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Near record levels, ship costs are soaring and budget cuts are coming. Admiral greenert, its an honor to have you on the program. Thank you for having me. What sequestration planning are you doing . I know youve been thinking about it for a long time and where are you going to cut if you have to come up with more money as almost everybody expects as part of a budget deal . Well, we still remain in a, if you will, a thinking phase. We will be given guidance on precisely where to take the reductio...

Your questions. Thank you, general. Admiral, as you noted in your written testimony, chinas declaration in november of a defense declaration zone in the East China Sea encompassing the particular area immediately raise tensions. While the declaration of that zone has not affected u. S. Military operations in the area, there is a concern that china is attempting to change the status quo in the east china and south these kindsy taking of incremental steps to assert territorial claims. You thisart ...

Particularly over the last six monthsish, a creation of an arms control committee, as well as with the hlg. The beginning of, okay, what do we need to do to look at confidencebuilding measures, transparency measures in a way that will inspire some reciprocal actions on the part of russia as far as the foundation for reduction. So thats out there. But the commitment on the part of the allies, which i think is part of this, it has its really been very strong, and its a commitment that is really re...

Your thoughts on not only what could happen if the government shuts down but your thoughts on if it should or not reviewed here is how you can reach out to us or not. Here is how you can reach out to us. cspanwj on twitter. Facebook. Com cspan. And you can send us email, journal cspan. Org. Newspapers highlight will happen over the next couple of days. From the front page of the post joining us to give us a sense of what could happen, the leadership editor of roll call. Thank you for joining us ...

The cube to be new government will work out on the issue. Increasingly on the strategic and political side. Within europe and indeed, within nato. I think that the United States needs that strong leadership from germany a willingness to stand up and be part of not only a collective but indeed a leader of that collective. Within nato and within the European Union and broadly. Speaking in order to ensure that the United States will have this partner. Not only in we are lib berlin but indeed europe...

The headline afghan voters head to polls amid fear of violence after attacks by militants over the past several months leading up to the vote. First transfer of president ial power in afghanistan since the end of the telegrams rule in 2001. Karzai has led the country for more than 12 years. There are about 6500 polling stations across else can stand across afghanistan. The Associated Press reports the polls are most but we could have partial reports as early as tomorrow. We will bring you update...

After six months in command, im confident that the combined and joint forces of the United States and republic of korea are capable and ready to deter and if necessary respond to north korean threats and actions. We know how real the north korean threat is, as four years ago tomorrow north korea fired a torpedo sinking a south korean ship, killing 46 sailors. That terrible day is a constant reminder that standing in freedoms frontier with our korean ally, we cant allow ourselves to become compla...

Carly, heide, and monica. This bill is supported by phrma, the generic pharmaceutical association, the National Community pharmacist association, the Health Care Supply chain association, and the pharmaceutical distribution security alliance, among others. And i would urge all of my colleagues to support this commonsense, Bipartisan Legislation and i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentleman from california is reco...

Rebalance and part of that discussion was about amphibious shipping. I think you probably have some people on this committee and in the congress who would ike to help you on this. Hy do you need more amphibious capability, and would you elaborate on the role of our marines, the expeditionary marines and your air responsibility tissue area of responsibility, the effect would the effectiveness of the marines be diminished if there were insufficient amphibious ships or if we dont correct the ensuff...

Those countries underably are not keen on being liberated after six months of heavy fighted. They are interested in the attack not happening or at least being stopped. I think one of the issues that the alliance has to face, one that we face in connection with korea, that theres sort of two models of how you address an invasion. One is the kind of at some point you will decide that war is inevitable and mobilize and start flowing stuff and everything goes at once. And you talk about we used to f...