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Im proud to have fought alongside my colleagues to make sure they wouldnt be victims. Even the one thing the congress is tasked to do, fund the government, is were not aloud to do. The c. R. Doesnt do our job. We are kicking the can down the road and setting ourselves up for another 11th hour bandaid. We can do better. We are elected to do better. And better will simply be doing our jobs. Thats all the American People want from us. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back....

The senate arm theed Services Committee that he didnt think they should be separate. This starts off with john mccain talking about military nominations. How are you, admiral . I would, since the quorum is not present, but we have pending military nominations, i would ask unanimous consent to waive the requirement for two more members to conduct the routine business for the 4,158 pending military nominations, none of which are controversial. Is there any objection to that . If not, since a quoru...

I want to thank you gentlemen for being here and your service to our country, and the meeting is called to order. I apologize for bag few minutes late. Forget we changed the time until 9 45 until 10 00 so ben could go to a meeting at 10 30. Can you for accommodating both meetings. Obviously afghanistan continues to be something that is important to our u. S. National interests. We brokered a government, if you will, the United States did in 2014, that create both a president and ceo office that ...

Powerful as i can. He is the commanderinchief or she is the commanderinchief and the orders will be followed. So that person has the ability, sole ability to call for Nuclear Strike . . They are the commanderinchief. Also im very supportive of the National Guard as you mighty know. I would like to know how you see your performance in space, Missile Defense and cybernc operations, how they could be more effective. Spectacular. But but anyways we just scratched the surface. If you think of many ot...

Its really going to depend on the local environment. So, how how about southwest florida . Well, this is one of the reasons we need a supplemental to give resources so we can look at mosquito populations, trap them, analyze them and then sometimes larva siting can have an impact on mosquito populations. Your point is quite correct that the outdoor spraying may have limited impact, if any, on the mosquito population, but were looking at different ways of doing mosquito control. And in some circum...

Hose who against who it has illintent. So the South Koreans have suffered from this. Now to see them move forward and expand this Nuclear Weapons program. Each new launch brings them closer. They say they can hit the west coast of the United States. Theyre claiming they will be able to hit the entire u. S. With their icbm program. These placards that you see and these posters actually show their missiles coming down on the United States. And so at this point, i think it is critical and our colle...

I want to make sure that we have the opportunity to recognize them this morning. Yes. Ms. Bordallo would you kindly stand up, please . Chairman wittman i knew it. [laughter] chairman wittman i knew it, i knew it. Fantastic. She always does, she only does. Good morning. I want to think all of you for being here for the readiness hearing on the 2017 budget requests and readiness posture. This is the first of four hearings, and in december and january the services testified on increase readiness ri...

Our purpose is to marginalize and defeat violent extremists once and for all. That isnt easy. We know that as president obama and i consistently said it wont happen overnight. But today i say to all of our fellows citizens and the international community, we must recognize what daesh is doing to its victims and hold the perpetrators accountable and find the resources to help those harmed by the atrocities to be able to survive on their ancestral land. Naming these crimes is important but what is...

Clear and precise and to get the pentagon to react in in doing so before it is too late. It to succeed to make that offset strategy real so it is more satisfying. You are up. Give us another perspective. And that terminology of spoiler alert with that budget request to throw cold water on it. And the perspective of the budget that came over recently. And what we will have with the new administration in place. The reality is and looking at the house of representatives of the of budget of 30 billi...