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June 21, 2024
Were talking about real revenue revenue. We have a controversial story on cnbc. Com today. The headline reads is the 401 k experiment a failure . First we didnt know it was an experiment but we will get to that a little bit later. The writer of that piece on cnbc. Com says that the facts add up to an f for 401 k retirement plans. Weve heard from many of you on twitter as you respond to that article, but the author kelly holland, will be with us to back up that story and well be talking about it ...
June 21, 2024
Cricket world cup semifinals in sydney. Hello. Relatives of victims from the Germanwings Flight which crashed in the french alps are themselves now traveling to reach the site of the accident. And as they make their way there, reports have been emerging that the black box audio recordings from flight 9525 point to one pilot being locked out of the cockpit before the plane came down. Sources close to the investigation are quoted as saying the cockpit door was heard to be opened and closed followe...
June 21, 2024
Its not done yet. We had to go through sector by sector case by case convince each other our standards are good as yours. But we are making progress. Our Technical Team is doing even between the different else i hope we can receive Company Announced some result there later this fall. Commissioner malmstrom, thank you so much. You addressed a very broad range of issues with good humor, great comments. And have a feeling we will be seeing quite a bit of you in washington, and i think i think ambas...
June 21, 2024
Into harms way without necessary readiness. Im having a very difficult time in light of the six months that weve been at war in iraq and syria against isis and in light of the president s authorization for the yoous of military force or aumf that is now before congress for this krgsz. Im having a very hard time understanding what the strategy is. And i want to make sure that, as my colleagues have said, that we fund our military well beyond the budget caps in the sequester levels. I agree with t...
June 21, 2024
And that also and this is very important and this gets back to the earlier discussion of sequester if its in the base budget, it is the base upon which we build our future budgets, and we need stability. We need a horizon so that we know what our budget is going to be not only this year but in years to come. Otherwise, we cant spend it efficiently, and we cant spend it strategically. We need that kind of horizon and sequester is what robs us of that, and thats why its bad in a manage yearal sens...
June 21, 2024
Deeper impact because you have to get the money where you have to get it. You cant shed it quickliness. You cant shed excess infrastructure quickly enough. You cant terminate contracts because of the penalties involved. Even if youre taking more than you should out of readiness. I think readiness suffers more than you think. Thank you. Mr. Secretary, i share in the terms of my colleagues and the other o if i believes in the detriments of sequestration. But im also skbresed in efficient ways. Spe...
June 21, 2024
Military level over there and things at the political level, both of which are change inging. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. And general dempsey, i join my colleagues in sending warm wishes your way and thank you you for your more years of serving o our great nation. Mr. Mccord, i would like to chat about the budget thats upcoming. The House Budget Committee chairman proposed boosting the Defense Budget with an increase of allocation. Is an oko dollar just as useful as a base budg...
June 21, 2024
Yeah. Absolutely. Its far from it. And we all collectively laid out some details to support that. Do you see any way to defeat isil in syria without a substantial arab army involved . I dont know how you get there. I mean obviously, if we deployed tens of thousands of troops ourselves we could defeat isis in syria. I dont think anybody here would recommend such an event. I think the people who have vested interest there should be involved and i think they would get involved. I mean, you know tha...
June 21, 2024
Effective in our goals. I also have concerns about the current effectiveness of intergovernmental cooperation to undermine the flow of money to terrorists. I look forward to hearing from the witnesses on these issues. Continuing the Task Force Effort to Counter Terrorist financing. Thank you, and i yield back. Chair recognizes the Ranking Member of the full committee, ms. Waters, for one minute. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I applaud the bipartisan efforts surrounding this task force and b...
June 21, 2024
Forces there for the nearterm at least. But that when we rely on this, as we have since the end of the cold war, we end up with free rider problems and friends and allies that did not do not fully ante up to what they committed to. I have been arguing for a peace through strength approach, particularly the restoration on the Global Response force capability. We deal with nationstates and transnational actors. Im talking about the former not the latter. This idea of deterrence, deterrence being d...