when a senior begums age 62 in the city, he or she is forced off of general assistance and has to receive early social security retirement. what that does is, that senior loses thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars by being required to take early social security retirement, but the senior also loses the housing subsidy, so you need to change that policy. they should remain on general assistance until they are 65, when they can get their full social security. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. the last card i have is -- >> my name is carol. i am from -- my name is carol, and i am from the senior center. i am a participants. a problem right now is finding things for seniors. there does not seem to be enough. i am having a problem with getting a 90-day ban and going to the shelter, being told, "we can take you today, but we have to drop you in 90 days, because somebody dropped somebody else's bed, and that is yours." this happened twice, so i took it to the committee. there is something wrong there. it is affecting my health. maybe this happens to a lot of people

to beg sometimes to feed them no that windows arrived they don't even have warm clothes and shoes begum john lives in the mountains of srinagar with her five children she has been unable to hold down a steady job and had to take her else's children out of school so they could go to work when her husband disappeared the indian government says that in the past two decades of the kashmir conflict between three and four thousand people have gone missing victims advocates groups say that number is really closer to eight thousand while the indian government maintains that many of the people who have disappeared have actually joined the militancy others believe that thousands have been captured by indian security forces after their husbands go missing many halfway toes are abandoned by their in-laws most of these women were living on the property of their husbands families and surviving on ration cards provided in their husband's name because of social stigma many believe that is unacceptable to remarry or live with a male relative who might be able to help most women say that it's the psychol

. >> andrew begum. >> the prime minister will know that i recently held to my constituency, many of those small businesses complain bitterly about what they have to jump through. what message can the prime minister -- rebuild the economy against bureaucratic opposites. >> that is why we introduced the red tape challenge to make sure these rules are published on line and businesses and individuals can tell us which ones can be scrapped without harming public safety. at the same time we have the one in one out rules the ministers cannot introduce a new regulation until they strapped an existing regulation. this government is determined to scrap unnecessary regulation and held business to employ more people in our country. >> the spending review from prime minister sent to the additional -- and impact. to see what tax credits can see how many more children will be in poverty in coming years. >> what we're doing in terms of the child tax credit is going to be free hundred ninety pounds higher than at the time of the last election. that is a 250 pound increase this year. that is the largest ev

that's almost i think if her begum quote. so we want to get the facts and the only way to get the facts is to issue a subpoena. some have said that our subpoena request is too broad. well, i was oversight chairman when republicans first came in to the majority back in 1995, and we took the language almost if not exactly verbatim from oversight request that mr. dingell had been using when he was full committee and subcommittee chairmen. [inaudible] >> i will at the appropriate time, as my good friend knows. so, we may have updated it because back in those days, e-mail wasn't a big thing and blackberries didn't exist, but our basic subpoena request, and document requests, is a standard format that democrats have used in republicans have used, this committee, literally for decades. and with all due respect, i understand my friends on the democratic side have to walk a fine line. they have to protect the president of their own party but they also have to try to be objective and support an investigation. it's gratifying to know th