Screeria nigeria. Discussion on the Defense Budget. This is about 90 minutes. Good morning. Welcome. My name is chris griffin. Im the executive director at the Foreign Policy initiative. It is my privilege to welcome you today to this event jointly hosted by the Foreign Policy initiative and the American Action forum. Titled will congress provide for the common defense . This is the second in a series of public briefings on how congress and the president can Work Together to provide our armed forces with the resources and authorities they require to keep our nation safe at a time of growing threats across the world. This morning well hear from senator tom cotton and following his keynotes i will hand off to rachel hoff with the American Action forum who will introduce and moderate a discussion by a panel of experts featuring the kinsey American Enterprise institute, david adesnic of the Foreign Policy initiative, and aaf president Douglas Holtz eken. Its my pleasure to welcome senator
, Lieutenant Governor steele and congressman hoyer, distinguished faculty, distinguished guests, proud parents, family, friends, and most of all the graduating midshipmen of the class of 2005, i am honored to be here. [applause] and i am proud to stand before the future leaders of the navy and marine corps and to celebrate the occasion i thought i would bring along a small graduation gift. It is too late to give you a stall back day so i will do the next best thing. In keeping with longstanding tradition, i hereby absolve all midshipmen who are on restriction for minor conduct offensive offenses. [laughter] [applause] i will leave it to the admiral to define exactly what minor means. [laughter] you worked hard to get to this moment. You survived the summer and having your parking tickets scraped. You climbed Herndon Monument and threw pennies at tecumseh, god of the 2. 0. I knew him pretty well when i was in school. [laughter] now at last, you have made it to Graduation Day come and in
Officer. He was deployed to iraq and served in the 101st Airborne Division and a Reconstruction Team in afghanistan. Between his tours, senator cotton served at Arlington National cemetery. After his military career, senator cotton served briefly in the private sector and was elected to the u. S. House of representatives in 2012. Last year, he was elected to serve in the u. S. Senate. Now serves on the Senate Committees on banking, intelligence, and Armed Services. He is the chairman of the Armed Services committee the subcommittee. His maiden speech delivered last week, senator cotton warned we have systematically underfunded our military. I look forward to the insights you offer on important issues today and ask you to please join me in welcoming senator tom cotton. [applause] tom cotton thank you. Thank you all. Good morning. Thank you. And chris, thanks very much for the kind introduction. Thanks to fpi and aaf for hosting me this morning for the very important work you do. As the
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Specific thing, how unusual was this scene . Across america from mainstreet to the smoky mountains, the Government Shutdown misery index is growing, but some iconic sites may be open for business soon. And the most and least affordable places in america to buy a house. Hello, everyone. Its high noon here in the east, 9 00 a. M. Out west. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. A rare saturday session for the house and senate as lawmakers try to reopen the government and raise the debt cerealing to avoid default. Heres part of the back and forth in the house from a short time ago. We need to fund all of the federal government. Its long past time for this shutdown to end, so lets release all the federal employees that have been taken hostage, lets reopen the peoples government. For the past 11 days, the house has been attempting to reopen parts of the government without further delay and without trying to extract any further concessions from the senate or the president. Mr. Speaker, you cant