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Of a true delaware hero. Reporter frigid night couldnt keep hundreds from paying their respects to a fallen comrade a fellow corrections officer a loving husband, father and grandfather remembering lieutenant steven floyd. Reporter still badly bruised officer Joshua Wilkinson spoke with lieutenant floyd he was held hostage. His words sent chills through the crowd. My name is officer wilkinson. I was held hostage ing. No, no, no. Youre inside of a fence when you see a man thats been held captive brutally beaten with an inch of his life, it makes a human. Reporter Corrections Officers are family facing a difficult job theyre there for one another. I served in the military with him down at fort stuart. Know him pretty much all my life. So he was a goodman. Reporter balloons released in his memory and his family too shaken to speak was presented with a framed photo. I wor ....
Account was 36 million below the president s budget request in the bill brought to the floor and amendments already passed by the house have resulted in further cuts to the departmental administration. Federal salaries for the Nuclear Security administration are 30 million below this president s request. The funding levels in this bill send a clear message about growth in the federal work force requiring an automatic 5 cut across the board is a step too far and as i said it is not good government. For these reasons, i oppose these amendments, urge my colleagues to vote against it. I would note that when the gentleman says during the Government Shutdown they furloughed 60 of the work force, that was 16 days. These employees were labeled as nonessential. Same thing happened in congress. I would suspect in your congress, at least i know in my office, we had to declare whi ....
November. I was just in south america about a month ago to lay out the roadmap and how we are dealing with this. I just sent this morning one of our Deputy Assistant secretaries to iceland for a conference the next two days. This is critically important that we Pay Attention to this. Bottom line is, with all the crises of the moment, and thats part of my job, to manage immediate crisis, we also cannot lose sight of the strategic longerterm challenges that face our country either. And this is one that we got to be smart in how we handle it. Spent behind the political figures who would resist and argue about Climate Change respond differently when its coming from the pentagon . I think there is sometimes more of an awareness and edge put an issue it comes from the pentagon. Only because the military, the pentagon has mayb ....
The chair yield to himself five minutes for questions. First, mr. Wilburn, thank you very much for the service to your country as i thank captain moak as well. I used to be, prior to coming to congress, an officer in the Green Energy Company itself. I dont know about your particular company but its a subject im highly interested in. But, mr. Wilburn, im still a little curious. I understand that you were on a flight, i guess, when you were sending your testimony. But i guess my first question is, was it simply a clerical mistake, or did you change your mind on whether or not t. A. R. P. Regulations in dodd frank played a role in failing to finance the Brazilian Company that sought your product . So is it a clerical error, or did you change your mind about including that in your testimony . No, its not a clerical error. I didnt have exactly all the facts. Youll see the ....
Ignored again . Thats why we thought this problem was fixed last time. And then we worked over the course of the last two years to try to get the reforms that both sides of the aisle enacted. Lowell braynard told me they were not going to interact with the subsidies right across in the treasury department. In the meantime while we wait for reform to be implemented and find out its not going to be implemented, how many jobs will we lose in the interim . Were going to lose thousands. Thats why our position has changed. Last time, we thought we had it fixed. Now our position is if theres not a stop on widebody financing for stateowned. I appreciate that, mr. Wilburn, what youre doing, i appreciate your service as well as your entrepreneurial spirit. I just have one bone to pick with you. I know you say youre a free markettype of guy. I think you said i pledged my collateral, you can only pledge that once. And i get that. But i guesses that the way the free markets work. If i have an idea ....