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The presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or change their vote . On in vote, the yeas are 62, it is nays are perform and the nays are 38. The motion is not agreed to. The clerk will report. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senate is not in a quorum call. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 151 s. 1...

I would like to thank the attorney for his and his offices work as well as a dedicated terry from the Department Civil Rights Division and extend my thanks to the solicitor for being aa partner in this matter. We have a strong working relationship and look forward to continued collaboration at the parallel state and federal prosecutions worked their way through the respective court systems. Thank you for your attention. [inaudible question] yet to be determined. Both cases will proceed through t...

Astounding number, there are over 200,000 isis tweets per day. How can we possibly get a handle over this . The chatter is so high and the volume is so loud that its difficult to get a handle. This isnt terror as usual. This is terror gone viral. I come mebd the fbi, Homeland Security and state and locals for their disrupting of these many plots. But as we saw in chattanooga, we cannot stop all of them. In this age of peer to peer terrorism, authorities are searching for suspects who use secure ...

Contingency over seas in the near future . You would have to do one of two things. You would either have to grow the force. We believe that the force is 186,000 marines. And elsewhere, we could take services that are deployed in the far east and okonawa. We did that in the combat in iraq. And its only through the past few years we have been able to reestablish our presence in the pacific. We have some options. The other option is we go all in. We activate our reserves and we go and do what needs...

Whether we would based on a standard allow women to serve in infantry artillery tanks light armory reconnaissance, we formed a task force of volunteers. And we put them together as a unit. They trained up and went to 29 palms and the Warfare Center and did a series of tests. And the tests are complete and it will provide information to inform about whether or not he will request the waiver. And i have not seen all the data. I have seen some of it. And when we first sent volunteer female marines ...

Strong partnership between labor and management that has driven performance significantly where they are producing the work they are doing on our submarine attack fleet on schedule, under budget. A takeaway from the hearing some of the best practices being put in place that we need a better mechanism to share those among the shipyards to ensure that we can learn from each other to make sure that that Strong Partnership is there for excellent performance between labor and management and i know th...

Shipbuilding plan. Are you concerned with that and what more do we need to do, what can congress do to help you overcome that ship shortfall . Senator this is an area where navy and marine corps have been discussing and again have realized together although the requirement, the military requirement is 38, the current fiscal environment is going to drive us to 34. I appreciate the assistance of congress to getting us to 34 to address those that gap between the requirement and what we can resource...

To 346 ships. And our Combatant Commanders say they require 450 ships. With continual high operational tempo, we will continue the downward spiral of military capacity and readiness until congress acts. I look forward to discussing many of these today. First, each forward class Aircraft Carrier has experienced more than 2 billion in cost growth. This Program Continues to be plagued by Technology Immaturity and a lack of reliability test data for critical systems. This is unacceptable. I repeat. ...

Traditional and in some ways Old Fashioned area of technology, yet one of very rapid and ongoing innovation. Very central to the performance of our military forces as well. And were going to talk about software and the ways in which systems, electronic systems, countermeasure systems that have heavy electronics and i. T. Component have to be thought about today, have to be improved. All of this relates clearly to some big themes in defense, budgeting, Defense Strategy, to what extent is Technolo...