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To that and a bid announcement no one wanted to hear. The commuter chaos no one was to deal with it. And the battle with no end in sight. Tonight it is time to strike. Thursday evening bart board the but the union to come back to the bargaining table. Your members announced it will go on strike at midnight. I must inform the public debt at midnight tonight we will be on strike. This is not a union strike appeared this is an Amendment Strike brought on by absolute arrogance and they thought they ...

Detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This provision makes sense for the security of this country and it makes sense for good intelligence collection. The ban on transfers to yemen is a very critical aspect of this amendment. The amendment bans any detainee transfers to yemen until december 31, 2014. Its been four years since the president posed a moratorium on transfers to yemen from guantanamo following the failed airplane bombing attempt on Christmas Day 2009 by umar farouk. At that time yemen was vie...

Senator grassley was a no. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] the clerk will report is the results of the vote. Mr. Chairman the final tally is six ayes eight nose. Mrs. Amendment number two and would simply do its a minor amendment would add my chair membership to transportation benefits. As you know the code allows employers to provide compensation for transportation costs for their employees on a taxfree basis. They include taxes who see it with parking en masse transit and since 2008 associ...

Successfully run program, and disaster mode in the lsc and f35. Those decisions were all made by all. I am very refreshed at your comments this morning. You are on the right track. I have been part of the acquisition system for 30 years. Years i have had the opportunity to study it in detail. I am currently with the mccain institute. My job there if acquisitions. Where do i sign up . Of note has already been made. I am serious. I am not just saying things when i say we will need you all to help....

Said lets try to get to a level Playing Field and that is what u. N. Senator hatch have talked about and then to have comparable measures. Im going to work closely with you and i appreciate youre not offering it today. Senator nelson is back. I applaud the excellent work in the leadership of hatch and wyden and if you are from pennsylvania, utah, to West Virginia, you are underrepresented as we are in florida on the new markets tax credit. For example it serves the poor population encouraging in...

The air force aspirated fees air force aspirated these and their unfunded requirements. It was not under dana chairman smark where the base bill so what i have done because there is such limited funding has gone into operations and maintenance for the Defense Contract Management Agency the Defense Information Systems Agency the defense media activity, the office of the secretary of defense, the Washington Headquarters services, the executive general and special schedules, printing and reproducti...

Duty as a congress, and certainly our duty as a part of this committee to make sure hat that check we figuratively wrote to those veterans never comes back marked insufficient funds. And to make sure that that check, the benefits of that check dont come back redeemed in a delayed fashion. So we have done what is necessary to make sure that they get their benefits, that he they get them in a timely manner, that the claims backlog is eliminated, and that we facilitate whatever it takes to make sur...

Holding hearings on fixing a broken tax code and building a new system that works in todays Global Digital economy. On tuesday we are going to have a hearing on how to protect taxpayers from incompetent and fraudulent repairs. Now there are other issues like Identity Theft and taxpayers rights that we will have to examine. Senators nelson and harden have put a lot of time and effort into solving these challenges in this committee will need to take a hard look at the issues surrounding multiemplo...

Public support for Scientific Research. Investments in science are essential if our country is to continue to lead the world in nanotechnology, supercomputering and other fields that yield new jobs and entire new cities. The way to restore public support is not to continue grants with taxpayer money. The amendment is a small but important step in the right direction and it sets the precedent for the science committee, the appropriations committee, and the house to take additional steps in the fu...

Gentlemans amendment. I would yield back my time. Mr. Daines i appreciate the gentlemans comments. This is to ensure we dont have a decommissioning moving forward as we reason sile the appropriations and the ndaa. I yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from montana. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair the ayes have it. The amendment is adopted. For what purpose does the gentleman from new yor...