people will overwhelmingly approve it. i thought it would ve approved in 2000 or 2008. i m not sure about the palestinians. i have to be honest about that. i hope it would be the case they would support it as well. asking the impossible conundrum. , i wroteof years ago an op-ed in the wall street journal. was about the birth of it was about the book of jonas. who the story of a profit say if you dond not repent, you will be destroyed. he realizes this is a no-win situation. if he tells them to repent and they do repent, three years later, they will say, why do we have to repent? nothing happened. or if he goes and they do not repent, then he is a false prophet. that is the paradox of prophecy. it is a no-win situation. you can house the same question about the maintenance of american hegemony in the middle east. if america had not maintained hegemony over 50 years, it may be nothing would ve happened to the u.s. if america had let its guard something worse than 9/11 happene
the wing man. i said that i was on the ground and i was 200 meters north of the river. star strafing at 300 and i am heading south. after the war, i met with the pilots in the plane. they said to not strafe because they did not think they could should that accurately. it was a good call because they were all around me. within two minutes, i was captured. how may times have you flown over north vietnam? 53. what was the purpose of the flights? we were in the northern part of vietnam, 70 miles north of the dmz and had been flying all types of missions. by the time i got there, in the summer of 1967, they had changed our mission to only fly on reconnaissance over the southern part of north vietnam. we were flying the ho chi minh trail and the main highways. we were flying the riverway to stop the trucks that were hauling supplies to the viet kong. how old were you? i was 23 and turned 24. i had flown with areas people and some new guys with the squadron to check them
welcome one and all. great to see our witnesses. great to be here with senator johnson, and we ll call this hearing to order. i appreciate the effort of all of you to get here today. i m glad we re having the hearing today, and not tomorrow. if we were having it tomorrow we might not be having a hearing. today s hearing, as you know, is focused on the costs of not being prepared for extreme weather events, and exploring the ways that our federal government can increase resiliency in our communities, and just to underbehind this, and save money. save money in the long haul. we have deficits coming down, they re still too much. down from $1.4 trillion, i think, four years ago, this year expected to be down to about $550 billion. only $550 billion. that s still way too much and we have to continue to look in every nook and cranny and figure out how do we save more money. that s the focus of today s hearing. but, i will try to take about five minute
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quorum call: reid: mr. president i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be vitiated. i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to executive session to consider nominations 597, 598, 601, 602, 603 with the exception of colonel mark baird and colonel robert stanley ii, and 604, 605 with the exception of colonel andrew e.salas. 606 with the exception of brigadier general john k. kelk. and then 607, 608, 609, 610, 611 and all nominations on the secretary s desk in the air force and army. that the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, there be to intervening action or debate, that no further nominations be in order to any of the nominations and that any related statements be printed in the record, that president obama be immediately notified of the