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Again, cspan3 live this morning here on capitol hill waiting for Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson who will be testifying this morning about Border Security and the president s executive order on immigration. Under the president s order, if a person had been in the u. S. For more than five years and has children who are citizens or legal residents, passes a criminal background collection and is willing to pay taxes, they can apply to stay in the u. S. Temporarily. The executive order also calls for Additional Resources for Law Enforcement. To try to prevent illegal border crossings. Secr...

Bases as for jobs in so many congressional districts. And i have heard very conservative members of congress say government doesnt create jobs, it destroys them, and all that sort of thing. It doesnt apply to the military base in my district. If we lost that, we would lose jobs. Is there anyway around this . I dont know how, other than a fundamental change. I remember seeing many years ago, a map of where the subcontracts were, i think it was the b2 bomber. There was a pin the companies are smart enough to be sure that this happens, because they know the reality of it. I think to some extent R...

Onal security argument for it. And it turns out last month the u. S. Army sent 100 tanks back to europe in response to the ukraine process. And maybe thats the evidence that we made the right call. One year they wanted to discontinue the global hawk and rely instead on the 50yearold, and the next year they proposed exactly the reverse. They asked to retire the a10 and then sent it to fly attack missions in iraq and syria. The navy included no money in this years budget to begin to refuel the george washington, a carrier with 25 years of life left. And the pentagon repeatedly asked congress for...

To reagan, one of his watchwords was, peace through strength. He presided over an enormous buildup in defense spending. The current trajectory of defense spending is down to below 3 of gdp. Which is going to be as low as it was back in before 1941. Would you support a significant increase from current levels in the Defense Budget and do away with the sequester . I absolutely support the concept of peace through strength. I think the most important thing the federal government spends money on is National Defense. You cant rely on state governments. You cant rely on corporations. You have to hav...

Of the fiscal year except for the department of Homeland Security which would be funded just maybe through february. There are Infinite Possibilities to how that will play out and whether or not they choose to split the two, that is up for negotiation from what i understand, so anything is possible at this point. But i think democrats are pretty strong in wanting to keep the government open and wanting to make sure that all agencies of the government are not theyre funding is approved through the next year. Congressman laboratory, republican from idaho, set a few days ago that republicans shou...