Capability. To what extent is there concern cut into itss military capability . Can you give us any more feelings on that . You listed it as one of the , but can you be more graphic . Can you give us any more detail as to the extent about the cuts to our military capability. Our military capability . Statess in the united and one of those involved in protecting the governments thetion when we published strategic defense and security review in october of 2010. Remarks, in my opening the administration at that time, although there were some underlying concerns, they were persuaded that we were going to spectrum of full capabilities, that they were reassured that our defense spending would remain above 2 , certainly throughout the life of this parliament, and that the numbers we were talking about for interventions in the future were scalable. They were not as great as we have managed before, but they were nevertheless militarily significant numbers for continuing operations and for large
Host wolman david wolman, joining david wolman, joining us from portland, oregon, thank you, sir. Guest my pleasure. Live coverage of the house begins now. For morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip , but in o five minutes no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Schiff, for five minutes. Mr. Speaker, for much of the past decade, Irans Nuclear Weapons Program has been a Top National Security concern for the United States, and iran armed with Nuclear Weapons capable of threatening israel and other regional states would touch off a Nuclear Arms Race in the worlds most volatile region. For this reason i have pressed for everincreasing sanctions to isolate iran from the Global Economy and have supported a policy that leaves all options on the table, including military for