About the appropriations, and democrats been saying and over again it doesnt have any of their players and then come to block them until they get some kind of negotiation. Why not take him up on that offer and what is the downside of talking with the white house and the democrats on the bill . Just my perspective, as you see the numbers i recited moving through the Appropriations Committee with the Ranking Member and other members, we debated a lot in our markups that are fully flushed a summary difficult issues, and i think we stayed within a budget. We stayed with the numbers we all agreed on and so i think we can have a discussion the lets have it on the floor of the United States senate. I think its a place the best place to have it. One of those budget areas where we did not gain bipartisan support as we moved that subcommittee through the process, but it was not because there was not great work going on between myself and my Ranking Member on that subcommittee. So when you sugges
Dallas had beaten the San Francisco 49ers to play in the super bowl the city was celebrating detroits suffered a concussion jebus sitting in a dark room in the hospital and looked at me and said where am i . I said you were in the hospital and had a concussion. Did i win the game . Did i play today . What does that mean . Were going to the super bowl into a tent. Five minutes later he lifted me and said where am i . Why am i here . Did we win the game . I almost thought he was joking. This went on 10 minutes later finally i wrote down and up piece of paper and it terrified me and it was a crisis of conscience because if my work with athletes was to enhance their lives then how was a constant how could i enable the players to do an activity that with the touche dementia lead to dementia . Dementia. So, we issued a white paper and not much changed. We did it again in 2005 at the institute and then we have robert and kevin and a whole series that have been with me on this from the start.
Women in combat, but its also their changing roles in war and the ever present danger of Sexual Assault and harassment and the stress on daily lives, families and relationships, when they come back home. But the overall take away from the book is much greater than that. I was wondering what you hope to address through telling these three stories of these three women . You know, i think what i was hoping to address and what i wound up addressing might be two Different Things. At the outset, really, outset, really, i think what i was hoping to address was may be, there was this Huge Division in our society and i just saw two authors walkin who have written books who are both veterans and novelists and their books are really amazing and i hope you have a chance to check them out. I think they are speaking later this afternoon. At 330. I think i was hoping to address a really big question between civilians and military mindsets. I put myself in the camp that ignorant group of people with c
Im daniel runde. We are talking about the nonmilitary components of the us strategy in afghanistan. I think the first thing you have to say is i certainly welcome, i think many people welcome the fact that the president has come forward with a new strategy four afghanistan without timelines and with a commitment to a great cause. I think that there are there is a moral component to this as well. There is a lot of progress. I think that does not get a lot of coverage on this. And so for us to risk letting all of dad go with the price way too high. We have been working on this for a long time. I have been working with ambassador wayne and the Senior Advisor here. We have done a lot of things with the ambassador. We have got a very good panel to cover the issues today but i think the other point i want to make is, you cant solve the challenges of afghanistan without diplomacy and without development. And we certainly welcome the fact that there is a security it requires a security compone
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