until the house gavels in. ms. pelosi: sad week. all of us who love justice and love baltimore are deeply saddened by the death of freddie gray and deep wounds that have been lane bare in the baltimore community. we hope for the speedy recovery of the police officers who were hurt. his death in police custody demands answers and i'm pleased that the department of justice has opened an investigation as to what happened. to find justice, we must respect the great successful tradition of nonviolence. nonviolence the last 50 years or longer has been a tradition of protest and disagreement and civil disobedience. so now thousands of peacefully demonstrating in baltimore are doing just that in recent days. i hope that we can move forward to a productive peace. but we have to recognize also this is many layered in terms of opportunity for education, for jobs and the rest. the fury of despair, no hope, is something throughout the world including in our country that evokes an angry...

freezes pell grants and rang sacks our children's education. so sad. ignores our crumbling infrastructure. in terms of our veterans, you see yesterday republicans sought to advance their first appropriations bill under the levels set by their new budget, which may or may not come to the floor today. but yesterday the milcon, military construction-veterans bill that cuts $1.4 billion beloath president obama's budget and cuts federal, that's generally, and then cuts $690 million from veterans' medical care alone. the equivalent of 70,000 fewer veterans receiving v.a. medical