Moved to washington in 1995. I started working in television news. The went out and sat in on hearings. I was walking up and down and seeing all these government buildings and thought, what do these people do all day . I felt the more i engaged in government, the more conservative i became. I felt government was not doing a whole lot. I think government should be there for the poor. I think it should be there as a framework for how we conduct business and a structure for society. When you read the constitution, that is what the Founding Fathers had in mind, i believe. I do not think government is there to prop us all up, because then there would not be a safety net left for the people in life who really need it. The disabled, people who fall on hard times and need a little help along the way, but i feel as though government now has grown too much beyond what our Founding Fathers wanted it to be. By the people, for the people. It is a framework, in my opinion, for how we live our life a
Out of the chain of command. I wont even bother without. What im am saying, and i say as passionately as i came to my colleagues, that if we do not trust the Commanding Officers who take our young men and women into battle, our most precious asset, if we dont trust them, then we obviously have better reevaluate our entire structure of the military. But i do trust them, mr. President. I do trust them. The finest people ive ever known in my life are those we have given, who will work their way up to positions of authority and command to a very severe screen process. If they make mistakes, can we find an example for a case where the right thing was not done . Of course we can. Theres no way nowhere in a society where we cant find examples of people having not done the right thing. Today im embarrassed that Navy Officers were involved in some kind of bribery scheme about overseas ships. And from time to time we are embarrassed by leaders of her military, but they are the exception and not
Active communities that we have had in a long time. And that says a lot, because we have an active community. We have a active community. And we have our first ajamb stream promo from angel. So Community Keep tweeting at us at hashtag ajamstream. Women make up 14 of the active duty military, but until recently they werent allowed to work in Ground Combat jobs, but a decision by leon panetta lifted that ban, and put a deadline of january 1st, 2016, to open all of the jobs or prove why women arent fit. I think its a great thing. I think its a step forward to more equal opportunity for women. I think some females should be allowed in combat. I dont feel it is for every female. They should be able to do everything exactly to what the guys have to do, and if im just concerned that it would cause problems with the mission. For the women that have served in combat zones, i have not seen a huge number of women that wanteded this. With 55 of female marine recruits failing the pullup test, the c
So its slightly different Business Model in terms of the way southern libya is operating. Clearly, the displacement of groups across borders is very challenging [inaudible] [inaudible] just to follow up. When the International Community decided to force gadhafi out of power, overturn that government, did they, did the International Community, the u. S. , not foresee this outcome given the fact that the Libyan Government really had no reach, much reach beyond tripoli . I think it would be hard from the outside given the state of our relationship that pertained then with libya to understand how devoid libya was of institutions to be able to recover after gadhafis departure. So my sense is that the amount of Information Available as far as the ability of libyan institutions to continue without gadhafi, i think that that was underestimated in terms of the ability to proceed forward without very personalistic style of power. So i think some of this was certainly foreseeable ask was foreseen
And weve not acted. Only one committee in congress, the labor afford work force in the house has acted on one of those recommendations he recommendations as far as duplication. So the problem is us. Mr. Cornyn i would ask the senior senator from arizona as we discussed youve been a critic and pointed out waste in the procurement process. But i know the military in designing stateoftheart Weapons Systems the f35 for example, they built in concurrence si, theyre designing it while theyre building it which is which creates a cost overrun challenges. But i know you were also instrumental in finally getting the pentagon to negotiate a fixedprice contract. Could you talk about some of the challenges . Mr. Mccain for years id say to my friend from texas the cost overruns went unchecked with someone who has a roof that leaks and hires someone to fix the roof, on a costplus contract i guarantee you the cost to have your roof fixed will probably exceed the initial estimate that the roof fixer pr