We will be momentarily joined by senator cain and other members. We are, as you know in the midst of voting. I would like to welcome our witnesses to the hearing this afternoon. Mr. Frederik stephanie, principal, civilian deputy secretary. That is a mouthful. So, welcome mister secretary. Assistant secretary of the navy for research, development, and acquisition. Vice admirable william galina. Commander of naval command. Admiral troy mcclelland, Program Executive officer for Industrial Infrastructure, and ms. Diameter noah meijer were director of management for the government accounting office. Thank you for your service to the nation, and for the truly professional services that men and women under your command. I also want to recognize the Ranking Member senator kramer, i also want to recognize senator cain, and senator sullivan. And i appreciate all my colleagues willingness to hold this joint readiness hearing on this very important subject. We stand at a crossroads today. The nati
Deals with mexico. I want to make better deals with china. They say, oh, trump is messing with free trade. No, im messing with bad deals that we can make good. Trump calling out the u. S. Chamber of commerce for the second day in a row. The u. S. Chamber fights. They said, oh, trump wants to stop free trade. I dont want to stop free trade. I love free trade. At his rally in New Hampshire, trump criticized for his latest offthecuff comment, making an awkward joke at the expense of mexico while discussing nafta, which he says takes manufacturing jobs away from the u. S. Their leaders are so much smarter, so much sharper, and its incredible. In fact, that could be a mexican plane up there. Theyre getting ready to attack. Trump drawing more criticism for this exchange with a woman who asked him about using veterans to replace muslim tsa workers using head scarves, or hijab. Get rid of all these hijabs. Ive seen them myself. And we are looking at that. Trump did not miss an opportunity to s
The Navy is working with the state Department of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency to develop an Extended Drinking Water Monitoring Plan, the Navy announced in a news release Wednesday.
The creation of the plan comes after the Navy gathered a team of "drinking water experts " two weeks ago to investigate the origin of low-level detections of total petroleum hydrocarbons in the Joint Base-Pearl Harbor Hickam water system.