Wouldnt happen, it is not supported by the government. Well, this shows you ho how sers north koreas recent behavior has become. The testing of a Fourth Nuclear weapon they claim that it is a Thermo Nuclear bomb; we dont have evidence yet whether hydrogen was there yet. But either way, as stated before, it significantly increases their technical capability, nonetheless, whether it is hydrogeneralbased or not. Hydrogenbased or not. We saw a satellite launch that they used to disguise a test of an intercontinental Ballistic Missile. South korea believes this is such a serious situation that south korea has now shut down the joint factory park at kaesong over the nuclear test and the rocket. Just a few weeks ago experts said that this wouldnt happen, but the severity of north koreas actions, violations, continued infringements on any number of u. S. Sanctions and u. N. Sing sanctions, has forcedh korea to take the very dramatic step of closing this facility that they hoped could bring and
Talking about . Weve given out 35 million in scholarships, and weve been very fortunate. We have a lot of support from the community. Weve sent about 23,000 students to college, and we have almost 7,200 College Graduates now. So, d. C. Cap grants are given for two and fouryear colleges, for vocational really, what our advisers do is spend a lot of time finding scholarships, Financial Aid, and then we come in for really our poorest kids and give them awards to pay for books, food, a lot of the costs not covered in traditional scholarships and college aid. Nancy, college tracks does a lot of the same thing. We do. We do. We focus we dont give out money in scholarships. What we do is the rest of what d. C. Cap does, where we work with kids who are at risk of not getting to or through college and helping them get through the complicated milestones of the admissions and Financial Aid o make good decisions while in college so they can graduate. Chad, you are an adviser, but youre a beneficia
Process, making sure that when we are making changes to our military members lives, that it is this body and his bodys worst responsibility that we are there to make sure we are providing the oversight to see if the changes that we made are doing what we intended them to do. And this deals with the commissary. Many in this committee might know, but our colleagues might not know, that is the Grocery Store and the military. Is nothing predictable in the military and it is very stressful. Grocery shopping should not be stressful. Is not a business. It is a benefit to the tune of about 300 per family member. Haveof those same families people working at the commissary. And the money from the commissary goes back into morale , welfare, recreation, and things to make military life improve. What we are doing, to be clear on this is, we are changing the way the commissarys work. Suggestion and i ask you to think of this from a. Oldiers perspective the mandate was to modernize the military, the
Goes bad. Sue herrera has our top story. The snow. Shes right here at hq. Thank you, ty. Right now were going to go to morning city mayor bill deblasio holding a News Conference and a presser. Lets listen to what he has to say. We have very high winds. We know well have low visibility and lots of conditions that make travel unsafe. We will give you constant updates as we get information, but everything we know so far makes clear you cant underestimate this storm. This is not a typical storm. Its going to pack a real punch, and we have to expect heavy accumulation in a very short period of time. Wills another crucial point. Some storms come in in a measured manner. This is going to come in in a sudden spurt of activity. We saw some flurries this morning, and that has largely dissipated. What you are going to see in the few hours is something that hits very hard and very fast and people cannot be caught off guard. Best thing to do stay indoors, stay off the roads, stay off the sidewalks,
Support this amendment so that we can get to what would be right and be a better Retirement Program and will accommodate all those members, and i ask for your support of mr. Gibsons amendment. Thank you, mr. Chairman and i yield back my time. Gentleman from virginia, mr. Forbes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Id like to yield my time to the chairman. I thank the gentleman from virginia. I certainly appreciate the comments made, and we all have the same goal which is to try to come up with a program that will allow us to recruit and retain the best and brightest. The commission spent over two years trying to come up with that program and presented it in their commissions report. We had multiple hearings in the military personnel subcommittee. We had a full hearing from the commissioners here for the entire group. Understanding its going to cause confusion alongst those that are currently serving. Those who are currently serving are not affected by the change. Its prospective. If they want to