Exercise that kind of intellectual leadership on technological questions that deal with future threat. I think its part san that the pentagon is much larger. It has ever service dealing with new dock frin. I dont think congress is that inclined to challenge fundamentally the kind of weapon 178 that Defense Department proposes. I think you know, congress clearly does say we dont like certain things. But its often at the margin. We dont want this, we do want that. Its too early to cut the a10. Im not sure we see too many cases. So theres certainly the possibility for events to dramatically change thinking. It might act through the Defense Department and through the military to step up to the plate. Im not a defense expert, but my experience in agencies across the government is congress is much more likely to cement adherence to the past and change things to the future. All of those members have districts. Its more common than forcing in business. Other questions . Yes, sir . Yes, i have
We have these two binding obligations. To make sure that when they go out there, they have the best equipment. We want to satisfy both all of the time. But were increasingly at the point where its muscling out those other parts of the budget. At an event, recently, undersecretary of defense for president obama. You know she talks about it through her own personal experience. The benefits there are important. And she says that concerns me far more. Im much more worried about having all the right equipment and all the things they need to accomplish the mission and survive and i am about a marginal decrease in the benefit. Thats not often what a congressman is going to hear because theres a huge amount of pressure. They dont want to have their benefits cut. Well leave it on that provocative note. Thank you for getting our conversations started today. My colleagues fpi s around to all of you for joining us. [ applause ] i believed in you. I believed in the power of millions of courageous c
I hereby appoint the honorable Cresent Hardy to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6, 2015, the chair will now recognize members from the list submitted by the majority and minority leaders for the morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall the debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. Amidst the troubling picture coming out of the israeli elections, there was some good news from the middle east for a change. The Israeli Government announced that it would double the amount of water it sells to gaza from five million to 10 million cubic fe
She was very excited. My name is hellen and welcome to cleveland. We love this city, hard working city and hard working county. So thank you for coming. I have a twopart question. First, who is in your bracket . I wasnt that creative. I think kentucky is going to take it. But you know i had the one in i havent won since my first year in office. Clearly im not spending as much time watching College Basketball as i once did. So i wasnt necessarily wouldnt necessarily take my bracket and copy it. Although i expect im not the only person picking kentucky. I have, too. The second part of my question is since youve been in office, what has surprised you the most . Thats an interesting question. Whats surprised me the most. Ill start by saying what has not surprised me. Im not surprised by that desensey and determination and grit and resilience and hard work of the American People and the fact that they are not as divided as washington would seem to reflect. Because i travel around the countr
From hagerstown maryland. Snow on both sides of the road. The travel lanes remain open. Slush any places. Use extreme caution. Spinning2015 but written in snowflakes on the window of this car. Tweeted from one of our weather watchers. Temperatures above freezing for almost this entire event around the metro area with 34 in germantown and gaithersburg 34 leesburg now. Fred lik maryland martinsburg, winchester all above freezing. Mid to upper 30s from washington to points southbound. Shaded counties including loudy, montgomery and frederick and towards the blue ridge, for Frederick County virginia and Warren County continue to see wet snow and slushy roads the next couple of hours. Use extra caution. Everything slowly changing to rain and coming to an end across parts of southern virginia. Back to the news. Reporter well you can see behind me here that in frederick we still have snow coming down. In fact look at all of the snow that we got here. It may be the first day of spring but it s