And what if this is public debate in education. But we must understand is that the yarn will be determined by the quality of the questions that we ask. American military power has and will continue to play a role in upholding, restraining him at destabilizing rivalries and providing a field for Economic Growth in International Trade to follow. It is a sense of basic security that a strong and consistent american political presence provides and has made possible many of the Great Strides of the third world era. It is even more important today. The United States has pointed out they should have a strategy, not a budget driven strategy. And in that context attention must be given to the modernization of our forces. America has played a role as stabilize their and it is a vision for the future. And all great ideas and achievements before they become a reality. I would like to thank you mr. Chairman mr. Ranking member for conduct team hearings. I am happy to answer your questions. Thank you
People. What ive learned is that were not the only ones who love South Carolina. Whether im in california or connecticut, montreal or minnesota, the story of South Carolinas success is front and center. Everywhere we go there is excitement and frankly, not a small amount of envy over who we are and what weve been able to accomplish. Its a beautiful thing. But last year i got to experience just how far that word is spreading. In november, as many of you know, we traveled to india on a trade mission. India, of course, is the country of my parents birth. I hadnt been there since i was 2 years old, so the trip was a special one for me there are few things more impactful than seeing firsthand, for the first time, your own history. But what was even more amazing to me was the connections i found between South Carolina and that faroff land. I visited a Workforce Training Center at rayatbahra university in mohali. Hundreds of students turned out for a talk i gave, and they had so many question
Opposed to a triad. Would it force those kinds of decisions . I think it i dont think o ha that discussion will ever go away, senator. Im a believer in the triad but we clearly have to have cu discussions that involve the air force, the navy, the departments the congress, National Security counsel and white house to determine, where is the nation going to go with this . We dont have enough money in d our air force and navy to do allry the modernization you would need to do if we took everybodys desire and tried to meet it. Ied thank you all. I want to thank the turn witnesses. For the record know the abc but for the record if sequestration returns next year can your service execute the defense strategic guidance . No senator no, chairman. , no xharm. No, chairman. No, chairman. Thank your. I want to thank you all for your wan very straightforward testimony tio and candid testimony. And i would like to mention two things with c you. One, and it was referred to compens earlier, the commi
Quorum call quorum call a senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senior senator from alaska is recognized. Ms. Murkowski thank you, mr. President. I request the proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. Ms. Murkowski mr. President , i would ask unanimous consent at this time to enter into a colloquy with my colleague from north dakota. The presiding officer is there objection . So ordered. Ms. Murkowski thank you, mr. President. I rise today to speak to an issue that in my state of alas alaska, in the state of north dakota, quite honestly so many of our home states, we have we have facts, we have statistics, we have issues that face our Indigenous Peoples, most particularly our indigenous children, that, truth be told, these statistics are are not what we want to write home about. In fact, in many, many cases, these statistics are shameful and the effort and the initiative to make a difference in the lives of of
About 40 minutes. Michelle gillespie who was r. J. Reynolds . He was selling chewing tobacco and became the best manufacturer in the country. How did he become that . Because he was the second assignment ousonof 16 children o planter before the civil war who owned over 50 slaves, the largest in Patrick County virginia. His father lived in virginia and so r. J. Reynolds was born in 1850 and learned the whole business of growing tobacco from his father, and his father was also entrepreneurial and pretty shrewd and recognized it is great to grow tobacco but it might be even better to sell it himself and to process it and manufacture it and so he took that and he created on his own plantation in manufacturing and he had a slave and his sons figure out how to turn the tobacco plant into chewing tobacco and so he was selling chewing tobacco before the civil war. And after the civil war and during the period of reconstruction he had his sons continue learning the business. So his father was v