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Officer. He was deployed to iraq and served in the 101st Airborne Division and a Reconstruction Team in afghanistan. Between his tours, senator cotton served at Arlington National cemetery. After his military career, senator cotton served briefly in the private sector and was elected to the u. S. House of representatives in 2012. Last year, he was elected to serve in the u. S. Senate. Now serves on the Senate Committees on banking, intelligence, and Armed Services. He is the chairman of the Armed Services committee the subcommittee. His maiden speech delivered last week, senator cotton warned ...

Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6, 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Defazio, for five minutes. Mr. Defazio well, last we...

Budget deliberations, looking at the balance between the active and reserve component. I would guess there would be a difference in proportionality, but i dont want to get into details about how one would come down opposed to the other. The other thing you mentioned was contractors. We share your belief. We have got to make sure that we have our contractors. We have a fight on our hands just getting their salaries. We thought maybe they should be paid more than the Vice President , but everyone has pushed back on that. Paid more thane the Vice President , but everyone has pushed back on that. ...

Tick tock on debt clock, the Treasury Department theyre warning they will run out of money by this friday. Congress is split on what a deal should look like to get us there. John harwood with the latest. The house is preparing to vote on a bill tonight that has been adjusted from what house leaders described this morning. It was adjusted in ways that squeezed harry reid, democratic leader put more pressure on him. How did they do that . They provided a shorter extension of funding government when they reopened the government to september 15th. Thats what harry reid wanted, a very short one to ...

Meanwhile, the administration wants the pentagon to retain more people and reverse plans to retire one of its Nuclear Powered aircraft carriers. It also wants to increase 2016 defense spending by about 36 billion to soften the impact of land cuts. We went to capitol hill last week to talk t to texas republin congressman, the vice chairman of the Armed Services committee, the frontrunner to succeed in the Committee Chairman if republicans retain the house in elections this year. I asked what he is expecting and wants to see from the administrations upcoming budget request. I thi the first thing...