Holds a hearing on Government Accountability and transparency. Whats that live beginning at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. Announcer national intelligence officials testify on global threats facing the u. S. , including russias nuclear buildup and the growing threat of climate change. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Good morning. Before i turn to our Witnesses Today, i would like to give my colleagues a preview of what is ahead of the committee when we return from the recess. Because of the uncertainty of the timing of the president s budget submission, the committee has made a difficult decision to delay the markup of the ndaa until july in consultation with senator emhoff. The secretary of defense, chairman milley, will testify in june. That leaves may to focus on hearings. We have 23 nominations or intent to nominate. Getting these nominees confirmed as quickly as possible will require many hearings, including possib
Good morning. Before i turn to our Witnesses Today, i would like to give my colleagues a preview. Because of the uncertainty of the timing of the president s budget submission, the committee has made a difficult decision to delay the markup until july, in consultation with the senate ranking member. The chairman and military services will testify in june. We now have 23 nominations or intent to nominate, including three military combatant commanders and two nominees for the national nuclear security administration. Getting these nominees confirmed as quickly as possible will require many hearings, including possible full committee hearings on wednesday. I asked everyone to be as patient and cooperative as possible while we perform this very necessary oversight duty. Im breaking a bit from the tradition of the last several months. I would like to take a moment to think Leo Brewer thank leah brewer, who has been the main force in entering this committee has kept operating through covid.
Good morning. Before i turn to our Witnesses Today, i would like to give my colleagues a preview of what is ahead of the committee when we return from the recess. Because of the uncertainty of the timing of the president s budget submission, the committee has made a difficult decision to delay the markup of the ndaa until july in consultation with senator emhoff. The secretary of defense, chairman milley, will testify in june. That leaves may to focus on hearings. We have 23 nominations or intent to nominate. Getting these nominees confirmed as quickly as possible will require many hearings, including possible fullcommittee hearings on wednesday. So i ask everyone to be as patient and cooperative as possible while we reform this very necessary oversight duty. One other note breaking a bit from at least the tradition of the last several months, i would like to take a moment to thank leah brewer, the committee nominations and Hearings Clerk who has been the main force behind ensuring thi
activists down the boycott georgia warpath. including that fringe figure, that guy, president joe biden, who eagerly jumped on the punish georgia train in an interview on espn. what do you think about the possibility that they decide to move the baseball game out of atlanta because of this political issue? i think today s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly. i would strongly support them doing that. laura: well, well, well! aside from the fact that joe seemed to be sleeping in that interview, as the angle told you last night these left wing boycotts of the all-star game, frankly, would cause huge economic damage and send jobs to other low tax states. hurt georgia. so the blow back against this is growing which forced even liberal georgia senator john to put out a statement last night saying i absolutely oppose and reject any notion of boycotting georgia but then he said, look, corporations that are disgusted like we are with this voter suppression
it sent all sorts of far left activists down the boycott georgia warpath. including that fringe figure, that guy, president joe biden, who eagerly jumped on the punish georgia train in an interview on espn. what do you think about the possibility that they decide to move the baseball game out of atlanta because of this political issue? i think today s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly. i would strongly support them doing that. laura: well, well, well! aside from the fact that joe seemed to be sleeping in that interview, as the angle told you last night these left wing boycotts of the all-star game, frankly, would cause huge economic damage and send jobs to other low tax states. hurt georgia. so the blow back against this is growing which forced even liberal georgia senator john to put out a statement last night saying i absolutely oppose and reject any notion of boycotting georgia but then he said, look, corporations thatt are disgusted like we a