Lyndon johnson 70 white house and listen to people outside and listened to people outside ask how many kids did you kill today . It doesnt get more divisive than that. It has become unfortunately, the norm. I think we should ask ourselves some tough questions about how we got to this point, and why there is such a bipartisan distrust, not only towards government and People Associated with government, but whoever happens to occupy the presidency. The whole industry of this country, there are networks on the right and left that thrive on the basis of denigrating whoever happens to have that job. It is a Significant Development that say, ronald reagan, who could go on tv and summon thousands of people to make phone calls to southern democrats to pass his budget. Those are no longer available to an american president. The caller has talked about this president being different. Part of that is responding to the different media environments. It is not your grandfathers presidency. The bully
Former executive director Leadership Council and civil rights. His rent dozens of National Campaigns with bipartisan majorities to strengthen and protect civil rights laws during the reagan and bush presidencies. His been very active since the in the front of my first 37 years. Leslie is working on a nonpartisan initiative, the democracy project which focus on Electoral Reform. She firmly worked as a white house staffer and at the manhattan institution. Peterson is the dean of fellow he was the 2014 republican candidate for california secretary of state. Had he run in another state, he may have succeeded. Trevor potter, former chairman on the election commission, former attorney for senator john mccain, and president george hw bush, i seem not at the same time. Is working in areas of Campaign Finance and elections, political communication government ethics. My co moderator is the Vice President for Student Group is a standalone Student Group were proud to be associated with them. He is
Leslie is working on a nonpartisan initiative, the democracy project which focus on Electoral Reform. She firmly worked as a white house staffer and at the manhattan institution. Peterson is the dean of fellow he was the 2014 republican candidate for california secretary of state. Had he run in another state, he may have succeeded. Trevor potter, former chairman on the election commission, former attorney for senator john mccain, and president george hw bush, i seem not at the same time. Is working in areas of Campaign Finance and elections, political communication government ethics. My co moderator is the Vice President for Student Group is a standalone Student Group were proud to be associated with them. He is a senior and hes going to kick it off with the first question which all of you can take a whack at. Thank you for being here. We appreciated a students hearing from you and hearing your opinions and thoughts on important issue im interested in the fact that we have tried to ref
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
Committee meets to receive the testimony of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chief of staffs on the administrations fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee and we welcome chairman dunford 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 in both the external threats and the current state of our military. This committee has repeatedly heard testimony over the past two years that our country faces more serious complex security challenges now than we have faced before. The hearings and briefings we have held on the current state of our military have been disturbing. The administrations budget request of 603 billion for base requirements is 6 above the 17 enacted level and 3 above the last Obama Administration Budget Proposal. Its 37 billion below what this committee assessed last fall was needed and 58 bi