demonstrated fraud was a problem before maine legislators attempted to get rid of same-day voter registration. also, in indiana. there was no legislative record made, and even the supreme court noted that there was no legislative record made that demonstrated any widespread fraud in indiana. so what we are seeing are states that are passing these laws based on these kinds of anecdotes rather than hard evidence that there are widespread issues. and so we have got to push back on that. we have got to demand more of our state legislators. they should not be able to just bring in copycat bills and spew them out and allege fraud. what we're asking is that legislators do their job and that the people and the press insist on more data that can be reviewed by impartial entities

before these burdens are placed on citizens and interfere with their right to vote. >> thank you very much for your time, and in this election year, this is a measure, or a subject of debate, and we look forward to more debates on the subject. thank you very much for your attendance, and thank you.

closing out this discussion on state voter right, of course, super tuesday is next month, march 6th. there are caucuses in alaska, idaho and north dakota and the start of a five-day caucus in wyoming. oklahoma, tennessee, georgia, ohio, virginia, vermont and massachusetts will hold primaries, and be sure to follow c-span for live coverage of

results from all those contests. a reminder to may c-span.org/campaign2012 your go-to source. find stump speeches, debates and links to other related web pages and find a special section to compare where the candidates stand on the issues. tonight on c-span, from this year's world economic forum in davos, switzerland, see the heads of the world bank and international monetary fund along with other global leaders as they talk about the future of the world economy. >> no one is immune in the current situation. it's not just a eurozone crisis. it's a crisis that could have collateral effects, spillover effects around the world, and, you know, we'll hear from others, but what i have seen and what we are seeing in numbers and in forecasts is that no

country is immune and everybody has an interest in making sure that this crisis is resolved adequately. >> i have been in public service most of which involved in public finance over four decades. let me share with you, i've never been at scared as now about the world. what is happening in europe, looking at what our experience was in 1980, the crisis we have, and we had, and the crisis we had in 1990s. this is very big issue. first of all, i agree entirely with what was said that nobody's immune. we are all connected to each other. >> and you can see this whole discussion tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. we'll have more from the world economic forum tomorrow including a panel on the political and economic future of africa. plus the ceos of several major corporations talking a the role their kpu companies are playing

in the global economic recovery. live saturday on "american history tv" on c-span3, five civil war historians make their case for 1862s person of the year. the all-day forum from the museum of the confederacy and the library of virginia in richmond ends the day with aaudience vote. join in with calls and tweets, live saturday starting at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3. president obama recently released his 2013 federal budget proposal call forge addses 3.8 trillion in total spending and adding about $900 billion to the deficit in 2013. by comparesing, the fiscal year 2012 budget also requested merely $3.8 trillion and added $1.3 trillion to the deficit. we break it down further the defense budget request stands at just over $525 billion. a 1% decress in discretionary

non-war spending over last year bp the budget contains $88.5 billion to fight wars, nearly $27 billion less than the previous budget. up next, military budget officials brief reporter on the 2013 budget for the army and marines. they laid out specifics on trimming the budget and programs that will be cancelled. the pentagon plans to cut about 67,000 soldiers from active and reserve army units and the army national guard in the next five years starting on october 1st. as well as 15,200 from the active and reserve ranks of the marine corps as part of an effort to save $487 billion over a decade. this is about 40 minutes. good afternoon, and thanks for the opportunity to brief the army's fy-13 budget. the first request developed that addresses the reductions in defense spending that will occur over the next ten years. takes into account a new defense strategy and the budget control act. the major change for the army is

the active component reduction kwaends and discussions early on about it. beginning this fy, with a portion of the initial 27,000 reduction announced in the fy-12 presidential budget. then it accelerated increases of the permanent reduction until we get to the 57,000 by the end of fy-17. so both the department of defense and the army leadership have directed the army staff to go ahead and put a comprehensive review together and determine what is the right fore structure for the army. that's both in the operating force and a generating force. we're not able to provide you with any information at this time until that work is done, and that will be a while. so what we'd like to do now is turn to our presentation of the fy-13 p.d. and try and get through this as quickly as can so there's as much time as possible for questions. the slide, please.

