Cases. Talk about modernization efforts aimed at improving military readiness. Good afternoon everyone and thank you for coming. I am with the Foreign Policy program and it is my distinct honor to have the secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy, here with us. Of the armys id on modernization of its future force, but first, a brief introduction and i ask you to give him a big welcome. That a few thoughts by him to frame our topic. We will follow up with a little discussion between him and me and then go to your questions. It will be a crisp, quick session. Mister mccarthy is a proud native of chicago, has a bachelors degree in history which seems appropriate given the aura i have around all of the traditions and histories in the country. Then he joined an Operational Army unit, was deployed to afghanistan during his period as a soldier. He saw combat with the rangers. Since that time, he has done all kinds of additional things you would want somebody to do that has the kind of job he has
Modernization efforts aimed at improving military readiness. Good afternoon everyone and thank you for coming. I am with the Foreign Policy program and it is my distinct honor to have the secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy, here with us. Of the armys id on modernization of its future force, but first, a brief introduction and i ask you to give him a big welcome. That a few thoughts by him to frame our topic. We will follow up with a little discussion between him and me and then go to your questions. It will be a crisp, quick session. Mister mccarthy is a proud native of chicago, has a bachelors degree in history which seems appropriate given the aura i have around all of the traditions and histories in the country. Then he joined an Operational Army unit, was deployed to afghanistan during his period as a soldier. He saw combat with the rangers. Since that time, he has done all kinds of additional things you would want somebody to do that has the kind of job he has today. He has work
He will also be joined by jim himes who serves on the intelligence committee, to get the latest from the connecticut democrat on the memos and the Russian Investigation. Good morning. It is tuesday, february 6, 2018. The senate is reconvening today, the houses meeting, and we are looking at a Government Shutdown. We will talk about where it but we begin a, day after the Dow Jones Industrial average size largest ever single day point decline. With investors anxiously eyeing the opening bell today and the democrats in Congress Already casting blame for the drop on President Trump, we want to hear what you think. Republicans can call 2027488001. With democrats calling 2027488000. ,and independents, 2027488002. You can catch up with us on social media on twitter at cspanwj, and all facebook. Com c span. Good tuesday morning. You can start calling now. We begin on the front pages of the wall street journal, the headline, a plunge in races 2018 gains. The Dow Jones Industrial average down ov
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Host the trump correction is the term that Washington Times used, do you think there is any responsibility from the trump administration, have they tied themselves too much to the stock market . Rep. Bacon i think the stock market operates independent of a lot of things. Every president will have a correction, so i do not put a lot of stock into this, or a lot of importance into it. It will come back up. Host what can congress do to help or bring stability . Rep. Bacon i think the policies we have now, with tax reform, was the right policy and we want to maintain a high level of gdp growth, bring money from overseas from corporations that were keeping money overseas and investing overseas because of our tax policies. The tax reform we passed is Encouraging Companies to bring the money back and reinvest and we are seeing over 200 Companies Giving bonuses and raises now, investing in our country, like apple. 350 billion back, creating new jobs. And we have the right policies, we need to