the hospital was voted the best in the air force. alaskas is known for the high level of support it provides for the high level -- it fosters strong relationship between leaders on our installations, and the community partnership that each senior leader improves upon during his tenure, and passes along to his successors. your air force has sent to alaska some of its best, like general martin short'schwartz. general, you stand shoulder to shoulder. i have to express some disappointment that the generals next assignment will take us away from us, where the nation leads us. that is where he will go, where ever general fraser goes, i know he will be an inspiration to the troops he leads, and eight military leader of the highest quality. i strongly endorse his nomination. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you for the introduction. we were glad you were able to join us today. we will call for the three witnesses, it general said -- admiral stavridis, general frazier and general mcchrystal. >> german loudoun, members of the committei could

so this is not a diatribe against the air force. i just want you to know that. what i am saying here applies in full force to the other services, so think of this as purple what. the roots of the rock are very simple and plain. at the top of the list, they're very closely interrelated. these are not independent problems. but you really have to focus on the question, before world war ii and american air power, we have always focused on the wrong mission and we have done that for a number of bureaucratic reasons and incentive reasons. we have focused purely on the idea of strategic bombing, which is dominated by the theology of an italian general from world war run -- world war i who wrote the seminal book on bombing. he presented his theory which the u.s. air force jumped on with glee and has adhered to ever since, the idea that by simply bombing the enemy, you could win wars without any land forces at all. that is an appalling lease to the idea and you will see why as we go through the historical evidence. this is at the root of ever

same thing in the air force. the air force can't even put together a short-term plan where they pretend that things get better. that fantasy on the right hand side, it is absolutely guaranteed that that airplane will not come in at the cost and numbers that they are pretending, it will not rescue them from their aging problem, nor from their shrinking problem. we can talk about this later, but there are solutions. thomas christie and i talk about how to address these problems at great length in the chapters in our book. i will give you an example for the sake of illustration. the first one, getting rid of the pork. in addition to the $800 billion that congress add to the defense budget since 2001, despite the wars in iraq and afghanistan, congress also added $770 billion for the non war parts of the budget to attempt to address the shrinking, aging problem that it didn't address. one of the ways we waste and all that money was congress blew away $70 billion on pork. notice also at after the reforms that the democ

it's my great pleasure to rise it to recognize the invaluable service by the women's air force service pilots during world war ii. their history is one of many surprising and impressive stories that helped define a generation. the early 1940's, as it became apparent that the united states could not avoid the wars that plaguing europe and the far east, many accomplished pilots volunteered their services to our country. they were thanked for their offer but refused because they were women. their argument that women -- female pilots could free up male pilots to serve in combat roles was initially dismissed by the army air force's leadership. yet two of our nation's most female pilots, jacklin cochran and nancy harkin love, persevered and continued to lobby for the ability to use their exceptional skills in service of our country. as the nation mobilized it became clear there were not enough male pilots in the country to fight the war and man the home front. as the iconic rosie the riveter began to build her tanks and planes, the army set up two squadrons of women pilots to assist in the w

they are the women in the air force, the women air force service pilots known as the wasp. it's a story of gender bias, mr. speaker. the notion that flying is a man's work. it's the story of culture bias, the belief that a woman's pce is in the home. it's the story of injustice. the notion that women could apply but never qualify. it's a story of inequalities and inequities. the notion that women could have rank but not always have their rank respected. mr. speaker, it's a story of never say never. a story of persistence pays off. a story of success because of some, and a story of success in spite of others. it's a story of how a famous pilot, jacqueline "jacky" cochran became the first commander of the w.f.o. in 1942. that's the women's flying training detachment. it's the story of how a test pilot, nancy love, became the commander of the w.a.f., the women's auxiliary flying -- ferrying squadron in 1942. it's the story of how the w.f.o. and the w.a.f. merged in 1943 to become the wasp. the wasps would go on and fly 60 million miles. they would fly every type of aircraft. t

