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The level of the attention in both houses of congress and id like to see what your responses. Congressman the unit as an air force reserve will be leaving. The intent is to take this c130 j. s and put them in little rock arkansas. General jackson would tell you there is a problem with recruiting in that area in his reserve unit. He would also tell you is this it before every decision we are making right now hurts. They have to did downsize as well. This move would save them 23 million a year. It...

If they are putting something comprehensive, what do you think the must dos art deco are . We want to broaden the base, get rid of as many deductions as we can and get the rates as low as we can. The tricky part is Corporate Tax reform and individual tax reform. The ambitious list that chairman baucus and chairman camp set out is to do both simultaneously. That is difficult, even in the house where they have the votes and the political support. In the senate it was an uphill battle. With chairma...

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Being forced to choose a number of bad options. It is not like we have a good thing or bad thing. Those choices were made a long time ago. It is between good and good. Needed and needed. Best structure to balance readiness and modernization is a tough thing. What elements of the structure recommendould you retaining if you have the Budget Authority to do so . Is a mission of great concern. What others have similarly impactful consequences . The greater shortfalls we have related to the requireme...

32 projects. All but five of those projects will have proper oversight. The five projects will work outside of that range, and we are working to ensure that we have afghans that can help us provide oversight and provide the stewardship that you are addressing. Seen noneve not oco funding. En the of those 31 projects you are going to be working on in 2015, is there going to be more money requested for any of that work in this coming oco budget . It will be in 2015. Some of that is 2015 money. Yes...

In four years, and we feel what we believe are americas best ideas. Its grand canyon, yosemite, but also stewarding americas history and that would include independence hall, gettysburg, mount rush more, and most recently flight 93. My dress uniform and that famous hat is really derived from the world war i uniform from 1916, little changed from that time. The first rangers that patroled our parks before there was a park service were calvary soldiers. The presidio here in San Francisco sent Buff...

[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 Francisco. This amazing transformation in the last few years was due primarily to the vision and the dedication of three people, george and Charlotte Schultz and mike myers. Id like to pause to thank all three of them for this work. applause and in april of 1996, my last year as se...

The asia pacific region. Secondly, that we would maintain freedom of access throughout that region. In particular, we would maintain the sea lanes in that area, whatever the challenge might be. Even as we reduce our defense budget, therefore we must maintain and would maintain a powerful navy, and that that navy would be charged with maintaining the freedom of those sea lanes. We had, of course, to be concerned as to whether there would be a challenge for that. We observed that the rise and shin...

Program of exercise we conducted. The exercises were not only conducted on military scenarios, but we had an extensive set of exercises involved in humanitarian response. During the time i was secretary, we had a Disaster Response very similar to the one theyre doing here in San Francisco today. We bought naval forces from the United States, from russia and japan all to honolulu where we had simulated a tsunami disaster. And these three great nations brought their fleets to honolulu exercising h...

And she wrote to me and said, ive wanted nothing more than to find a new fulltime job and i dedicated every day to that mission. Im asking you to advocate for me and the millions like me who need our extended Unemployment Benefits to make ends meet. I just want everybody to understand, this is not an abstraction, shes are not statistics. These are your neighbors, friends, family members. It could at some point be any of us. Thats why we set up a system of Unemployment Insurance. The notion was e...