Eastern on cspan2s book tv. Next, the army, navy, air force, and marine corps chiefs testify before the House Armed Services committee about their budgets. They also discuss the impact of repeated continuing resolutions instead of longterm appropriations for the military branches. Committee will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform in yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military, and im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the budget control act, plus a series of continuing resolutions, coupled with a pace of required deployment have damaged the u. S. Military. I believe that damage has gone far deeper than most of us realize, requiring more time and more money to repair than is generally expected. Theres plenty of responsibility to go around for the current state of affairs, with both congress and the obama administration
Up next, the chiefs of the army, air force, navy and marine corps testify on their budgets and the impact of repeated continuing resolutions in place of more longterm appropriations for the military branches. Held by the House Armed Services committee, this is about two hours, forty five minutes. [ banging gavel ] the committee will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform in yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military, and im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the budget control act, plus a series of continuing resolutions, coupled with a pace of required deployment have damaged the u. S. Military. I believe that damage has gone far deeper than most of us realize, requiring more time and more money to repair than is generally expected. Theres plenty of responsibility to go around for the current state of affairs, with both
Allies, israel, arab allies, particularly interested in any coordination and cooperation you have. Im not going to publicly. Obviously. I would only tell you, we have a handful of nations right now, very direct and Real Relationships with with respect to capabilities, realworld operations. One of the challenges i find isi find is cyber like any other mission, we have got to prioritize. I asked wheres the greatest return for us as a department, the ability to execute our mission. Spent almost as much time with the discussion with the team about what we are not going to do as was discussed , still in the midst of building out. You cant do everything. We have identified identified an initial set of foreign partners, if you will, the partnerships that they are generating, the capability of your using the day. And maybe in a classified setting i could get more information. What is the ratio of civilian versus military within the command . We are trying to build about 80 percent military, 20
The key to the Ranking Member. I have been very critical of the deal i thought it was a mistake but first we should have gotten the final deal that negotiated the interim deal with first should have made sure there was no path said we could negotiate the interim deals because the sanctions were working. I voted to ratchet up do u or do you want to function in the economy . We will continue to press the sanctions into the didnt have a functioning economy. I think that wouldve been the right way to go. But now we are here and we are here, and they think it is a very dangerous situation we are in. I think well get to july 20, and for sure that will want more time. Thats what we feared at the beginning. I think thats the case. Then what do we do . Into we say we will not negotiate and make us look like the bad guys . Its hard to put sanctions back on again. So where do we go from here . I do want to comment, i couldnt agree with you more wholeheartedly. If its a five year deal, if its a 10
Order. Recognize other member seeking recognition for one minute each. We will hear from our witnesses and we thank them for their patience and understanding. That goes for the audience as well. We have had 16 votes. We thank you for the time. The witnesses prepared statements will be made a part of the record. Members have five days to insert statements and questions for the record subject to the length in the rules. Before we begin, i would like to give my sincere condolences to the family and friends of the five american troops who were killed in afghanistan just yesterday recently. No words can adequately express the debt of gratitude that we owe to those brave troops and our thoughts and prayers are certainly with them and their families at this troubling time. The chair recognizes herself for five minutes. Lessons learned from the u. S. Stabilization of the reconstruction operation in iraq. The purpose of that hearing was to examine the final report to get a better understanding