Limited thing that we should back off of the specific numbers and recognize there is a strong commitment to readiness as the department of defense says there should be especially wary face as many facts that come up with a warning as they do in healthcare. I can tell you from personal experience that discussions are made about benefits and what we are going to do to the Health Care System and military readiness is something that always gets raised and it should be and will continue to be. I want to invite wanted to invite you to add anything that you would wish. Given the responsibilities you have and how much youve contributed and realizing that you are now out of service in the department of defense i think im hearing you today say the military Health Care System is in reasonably good shape but it needs a lot of work into the compensation system is reasonably fair but there are significant changes we can and should consider and we dont need an overhaul but we do need a lot of work in
Question as to what policy and how they felt about the vietnam war and the question is, did you beat your wife lately. I want you to come in and answer the questions of the philosophy. You talk about angola. You dont talk about angola how during the Eisenhower Administration we were for the very people that later on that nixon was opposed to. You dont say anything about that or things of that nature. Very interesting. My personal opinion is this, you deliberately stood in that well before an empty house and challenged these people and you challenged their americanism and its the lowest thing that i have ever seen in my 32 years in congress. Mr. Speaker, if i may reclaim my time. Let me say first of all mr. Speaker, i move we take the speakers words down. Find more highlights from 35 years of coverage. Cspan created 35 years ago and brought to you by your local satellite or cable provider. President obama honored 24 Army Veterans tuesday with the medal of honor. The recipients were foun
Had a red bag. He was detained as a protester. Mistakingly, i want to correct the record. With that i want to thank the panel. [applause] i have confirmed it is true that for those of you that have the temerity to hang out with us all day, we are in fact serving the in drop and the deficit will keep referring to that. The stage nancy cook, whose the domestic and reporter for the national journal. [applause] hello everyone. Thank you so much for sticking around. Thank you so much for joining us. I feel like the public appearances you make are somewhat rare. The cbo has been under fire recently so i think we will have a lot to talk about. Glad to have all you here to join us. Issince this whole event about the economy, i wanted to start off with a broad question. Five years since the start of the recession are you surprised by where we are at this point in economic recovery . We have been surprised and disappointed by the pace of economic recovery. I think the people who are more right a
2 and third, 1944. On the afternoon of the second, americans launched an attack against german emplacements but were repulsed by machine gun fire. Armed with a rocket launcher, private cano crawled through a mighty area under fire and successfully reached a point within 10 yards of the nearest emplacement. He quickly fired a rocket into the position, killing the two gunners and five supporting rifleman. Without hesitating, he fired into a second position, killing two more gunners and proceeded to assault the position with hand grenades, killing several others in dispersing the rest. When an adjacent company encountered heavy fire, private cano crossed his company front, crept within 15 yards of the nearest emplacement, and kill the two machine gunners with a rockette. With another round he killed two or gunners more gunners. On the following day, his company renewed the attack and again encountered machine gun fire it up he again machine gun fire. He again crossed the terrain and kille
Conversation on the state of the economy with chris van hollen, a Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee. A hand for david graham and chris van hollen. [applause] where you want me . I think right here. Congressman, thanks for being here. Lets jump right in. There seems to be this idea that maybe the budget wars are over. As ryan murray suggested, the detente. Is that what it looked like from where you are . What can we look forward to in the next few months . First of all, its great to be here. I appreciate the opportunity. I think you have a temporary truce on the budget wars. The budget agreement that was reached in december carries us through fiscal year when 2014 and 2015. You have an agreement to increase spending on those by 2015 you are back to current law, and that is the sequester with the deeper acrosstheboard cuts. Look at some point we are going to have to resolve those issues. There were concerns we would have another showdown about the debt ceiling. We were able to