>> this request really reflects the results of very hard and difficult sources that we had, but i will tell you now the army will remain the best led, best trained, best equipped ground force in the world. we are prepared, all the army forces to win both the current fight and maintain the readiness we have. it supports of all-volunteer force, specifically in care of both our soldiers families and civilian employees. we do invest wisely in the modernization programs but there are some terminations out there and there are some program restructures, and ms. bonessa will talk about that. it fully funds operations in support for forces in afghanistan, and in addition to that it will go ahead and does start to reset the force and the equipment that's redeployed from iraq over a period of time, and those forces and equipment that's coming back now from afghanistan. it also improves stewardship of

our resources and we'll talk about it later, about investing in a range of enterprise-wide initiatives. the next slide, please. so we look at the army's fy-13 budget request that totals 184.6 billion. 134.6 is in the base and another $50 billion in oco. the army is people. we have heard that over and over gern. the largest cost driver the army has. draw your attention to the large pie on the top right-hand side. military personnel account for 42% of the army's base budget. it's following operations and maintenance at 35% and then our are resource development and acquisition at 19%. and then we have about 4% in other. including milcon and housing accounts and d-mil. the smaller pie is the overseas

con tingacy operations request. it is primarily for military operations and sustainment in support of operation "enduring freedom." the major cost driving has it's always been, operations of maintenance, taking up about 58%. we have the military personnel account, about 20%. we have pass through the. they really are the? >> o. accounts. afghan security forces and afghan infrastructure fund at 16% and resource development acquisition, about 6%. next we'll go ahead and the chart compares the fy-12 appropriation with the request. if i can draw your attention to column, the column on the far left. that is the army's fy-12 enacted budget. it's $203 billion for fy-12. that's $135 billion in the base program and another $68 billion in oco. we discussed earlier from the

earlier brief, congress re-aligned significant, and i mean significant fy-12 funding from the base oco which really reverts the efforts they're working on a while to migrate enduring oco over to the base program. but it's okay, because it did help the army preserve its buying power for fy 12, even though it did exasperate the fy 12 and growth. we look at the right-hand column now, the fy 13 request is about $18 billion less or about 9%, than it was for fy 12. again, that's driven by the elko requests, a complete drawdown from iraq and beginning of force drawdowns in afghanistan. can we go to the next slide, please. this chart reflects the army's funding level since 2001. but it does not take into account inflation. you can see here that the highest funding level for the army over this period was really in 2008. that was the height of the surge in iraq.

and so it included significant oco, which was then gy, both for the iraqi surge and remember when we building the army at that time. growing the army. and so we both growing and equipping all the additional combat teams to lead those demands in theater. our total request is down about 27% from that high mark in 2008, and oco is down almost 59% from that high mark in 2008. and so we look at the height of military operations in 2008, oco represented almost half of the army's budget. now that's less than 25% as we continue to draw down. next slide, please. on the military personnel operation, the budget request funds the total and strength of almost 1.1 million soldiers. that's 552,100 that are on active duty and another 563,200 in reserve components.

in fy 13, the active component rate funded three ways. and mr. haile touched on those. one is the enduring part, 490,000 will be paid for on the base. the 490,000 that we're going to end up with by the time we get to the end of fy 17. we also have a non-enduring part of almost 49,700 that we're going to pay for in oco as we go to the drawdown. we also have a new category of temporary strength called a temporary army strength medical or team and that will fund almost 12,400 soldiers for processing through the integrated disability evaluation system. there is no end strength associated with the in-strength increase. remember from last year and the year prior to em employments? that program will end add scheduled at the end of fy 13 and for the rc, the best request includes about $83 million for additional training days to enhance the role of the army

national guard, and the reserves aspirational forces. and oco, the active component will fund the pay allowances as it has been for the rc on active duty and then the special pays for also to those deployed in theater. and then the rc funds all pre-deployment, post and postrequirements out there. next slide, please. our next appropriation is the operations maintenance operation. there is a decrease of $7 billion from fy 12 to 13. the net effect of the growth of -- there's a net effect growth base of almost $6.3 billion, and then oco was actually reduceed by 13.7 billion. so reduction in oco, 13.7, increase to the base of $6.3 billion. half of that base increase is due to the understated fy 12 start point relied by the

congress. an additional $660 million for price growth from inflation. fuel rates, and our federal civilian pay raise and then the balance, of course, our number one objective, train ready forces to win the current fight and sustain a high level. for example, funding for ground and air tempo increases by almost $3 billion across the complex. that's to get at the readiness part of it and funds additional training seats and military education. so many soldiers at home station and available to train. it sustains commitments to care for our soldier, and their families and as we did last year and year prior another $1.7 billion into those family programs to reinforce holistic fit niz, mitigate stress and that includes comprehensive soldier fitness, sexual response program and army substance abuse program.

