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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20160309

[inaudible conversations] good morning. The Armed Services Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on the posture of the u. S. Central command, Africa Command of special Operations Command in the context of our review on oversight of the fiscal year 2017 Defense Budget. We are pleased to welcome our witnesses general austen general rodrigues and general votel. We thank each of you for dedicated for decades of distinguished service and for your leadership of our men and women in uniform. I would like to extend a special thanks to chairman austen and chairman rodrigues as this may be their last appearance before this committee. Our nations most distinguished
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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20160309

The general has just said and i would add one additional point which i think that the big lesson that we are learning out of this is the area between normal state competition and open warfare and i think that in my view this is an area in which russia is engaging and area is another example and Eastern Europe is another example and the ukraine is another example. They are challenging the open warfare, challenging influence and also the interest of many of our allies as well. So for those of us we are paying very close attention and trying to understand how this is going to impact our future operations and how we contribute in that particular area. I appreciate that. My time is short, but very quickly if you could just talk about this, why is it taking so long to develop a force that would keep that region stable . One of the things that i think must be done and i think senator, you probably feel the same way is that the sunnis hav ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Hearing On FEMA Preparedness 20160413

That had 333 recommendations for reform to the Grant Programs at fema. Howev however, only found four permanent changes in which these recommendations came forward. Despite reform over a fiveyear period, little in the way of reform appears to have occurred. We had a hearing on this in 2013 in which we went through some of the various forms of waste occurring at fema. Even since that hearing, we still continue to have problems. 280,000 was recently spent for a bear cat Armored Vehicle in dover. We complained of a 600,000 bear cat Armored Vehicle for keen. I guess New Hampshire is ready for the next invasion. We also found recently or the inspectors have found 1. 7 million for unused radios and generators and 174,000 for unused radios in d. C. This is since we last m ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Hearing On FEMA Preparedness 20160418

The 96 act said we want competition competition. Some places it has worked. Some places it hasnt. This is one place where it really hasnt. We think consumers would have more choices and lower prices if we got competition into that space. The first question is is there a market for set top boxes . The answer is really in terms of what is delivered over the cable network, no, because the box is actually a component of the network. Thats the most efficient way to design and deliver Cable Television service. Its the cheapest way to do it, most efficient way to do it. No market has developed. The companies would prefer a market if it was more fish to do it that way. Watch tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan 23. Our live coverage of the president ial race continues tuesday night for the new york state primary. Join us at 9 00 eastern for election results, candidate speeches and viewer reaction. Taking you on the road to the white house o ....

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