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By the end of 18, well in the army be down to about 233,000 of civilian employees. I havent done the exact math, but its roughly equivalent to the percentage reduction we have in our instrength as well. We cant do what we need to do as an army without these civilians doing it. You were very gracious in noting that, but do have to be in balance. When it comes to the operational force, youve stated it very correctly. Were challenged on all three of those legs right now, frankly. But particularly given the environment that were seeing across the globe and the likelihood of that next unforeseen th...

In mexico through our consulates and the role they play. Now the United States, i think, mr. Starr has widely tried to involve itself in reform of the criminal Justice System in mexico itself. In order to truly get at drug trafficking, gun trafficking, organized crime which, of course, is always at the top of our agenda. And id like to ask you in that regard about the socalled midira initiative. Which is charged with disrupting criminal organizations, strengthening institutions in mexico, improving stability in the surrounding communities. Does that sound like what the madeira finiifinisinitia...

Epa is only involved in actually a small percentage of those. Why . Because the authority to look at these is spread among a number of agencies, and epa can you break it down so that we have an idea of what the problem really is with some of these mines that may affect the health and welfare of our communities . We can do our best but i can tell you that the ones we follow are the ones on the National Priorities list and the ones where we work with states to address what we consider to be an imminent threat or a need for emergency response. The upper animus was in that category. I would like t...

I also want to address my concerns about the administrations 3 billion pledge to the Green Climate fund. The American Public does not support paying their hardearned taxpayer dollars into a slush fund that spends billions of International Climate change programs in developing nations to address the impacts of extreme weather. The need for spending our natural disasters is down historically while other International Priorities have increased. According to the 2014 annual Global Climate and catastrophe report released, Global Natural disasters in 2014 combined to cause economic losses of 132 bil...

Has been the policy of the committee to tonight putting anything in the record of whatever of any evidentiary value. So i understand that tradition and it is not my intention in the end to object. But i would like to note that if we are going to agree with this, we must also include the forensic report by the fusion group that analyzed the video showing that it has no evidentiary value. If the gentle woman wishes to offer that, i would be happy to put that in the record as well. That would be my request. Without objection both of those documents can be made a part of the record. And now recogn...