why is this mission being moved out of the army and solely over to the air force when not four months ago we received the roles and missions review report that stated that, and i quote, the option that provided most value to the joint force was to assign the c-27-j. to the army and air force? closed quote. none of them have been able to answer the question but all of them stated there was no new study or analysis conducted that countered the existing plan or reduced the rocket requirements for 78 joint cargo aircraft. what has happened as a result of all this is that the congress is now left to debate the puts and takes in the budget with when there has been no vetting of the underlying policy or strategy. this body, not the executive branch, is charged with the constitutional mandate to raise and support arm >>s -- armies and navies. i'm extremely troubled that these decisions have been made in the vacuum and appear at least on the surface to be informed by nothing other than top line budget pressures. i want to be clear that my frustration's with the department and not this bill. in

colonel straten was trained as a navigator on an air force k.c. 135. in his honor, one of thighs massive aircraft flew low and slow over arlington cemetery, over the flag-draped coffin of one of air force's finest. i gave his life helping the afghan people to know dignity of a life lived in freedom. he was assigned to the joint staff at the pentagon here in washington, d.c., and he served as the commander of the pan share provincial reconstruction team in afghanistan. on may 26, 2009, mark died at bagram air field of wounds that he sustained from an improvised explosive device, what we call an i.e.d. mark had strong texas ties. he graduated from texas a&m university in december of 1991 with a degree in political science. and while at texas a&m he was a member of squadron 1 of the corps of cadets. he has numerous air force commendations including the purple heart and the bronze star. he's remembered by friends as a man of unquestionable character and loyalty. he was a patriotic individual who exemplified the spirit of the american airmen. lieutenant col

is the air force in the central command looking at that? >> the head to head to another meeting. i think general mcchrystal, who is taking over into spoke i think at length about this in his confirmation hearing last week talked about his desire to make sure that we get a better hold of the civilian casualty problem in afghanistan. and i think the secretary has every confidence that general mcchrystal is precisely the guy to put this in a better place. we have taken a number of measures, as you know, to greatly restrict our use of close air support as it is, but i think general mcchrystal is desirous of finding a way to further reduce the number of civilian casualties we encourage. i can only point to the numbers the secretary has, just as a constant reminder of what we are dealing with here, and since the beginning of this year civilian casualties in afghanistan are down 40%, whereby american casualties and coalition-- that of our coalition partners and afghan security forces have shot up 75%. so we are taking extraordinary care, but we are still finding ourselves involved in in

the western powers is the strategic bombing campaign that they could concentrate on having their air force just provide close air support for their armies along the eastern front and the campaign to bomb germany abserbs about a million plus german soldiers for antiaircraft duties and things of that nature, plus much of the german air force is redeployed home. this definitely aided the soviet 81 an. no question about it. the commander of the strategic air forces in europe at that point initiated the oil plan which was designed to basically destroy germany's oil refining capacity and paralyze their effort that way because, fuel was so important. and that is really to some extent the most successful element of the strategic bombing campaign in europe. germany was very much hurting for fuel by the end of 1944 and it was impacting on what they could do. the battle of the bulge being a good example. it's a meckniesed at25k but they don't have enough fuel to go as quickly or as far. so i think the larger message out of this whole thing is the allied victory is a product of teamwork. everyone was

last week the secretary of the air force said the air force would be presenting to the secretary their plan going forward with regard to the tanker. >> i would walk you away from the notion that there is one briefing or one meeting that is going to determine the course of the tanker replacement bidding process. the secretary is engaging, has been, and will be engaging in a number of meetings about this, and i do not know when the next one is scheduled for. i think the idea was always that he wants to push out and rfp as soon as possible, and we hope that will take place in the coming weeks. that is what we hope to be the case. >> not the meetings -- >> i will check and see what where we are in terms of the meetings. his desire has been spring. he was here we are in the summer. we want this to commence as soon as possible. >> we will kill you on it tomorrow, so you might as well grill is it today -- we will grill you on that tomorrow, so you might as well in choir today. -- inquire today. i am sure that in our operations meeting in brussels, it will,. kuntsevo will be a subject of discu

