Privilege of operating. Admiral greenert cannot be here due to a death in his family but im joined by the very able vice chief, admiral michelle howard. Uniquely, the navy and marine corps provide presence around the globe around the clock. The nations first line of defense. Presence means we respond faster. We remain on station longer. We carry everything we need with us. And we do whatever missions are assigned by our nations leaders without needing anyone elses permission. We have always known americas success depends on exceptional navy and marine corps. Article one of the constitution, which you quoted mr. Chairman authorizes congress to raise an army when needed. But directs it to provide and maintain a navy. From the first six frigates to our growing fleet of today from tripoli to afghanistan sailors and the marines have proven the founders wisdom. American leaders across the spectrum have understood the vital significance of the sea power. We deploy in peace just as much as in
The state of colorado and the workforce men and women of for your presence there. And i thank you for that. On the Virginia Class Program along with the virginia payload module and the ohio replacement, as we faced significant budget challenges, secretary, can you tell us how is your ability to keep those programs on track at the president s budget level or if we have to drop back to bca levels or even worse, how is it impacted if sequestration goes into effect to keep those programs on track . Especially given the challenges we face with the submarine forces declining if we dont keep those on track just at the same time our adversaries in china especially are increasing their size of their fleets. Thank you, congressman. The Virginia Class Program is a model program. As you know we signed a ten boat multiyear, where we got 10 submarines for the price of nine because of this committees support in allowing us to do the multiyear. To break a multi year because of lack of funds, that is p
Employees. We have a body of law and several years at least of experience. But title 7 has been worked out perfectly but its very controversial. One of the things that developed quite late sometimes 50 years after it passes. For example, right here, weve been told that title 7 can be used in terms of Sexual Orientation and gender identity. Nobody would have thought that in 1964. And maybe thats the right way to interpret it, or maybe its the wrong way. But its wrong to suggest that the language is not going to be a problem, because its not a problem now. Thats not the way statutes work. I understand that but i think its more important in your considerations to address what is the real problem now that we are trying to ameliorate. I think thats the wrong approach. We have a problem we have to deal with it right now. Lets go with whatever good language we have. We want good language. That wont be abused in the future. We want it to cover only the things we want it to cover. Do we have th
Federal judiciary was one of the first things the congress had to do. I am donald richie, the senate historian. Im pleased to welcome you to this session. In 2009, the associations for the center of the association of the study of congress, which housed the records of senators and representatives decided we needed to do something to focus National Attention on congress. Not on the political side of congress, not on the current battles of congress, but on the institution of congress as a representation of Representative Democracy and how our federal government was intended to work and has worked over the last 200 years. They created Congress Week to coincide with these first two quorums the house and senate had in 1789. In celebrating Congress Week, we have various ways of doing that. Senator bill nelson of florida gave a speech in the Senate Chamber last week urging members to present the records of their service preserve the records of their service. The records of the committees of c
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