I pledge allegiance to the flag of United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right, thank you. I also wanted to take a moment and acknowledge its the time of year when we think about our p. O. W. And m. I. A. Veterans and i dont know if we have any former p. O. W. S were family members here in the audience . Do they want to stand . Thank you. We will keep them in our thoughts. I am glenn cortie. For those of you that know me i am glenn cortie director of the dayton ohio va and i was asked to come to phoenix to help out for four months. I arrived july 9 and at the end of my two or will be the sixth of november. I was honored to be ousting tom to help lead the organization as we continue to move forward here in phoenix. I wanted to also thank our veterans that came out tonight. This is an important way for us to receive feedback and hear good things that we are doing as well as things that we
The cbo. It is very clear that repealing the Affordable Care act will actually increase the deficit and it is acknowledged in here by accepting a point of order on anything that increases the deficit as a result of the Affordable Care act. We need honesty and budgeting. If this budget repeals the Affordable Care act all the services for 16. 4 million men and women children who receive health care for the first time maybe other and we know that repealing miss will increase the deficit and we need to be honest about it. This would strike the exception and continue a point of order as we do for every other part of the budget. I think this will prohibit getting even some efficient use. I would ask or a no vote. I assume a roll call vote is desired. Clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] mr. Chairman, the yeas are 10 the nays are 12. Humanities fail. Thank you mr. Chairman. Since 2010, 47 municipalities have declared bankruptcy. Estimates of un
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] vago welcome to defense news. Will republicans s succeed in inincreasing defense spending . The u. S. Army in europe has been critica to nato security. Once the cold war ended, u. S. Troop levels dropped. Today, there are only two brigadcombatat teams and 30,000 u. S. Soldiers in europe. Under the aligned forces concept,nits from the u. S. Are regularly deoyed t there. With moscows invasion of ukraine, 300american soldiers are reassuring no meers of russias bordersrs, and touring possibleussian aggression a latvia, lithuania, andoland. Itill also arrive in romanania and bulgaria for training. To deter assertive russia, nato leers decided to increase Alliance Training that will culminate in an exercise and a High Readiness joint task force. Last week, we met wi the commander of the u. S. Army europe, attorney general ben hodges. General hodges this is
Coordination, information sharing, threat information sharing, and information sharing about best practices and best results. Thank you. Yeah thank you. And very quickly we are very open to trying to play a stronger role in trying to assist these conversations across different modes of transportation. I would say that just the first thing weve got to do in each of these modes is get the modes, you know within the modes having the discussion because there will be things unique to automobiles or to rail cars or to aviation that are distinct. But to your point i do think there are crosscutting issues too. And our department intends to play an active role on the crosscutting side of the conversation as well. Id like to thank you for a very interesting and informative session. [ applause ] lets all give the secretary [ applause ] thank you very much. Tonight on the communicators, fcc commissioner minion clyburn on their recent Net Neutrality ruling, municipal broadband and the subsidized ph
The transatlantic space to support ukraine. And i do think that our leadership in this is recognized. We are having as spirited a debate as is going on theres also a transatlantic debate so that question gets asked also in our diplomacy. But europeans come at it from both sides, depending upon where they sit. With regard to ukraine and the things that need to be done, and that has been appreciated, very much by my by most of us, i would have at this point significant difficulty coming to work each day with these decisions lingering and the way that they have and us, again, not taking the steps that that many people within the administration, as i understand it, feel needs to be taken. And yet we continue for some reason not to do those things that weve acted as if we might do. I have a number of other questions that ill send in writing. And i thank each of you for being here. I realize that in all cases, yall are messengers and not the ones that have these decision memos sitting on you