About regulating political ads on social media platforms. Watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern Tuesday Morning and join the discussion. British Prime Minister teresa may updated members of the house of commons on the status of brexit negotiations her meeting with European Union leaders in brussels. She was challenged by Jeremy Corbin who questioned her report of progress and unity of her own party members. This is just under an hour. Statements, the Prime Minister. Hear, hear. Thank you, mr. Speaker and with permission i would like to make a statement on last weeks European Council. Long after we have theft the European Union the uk will be a strong and committed partner, standing on side our neighbors and working together advance our shared values and interests. This council provided a further opportunity to demonstrate that ongoing commitment, through discussions that include migration, the digital market, turkey, north korea and iran. And it may be important progress
Their policies for those who report sexual misconduct. The Defense Advisory Committee is tasked with bringing its recommendations to the secretary of defense and Armed Services committee of congress. This is an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] before we continue with our next panel, id like miss garvin to have the mic for a moment. During the break i had an opportunity to speak a little more to miss stolberg and asked her about her service dog and she authorized me to say how much the service dog has aided in her recovery and how important the dog is. And she pays for the dog out of pocket and did not have access to that as part of her recovery in any formal way so i thought it was important for us to know na piece of information in light of how much its helped in her recovery. Thank you. Okay. Were now going to begin with the briefing of the department of defense and military services expedited transfer policies. We have quite the distinguished panel. The only person is ms.
Opportunity to present to you the overview of the armys 2018 budget request. More importantly, i will tell you i am even more more so pleao be able to continue to serve our great country in uniform, as an army soldier. So, thats always something that inspires me. Ill take a few minutes here in the process of providing an overview of what the army is doing today. Ill sketch out the current operating environment, what our fiscal posture has looked like over the last five to six years and how this request supports the administrations and the Army Leaderships priorities. And then of course ill spend some time to provide a biapproach ration review of some of the details of the armys request. We are increasingly more and more active in worldwide operations across the globe. I would offer to you that the current pictorial on the slide before you not only represents some of the Current Operations where army forces are heavily engaged, but it should remind us all of the velocity of instability
Mr. Chairman secretary mattis im a new congressman and i have to tell you i am surprised but we have across the globe and i quickly became the captain of a 335 ship me. With that to future Defense Strategy might change or evolves . And dont want to put words in your routes. So sowetos major conflicts simultaneously so do you envision and i know your crystal ball may not be perfect but what about that aspect changing over time . The enemy or our adversary that is like what he uses with that unpredictable phenomenon that they deal with that is called war. That is why you have to be prepared for that is everything about the of military that has a shock absorber and then to be more than one adversary and in one arena if they have mischief in mind they will take advantage and then to be more proposed over one thing. But if somebody asked you with that billion dollar reduction with the shipbuilding accounted. I did not understand your answer would you mind repeating it . But it reduced that
Year 2018 budget requests. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee. We welcome chairman dunford ba back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing is, how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring both the external threats on the current state of our military. This committee has repeatedly heard testimony over the last two years that our country faces more serious complex pretty challenges now than we have ever faced before. The hearings and briefings we held on the current state of our military have been disturbing. The ministration budget request of 306 billion for base requirements a 6 above the 17 an active level and 3 above the last obama proposal. Its also 37 billion below what this committee assess last fall was needed and about 58 million below the fy 12 gates budget which was independently validated by the bipartisan National Defense panel. The issue is not about numbers. Its about what those n