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Hello and welcome to question time rep we play the highlights, question time and australias parliament. While the fires the ravaged the east coast oster all over the summer have died down, the political fallout is just beginning. Question time in parliament began with a bipartisan day honoring those fire victims and also thinking t all volunteers o help to fight the fires. It didnt take long before the conversation quickly turned to quality. The member for deal more. My question is to the Prime Minister. Why does the Prime Minister claim of these acted on the advice of fire commissioners when he ignored for two years their advice to provide a permanent boost to australias aerial firefighting y capabilit . Mr. Speaker, i thank the member for question and can i threw her pass on again my sincere condolences and sympathies and support to all those members in her electorate. I have members of my family who live in your electorate and a what to thank you for the work youve done as all membe
Democratic and republican members of the House Armed Services committee over the pentagon plan to devote 3. 8 billion to construct more border wall. The pentagon is asking congress to approve a 705 billiondollar budget for fiscal year 2021. This hearing is three hours 35 minutes. We will go ahead and call the committee to order. Good morning, everyone. We are gathered here this morning from secretary of defense doctor mark esper and chairman joint chiefs of staff general to hear about the proposal for the department of defense. I will start with some good news or start by thanking the witnesses for being here and further service to the country. Both served their country in various capacities for a long time, not an easy thing to do. I appreciate that and look forward to continuing to work with you. Unlike last year, we have a budget agreement, and last year we spend a lot of time talking about how difficult it is to run while anything in the government but certainly the department of d
Alanna feldman who joined us this morning, its my pleasure to introduce and welcome before us today ambassador william taylor, junior. Ambassador, within the world of foreignpolicy and National Security, is very well known and his reputation long preceded him. Ive had the pleasure of working and knowing ambassador taylor, my friend bill for a good 30 years. And one of the benefits of a very difficult situation that our country faces a few months ago and this bill taylor faced, given his subpoena and testimony, led to the fact that the nation at large got to see a magnificent servant. And thats why we are bringing him here today. Because he has served the country superbly across his career. He graduated from west point, he was the Cadet Company commander. He served in vietnam, he stayed an extra six months. Served in vietnam for 18 months when he could have left after 12. He served in a Rifle Company and then commanded, served in a rifle platoon and then commanded a company. He received
I would like to call the committee to order. Considereting today to the u. S. Mexico Canada Agreement implementation act. He isnder is not here but a new member of the committee. He has joined the committee on one of the most important pieces of legislation that we can do this year. The senator asve a new member of the committee. 2019, the senate received the house of representatives received the agreement. E usmca under fasttrack rules, the committee cannot amend the bill. We will vote today only on whether to report the bill before the bill. Before we vote, senators who wish to make statements may do so. And interest of time, i ask that the statements be limited to three minutes. I know that my staff has had a discussion with everybodys staff about that. Satisfactoryill be to the members. Scheduled, so i think it is important that we get this done this morning. I think that we can. After statements, i will introduce staff and Administration Officials to provide an overview of the bil