as an air force officer at the time, i could call in the air force band to play music. i asked the director of the air force band if he had a kurdish ensembles. they did not. the university -- i asked if they had a celtic group. they did. we have ended the after-dinner music. then they did an encore. i asked them to play the music from deep background of ken burns' documentary on the civil war. they did it magnificently. he asked about it. he said was hauntingly beautiful. i told him about the civil war. i told him that even though it was a modern song, it has become associated in the american consciousness with our civil war. he leaned forward and ask how many people died in our civil war. i told him we had about 31 million americans within. there are 21 million in iraq now. we lost 21 million people. he kind of stood up in his chair and said "let us pray it does not come to that." that cultural sensitivity allowed us to create common ground. there was a book about 30 years ago called "thinking in time." most americans rush in and ask about the problem. that is not the

i was a marine for 10 years and the air force. the thing is, once we go into battle, we go in to win and we do not apologize to anybody for our actions because those people took hour heads off. i don't think we should be apologizing, i won't call it torture, but we should apologize for winning a war and doing it by any means except outright murder. i wondered what your feelings were. >> host: do you anticipate your book would come out during this debate about torture? >> guest: no. in september, and i thought it would be a pretty quiet time. it turns out, not exactly. to our caller's point, save for your service in the marine corps and the air force. it goes back to how we want -- 2 points. when you are fighting an insurgency, very few of them come about through military victory. this notion that you can throw more troops or tanks or airplanes or ships is a false notion. we are dealing with an adversary that does hide in the shadows, by day runs the tailor shop and by night is planting bombs by the roadside. it is not one where yo

the air force says we are striving to get between 15, and 20. another look at procurement of aircraft. on the top, we see the numbers of aircraft on the bottom half,

of aircraft air force is hereby increased by $510,200,000 of which, a, $110 million is to be available for the procurement of mq-9 unmanned aerial vehicles and, b, $400,200,000 is to be available for c-130-j aircraft. the amount otherwise provided by section 2014 for research development, test and evaluation defensewide is hereby increased by $1,200,,000,000 is to be available for the ground-based midcourse defense system, $237 million is to be available for the airborne lacer program, c, $177,100,000 is to be available for the multiple kill vehicle, d, $165,900,000 is to be available for the kinetic energy sector and, e, $20 million is to be available for the space tracking and surveillance system. b, offsetting reduction. the amount otherwise provided by section 3108 for -- 3102 is hereby reduced by $2,600,000,000 to be derivinged from sites that are projected to meet regulatory milestones ahead of schedule or are at greatest risk to be unable to execute law and fiscal year 2010 funding as planned for fiscal year 2010. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia is recognize

focussen on the short-term small war threat while starving recap stallization of the navy and air force, underfunding science and contingency to pay for afghanistan and iraq is a formula for a future collapse in our ability to cope with china and russia. i appreciate what secretary gates is trying to do. it is impossible to defend this country and to maintain homeland security on the current budget. and we frankly need more retired military people talking out and telling the truth about the decay of our navy, the decarry of our -- decay of our air force and decay of our long-term capabilities in the current budget constraints. . >> i do not want to turn over the first generation to have failed to done its job of fixing the country so our children and grandchildren are better off, not worse off. [applause] without a strong economy and without scientific leadership, we cannot sustain our military capabilities. the economy and education our national security issues. competing with -- i commend all of you, which shows you vividly two indian haskell students, two attorneys high-school studen

this is several tons of stuff, actually, out of an air force base in hawaii. this is response to a cold weather disaster or challenge. two c-17's launched inside of 40 hours. there were unloading gear with the chinese two-star to stay thank you very much for the assistance. at the same time, china mobilized their army in a manner that is a little unusual for them, i think, but very helpful to the people there. this example was the year earthquake several months thereafter. same phone call comes same guy on china's in saying we're grateful for the offer and thankful for the help. two more c-17's go in. unless you've dealt with earthquakes, you do not think of what you need. chainsaws, water, food, and plastic sheeting. plastic sheeting was in short supply. a plastic sheeting shortage -- but again, the chinese were grateful for the assistance. we landed, a bloated, and took off. those to the cases come -- we landed, unloaded, and took off. in those cases, offers for assistance were warmly received. at the same time, right now, is successor to walter has just ret

