Meeting will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform and yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military. And im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the budget control act plus a series of continued resolutions have damaged the u. S. Military. I believe that damage has gone far deeper than most of us realize requiring more time and more money to repair than is generally expected. Theres plenty responsibility to go around for the current state of affairs with both congress and the obama administration, republicans and democrats, military and civilian relationships. Defense funding has got caught up in partisan back and forth on other issues and been held hostage to other priorities. We need get back to evaluating defense needs on their own without regard to any agreement or disagreement we may have on other issues. The men and w
Meeting will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform and yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military. And im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the budget control act plus a series of continued resolutions have damaged the u. S. Military. I believe that damage has gone far deeper than most of us realize requiring more time and more money to repair than is generally expected. Theres plenty responsibility to go around for the current state of affairs with both congress and the obama administration, republicans and democrats, military and civilian relationships. Defense funding has got caught up in partisan back and forth on other issues and been held hostage to other priorities. We need get back to evaluating defense needs on their own without regard to any agreement or disagreement we may have on other issues. The men and w
Eastern on cspan2s book tv. Next, the army, navy, air force, and marine corps chiefs testify before the House Armed Services committee about their budgets. They also discuss the impact of repeated continuing resolutions instead of longterm appropriations for the military branches. Committee will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform in yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military, and im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the budget control act, plus a series of continuing resolutions, coupled with a pace of required deployment have damaged the u. S. Military. I believe that damage has gone far deeper than most of us realize, requiring more time and more money to repair than is generally expected. Theres plenty of responsibility to go around for the current state of affairs, with both congress and the obama administration
Up next, the chiefs of the army, air force, navy and marine corps testify on their budgets and the impact of repeated continuing resolutions in place of more longterm appropriations for the military branches. Held by the House Armed Services committee, this is about two hours, forty five minutes. [ banging gavel ] the committee will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform in yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military, and im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the budget control act, plus a series of continuing resolutions, coupled with a pace of required deployment have damaged the u. S. Military. I believe that damage has gone far deeper than most of us realize, requiring more time and more money to repair than is generally expected. Theres plenty of responsibility to go around for the current state of affairs, with both
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