A collectors item. Thank you and welcome to panel six, assessing the rebuild. Will we have the strategy and resources to rebuild the military in fiscal year 2019 . Strategy and resources to rebuild the military in fiscal year 2019 . On this panel, we will evaluate president trumps desire to rebuild the military and we will look at the problems facing it. I would like to introduce our distinguished panel. Honorable eric aleman at the end, former undersecretary of defense for policy from 2005 to 2009. The formeragon, ambassador to turkey. President and ceo of Lockheed Martin. She joins walking 30 years ago as an engineer in rows away to 2016. P in Fortune Magazine identified mr. Houston as number three out of the 50 most powerful women in business around the world. Kathleen hicks, director of International Security program for csis. She was appointed by the president. She is a former principal undersecretary of policy at the pentagon. And we have general robert geller, the 37th, bottom o
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] welcome to panel six, assessing the rebuild. Will we have the strategy and resources to rebuild the military and fiscal 2019. On this panel we will evaluate president trumps desire to rebuild the military and we will look at the problems facing us. I would like to introduce our distinguished panel, eric ellma ellman, former undersecretary of this defense for policy from 2005 2009. Hes a former ambassador to turkey and finland. Miss marilyn houston who is the chairman, president and ceo of Lockheed Martin. He joined 30 years ago and rose all the way to the top. Fortune magazine identified her as number three out of the 50 most powerful women in business around the world. Kathleen hicks, director of International Security program for csi s. She was appointed to the National Commission on the future of the army by the president. She is a former principal undersecretary of policy at the pentagon, and then we have general robert noller, th
Quorum call the presiding officer the majority whip. Mr. Cornyn madam president , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cornyn madam president , now that the government is up and running again, we need to look ahead at what our legislative priorities should be. I cant speak for everybody, but i can speak for myself. My priorities are threefold. First we need to expedite Disaster Relief. In december the house passed an 81 billion Disaster Relief bill to address the disasters by Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Harvey and the wildfires out in the west. That has been sitting here since december and we need to act and act with dispatch. Everyone remembers Hurricane Harvey, we certainly do in texas, which pummeled us last august. It was last august. This is february. Most of the Media Attention in the months since has focused on the city of houston, which quite literally, was torn apart. They had more than 50 inches of rain fal
Next, navy and marine corps leaders will discuss the state of the Naval Aviation fleet and National Maritime policy at a forum cohosted by the center for strategic and International Studies and the u. S. Naval institute. Live coverage starting shortly here on cspan3. While we wait for this discussion at the center for strategic and International Studies to start, a look at other happening on the cspan networks today. The National Business group on health discusses how the Largest Companies are handling health care. That will be live, 10 a. M. Eastern on our companion network, cspan2. Then at 10 30 eastern on cspan, the Bipartisan Policy Center hosts a discussion on immigration ant 2016 campaign. Good morning, everyone and welcome csis. I have a brief security announcement before we kick off todays convenient. I want to share with you one of our Building Security precautions. Overall, we want you to know that we feel very secure in our building but as a convener of such meetings, we hav
Should probably make it more difficult for the United States to exercise its will in the world. People think that is a good thing for us to do. I have tos imagine that would be the case. And for americans, it has become an extremely difficult to do their job in these countries. They can be arrested. They can be harassed. They can be prohibited, as the New York Times has not been able to receive visas for its journalist to go into china. They have been denied visas because the Chinese Government is upset about very good reporting about corruption there. And that is true in other countries as well. Thereof been several questions about the fine line between reporting the news there have been several questions about the fine line between reporting the news and shaping the news. When it comes to questions about American Power abroad, fox news and msnbc tell different stories. They seem to be trying to shape peoples perceptions. Is this right . Well, yeah. Its not whether it is right or wron