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Good morning, everybody. The Committee Meets this morning to review the reduction in cost of living adjustments, the colas, for working age military retirees that was enacted as part of the bipartisan budget act of 2013. We welcome today the acting deputy secretary of defense, ms. Christine fox, and vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral sandy winnefeld. And i will introduce the second panel of outside witnesses after we hear from secretary fox and admiral winnefeld. The bipartisan ...

Host fine, thank you to go ahead. Caller i was calling with reference to the situation in ferguson, missouri. I heard people calling and criticizing al sharpton and Jesse Jackson for showing up. But the parents of Michael Brown requested that they come to ferguson. And i think the fact the requested should suffice in a. The other comment i have is that i think its a big deal or good idea that the attorney general chose to visit ferguson because these have been longstanding issues in ferguson, it...

Doing business with unwanted goods from europe and america. They have been talking in brussels. The european ministers about ways to stop the people smugglers, those who have been sending thousands of migrants across the mediterranean, and in many cases to their deaths. There is a statement now by the e. U. Foreign affairs minister, and we will listen in to what she has to say. The commission site, the agenda on migration was adopted as you know, last week, presented it, commission was sharing w...

Meanwhile just days after the District Attorney called this incident a tragedy but not a crime, the Justice Department is about to release a new report about a Deadly Police shooting in philadelphia. This hour Justice Department officials are preparing to release their findings on deadly force used by Philadelphia Police officers. Nbc 10s jesse gary live for us outside the u. S. Attorneys office in center city. Jesse, youve seen the report what can you tell us. Reporter while the report is still...

Is the need not only to keep our promises to the retired community, should be considered, invulnerable in my view, but also everyones commitment to people in active service that they have the best training, best equipment, that the families have the best opportunities while they serve. And thats one of the fundamental tensions were trying to deal with. Is that accurate, admiral . Yes, sir, it is. I would add if i could, the only real interest that i have in deliberately doing this is silly to ma...

Personnel costs and under your leadership between now have a commission established that i think could come up with recommendations that would take into consideration the views of the military and civilian leadership in the pentagon and hopefully we can are arrived at consensus. Our next panel of Witnesses Today will be very adamant in understandably so about their concern about the affect of this action taken by the Budget Committee on the morale and readiness and the ability of us to keep our ...

Budget deliberations, looking at the balance between the active and reserve component. I would guess there would be a difference in proportionality, but i dont want to get into details about how one would come down opposed to the other. The other thing you mentioned was contractors. We share your belief. We have got to make sure that we have our contractors. We have a fight on our hands just getting their salaries. We thought maybe they should be paid more than the Vice President , but everyone ...

Safekeeping Center Benefit district that represents thirty blocks. And then it could be sent off to environmental review. Now it could very well call for improvements i have a plan you cant discuss improving anything and the wasteland that is there currently will remain. So i view this as apple important step and well get behind it do you want to comment on that. Yeah. You, you know, the city took on union square years ago and had a desi competition. Ive been in the city 24 years and the safekee...

Husbands and wives and parents, when you take a look at San Francisco in the total context, i know of no place in this country that is this forward thinking, its a liberal city that understand in order to have the money to do great things for citizens, it has to have a robust business climate. I cant think of a better place to be, it almost makes me teary eyed what we can do with this country if we had the same spirit as San Francisco does. With that, i would like to say, last but not least, you...

More jermaine to Building Department review and if the Building Department is satisfied with the revisions and discrepancy of the location of the skylight and the roof plan and floor plan. I think that would be relevant to the location of the para pit. It would be in a different location if it wasnt matched up and lined up with the stairs. I think in terms of the things that were shown on floorplans and not on site plans. The work there is okay, but the quality of the plans are para pet. The con...