Stephen mansfield on his washington in one hour, author Stephen Mansfield on his Washington Times oped about President Trumps support our go talk show host bill press. He discusses the year in politics and what to expect in 2018. Members are advised that these of the last votes expected in the house for the day, the week, the month, and the year. The House Republican leader in congress as they wrap up business for the year. Lawmakers quickly leave the u. S. Capitol and head home for the holidays. We welcome you to washington journal. Congress did pass a shortterm spending plan that keeps the government running for a few more weeks, only to face the same issues when they return in early january. We want to get to your calls and comments. How would you rate the performance of the house and senate and your own representative . 202 7488001, thats our line for republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. For independents, 202 7488002. Yesterday, congress wrapped up business as lawmakers head out
Pleasure cove. We are live with tom on the phone. Reporter sometime between 9 30 and 10 00 this morning, two people were killed when a vacaville made plane crashed. It was reported by a fisherman who may have witnessed the crash. Right now even the person that called it in, we are trying to get hold of. Other than that we have no eyewitnesses to the crash. Its located on a cove and its only accessible by boat. Reporter coroners took the bodies away by boat. One source close to the investigation said the two killed were employees of the vacaville based manufacturer icon, identification is pending negatives of the families, for the ntsb, a series of questions must be answered. First things was there something about the pilot that caused the plane to crash or was it the feel or the weather or the waves, then they can come up with the probable cause in hopes that it will never happen again, this is the second crash of an a 5, the first one was sunk with a cracked hull but that crash result
Thank you very much for your patience and waiting for us to get done with the vote. Mr. Child, lets hear your testimony. Thank you. Chair woman hartzler, Ranking Member speier, distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss capability gaps in the Afghan National Security Forces. As the Deputy Inspector general for overseas Contingency Operations i manage the dod oversight for Operation Freedom Sentinel in afghanistan. As the chair of the interagency southwest asia joint Planning Group i helped coordinate oversight over the several Inspector Generals in afghanistan. I serve a similar role for Operation Inherent resolve. The iraqsyria counter isil mission. I describe my role in more detail in my written state. Regarding Afghanistan Security forces my observations are based on oversight and recent published reports. We view this as two fold. Balancing the requirements to provide near term fighting capability against a longer term need to build the afgh
Patience and waiting for us to get done with the vote. Mr. Child, lets hear your testimony. Thank you. Chair woman hartzler, Ranking Member speier, distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss capability gaps in the Afghan National Security Forces. As the Deputy Inspector general for overseas Contingency Operations i manage the dod oversight for Operation Freedom Sentinel in afghanistan. As the chair of the interagency southwest asia joint Planning Group i helped coordinate oversight over the several Inspector Generals in afghanistan. I serve a similar role for Operation Inherent resolve. The iraqsyria counter isil mission. I describe my role in more detail in my written state. Regarding Afghanistan Security forces my observations are based on oversight and recent published reports. We view this as two fold. Balancing the requirements to provide near term fighting capability against a longer term need to build the afghans capacity to sustain their
Tragedy or strife. Were strong because we are resilient. Because in a decade after decade we have stood together to defend our security, our prosperity, our values. And because we have resisted attempt after attempt to divide and make us turn on one another, and above all we are strong because of the core beliefs that hold us together. We need to heed the advice of president kennedy on his trip to berlin, the year of this Munich Security Conference began. Lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today, he said, to the hopes of tomorrow. And if we do that, if we remember the values at the heart of our partnership, if we take the lessons of history that we have been able to accomplish and what this Incredible Alliance means, i have absolutely no doubt whatsoever were going to get this right, were going to get through this moment, and were going to build the prosperity and the security and the stability that every single one of us wants. We are going to do just fine. Thank you. [applause] it