Today. Another edition of this Program Comes your way tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. You will be able to text us at 202 7488003. We go to the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the order. Ill be in the chair lays before the house communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, 10, ngton, d. C. , september 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable dingell to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Speaker ofcy pelosi, representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the mr. Eman from illinois, bos, fo
Special consideration of the United States and the future. Its not going to be subject to the same budget control rules as the other expenditures. Last night steve corn aky show showed an interview about how you and he were gym buddies and turned marco rubio around on immigration and used the gym as a Hunting Ground to turn people over. Who are some of your targets that you might like to was Chuck Schumer lying . I go to the senate gym daily. He said that republicans go early and democrats go late. Yes. I tend to be thats why i try to be there first at 5 30. I go there every day for no obvious reason. A way to relieve stress. The first one there is an Orthopedic Surgeon from wyoming. We talk about these issues. And theres an opportunity there. Your guard is down when youre sweating and puffing and all the rest of this stuff. To talk about some of these issues. I have solved some big problems in the gym with my colleagues. I caught them at a vulnerable moment, you know. I think approach
To 346 ships. And our Combatant Commanders say they require 450 ships. With continual high operational tempo, we will continue the downward spiral of military capacity and readiness until congress acts. I look forward to discussing many of these today. First, each forward class Aircraft Carrier has experienced more than 2 billion in cost growth. This Program Continues to be plagued by Technology Immaturity and a lack of reliability test data for critical systems. This is unacceptable. I repeat. Unacceptable. And i fully expect the navys ongoing study of alternative Aircraft Carrier designs to provide real options. In all three of the lcs Mission Packages most overcome Major Technology integration challenges to deliver the promised warfighting capability. Building the first ohio class replacement submarine building the first flight three destroyer with the new Missile Defense radar, radar, radar. In Naval Aviation it will take strong leadership to oversee the smooth and timely integrati
To execute the current Defense Strategy and specific chi unable to address the challenges that secretary carter outlined. The fiscal year 17 budget begins to address the most critical investments required to maintain our competitive advantage. To the extent possible, within the resources provided by the 2015 bipartisan budget act, it addresses the departments five challenges. It does so by balancing three major areas investment in highend capabilities, the capability and capacity to meet current operational demands, and the need to rebuild readiness after an extended period of war. In the years ahead, well need Adequate Funding levels and predictability to fully recover from over a decade of war and delayed modernization. A bow wave of procurement requirements in the future include the submarine replacement, continued cyber and space investments, and a longrange strike bomber. It will also be several years before we fully restore full Spectrum Readiness across the services and replenis
Inconsistent. Can you tell us in your judgment whether or not first of all the is our mission succeeding in afghanistan, first of all, but secondly, can you tell us about the capabilities of the Afghan Security forces and whether they are on track for where we expected them to be at this point in the campaign with a little over 20 months to go until the end of the i. C. F. Mission. Thank you, chairman. Ill defer. I thought i would start with general madison. Did i say you, admiral . Im sorry. Chairman, our mission is succeeding. The Afghan Campaign is on track. It is obviously a combination of progress and violence but i would say when it comes down to the ansf, the Afghan National Security Forces, they are proving themselves capable. Obviously; when we were looking at the drawdown numbers, there was a certain amount of forecasting that the Afghan Forces would be capable. Let me give you some statistics to take this beyond simply my evaluation. Since the first of january we have lost f