Needed to fully implement the 2012 event strategy and maintain a relevant modern force. Two months ago, rather than fully repealing sequestration, Congress Passed a bipartisan budget act that provided relief in the fiscal year. The 500s and thats the bipartisan budget act health in the next fiscal year. But, that spending remains significantly below what the request is for the fiveyear budget plan. Under the spending plan, dod has 490 billion for this fiscal year. That is 31 billion below what is requested. The law limits spending in 2015 to 496 billion. That is 45 billion less than what is requested and the president budgets request last year. The relief that the budget act provided has forced us to cut over this twoyear period. The 37 billion cut we took last year and the budget control acts tenyear reductions of 487 billion. The sequestration level cuts remain the law for 2016 and beyond. The president will submit a budget request for fiscal year 2015. The military will still face s
Mr. Brooks, no. Mr. Veezy aye. Mr. Nugent, no. Ms. Gabbert . Ms. Gabbert . Mrs. Nome . Mrs. Nome, no. Mr. Cook . Mr. Cook, no. Mr. Bridenstine, no. Dr. Winthrop, no. [ applause ] warski, no. Mr. Burn, no. Mr. Mcintyre . Mr. Lopesack . Mr. Lobesack, yes. Mr. Schuster . Mr. Schuster, no. Mr. Johnson . Mr. Johnson . Mr. Carson. Mr. Carson . Ms. Duckworth . Ms. Duckworth . Ms. Duckworth, aye. Ms. Gabbert. Ms. Gabbert. Is there anyone whos not had the roll recorded . The clerk will report the tally. Mr. Chairman, the vote was 24 ayes, and 34 nos. The amendment is not agreed to. If there are no further amendments, the chair recognizes the gentleman from alabama, mr. Rogers, for the purpose of offering a motion. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I want to take a minute, first, to thank my Ranking Member and good friend from tennessee, mr. Cooper, who has been a great partner in this process. I think thats evidenced by the fact that in my 12 years here, i cant remember a mark going through with only on
Bring these men to trial, now while we can do so on our own terms and give the Defense Department the Legal Authority it needs to make the right decisions about these prisoners. It is costing us 2. 7 million per detainee per year versus 34,000 at a maximum prison in the United States. More than 300 individuals convicted of crime related to terrorism are currently incarcerated in federal prisons with no escapes. The role in the benghazi attack is a great example of our ability to deal with highprofile terrorists safely and swiftly. He will not be brought to guantanamo. He will be brought to the United States to answer for his crimes in a federal court and punished in accord answer with the laws of this nation. I have every confidence to bring him to justice. He said its continued operation mock ours values. Its time to put an end to this by supporting this amendment. Let me use one more quote, in the words of the family members of the 9 11 victims, the Current System is immoral, unlawfu
A big rig carrying produce overturned and we have two lanes blocked. Amy hollyfield is on the scene bringing us more details ahead. But it is a not injury accident but it is causing major delays from the Central Valley over the Altamont Pass moving only at seven Miles Per Hour. You can see we are seeing backups from tracy at an hour and 30 minute those get in the westbound direction. Use an alternate form. Highway four is go. Or use mass transit. That is the best option. Sigalert is having a big impact on the commute. We will take you to livermore. Our reporter has been out there. How is the clean up going . Look what they have to deal with bananas. Look at the load the truck was carrying. This is the top of the truck that flipped on its sides carrying 60,000 pounds of bananas. They have spilled all over the embankment. The crew is loading the boxes and walking them down the hill and taking them to a flatbed truck thatting take another hour. That is not the biggest problem. This we hav
Renewed hope foundation. Is an agenda professor at Georgetown University and the institute of World Politics and to serve as a visiting professor at the National Defense university as well as Georgetown University. He has written several books, the most recent being his coauthoring of a textbook on Homeland Security and, of course, he coauthored for heritage, our book on winning the long war, lessons from the cold war for defending terrorism and preserving freedom. Lease join me in welcoming jim carafano. [applause] thank you. Im going to be extremely brief so we can get right to the top of. I want to start with a thank you but i want to thank our panelists, chris, kim and Michael Ohanlon. Put this together on the fly yesterday. I want to thank all of you for coming out in this but we thought this is such a critical issue as youre trying to follow over the weekend of a lot of people talking about a lot of things that nobody had chance to catch their breath. And have a dialogue. And i t