mr. fortenberry: mr. speaker, i would like to speak today about the sequestration and fiscal problems. but i would like to give mr. yoho an additional minute to finish his remarks. mr. yoho: the story of the advent christian village is one of america's coming together, expressing generosity and kindness to one another and helping those in need. dowling park is one of the brightest parts in my county in the third district and i congratulate them of 100 years of ministry. thank you and i yield back. hank you, mr. speaker. mr. fortenberry: mr. speaker, earlier this month i was back home in linchingon and wept to one of the local diners and saw my friend norman norm asked me a question. he said, jeff, what are they doing about that word, that word they keep using in washington? norm was referring to sequestration which took effect march 1, which is the term for automatic spending reductions to the federal budget. these will be $85 billion in the first half with half applied to military programs and half appli

mr. fortenberry. >> thank you mr. chairman. ms. fong nice to see you again and thank you for coming today. as you recall several years ago i was the subcommittee chair on the department oversight and operations. on the agricultural committee and we had a very forthright hearing in which we discussed the delays in your audits as well as the problems of a lack of enforcement mechanisms that the state could engage and that the state could engage with in order to combat fraud. since then i have noticed that you stated in direct response to that hearing that you have expanded your audit scope and you made specific recommendations to the regard to potentially help stop fraud by stating what the tools are available that should be used as well as identifying which tools are not available and how they department should move forward in that regard. i've would think would be helpful if you explain what your recommendations are. you you said the department has accepted those recommendations and what do you envision as the timeline on the imple

mr. fortenberry of ebraska. >> mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute for the purposes of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for the week to come. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. hoyer: i yield to my friend, the majority leader, mr. cantor, of virginia. mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman from maryland, the democratic whip, for yielding. mr. speaker, on monday the house will meet at noon for morning hour, and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m.. on tuesday and wednesday the house will meet at 10:00 a.m. for morning hour and noon for legislative business. on thursday the house will meet at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business. last votes of the week are expected no later than 3:00 p.m. on friday no votes are expected. mr. speaker, the house will consider a few suspensions on m