we're combining with the japanese air self-defense force in our air force in japan to have a combined operation center which would be very important for us and so on and so sóon. all through those 18 other parts of the dpri. on track, generally well-funded and very beneficial to us across-the-board. and we believe to japan's self-defense forces. now, the area where everyone kind of -- they go yeah, well, what about guam? the previous administration, president bush, the current administration, president obama, secretaries of state and secretaries of defense from both administrations have reaffirmed our national commitment to get aip done. got it. loud and clear. it's going to take some money. it's going to take some time. there is an understanding that just -- working inside the defense line at guam won't get -- defense line, inside the department of defense properties won't just get it done. there have to be structure in guam. those who have been the pleasure of going to guam understand it's a country of, i think, 175,000 people. we're going to move another 15 to 18,000 marines and in

i'm that retired chief master sergeant from the air force that a e-mails you every day. i spent 30-some years in the air force, and when you had the last guest on, i kind of squirmed. i'm not religious but i also remember the sodm and ga morea story. but aside from that, i roomed with a homo sexual that i had no clue was and i saw some things that went on. what people don't understand, military people work real close knit and we believe in comradry and that's not the kind we were groying up with. so for you all to sit there and bless all this about homo sexuality, it's really discouraging over here. like i say, i've soifered over 30-some years in the miltrifplt and also, i feel for president obama. i'm and independent but i feel this man is going to go from first to worst. host: did you have an opportunity to work with this individual? and how would you grade his job performance? caller: the man worked well and what i witnessed was a homo sexual act and it was disgusting. i don't believe that's normal. and apparently -- the lord doesn't believe that's normal either becau

unbeknownst to them a royal air force plane had picked up the trail when he spoke earlier on the satellite telephone. the spy plane made contact with the special operations team the raf reach out to task force or do military intelligence unit tracking terrorists electronically in wants they conferred the haddam on the phone u.s. warplanes took off from back-room air force base launching a precision air strike the moment of the vehicle moved out of a populated area. it was obliterated and they never knew what hit them. as the money man as the six creaky provinces in the south he was at the time the highest-ranking tala beneficial to be eliminated since the u.s.-led coalition invaded in 2001. although u.s. military officials in the western media hailed his killing a key circumstance of his death but little attention in charge of the finances was taken out when he was doing a dope deal one of the things that i hope comes from this book is that it helps people to redefine what they think of the taliban and al qaeda. most of us have a preconceived notion of what the taliban are like. we think o

another patient a. 21-year-old veteran of the -- 21-year veteran of the air force had to remain in bed six months with pain so severe he couldn't stand. he lost his job as a pastor at a local church and his income thanks again to the incompetence of the veterans administration. adding insult to injury, this 21-year veteran of the air force didn't learn of the radiation injury from the philadelphia v.a. hospital. he found out when he sought treatment in ohio at a hospital where he underwent major surgery to retreat the damage because the bureaucratic regulators were covering up for the v.a., it took a private hospital to not only diagnose but treat his injury. that is right, madam speaker. the good old private sector saved the veteran where the v.a. just took a pass. "the new york times" concluded -- conducted its own examinations. they found that none of the safeguards that were supposed to protect veterans were poor medical care had worked. they also found none of the botched implants in philadelphia were reported properly. so the errors weren't investigated for weeks, months, and som

focusing on the short-term small war threat while starving recapitalization of the navy and air force, underfunding science and technology to pay for afghanistan and iraq is a formula for a future collapse in our ability to cope with china and russia. i appreciate what secretary gates is trying to do. it is impossible to defend this country and to maintain homeland security on the current budget, and we frankly need more retired military people talking out and telling the truth about the decay of our navy, the decay of our air force, and the decay of our long-term capabilities in the current budget constraints. budget constraints. . how do we make america the best place in the world to build the next factory and create the next high-paying job? unless we solve this, we will inevitably cease to be the leading power in the world. nothing keeps me going every day more than the thought that i do not want to turn over to maggie and robert the first generation in american history to have failed to have done its job of fixing the country so our children and grandchildren are better off, not

