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Cspan q a. Next, the confirmation hearing for three senior military nominees im a Northern Command, the Afghanistan International Security Assistance force, and u. S. Special Operations Command. They took questions from members of the Senate Armed Services Committee Topics included Border Security in the ongoing situation in iraq and syria. This is just under 2. 5 hours. [inaudible conversations] , laud[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. The Committee Meets today to consider the no...

I would like to welcome you to the university of minnesota. We have a terrific program here today talking about the significance of the budget deal reached in washington in terms implicationscal for both the democratic and republican parties as well as the origins of some of what we have been seeing in washington. We have a terrific panel. I would like to introduce the panel. , he served gutknecht in 12 for 12 years in the minnesota house and 12 years in the United States house of representative...

We bring something to this table to and we want to make sure that we get to the truth. I am tired of cherry picking information, of sending a few lines from various transcripts. What we want is the truth. That is all we want. We saw another example today. Here we were ready to listen. Our members wanted to hear from her. Just for the Ranking Member to andble to make a statement the chairman was well aware that i wanted to make a statement and answer the question. We are better than that. We are ...

Lowerment insurance costs are higher for families. The president even said hell meet with anybody who has a better idea. We do have a better idea, mr. Speaker. Over 120 members of congress, including medical doctors, have cosponsored the American Health care reform act. We took the president up on his promise now almost three months ago and the president has refused to fulfill that promise of meeting with anybody who has a better idea. He wont even sit down and talk with us about a better idea t...

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...

Say, you asked the right question. Can we meet current demands with the current inventory of that that form . The answer is it is difficult. It is one of our lowdensity platforms. Often we are faced with employing it in the Korean Peninsula or north africa. Those are the tradeoffs we make. What we try to do is meet Combatant Commanders at times when they need them the most. Its hard to maintain a with a business gap. That platform was old when we got it. It has gotten older over the years. I tel...

Coming up on cspan, a discussion on Army Operations and training procedures. That is followed by our campaign 2014 debate coverage with the candidates running for u. S. Senate in kansas and colorado. Be part of cspans campaign 2014 coverage, follow us on twitter and like us on facebook to get to beat schedules, video clips of key moments, debate previews from our politics team. Cspan is bringing you over 100 senate, house, and governor debates. The battle for control of congress did stay in touc...

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...

What a pleasure it is to be 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 no...

The United States desire to maintain free access. The best way of avoiding that military conflict is what we should see because the military conflict with china would be catastrophic for both nations, indeed for the whole region. So, we want to avoid that. I believe the best way of avoiding that is by maintaining a continuing to maintain a strong naval presence in the region, and by having an unambiguous commitment to doing that. I believe that our new National Security strategy is that unambigu...