it includes funding for recruitment sashgs port and training, and education and that will continue to attract, develop and retain both high quality soldiers and our civilian work force. we are committed to improving business practices and resource stewardship and put money against both audit readiness, energy efficiencies and key information technology efforts. next slide, please. we also have the operations and maintenance oco. i said earlier it does fully fund our operations sustainment and support of operation "enduring freedom" in the theater. our planning numbers includes force level decreases of 25.4,000 for the army personnel. 33,000 of all services but 25.4 for army personal until in fy 12. by september 2012. for fy 13 we're planning on a steady state of 41,000 soldiers. 68,000 of all the services.

there are going to be no changes in the nine dcts planning and budgeting for for the program. our major cost drivers have been and continue to be log cap, transportation, reset and intel. looking at ocm continuing the training going on, all the personnel readiness and all postdeployment and reintegration of soldier with his family and work. we'd like to turn our attention over to investments. >> thank you. as we turn to investments i'd like to first note as you know, as the general alluded to, ourster services all made tough choices about how to continue to sustain the readiness of our force, the capability of our force while facing this era of declining resource. i'd like to tell you about the programs not included in this budget. we are announcing eight program terman apgss with this budget.

many have already been addressed in the media but i'm going to mention a few key ones that have major savings over the program years. we're estimating just under $5 billion in total. that includes the e mars reconnaissance aircraft which will generate savings of about $1.2 billion. the base funded humvee recap program. we will continue to support humvee recap in the oco request, but what you know as tmekv is terminated. tactical vehicles will generate $1.4 billion in cost avoidance savings over these five years. actually significantly restructured this year with termination in fy 14. saving of about $500 million and the joint precision approach and landing system generates another $400 million over the five-year program. there are significant numbers of

programs restructured as part of this bill. there are some accelerations, about 100 or so we can count as having been restructured but by far the majority of programs changing requirements, changes the scope or in many cases extending or spreading out the procurement over multiple years. a longer period of time in order to generate a savings. that includes most of our major airframes. although those remain critical to us and i'll talk about that in a moment. the joint air-to-ground missiles. striker mods, the mrap and one of our modernization priorities have also been restructured. we recognize that there is some potential risk to the industrial base with these terminations and restructuring. we believe at this point it's manageable, but those are business decisions that will rest with the private sector and we won't be able to address any of them with certainty right now. i'd like to talk about what's

included in the budget beginning overall with procurement appropriations. on this summary page, $19.6 billion in oco, down about $1.9 billion from our fy 12 request. you see, some of our key systems are highlighted on this page, but as we turn to the individual appropriations, we'll show you for all the key systems in each appropriation, the dollars invested by system and the quantities invested by system and i'm highlight a few in the interests of time. securing aircraft procurement. aircraft procurement request is $6.3 billion total for fy 13. that reflects the tremendous demand on aviation assets which is greater now than it's been since any time since 2001. we remain committed to our aircraft modernization and i'll highlight three key aviation platforms in which we have major

investments. we have $1.4 billion for the ch-47 chinook. it is now in fy 12 and last year, five-year procurement program, requesting authority for a new procurement program beginning in fy 13. that will provide for 25 new and 19 remanufactured airframes. we're asking for $1.2 billion for the blackhawk, which -- which is in a new multiyear program this year. if i said chinook, it ends a multiyear program in '12, begin a new one in '13. the blackhawk began a new one in '12. so we are in the second year of that one and asking for 59 new blackhawk aircraft associated with that. we're also asking for $1.2 billion for co-patchy equipment.

