Committee will come to order. Last week, the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world or more accurately, the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today, we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned and sometimes even disturbed by evidence that is accumulating on the damage inflicted upon our military in recent years and the stresses our forces are under. That damage comes from a variety of factors including budget cuts of 20 , continuing resolutions, the failure to recognize or at least admit and then address mounting readiness problems as well as the shrinking size of the force while keeping the tempo of operations high. There is certainly plenty of blame to go around between both parties
Services committee is chaired by texas congressman mack thornberry. Committee will come to order. Last week the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world. Or more accurately the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned and sometimes even disturbed by evidence that is accumulating on the damage inflicted upon our military in recent years and the stresses our forces are under. That damage comes from a variety of factors including budget cuts of 20 , continuing resolutions, the failure to recognize or at least admit and then address mounting readiness problems as well as the shrinking size of the force while keeping the tempo of operations high. Th
The meeting accepted and want to announce two new members one is here i dont know the second Stephanie Greenberg as left the working group and replaced by our peer you want to say a few words so we know what youre interests are. I was on the Advisory Team for open space and sidestepped this role san franciscan nature third 0 generation my first job out of college was working with chris martin at the cannery and the first waterfront plan . Ironic many years alert later a bay swimmer on the docks and the club ive scam the waterfront from at t park to other places. Youre very welcome and thank you weve affiliation lost frank and his replacement is trio campbell i dont know if trio is here hes not and perhaps if he arrives your let me know thank you. A couple of what are you doing here a couple of quick anonymous before the subtlety matter . The last of the phase one i want to express any prediction to the cochair and the members of the working group and others for being patient and courte
Religious hardliners and move them closer to the west. And a countdown to asus cessation of hostilities in syria has begun to a system nation os of hostilities in syria has begun. Good to have you with us. A new president , a new package of reforms, and hopefully a new era for fifa, the disgraced entity that touts itself as soccers world governing body. Gianni infantino will take the chair vacated by the scandal that plagued sepp blatter. His task will be to restore professional soccer. One zealous sportswriter described him as these substitute who came off the bench to score the winning goal in a cup final. A deep draft for p5s new president. For fifas the president. Gianni infantino is the most powerful man in world football. Gianni infantino i want to work with all of you together, with all of you, in order to restore and rebuild a new era in fifa, a new era in football, with the ball in the center of the stage. Reporter the clock is ticking. The congress has passed a package of ref
Disruptions of any kind. Proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner antonini commissioner moore and we commissioner richards is present and we expect commissioner johnson to be absent. Did i call you commissioner hillis. Thank you commissioners, the first item on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance at the time of issuance we have no items proposed for continuance, however, just minutes before the hearing he received a request from the dr and to continue item 15 for case a discretionary review they just asked it be continued to the next available hearing he discussed february 11th theyre in agreement to that dates the one item proposed for continuance. Okay any Public Comment on item the one item proposed for continuance . I dont see any Public Comment is closed. Commissioner antonini and move to continue item