Terrorism programs. Governors from across the country are meeting in des moines, iowa. Gary herbert and vice chair Terry Mcauliffe held a News Conference at the start of the conference joined by iowas Governor Terry branstad. We will go ahead and get started. I am scott madison, the executive director of the National Governors association. Feel free to take your seats. Welcome. This is the 108th summer meeting of the National Governors associati association and taking place with the backdrop of a lot of serious issues across the nation and world and of course two major Party Conventions taking place in the next couple weeks. I am happy to introduce the chairman of the National Governors association from utah, governor branstad and we have the vice chairman, governor mcauliffe from virginia and the host, the longest serving governor in the mystery of the United States terry branstad. We are happy to have him. [applause] and now, it is funny, people say the meeting is going great so far
We will go ahead and get started. I am scott madison, the executive director of the National Governors association. Feel free to take your seats. Welcome. This is the 108th summer meeting of the National Governors associati association and taking place with the backdrop of a lot of serious issues across the nation and world and of course two major Party Conventions taking place in the next couple weeks. I am happy to introduce the chairman of the National Governors association from utah, governor branstad and we have the vice chairman, governor mcauliffe from virginia and the host, the longest serving governor in the mystery of the United States terry branstad. We are happy to have him. [applause] and now, it is funny, people say the meeting is going great so far and i say it is good laws of governor branstad. I am turn it over to david yepsen and many of you probably know david. Heavy has been with the Des Moines Register and on Public Television in different capacities and now he is
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The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent that following the vote on calendar number 849, carnes, on monday, july 21, the senate remain in executive session to consider calendar number 789, lawson, and 537, reddick, there be two minutes for debate equally divided between the two leaders or their designees prior to each vote, that upon the use or yielding back of what time, the senate proceed to vote with no intervening action or debate on the nominations in the order listed. That any roll call votes following the first in the series be 10 minutes in length. The motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, that no further actions be in order. That any statements be printed in the record and that president obama be immediately notified of the senates action and the senate then resume legislative session. The presiding officer
Afghans, how would you rate that difference . Significant. Yeah. Okay. Now, lets talk about the other aspect, train, advise and assist. Youre asked to evaluate the plan on paper. You said if everything works out well, that by 2017, on the train, advise and assist lane, we might be okay. It would be possible to develop sustainability by that time. Okay. And theres a lot of assumptions that have to be made and met; is that correct . There are, senator. Some of these assumptions are pretty enormous. Theyre significant assumptions. To hit all of the gates, would it be akin to kicking a 65 yard field goal . Senator, it would be difficult to hit all the gates exactly as weve outlined them. I think it would be kicking a 65 yard field goal into the wind. But thats just my two cents worth. This is on paper. My statement is that on paper, theres a disaster in the making to our homeland and to losing all the games we fought inside afghanistan by drawing down too quick and not being able to help t