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  • 5/15/2025
During a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Thursday, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) tense exchange with Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) after he cut her off for going over her allocated time.
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00:00This article, again, was going back to the, especially as you're concerned as well, the head and neck cancer and lung cancer,
00:05was a program that was talked about, was not even started.
00:08So I can't call it on a hiring freeze.
00:10Okay, so I'd like you to get back to me then.
00:13Okay, that's fine.
00:13Specifically, specifically, about has there, have there since your tenure begun,
00:19any halting of cancer research at the VA that was planned and any enrollment in clinical trials that have ceased?
00:29For any reason.
00:30Would this be previous last year as well?
00:33The gentlewoman's time has expired.
00:35I now give it to you.
00:36But I would like to just make sure that the secretary, Mr. Chairman,
00:40I would like the secretary to confirm that he will get me that information.
00:44Gentlewoman's time has been expired.
00:46So you're not going to allow?
00:47Judge Carter would certainly let me make sure that the secretary.
00:50I am not Judge Carter, madam.
00:51The gentlewoman's from Florida has expired.
00:54I now give the floor to the gentleman from Florida.
00:56That is not how this committee is run, Mr. Chairman.
00:58It is under me, ma'am.
01:00Well, you're not the chairman.
01:03Thank you, Mr. Secretary.

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