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We are live on capitol hill waiting for a house markup to get underway. The Appropriations Committee is working on 2021 spending for state Department Foreign operations, agriculture and military construction. This is live coverage on cspan2. Please be seated. We are ready to begin. My friends, ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. I call the meeting of the Appropriations Committee to order. I would first like to welcome all members to the first full Committee Markup of fiscal year 2021. This will be a markup season unlike any other. Not only are we going to complete our work in record time, ...

Defense form and on the podcast. We appreciate it. A lot to cover today. So much is going on here in washington dc and across the country. That for our listeners many people know you you are the loan congresswoman from the state of wyoming. The daughter of Vice President. But you going in and out of washington dates back further than when her father became Vice President of course he was chief of staff during the Ford Administration then like you served in congress. Coming in and out of washington for a lifetime with Public Office or a Family Member and then going back . I feel incredibly bles...

Senior posts on the National Security council and in the department of commerce. Rom 19999, he was serving as the c. E. O. And president of two publicly traded software companies, free markets incorporated and prior to that, was a consultant. He is a graduate of the United States military academy of west int and has a p hmp d from Princeton University and former army officer and is a soldier and statesman and interviewer and a scholar and entrepreneur and it is a real pleasure. We asked david to join us. And slept paper on economic might, National Security and the future of the paper he coauth...

To all of you. This is dean i would like to thank air combat general mike holmes for joining us today. Now, after so many years of service, in key positions throughout our air force, he needs no little introduction. Ill summarized by saying he has excelled in operational, staff and academic pursuits at every level. As a result, he is brought in an surpassed degree of competence to his current job. As the command of air combat command, hes responsible for organizing, training and equipping air force and Intelligence Forces for rapid deployment. With that i would like to turn it over to you, to ...

Because the threat posed by covid19 remain serious and widespread, we are proceeding in the best manner we can, remotely in todays case in order to ensure the safety of our witnesses, members, staff and the public. Todays conversation is essential to the oversight of how we should adapt and meet the challenge of increasingly assertive china especially in the backdrop of a Global Pandemic. I had hoped this would be a bipartisan discussion. Unfortunately, without reason or justification, republican colleagues have decided to absent themselves from the committee. I repeat my hope they will recons...