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System. This is two and a half hours. Committee will come to order. This week the committee will hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. Tomorrow we will hear from the Service Chiefs of repairing and rebuild the military. Today well concentrate on the other pillar which is defense reform. We have done a lot of reform over the past two years. That includes acquisition reform, a new mail tear retirement system, mayor changes in military health care, commissary reform, a rewrite of the uniform code of military justice as well as significant organizational reform. Whil...

Committee on the future of the u. S. Armed forces and recommendations to improve the services. Including cost savings and efficiencies, incentivizing and managing the civilian work force. [ gavel ] committee will come to order. This week, the committee will hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. Tomorrow well hear from the Service Chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. Today, however, well concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. Weve done a lot of reform over the past two years, that includes acquisition reform, a new military retiremen...

Quorum call mr. Cornyn madam president . The presiding officer the sphror texas. Mr. Cornyn madam president , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cornyn madam president , i understand there is a bill at the desk due for its second reading. The presiding officer the clerk will read the bill for the second time. The clerk s. 3011, a bill to improve the accountability, efficiency, transparency, and overall effectiveness of the federal government. Mr. Cornyn madam president , in order to place the bill on the calendar under t...

Meet with all the time, we understand in politics that you have to say things over and over again for them to penetrate. You in the news business, we tell you once, and weve given you the news. Therefore is no longer news and we dont have to report it again. These things that matter need to be on the front page day after day. With interesting angles and different takes and new perspectives. We get some of that. I dont wnat to shortchange the journalism out there. We need more of that if we are going to get people to focus on what is important. [applause] if we could thank our panel for this cl...

The middle part gets more interesting and relevant for today where the secretary spends time in boston and other corporations working in the field of technology and innovation. That is what he brought with him back to the pentagon and part of what is at the core of what he is tried to do. He was a distinguished fellow at Stanford Hoover institution. He was an advisor to goldman sachs. At Harvard Kennedy school he was the professor of science and international affairs. Of a miterhe boards corporation. , longer ago, even longer ago, he had his degree from yale where he studied physics and mediev...