The hearing will come to order. Welcome to the committee on the Budget Hearing on oversight of the congressional budget up as. Cbosearing will focus on organizational and operational structure. The goal of todays hearing is to learn more about cbo, which was created as part of the budgeting and an pound meant act of 1974. For decades, this organizations primary function in duty has been to assist congress by providing cost estimates, economic analysis, working papers, and other publications. Members of the house and Senate Budget committee rely on cbo as an objective and partial impartial resource for budgeting. It also plays a key role in advising the committee is it enforces budget roles. Without question, there are dozens of feynman and women employed by cbo including analysts, management, and support staff. For more than 40 years since its founding, congress has not undertaken a conference of review of cbos structure and processes. It is still under its original permanent authoriza
Maybe we will get some conversation going. We will say the last part of our time in the session for questions from the audience save the last part of our time in the session for questions from the audience. Let me quickly introduce our group. The. Ght is we have the Principal Assistant deputy administrator at nsa, where he runs the defense program. Anita is the acting system secretary of state from the bureau arms and control. Im very pleased that we can gather the screw. This group here. Greg, going to start with then we will go to phil, anita. Greg, over to you. Greg what i thought i would do in my brief remarks is give you a little more insight into the tookach that 3 departments in conducting the Nuclear Posture review over the last year. Generalemphasize what hyten said. This is a threatbased and strategy based review. I will talk more about the approach that we took and how we did that. Onant to focus my brief time giving you a little more understanding of the rationale behind wh
Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Four serving members of the army have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to a banned far right group and planning terrorist offences. The men aged between 22 and 32 were arrested this morning in england and wales in an operation involving both the police and the army. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani is here. It isa it is a fast moving story. What is the latest . It started with West Midlands Counter Terrorism unit, one of the largest in the country, working with colleagues at wales and the West Midlands. These four arrests, three in their 20s, arrested at birmingham, ipswich and northampton. The fourth, from powys. The addresses have been searched and then we discovered that these men we re then we discovered that these men were all serving members of the army. The ministry of defence has confirmed that they were serving in the army. They have been providing support to the police. We do not have information about where these
Good morning, this Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on recent Navy Collisions at sea, including uss lake champlain, uss fitzgerald and the uss John S Mccain, as well as the rounding of the uss antietam. We welcome our witnesses, the honorable richard spencer, secretary of the navy, admiral john richardson, chief of Naval Operations and start on an, director of defense for structure and readiness issues at the Government Accountability office. I would like to take a moment to recognize family members who lost loved ones in the fitzgerald and mccain collisions, who are here with us today as honored guests. Ofm the fitzgerald, the wife a chief petty officer, parents of a petty officer third c lass, parents and brother of a petty officer first class. Stepmother of a seaman , father of a petty officer first class, and from the mccain, the wife of a petty officer first class and his , along with her wife. Officer of a petty first class, mother and brother of a petty up with
[gavel pounding] [indiscernible] attorney general sessions, welcome. For all the people in the audience, we welcome you as well. Think general set thank general sessions were being here that attorney general sessions were being here for the oversight hearing. His is an opportunity for congress to investigate and question the policies and actions of any executive branch. It is an opportunity for the executive branch to take any of thosey for policies and actions, and an toortunity for congress defend its constitutional powers and check any abuses by an overreaching executive branch, and it has been that way for 230 years. That wee complained have not had an oversight hearing with this attorney general earlier. Was that for deferring the attorney general should have his team in place before appearing before us. Certainly, attorney general holder and attorney general did have their respective teams well in place by the time they appeared here as you are now here. The other side has been b