Times. It sounds like debate will be led by day chair of the Armed Services committee, john mccain, who will be returning from cancer treatments. What are his priorities for funding the military . Mr. Shane this funding issue is going to be the core of the debate with the Defense Authorization act this week. As you said, he had the vote against the continuing resolution. He said these shortterm budget issues dont help the military, they need longterm planning and more money. The cr vote this week test extends the current fiscal years funding to the end of december, the middle of december. What we are going to be seeing in the Defense Authorization debate this week is basically his plea for significant increase in defense funding. It is a 692 billion bill. It is more than what the house wants and significantly more than what the president had laid out for basic defense funding. These are going to be issues and how they got there, how they pay for this. There is going to be at least a de
Warning at this time and are being told to evacuate. There been making preparations for days which is a good thing. We are in Central Florida in the orlando area and at this time, shelters started opening up today at 9 00 and many are already in line at the shelters being processed in. Shelves arestores bare because people are getting muchneeded supplies. I have to tell you, as we watch the unfortunate incident in texas over the last couple weeks, people are just more started theirly preparation earlier than usual. It appears that those that are evacuation,d under have already begun the process. While we arent exactly sure right now, we are watching the track, it looks like the storm is determined to make the south to north turn, it is traveling more west but we are still watching and waiting. And making sure we are prepared. Host youre in Central Florida in orlando, claremont, parts of your district, what are the concerns . We have been seeing concerns about the coastal communities, w
Washington journal continues. Joined by tomow martin, president and ceo of the American Forest Foundation and he is here to discuss the role of the federal government in wildlife management. Thank you for joining us. Guest thank you kimberly, it is great to be here. Host remind our viewers what the American Forest Foundation is. Guest we are a conversation a Conservation Group and we work with family and public course cornerstones, helping to reap the benefits of that. Host we have been talking about wildfires. What is the status . Guest at this point in the season it is in the west. Earlier in the year it was in the south. 12,005 hundred square miles, almost 8 million acres have burned already this year. Winterthis wonderful where we were sitting there, going all this rain, this will be terrific, maybe the drought is broken. Then this hot summer has brought back wildfires with a vengeance. Host the Washington Post today has more on that. Wildfires season, have burned through nine stat
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