Process, making sure that when we are making changes to our military members lives, that it is this body and his bodys worst responsibility that we are there to make sure we are providing the oversight to see if the changes that we made are doing what we intended them to do. And this deals with the commissary. Many in this committee might know, but our colleagues might not know, that is the Grocery Store and the military. Is nothing predictable in the military and it is very stressful. Grocery shopping should not be stressful. Is not a business. It is a benefit to the tune of about 300 per family member. Haveof those same families people working at the commissary. And the money from the commissary goes back into morale , welfare, recreation, and things to make military life improve. What we are doing, to be clear on this is, we are changing the way the commissarys work. Suggestion and i ask you to think of this from a. Oldiers perspective the mandate was to modernize the military, the
Carmel Research Center as well. And the full 25 letters of report the Science Committee received for this legislation. I have no other requests for time but before i reserve, i want to thank the three original cosponsors we have on the floor tonight. And i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas reserves. This is a good bill that will improve services. The results of the changes contained in this legislation, it will be more timely and accurate forecasts that will protect lives and property. Ms. Bonamici researchers have found that annual variations can produce billions of dollars in reduced gross domestic products. With stakes that large we owe it to our nation. H. R. 1561 takes steps to support noaa and how we harness research. I want to thank the many leaders in the Research Community and the private weather sector who provided advice to the committee as we worked on this bill. I extend my appreciation to the under secretary for oceans and atmosphere for her cooper
The presiding officer the senator from tennessee. Mr. Alexander i want to join in this a little bit because i recognize two things about the senator from oklahoma, one, hes been out front in trying as the senator from maryland said get value for the taxpayers dollar and second, hes working in a cooperative way to help us get a result. Those are two great characteristics in a body of 100 people that operates by unanimous consent. Im grateful for that. On the first point i agree with the Early Childhood money. We really have about 18 billion there. From various streams of federal dollars that are aimed at children below 5 or 6. Then we have state dollars, then we have local dollars, then we have private dollars, and weve grappled with ways to try to make sure we spend that more effectively. One way is to emphasize centers of excellence like nashville or denver or jersey city where they try to put all that money together. Im committed to work with senator harkin and senator mikulski to ta
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