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Pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, you are compassionate and merciful. We give you thanks for giving us another day. This morning the house welcomes the Prime Minister of israel. May he find a welcome here and may the partnership of our two countries continue into a future of Mutual Respect and security among the commun...

Actually come to the course. So thats a key part of that piece, and then when it comes to the communications, clearly a communications is a big part of our trust. We need to explain why the gender neutral standards, how were going to ensure that everybody meets those standards, both men and women, why theyre necessary for the occupation in the first place because theres some question as to is it really the right task that should be done in these standards, in these different moss, and then that ...

Try to keep any kind of evaluation out of this. So the marine corps has done a bunch of different studies and research. They began with a actually, they began with the infantry officer course which they opened to women in 2012 and asked for volunteers. Women, if you want to come to try out the infantry officer course, youre invited to attend. At the same time that they were doing that, they also began developing a set of combat proxy tests. The combat proxy test, they were six largely upper body...

We will be able to accommodate fully loaded ships that are currently arriving here. Our future channel depth will be 50 feet. Our current channel depth is 42 feet. We have ships arriving from europe today that could use that 50 feet of water today, but because we do not have it, they arrive lightly loaded, which is a less efficient way of moving goods across the oceans. The commodities that pass through Port Everglades are move throughout the United States. We have on the port a real facility, a...

In the future, whats predicted there. So these are great Information Sources for our Service Members to be able to use. Its also a great resource for Human Resources officials, the ones i was talking about earlier. They can go look through where they can say ok, i run an engineering firm, what military occupational areas are related to what we do . Well, they can search, put in their industry and see what military occupation codes are available and have some linkages there. So its a great source...

Cdc that will go within hours to any hospital that has an ebola case to help them provide effective care safely. Theres a lot of understandable concern about the cases in dallas. I have one slide, if we can show it, of the contacttracing activities there, and i think we have provided copies for the members. The two core activities in dallas are to ensure that there is effective Infection Control and to trace contacts. Here you see a time line in exactly what has happened in the indication of con...

Training and readiness. Lets take an air base. At an airbase, the air bases are open. They have guards at the gate. They have people in the tower. They have people in the fire truck. The lights are on. Were spending the money for all that. Where can you stop spending money quickly . Painting the buildings. Mow the lawn less often. That kind of thing. Importantly, you stop training. When you stop training, you have stopped readiness. We are protecting those in as we know are going to afghanistan ...

Should be derived strategically. We tend to look at strategy as linking and balancing, hence ways and means. Then we look at the results and risk. We believe that, at the end of the day, our strategy is reflected in the qdr. It is fundamentally about protecting our National Security interests. If we understand what those are and that some are more important than others, not only does this enable us to offer advice on when and how to use force, it means we can link those interests on how to alloc...

For the discussion. Everyone was positive in general about the progress made at nato. And some of the challenges we face externally. But, of course, some of the challenges internal to the alliance were not discussed as much. And i thought, perhaps, bob can put you on the spot a bit and talk about one of those which is in turkey, was a surprise that the turkish government decided to open negotiations with a chinese firm to provide missile capabilities. Could you comment on where you see that goin...

It is obviously a prime target. But we have to wait until perhaps the day light hours to get a claim from any terror group and to have a clearer idea on the final death toll. That does it for my coverage this hour. Hardball starts right now. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in new york with an update on todays terrorist attack in turkey. At least 28 people were killed and another 60 injured when at least three terrorists blew themselves up at the istanbul airport. Witnesses say they first opened ...