. $150 million is included for air force aircraft wing kids and installations.is air force bases in arizona and additional wing kids would be welcome, the additional funds will not request by the administration and i oppose this on her $50 million. it runs in the process by prohibiting the secretary of defense by caring and 2005 decision to discontinue the armed forces institute of pathology. i was very disappointed that the house democrats succeeded in their efforts to strip and the supplemental spending bill the detainee quota provision offered by senators lieberman and gramm. this provision was with the president's efforts to bar the release of photos of past detainee abuse, help protect our troops from the inevitable recrimination that these photos with insight. releasing the post without supplying information about the issue of detainee abuse but rather expos evidence of alleged past wrongdoing and put our fighting men and women in greater danger. that's not my ideal. in is when a leading military commanders including generals david petraeus and ray odierno

also military lawyer in the air force. this is what senator gramm said and i quote i believe we could handle 100 or 250 prisoners and protect national security interests because we had 450,000 german and japanese prisoners in the united states so this idea they cannot be housed somewhere safely i disagree. and of quote, senator graham. people who suggest we can on detain terrorists in our prisons should show more respect for the brave corrections officers who put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe. just the week before last i went to the prison in southern illinois. it was once our maximum security prison in the united states before the super maximum facility was opened at florence colorado. it was interesting as i met with the corrections officer in the lockup of the mary and federal prison, and after a little bit of a tour i asked what do you think of this notion that we hear from senators on the floor like senator kyl and senator mcconnell that we cannot safely incarcerate guantanamo detainees in the pres

we are far and away the most superior air force in the world. why would we pour billions more into an area where we already dominate and continue to support aircraft that is not suited to the current battlefields in which we fight? we have to invest in low-tech equipment such as unmanned droughns which are effective in those areas of con-- conflict. always remember every defense dollar spent to bolster an area where we dominate is a dollar we don't have to spend to take care of our soldiers, strengthen our force, and improve in areas where we may be vulnerable and our 10e8ders -- soldiers may be vulnerable. again we have to simply stop spending more and start spending smarter. our soldiers deserve it. the taxpayers deserve it. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida has 6 1/4 minutes remaining. mr. diaz-balart: i ask my friend if she has additional speakers. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from maine. ms. pingree: i have no remaining spe

these employees are coming to a part of the district that is adjacent to virtually to bolling air force base. and we are concerned that a thousand of them are going to be using that in trends close to brolin. we are informed that the bowling will be getting 8,000 new people on top of the people may have and am sorry if i could finish and get an answer to this question i'd appreciate it -- and that a thousand and reno a thousand will be using this malcolm x area to make their entrances to saint elizabeth with an interchange. could i ask you given the good work you all have done on shepherd's parkway to facilitate this a federal project whether or not and i should let you know that the district, of course, is not going to take care of this federal project with in any highway fund it has -- whether there has been discussion within the federal highway administration of how this matter can be resolved. this major transportation matter for making sure this a thousand people dead in to this new development? >> i know that several our federal lands on his have been actively involved in the sant

for the termination of the f-22 fighter aircraft production, even though the chief of staff of the air force publicly called for continued production of f-22's. now thankfully the armed services committee successfully reinstated over $300 million to at least keep alive f-22 production. unfortunately, i am shown at this time a statement of administration policy where it reads that if the final bill presented to the president contains this provision, keeping alive the f-22 production line, that the president's senior advisers would recommend a veto. mr. speaker, i think that's most unfortunate. i'm concerned that the majority failed to support a repeal of the so-called widow's tax. this provision penalizes surviving spouses of service members who die on active duty or from service-related conditions, by forcing them to accept a dollar-for-dollar reduction in order to receive tax-free indemnity ti and compensation from the agency of veterans affairs. i have co-sponsored two pieces of legislation with mr. buyer to remedy this injustice and i hope congress will soon address it. now as supportive

