Rules tuesday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan3. Watch online at cspan. Org or listen live with the free cspan radio app. Joining us on capitol hill is congressman mac thornberry, republican of texas. Thank you for joining us on newsmakers. Mr. Thornberry thanks for having me. Heresjoe gould covers congress for defense news. With your first question is john donnelly. John first question i want to ask about is the National Defense authorization act, the ndaa, which is expected to become law very soon. A marquee element of that legislation is the creation of a 6th branch of the u. S. Military to be called space force, part of the air force like the marine corps is part of the navy. China and russia are endangering military satellites in space. We know the importance of space as a war fighting realm, but talk to us why its important to have a separate organization created, why the air force doesnt have the resources or commitment to get it done. Rep. Thornberry i think the place to start i
Ayes and 17 nos. With the House Judiciary Committee approving two articles of impeachment against President Trump, abuse of power and obstruction of congress, the House Rules Committee will meet to consider the guidelines. Watch live coverage of house rules, tuesday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan3. Watch online at cspan. Org or listen live with the free cspan radio app. Joining us on capitol hill is congressman mac thornberry, republican of texas. Thank you for joining us on newsmakers. Joe gould covers congress for defense news. With your first question is john donnelly. John first question i want to ask about is the National Defense authorization act, the ndaa, which is expected to become law very soon. A marquee element of that legislation is the creation of a 6th branch of the u. S. Military to be called space force, part of the air force like the marine corps is part of the navy. China and russia are endangering military satellites in space. We know the importance of space as a w
Out of the last cr vote that ultimately will see an increase on defense spending, that budget caps would be lifted. What message do you have for leadership as far as breaking the impass and getting to a larger deal to fund the federal government . Sen. Inhoff but we have to do is get away from these crs. When i started it was understood we would have appropriation bills. We have 12 appropriation bills and we have not quite frankly there is a partisan elements of this. We have tried to pass them out and we cant get them on the floor. As you know, a minority can block them from coming up on the floor. As far as the one that has to pass, it is the for our national one defense. We have to get past the budget caps. We have to get i will give you an example. If we dont do anything as it is right now when we pass the authorization bill for the military, its at 700 billion. If for some reason we cant get beyond the caps and we have to go to a strict cr, thats going to go down to 549 billion an
House in philadelphia. Each week, we visit museums, archives and tis hotorque place. Every day of the year except december 25th. The tour of the United States and around the world take a short boat ride from either Lower Manhattan or energy to visit the statue of liberty and ellis island. Up next, we visit ed the landmak to learn the story behind the gift from vance unveiled in 1886 after 21 years of planning, fund raising and construction. Welcome to statue of liberty. Im from jacksonville, florida. Folks, i have a great job. Ive been working with the National Parks Service Since 1999. Ive been all over the United States. Then i went to jacksonville for Caroline National memorial and the outer banks in north carolina. Ed ott our nations First National seashore. Cape hatteras. Ive been working here for about seven years now. We want protect these special places. We want to repair future swren rations, thats our goal. Folks, here we are at the statue of liberty, our nations most famous
Reporter with defense news. What does the Defense Authorization bill and what is in the version, the 2018 version approved by the House Armed Services committee . The House Armed Services passed it, the national Defense Authorization act for 2018 earlier or late last month, and what it is, is the bill the annual defense policy bill. It gets reconciled with the senate version. In this case they authorized about 696 billion in defense budgeting and related policy provisions for the pentagon. So thats 696 billion figure though, it exceeds the cap set in the budget control act. How will congress reconcile that . Well, thats a huge question. The budget cap for defense in this case is a number, it is 549 billion. So what it would take to ease the spending cap is a change in the law and a change in the law takes 60 votes in the senate. 60 votes in the senate takes sena Senate Democrats. So what we know is that Senate Democrats have leverage in this deal, that theyre likely to press for more o