The National Defense authorization bill today for 2021. There there are a number of amendment votes scheduled for this afternoon. Live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal spirit, grant to this nation, and to all people, a social conscience built on the vision of the ancient prophets who saw sufficiency for every person and a time when anxiety would overcome chaos and hopelessness. Hasten the day when the small and weak can make their contributions alongside the great and powerful. Lead us to the day when we will see peace among the nations of the earth, when swords shall be beaten into plowshares. Use the members of this body to bring us to the time when your will is done on earth even as it is dob in heaven. Lord, we trust you with our future. Let your glory cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The pr
Chair lowey i will say good morning again. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members could send anything they wish to submit in writing. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of Business Today is consideration of the department of defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021. I will not recognize to present the bill. Thank you, madam chairwoman. Before i begin my remarks, i reluctantly have to acknowledge this will be my final Opening Statement before the House Appropriations committee. I have no new revelations to make but for those of you who will remain on this committee, there are a few things i would like to say. Him saying them as someone who is so compulsive, he saved the congressional record on the day he was appointed to this committee after years of efforts, which makes mr. Rogers, my good friend, the only person
This is one thing i know many of to hear about today is how have they capitalized on the instability of covid19 . The geopolitical priorities are shifting. One of the areas where we dont see stability but on the same end, we do not see a threat to the homeland. It is clear today many of the American People are united by the fact that they want to see us invest at home but as a new yorker, i can tell you this the memory of 9 11 lives on. Not just 9 11, but the myriad of other terrorists attacks. To move on, i know many of us the importance of coalition building. Proactively and robustly, how do we efficiently and effectively fight the terrorist threat . Particularly the gis terrorist threat. How do we fight it . The terroristt threat of today, not just yesterday. We are certainly seeing a resurgence. Some appear to have escaped. Germany wereis in arrested after they planned to attack a u. S. Air force base. In may, a florida man was arrested who planned and attempted to carry out a mass
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Fellow for joining us this afternoon. We will introduce them in just a moment. As a reminder, attendees have their volume and video that we are eager to incorporate the questions to the extent of time allows. You can submit those using the qanda feature on zoom and we will record a session and distribute and post the video afterwards to the benefit of everyone. Stay tuned for upcoming discussions former under secretary of defense will join us next thursday may 28 and the Jackson Institute to introduce the special guest. Thanks and welcome everyone. As we grapple with the ramifications of the pandemic we are grateful to have a Wonderful Group of faculty and senior fellows. One such individual is the jackson senior fellow howard dean who is a former physician, six term governor of vermont, president ial candidate share of the National Governors association and the Democratic National committee. With maybe a little less wellknown governor dean is professor dean and teaches an incredibly p