the air force base in my state of arizona and additional wing kits would be welcomed. the additional funds were not requested by the administration and i oppose this $150 million. it end runs the defense base realignment brac process by prohibiting the secretary of defense from carrying out a 2005 decision to discontinue the armed forces institution of pathology. i was very disappointed that the house democrats succeeded in their efforts to strip from the supplemental spending bill the detainee photo provision offered by senators lieberman and graham. this provision would support the president's efforts to bar the release of past defeign lo tableee abuse and protect the troops from inevitable recrimination the photos insight. releasing the photographs does not supply new information of the issue of detainee abuse but exposes evidence ofallied past wrongdoing and put our fighting men and women in greater danger. that's not my view. it's one of our leading military commanders including general petraeus and ray odierno. both have stated the release of the images could end

air forces. [speaking french] [gunfire] [gunfire] [taps plays] [aircraft flies over] [aircraft flies overhead] >> ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. [speaking french] >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain in place until the official party has departed the ceremonial area. [speaking french] >> earlier this week, president obama delivered a note speech to the muslim world from cairo, egypt. we will show you that speech sunday at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> the federal communications commission held a news conference on thursday on the digital television transition. on june 12, all broadcast signals will be digital. this is about 20 minutes. >> the e-mail is dtvcountdown @fcc.gov. you can direct your questions to me or the commissioners. please identify your name and affiliation for the benefit of the people who are watching this on the web. who would like to ask the first question? >> a question on the 35 stations that will go dark after june 12, do we know who they are? what compa

air forces.eaking french] [gun shots] [gun shots] [gun ahots] [gun shots] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. >> [speaking french] >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain in place until the official party has parted the ceremonial area. >> [speaking french] ♪ >> will the military escorts please come forward to escort the veterans back to the vip tense -- as for the veterans back to the vip tents? guests, please delay your departure to allow veterans to depart. again, the guests allow or delay your departure to allow veterans to depart. family members, you can meet your veterans at the vip tents. family members, you can meet the veterans at the vip tents. again, ladies and gentlemen, please remain in place until the official party has departed the ceremonial area. thank you. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> will be veterans plea exit to the left? will the veterans please exit left? ladies and gentlemen, please make room so we can get the veterans of the stage and over to the comfort of t

air forces.eaking in french] ["taps" plays] ["taps" plays] >> ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. [speaking in french] >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain in place until the official party has departed the ceremonial area. [speaking in french] >> more now from president obama and french president nicolas sarkozy. they met earlier today in france and questions from some reporters on the middle east peace process, north korea's nuclear weapons and their policy towards iran. this is 35 minutes. >> i would like to say to the president of the united states of america how proud france is to work with you. for the second time this year, this afternoon we will be talking about the ceremonies and the commemoration of the d-day landings but i want to say in the strongest, most sincere terms that never in the history, perhaps, of our two countries the united states and france, have been so close to one another on major issues, major questions. i say to the president that we are determined to he

war buffs can visit the -- while those interested in more contrary history can visit the delaware air force base air mobility command museum. delaware sports and gaming opportunities are nearly limitless, the dover downs casino provides entertainment for the guests, the delaware park racetrack has slots an horseracing. nascar fans love dover's international speedway the famous monster mile. delaware may not boast any major league sports team, but we're proud of our minor league baseball team, the wilmington blue rocks. to watch them play promises fun for the entire family. for golf enthusists who don't want to lose their skills while on vacation, delaware has excellent golf courses. delaware's outdoor attractions are world class, killings pond features a mill pond where visitors can enjoy boating and fishing. the greatest strength of the outdoors, however, is our beautiful beaches. these beaches stretch for miles an offer ample opportunity for fun on the shore and ocean. the boardwalk provides a wide variety of shops and restaurants and entertainment to visitors. delaware's best and tax-fre

