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Our live capitol hill coverage continues tomorrow with the confirmation hearing for the next defense secretary, ashton carter. Live coverage of the senator Armed Services committee will get underway tomorrow on cspan3 starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. This sunday on q and a, david brooks columnist for the the New York Times on writing an article for the times and the awards he gives out at the end of the year. The sidney awards. Sidney awards are given for the best magazine essays of the yeesh, and they can be in journals or Something Like the new yorker or the atlantic. And the idea is they alw...

The Export Import Bank is a critical component of our export strategy. In a world where nobody had export subsidies, one could have a conversation about whether or not we should have one. But in a world where our competitors have export programs, and we might not, thats putting a burden on our exporters thats just not fair. If youre selling, you know, from washington state, i know aircraft are a big issue, if youre selling aircraft against companies that have export financing, because of programs like the Export Import Bank, and we dont, thats something that you cant make up for just by runnin...

The undersecretary can do better justice than i can. There are classified and unclassified elements to it. I would say we are talking about pretty far down the road. Not as an alternative to the joint Strike Fighter but what follows the joint Strike Fighter i dont think there is a conflict between it. I was mr. Kendalls battle buddy. You know what he says. It is be on fighter aircraft. It is how to dominate in air combat. There is a whole list of things about driving and developing technology for 15 to 40 years down the future. If we dont do that today, we will not stay ahead of our potential ...

Mr. Speaker, for the past 20 years, as a practicing lawyer and business owner, i have seen firsthand how companies have tried to grow and create more jobs, but they simply cant due to the strangling grip of obamacares employer mandate. Small businesses tell a story of how their current plan was canceled and how they were forced by obamacare into a health plan that covers less with higher copays and higher deductibles, along with unsustainable increases in premiums. Simply stated obamacare is crushing Small Business across this great country. And despite the urgency of the crisis, the president...

Forward. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Say to my good friend steve that i used to sit next on on the House Armed Services committee that i agree with you except im more concerned with todays war than i am with the war after next. Right now is when were having the problems that were having and we had a hearing last week. We had schlesinger, george schultz, madeline albright. And they reminisced over what our abilities were, capabilities at that time, what is expected and even read the charge that president reagan had made at one time in determining what a Defense Budg...