Ipmer briefs reporters in detroit. Detroit has nearly 200 deaths today. Good morning. I want to start todays comments and i wanted to acknowledge passing of epresentative icicson. Moral big heart and a compass on behalf to have people passing nted and his is a day of sadness that everyone in the capital and in the district are feeling. We are providing relief for michigan. This is helpful. This is a good thing for our state. Im hopeful that next the president will review my request for vedge assistance programs that provide meals to families who need them and the rental assistance and temporary housing for families. I look forward to federal governments continued partnership and we are grateful for the things that that happened over the last few dice help us fight this virus. I sent a letter to the u. S. Secretary of defense requesting that the deft of defense direct fema to support michigans request to use the Michigan National guard for humanitarian rposes and use the u. S. Army corp
Whitmer i want to acknowledge the passing of a representative. He had a big heart and a moral compass that drove all the work he did on behalf of the people he represented, and his passing is a day of sadness that i think everyone around the capital and certainly the district are feeling. Press conference on thursday, President Trump approved my request for a major disaster declaration. The declaration means that michigan is now eligible for participation in the federal Emergency Management agency fema, to provide loot relief for michiganers impacted by covid19 and measures to slow the spread of the virus. This is helpful, a good thing for our state. Im hopeful that the president will review my request for individual assistance programs to provide meals to families who need them and rental assistance and temporary housing for families. I look forward to the federal governments continued partnership, and we are grateful for the things that have happened over the course of the last few d
Chairman inhofe our hearing will come to order. We meet today to continue receiving our hearing will come to order. We meet today to continue receiving the posture statements. We have quite a few more. This is the time of year, and we have general todd walters, and i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with it from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combata
Appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with it from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and then there is transcom, focused on fullspectrum mobility operations. Both of which face capability shortfalls. I just returned from the security conference with several others here at th
We have quite a few more. This is the time of year, and we have general todd walters, and i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with the from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and th