Primary. We will talk calls and look for comments on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is live every day at 7 am eastern on cspan. President obama released his 2017 budget request this week. It provides for continue support of afghan nationt Security Forces. Several Defense Department officials gave a status at a House Armed Service subcommittee hearing earlier today. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Welcome. I am delighted to convene this hearing. This is a very important topic and one i know Ranking Member speier finds concern. I know the gentlemen from north carolina, mr. Jones, is attending the hearing with us today and i unanimous consent mr. Jones and any other members not assigned to the committee be allowed to participate with the understanding that all members sitting on the subcommittee will ask questions first. Without objection so ordered. The oversight began last week with the foundational testimony that general campbell laid out testifying about the evolving securit
Biological. Shall be limited to corresponding biological genders is what it says. I would say if you changed your biological sex, then you would be allowed to use the restroom of your new biological sex. Reading this, thats what it seems to suggest to me. Now, my understanding is that that surgery really, no expert, believe me, but that surgery involves a series of surgeries. Its not a surgery. Its a series of surgeries. So, when does one become a biological whatever . I dont know the answer to that question. And so how would this policy apply to someone who was in the course of that surgical therapy . I dont know how to you dont know. I dont know how that would be resolved. Id be speculating on what the school board, how they would interpret their policy. They didnt discuss that. Not to my knowledge. Certainly not part of the record. Did they get expert input into there is nothing in the record about expert input. Felt like it was legally in a solid position. All right. Mr. Block . Th
Tragedy or strife. Were strong because we are resilient. Because in a decade after decade we have stood together to defend our security, our prosperity, our values. And because we have resisted attempt after attempt to divide and make us turn on one another, and above all we are strong because of the core beliefs that hold us together. We need to heed the advice of president kennedy on his trip to berlin, the year of this Munich Security Conference began. Lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today, he said, to the hopes of tomorrow. And if we do that, if we remember the values at the heart of our partnership, if we take the lessons of history that we have been able to accomplish and what this Incredible Alliance means, i have absolutely no doubt whatsoever were going to get this right, were going to get through this moment, and were going to build the prosperity and the security and the stability that every single one of us wants. We are going to do just fine. Thank you. [applause] it
A spill is not quite same as a leak, but the classification in the federal government really do concern me. What are you doing to address these types of situations . My view is that given our Cyber Security mission should be a model for other agencies and departments. I am familiar with that article. I know that our Cyber Security experts and intelligence analysis are focused on addressing spills. My recollection is that the article is not accurate in all respects. Id be happy to look into that. That would be great. I appreciate it. I do appreciate it and thank you for your very good work up there. Thank you for all your employees as well. Thank you mr. Chair. Thank you senator ernst. Ive been cranking up numbers here. I got your sheet on on a Company Children big difference here is you are including all accompanied children including from mexico and i was talking about unaccompanied children from Central America which is a big problem. Lets get through this because its important. It a
[inaudible conversations] good morning. The Armed Services Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on the posture of the u. S. Central command, Africa Command of special Operations Command in the context of our review on oversight of the fiscal year 2017 Defense Budget. We are pleased to welcome our witnesses general austen general rodrigues and general votel. We thank each of you for dedicated for decades of distinguished service and for your leadership of our men and women in uniform. I would like to extend a special thanks to chairman austen and chairman rodrigues as this may be their last appearance before this committee. Our nations most distinguished National Security leaders have testified before this committee repeatedly and we are witnessing the unraveling of a rulesbased International Order and nowhere is this unraveling more than the middle east from north africa to south asia. State authority and the balance of power are breaking down. This emerging vacuum has bee