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Thank you very much. We have a special program for you today. And first i want to introduce claire sassen. The executive director. She wanted to say a word about the partnership on this. And well get into the statements. Thank you. Can you hear me . I will only take a minute of your time. We are delighted to be able to work with the cia to bring you this we think exciting briefing this morning. Also want to thank kevin and the National Press club for hosting us this morning. For those of you who...

Id like to ask everybody to come back in and take your seats. Okay. Well, weve had two excellent key note briefs this morning. Both our speakers spoke to the comp reense haddive review. The u. S. Navy issued the comprehensive review of the recent incidents at sea that occurred within the last year. Almost all obviously forward in the western pacific. One cruiser that grounded and another involved in the collision with a chinese ship and two destroyers that collided with large merchant ships that...

Id like to ask everybody to come back in and take your seats. Okay. Well, weve had two excellent key note briefs this morning. Both our speakers spoke to the comp reense haddive review. The u. S. Navy issued the comprehensive review of the recent incidents at sea that occurred within the last year. Almost all obviously forward in the western pacific. One cruiser that grounded and another involved in the collision with a chinese ship and two destroyers that collided with large merchant ships that...

He had to reach across the aisle. Q and a, sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Coming up next, a forum on Global Security and a recently completed naval review of the seventh fleet collisions at sea that took place last year. The vice chief of Naval Operations also speaks at this u. S. Naval institute forum. I would like to ask everybody to come back in and take your seats. Okay. Weve had two excellent keynote briefs this morning. Both our speakers spoke to the comprehensive review. The u. S....

Engagements are and what the price being paid for those engagements really is. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, i call this joint hearing of the readiness and cpower and Projection Forces subcommittees of the House Arms Services committee to order. First, i would like to honor the 17 sailors who were lost in the uss fitzgerald sailors douglas, noe hernandez, and dakota rigsby, Carlos Victor subayung and the two uss john mccain sailors, kevin bushel, dustin doyen, timothy drake, charles finl...

D where more than a dozen shipyards really shut her down and leaves us with an industrial basis has for less capacity now. So we need to protect that with everything we can. I think both of you know this but when we stood up at shipyard for mobile, we had the entity under my direction that had to create the workforce for the shipyard in mobile. And we had the lux youre riff time, a whole lot of time, and we had a recession where we had a lot of people lay off. We have exactly the opposite situat...

Talks about strategy and readiness and live coverage on cspan2. Ensure the freedom for freedom for all nations. The challenges facing the 21st century neighbor have never been greater and is a formidable press are there are those who would argue the greatest challenge or nations navy has come from our own congress over the decade of continuing resolutions and physical restraints of budget has had a cumulative effect of degrading the capacity a space ability of the u. S. Navy. In light of these i...

Good afternoon. I call this joint hearing of the readiness and subcommittees of the House Armed Services together. I would like to honor the 17 sailors lossed in the uss fitzgerald. And also the ten uss john s. Mccain sailors. Each one of them is so special to every person here. Over the course of the past six months, our subcommittees have met with Navy Leadership to understand the causeative factos that have resulted in the death of 17 sailors. Our men remain confident that our navy remains th...

Ladies and gentlemen and distinguished geverts, thank you for joining me this morning for operations. Aval the navy maintains that its presence of 100 ships were deployed around the globe reassure our allies and ensure the freedom for all nations. Never been greater. Argueare those who would that the greatest challenge to our nations navy has come from our own congress. Over a decade of continuing ,esolutions and constraints capacity capabilities and u. S. Navy. F the the discussions today could...

With that in mind, starting on my immediate right. Senator Joseph R Biden junior of delaware. [applause] please, we save time for the candidates to speak. Former Arizona Governor bruce babbitt. [applause] jesse jackson. [applause] Massachusetts Governor michael dukakis. [cheers] junior of albert gore tennessee. [cheers] misery covers been richard gephardt. And illinois senator paul simon. ] may have remind the audience these men are restricted to a minute and a half of time and if you apply the ...