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I want to thank you gentlemen for being here and your service to our country, and the meeting is called to order. I apologize for bag few minutes late. Forget we changed the time until 9 45 until 10 00 so ben could go to a meeting at 10 30. Can you for accommodating both meetings. Obviously afghanistan continues to be something that is important to our u. S. National interests. We brokered a government, if you will, the United States did in 2014, that create both a president and ceo office that has not been confirmed, if you will, through and continued on. We had concerns about that process ta...

The incident out here. She said that he actually saved the other boys life. He was one of the ones who jumped in. He was the only one who knew how to swim. He is the one who jumped in and pulled him out. Reporter we saw that boy and britney being talked to by deputies. He looked very shaken up. She said that he is really good friends and a live close to the boy who is at the hospital right now. He watched his friend fall and and pulled him out and tried to save him as best he could. Who got fire and medics year. They say the eightyearold was walking along a pipe in the canal and was found not ...

Conditioned on this question the incoming secretary needs to have the courage to speak truth to power to congress, yes but also to his commander in chief. Half. Mr. Durbin mr. President . Speaking in morning business, i rise to express my support for the president s nominee dr. Ashton carter to serve as our nations 25th secretary of defense. A few words of thanks first for chuck hagel our former colleague in the senate who served as secretary of defense. Hes a friend. Hes had a long career in public service. Hes a veteran from vietnam and the people of nebraska rewarded him by asking him to re...

Highlight had the need for a conditionsbased approach. Like our National Military strategy written in 2012 president obamas calendarbased troop drawdown plan for afghanistan no longer accurately reflects the facts and conditions on the ground. Like the president s policy against isil, the president s afghanistan policy lacks of strategic disconnect, providing a list of goals or preferences but precluding the means necessary to achieve them. Perhaps it is time for the president to exercise strategic patience, as our witnesses yesterday unanimously agreed. Former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan,...

And has denied insurgents 9. 8 billion. That has been a game tender. We continue to work that game changer. We can reach back quickly with that. Based on that success, nato has already adopted that methodology. Thank you. Senator. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for meeting make with me yesterday, general. I believe there is more flexibility needed to do what is needed. To look at the situation on the ground and determine the decisions we make. You mentioned before, kabul cen tric that we might come if we found ourselves in a situation, what would that do in these areas if we wound up in th...