Joining us is aaron oh connell who is also the authority of this book underdog the making of the modern ma marine corps. What was it established . 1775. But the birthday is something of a myth. The marines claim 10, november, 1775. Thats actually just the date that congress authorized the creation of the marine corps. Its a very small part of the navy. The burning cars completely separate from the navy now. They are completely her. This became contentious throughout the course history. They would claim they should follow the rules of the navy. When they shared the regulation of the army and eventually in 1832 they became a separate service inside. Host had their Mission Change . Guests at the mission to change so much. There midship urged into the 20 century, but there were some in the jack of all trades. They would do other traits, most often as landing parties and the navy with 10 flavors and marines, investor of the 20th century he took on a variety of mission in haiti and the phili
I reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. The gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Nugent i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida reserves. The gentleman from massachusetts. The gentlewoman from ohio is recognized for two minutes. Ms. Kaptur mr. Speaker, i want to thank the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. Mcgovern, for yielding to me. And also thank our Ranking Member of the defense subcommittee, mr. Visclosky of indiana, and our mutual friend and colleague, chairman bill young of florida, for their hard work on this bill. And it will benefit our nation, our men and women in uniform, our armed forces and all of those who are touched by what is contained in this legislation. Within the limits provided and despite severe cuts, this bill has been written in a bipartisan way by our subcommittee. I thank the members for working so collaboratively together. It is a model for this house and our committee o
Prepare for future conflict and russia, china, and other nation states improve their ew capabilities. U. S. Forces depend on vast networks for intelligence, strikes, navigation and logistics, and leaders realize that any smart enemy will attack these systems in any conflict to handicap american forces. Among the changes to bert protect forces has been to merge cyber and ew operations which are intimately intertwined. Joining us are the four men who head the ew efforts for their respective services. Colonel jim ekvall, chief of war far division. Captain greg smith, director of the navys threet Electronic Warfare, colonel jim hook pryor, chief of air force Electronic Warfare, and Lieutenant Colonel jason dizzy schuette, head of the warfare branch. Guys, welcome. Thank you. Colonel he can value, let me start with you but i want to kind of go around the table to get everybodys quick update on ew threats are that your services are facing and what you are doing them to prepare for the future
Can you comment on that . I would be happy to. Its been our experience whenever federal money has come the date has stepped up to issues and made additional money available as well. In kentucky we have been able to do a lot of the Major Projects through that whole mechanism. But the one thing i would say about 45 on average the money that states have to work to build projects is federal funding and of that 45 it constitutes more of the larger projects that we actually build and so its a critical piece of where we are. The states are doing a lot and we have seen that in a number of states enacting new funding mechanisms and so forth. We applaud the state could have done that and we are certainly encouraging everyone to do what they must find th to find the mt is necessary to invest. But youre right it is a difficult advance with the state budget and so forth but we found a lot of our colleagues that are interested in spending more on transportation. You made a great point about the hars
At stake for republicans voting in favor of it. The bill is essentially a clean suspension of the debt ceiling for about 13 months. What they are basically voting is if you are someone who in a republican primary contest, there are already arguments being made that republicans essentially voted in favor of giving a blank check for more government borrowing for a little more than the next year. It is the kind of thing that wont play well in republican primaries. Something thes republicans generally didnt want to have to vote for. They ultimately voted against it on the final passage. Observers of the senate know very well that this is not the where the final vote is the one that is really important. The vote that matters is the one with the 60 vote threshold. Which was, in this case,emanded by senator ted cruz the relative newcomer from texas that really wanted that threshold. Among the pieces you are writing, the worlds greatest blog, back toody that vote, you said the Democratic Leade