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annelise will talk about ronald reagans approach to the cold war and foreign policy in their book. "washington journal" is up next. ♪ host: welcome, on this sunday, august 16, 2009. today, the president and his family will tour the national park at the grand canyon. our guest is martin crutsinger. several events have happened to suggest that we might be in a turnaround mode. what are the indicators? guest: the gdp for the second quarter was down, but not as much. it was a big change ...

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the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 245, the nays are 181. the previous question is ordered. the question is on adoption of house resolution 572. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: on that i ask for the yeas and nays, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen,...

mature missile defense board in place. this process yielded a balance to missile defense. h.r. 2647 includes $1 billion to further develop the ground-based system to defend against long threats and prepare sustainment in modernization programs for the ground-based system. h.r. 2647 also substantially increases the deployment of proven defense capabilities and the terminal high altitude defense, which are designed to counter as a missile defense that our troops are likely to face. over ...

im particularly pleased we changed the matching fund requirement to 75-25 ratio between the department of defense and the states for the national guard youth challenge program. the bill protects child custody arrangements for deployed parents championed by mike turner of ohio. with all these good things in the bill, i must raise my disappointment that we were unable to debate my amendment dealing with concurrent receipt, the elimination of the survivor dependent plan, most sadly known ...

investment and use of geothermal energy. we also made some commonsense decisions regarding our fighter aircraft fleet. as a committee, working in a bipartisan manner, we setaside the rhetoric and took into account current and future threats to balance the force. we sustained the current operational fleet, we supported additional f-22s requested by our combatant commanders, we maintained robust f-35 funding, and provided additional flexibility for the air force to fill the impending fig...

health risk. the u.s. military has been disposing of hundreds of tons of war zone waste through burn pits. all who live and work on these bases routinely exposed to the smoke from these pits which would include waste for medical facilities, dining facilities, and maintenance facilities as well as trash. to imagine the scale of these burn pits, the air base in iraq has increase in two tons per day. we simply must protect our troops who have had repeated exposure to this. we do not wish ...

To special lopez and what we know about his background, that he did serve in a combat role in iraq, he was a truck driver at the tilme. what else have we learned, mik, in those last four months? >> reporter: the last four months of the war, actually. he was one of the truck drivers who drove the last of the u.s. military forces and equipment out of iraq, during the withdraw. according to army secretary john mchugh, theres no indication he served in any combat operation, combat role, no injuries....

February, getting treatment for depression and anxiety. he claimed a traumatic brain injury, but army says he was not wounded in action, and he was being tested for ptsd but had not been diagnosed with the disorder. secretary of the army john mchugh says the military has been focusing on offering more attention to mental health issues. >> if we failed in some way against our current policies, we need to be honest with ourselves, and with you and hold ourselves accountable. >> lopez used a .45 ca...