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My honorable friend makes a very good point. This government have made available money for a council tax freeze. That has the consequence that money for that freeze is available in wales, so people in wales will know who to blame if their council tax is not frozen. It is the Labour Assembly government in wales they are to blame; they are the ones who are charging hardworking people more for their council tax. We all remember the Prime Ministers promise last october that he would legislate to force Energy Companies to put customers on the lowest tariff. Will he explain why his energy bill contains no such commitment and why he has broken that promise . I have to tell the honorable gentleman that he is completely wrong. The energy bill does exactly what i said in the house; it is about legislating to force companies to give people the lowest tariff. Oh, no. Order. It is very discourteous of the house to issue a collective groannotably on the opposition benches. It is quite inexplicable.
It is a bad economic policy. It is bad governing policy. I really do not like it. It is working with the leadership to be able to find a way to avoid the sequester in the hopes that a higher power find a way for the nine years that it is mandated. What we hope to accomplish today is to take a look at the impacts if the sequester happens for the American People. Thank you for everyone coming. We thank you for speaking about defense. It has been well heard and well spoken. We look toward to hearing from you, secretary napolitano. In the u. S. Military, military, those who wear the uniform, will be protected in the sequester, and they should. There are others that need to be protected. What is the impact of them . And also the future of the country, the ability to the middle class. This is where secretary donovan, we want to talk to about housing and the economy. What is it that we need to do . You hold the future of america in your hands. We went to innovate, but first we have to outeduc
This is two hours. [inaudible conversations] good morning everybody and welcome. This morning the Committee Considers the nominations of two very distinguished officers to two of the most active and challenging combatant commands. General lloyd austin United States army nominated to be commander u. S. Central command and general David Rodriguez u. S. Army to be nominated to be commander of the u. S. Africa command. These two combatant commands centcom and africom are the centers of gravity for our militarys operations to counter the threat of terrorism. Oath nominees have served our country with distinction and i want to thank each of you for your decades of military service and your willingness to serve once again. I understand that general austin s wife charlene and General Rodriguez wife jen air with us this morning and i want to a knowledge them and thank them for their sacrifices, their support to our nominees throughout the years which is so essential to the success of our nomine