I welcome everyone to the subcommittee meeting today to hear testimony in iraq. Your witness appearing today, before recognizing myself for the purpose of making up statement i would like to take the opportunity to recognize and thank the members of our committee who served in iraq for your service and your interest today will be invaluable. Your input. I will now make statement and then turn it over to ricky member news we can make an opening statement. Also, before beginning my time, i like to take a moment to news express my condolences to the soldiers killed in pensacola on friday. Three soldiers will dedicated to our country. They were taken far is it too soon. We want answers about the shooter and how the septet happened. The president was quick to share condolences. And certainly at this. , the president and all of us must require the kingdom, and transparent cooperation with the United States in this issue so we can understand what happened. Identify any problems of the vetting
[background noises] we are going to get them all out god willing. s daily israeli airstrikes pummeled gaza at this hour. As israel appears to inch closer to launching a Grand Invasion aimed at destroying hamas. Good evening i am Jonathan Hunt with special Coverage Of Israel At War. It is 7 00 here in los angeles at 5 00 a. M. And Israel Military leaders say its not a matter of if but when they will launch a massive Ground Invasion of gaza. Even as the idf says at least 210 hostages including 11 americans are believed to be held by hamas terrace there for the living invasion comes as god the southern border with egypt was briefly opened up to date with 20 un trucks filled with humanitarian aid arriving in gaza to help address the rapidly deteriorating situation for 2 million palestinians. The white house as President Biden consulted with National Security advisors today over the war in the middle east. Fox news was able to press the president of reports he has pushed the israelis to del
[background noises] we are going to get them all out god willing. s daily israeli airstrikes pummeled gaza at this hour. As israel appears to inch closer to launching a Grand Invasion aimed at destroying hamas. Good evening i am Jonathan Hunt with special Coverage Of Israel At War. It is 7 00 here in los angeles at 5 00 a. M. And Israel Military leaders say its not a matter of if but when they will launch a massive Ground Invasion of gaza. Even as the idf says at least 210 hostages including 11 americans are believed to be held by hamas terrace there for the living invasion comes as god the southern border with egypt was briefly opened up to date with 20 un trucks filled with humanitarian aid arriving in gaza to help address the rapidly deteriorating situation for 2 million palestinians. The white house as President Biden consulted with National Security advisors today over the war in the middle east. Fox news was able to press the president of reports he has pushed the israelis to del
Seriously considered. Senator mccain has already referenced them. One is i think we have to take a hard look at overhead. The army but not just the army but the military across the board, all of the services to include department of defense are very very Large Organization with a big bureaucracy with a significant overhead. A second is acquisition. As already previously mentioned, theres a considerable amount of cost and in many cases waste in the acquisition process. We need to get that under control. And the third and final piece that i think is worth taking a look at theres a wide variety of emerging technologies that could in the outyears could lend itself to automated processes and reducing either manpower or manpower costs, compensation cost over time. Thats three big areas that would want to lock at if confirmed. We have russia creating a looming threat in europe, we have the pacific and chinas expansion or i should say increased activity there. We have the ongoing war in the mi
I introduced a bill that reforms the the act to provide greater congressional oversight and to protect against the throat of Nuclear Proliferation. When the president says it is this will deal or go to war there is another option. Lets not forget about the agreement that was withdrawn by the Bush Administration in 2008 because the president could not certify that russia was not providing nuclear and advanced nuclear advanced weapons. Iran can buy Nuclear Missile ap weapons from the russians. Next on the list what the list with vietnam and allowed vietnam to enrich. The the agreement. I opposed that agreement because it allows china to enrich. Jordan and the uae, are not allowed to enrich based on their agreement, but bad actors china, russia and vietnam, oh they can enrich. Et doesnt make. Page 5 line 13 of the general provisions of the agreement states that the nations will quote, cooperate as a appropriate in the Nuclear Energy and engage in willp am projects oose detailed in a nmp n