I recognize myself six minutes. Minutes. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Frelinghuysen i rise to present an amendment to h. R. 3219 to make america secure appropriations act. This legislative package provides critical appropriations for National Security, including for the department of defense, department of veterans atares and department of energys Nuclear Programs and the legislative branch bill. My colleagues, this is the primary constitutional duty of the congress to ensure the safety of the homeland and the American People. This legislation was carefully crafted to meet that responsibility, funding our critical material priorities, supporting veterans and making our borders more secure. The core of this package is full year funding in the department of defense and intelligence community. And i thank chairwoman granger. Provides 658. 1 billion, an increase of 61 billion in base discretionary funding for fiscal year 2018 enacted levels. This is no doubt, this is a signif
Last halfcentury of military interventions, partisan politics aside, morality aside what , happens after the party is over . What are the after affects of war and what are the human and financial costs on both sides . Brian when did this idea start . Mr. Gruber my birthday is august 4. Two years ago on august 4, 2014, was the 40th anniversary of the gulf of tonkin incident. At that time isis was marauding across northern iraq. It seemed to me as look ends that was odd that the cost of the vietnam war and the outcome of the vietnam war 50 years after the gulf of tonkin incident, which as you know, president johnson went on National Television that day in 1964 to ask congress to approve his ability to accelerate our intervention in vietnam. It was a claim that north vietnamese patrol boats attacked the uss maddox. Based on that, we escalated the war in vietnam. Years later, secretary mcnamara and many others admitted the attack never happened. Similarly in going to iraq, there were suppo
Last halfcentury of military interventions, partisan politics aside, morality aside what , happens after the party is over . What are the after affects of war and what are the human and financial costs on both sides . Brian when did this idea start . Mr. Gruber my birthday is august 4. Two years ago on august 4, 2014, was the 40th anniversary of the gulf of tonkin incident. At that time isis was marauding across northern iraq. It seemed to me as look ends that was odd that the cost of the vietnam war and the outcome of the vietnam war 50 years after the gulf of tonkin incident, which as you know, president johnson went on National Television that day in 1964 to ask congress to approve his ability to accelerate our intervention in vietnam. It was a claim that north vietnamese patrol boats attacked the uss maddox. Based on that, we escalated the war in vietnam. Years later, secretary mcnamara and many others admitted the attack never happened. Similarly in going to iraq, there were suppo
Last halfcentury of military interventions, partisan politics aside, morality aside what , happens after the party is over . What are the after affects of war and what are the human and financial costs on both sides . Brian when did this idea start . Mr. Gruber my birthday is august 4. Two years ago on august 4, 2014, was the 40th anniversary of the gulf of tonkin incident. At that time isis was marauding across northern iraq. It seemed to me as look ends that was odd that the cost of the vietnam war and the outcome of the vietnam war 50 years after the gulf of tonkin incident, which as you know, president johnson went on National Television that day in 1964 to ask congress to approve his ability to accelerate our intervention in vietnam. It was a claim that north vietnamese patrol boats attacked the uss maddox. Based on that, we escalated the war in vietnam. Years later, secretary mcnamara and many others admitted the attack never happened. Similarly in going to iraq, there were suppo
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