Today primary voters went to the polls in five states, connecticut, rhode island, maryland, delaware and pennsylvania. We have live Election Night results and analysis and live candidate speeches beginning in a half hour on cspan. Today two senators discussed the constitutional role of the u. S. Senate in confirming judicial nominees including nominees to the Supreme Court. Democrat Patrick Leahy and republican orrin hatch, both members of the Judiciary Committee, discussed their views on judicial nominations and Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland hosted by the Edward Kennedy institute. This is just under an hour. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] good morning. On behalf of the edward m. Kennedy institute for the United States senate, i welcome all of to you the kennedy caucus room. For this timely and important discussion of the senates role, its advice and consent role in connection with the president s lifetime appointment of individu
3f developmental. We press on with testing and it will be critical that the program rapidly correct these deficiencies while mitigating the impact. The programs commitment is to mitigate these risks Going Forward and to do so within the bounds of the budget while delivering the full capability. Meanwhile, the programs focus is shifting to operations and support of inservice aircraft. The program has accumulated 50,000 flight hours and with 152 aircraft operating at eight bases across the country, the feedback on the aircraft and support systems is beginning to shape the programs priorities. The marines have two full squadrons in operation today and will stand up their third this june. They are Building Momentum as the service in the f35 effort gains capability and confidence and employing it tactically every day. They have demonstrated operations in 29 palms. They are training british pilots as well as marine corps pilots in beaufort, north carolina. Marine pilots love this plane. The
Here and said that were about 220,000 short of in strength ground troops. Were looking for ways to make sure we can meet the threats that we have. The f 35th pilots helmet alone cost 400,000. Thats ten Million Dollars for 2,500. As we look at the cost associated with it, were facing and how most of it is ground dlet that is were facing and forcing and fighting, does it make since to spend so much money on f 35 why we spend so much on our special forces around the world. Since we have to make choices. General, what i will tell you is that the department has many different kind of choices that they have to make and try and balance their requirements with the resources that they have. I will tell you that the f 35 is a longterm investment in defense of this nation and, our future adversary ris are not sitting still and in the next, 10, 20, 30 years we may very well need the capabilities that the f 35 will provide us to maintain our leadership and the world. So i consider the f 35 as an in
President ial election, lots of thinks to talk about there, talk about people in the room. Talk about obamas legacy a little bit. We will those are the big things, i guess, some of the big areas. Peter just as a reminder, youre going to be bigtime, this is going to be broadcast live on cspan. Larry i know, absolutely. Cspan is so big, it doesnt need h. D. Thats how i like to think of cspan, it doesnt need it. Cspan, you want hfpblg d. , we dont need it. Were cspan, people will watch anyway. Thats how bad cspan is, how bad ass cspan is. Peter Larry Wilmore is not only the host of the nightly show, he is an author and also an executive producer. Whats your connection with the tv show blackish . Larry i helped do the pilot and exec produced the first several episodes. When we were producing the pilot, i got the call to do this show. I wasnt able to finish the whole season. I worked with the creator of the show and we had a great time. Kenya had such a brilliant idea with that and based on
Approved beneficiaries of their family members were not able to actually take advantage of it and come to the United States because of the numerical limits on family based immigration every year. Continued to deteriorate. As we have had requests from other stake holders to take another look at that, my leadership would agree to take another look at the program. They have agreed to consider it. You have a request and im sure you should consider it. That is a problematic to do business. Were increasing number of refugees for syria and i think that is the appropriate way to openly and directly deal with this. The parole system was never designed to be used in this fashion as i understand the law. With regard to resettlement, i guess, mr. Chair, does that follow within your area . Yes, it does. And general, i believe some sort of consultation with communities about a desire to resettle a number of people in their community. What is your policy on that, and can you assure us any community t