mr. kendall, isn't there such a thing as first amendment rights in this country?any people have fought for this right for citizens like johnny. one thing i want to point out in this particular case is this is not a situation where you have a private employer attempting to regulate what an employee can or cannot say on social media. this is a situation where you have the government, a governmentalentity and governmental actor tempting to regulate what an employee can or cannot say on his own private time, private facebook page. >> claims he was fired for violating the school's social media policy. they claim they have surveillance video that shows this child did not actually go into the lunch line that day. i know you say that doesn't matter. why? >> it doesn't matter whether he went into the lunch line that day, because johnny had a reasonable belief that what the child told him was true. when the reporting began in may and june of 2013, the child through his family issued a statement that, in fact, he had told johnny exactly what yellowstone posted on his faceboo

mr. kendall can provide information on. >> the question on military compensation, if congress rejected the package would create a $2 billion. is that just for this portion? >> no, that is everything. assuming they went back to hire pay raises, turned down the commissary cutbacks and the try care. try care stars the consolidation in fiscal 15 because we need a year to do all the contacting changes. it does not play -- the consolidation does not play in. >> have you h'm made changes? the department's, have you gotten any indication that they may be changing? >> i don't want to try to get inside their heads. i think that many on the hell realize that we need a balanced package. we don't particularly want to do this. if we are going to live with these caps and don't want sarah go to further forced cuts or degradation and readiness we have to do a variety of other things, smaller, slower growth. there is realization of that, but landers and that it is tough. and need to let them speak for themselves. >> is no longer have your are planning and organizing for the armed forces to perform. >> i cer

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mr. chairman, i don't take what i am going to say lightly. that's why today i have issued a subpoena to the deputy inspector general kendall for this information that she has withheld from us. if the i.g. discovered ongoing issues with the way the department is currently conducting this rulemaking process, they have a responsibility and a duty to share that information with congress now. the committee is not asking the i.g. for materials produced by the department. but we are asking for materials and interviews produced by the i.g. staff. the obama administration's rulemaking process has been and continues to be an unmitigated disaster. despite having spent millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars, they have absolutely nothing to show for it to date and haven't even produced a draft. meanwhile, states, industry, america's coal miners are left in limbo, unsure what the operating rules are on the ground. mr. chairman, without the 2008 rule, we are left with the rule that was put in place in 1983. and so that's why we are here today, to consider h.r. 2824, the preventing government waste and protecting coal mining jobs act. rica this legislation w