Contingency over seas in the near future . You would have to do one of two things. You would either have to grow the force. We believe that the force is 186,000 marines. And elsewhere, we could take services that are deployed in the far east and okonawa. We did that in the combat in iraq. And its only through the past few years we have been able to reestablish our presence in the pacific. We have some options. The other option is we go all in. We activate our reserves and we go and do what needs to be done. We have done that before too. You can do that for a short period of time but as you mentioned, that is not sustainable. What is a short period of time . In your best estimate i dont want to hold you to it. But we are wrestling with Big Decisions about the middle east and Irans Nuclear capableility and there are some in the senate that i believe are tempted by the idea that we can go in and bomb iran and set off what could be a war much bigger than any contingency we have been trying
Issues. And president ial candidate Mike Huckabee campaigns in newton iowa. President obama has nominated Lieutenant General Robert Miller to head the u. S. Marine corp. At his Senate Confirmation hearing, members of the Armed Service Committee Questioned general miller about the marine corp budget, military Sexual Assaults, and the militarys strategy in iraq and syria. We want to consider the nomination of Lieutenant General Robert Miller. General miller we thank you for joining us this morning. We are grateful for your many years of distinguished service to the nation and for your continued willingness to serve. As our tradition at the beginning of your testimony we invite you to introduce any family members that are joining us. As our nation confronts the most diverse and complex array of global crisis, the next commander after more than a decade of war in afghanistan and iraq, our marines have remained in high demand performing a range of services across the globe. Tension gripping
Goods or Something Like that. It is effective but just a different level of intensity. All right well, we have a lot of green cards here to which we were not able to get for which i apologize. But i think that also reflects the level of engagement of our consumers of Health Policy information here. Thank you for spending your beautiful friday afternoon inside a very cool hearing room helping us grapple with one of the most multifacetted set of problems in Health Policy these days. Thanks to anthem and the National Consumer league for helping us think through this topic and assemble a great panel. Speaking of said panel help me thank this panel for some wonderful discussion. [ applause ] well come back to this topic in september. Thanks very much. Tonight ot the communicators, Michael Oreilly on key issues before the fcc like Net Neutrality and regulating the internet and influence on policy making making. When an item is made before an open Commission Meeting and presented to the commi
Supporting their economies and also containing debt and asset prices. If you look at what is happening in australia moving further into the rest of the year, maybe more, and the other side of that same coin is you have home prices. In sydney, something they have not seen in at least a decade. Another good example of that is to take it take a look at what is happening in south korea. A surplus, but it is not being driven by exports the way it should be. That is the main engine for growth. Trying to support that part of the economy and balancing fairly high household debt. And looking at taiwan, the biggest mover so far in asia this multiyear bull run. And we pushed past 10,000 at one point this year, under increasing threat. We are approaching the 8500 level at this point. The previous low was back in october of last year. Below that, we are headed to about 7900. I will leave it there for now. Back to you. Rishaad well, we had david alluding to china, and the Manufacturing Survey showin
Senator john mccain chairs the Senate Armed Services committee. This is two hours, 20 minutes. Well, good morning. Committee meets today to receive testimony on the Government Strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyber space. To begin id liking to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues in our Cyber Security subcommittee tackthal critical challenge of cyber. Its a challenge growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident. Cyber attacks against our government system and infrastructure, data breaches that attempts to manipulate Public Opinion and attacks the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. And those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries both state and nonstate actors view the entire information domain as a space and across it theyre waging a new kind of war against us, a war invaucholving but extendi