and committed to heavy lift asset asking for ten new and 40 remanufactured block three apaches. sorry. combat aircraft. we're aski ining the for $518 million for grand systems with support equipment that enable us to equipped two more companies that will give us a total of 17 companies in the army. 15 in the active component and 2 in our special operating forces. and then we're asking for $486 million in oco for replacement of two apaches. six chinooks and 16 weari ie warriors, significantly lost or damaged in the current war effort. turning to missiles and ammunition procurement. the total of those two operations is $3.4 billion, down about $230 million from the fy 12 enacted missiles. almost half of our requests are

for continued investment in the pac 3. asking for $650 million for 84 missiles and 38 launchers, also continuing investment in our other key missile programs including patriot mods, the gmlrs, missiles and javelin. turning to ammo. one thing i would like to highlight is the request for production modernization and quality work environment enhancements is for our ammunition plants at hosston, tennessee, lake city, missouri, radford, virginia, iowa and scranton, pennsylvania. there's $400 million included in the request in oco, and that's for replenishment of ammunition and missiles expended in the current war fight. the weapons and combat vehicle our request is $1.5 billion down significantly $590 million from our fy 12 request. our major wtc investment is almost $380 million for the initial procurement of the

striker recon vehicle with associated isr equipment intended to replace the box recon vehicle. palleted integrated management, the program you know at p.i.m., critical modernization effort asking for $206 million for 17 self-propelled howitzers and 17 carriers. it addresses significant capability gaps and allows us to keep pace with bradley fighting vehicle on the battlefield. the bradley request of $184 million funds engineering change proposals for continued improvement of that vehicle, and it also allows for fielding the ods-sa variant to the army national guard. $15 million for approximately 51,000 improved weapons cleaning kits for the m-16. turning to other procurement, our request for fy 13 is $8.3

billion down $916 million from the fy 12 request, and i want to highlight first of all the net worth, which i know you heard from our leaders, senior army leaders, the army's number one investment priority. its major components are outlined on the chart before you. i want to highlight the $893 million request for the war fighter information network tactical for full rate production for seven brigade combat teams. when combined with the fy 12 low rate initial production, that will allow us to field to a total of 13 bcts. the join tactical radio system, which is our mobile communication on the battlefield, the 556 million dollars requested includes 5,900 rifleman radios, 4,600 two-channel man pack radios and 110 airborne and maritime fix station or radios to support the

ongoing network modernization. looking next at tactical wheeled vehicles, 374 million is included for fmtv. i mentioned that is going to be terminated. our last plan investment in the fmtv pending at least the outcome of ongoing fore structure review, and as i also mentioned, the funding more humvee recap is only in oco, 171 million to provide for continued upgrading of equipment that's being returned from both iraq and we're now beginning to get return systems from afghanistan as well. now, looking to to the future, to research development and test valuation. $8.9 billion. a slight increase over the fy 12 appropriated level of about $200 million. in the interests's time i'll highlight key priorities. again, going to the network. 546 million included in our request under the network.

i'm sorry. $546 million in total for the network of which sides 278 million is for wynnt funding inkra minute t giving on the move and command control capability. also included, distributed common ground system army, $41 million. that's the army component of the d.o.d.-wide family isri systems for the army that let's us take a number of i think nine independent systems and collapse them into one. i want to mention briefly network integration evaluations. this is a tremendous success story for the army and a good source of resources and true key to our modernization strategy. we're doing two we are per year. what we do in the nies, attributable to the way information technology makes general leaps much more quickly than the defense acquisition process tends to move. so what we're able to do in the nies, in partnership with our

industry partners, we're able to concurrently test integration of capabilities before we begin to invest in significant procurement. we've had tremendous savings in wint. saved a significant amount from net warrior and are very, very proud of the outcomes that are associated with our network integration evaluation. under vehicle development, $954 million requested for rdt & e, by far the largest point, $640 million for a key modernization priorities, that's the ground combat vehicle. we have a three-prong ed r & d approach, including analysis alternatives, non-essential vehicles and i think you know we have two technology development contracts that are out there now. we have another $72 million requested for the joint light tactical vehicle which is the

centerpiece of both the army and the marine corps, tactical wheeled vehicle modernization strategy. there's only a very small a lot of oco included again. that is to continue the very successful efforts of the rapid equipping force to use off the shelf technologies to get force protection and other capabilities into the hands of our deployed forces very, very quickly. okay. turning now to facilities. secretary haile alluded to this during his presentation. our request of $3.5 billion in fy 13 is down significantly from fy 12, about a billion and a half less. of that 3.5 billion, representing $1.9 billion. about one-third less than last year, and the reason for that is you can imagine that until the army has determined the outcome of our structure reductions, our revised brigade combat team structure and associated