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kentucky and many other states know exactly what happens when washington democrats ignore these facts and decide america needs to take on a unilateral economic pain for no meaningful change in global emissions. we re still trying to recover from democrats last war on coal. we certainly don t need speaker pelosi to promise the europeans she will start a new one. madam president, working americans and their families are not well served by democrats political performance art. what they really need are results. the only path to result is bipartisan legislation. and fortunately if it s a well-trodden one. there are 58 consecutive annual defense authorizations to prove it. always in the past we ve been able to overcome these partisan
warehouse two years too late and it costs us $14.7 million. how long does it take to build an empty house? well, the sad thing was the contract was no longer needed but yet they built it anyway. where was it? it was something this was in dan hakandahar and it could been built for half of that if it was needed. $15 million later of your hard-earned tax dollars. is it because we re dealing with the afghans or because when americans go over there everything gets askew because no one s looking over their shoulder? i think we ve become immune to dollar figures and we absolutely have to have accountability. we have to do audits. we have to continue to find this waste. the reason we re doing the waste watches quarterly is so we can move legislation on the floor or in the defense authorizations. the department of transportation subsidized a huge ritzy public dock facility to
the opposition and therefore the extremism and the violence. get you on the record on the national defense authorizations. you laid out the budget consequences of sequestration in the cr. are you going to recommend to the president he vetoes the bill that will go up to the floor tomorrow? i and other advisers already have, and he s already indicated that if it were presented to him in the form in which it now appears it will be presented to him it is going to be vetoed. this is the national defense authorization act. so yes, that is unchanged. that s the same position. the message to the country who is listening to you and the world is basically yet you re recommending vetoing the defense policy bill. isn t that somewhat of a contradiction here? no. what we need first of all is an appropriations bill that funds the department. the authorization bill contains some of the authorities.
airs defense capability. i do believe their hands are all over this. colonel, when you look at the situation like that. no one is talking about putting troops on the ground. we might as well go fight russia because we are bulking up our military. you are the not talking about that today. where would you like to see the money go? where would you like to see the investment go within the pentagon that would make sense to a guy like you? well, the first thing we need to do is we need to really look at our defense authorizations, do we want to continue the cuts, the units that haven t folded yet? maybe we ought to reconsider that. the heavy forces that we have and the ability, if we need them, if we cut them it takes a long time to train people to be able to do that. and international restrictions we can do. how about restrict russian air travel and airlines. put a 30 day moratorium on russian air travel in the countries of the g-7 or nato countries. we can put the hurt on these people