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Some of the practical policy changes that are part of this agenda. >> at the heart of our room form is democratizing choice and control and giving it back to parents where it belongs. together, with the help of everyone in this room, we will support american families, build up our communities, strengthen our economy and enable every child to grow, thrive and achieve the american dream. >> these efforts have led to concrete results. they passed an authorization bill that gives federal workers 12 ...

Is not a spending bill or an authorization bill that youll have tons of small amendments that might get accepted or changed or language tweaked. this is something that was painstakingly put together by committee chair people and by the democratic leadership by the speaker and sort of locked in before it ever made its way back to the judiciary committee. the amendments that will be offered will be coming from republicans. some of them might be germane to impeachment. some of them might not have a...

With the markup. but again, this is not , you know, a spending bill or an authorization bill that youll have tons of small amendments that might get accepted or changed or a language tweaked. this is something that was painstakingly put together by committee chairpeople and by the democratic leadership, by the speaker and sort of locked in before it ever made its way back to the judiciary committee. the amendments that will be offered will be coming from republicans. some of them might not have ...

Majoring in government who might be watching tonight. im not proud of the fact i have been to markups before, and i remember them as marking up a document, submitting wording, having it accepted or rejected. tonight was kind of preambles. so youre saying tomorrow we actually get down to wording and maybe amending the nine pages that weve seen so far? >> reporter: yeah, thats the idea. because this is such a momentous resolution, really only about nine pages but so important, they stretch this pr...

Aim is to remain operationally flexible in accordance to the concept of dynamic force employment. this deponent of troops is one example of how we will dynamically manage our force posture to align with the national priorities are meeting the challenges of todays very complex security environment. we will soon deploy naval, and other military capabilities and a similarly unpredictable fashion to place the right force in the right location at the right time. lastly, our ability to defend u.s. per...

Russian systems at a depth and with an aggressiveness that has never been tried before." it is intended, "partly as a warning and partly to be poised to conduct cyber strikes if a major conflict broke out between the u.s. and moscow." this initiative has been carried out by u.s. cyber command, which is part of the u.s. military, and this is interesting. recent changes to u.s. law, thanks to both a presidential directive and thanks to a little-noticed new legal authority that was slipped into the...

To conduct cyber strikes if a major conflict broke out between the u.s. and moscow. they have been carried out by cyber command. thanks to a presidential directive and thanks to a little notice legal authority that was slipped into the military authorization bill last year, those new legal authorities allowed these kinds of actions that are described in this time space. they allowed these actions apparently to be carried out by cyber command on their own say so without having to get specific per...

House reporter sarah woodwood because i think most people would expect the president to know something like this. >> thats right, christi. most people would, but "the times" reports that administration officials were able to conduct this operation without presidential approval because of it is notice powers that were slipped into the military authorization bill that congress passed last year. basically, it allowed the military to conduct certain operations, clandestine operations in cyberspace t...

People and counting of that strategy in how we will ensure successors have the tools to deter war in the future. none of our work would be possible without the political courage of our congress. amid competing priorities our house and senate passed a bipartisan budget act to give troops what they needed in upcoming fiscal year of 18. for the first time in 10 years congress passed on-time accommodations and appropriate year fiscal year 19. 84% in house and senate supported authorization bill to e...

Announcement comes as welcome news to this white house. >> what i can tell you is what president obamas approach has been and its simply abide by an extraordinarily high standard. and even going to great lengths to avoid any appearance of a potential conflict of interest. >> president-elect trump has spoken of how he would look to keep the prison facility at guantanamo open. >> conversations have included a discussion helping him understand the policy that we have pursued. its a policy that we w...