The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , december 18, 2012. I hereby appoint the honorable nan s. Hayworth to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the house will receive a message. The messenger madam speaker, a message from the senate. The secretary madam speaker. I have been directed by the house sflat that the house that the senate has passed a bill in which the concurrence of the house is requested. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 17, 2012, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whi
I want to thank you for your unbelievable strength and courage and leading that conversation. Thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] out hearing of the subcommittee will resume. Thank you, e. G. , for your service, for dedications, for your sacrifices youve made for country. Im so grateful you are here today with this important hearing. Am also incredibly grateful that many of you came this morning and participated and listened to the first two panels. That means a great deal, not just to our witnesses but also to their families and all of our military families. We appreciate it very, very much. I know that this is becoming very debated issue, both within the military and in everyday conversation. I also know that many of you have seen the film the invisible war, so the jumping off point on how important this issue is for our military and their families. Im very, very eager to hear your testimony, and
Intention of fulfilling. The president scheduled to do his budget the week of april 8. The senate going to meet with House Republicans today. Give us the nature of these meetings and what will happen. Today is the second of four trips up to capitol hill for president obama. Its part of this consensus where hes trying to win over congressional support for a grand budget bargain. This has been an effort that was kind of served by failing to avert the squeft a couple of weeks ago. Hes got almost the opposite challenge of what he did yesterday when he met with Senate Democrats, when he was meeting with Senate Democrats yesterday they were pressing him on his kind of willingness to accept Social Security cuts and changes to medicare, entitlement programs. Democrats are very much in opposition to that. Today hes going to go face House Republicans who as we know are very much in opposition to any increase in tax revenue. And so while yesterday he was kind of trying to win over democrats for a
Steps on the issue was part of last Years National Defense Authorization bill that president obama signed. While obviously her work is not done, i am hopeful we can build up some of these initial changes which included one ensuring that all convicted offenders in the military are processed for discharge or dismissal from the armed forces regardless of what they serve in an second remove cases dismissed from the immediate Commanding Officer in Sexual Assault cases which is one of the issues we will look at today as to whether we need to remove such authority entirely from the chain of command and place them in a process. We live to the combat ban that prevents women from serving in many combat positions that can lead to significant promotion opportunities that open door for more qualified women to excel in our military. We have increased diversity and top leadership positions improving response from leadership when it comes to responding to Sexual Assault. We passed an amendment introdu
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — The Montgomery County Department of Police (MCDP) announced Wednesday that it has officially begun the Drone as First Responder Program. The program introduces an unmanned aircraft – which the department says is called Raven – to provide critical support to the department and residents of Montgomery County. The […]