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Of endorsements, beginning with gerald ford, followed by remarks of senator several senators. Then it ends with the Opening Statement and a portion of the Committee Hearing and vote. Joe biden i welcome everyone here this morning, judge bork, his distinguished panel of introducers, my colleagues, and the public. And i would like to take just a moment at the outset to explain how we are going to proceed today and from here on i hope. , it is the ordinary practice of the committee in a hearing like this, judge, to have Opening Statements from all of my colleagues, and then to invite the presente...

Of endorsements, beginning with gerald ford, followed by remarks of senator several senators. Then it ends with the Opening Statement and a portion of the Committee Hearing and vote. Joe biden i welcome everyone here this morning, judge bork, his distinguished panel of introducers, my colleagues, and the public. And i would like to take just a moment at the outset to explain how we are going to proceed today and from here on i hope. , it is the ordinary practice of the committee in a hearing like this, judge, to have Opening Statements from all of my colleagues, and then to invite the presente...

The public. And i would like to take just a moment at the outset to explain how we are going to proceed today and from here on, i hope. It is the ordinary practice of the committee in a hearing like this, judge, to have Opening Statements from all of my colleagues, and then to invite the presenters of the nominee to speak, and then ask the nominee for his or her statement. But we are going to change the beginning just a little bit today to accommodate some very busy and, quite frankly, very important people. Today, you have a distinguished panel of introducers that are here, and what i would l...

Like to, at the outset, indicate how i would like to proceed today. I have spoken with the Ranking Member senator thurmond about this what id like to do. I would like to withhold any motions of the outset. And give each of our colleagues an opportunity to make a statement, if they wish to, on the nomination, and i will have a brief statement, and then we will proceed the voting, and i will at that time indicate how i like to proceed. I look to the will of the committee. But what id like to do now is may, is yield to senator thurmond for any statement he would wish to make , and then well just ...

[inaudible conversations] good morning. The Armed Services Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on the posture of the u. S. Central command, Africa Command of special Operations Command in the context of our review on oversight of the fiscal year 2017 Defense Budget. We are pleased to welcome our witnesses general austen general rodrigues and general votel. We thank each of you for dedicated for decades of distinguished service and for your leadership of our men and women in uniform. I would like to extend a special thanks to chairman austen and chairman rodrigues as this may be t...