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
In 2015,pa december, as it relas to jcpoa. I specifically want to point to negotiations that went on from november 30th through the passage of the omnibus. These were negotiations between the white house, state department, Homeland Security and members of the house and senate. During on New Hampshire 30th, dhs asked to travel in the post 2011 time frame. The negotiations went on for quite n some time on november 1, december 1st, december 1st, december 2nd, december 3rd and agreements finally reached and in december the third white house notifies Homeland Security via email that they support the negotiated text that does not allow visa waivers for specific groups or categories, okay . December 3rd. I december 3rd at 1037 in the Morning White House notifies chs, the state department has no further edits to that text, okay. President signed hr202 into law whichch include it had visa wair program language. December 19th secretary kerry sends letter sending that the u. S. Will implement req
Its really going to depend on the local environment. So, how how about southwest florida . Well, this is one of the reasons we need a supplemental to give resources so we can look at mosquito populations, trap them, analyze them and then sometimes larva siting can have an impact on mosquito populations. Your point is quite correct that the outdoor spraying may have limited impact, if any, on the mosquito population, but were looking at different ways of doing mosquito control. And in some circumstances what theyve done in australia, for example, is use targeted indoor residual spraying for this particular mosquito with as far as weve seen some pretty effective results. But all of that is quite complex to do. And let me see if just taking off on that point so that i understand it correctly. Because, again, we want to get in the game here legislatively so im not just asking to take your time here. Like a lot of things it always impacts the poor. And people that, you know, lifes never fai
With republicans on. And theres also some increased money for things like Cancer Research and clean energy. The cancer part is of course associated with Vice President bidens Moonshot Initiative and that is one of the other things that the omb, office of management and budget within the white house has said they hope they can work with republicans on. Just to give an idea here, this is usually they try to target initiatives like these like rifle shots. These are arguably even tinier than rifle shots in terms of trying to find Common Ground between this white house and this Republican Congress. Well, then lets turn to war funding and something we have heard of in the past budgets, the overseas Contingency Operations budget. You have tweeted about this. The white house budget keeps 73. 7 billion in the oco for fiscal 2017. House gop leaders may want more to gain Defense Department hawk votes. Would need the white house to sign. Whats going on here . Well, right now, house leadership want