Politicians off the logistics of assembly and disaster by that but hes also been meeting leaders of the hoary a conference the separatist fighters because the rich who call themselves the Freedom Movement for a freakish minute hes been meeting them hes going to be going inside your family and telling people that pakistan stands with the kashmiris on both sides of the line of control resist specked at the tell them that pakistan does not accept indias annexation of a disputed territory and pakistan is going to be utilizing all its efforts and try and get the International Community on board with its message that what india has done is a unilateral steps and it is in contravention of everything that pakistan and india had agreed upon by law actually around kind of the in the lead up to iran comes and i will have you heard from the foreign minister sharon was praising who is our what an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council on the usual specially of pakistan and says th
Year 2018 budget requests. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee. We welcome chairman dunford ba back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing is, how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring both the external threats on the current state of our military. This committee has repeatedly heard testimony over the last two years that our country faces more serious complex pretty challenges now than we have ever faced before. The hearings and briefings we held on the current state of our military have been disturbing. The ministration budget request of 306 billion for base requirements a 6 above the 17 an active level and 3 above the last obama proposal. Its also 37 billion below what this committee assess last fall was needed and about 58 million below the fy 12 gates budget which was independently validated by the bipartisan National Defense panel. The issue is not about numbers. Its about what those n
Would it be out of order to make a motion requesting a recount given that one of the candidates had dropped out before the ballots were tallied . Is, thehort answer chair does not know. More nuanced answer is he does not know, but he will seek consultation. Ording to our bylaws [inaudible] point of order. Order as a point of well, please. From whom . Please identify yourself. Jeffrey neal. California delegation. While serving as acting chair at the time, the candidate was asked the question about whether or not the withdrawal of a candidate would affect the vote in place that had already started. He said no, it would not. I do not believe there is any position where at this point you can change the ruling of the chair at that time without some type of a motion to reconsider. That is my impression, i think that you are right. I try to seek some sort of guidance from the parliamentarian because im frequently wrong. Seeking recognition for a privileged motion . We do have someone waiting
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