This past week, secretary of defense James Madison and Joseph Dunford testified on the 2018 budget request for the pentagon. U. S. Were also asked about strategy in afghanistan. Well, good morning. The Senate Armed Services Committee Meets to receive testimony on the department of defenses fullyear 20 budget request. We welcome secretary matus, general dunford, thank you for your leadership of our minimum and in uniform. Before we begin, we all want to acknowledge the service and sacrifice of Sergeant Eric howe, Sergeant William baze, and corporal dylan aldrich. These three soldiers were killed this weekend in afghanistan. But thoughts and prayers of this committee are with their loved ones. The sacrifice of these heroes is a painful reminder that america is still a nation at war. That is true afghanistan or after 15 years of war. We face a stalemate and urgently need a change in strategy and an increase in resources if we are to change this situation around. We also remain committed t
Discipline v. A. Employee. Is that one of the inherent problems at the Veterans Administration . Rep. Roe when we met with dr. Scholz after he was sworn in, and by the way elected 1000. I had breakfast with him and accountability was the first thing that came out of his a mouth his mouth. We looked at and accountability bill to allow the v. A. To more quickly determine it for performing for performing employees. Many of them in my hometown, we have a major the a medical center. They are Close Friends of mine. They are dedicated veterans. A poor performing employee hurts them. We want to give the secretary the tools and we passed and accountability bill out of the house already, which shortens the length of time it takes to discipline a poor performing employee while still allowing them their due process rights. It might slow down but its still about two months. It is not like where you may be terminated today. It is still a couple months process, even this expedited process we are look
Shannon good morning, everyone. Welcome to our symposium on the future of anticorruption in u. S. Foreignpolicy. Everyone knows that the senator, we know he has been thinking about these issues for many, many years. Let me start off by asking you in your time here, 30 years are close to 30 years here in washington, you have dealt with a lot of foreignpolicy challenges. Youve dealt with wars, economic classes and refugee crisis. All sorts of threats and amid all of these, where did corruption link . Thank you very much. Take you to the council on Foreign Affairs for holding this series of discussions of dealing with corruption. You have to realize there are forces working against us. We scheduled this over a month ago and we had snow. Here i am trying to get away from the Nuclear Fallout happening in the United States senate. There are outside forces at work here. Corruption is you talk about my experiences when i first came to congress, i got involved in the Helsinki Commission basical
Discipline v. A. Employee. Is that one of the inherent problems at the Veterans Administration . Rep. Roe when we met with dr. Scholz after he was sworn in, and by the way elected 1000. I had breakfast with him and accountability was the first thing that came out of his a mouth his mouth. We looked at and accountability bill to allow the v. A. To more quickly determine it for performing for performing employees. Many of them in my hometown, we have a major the a medical center. They are Close Friends of mine. They are dedicated veterans. A poor performing employee hurts them. We want to give the secretary the tools and we passed and accountability bill out of the house already, which shortens the length of time it takes to discipline a poor performing employee while still allowing them their due process rights. It might slow down but its still about two months. It is not like where you may be terminated today. It is still a couple months process, even this expedited process we are look
Our conversation. Politics a watching long time and i dont think of ever seen an election like this one. The College Democrats and the College Republicans both internally split. College republicans couldnt agree on which candidate to support. Sharp emails were exchanged. And now both democrats and republicans trying to figure out what direction for the party. Where do we go. Who are we . To help us sort this out im delighted to welcome back our graduates i wont say one class, but a recent class of brown university, david corn. David is the Washington Bureau chief for mother jones, and if you read it, he has written in it. I think that is all that needs to be centered old winning journalist. I will plug your book. The inside story of spin, scandal, and the selling of the iraq war. Familiar face around the Watson Institute and brown university. He will take it from here and help us sort out the future of the Republican Party. With 2 republicans he will introduce our panelists. We are wel