Those in person should line up to speak and those on the phone should dial star 3 to be added to the queue. You will have 2 minutes you will hear a time at 30 seconds and a second chime when your 2 minutes is up. 1. Call to yard. Sushth son. Director dunlop. Director richardson. Here director howard. Here and supervisor dorsey. We have a quorum. Thank you so much and thank you for joining us today. We will go to the next item. Item 2 general Public Comment. This item is to alet you public to address the tida board on matters in the subject matter jurisdiction of the board and dont appear on the agenda. In addition, Public Comment will be during each item on the agenda. Is there anybody hold like to address the board on general comment. Good afternoon, commissioners and im jeff kline a 25 year resident of thank you for hearing my comment. Which is regarding climb that made in the past. And was repeated again by director becket last month that Treasure Island housing would not exist exce
Mr. Thornberry mr. Speaker, i want to start by thanking the 63 members of the Armed Services committee, not only for all of their work in putting this bill together but for the seriousness with which they take our duties under the constitution to help provide for the common defense. Our members dont always agree, but were able to work our way through our differences most of the time and think about the larger cause. You might say we sacrifice some of our individual differences or preferences in order to support the men and women who sacrifice so much for us. And i want to thank all the members of the house. Weve had a lot of members over the last two days who have come down to the floor and talked about their amendments. Who have and all of those amendments have helped make this bill a better bill. And thats the way that for 54 straight years congresses of majorities of both parties and president s of both parties have defense bill, a last year was a little iffy but its happened. There
Along our constitutional lines between the executive branch and outside of that. Host is there a spectrum crunch . Guest theres certainly a lot of demand for spectrum and we stopped making spectrum a long time ago. There isnt any more so were having to come up with ways of accommodating all the various uses. Certainly, the growth of cellular has been astronomical. Were continuing to look for ways to provide that portion of our community more spectrum. Unlicensed use has grown tremendously. The advent, for instance of wifi was a huge expansion in the amount of consumer use and so on of unlicensed operations. But the federal government use is i growing also is growing also. The federal agencies have are lots of different kinds of operations so while in a cell phone band everything in that band is basically cell phones, maybe at some different point of their evolution and technology standpoint, but theyre basically all cell phonesment they pack them together, its very uniform. On the fede
Major networks where they were watching it in new york called down to the capitol and had Staff Reporters and producers go down on the grass to watch it happen. Do you all not monitor social media . Is twitter like a new thing for you . I mean this stuff is out there. Try google alert. Its there. If its a he no the showing up on the radar, it was showing up on the medias radar and i dont understand why you arent able to pick up that sort of signal. Because if you say that theres never any exposure in advance we got to become more technically savvy. If you can truly have somebody read a story online, get it to the appropriate person in new york, send a producer erproducer, she walks down on the grass and watches it land and you all have billions of dollars billions and you dont see a dude in a gyrocopter flying over we deal with this on the border every single day. If i got customs and Border Patrol up here they would tell you about how theyre detecting these. Theyll tell you how the in
House that is doing all that we can to ensure that our veterans get timely care and the best care that we can provide them. This is cynical and its shameful and i believe, i believe that the American People can see straight through it. So i hope again, madam chair, that the president will reconsider this position. Because there is no place, no place here in this bill for political gamesmanship when it comes to our military families and our veterans. Thank you. I yield back. The chair the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. At this time i yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from california, ms. Lee, a member of the subcommittee on military construction and Veterans Affairs. The chair the gentlelady from california is recognized for three minutes. Ms. Lee thank you very much, madam chairman. Let me thank the Ranking Member for yielding, for his unwavering leadership for our veterans on this committee and for your friendship. Thank you very m