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Order. thank you, mr. collins. mr. chairman, a point of order. gentleman will state his point of order. mr. chairman, clause 2 j 1 of rule 11 requires you to schedule a minority hearing date, not to consider it, not to meet to discuss it but to schedule one. schedule it at a reasonable time. not after articles have been drawn, not after there s been a vote on articles of impeachment. i inquire and insist, mr. chairman, that you immediately schedule a minority hearing day or tell us why you the gentleman ignoring the rules. the gentleman, we ve already gone through that, but i will repeat that is not a proper point of order in today s hearing. as i have told the ranking minority member several times i m considering the request. if you think we would be violating the rules of the house if we considered articles of impeachment before holding a minority day hearing that point of order would be timely at a meeting where we consider such ....
Supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg making her first appearance after her treatment for the latest bout with cancer. well, i promised him i would come, i didn t know that this day would be preceded by three weeks of daily radiation. i said, i will not cancel buffalo. ginsburg talked about advice she received from sandra day o connor. schedule it for friday that way you can get over it on the week end. ginsburg added proposals to add supreme court justices are a very bad idea. she is fierce. capital one and deutsch bank ....
Outrageous costs. five gsa officials went to hawaii for a week for a one-hour ribbon cutting. $330,000 to move one official from denver to hawaii, and gsa invented awards. because if there were awards at an event, they could stick taxpayers with the tab for food. one was called the jackass award. when americans see that the people being paid with their taxpayer dollars are squandering and wasting it, it just increases people s contempt for government. now, we reached out to nee he s lawyer who did not return our calls. the white house called the spending spree a gross misuse of tax dollars and says decisive action has been taken. so far, three gsa officials, including the administrator, have been fired or resigned and five more are on administrative leave. lisa myers, thank you very much. thank you for your patience this morning. and thank you for the idea, ....
Relates very closely to what we were saying about the buffett rule. people see the system as being rigged. they see too many people who are afraid to stand up to powerful interests, and they see people who are leaders in their pockets. and they want leaders who will fight for them, fight for average, hard-working middle class people. and, you know, that s what they re looking for right now and not seeing enough of it. and we see major bipartisan jobs initiatives, the transportation bill, our china currency bill, pass the senate with 70 plus votes, the speaker won t schedule it because the majority of his party opposes it. even though they would both pass the house overwhelmingly, because almost all of the democrats and 1/3 of the republicans would vote for it, speaker boehner won t schedule it because half the republicans don t like it. that s why they don t like the congress. senator, i hate to step into this again. don t. no, i m going to step into it. so, you know, last week ....
Connecting to them despite the fact they have done everything they could do. interesting. hilary rosen, who i like very much, and i believe gets it she works. she has kids and she works. hilary rosen gets it. she stepped in it. and she knows it. immediately linked to president obama as though she were valerie jarrett or something. somebody from inside the obama administration. she is a democrat, so president obama must share this point of view. but the reason as mika said it touched off such fury, and especially my wife noticed it, was because that is such a difficult decision for women to make. my wife went back to work after the first child. went back after her second. and then had to make a very, very difficult decision as someone who had worked every day of her life for 10 years to come home and be with her kids for a while. and she may go back to work, but it s not like she sitting there with her feet up. she is working at home. and hilary rosen knows that well. yes. ....