Required length of time. Is there a motion to favorably report these 3,196 military nominations . So moved. Second . Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. The motion carries. Xh tig the Committee Meets this morning to consider the nomination of general Joseph Dunford for reappointment as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. General ton ford, this Committee Thanks you for your decades of distongue wished service to our nation. We are grate to feel your wife, ellen, for the support she has always provided to you, and to all who serve our nation in uniform. Id also like to well yom couco son patrick. Patrick. Unfortunate fortunately, you look like your mother, patrick, who is joining us this morning. Joe and kathleen send their support from afar even as i bet they are a little relieved they do not have to sit through your interrogation. In order to exercise its legislative and oversight responsibilities its important this committee and other appropriate committees of the congress are able
Nominations . So moved. Second . Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. The motion carries. The Committee Meets this morning to consider the nomination of general Joseph Dunford for reappointment as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. General dunford, this Committee Thanks you for your decades of distinguished service to our nation. We are grateful to your wife ellen for the support she has always provided to you and to all who serve our nation in uniform. Id also like to welcome your son patrick. Patrick. Fortunately, you look like your mother, patrick, who is joining us this morning. Joe and kathleen send their support from afar even as i bet they are a little relieved they do not have to sit through your interrogation. In order to exercise its legislative and oversight responsibilities its important this committee and other appropriate committees of the congress are able to receive testimony, briefings and other communications of information. Have you adhered to applicable laws and r
House Armed Services Committee Chair mac thorn perry sat down to talk about military ready did iness and defense spending. Interviewed by the Brookings Institution Michael Ohanlon. This is an hour. Good morning, everyone and welcome to brookings. Im Michael Ohanlon in the Foreign Policy program. As you know i have the privilege and honor welcoming back to brookings, congressman mac thornberry, from texas to does defense policy, matters, many subjects up the sun. The chairman of the Armed Services committee. First texan have that role. His family goes back to ranching in the 13th district to 18811. Wonder what he is doing in rain any washington dealing with federal budget when he could be back home dealing with texas springtime. Were grateful for your service. Were grateful for you being here today. It is a momentous time in american Foreign Policy and defense policy well get quickly to matters of the Defense Budget, defense spending where the entire debate may go with tomorrows release
The director of National Intelligence dan coats was before the Senate Armed Services committee this week to take questions on Global Security threats. At one point he was asked about a recent report that donald trump asked him to deny evidence of collusion between russia and the campaign. There was also testimony from vincent stewart. This is just over two hours. Sen. Mccain good morning. Senate Armed Services Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on worldwide threats. We are pleased to welcome our distinguished witnesses. Dan coats, who is the director of National Intelligence and ewart director of the , Defense Intelligence agency. Out of respect for the scheduling commitments and members, we will conclude the hearing at 11 30 in the interest of time and ensure senators ask questions i will be brief. I know that comes as a disappointment, especially to the senator from south carolina. I would ask witnesses to please submit their written statements for the record if they c
We, of course, welcome those who will join us on cspan booktv in the future. For those watching online, youre welcome to send questions or comments simply emailing us at speaker heritage. Org and, of course, we will post the program on our heritage home page for your future reference as well. Welcoming our guest today and leading our program is dakota woods, Senior Research fellow in our center for national defense. Mr. Woods served in the u. S. Marine corps as well as in an assignment in the office of net assessment. Upon retirement, he helped organize the national bio surveillance integration system. For five years he served as senior fellow at the center for strategic and budget tear assessments budgetary assessments. Please join me in welcoming dakota wood. Dakota . [applause] thank you, jon. Its a real pleasure to have you all here, but to have dr. Crane all the way down from carlisle where he took the hyperloop, was that it . The fastest run hes ever made to d. C. , so were glad