Secretary of defense Ashton Carter and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, both testified before the committee. And i have Great Respect for both of them. I asked them if after a decade in afghanistan keeping troops in afghanistan for nine more years would even make a difference. Last year in his politico article and i quote the title was down the opium rathole, roger says, and i quote, if you spent 13 years pounding money down the rathole with little to show for it you might wake up one morning and say, hey, ill stop pounding money down this rathole. Unfortunately, the United States government does not think this way. Even though our combat troops are leaving afghanistan, our money will continue to flow there. Billions after billions. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to submit this politico article for the record. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Jones in recent days, the waste of billions of dollars in afghanistan has been dominating the h
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million jobs, lower the unemployment rate by 1%, and lower raise gdp by 2%. i think the proposal the president made selected the types of programs that independent analysis think have the biggest bang for the buck, but we need to do many things at once. we face three great challenges. first is the sustaining job growth. second, invest in the future, continuing to educate, innovating, and investing in infrastructure, which would also help right now. thirdly, as we discussed in your office, we need to get on a sustainable fiscal path. we need to do all of that, and that includes entitlement spending. none of us want to talk about it, but does it not include real, sustainable, economic plan in any trajectory, we have to deal with entitlements. i think the president has alluded to it. i do not think he is on board, but he talks about it. what you said is exactly right. we need to look at the whole budget including entitlements. the fast growth is in medicare and medicaid. i
dough defectors pay brokers in china to contact their families, and they get dvds, flash drives and balloon launches. north koreans, especially the eleads, are keeping up with south korean soap operas, and watching south korean and western films. it s more important than over to raise the human rights concerns so they know our concerns are for them. for example, it was a brilliant action by the obama administration to include special envoy for north korean human rights, ambassador robert king in the delegation that went to north korea to investigate the food situation. it s the human rights in north korea that are causing the starvation. furthermore, north koreans are no long dependent on kim jong-il to survive, and because of farmer markets and the capitalism is saving them. kim jong-il s unprovoked attacks on south korea, as congressman paine mentioned, have awake ended south koreans to the truth, we must not ignore the human rights of north koreans for the false promise
their district supervisor and are currently members of the bicycle advisory committee and will be continuing on to another term. so we do that without opposition. thank you. madam clerk, item five? a item five, hearing to consider appointing four members, terms ending july 17, 2013, to the reentry council. but there are four seats, 15 applicants. supervisor kim: thank you. i want to express my appreciation for all of the work that was done in advance. we have 15 applicants, for seats. i wanted to say to the applicant s here today, it was an incredible honor to read all of your applications and responses to the questions. you have led amazing lives and have amazing stories, and i want to appoint all of you to the reentry council, but i appreciate your leadership and advocacy and work on working with the formally incarcerated to ensure housing, employment, and it was an honor to learn of all of your stories in the process. thank you so much for hearings for seats 1 at 34. i