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What a speaker ought to be able to accomplish. Not to say that whatever the speaker accomplishes or has accomplished during his term is a oneman show. It most certainly is not and in this room today are people who shared with me the agonies of trying to figure out what on earth can we do in this situation and one of them is david bern. One of them is tom foley and one of them is dan rostenkowski. The speakership under rayburn was something that i guess entered my consciousness as the model of ho...

How the russians may have helped him more than we think. He will talk about the latest in the ukraine, coming up. Unveils its first verbal software thatng is not google. To smart watches, and one fitness band. They also showed off the Samsung Galaxy s5. A look at what the new phone actually does. Sam got his hands on one. Take a look. This is the new Samsung Galaxy s5. I want to show you five things that are new. The phone was announced today. For starters, it is a larger display. This is 5. 1 i...

I have not seen one of those yet, so i cannot give you a solid answer based on any criteria or facts. Why do you represent support representative thornberry as your successor . Did i write that one . [laughter] that is an easy question. Thornberry and i came on with the Armed Services committee at the same time. I was elected in 1992, but i did not get onto the covidien my first term. We came onto the committee at the same time, we sat next to each other for many years now. Ive had the opportuni...

It makes this discussion go way overboard when you put down this country. There are plenty of things wrong with the country, but there is outweighed by what is right with the country including our boys going over there and fighting for those people because those people want what we have. They will always want that. Whether they were put down by a tribe over there or not, that is where they are at. [applause] mr. To sousa, your balanced and broad Historical Perspective shows how important immigra...

I have watched leadership struggle this year was trying to get something done. It is just very difficult. I dont really know the answer to that. One way would be to fix campaignfinance reform again, but because of what is happening i mean, i was being a little facetious when i said it, but really, the only bill that passed last year was the National Defense authorization act. Early this year, we did get get well, did we got the budget passed last year at the end of the year. That was big. At the...

Needed to fully implement the 2012 event strategy and maintain a relevant modern force. Two months ago, rather than fully repealing sequestration, Congress Passed a bipartisan budget act that provided relief in the fiscal year. The 500s and thats the bipartisan budget act health in the next fiscal year. But, that spending remains significantly below what the request is for the fiveyear budget plan. Under the spending plan, dod has 490 billion for this fiscal year. That is 31 billion below what i...

Senator, first off the air force understads the immediacy of necessity of Close Air Support. I believe the systems they have in place will provide us that immediacy. Again, as we use different platforms, we will have to work we will work through with the air force how we use those and how theyre best effective in supporting our Ground Forces as we move forward. Find it curious that you come over here with all the necessity for cost savings and the a10 costs for flying air is 17,000 for flying ho...

Site. And will there be some way, that, as we transition a household, or our individual firms from the Supportive Housing to the Public Housing, is or will there be the appropriate level of service for that individual or family, for them to be successful . And how do we pay for the transition . Someone living in Supportive Housing has probably no furniture right . And moving into the Public Housing it is not furnished and how do we deal with that to make that happen . I think that the last quest...

Good morning everybody. The Committee Meets this morning to review department of defense proposals relative to the growth of personnel costs. We welcome the joint chiefs of staff to testify on these proposals to explain why they support them, what their impact is on the force and their impact on other areas of the Defense Budget. Our witnesses on the first panel are general martin dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general ray chiefs of st...

State revenues come in stronger than expected we get the set side in the budget that represents a quarter of the operating budget so as the economy grows we continue to benefit. On the expense side the 3 things driving the first is the Service Increases with your support friday morning and the adaptation of the transit effectiveness an increase up to 12 percent in muni service on the street. Were going to try to include as much of that in the budget currently 3 percent in the first year and 7 pe...