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Good morning, everybody. The Committee Meets this morning to review the reduction in cost of living adjustments, the colas, for working age military retirees that was enacted as part of the bipartisan budget act of 2013. We welcome today the acting deputy secretary of defense, ms. Christine fox, and vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral sandy winnefeld. And i will introduce the second panel of outside witnesses after we hear from secretary fox and admiral winnefeld. The bipartisan ...

That is a look at the nonfiction titles quail ridge is most interested in being published this fall. You can visit the bookstore in raleigh, North Carolina or on line at quail ridge. Com. Ann hagedorn is next on booktv. She takes a critical look at private military contractors and argues that americans should be concerned about our dependence on them. This is a middle over an hour. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Thank you so much for coming. Hello. My name is sarah boleyn and im the Eve...

Passthrough entity and so the president and the argument is that the americans gave the benefits. Well, if we didnt get any of the benefits, i think that we should be confident about that. And its important to know that this is not the first time had this discussion in front of us and it was defeated 33 to 65 and we have many of our democratic colleagues join with all the republicans to reject a statutory ban on exports. And this amendment that is pending, a they will see the same thing. And i s...

So personal savings can only go so far for these individuals. At the same time though Social Security treat single women far less well than it does married women so they are not getting much help from that end of things either. Thats one reason i and others have proposed reforming Social Security to provide a flat universal benefit for all retirees regardless of income participation. On top of that individual would save in accounts provided through their employer or of not available through the ...

We are going to work. His answer made me angry. It still makes me angry. As a child of tomorrow, it isnt the boy sitting with me in my classroom. Now that tomorrow has become today. I am today. You are today. The time for every child to have the right to life, the right to freedom, to freedom, the right to health, the right to education camera to dignity, right to equality and the right to be. [applause] today, today beyond the darkness i see the Smiling Faces of children. Do. Close your eyes an...

[applause] mr. President , mr. Speaker, mr. President , mr. Speaker, madam chief justice, distinguished justices of the court, honored officials, members of the Washington State legislature, tribal leaders, local government officials, members of the consular corps and my fellow washingtonians. Good afternoon. I want to begin today by thanking oso chaplain joel johnson; the members of the Marysville Pilchuck high school choir; my family members especially trudi; the 13 newest members of the legis...

In thailand. The other thing that will surprise us in Southeast Asia is joke wee and the new president of ind donee sha. I think hell assert himself much more seriously in Foreign Affairs and Security Issues than we rkuathought. And i think that will have an impact on Southeast Asia. And the last one is the arbitrational or arbitration try bu na bual, it could come out this year maybe early 2016. You know i think the way china reacts to that decision and the way the Asian Countries respond to it...

And of the 181 waivers granted by this Committee Last congress, 175 of them were republicans. Thats 97 republicans. Three 3 democrats. Again in the last congress, democrats had to abide by the rules. The republicans did not. I have an amendment to try to eliminate big tax breaks for big oil companies. And every time ive tried to get a vote on it, on an energy bill ive been told, sorry the tax rule says you can only do this you can only do that on a tax bill. Then when i offer it on a tax bill, s...

Supposed to work. Talk about the people behind them. Who are we seeing on this side starting. Sure, the person you see right under the mace and thats important to note that the mace is carried into the house whenever the house is in naraaatpa predictably, the person who sits right under, no, im wrong, im sorry the person who sits under the mace is the parliamentarian n and the parliamentarian wants to stay close to the speaker. He or she has a sheath of scripted papers he can h ;he presiding off...

Be it. If it takes a week who cares . We ought to do this the right way. I think i would hope that we could all agree on that if not on the substance of the underlying bill, at least on the process to which we bring it to the floor. With that, i will yield back my time. I thank the gentleman very much. I stated earlier we live in glass houses up here. The gentleman is making a good point. I would like to retort that in the 110th congress when mrs. Slaughter was chairman the congress in the first...