will come to us more if they can get care more timely. So having a bottomup planning approach and working with our Medical Center leadership and our Network Leadership to give us a bottom up operating plan of what their financial requirement is in the out years will also help us be better prepared to adjust for where were succeeding and when we succeed. And someone said that weve given the v. A. Everything they have requested. Now, i guess institutional memory should be important because i remember in 2007 and 2008, it was the first time the veterans were able to get the budget that they requested for budgeting. That was under president barack obama. I know im the only one that remembers that, but you know, its important to remember how you got where you are. As we move forward. You need to remember that many of us talk the talk, but we didnt walk the walk or roll the
Is doing to address the issue and the proposals in congress as a potential solution. That interview is sat 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Michele flournoy is our guest on this weeks q a. In government, youre dealing with the daily tyranny of the inbox. Youre focused on the crisis of the day. Part of my responsibility as undersecretary of defense was representing the secretary of defense on the socalled deputies committee, which is sort of the senior level group thats working through the issues, developing options for the principals and the president. A lot of Crisis Management focus. When youre in a think tank, your real utility is not trying to second guess the policymaker on the issues of the day but help to do some work to raise their day, help them look over the horizon to see what are the issues that im going to confront a year from now, five years from now, ten years from now, and how do i think more strategically about americas role in the world . Former undersecre