Make you their sure foundation. From this foundation, may they gain strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow. Help them to base their hope on your exceedingly great and precious promises, as you do for them more than they can ask or imagine. May they have such an inner sense of your presence that they will desire to commune with you throughout this day. And lord, bless our incoming summer page class. May these young people increase intellectually, physically, socially, and spiritually. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell madam president . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell last week the senate voted on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis to advance the iran sanctions bill currently bef
The acting labor secretary, Naval Operations chief and commandant of the marine corps were on capitol hill this morning to brief members of the Senate Armed Service committee addressing concerns about readiness and modernization. The hearing runs about two and half hours. The fiscal year 2018. I want to thank each of our witnesses for their distinguished service to the nation, as well as the sailors, marines and surveillance they lead were serving around the world today and recent months our nations senior civilian military leaders have testified to this committee about the severe threats we face around the world. The report shortfalls in readiness that our military has advantage over our potential adversaries is eroding and the dire need for new modern capabilities. Yet, as secretary matus testified here on tuesday, the greatest immediate threat that our military bases is right here in washington, fiscal uncertainty, continuing resolutions, arbitrary and inadequate caps on defense spe
Moore. We are going to get started. Good morning. I am a senior fellow here. And i am delighted to kick off this mornings mari security dialogue. The dialogue represents a company hosted series. Seeks to highlight both current thinking and future challenges facing the navy, the marine corps and the cost gourt. And we look forward to welcoming you all back for additional events throughout the year. We would like to thank in a special way Lockheed Martin and huntingt huntington ingols industry. We would like to make a brief safety announcement. Should there be anything as a convener, we have exits in the back and stairs down the front and both myself and anthony bell in the back should be directors. So just look for one of us. And for our formal introduction, i am going to turn things over to vice admiral peter dally and we are happy to have him here. Welcome, i am pete daly. We are proud to bring you this series continuation now in our third year. We give special recognition to our spon
Billion for ship building. The acting navy secretary, the chief of naval operations, and the marine corpse com men dant testified at a Armed Services committee hearing. This is two hour 20 minutes. Good morning. Committee meets today to receive testimony on the plans and programs of the department of Navy Fiscal Year 2018. I want to thank each of our witnesses for their distinguished service to the nation as well as the sailors, marines, and civilians they lead who are serving around the world today. In recent months our nations senior civilian defense and military leaders have testified to this committee about the severe threats we face around the world. Theyve reported short falls in readiness that our military advantage over our potential adversaries is eroding and the dire need for new modern capabilities. And yet as secretary mattis testified here on tuesday, the greatest immediate threat that our military faces is right here in washington, fiscal uncertainty, continuing resolutio
Billion for ship building. The acting navy secretary, the chief of naval operations, and the marine corpse com men dant testified at a Armed Services committee hearing. This is two hour 20 minutes. Good morning. Committee meets today to receive testimony on the plans and programs of the department of Navy Fiscal Year 2018. I want to thank each of our witnesses for their distinguished service to the nation as well as the sailors, marines, and civilians they lead who are serving around the world today. In recent months our nations senior civilian defense and military leaders have testified to this committee about the severe threats we face around the world. Theyve reported short falls in readiness that our military advantage over our potential adversaries is eroding and the dire need for new modern capabilities. And yet as secretary mattis testified here on tuesday, the greatest immediate threat that our military faces is right here in washington, fiscal uncertainty, continuing resolutio