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Again, cspan3 live this morning here on capitol hill waiting for Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson who will be testifying this morning about Border Security and the president s executive order on immigration. Under the president s order, if a person had been in the u. S. For more than five years and has children who are citizens or legal residents, passes a criminal background collection and is willing to pay taxes, they can apply to stay in the u. S. Temporarily. The executive order also ...

Bases as for jobs in so many congressional districts. And i have heard very conservative members of congress say government doesnt create jobs, it destroys them, and all that sort of thing. It doesnt apply to the military base in my district. If we lost that, we would lose jobs. Is there anyway around this . I dont know how, other than a fundamental change. I remember seeing many years ago, a map of where the subcontracts were, i think it was the b2 bomber. There was a pin the companies are smar...

Onal security argument for it. And it turns out last month the u. S. Army sent 100 tanks back to europe in response to the ukraine process. And maybe thats the evidence that we made the right call. One year they wanted to discontinue the global hawk and rely instead on the 50yearold, and the next year they proposed exactly the reverse. They asked to retire the a10 and then sent it to fly attack missions in iraq and syria. The navy included no money in this years budget to begin to refuel the geo...

To reagan, one of his watchwords was, peace through strength. He presided over an enormous buildup in defense spending. The current trajectory of defense spending is down to below 3 of gdp. Which is going to be as low as it was back in before 1941. Would you support a significant increase from current levels in the Defense Budget and do away with the sequester . I absolutely support the concept of peace through strength. I think the most important thing the federal government spends money on is ...

Of the fiscal year except for the department of Homeland Security which would be funded just maybe through february. There are Infinite Possibilities to how that will play out and whether or not they choose to split the two, that is up for negotiation from what i understand, so anything is possible at this point. But i think democrats are pretty strong in wanting to keep the government open and wanting to make sure that all agencies of the government are not theyre funding is approved through th...

Congress. That is followed by paul ryan on u. S. Tax policy. He is the incoming chair of the tax committee. The Washington Post reported today that president obama will nominate Ashton Carter to be the next secretary of defense, succeeding chuck hagel. Mr. Ashton carter is a trained as a deputyo served secretary of defense from october, 2011 to december, 2013. The announcement could come as early as this week. Jeh johnson reportedly removed himself from consideration for the defense position. Se...

Herman it expansion on section 179 and other longerterm extensions and the president blew it up so we will do a clean one year deal. Does that, kate your task next year . Yes we will have more work to do but this has more uncertainty. One question on that part of the president s objection is the income tax not being extended here which is some thing you talked about and supported. Even if youre unhappy with him on this point you take the point on income tax credit . I do intend taking up the iss...

Caller it was encouraging for me when this gentleman took over the House Armed Services committee. It is a difficult time for our United States and our military one of the encouraging things is to have our guest in a position of influence. Sometimes, you spot somebody when they are new and you recognize that they are capable and will make a tremendous contribution to the nations interests over time. Because of their judgment, their integrity, their willingness to work. Their charity. Their under...

Four years later the squadron was operational and we built nearly 3,000 of them. Compare that to the f22. In 1981 the air force established a requirement for 750 advanced tactical fighters. It wasnt until 2005, 24 years later, that the f22 was first introduced and instead of 750 of them, we bought 195. If boeing can field a new commercial airliner in five years, and ford can take a car from design to production in 24 months, then theres absolutely no reason the pentagon should take two decades t...

Doma or this bill, and mr. Holder decided to stop making them. And that is what made me say hes abandoned his duty. Do you agree . I agree. I thought that the decision was wrong. I happen to agree with the president. I was a critical of doma. But i thought that the abandonment of the defense of doma was to the rule of law. I thought it violated a longstanding understanding with this body. You know, theres history here, as you know. Youre a student of the constitution. And you know that theres al...