Obviously are very personal opinions. As a member of our military, i truly believe that there are some things that are more important than me, which is why necessary, if sacrifice myself for the things that we believe in as americans, our constitution, freedom, democracy, our rights, our way of life. And i know that theres a certain amount of risk thats inherent in that, not necessarily as being a service member. But democracy is necessarily open. That is one of the Cultural Values that we have. If if wewonder some of what and it means to be american, some of what it means to be america, in our response to try to assure citizens of security. Theres no such thing as perfect security. Got littlee i said, girls and theres a line in finding nemo. If you never let anything happen to them, then nothings ever going to happen to them. So its kind of a cute way to going to be were america and everything that america stands for, we cant, as citizens, expect our government to provide 100 security
For his best friend. Steve admiral dave thomas, as you reflect on the morning of september 11th, 2001, how did your day begin . Admiral thomas i was in the navys defense review. I had been there for about well this was culminating an 18 month project. So ive been on the job for about 17 and a half months. My day began with a series of meetings and i was representing my boss in a meeting with another admiral in the pentagon. And we were discussing the navys contribution to National Defense and really just putting the finishing touches on our input to the defense review. Steve explained that project. What was the review all about and what was your specific role . Admiral thomas every four years, all the services and the joint staff and the department of defense have a report to congress. It is quadrennial hely. A review of our defense posture in the force structure that supports it. This was to be a policybased review. I had been in the strategy and policy directorate on the navy staff.
You reflect on the morning of september 11, 2001, how did your day begin . Admiral thomas i was in the navys defense review. I had been there for about well there was a culminating 18month project. So i had been in the job for about 17 and a half months. My day began with a series of meetings and i was representing my boss in a meeting with another admiral in the pentagon. And we were discussing the navys contribution to National Defense and really just putting the finishing touches on our input to the defense review. Steve explained that project. What was the review all about and what was your specific role . Admiral thomas every four years, all the services and the joint staff and the department of defense have a report to congress. It is quadrennial he. A review of our defense posture in the force structure that supports it. This was to be a policybased review. I had been in the strategy and policy director at on the navy staff. I became the executive officer of this under a navy fl
Its not a complete process. The reality is is when she published those guidelines those of the guidelines and theres no avenue for the public to have input on that and i think thats troubling. I would disagree in the sense therethere is already been sevl places where they have input and they can continue to have input. They continue to respond to the 2010 guidelines, which are part of the foundation and the information we take into consideration. So its an ongoing education process. I dont think it ever stops. That may not be a formalized period of time but it never stops. The gentlemans time has expired. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thanks to the witnesses were testifying today. A few questions to the comp might after all this discussion weve had. The first one that i have is that when i look at data on the students that are overweight or obese, have we had any evidence that, which direction the weight has gone . First to ms. Burwell. Do we have any education on whether this program is re
Thank you very much. Those were four very well crafted presentations. And mine wont be. Because my job is to listen and tell you what i heard and comment on what i heard. So what i heard from both ambassador aricot and dr. Zogby is they are not very confident that the political process can be revived by this administration or even possibly by the next one. Thats of course disappointing. I recall work written by william quantity many years ago where he talked about the possibilities for making progress in the first year, second year, third year, et cetera, of any administration and basically concluded that the eighth year was basically the best chance for making progress because you had less difficulty overcoming domestic pressure. But at least in the view of these two panelists, that opportunity will not be seized by this administration. And i understand why. Both of them, all of them have spoken about the netanyahu government and netanyahu himself, who i agree is not committed to the