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[inaudible conversations] we will call the meeting to order. Thanks for coming today. A couple of things to start with. Number one votes are starting at 3 00 oclock we will deal with that when we have to but second this committee does not meet as frequently as others but the primary reason is the issues we deal with our sufficient magnitude they are dealt with by the whole committee. In any event to be an appropriate subject for the subcommittee the complexity of dealing with the issues in north africa certainly are worthy of our consideration. We have a very good panel for people who deal wit...

Im going to call the meeting to order. The subcommittee. Thank you all for coming today. A couple of things to start with. Number one, we are going to have votes starting at 3 00. Well deal with that when we have to deal with that. Second thing is this committee doesnt meet as frequently as many other committee, but primary reason being the issues that we deal with are of sufficient magnitude generally dealt with by the whole committee. So either this committee wraps itself around the other or viceversa, dpeending how you look at it. But in any event, we really deem that this was appropriate s...

Armed Services Committee on their respective commands. This is an hour and 45 minutes. We will call the meeting to order. Were going to receive testimony from two of my favorite people, general lori robinson. I have to say that i taught her everything she knows from when she was the Wing Commander in the ticker air force base in oklahoma, and from curt tid, commander for the u. S. Southern command. I think there is a lot of overlap. Week talked all three of us have talked about this between the north and the south command, and i think thats one reason that senator mccain would want to have the...

Out of the last cr vote that ultimately will see an increase on defense spending, that budget caps would be lifted. What message do you have for leadership as far as breaking the impass and getting to a larger deal to fund the federal government . Sen. Inhoff but we have to do is get away from these crs. When i started it was understood we would have appropriation bills. We have 12 appropriation bills and we have not quite frankly there is a partisan elements of this. We have tried to pass them out and we cant get them on the floor. As you know, a minority can block them from coming up on the ...

Guest we heard earlier today from senator cornyn that we should expect at least two more crs. There was some optimism coming out of the last cr vote that ultimately will see an increase on defense spending that budget caps would be lifted. What message douf for leadership as far as breaking the impass and getting to a larger deal to fund the federal overnment . What we have to do, it was understood we were going to have appropriation bills. We have 12 appropriation bills and we have frankly theres a partisan element to this because we have tried to pass them out and we cant get them on the flo...