Page 15 - Committee Third News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Crisis has exposed dangerous kurdish divisions we explore how we got here and the impact on the wider region. Also on the great charting the course of a rising superpower chinas president xi jinping looks beyond the traditional five year plan as he outlined his vision for Global Leadership will look at how hes already laying the foundations and ask whether china can overtake the u. S. And a defiance on the streets of tokyo opposition supporters ignore a Government Order a strict in protest to demand the president s resignation and an end to his familys safety a role thats been met with tear ga...

The next army secretary. Other nominees included the defense undersecretary for intelligence and for personnel and readiness and the assistant defense secretary who advises on weapons of mass destruction to the committee is chaired by her son senator john mccain. This is just under two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the Senate Armed Services Committee Meets today to consider the nominations of mark espers to be secretary of the army or robert l. Wilkie to be undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness Joseph D Kernan to be undersecretary of defense for int...

Opioid epidemic. After that, a border oversight hearing. Yesterday the United Nations called for the lift on the u. S. Embargo against cuba. Several Defense Department nominees testified at conformation hearing earlier. Well hear from mark esper asked about Army Readiness and Sexual Assaults in the military. The Senate Armed Services committee is chaired by arizona senator, john mccain. Good morning. Senate Armed Service s committe meets to consider the nominations of mark t. Esper for secretary of the army. Personnel of red naez. Joseph to be undersecretary of defense for intelligence. And gu...

Service, has been tested. Routinely theyve proven their courage, skill and determination. The burden imposed on our soldiers only gres as threats to our nation increase and sequestration remains the law of the land. Given current operational demands, restoring readiness must be the armys First Priority. Weve made some progress this year towards improving ready brigads ready for deployment. But the army still does nautd plan to return to full Spectrum Readiness until 2021 at the earliest. Meanwhile, the army is woefully behind on modernization and our soldiers are increasingly unprepared to con...

Cookie, which i understand is from the friends of ethics celebrating the passage of proposition t and ill have to check with the City Attorney as to whether or not that gift of a cookie has to be reported on our form 700 . It doesnt . All right, good. Thank you. Calling item no. 2 on the agenda. Public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Let me just say, thank you to the friends of ethics for their support of proposition t, and thank you for the cookie. Its very nice. I dont know about the 100 bill that is inside mine though [laughter ]. I didnt get 100. Good evening. ...