Paying us nearly what they should be paying us. We are losing billions and billions of dollars on defending owe and many of them dont pay us. If they dont pay us, i say why . Hey dont ask. So those countries im sure will start to pay for the defense, but its a fantastic number. Its a very, very large its a shocking number. I will just finish with this. I have Great Respect for japan, but we defend japan, germany, saudi arabia, south korea, 28,000 soldiers right now in south korea. These are wealthy countries. Nd when i say they have to pay more, a general came to refute my statement and said, doesnt mr. Trump know that japan pays 50 of the cost of its defense . And i said, why dont they pay 100 . The numbers you are talking about are massive. And when you add it all together, a lot of good things are going to happen. [applause] on the Corporate Tax rate, the corner stone of your Economic Policy is reducing the Corporate Tax rate to 15 . Secretary of the treasury lew proposed a 28 rate.
Thank you. And of course our warmest maholo to shawn and marks office staff for just everything that youve done. You will all forever be a part of our ohana and our hearts will never forget your kindness. There were also many of you here in congress that prayed for mark, and for that he was extremely grateful. Your continued prayers, your notes, your text messages, your calls, all of your support helped give him strength to face the challenge. We were so blessed to have met paster at holy trinity church. The church became our home away from home and the many hands that prayed over mark was such a gift to us. Marks faith in god was strong until the end. And he wrote in his final wishes, i love my god. Do not worry about me. Im in heaven. Through it all, he never gave up hope and went peacefully surrounded by those he loved most. Owe the entire takai our family, his sister, daughter, my father gary, as well as from our entire ohana back home in hawaii, thank you from the bottom of our he
Been certainly there has a lot of reporting, and ive heard stories from people who lived in forprofit nursing yes, where, in fact, similar dynamics emerge. The vast understaffing of workers and the use of trainedned practically nurses and assistance being asked to do things that theres something not equipped to do. The People Living in those facilities are suffering significantly as the caller described. Not so different, similar kinds of profit pressures are at play, and similar suffering emerges, as a result. Host you can read his reporting, some of his articles at the we are back live at the annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Dinner in washington. Come, Hillary Clinton and words from president obama. Representative five was selected by Hillary Clinton to serve as the permanent chair for the 2016 Democratic National convention. Black caucusonal is honored to present the award for women who have excelled in providing extraordinary contributions. , for her leadership in two d
And saved many lives and thanks for your considerable effort there. The dedicated u. S. Team that joined the response effort deserves our gratitude and as you already mentioned mr. Chairman and Ranking Member mentioned, six of our marines paid the ultimate price to help the nepal ease people and they will be forever missed. And as soon as i heard, i remember this, the ambassador voicing his concern to us as we drove through there about the stone buildings and brick buildings and vull vull vulnerability. You but longterm maybe preventing more people from losing their lives down the road and how we can assist. Thank you for what you have done and i yield back. The chair ms. Meng would you like to make an opening statement. Ms. Meng new york city is home to thousands of citizens from nepal and we have districts throughout the burrough of queens. I want to thank all of your departments for the Immediate Response to the crisis and your ongoing efforts. A tragedy like this one every minute a
Reasons i voted for the training and equiping measures that have been implemented but my frustration is that as you also have observed there is a huge gap between the goals and missions that weve outlined for the United States and the actual action that were undertaking the train and equip activities are way behind what we might have hoped by this point and theres no clear timetable for really achieving the level of capability that we expected or hoped. I hope this has been a very sobering morning. I thank you all for being here. Thank you. Senator mccain i also want to thank the witnesses. Its been, i think, helpful to all members and this is not an issue thats going oy way, so im sure that well be seeing you again. Thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] mexico motivated next, the vice chair on global threats. M behringe