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Committee meets to receive the testimony of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chief of staffs on the administrations fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee and we welcome chairman dunford back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing, is how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring in both the external threats and the current state of our military. This committee has repeatedly heard testimony over the past two years that our country faces more serious c...

For strategic and International Studies in washington for a look at famine in south sudan and what the International Community can or should do to help. This is getting underway. Three follows of the program which kick started the series here at csi s, of the International Career advancement program. A marvelous unique program in aspen that has formed the careers of many Foreign Affairs expert including several of the table. Thanks to the 470 fellows that we have, we have begun the program but is not limited to the fellows. It includes others and you will see in a series of sometimes different...

Called to order. Pursuant to notice on june 30, 2017 the committee needs to consider the nominations of clarion grady to be undersecretary of management at the department of Homeland Security and hammy carter to be special counsel office. Just a brief opening remark, i think as the hearing indicated a couple weeks ago, to highly qualified candidates, simply couldnt be more impressed with the people selected to fill those incredibly important positions. In terms of the folks we are going to be voting on, we will talk about the nominees but i am pleased that we are voting on two qualified candid...

Agreement, we will postpone the recorded vote until we have finished the debate on the batch of this seven. Members of the House Budget Committee will return shortly after house floor votes to continue debate and mark up of the gop budget plan for fiscal 2018. While we wait to bring you that live coverage, here is some of the Budget Discussion from earlier. The committee will now come to order and we will proceed with consideration of fiscal year 2018 concurrent resolution of the budget. I want to thank the Ranking Member for working with me to develop a structure for this markup that closely ...

Agreement, we will postpone the recorded vote until we have finished the debate on the batch of this seven. Members of the House Budget Committee will return shortly after house floor votes to continue debate and mark up of the gop budget plan for fiscal 2018. While we wait to bring you that live coverage, here is some of the Budget Discussion from earlier. The committee will now come to order and we will proceed with consideration of fiscal year 2018 concurrent resolution of the budget. I want to thank the Ranking Member for working with me to develop a structure for this markup that closely ...