And that triggers the defense like the state defense, iad and others, but the resources they have, it would be is it necessary, in your view, that these agencies be robustly funded in addition, because without them you could have a military victory and, essentially, just wait around because theyll come back because you havent put the politics and capacity. It is necessary. I had the defense ministers of the Key Coalition contributors here to handle a sort of while ago. We went through as we always do the campaign, their role, including the moves to envelope, which weve now taken. Their biggest concern with campaign, at this point, in iraq is exactly the one you knew, namely, is the political and the economic lagging so far behind the military that theres going to be an issue once moezle once isil is ejected from muzzle. If i may take a Political Part in the stabilization reconstruction part. On the Political Part, this is a question that recurs actually everywhere we go. Everywhere we
Past; you are our hope for the years to come. Thank you for leading us beside the still waters of your wisdom and through the Green Pastures of your peace. Empower our senators for the task of this day. May they put right before expediency, others before self, principle before partisanship, and you before all else. Lord, keep our lawmakers under the canopy of your care, sustaining them with your grace amid all sunshine and shadow. And, lord, thank you that america still stands with lamp held aloft as a beacon of freedom for our world. We pray in your sacred name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell p later this morning the senate will have an opportunity to pass the f.
The army reserve responded within 24 hours and had forces moving to the east coast. I provided dewatering units, Aviation Assets to help the National Guard and it worked just fine. Break. Go to d. O. D. , fema, eplows. 100 provided by the army reserve embedded in your fema regions. 50 it shall over 50 of the d. O. D. Are provided by the army reserve which is utilized routinely to defend the homeland in terms of complex catastrophes to support the Guard Brothers and sisters. That all happened in the National Defense act of 2012. Paul, before we go to you, judd, can you talk that from a National Guard angle . Yes, sir. In addition to what general talley mentioned about authorities in place a unique aspect of the air National Guard is our ability to operate under state active duty underneath the funding and control of the governors. The response capability exists. We saw it time and again across the 54. The Additional Authority that general talley mentioned, i might add in terms of contro
Important. This will show less productivity and how do we get the growth that we need . It is friday. Not a whole lot in our earnings. John kerry is in kabul. He will have already met with afghanistans two president ial candidates. His plate is pretty full right now. Has that job ever been more difficult . Has anyone ever had a worse couple of months . That is a great question. Has it ever been more complex than what we are seeing . Check. A complex data it is historic and correlated. Are locked up. Equities down. Negative eight. The euro is one thing not moving. Crude oil is elevated over the last 24 hours. Near 98. The mix is at 16. 66 without question. The yen is one of the great things. 101. 78 on the japanese yen. There is the german bond yield. A 104 a 1. 04. Up six advancing dollars. The german two year went into negative territory. 0. 003 . Are paying people to take their money in germany. Brent crude was 104. Up nicely over the last few hours. Bond yield, stunning at 3. 19 . s
Numbers say two things about what is contrary to what some people thought were the conventional wisdom. One was that the need for and the demand for spectrum was not as great and we hear that often. We hear people say that there is no spectrum crisis and i think the value of what is being given suggested there is a tremendous need for this spectrum and then the other piece of conventional wisdom that i think is interesting to at least think about as we heard a lot about how certain spectrum is more valuable than others and it has to do with lower frequency spectrums and higher frequency spectrum is an honestly there are circumstances where that is true. But in terms of the value of the spectrum, at least superficially it suggests that this higher frequency spectrum is yielding much higher dividends than the last time the fcc auction off their spectrums. And so that does show that we shouldnt write off frequency and frequently higher broadband. Host is there any competition in the mobil