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Needed to fully implement the 2012 event strategy and maintain a relevant modern force. Two months ago, rather than fully repealing sequestration, Congress Passed a bipartisan budget act that provided relief in the fiscal year. The 500s and thats the bipartisan budget act health in the next fiscal year. But, that spending remains significantly below what the request is for the fiveyear budget plan. Under the spending plan, dod has 490 billion for this fiscal year. That is 31 billion below what is requested. The law limits spending in 2015 to 496 billion. That is 45 billion less than what is re...

Senator, first off the air force understads the immediacy of necessity of Close Air Support. I believe the systems they have in place will provide us that immediacy. Again, as we use different platforms, we will have to work we will work through with the air force how we use those and how theyre best effective in supporting our Ground Forces as we move forward. Find it curious that you come over here with all the necessity for cost savings and the a10 costs for flying air is 17,000 for flying hour, the b1, 54,000 per flying hour. I as i said before, general welsh, i challenge you to find an ar...

Site. And will there be some way, that, as we transition a household, or our individual firms from the Supportive Housing to the Public Housing, is or will there be the appropriate level of service for that individual or family, for them to be successful . And how do we pay for the transition . Someone living in Supportive Housing has probably no furniture right . And moving into the Public Housing it is not furnished and how do we deal with that to make that happen . I think that the last question, is, as trent said earlier as we move to the question of working on Supportive Housing we really...

Good morning everybody. The Committee Meets this morning to review department of defense proposals relative to the growth of personnel costs. We welcome the joint chiefs of staff to testify on these proposals to explain why they support them, what their impact is on the force and their impact on other areas of the Defense Budget. Our witnesses on the first panel are general martin dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general ray chiefs of staff of the army, admiral jonathan chief of naval operations, general mark welsh, chief of staff of t...

State revenues come in stronger than expected we get the set side in the budget that represents a quarter of the operating budget so as the economy grows we continue to benefit. On the expense side the 3 things driving the first is the Service Increases with your support friday morning and the adaptation of the transit effectiveness an increase up to 12 percent in muni service on the street. Were going to try to include as much of that in the budget currently 3 percent in the first year and 7 percent and 3 more to get thats the single biggest change that were recommending in the operating budg...