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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...

Host fine, thank you to go ahead. Caller i was calling with reference to the situation in ferguson, missouri. I heard people calling and criticizing al sharpton and Jesse Jackson for showing up. But the parents of Michael Brown requested that they come to ferguson. And i think the fact the requested should suffice in a. The other comment i have is that i think its a big deal or good idea that the attorney general chose to visit ferguson because these have been longstanding issues in ferguson, it is my understanding. But its all over the country. There are too many black young males getting sho...

Concerning. As long as you give me the time back. I dont believe our discussion would welcome that opportunity. And on this piece, we leave that authority with the fcc. We dont do away with that here although it is absent in the bill, it is still resident. So that interconnection we would be happy to have. We also provided this about the Specialized Services and yet it doesnt allow the fcc to define what constitutes a specialized service. Can you envision this language being used by an isp to advantage one competitor over another and even they themselves providing Specialized Services that can...

And how the world has changed but it is also the industries that have changed in the sense that this is a Corporate Structure that is out there now as well a lot of consolidation going on in Companies Getting into various areas of the business of at one point they are acting like a commentary, including a content provider and so forth. You mentioned the distinction between Information Services and Telecommunications Services in this law. Is that a meaningful distinction today . I think over time it should not be. We are entering a world in which a bid is a bed Data Networks follow radically di...

That i think the point needs to be made here is if you look at where we are, for example, the president s budget which was just submitted, by 2021, what we are paying in interest will exceed the defense budget. As i look at the work that you have done on the Bipartisan Commission and we look at what the biggest drivers in our debt are overall, looking at the bigbudget, mandatory spending, programs that we need to have similar looks at medicare, Social Security, very important programs to people, i appreciate that you have done all this work. We are looking at our military stepping forward firs...