launched from brandenburg air force base this morning. the president is at the white house that today meeting with colombian president. later, he hosted a reception t for a and lesbian pride month. on the justice david souter's last day, a decision is expected on the reverse discrimination case. it is one of the cases the high court is dealing with before the justices began their summer break and david souter retires. nomination hearings for sunni @ sotomayor began july 13th. those are some of the latest headlines. this audit weekend, discover an unfamiliar sight of our nation's first president, we are live from george washington's firm that -- mount vernon estate. join our 3 our conversation sunday live on in japs, beginning at noon eastern. how c-span funded? donations may be? i have no idea. >> government? >> i don't know. >> how c-span funded? 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public service, a private business initiative, no government mandate, no government money. file sharing has wreaked havoc on our busin

the army, the navy, the air force -- i have no idea what that means. the military is having maneuvers. if we're going to go towards a dictatorship of the thugs, that is very frightening for us and for israel. i do not know what israel is going to do. i think discipline is waiting. we do not know which direction we are going. >> we are both at a crossroads and out of time. let me underline the fact that one of the themes of the presentations is how much we do not nel. being -- we do not know. being in that situation, we are best device to collect as much information as we can and not take any action right away. please join me in thanking our speakers and thank you all for attending. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> now, more about the iranian issues with a discussion on the threat posed by a nuclear iran. experts discussed the situation of the country while making recommendations on how to stop the nuclear program held by the heritage foundation. this is one ho

forces that create those discontinuities? i guarantee the concrete suggestions i have will sound completely mad and perhaps they are, but they are not intended to me but no more air mad they an understanding this century and 1900. so what are the underlying forces that frame the century? let me begin with the first one which i think is critical which is the end of the population. everywhere in the world birthrates are collapsing. it is projected by the united nations population growth will go 100% in the past 50 years to only 50% by 2015 and by the end of the century, a 10% growth. to replace population, each woman it needs to have 2. one children and in most of europe, that number is 1.5, 1.six, 1.seven, and japan is similar. it is therefore at arithmetically certain that the population of of the leading countries we're looking at is going to decline dramatically as well as age but wants the baby boom has passed away, talking about me, when i am gone, the population decline will accelerate. nor is it likely to reverse an agricultural society or early industrial society having a child was profitable you send them to work at to the early age and when you retire th

this irgc have an army, navy and air force. they have an overlapping missions. there are other parts of the force structure, the intelligence services, the law enforcement services and then within the islamic revolutionary guard corps, the quds force which is used mainly for a training and advising militia overseas and then the basij militia which is also part of the irgc but part of this 5 million or sometimes called a 10 million man army that will take up arms in case of invasion. but the main point here is that there are a number of overlapping missions and while this works very well as a way of coup proven and it is difficult as far as integration of the forces and these different components of our competitive with one another especially over resources so the question is are these doctrine of themes being incorporated in the capabilities that one season iran and someone is definitely, yes,. certainly in the exercises the parades and the official statements that go with that in statements that gone all the time there is an effort to showcase iran's capability

. >> i would add one note to that, what they're writing about is the kind of strike and air force capabilities they want, this is not about striking china, they want the capability to strike back and retaliate if they i hit again, i am not talking about next year but 5, 6, 7, 8 years from now, india with strike capabilities and more strength conlan and independence, we can see some divergences that would not create a catastrophe but would be a divergence from what the united states is trying to accomplish in pakistan. >> how much progress is made in the relationship in response to the terrorist problem that india faces when it comes to building a relationship the united states in a corporate level and also in the government to government level? >> what i have seen is a willingness in the industry to look at u.s. technology. it will come down to price for the technology they're looking for. it was mentioned several times that there is an embedded supply chain that they're comfortable working with. they have to earn a seat at the table. >> i had a similar question. george seemed pessimistic abou

