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System. This is two and a half hours. Committee will come to order. This week the committee will hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. Tomorrow we will hear from the Service Chiefs of repairing and rebuild the military. Today well concentrate on the other pillar which is defense reform. We have done a lot of reform over the past two years. That includes acquisition reform, a new mail tear retirement system, mayor changes in military health care, commissary reform, ...

Committee on the future of the u. S. Armed forces and recommendations to improve the services. Including cost savings and efficiencies, incentivizing and managing the civilian work force. [ gavel ] committee will come to order. This week, the committee will hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. Tomorrow well hear from the Service Chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. Today, however, well concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. Weve done...

Quorum call mr. Cornyn madam president . The presiding officer the sphror texas. Mr. Cornyn madam president , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cornyn madam president , i understand there is a bill at the desk due for its second reading. The presiding officer the clerk will read the bill for the second time. The clerk s. 3011, a bill to improve the accountability, efficiency, transparency, and overall effectiveness of the...

Meet with all the time, we understand in politics that you have to say things over and over again for them to penetrate. You in the news business, we tell you once, and weve given you the news. Therefore is no longer news and we dont have to report it again. These things that matter need to be on the front page day after day. With interesting angles and different takes and new perspectives. We get some of that. I dont wnat to shortchange the journalism out there. We need more of that if we are g...

The middle part gets more interesting and relevant for today where the secretary spends time in boston and other corporations working in the field of technology and innovation. That is what he brought with him back to the pentagon and part of what is at the core of what he is tried to do. He was a distinguished fellow at Stanford Hoover institution. He was an advisor to goldman sachs. At Harvard Kennedy school he was the professor of science and international affairs. Of a miterhe boards corpora...

Who are within the department. In the labs, schools, on the battlefield. You heard from some of them today. Our innovators, our Senior Leaders involved in both of these critical and interconnected missions. Alongside the Many Technology and business and academic leaders who joined the discussion today, they play a Critical Role in accelerating the spirit and innovation we need to maintain our edge in a complex and changing world. What i wanted to do is describe the logic of my commitment to this...

Here today. Thank you for joining us. Thank you so much for the Dallas Morning News for hosting this event. If you were up earlier today, questions of diversity in the newsroom, diversity on the panel, it is not always easy to embrace all kind of diversity in any given event, but i want to celebrate this event having done such a remarkable job of embracing ideological diversity. Eventterrific to be at an cosponsored by the george bush library, the george w. Bush president ial center. I want to p...

First of all i tell people we dont build anything, we buy things, first and foremost and we buy them from private industry so our relationship with the private technology sector, the alternative was pride by the soviet union which works out well. It is always been our relationship with private industry that has been the channel through which we got the best technology. That has to be different in todays world and that is what im trying to adjust to in the world where i began where bill was. In t...

Nine and cnbc contributor and former ceo of the daily mail, john steinberg. John, good morning to you. Good to be here, guys. The market here having a pretty nice monday. Dow up 182. Stocks essentially in rally mode. Oils helping out on a great day for the price of oil, up 7 . Of course, youve heard about the pound today and some of these key materials prices getting back to some important levels. In the meantime, apple and ceo tim cook urging the government to withdraw that request to break int...

That nationwide the continues to see the effect break havoc in this country. What will you do to improve the voting and there it is again. I would like to see open primaries everywhere. Federal voting holidafederal vor registration in 18 years of age we have joel here to join us. You will hear it again. And the automatic voter registration. Lets start with the congressman on this money and if you can be specific on the primaries of the voting i think it is a great solution we should have been in...