Richard spencer and chief of Naval Operations John Richardson testified about the recent ship incidents that killed 17 sailors this sumner asia. The Senate Armed Services Committee Heard about accidents involving the uss john s. Mccain off the coast of singapore in august and the uss fitzgerald in the sea of japan in june. This hearing is two hours and 15 minutes. Well, good morning. This Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on recent u. S. Navy collisions at sea, including u. S. S. Lake sham plain, uss fitzgerald, and uss john s. Mccain as well as the grounding of uss an teet tomb. We welcome or witness, the on able Richard Spencer secretary of the navy, admiral John Richardson, chief of Naval Operations, and mr. John pendleton, director of defense for structure and readiness issues at the Government Accountability office. Id like to take a moment to recognize family members who lost loved ones in the fitzgerald and mccain collisions who are here with us today as our hono
Decertify the deal. Continue to watch this hearing online at cspan. Org. Here on cspan taking you live to the u. S. House. They gavel in for legislative work, beginning work on debate rules for fridays bill dealing with whistleblower protections. Live coverage here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend molly fraser, fwig harbor United Methodist church, gig harbor, washington. The chaplain god of many names we give thanks for many opportunities to serve and remind us we are servants of our country, our people, and the land. Let us not forget the blessings you have given us so we might use our power and influence to oorder the country in ways that allow each and every person to find life and liberty and to pursue happiness. Become, perhaps we come, perhaps already weary from an onslaught of emails, texts, fen calls, and meetings where people make demands on how we vote and assumptions on every decision we put forward.
The streets but law professor says its important to separate the arrests from convictions, all of them in delaware led to a guilty plea into 2002 for burglaries. We are all looking for an answer but because of the lack of violent convictions its hard in this case. And the lack of anything involving a weapon. I think too. It makes it so hard. In that case prince was sentenced to 25 years but the sentence was a suspended one after two years incarceration. In delaware they have the concept with regard to sentencing, it can be suspended and allow the person to serve time and if they do okay. They can move to the next lower level of supervision for example and get released. The ags office says that radee prince was involved in a violent altercation ball last year. Best friend with princes brother. Ball told police he tried to flee in his vehicle thinking prince was armed with a gun and he rammed prince as he fled fearing for his life and the ags Office Dropped the case for a lack of eyewitn
Half. [applause] everybody have a seat. So, what has been going on while i have gone . [laughter] it is wonderful to be home. It is wonderful to be at the university of chicago. It is wonderful to be on the southside of chicago. It is wonderful to be with these young people here. What i want to do is maybe speak very briefly at the top about why we are here and then i want to spend most of the time we are together hearing from these remarkable young people who are representative for some amazing young people in the audience as well. I was telling these guys that it was a little over 30 years ago that i came to chicago. I was 25 years old, and i had gotten out of college filled with idealism and absolutely certain that somehow i was going to change the world. I have no idea how, or where or what i was going to be doing. I worked first two payoffs and student loans, and then i went to work at the city college of new york on their harlem campus with some student organizing. Then there wer
Smoother wyden and minutes of the committee senator wyden and members of the committee, i wanted to briefly comment on the horrific terrorist attack in manchester. Americans are bound to our british friends by a common language, culture and many other things such as the common law. As a boy, i remember the strength it brought to us americans to witness the courage of the british people as they stood strong in the battle of britain. We resolve that the british people will once again vanquish a common foe. Today i think i can speak for all members of the committee when i say, god save the queen and god save great britain. We care a great deal for our friends overseas, and we wish them the best. Todays hearing has a dual focus. We will be, we will discuss the president s budget for fiscal year 2018 as well as ongoing efforts to reform our nations tax code. We are pleased to be joined here today by treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin who will provide the administrations perspective on these