Thanking them for their service to our country. Both have served our country in various capacities for a long time. Not an easy thing to do. I respect and appreciate that work. I look forward to continuing to work with you. The good news i want to start with is unlike last year we have a budget agreement. And last year we spent a lot of time talking about how difficult it is to run anything in the government but certainly the department of defense without Appropriations Bills in a timely manner. Now, last year we were off by i dont know 3. 5 months, Something Like that, but thats better than drifting into the next year. We did get Appropriations Bills and an authorizing bill done by december of last year which gives some predictability to the department. I think thats important. This year we hope to come a little bit closer to october 1st. Certainly on the authorizing bill, but also in the appropriations bill. Most importantly, we have a budget number. And hopefully we can get that pre
First of all, is a private organization, what do you do . We are the federal work, though low rank of the military all the way up to the height thw policy covers the topic is payth but what is the discussion when it comes to military pay . Stanek theres a little bit of a difference between what is going on. He a 2. 4 increase the president wants a 2. 1. It seems that nickels and dimes but it does add up a lot when it comes to people that have jobs in the military. This. 3 to translate to officers about 250 a year for enlisted soldiers between 85 and 140 a year. That is an index every year you go up by this much but the white house gets a say. That could save 200. Its only about a 1 increase in 3. 9 increase. We are asked to present. Why are we seeing that as opposed to the earlier yearsth when they saw the larger increases . The climate at this point isu a sequestration into the Defense Budget has been in dire straits so they have to hedge their bets to the cost index. Last year presid
Why Police Believe a man shot his wife and son. Good morning, thanks so much for joining us on this sunday morning, im annie yu. Im tom fitzgerald. It is sundays, january 29th, 2017. How did january go like that . You know who is here mike Thomas Little bit of changes and snow in the forecast. Believe it or not and i honestly havent had to say that much this winter at all. We got less than half inch of snow so far this entire winter in washington, dc. Maybe we double that as we head into the overnight hours tonight. If were lucky. If can we try the fox news thing . I thought the same thing. If youre watching. Anybody . Anybody . There it goes. All right. Take a look at temperatures across the region this morning, 37 your current washington, gaithersburg 34, to 27 at baltimore, 36 stevensville, annapolis at 36. Another chilly start to the day temperatures here in dc have not yet reached the freezing mark, do keep that in mind, that will play a role on later tonight. Storm tracker radar
Hillary clinton getting 73 , including a vast majority of the africanamerican vote in South Carolina. Senator sanders was only a quarter of the vote at 26 . Sunday morning, february 28, and on this weekend before super tuesday, well begin with your reaction to senator clintons victory with an eye on the contest on tuesday that will further define what has been an often unpredictable primary season. You can join in on the conversation, 202 the area code here in washington, d. C. For republicans, 7488001. For democrats, 2027488000. Or independents, 2027488002. You can also join in on social media, twitter, facebook. This is the headline on this sunday morning from the Washington Post, as clintons win in South Carolina, senator sanders is looking to two states. By the way, senator sanders is in colorado today, and Hillary Clinton is in tennessee and in arkansas. And from the state newspaper, how Hillary Clinton won in South Carolina, the strategy aligning herself closely with the presiden
Oversees the selected agent work. They both need to be there. Let me just say that weve seen this in this subcommittee not just at cdc. We have also seen it in the labs. And we saw it atl where data disappeared because a researcher took it home to his house. Its the same kind of or whatever. Its an assumption that theres Important Research going on and that nothing bad is going to happen. Correct. So what i think is that in fairness, i think what dr. Freeden thinks, too, is you need to put systems in place so that its not relying on somebody to have that kind of judgment where really you should have a system. Would you agree with that . Absolutely. And mr. Kaufman, would you also . Absolutely. Great. Thanks mr. Chairman. I dont have anything further. Thank you for clarifying. Thank you. Recognizing mr. Blackburn of tennessee. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I think were on the same path here with our questions. Dr. Ebright, lets go back to the cdc report from the 2004 anthrax incident. Yes. Y