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May have your attention, please . Thank you. Were very pleased to have today as our special guest wes bush, who is the chairman, ceo and president of Northrop Grumman. Northrop grumman as many of you may know is based in falls church, virginia, and its a company that is the fourth Largest Aerospace defense contractor in the United States. Its a company with about 26 billion market cap, and revenues approaching about 25 billiondollars and more than 65,000 employees and when our guest became the c...

Relationship and what it means to the marines . Sure. Let me reference mayor lee from this morning. He said what we are starting to do is get beyond conversation and were getting a feel for the impact of our training and our particular interaction. Just this past year alone from the communications, command and control exercise that we did in august, yesterday bringing an air cushioned vehicle ashore on the beach, landing helicopters at lake merced and working between us and the National Guard, e...

What we are w dough and how we fit together. I think one of the real challenges, my observation, is civil authorities getting a full grip on everything thats going to be necessary to put together a sound response at the local level, and then herding all the cats that are in this pretty complex environment and trying to get them moving in a common direction. General baldwin . First, im very, very encouraged at the direction the department of defense has taken in changing the way that we do suppor...

Multiple professional military Education Programs and other venues and the maturing of thinking and policies since 9 11 and katrina. There is a recognition within this analysis that there are gaps in awareness of the capabilities dod can provide in complex catastrophes, as well as the inherent complexities and lack of understanding in our various chains of command and our authorities. The report recognizes what we have used to drive the dsca portion of fleet week, that local authorities are like...

Were going to build that within next years springtime exercise. Thank you. Lets go ahead and move over to a discussion of resources and theres a number of resources that dod brings to bear whether its personnel or equipment or systems that they have. As i look back to my experience with the 20032007 fires, the one that stands out to me is the use and integration of helicopters. I can remember after the 2003 helicopters doing a field hearing with Duncan Hunter about the integration of helicopters...

That hasnt quite migrated itself into the institutional arena in terms of forces stationed here in the United States as it would relate to defense support to civil authorities. I think thats primarily this is not a primary mission for us. Its something that we do Pay Attention to, of course, as we deploy overseas. Not necessarily forces we have here in the states. We do understand Immediate Response, rolling out the gate to help our neighbors in an immediate nature, but i think not so much in te...

Aboard this symbol of americas millery power, the uss macon island. What a pleasure it is to be among the men and women of our armed forces and the men and women of the First Responders of the San Francisco bay area. Fleet week for many years in San Francisco was a somewhat [inaudible] affair and it has been transformed into this great coming together by the military and the First Responders, the great coming together of our uniformed personnel and a great [speaker not understood] of San Francis...

Forest when you dont have a fire that make it easier and more effective in fighting the fire . Its an excellent question, sir. We spend a large time in cal fire on Public Education and prevention and also with respect to you were talking about fuel, the fuels program, or Vegetation Management program in cal fire, we have a Robust Program throughout the state where we are conducting burning operations and Vegetation Management with prieflt ranch owners and private land owners as well as on state ...

Relief going into the next holiday season. So hopefully well do something on the minimum wage. These are things i think we need to do coming back after the first of the year and i thank the gentleman for yielding me time and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the time of the gentleman has expired. The gentleman from wisconsin. Mr. Ryan first, id like to yield myself 30 seconds just to respond to my friend from south carolina, mr. Cry burn. I want him to know mr. Clyburn. I want him to know th...

German soldiers would be really reassuring. The initial response newsmakers said valenti, former governor of minnesota, will talk about key issues affecting the winking industries the banking industries. The amount of capital big banks should have on hand. Newsmakers, sunday at 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. On tuesday, president obama begins a trip to asia with stops in japan, south korea, malaysia, and the philippines. At the white house briefing, susan rice briefed reporters on ...