Texas to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For nine years, weve traveled to u. S. Cities, bringing the book scene to our viewers. Watch more of our visits at cspan. Org. Amarillo is in the center of the texas panhandle. We affectionately call ourselves the capital city of the texas panhandle. We are approaching 200,000 people in this next census area census. Thats a marker for us. Its one of the most unique things, travel around and talk to other mayors, our superpower here in the city of amarillo is that we think regionally. While we do have geographic boundaries that define how many people live inside our city, we truly dont think that way. We think regionally. We think of world communities that belong to us. We are their city. Right now, we are standing in the historic depot. Its significant because when you think about building the entire city of amarillo, the materials for building our city came through this depot. They arrived by rail right here. Our city has
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
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 defense without Appropriations Bills in a timely manner. Last year we were off by 3. 5 months, Something Like that thats better than drifting into the next year. We did get appropriation bills done by december of last year which gives some predictability to the department i think that is enormously important. This year we hope to come a little closer to october 1 certainly on the authorizing bill that also the appropriation bill but most importantly, we have a budg
I will start with some good news well, first of all, i will start with thinking our witnesses for being here and thanking them for their service to our country. 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 defense without Appropriations Bills in a timely manner. Last year we were off by 3. 5 months, Something Like that thats better than drifting into the next year. We did get appropriation bills done by december of last year which gives some predictability to the department i think that is enormously important. This year we hope to come a little closer to october 1 certainly on the authorizing bill that also the appropriation bill but most importantly, we hav
Rural communities that belong to us, and we we are their city. Right now were standing in the historic santa fe depot. When you think about building the entire city of amarillo, the materials for building our city came through this depot. They arrived by rail right here, and so our city has grown, and we started as a farming, agricultural town. But now we are an urban center for the texas panhandle of 500,000 people. So none of that could have happened without this location being right here by the rail and so much of our industry and even just our materials to live daytoday lives came right here. Of course, the depot say vacant. Were not using it for a train station. We dont have Passenger Service in our city anymore, but we are still a significant hub for bnss, and its important in the coast to coast travel of marketing goods by rail, were still an important part of that. And the reason amarillo was such a key point in the railroad was, yes with, the cattle industry. We traded cattle