354, h. R. 6395, a bill to authorize appropriations for 2021 for military activities of the department of military d for construction to prescribe military personnel strength for for other year and purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to House Resolution 053, in lieu of the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the committee on the services printed in bill, an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of rules committee is adopted and the bill, as amended, is considered as read. Debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and the ng minority member of committee on Armed Services. The gentleman from washington, smith, and the gentleman from texas, mr. Thornberry, each minutes. Rol 30 the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington. Mr. Smith mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and and to heir remarks include extraneous material on h. R. 6395. The speaker pro tempore witho
I want to invite you to give a listen to our ken and podcasts and art art news podcast, the russian file. Let me just remind everybody that throughout the conversation and we forgot quite a few of them, you can submit questions by email, via twitter and facebook pages and please do include your name and affiliation just as if youre attending a live event of the Wilson Center which hope we can do against it. Id be more likely to call on you for not an anonymous blurt out. Im join today i dr. Fiona hill was a senior fellow and center for the next its a joke in the Foreign Policy program of the Brookings Institution and, of course, is that one will knows served as Deputy Assistant to the president and senior director for european and Russian Affairs on National Security council. That was 201719. From 2006nine she also served as National Intelligence officer for russia and eurasia at the National Intelligence council and is coauthor of of the very well received and widely read book mr. Put
Our oversight over the and our t of Defense National Security Budget and priorities, and this bill reflects that. Start by thanking a lot of people who have done an enormous amount of work to make this possible. Started in committee a couple of weeks ago. E had over 650 amendments submitted to the original mark of the chairman and the subcommittee marks. Processed those amendments and actually adopted 475 committee. In i want to thank our staff more than i possibly can for the amount of work they did to go through all of those amendments, to work with various to work with interested parties to get us to that product. I am very pleased we were able that done and pass the bill out of the Armed Services unanimously. 560. With broad support. I want at this point thank the Ranking Member of the committee, mr. Thornberry, for his incredible leadership during this process. Hes been a terrific partner, when he was chairman of the committee and now that hes the Ranking Member of the committee.
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Years, including as commander of the field army. General lamb is a renowned on crisisleadership, planning, and counterinsurgency. He served in Senior Leadership roles in iraq and afghanistan alongside the u. S. Generals betray trays, crystal, eus, crystal, petr and mattis, further cementing that special bond that connects the United States and united kingdom. Graham is a dear friend and i am grateful he has taken the time, along with your friends over your right shoulder, in the cool helmet, to join us. We are delighted today to be general jim mattis, United Statesthe secretary of defense following a storied career in the United States marine corps. Theral mattis rose over course of four decades, was commander of u. S. Central command, and while all of that is probably well known, what might not be well known is that gwen graham was teaching at when graham was teaching at yale, he ask our students to lay out their strategy for afghanistan, and as a prize, he told the students he would