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Here to talk about the pentagon budget. Lets speak about the news this week, defence secretary chuck hagel is being pushed out in prison of obama will have a new defence secretary, what you make of it . Him and chuck hagel are on different pages with this whole isil strategy. We saw that with his resignation this week. The president put him on a corner and said they could not on any boots on the ground iraq and syria. Right now the military have been conducting extracts for more than a month, but there is questions over the effectiveness of the airstrikes. There are about 3000 people on the ground right now and it is tough to see how that will go forward. Where were he the differences between the two . Terms of a solution how you go after someone, from 30,000 feet up in the sky the only have some effect. Soberly mentioned this might have no solution that does not include boots on the ground. The military saying . The artin dempsey spoke at summit last week, he said he is optimistic tha
Promise . Actually, it was a threeday promise and has been whittled down since then. But we didnt have the three days that were originally romised by republicans. The bill, i knew it would increase tricare costs. Wasnt happy about that. I voted know against a procisthat takes something as important as our National Defense and said here you go, heres the whole thing, trust us, vote for it. We didnt have a chance to review it. What were there any powers in this thing given additionally to the n. S. A. . Is there any more power to spy on americans under this bill . I dont know. I couldnt vote for a bill that as launched on us last night thats this important, and i deeply regret it with the good things that were in here, and there were numerous good things, well thought out. But you cant push a bill this important on us, especially when we know there are problems , we just dont get a chance to find them. Cant vote yes. I couldnt in good conscience vote yes. One additional ironing, mr. Spea
Critical and important debates. We have one of the senior members working in the back. We want to think jack for being here and all the support that you have given, not only in the book but our committee since you have joined the bar association. Appreciated. I speak on behalf of all of our committee. We are pleased to say that we have a number of positive responses. The former National Counterintelligence executive, the director, bob bryant, one of the best of the key issues of the National Security arena. What makes a stand that is the bipartisan dialogue, intellectual rigor, timeliness, and readability. A must read for practitioners and policy makers and the general public. I take with of would like to do that this point is sort of explain how the book came about. The person going task to do that is bernie horowitz. As briefly explain the process by which he decided to come about to write this book. Good afternoon. I would like to thank the committee on law and National Security for
Louisiana to a greater standard of living. Under the obama economy there has been 38,000 more people in louisiana who have gone on to food stamps that have got jobs. One thing that create working familys energy jobs. If you vote for harry reid jobs will not occur if you let bill cassidy be your sennett. It is unbelievable lets get the facts right, of course we support equal pay for a fact the a matter of facts. Made e charge that he just is absolutely false, my first chief of staff was a female, my current chief of staff is the africanamerican chief of staff. He is using them for his own purpose because he does not support the equal pay law on the books which is what i am for. The y also voted against Lilly Ledbetter law which get an equal pension if they have been paid less through their career. We have a final minute, let yes and no ut some questions wage yes or inimal no . Yes. No. Size fits nother one all solution. Marriage for samesex couples could be a problem if there is no nomi