Until february 8. Earlier today, House Democratic leaders, including nancy pelosi, held a press conference to discuss the federal government funding and the potential shutdown. This is about 30 minutes. Funding and the potential shutdown. [laughter] values in rejecting the illfounded republican c. R. C. R. s are a way to debilitate government. You dont quite shut it down but you debilitate the opportunity for our country to add full force as we go into the rest of the fiscal year. Ourthe subject of process, members knew the right thing to do was to vote against the c. R. Even though the republicans were advertising it as that and the other thing. They hid behind little children. They will put chip in there. Really . Chip has been something that has been a priority of the democrats and it is a bipartisan agenda all along. They did not put primary training. The list goes on and on. They thought they could tantalize with just saying we are about children. We are about children and familie
Of betsy devos. We know at least two republican senators intend to vote against the nominee, meaning that Vice President mike pence would need to come to capitol hill to cast the tiebreaking vote and that would be the first time that Vice President broke a tie in a cabinet confirmation. President trump tweeted about the devos nomination earlier today saying, senate dems protest keep the failed status quo. Betsy devos is a reformer. She will be a great education secretary for our kids. That Senate Confirmation vote will take place at noon eastern time today and you can watch it live on our companion network cspan2. And from here we go to House Armed Services committee with a state on the military. This started just a short time ago. They watched our fighting and theyre preparing their forces. We need to me pair to fight any adversary. Were extremely good today and are ready to fight in the middle east. Against violent extremists but we need to fight against any adversary. We need more f
Trump administration is changing the outlook for defense right now . Their first shot was an increase, the 54 billion, but i think probably more important is ifhe actual numbers, they can repeal the budget control act, as they have suggested they would do. That, in my mind, is what produces the inns ability in the defense budget. We have to do one and twoyear deals to adjust that budget control act. Its almost impossible for the department to do any longterm planning. To see that reveal is the first priority. Are you hopeful that will happen . As you anticipate that happening, has that changed the outlook and some of the planning on your side . I think if it does happen, you get growth and you are able to plan theto invest, and i think administration is committed to doing it. Its challenging to balance domestic needs, defense needs, against the deficit to get that bca repealed, but that is their commitment, i think. Its been less than two months that he has been in office, and i think
Up next, the chiefs of the army, air force, navy and marine corps testify on their budgets and the impact of repeated continuing resolutions in place of more longterm appropriations for the military branches. Held by the House Armed Services committee, this is about two hours, forty five minutes. [ banging gavel ] the committee will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform in yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military, and im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the budget control act, plus a series of continuing resolutions, coupled with a pace of required deployment have damaged the u. S. Military. I believe that damage has gone far deeper than most of us realize, requiring more time and more money to repair than is generally expected. Theres plenty of responsibility to go around for the current state of affairs, with both
Targeting can occur in many ways from silver harassment to identified people more specifically. We must ensure that the entire army team is aware of the threat and suspect suspicious activities and responds when needed. One of the toughest challenges for the army is how do we address a threat like the shooter in choot chatnooga. To be successful we mustards this at a few levels. We need to continue to expand and our cooperation with Law Enforcement partnering with agencies to our mutual benefit. We need to continue to respond in coordination with the local partners to execution of the National Incident Management System across judicial jurisdictional boundaries. With assured commanders that they have authority and responsibility to respond wherever warranted. We coordinate Emergency Action exercises, our personnel know how to react when presented with a dangerous situation particularly when Law Enforcement arrives. We continually assess and improve note if i noti fica tion procedures j