Covid19 has killed hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. It could unfortunately cause additional early deaths down the road and due to the unemployment poverty could cause. To stave off those avoidable deaths America Needs to reenter the booming economy that we had before covid19. To do so we have put on this presentation to listen today from United States senators ted cruz and mike lee page one has ideas about Regulatory Reform that will kickstart our economy as well as keep it going strong on a longterm basis. I would now like to invite senators cruz and senators lee to join me. Before we start todays discussion i must give each senator the opportunity to offer introductory remarks. Senator cruz you are up to bat verse. Well good morning it is a pleasure to join you. Thank you for taking the time to participate and paul its good to see you and mike its good to see you and what a testament to the wonders of technology who are able to have an intimate conversation thousands of mil
Held him until or is responding to the outbreak. The subcommittee hearing is one hour and a half. Tom todd inaudible Surgeon General of the United States air force mr. Cavity assistance secretary of defense world ealth Affairs Lieutenant ronald shea pace, director of the fence Health Agency and mr. Systems. Bill inaudible program executiveve health care and management systems. Ted today we have serious quests on how medical reforms have accounted for on the president s budget for fiscal 2021. Ng as b you will notice we will hae numbers coming inn and out. We are getting briefings on o covetedn bu 19 as we speak and other meetings going meon. And your full testimonies we will get started across thebudgt spectrum of military Health Care System for military readiness to benefit care, and manydeci cases budget justifican slacks that detail. For the subcommittee to make informed decisions. We hope the Witnesses Today can address the subcommittees questions and concerns at a particular inter
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
And if you are going out, a quick look shows low clouds clearing out into the day today because we are warming up with plenty of sunshine for everyone today. At the coast, 60 degrees and mid60s around the bay and low 70s into the inland communities. That is just the beginning of the warm up and i will talk about that in a bit. For now, we will see how the traffic is doing. We do have slow traffic at the bay bridge, not unusual. Its coming up on 6 00. 6 01 to be exact with slow traffic, as you might expect. Interstate 880, looking good into downtown oakland with some other commutes waking up. 680 out of pleasanton is slow heading south. 6 01 and back to the desk. The Oakland Unified School district officials will hold two meetings for parents and neighbors to update them on the temporary closure of Mcclymonds High School after a cancercausing chemical was detected under the school. Allie rasmus is live in oakland where district officials are waiting for test results. Reporter these two
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