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Like its immediate predecessor, this bills overarching objective is to reorient the department of defense toward the great power of competition that our nation faces today. Overall, the bill supports a total of 750 billion in defense spending which includes 642 billion for the department of defense based budget, 23 billion for the department of energies defense activity and another 76 billion for overseas contingency operation. This means the level of spending requested by the president and provides the department of defense with real growth. Above the rate of inflation and recognition of incr...

[gavel pounding] this hearing is call to order. Welcome. 50 years ago, exactly what each week from today, at approximately 9 30 am, 2 astronauts, sitting atop a rocket the size of a navy destroyer, packing 7. 5 Million Pounds of thrust, took off from Kennedy Space center in florida. Roughly 1 Million People had gathered on the ground to watch this historic event. That included half of the u. S. Congress. These 3 astronauts, as one of the newspapers put it at the time, carried with them the hopes of the world. The u. S. 1969. The year before i was born. The astronauts were now im strong, but, a...

Thank youcongressman, for being here today. We have learned President Trump approved military strikes against iran in retaliation for downing a u. S. Military drone. Off 10ed that strike minutes before it was scheduled to happen. We know that gop leaders, including Kevin Mccarthy, have said there should be a measured response to the downing of the drone. What is your own position on this issue . Do you agree with gop leaders that we need to see retaliation, and what might that look like . There absolutely has to be some response to that provocative, unprovoked act. But it does need to be measu...

Giaritelli of the washington examiner. Scott, you are up first. Scott congressman, thank you for being here today. We have learned President Trump approved military strikes against iran in retaliation for downing a u. S. Military drone. He called that strike off 10 minutes before it was scheduled to happen. We know that gop leaders, including Kevin Mccarthy, have said there should be a measured response to the downing of the drone. What is your own position on this issue . Do you agree with gop leaders that we need to see retaliation, and what might that look like . Rep. Rogers there absolutel...

Him at the nexus of many big issues we are talking about this week. His district is home to fort benning, Anniston Army depot and Maxwell Gunter air force base. We are going to start with military related issues, congressman, let me turn you over to our two reporters scott wong of the hill and Anna Giaritelli of the washington examiner. Scott, you are up first. Scott congressman, thank you for being here today. We have learned President Trump approved military strikes against iran in retaliation for downing a u. S. Military drone. He called that strike off 10 minutes before it was scheduled to...