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This, 95 to 100 , with great reason. Mr. Cooper. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I admire you, gentlemen, for your service to the nation and your work particularly since you are having to operate an irrational budget environment. Almost none of your predecessors have ever had to do that. When we have a house of representatives that refuses to even open discussions with the senate on a budget for america. Our media environment, many folks back home are unaware of this. Theyre mad at congress in general. They dont understand that one house of congress is unwilling to talk to another house of congress a...

Recommended they not be used . I read reports of that, sir. Okay. You were once an rso, correct . Yes, sir. In your distinguished career, do you ever remember recommending that a service not be used . That being hired over your protest or yourar recommendation . Not in my experience, sir. Okay. But you would have at some point recommended somebody or maybe not recommended anybody . Was it your job to look at the performance of these people tht you were w aware of . When when we have barredded contracts. When we find the contractor is not performing we have variety of ways to deduct money and u...

Crisis poses to our stability both in europe and the u. S. . Of course the issue of foreign fighters returning to our countries is a very direct threat, and we have to address that. We decided at the wales summit that we will strengthen our cooperation on intelligence and information sharing to the counter that threat, but obviously increasing instability in the region will also have an impact on the overall euroatlantic security and this is a reason why it is relevant that nato allies take action and try to create an International Coalition to counter isis. Both nato and carnegie solicited so...

Industry. This industry contributes in a positive way to our balance of payments with the rest of the world. Weve been running the trade deficit, not because the medical Device Industry, theyve been part of the solution to that challenge of the trade deficit. And here in the Public Policy world, a tax has been assessed on that industry. It just doesnt make sense. I just want to close by once again mentioning my admiration and appreciation for mr. Paulson who has been a leader on this issue. Weve got the 260 cosponsors on this bill. Weve got the votes to pass this. The Senate Earlier this year,...

This House Committee on the benghazi attack hearing about to get under way. While we have a second were going to take a chance and give you some background on todays hearing from a capitol hill reporter. Welcome for purposes of taking testimony pursuant to house rules. Chair will recognize himself and Ranking Member for purposes of making Opening Statement. Without objection the Opening Statement of any other member of the committee who wishes to provide one will be included in the record. A little over two years ago, four americans serving our country in benghazi, libya, were killed. Two of t...