Brookings institution. This is over an hour. Good morning, everyone, and on behalf of brookings and our center for 21st century security, were honored to have the chief of staff of the army, general ray odierno, to speak. You are aware of the challenges of the budget process and our future military planning as well as current operations. No one could be more distinguished and a more thoughtful person to discuss these matters than general odierno, who is a friend of brookings and the broader Defense Community for a long time, and he has been a distinguished servant in our nations military and defense throughout that time. He took the Fourth Infantry Division to iraq and presided over its operation, directed its operations in the first year of the iraq war. Then he returned as the Multinational Force Corps Commander and was along with David Petraeus and ryan crocker one of the key three american architects of the surge. Search. From december 2006 through the early time of 2008, he was th
Dollars per year. We heard about all the tactics in the tax code. We should get rid of some of those for the purpose of deficit reduction. That is what our plan does in the short term and that is what it would do in the long term. We hope we can have an opportunity to have an up and down vote on the plan that we have put forward. At least two or three times we are going to be asking for a vote in the rules committee for that proposal. I hope we can have an opportunity to have a free flow of debate and ultimately a vote. Thank you mr. Chairman. I would love to begin the debate right now but we have a hearing to get into. The floor is yours. Thank you mr. Chairman. I appreciate the opportunity to be here today and discuss with you cbos outlook for the budget and economy for the next 10 years. Are analyzing shows that the country continues to debate a very large economic challenges. I will discuss the economy first and then i will turn to the budget. We anticipate Economic Growth will rem
Combat vet at that. The vicious ps is something we havent seen before because of the combination of mccarthyism and this weird unconnectedness attacking chuck hagel, for example, because no one will give us info or anyone info about the benghazi situation even though hagel wasnt even in the government when benghazi happened. Sick stuff. And it seems to be growing in inverse proportion to obamas popularity. The better he looks the worse these characters inhofe, cruz, mccain and Lindsey Graham are determined to look. Did you notice the smile on John Boehners face sitting up there behind the president during the state of the union . If you did, youre imagining things. So afraid of the hard hating right of republicans these days of every stripe even boehners scared to death of looking like he might like something barack obama had so say. To do that is to risk political death in these days. Lets go at it. Our guests are joy reid of the grio and michael steele, former chafer of the Republica
Caller i think they are representing my ideas, my belief system, and my conservatism. I think they are doing the right thing. Host any leaders in particular . We saw senator rubio give the gop response. Caller i think mark rubio, john mccain, ted cruz, a lot of these congressmen who have been in government for a while, and some of the new ones are doing the job that they were sent there to do. They are representing the constituency from where they are from. The democrats do the same. I know we have differences on both sides of the aisle, but i believe that being able to being able to Work Together and coming together as a nation and congress has a lot to do with barack obama as the president. He was reelected. He needs to be in the white house. He needs to lead this nation. He does not need to be out in campaign mode. That is all i have seen from barack obama. Campaign, speech lets get everybody in the white house, and lets get things done. Guest a couple of points we hear this from co
Fellow soldiers boarded a convoy to embark on the first ever u. S. Army coasttocoast motor transport train averaging a mere 5 miles per hour, it took the caravan two months to reach San Francisco, driving along the local lanes and the state roads, but they were in such disrepair that the soldiers had to fix 88 bridges themselves just to complete the journey. Years later, that same young soldier, dwight d. Eisenhower, found himself again on the road, but this time as a general commanding the allied forces in world war ii. Along the pristine freshly built roads of the german autobon. Troops and eisenhower took full advantage of the roads built by nazi germany and using them to defeat the axis forces, and the super highway left a lasting impression on the general and one that would grow into the grand plan once he became president. Even before the election, he envisioned a national highway system 40 miles long that would be quote as necessary to defense as it is to the National Economy an