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Resource. Agent orange did not discriminate between those who stood on boats on rivers and those who stood offshores. Where they are still fighting decades after vietnam. Plus promise or peril . Why activists say taking humpback whales off of the endangered species list is a big mistake. First it was drought, now floods have some to texas and oklahoma. A line of storms dumped recordsetting rainfalls across the region. And at least three people are dead. Forecasters say more Severe Weather is doing. Heidi zhou castro is in dallas tonight. Heidi . Reporter hey lisa here in dallas the rain has le...

And that also and this is very important and this gets back to the earlier discussion of sequester if its in the base budget, it is the base upon which we build our future budgets, and we need stability. We need a horizon so that we know what our budget is going to be not only this year but in years to come. Otherwise, we cant spend it efficiently, and we cant spend it strategically. We need that kind of horizon and sequester is what robs us of that, and thats why its bad in a manage yearal sense for anybody who has their budget sequestered. General dempsey, do you want to speak to that and pe...

Military level over there and things at the political level, both of which are change inging. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. And general dempsey, i join my colleagues in sending warm wishes your way and thank you you for your more years of serving o our great nation. Mr. Mccord, i would like to chat about the budget thats upcoming. The House Budget Committee chairman proposed boosting the Defense Budget with an increase of allocation. Is an oko dollar just as useful as a base budget dollar . In other words, should there be limitations on funding that Congress Needs to be mindful...

Administrations budget request and a number of other of other issues that are before us. I would say one of the Key Takeaways the last few months has been the growing number of threats to our technological superiority. We have had classified and unclassified sessions on that and to me, it is one of the key challenges that we chase that we face. As i mentioned secretary, i was perusing my bookshelf, and i came upon a very brilliant edition called keeping the edge, looking towards the future and that was managed by Ashton Carter written by Ashton Carter and essentially it said two of the things ...

It was going to deliver in 2017, which to my way of looking at it doomed it to a graceless death from the moment, because thats seven cycles of the congress of the United States. I just think we have to take a look at the pace at which we try to develop i think as the secretary said, commercial is outpacing government at this point, and we can either fight that or find ways to conform to it. Rep. Wittman secretary carter just your perspective, it seems like what youre advocating is putting more authority but also accountability in the hands of decisionmakers so making it more away from process...