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Good morning, everybody. The Committee Meets this morning to review the reduction in cost of living adjustments, the colas, for working age military retirees that was enacted as part of the bipartisan budget act of 2013. We welcome today the acting deputy secretary of defense, ms. Christine fox, and vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral sandy winnefeld. And i will introduce the second panel of outside witnesses after we hear from secretary fox and admiral winnefeld. The bipartisan budget act adopted in december included a provision that reduced the cola for working age military r...

The 114th congress is about to begin and 2015 is shaping up to potential by he a busy year in telecommunication issues. So this week on the communicators we invited three Technology Reporters to join us to preview the year and look what the congress or fcc may do, what the Administration May do. Joining us, kate tummarello, brendan sass sew and brian fung. Mr. Sasso, lets begin with you, when we asked you what were the issues you wanted to talk about all three of you put Net Neutrality first. Whats going to happen in 2015. The big telecom issue 2015fcc chairman champ wheeler said he wanted rul...

More independent, impartial judiciary. You know, they are largely a historical vestige of their time. Tracy . I just agree largely what people have to say. Every selection method impacts judges decisions. Elections were adopted, as matt noted, to try to check the perceived abuse of the appointment process. I dont think it was merely perceived, the evidence is pretty strong on that. But in terms of the specific question of why dont voters then change the method of selection, whats interesting is the florida case since thats the case before us is they did change the med of selection the method o...

Representatives made because i do think we have got to reform immigration. I believe we need to reform it on a stepbystep bases. I know that we have disagreements about how we do that but i think you will see that things will start to happen on that with regard to Border Security and we passed a bill in this house last year with i think, 350 votes, that dealt with legal immigration. And we have got we didnt do everything but it did a bunch of things to get it started. And i know the member from utah is going to reintroduce that and expand and do things on that. I appreciate all of the witnesse...

Aroundrecommend that that might overshadow tomorrow. Guest this is something john bennett will have to address on camera. Hes put out statements supporting Steve Scalise who spoke to a racist group and he acknowledged in 2002 also majority leader kevin mccarthy, republican from california has also supported scalise. Scullys has said he regrets talking to that group back then that he wasnt sure he was talking to that group at one point blames staff on it. He has been able to weather the storm because while the have been a democrat whether the calls for him to step aside as the leader, republica...