Good morning, everybody. The Committee Meets today to consider the nomination of former senator chuck hagel to be secretary of defense. Before i begin, i want to first will come senator inhofe as the new ranking republican on our committee, succeeding senator mccain. Senator mccain has been a great partner over the past six years, and i thank him for all the work he has done to get bills enacted, his leadership on a host of issues, his support for the work of this committee, and for always keeping our hearings likely. Senator inhofe has shown his strong commitment to the National Defense over his 20 years on this committee. And i know that we are going to work well together and continue the bipartisan tradition of the committee. We are also pleased to welcome the eight senators who are joining the committee this year, both of those who are new to the senate and those who are new to our committee. Senators donnelly, hirano, kaine, and king on the democratic side, and senators blunt, cru
Good morning, everybody. The Committee Meets today to consider the nomination of former senator chuck hagel to be secretary of defense. Before i begin, i want to first welcome senator inhofe as the new ranking republican on our committee, succeeding senator mccain. Senator mccain has been a great partner over the past six years, and i thank him for all the work he has done to get bills enacted, his leadership on a host of issues, his support for the work of this committee, and for always keeping our hearings likely. Lively. Senator inhofe has shown his strong commitment to the National Defense over his 20 years on this committee. And i know that we are going to work well together and continue the bipartisan tradition of the committee. We are also pleased to welcome the eight senators who are joining the committee this year, both of those who are new to the senate and those who are new to our committee. Senators donnelly, hirono, kaine, and king on the democratic side, and senators blun
Carl levin chairs the Armed Services committee and makes the Opening Statement. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] good morning, everybody. The Committee Meets today to consider the nomination of former senator chuck hagel to be secretary of defense. Before i begin, i want to first welcome senator inhofe as the new ranking republican on our committee, succeeding senator mccain. Senator mccain has been a great partner over the past six years, and i thank him for all the work he has done to get bills enacted, his leadership on a host of issues, his support for the work of this committee, and for always keeping our hearings likely. Lively. Senator inhofe has shown his strong commitment to the National Defense over his 20 years on this committee. And i know that we are going to work well together and continue the bipartisan tradition of the committee. We are also pleased to welcome the eight senators who are join
He was interviewed about, quote, possible unauthorized disclosures of information to reporters about cyberattacks against iran and possible unauthorized disclosures of information to reporters about a foiled bomb plot tied to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. Lets bring in the political panel, chris anders, senior legislative counsel and Michael Isikoff. Michael, a lot happened certainly since you broke that news of what was in this memo including this move by the white house. What do we make of at least what were seeing right before bren anna nicoles confirmation hearing in regards to the white houses latest move here . Well, first of all, it was an important step that the white house took because until last night, the official position of the administration is they couldnt even confirm or deny the existence of such a memo. In fact, they said that its in and of itself was a classified matter so by putting out the Statement Last night that they were going to let the house and Senate I
None of this work to roll this term. None of this work to roll this term. None of this work to roll this out is going to be wasted. Regular testing will take place of staff and students in school and in due course help us to reopen schools as soon as possible. Testing will be the centre of our plans to return children back to school, back to the classroom, back to college as soon as possible. I never wanted to be in a position where we had to close schools again. I believe that schools should always have their gates open, welcoming children and always being at the heart of their community. The moment that the virus permits, all of our children will be back in school with their teachers and their friends. But until then we have put in place measures we need to make sure that they continue to progress, and for
this reason i commend this statement to the house. Thank you, happy new year. May i begin by paying tribute to the deputy general secretary of the nasuwt gareth young, who tragical