most of that by the air force and the use of jet fuel. and in this country, we have so much domestic source of nonconventional bubble up petroleum, i'm talking about things like shale in particular and the liquefy case of coal liquefication of coal. we probably have a 150 year supply of coal and can't touch that even though the department of defense has done research on the clean liquefication of coal, the clean mining of shale, shale is a rock. that's just soaked, it's like a sponge, soaked with petroleum. there are hundreds of millions of barrels of petroleum within that shale. yet because of this section 526 in the energy independence and security act of 2007, we can not use it. we cannot use that at all. so what we have found, otching, is that most of -- of course, is that most of the petroleum we import from foreign countries is not coming from opec, it's coming from canada. what's the problem? that oil we get from canada comes from tar sand. it's got a little sand in it. it causes a little increase of production of carbon dioxide a

this is a few people in 2006, we also went up every day at the air force base with about 140 members of the other agencies coming to work in our headquarters. we have had discussions sitting in the global collaborations, these briefings, and this has provided a transparency that is very helpful. it is very hard having seen this in action to remember what this was like -- back when we only saw the uniformed members. this is a solid effort. >> this is something we want to encourage. getting people from the different agencies to work together every day, in different forms. you have done a great job of taking people out to different places, the other agencies need to do this as well. this is a good forum for that. we want to look for ways to encourage this, and some of the conflicts between intelligence and department of defense can be resolved if we have more sharing. we understand that there is personnel to manage, that is a great challenge. you have a mission to accomplish, so, if there is a way to help you, to free up more personal, please let us know. we have an issue with the manag

several weeks ago, i had the opportunity here in the senate to question air force secretary at our defense appropriations subcommittee. i asked him and told him about my concerns for the future of our domestic industrial base. and how i believe that the future capabilities of both our domestic workforce and our military must be taken into account as we work to reform our procurement process. the secretary agreed the pentagon has an interest in ensuring our industrial-base issues are taken into account. well, madam president, that response now has some of airbus' top executives upset and, once again, distorting the facts. in newspaper reports over the weekend, the chief executive of eads, airbus' parent company claims if airbus is collected to build the next generation of military refueling tankers they would create more jobs than competition for the u.s. aerospace industry. that is pretty hard to swallow. ing in, just a year ago, in june of 2008, an independent nonpartisan economic policy institute study concluded that the now overturned decision to award the tanker contract to airbus woul

. >> the air force says it has successfully launched in on our minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile from a california-based, firing at targets in the pacific ocean.

billion, the amount the president requested and $11 billion for military programs, $9 billion for air force base programs. the department of energy, national security programs in the bill authorizes $6.5 billion for nuclear activities. h.r. 2647 authorizes a new stockpile management program to provide better guidance to the national nuclear program and establish limits on that maintenance. the bill also adds the required new lab to lab peer review as part of the annual assessment of the nuclear stockpile. for missile defense. the bill authorizes the president's request of $9.3 billion, including $8 billion for missile defense agency of the the bill focuses on the highest priority threats in making our missile defense system more effective. the bill shifts away from the exabets approach of the last few years, which preponderance meant if a contractor could build it, m.d.a. could fund it and whether or not the combatant command rsers requested it. the programs fell behind schedule and went way over budget. and we are currently spending millions of dollars to fix and upgrade. director general

live in infamy, the united states of america was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forcesf the empire of japan. >> jon voight was born on december 29th, 1938 in yonkers, new york. ♪ everybody's talking at me >> in 1969, he became a household name when he received his first academy award nomination for portraying would be hustler joe buck in that year's best picture win sper midnight cowboy." >> i'm joe buck from texas. >> rizzo from the bronx. >> i want to buy you a drink. what do you think of that? >> don't mind if i do. >> voight is a four-time academy award nominee and wouldn't best actor award in 1978 for his performance of vietnam veteran luke martin in "coming home." >> but you don't want to kill anybody here. have you enough ghosts to carry around." >> over the past four decades, he has build a reputation as both a leading man and a character actor with an extensive range. >> i am muhammad ali, you know? i apologize. i apologize to you on the air. your name is humid ali. you have a right to be called whatever you want. i apologize to you. >> he's appeared in several