Defense budget and addressed sequestration and budget challenges posed by syria, r ussia, and iran. This runs about one hour and 50 minutes. If the committee will please come to order. Today, our subcommittee on defense appropriations reviews the budget request of the department of defense. We are very pleased to welcome secretary of defense Ashton Carter and chairman of the joint chief of staff general Martin Dempsey of the United States army. This is our final schedule hearing of the year on the 2016 Defense Budget request. The subcommittee recognizes the uncertainty of the current fiscal environment and the impact it has only department of defense in its planning. We also appreciate the complexity of building the first year 2016 budget request and we look forward to comments from secretary carter and general dempsey on how we can support our men and women in uniform and our National Security interests. We are pleased to recognize dr. Carter on his first appearance before the subcomm
What a speaker ought to be able to accomplish. Not to say that whatever the speaker accomplishes or has accomplished during his term is a oneman show. It most certainly is not and in this room today are people who shared with me the agonies of trying to figure out what on earth can we do in this situation and one of them is david bern. One of them is tom foley and one of them is dan rostenkowski. The speakership under rayburn was something that i guess entered my consciousness as the model of how a speaker should be. Sam rayburn saw National Needs and he made things happen. He was an activist speaker but he was also the 20 essential southern gentlemen and he treated all of us like gentlemen. In his view, we all were speaker rayburn once said, the chair always takes the word of a member on one occasion when a point of order had been made about a members representation that he had been in the chamber at a time qualifying him to vote on an issue. The chair always takes the word of a membe
Position that you would like to be, secretary hale, to have the data that youve just talked about. What are the controls that will be in place for taxpayers on this huge contract . It is important. It is going to under as i understand it, it will impact the Health Records for all of our men and women in uniform. We had notable examples of failed i. T. Projects and this is an 11 billion project. What controls will be put in place as you go forward with this echo and i guess, a good question is will secretary weeklyet those reports to know whether the 11 million . S being spent properly he is deeply involved in that program. Kindle meet with him weekly and i think this issue will come up. I think he will get regular. Eports and on the regulation side, i believe our data is fundamentally accurate. We still need to verify that. Not seeing the problems the key thing is to make sure the devoted things are written into the contract. I think Frank Kendall would say that we need to develop bett
Air force reserve and i may chaplain who served in iraq. The issues that came up for me, and some of this may be a followup on my colleague you just mentioned, but you brought are note the fact they going back to the same afghanistan that they left. They would not have the impact they could have had. , whatntelligence information, what would have you believe that they could not get set up in a country that has not changed much in 400, 500 years . Afghanistan both as Intelligence Officer and as a civilian adviser where they work with senior officials every day, there have been a great number of changes if just in the last decade alone. Of the networks these individuals had when they were a force fighting against the Northern Alliance though longer exist. Many of the taliban leadership are dead and i believe the app can people have changed. You have seen in the recent open defiance of threats to kill people who would go through. 40 of the voters, i believe were women who were told not to
It so requires. Dont be fooled, she said. Only the Supreme Court so required. The federal arbitration act was never meant to produce this outcome. In the hands of todays majority, arbitration threatens to become more nearly the opposite, a mechanism easily made to block the vindication of meritorious federal claims and insulate wrongdoers from liability. The court thus undermines the federal arbitration act no less than it does the sherman act and other federal statutes providing rights of action. So, commissioner wright, in your written testimony you argue that the courts should set the rules of the road for internet openness through antitrust law. But how could a complaint of anticompetitive behavior even reach the courts if its lawful to force every consumer, Small Business and employee to arbitrate their claims in a foreign venue that is secret, thats for profit. Youre familiar with the arbitration process . No jury trial, no right to appe appeal. How does your opinion about how th