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Needed to fully implement the 2012 event strategy and maintain a relevant modern force. Two months ago, rather than fully repealing sequestration, Congress Passed a bipartisan budget act that provided relief in the fiscal year. The 500s and thats the bipartisan budget act health in the next fiscal year. But, that spending remains significantly below what the request is for the fiveyear budget plan. Under the spending plan, dod has 490 billion for this fiscal year. That is 31 billion below what is requested. The law limits spending in 2015 to 496 billion. That is 45 billion less than what is requested and the president budgets request last year. The relief that the budget act provided has forced us to cut over this twoyear period. The 37 billion cut we took last year and the budget control acts tenyear reductions of 487 billion. The sequestration level cuts remain the law for 2016 and beyond. The president will submit a budget req ....
Weve been at war for 1 years constantly. Two wars. Were out of one war, iraq. And were coming out of the longest war weve ever been, afghanistan. Not unlike after every war the United States has been in, you reset your posture. You reset your assets. You reset your whole enterprise based on the new realities and based on preparing that institution for the challenges of the future. To answer your question, how do you adjust to the dangerous complicated world that were in, weve increased, for example, cyberassets. Increased special operations. Were focusing on readiness, capability. Our capacity. Our ability to do the things that we need to do in the Strategic Interests of the strategic guidance that the president laid out in 2012. Schieffer you say were coming out of two wars, yes, thats true. But were not necessarily coming away victories just coming out of those wars, th ....
Mr. Inhofe madam president . The presiding officer the senator from oklahoma. Mr. Inhofe let me say, first of all, my good friend from South Carolina is a mind reader. He always looks at you and figures out what youre going to say and then he says it better. So let me share there are a couple of things during this discussion that havent been said. I just want to mention that. Then i know were going to go ahead and vote on this. One is that our military was told and i talked to several of the groups, the military, the retired groups and others that they would be grandfathered in. Now, i want everyone grandfathered in, if theyre going to do Something Like this. Certainly one installation in my state of oklahoma, we have 13,000 civilian employees, theyre going to be grandfathered in. Thats the right thing to do because people make career decisions predicated on what theyre told ....
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