Flashing lights. And a car crashed into a pole. Details are sketchy, but we have confirmed that a Montgomery County Police Officer tried to make a traffic stop in the area of mid county highway and route 109 in dwaigaithersburg. The driver would not stop and the officer chased car. One person is in custody. Molette green is on her way there to find out more. Good morning, everybody. It is now 5 01 on hump day. Wednesday is finally here. Pretty good visibility still in Prince Georges County, but there are pockets of fog starting to form out there early this morning. Its seasonably chilly. 37 rockville, 40 falls church and newington, 32 in college park. Today some areas of thick fog morning, it will be a fight to get much if anything in the way of sunshine today, but it will be anything but cold as temperatures will climb into the 50s. Less than a mile visibility now in frederick, and only three miles in martinsburg. So today 30s now, turning to 50s but very limited amounts of sunshine.
2015. I hereby appoint the honorable Randy Hultgren to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. We give you thanks, o god, for giving us another day. As you make available to your people the grace and knowledge to meet the needs of the day, we pray that your spirit will be upon the members of this peoples house, giving them the richness of your wisdom. Bless the members of the Minority Party as they gather these next days. May they, with those who accompany them, travel safely and meet in peace. Bless, also, the Majority Party as they return to their constituencies. Give them hearts and ears to listen well to all those whom they represent. May the power of your truth and our faith in your providence give them all the confidence they must have to do the good work required for service to our nation. May all that i
A couple of months ago and we were talking about current rules of engagement as it pertains to afghanistan, with this train, advise and assist mission. Isil is networking. We know they are recruiting in afghanistan. So my question was under this current operation youre under was if isil is identified by american troops or after began National Security forces in the assist mode we are in, can we absolutely destroy isil and the answer from the state department no, maam. My comment was i would consider the fact that we are at war with them means we should destroy them. In your role right now, what is your understanding when isil is identified. Are they taken out because we are at war with them or given a path . General campbell we dont talk but rules of engagement. I would just answer that and say im comfortable with the authorities that i have today that i can prosecute the mission both from a c. T. Perspective and train, advise and assist perspective and protect the forces that i have.
Building up their military presence in crimea . Ambassador nuland . Yes, sir. Mr. Poe that would seem to me that they are there to stay. What do you think . Ambassador nuland i think we need to maintain the pressure and we have to maintain the cost and we have to keep mr. Poe when i talked to the president of ukraine last year asking what we could do, he replied that they would prefer that we send something other than canned food to them, which is what we were doing0 are we what we were doing. Are we still talking about help them fight for their own freedom, giving the military eight . Or are we actually doing it . Ambassador nuland we have provided 118 million in Security Assistance. I can give you a rundown, but it improves counter fire radar batteries, communication equipment, counterjamming, a suite of emergency medical, all those things training, and we will continue to look at what we can do. Mr. Poe that is all nonlethal aid. Are we sending any guns, bullets . Ambassador nuland
The committee will come to order. I want to thank you all for joining us here today as we consider the fiscal year 2015 budget request for the department of the air force. I appreciate our witnesses testimony and their support for our airmen. Joining us today are the honorable Deborah Lee James secretary of the air force and general mark sub to chief of staff of the air force and he has brightened up the room a little bit by inviting his wife that betty and his daughter lives to be with us. Thank you for joining us. I want to especially welcome secretary james the 23rd secretary of the air force as this is her first Posture Hearing before a committee. We are also delighted that she is the former house staff member and in fact we were talking before we came in here and she pointed out to us where one of her offices was in her tenure on the staff. We are happy to have you back. Welcome back. This committee and you general welsh have warned about the consequences of the cuts to our Defens