At Guantanamo Bay in cuba and not in the United States. Host they are about to gavel in on the house floor. Tom cole, thank you for the conversation. We will bring you over to the house now. Live coverage on cspan,. Gaveltogavel [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. It loving god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. In these most important days in debates here in the peoples house, we beg you to send
Thanking the republican members of the staff, democratic. They do an enormous amount of incredible work to produce this product. We upheld the bipartisan tradition of this bill. Worked with republicans and democrats and produced a very good product. We must acknowledge the incredible hard work thats done by the people sitting behind me. I appreciate that. I also appreciate the working relationship that i have with the Ranking Member. When i was the Ranking Member and he was the chair, we worked together on a lot of issues and we continued to do so. I appreciate that leadership and i appreciate his commitment to the defense bill. And i think this is a good bill. I just want to mention a few things in it that are positive. First of all, at 733 billion, begin, more on that again, more on that later, within this bill we also focus on cutting waste and dramatically increasing accountability, because i think the taxpayers and, yes, the troops, want to make sure the pentagon doesnt just spend
Joint chiefs of staff. General dunford, the Committee Thanks you for your decades of distinguished service to our nation. We are grateful to your wife, ellen, for the support that she has always provided to you, and to all who serve our nation in uniform. I would also like to welcome your son patrick. Patrick, fortunately you look like your mother. Thank you. Who is joining us this morning. I know that your other children, joe and kathleen, send their support from afar. Even as i bet theyre a little relieved that they dont have to sit through your interrogation. In order to exercise its oversight responsibilities its important that this committee and other committees of congress receive testimony and briefings and communications of information. Have you adhered to applicable laws and regulations governing conflicts of interest . I have. Do you agree when asked to give your personal views even if the views differ from the administration in power . I do, chairman. Have you assumed any du
Testimony on the department of defenses fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis, chairman dunford, secretary norquist and thank you for your many years of distinguished service and your leadership of our men and women in uniform before we begin. We all want to acknowledge the service and sacrifice of Sergeant Eric houg, corporal dylan baldridge, these three soldiers from the armys 101st Airborne Division were killed this weekend in afghanistan. The thoughts and prayers of this committee are with their loved ones. The sacrifice of these heroes is a painful reminder that america is still a nation at war. That is true in afghanistan where after 15 years of war we face a stalemate and urgently need a change in strategy and an increase of resources if we are to turn the situation around. We also remain engaged in a Global Campaign to defeat isis and related terrorist groups from libya and yemen to iraq and syria where u. S. Troops are helping to destroy isis and reclaim
Corvex management having a 400 million stake in the french food company. Good morning it is tuesday. Once again, European Equity markets are heading higher that said we dont have all the equity markets open today. Volumes will be lower than usual given that there is a Public Holiday in the places like india, poland, greece. The xetra dax is what were showing. Its up by 0. 25 so were still benefiting from this return to equities, this return to risk after we are trying to forget about the risk aversion that happened last week given the events between north korea and the u. S. Lets look at the european markets one by one the ftse 100 is up by 0. 1 the cac 40 is up by 0. 2 danone is a factor well get to that story in a bit. First, lets focus in on the big news out of washington and the u. S. Yesterday intels Brian Krzanich and kevin plank are the latest ceos to step down from President Trumps ceo council. This after the president failed to single out white nationalists for violence over t