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The republican senate. We are living through one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership in our countries history. Did you hear that donald trump . You have created one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership. We are going to this last portion of the conversation because the senate is about to gamble back in after their weekly caucus meetings. Senators continue work on the 2021 Defense Authorization bill with votes scheduled later this afternoon for five Senate Coverage on cspan2 a senator madam president. The presiding officer the senator from wyoming. Mr. Enzi madam...

And made an arms race. The point of this up us push this the to get the maximum return on every rouble invested on defense. Indeed, the soviet union was not thrifty about military spending and unfortunate the nation efficiency was not the top priority. The defense spending officer was about 13 percent of the g d. I will not site ready to quote, stuck on International Peace Research Institute for last year, or defend a little bit. And i noticed 4 percent assessments, and this year im going to it is 6. 8 percent on us. So then we have gone up by twos point bites, percentage points, and principal...

Job and also Holding Accountable the people who arent doing a good job. And im sure thats demoralizing to the people who are doing a good job. Senator, i think your points are very well made. Im not sure we reward our Program Managers very well. I think that only thing that i have seen in my experience is you promote them. In terms of holding folks accountable, when we see a clear connection between what they did and their outcome, we do retire them or move them. Both civilians and military. Beyond that, the incentive structure that youre referring to is not clear and is not adequate. And it t...

And so we require there to be mandatory ethics training on that acquisitionrelated interaction so its clear what you can and cannot do. Secondly on Acquisition Strategy, we require every Program Start out with an Acquisition Strategy. It has to be done in writing and upfront and dated as needed. This strategy would consolidate at least six different requirements into that upfront strategy and has to include what is the most appropriate type of contract for this particular acquisition. This is another area where one size clearly does not fit all. It has to consider whether multiyear is appropri...

Busy in fixing this problem. We are going to do so, of course, not just by saying this is a blank check, as long as you put military in it. A warning from heritage not just that this is a blank check, but to spend as we have allocated on the right things for American Military wellness to protect the government. The one person in congress you can find who is so eloquent about this happens to be with us today. Congressman Mike Gallagher is, in fact, the man of the hour. He has served since 2017, seven years prior and the u. S. Marine corps including two deployments to iraq. He served as the Cent...