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It as the potential to support more than 55,000 jobs in our state and contribute more than 53 billion in revenue. I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and at this time i would yield to the chairman. Mr. Calvert im not going to oppose your amendment. I certainly appreciate what youre trying to accomplish and generally agree that this administration has placed way too many restrictions on drilling both on shore and offshore. These restrictions have delayed the permitting process slowed Economic Growth in your state and many other states around the union, various groups have used that to their advantage, so i agree that more certainly certainty is needed in the leasing and permitting process. What im afraid of is that this might lead to a precedent for preempting the department of interiors Decision Making authority under any president and may lead to other amendment ....
Opioid epidemic. After that, a border oversight hearing. Yesterday the United Nations called for the lift on the u. S. Embargo against cuba. Several Defense Department nominees testified at conformation hearing earlier. Well hear from mark esper asked about Army Readiness and Sexual Assaults in the military. The Senate Armed Services committee is chaired by arizona senator, john mccain. Good morning. Senate Armed Service s committe meets to consider the nominations of mark t. Esper for secretary of the army. Personnel of red naez. Joseph to be undersecretary of defense for intelligence. And guy v. Roberts for nuclear, chemical and biological defe ....
Service, has been tested. Routinely theyve proven their courage, skill and determination. The burden imposed on our soldiers only gres as threats to our nation increase and sequestration remains the law of the land. Given current operational demands, restoring readiness must be the armys First Priority. Weve made some progress this year towards improving ready brigads ready for deployment. But the army still does nautd plan to return to full Spectrum Readiness until 2021 at the earliest. Meanwhile, the army is woefully behind on modernization and our soldiers are increasingly unprepared to confront the harsh realities of 21st century warfare. With glaring capability gaps, these problems would only get worse as our adversaries continue to modernize their forces. Put simply our army lacks both the adequate capacity and the key capabilities to win decisively. If confirmed we ....
Ga, after brexit is it the end of the eu . Im joined by three excellent panelists. The editor of the opinion page el, in berlin, and he says brexit could be good for europe. Also, derek scully of the irish times who argues brexit is a failure of the european class. And, welcome to hannah cleaver, who joins us straight from the dw news desk. It is difficult to tell who will be the biggest loser from brexit , britain or the eu. I would like to begin with you, martin, because you are the optimist in our ranks today. You say that brexit could be good for the eu. Please explain how. I would love to. Theres just one aspect im optimistic about. The aspect i am optimistic about is what happened in the u. K. Vote. The brexit some people predicted a recession. So people in all of europe, continental europope, now see wt brexit, but going out means. So the alternative, you have europe. It is now as clear as it ever was before. You are now prosperous and not a sovereign as you could be, or you are ....