It is inefficient and ineffective for military and general sublive i would like to bring us home to my state. Obviously we have the port that dates back to world war ii in terms of some of its buildings and we have temporary military construction dating back to that time and we are in an aggressive up dating of that facility which is such a key facility for our army and i notice that they even have the nerve to put military construction and to these at aces in the United States in the overseas Contingency Operating funds paid can you comment about how this impacts your ability on readiness and training when you are being put in a fund yeartoyear and not certain and you cant plan with it . Sure senator. You are exactly right you cant plan with it and you cant just go yeartoyear and things like multiyear contracts and having relationships with industries to upgrade your weapons and equipment etc. Specifically what you are talking about is infrastructure which is a key component. We have
I want to thank you gentlemen for being here and your service to our country, and the meeting is called to order. I apologize for bag few minutes late. Forget we changed the time until 9 45 until 10 00 so ben could go to a meeting at 10 30. Can you for accommodating both meetings. Obviously afghanistan continues to be something that is important to our u. S. National interests. We brokered a government, if you will, the United States did in 2014, that create both a president and ceo office that has not been confirmed, if you will, through and continued on. We had concerns about that process taking place, and you wonder about the support that government has realtive to not being confirmed in the way that it normally would. I have a tremendous respect for president began ghann and a warm relationship with abdullah. Theyre have muddled through it together as one might expect with the type of arrangements that have been, quote, create from the outside. I was glad to see president obama com
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] democratic residential candidate Hillary Clinton will do for them south carolina. The right and policing says. The federal Communications Commission approved a proposal to let consumers a rate of cable boxes and purchase thirdparty devices. The fcc adopted a proposal to improve the quality of closed captioning and agreed to inquiry into video programming diversity. Fcc chair tom wheeler opens the meeting. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the most important person of the moment has arrived. Good morning, madam secretary. And when we say good morning, we really mean good morning to you this morning. Thank you. Thank you so much. Welcome everybody to the february morning meeting of the federal Communications Commission. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Good morning to you. Good morning, commissioner. Today you hear three items for consideration. First, you will consider a not
In behind roger and pick up. Because theres a few things that are going to be going on in the wireless i dont know if anybodys counting but its 41 days until the auction starts. And its great to have a guy like john in the Wireless Bureau who has been involved in this process leading up. And then john leaves a void. Fortunately mark stevens has been our cfo is stepping in to that. As acting managing director. Weve all grown to appreciate and respect mark, and the great skills that he brings. So were looking forward to him continuing that glide path that john put us on. So if there are no other things, i would have request one privilege of the chair to ask the secretary where she was about ay, and to tell us the story of that Great American who happens to be your grandfather. I had the honor and privilege of attending the premier in new york city of race. The incredible and true story of my grand father jesse owens. And i look forward to everyone going this weekend, opening weekend. Won
About the biggest stories in business, but im pretty sure weve got to tip our hats to the new york giants. Last night combined in my kitchen and tiger dog, and rehab or andy hubbard says, youve got to get in here and watch this catch. Watch a catch in a giants game . A 20 times. Watched it was amazing. It would have been so much better if the giants had one. Or if he was not wearing could he have made that catch if he was not wearing the sticky gloves . Its a debate we will have later in the show. Either way, it was awesome. We also breaking news out of washington in the past hour. Its not just about a great catch by a new york giants. Defense secretary chuck hagel is officially stepping down. Lets bring in our correspondent peter cook. At least here in new york, this seems like a very big surprise. Onthere has been focused changes within the obama administration, maybe changes within the white house. We know about the changes that the at the justice department. This was not a change a