And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
Host a conversation on military readiness and the threat we face. Od, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing military strength is a major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Gather all Public Information we can come across. Thecial testimonies from pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs. General news reporting from the community and our personal contacts in the services and pentagon. We gather all that all year long, go through analysis and writing processes, prepare last years information and this years and then issue a report card on the military. This year on a scale of one to five we would give it a marginal. We feel the u. S. Military at large is marginally able to meet the demands of National Security requirements. Meaning they can handle one major conflict in one part of the world, but not much more than that. We think it needs to be more than that because the u. S. Has global interests and responsibilities. Host the u. S. Military
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The committee on rules and Administration Come to order. I thank my colleagues for attending todays hearing, some virtually, some in person, same for our witnesses, we are going to be welcoming them as well. The secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, miss jane abraham, former chairman of the Congressional Commission to study the potential for a National Womens History Museum. Miss cc rojas of the Latino Coalition and mister danny vargas, of the National Museum of the american latino. I want to thank all of them for joining us. We will hear from a number of senators who have spent time on this had been sponsors of this bill. Senator collins, senator cornyn, senator menendez joining us for remarks following the remarks of the three of us. This is secretary bunchs second appearance before the senate rules committee. We are grateful to have him with us today. He was appointed secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in june of 2019, what a first year you have had. Obviously covid19 forc
Chairman blunt the Senate Rules Committee held proposals for two new Smithsonian Museums, the american Womens History Museum and the National Museum of the american latino. Among the witnesses, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and actress eva longoria. His is about 90 minutes. Chairman blunt the committee on rules and administration will come to order. Good morning. I thank my colleagues for attending todays hearing, some virtually, some in person. The same for our witnesses. We are going to be welcoming them as well. The secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, miss jane abraham, former chairman of the Congressional Commission to study the potential for a national Womens History Museum. Miss c. C. Rojas, chairman of the Latino Coalition, and mr. Danny vargas, chairman of the friends of the National Museum of the american latino. I want to thank all of them for joining us. We will hear from a number of senators who have spent time on this and have been sponsors of this bi