Massachusetts. To, ae mayflower fullscale reproduction of the original ship. Exploring the american story. Watch American History tv today on cspan3. Former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan ryan crocker warned lawmakers that the recent announcement by the Trump Administration to withdraw troops from the country would give up leverage their. Members of the Armed Services committee asked him and others about the drawdown, relations with nato, and advice for the Incoming Biden Administration. This is 2. 5 hours. Call the committee to order. Call the committee to order. Our full Committee Hearing today is on the u. S. Military mission in afghanistan and the implications to the Peace Process on u. S. Involvement. We are doing this hearing both with some members present and some members remote. Remote. We also have two of our witnesses that will be remote. So we are its the first time weve been back for a full committee meeting, house Armed Services committee since the covid outbreak so i urg
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I am proud to say it led to the first bipartisan package in decades. It took time and a willingness to acknowledge that no party has a monopoly on good ideas. M proud of what we are what we created together. Although we were already holding these hearings in our committee, we require that others hold them also so that all members have a chance to be heard in front of congress. Hopefully, more good ideas have the chance to see a light of day. I couldnt ask for a better partner than our Ranking Member, tom cole. We come from different parties, but we share the same dedication to this institution. What this is really all about, a wellfunctioning house allows us to tackle the issues that can make a positive difference in peoples lives and that is why we already for prep congress and the first place. Before i turn to our ranking on the job to for the house of new parliament parliamentian. Mr. Jason smith. Mr. Cole and i have said a lot about him to his predecessor. And he and his predecesso
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