To b to c to d to e, on up through all the various iterations, you dont have to rebuild the Network Every time you do that. Thats one of the things thats taken into consideration as youre doing standard. Yes, sir . Thank you, sir. David mccabe from the hill. Im looking a the next couple months and it seems like im sorry, youre what . A the next couple months. It seems like there may be a point where youre fighting contentious battles. The set top box item lifeline and almost certainly a privacy ruling for isps. I wonder how you expect to handle the challenge of fighting on kind of three different fronts and also whether you are concerned at all that that might make it harder to get consensus among the five of you on less controversial atim tells . So, again, i think the reality comes down to the fact that there is, roughly 9 0 of the time theres consensus. All you get to see is the fun stuff. I was interested during the Media Coverage of Justice Scalias death that one of his quotes was
To get assad out of power. We also need a knew aumf giving the president what he needs to defend isis. Turn to ukraine, its fighting again intensifies, we cannot take our eye off the ball. Ukraines top priority should be rooting out corruption and reform, we need to support these efforts, we need to work with ukraine. We need to be a partner of ukraine, a stronger, more prosperous ukraine stands a better chance of turning putin back. Speaking of putin, we need to let him know we will never acquiese to his position on crimea. Any talk of sanctions relief for russia is premature, so long as ukraine doesnt control its own eastern border. We must do more to counter russian propaganda, we feel very strong about the fact that people in the russian language sometimes only hear on the air what putin wants them to hear. They get a very unbalanced view. We need to move in there and make sure they get a balanced view. Let me applaud president obama for what hes done over the last year. We should
The president s total budget request for next year 4. 1 trillion. Live coverage here on cspan3. This hearing will come to order. This morning the committee, once again, welcomes secretary of state john kerry to consider the departments budget request. When secretary kerry last appeared before us, he was presenting the Obama Administrations Nuclear Agreement with iran. In the seven months since, the administration got its agreement and the middle east has been transformed and not for the better. Now, with access to 100 billion in unfrozen assets and sanctions wiped away, iran has instantly become the dominant country in the region. The revolutionary guards, already irans most powerful economic actor in the words of the treasury department, will only grow more powerful with international investment. The committee has deep concerns about the way the Obama Administration and apparent indefinite rei indeference to it tehran has chose on it ignore a bipartisan law ending visa travel for thos
American, old ben butler is said. Yesterday morning the angel of death acting under the devils orders took him from earth and landed him in hell and all the southern countries there are no tears and no regrets, he lived only too long. He has the last remove from earth and pity the double the position he has secured a. They dont write them like fat anymore. Is my view that editorials by and large have got more water down over the years and the greatest editorials i believe were written around the late 1890s to the 1930s or the 1940s and as newspapers became more homogenized the editorial pages became more homogenized, the editorial began there have been great editorials written in the last 20 years. I have limited space in this book. I didnt think more recent editorials were as great as some of the earlier ones. Im mentioned chain newspapers. The first chain owner was frank muncie and he died in 1925 and when he died, the daily gazette wrote this. Frank manzi, the great publisher is dea
Recommended they not be used . I read reports of that, sir. Okay. You were once an rso, correct . Yes, sir. In your distinguished career, do you ever remember recommending that a service not be used . That being hired over your protest or yourar recommendation . Not in my experience, sir. Okay. But you would have at some point recommended somebody or maybe not recommended anybody . Was it your job to look at the performance of these people tht you were w aware of . When when we have barredded contracts. When we find the contractor is not performing we have variety of ways to deduct money and ultimately find theyre not performing. If theyre found to be lacking and not performing contract they can be terminated. They can be barred if that goes that far. You mentioned. February 17th, martyrs brigade i believe what it was called. We were told that was the host company security. Is that true or not . I, i would hesitate to call that host Country Security, sir. At best it probably had sop co