I went to see if there are any other Opening Statements and i want to make sure we have plenty of time. Any othe other members Opening Statements introduced in the record without objection will be entered into the record. Let me introduce the witnesses for todays hearing. Doctor tim pearson will lea leaf the panel, the scientist in the Government Accountability office in july, 2008 and as such he is a member of the Senior Executive service of the u. S. Federal government and also serves as a director for the center for Science Technology and engineering. Thank you for being with us today and we look forward to your comments. Also would like to welcome from ththe centers of Disease Control and prevention with 30 years of Public Health and science and Emergency Response in medical Training Experience she now serves as the Deputy Director for the office of Public Health preparedness response thank you for being here. Next steve munro for the laboratory of science and Safety Centers for Di
To provide the committee further assistance. Thank you very much. At after new chairman mccain, chairman graham, Ranking Member killer brand and members of the personnel subcommittee. It is a privilege to appear before you today at this initial hearing on Defense Health care reform and i hope my participation in todays hearing will be of assistance to you in the Defense Department as you seek to ensure the military Health System is strength in and is able to provide optimal support to those who wear the cloth of this nation, their families and those who are in the retirement benefit due to their careers service. I believe im a framework for reform is to begin with an assessment of what is working and not working. But the environmental conditions are like me to look like in the future, including the go to work capabilities and needs than what approach will likely ensure success in the future. For my nearly 20 years a Privilege Service at the site of dod and now va, this worm and up unti
Salami slicing. Very small increments advancing interests by building up islands, adding another weapons system, making small moves, none of which is egregious enough tow cause the United States to use massive hard power but would we slowly tip the balance in chinas favor. We dont have a strategy to counter that. Deterre our hard power capability, the weapons you have described, this is a deterrent to world war iii, not to intelligent gradualism. We need a better policy. From florida, independent line, cliff for our guest robert daly, good morning. Good morning. Good conversation. Me e you have alreadystng to taken s steam out of a comment that i was going to make, but i will i make it anyway so we can reiterate. Im not probably going to be as friendly and optimistic as the answer has been given. Ussian im referring to the russian situation when they were doing their thing with georgia, uzbekistan and we were passive and we o watched and they watch how we react or no reaction. I, for o
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