U. S. Army secretaryrn christe wormuth and army chief of staff general James Mcconville test of adam President Bidens 2024 budget request before Senate Appropriations subcommittee. During their 90 minute hearing that outlined the focus the focus on people, redness and modernization. Will call this committee to order. I want to thank secretary wormuth and general mcconville for being here. Welcome back to both of you. We appreciate your leadership in our nations army look forward to discussing the armys Budget Priorities for fy 20204. Before we begin a like to express my condolences to the entire army family following last weeks tragic death of three soldiers and helicopter accident in alaska and i comes on heels of recent death of nine soldiers following a midair collision of two helicopters in kentucky. Ensuring a brave men and women in uniform have access to the best training and equipment they need is a priority of this committee. I have wanted to do more from him about your order f
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Some committee on economic public buildings in Emergency Management will come to order. I asked that your consent that the chairman be authorized to declare a recess at any time in todays hearing. Without objection so ordered. Consent that members not on the subcommittee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee at todays hearing and ask questions without objection so ordered. Members wish to insert document into the amendment email it to documents ti at mail. House. Love. Recognizing himself with the purposes of an Opening Statement for five minutes. I want to thank our witness, is it deeann . The administrator of the federal Emergency Management agency for being here today. We are focusing on the current state of the readiness response and recovery. The core mission is to help people before during and afterng disasters. Unfortunately, they have added layers of bureaucracy and adopted political agendas which have impacted how it delivers on its core mission. The Biden Administration i
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We are on the verge of this. I have been woring closely with our council to try to be clear about what the role of the executive director and the hss staff is in this process as well as what our responsibilities are as a board as we go forward. So i thought with the guidance of council, after going through other it its other things i thought we wanted to do. To provide opportunity for the board if there are any concerns or articulated issues that we feel we would like to at least be sure that the staff at the beginning of the process and i dont see the board getting diagnosis muddling around in interviews and that sort of things but at the beginning of this process, before the recommendation is brought back, if there are issues and concerned that we wish to at least vocalize and be sure they are made note of as the staff undertakes it work, this would be time to put that on the table. So floor is open for commissioners comments around this particular topic. Are there any . Commissioner