. -- brac, round. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 303, the gentleman from new hampshire and a member opposed each will control five minutes. mr. guinta: i rise today to offer my amendment to the defense appropriations bill to prevent any funds from being used to conduct a new round of military base closures through a process known as base realignment and closure or brac. while president owhat ma continues to discuss another round of brac as another way to reduce defense spend, we know all too well the nellingtive impact this has on closing military bases for our communities, our states, our national security and our military preparedness. for more than 200 year, the fort smith able shipyard has provided thousands of granite staters with jobs and continued millions in revenue for the united states navy. today, the shipyard has roughly 100 naval officers and personnel assigned to the facility. in addition, it employs ralphly 4,700 civilian -- sievian employees and offers an active apprentice engi

each state and not imposed upon them by a group of lawyers sitting in brac robes at the supreme court. >> governor christie said he will support the high court's ruling because it's job. he is expected to launch a presidential run on tuesday. the presidential campaign website went live this morning. >>> religious organizations are expert exempt from this ruling, they can make decisions about whether clergy about conduct same-sex marriages. there's more at 6abc.com there you will finds more about the decision and reaction from across the county at 6abc.com. >>> pennsylvania lawmakers are working through the weekend to hammer out a state budget. a republican-led spending plan could go up to a house vote later today. the plan would boost spending by $1 billion including more money from education. the funds would come from a tax surplus and private sizing state-run wine and spirits stores. governor wolf is opposed to privatization and vowed to veto any gop plan that doesn't meet his priorities. >>> penn state confirmed a pair of cyber attacks on its computer systems. the hack compromised

military installations through the brac, the previous brac process. the provisions included in the bill are drawn from the hub zone expansion act that i authored with my colleague senator king. mr. president, i urge support of this highly significant legislation. i'm pleased to have worked with the members of the committee on which i served for so many years. and again i congratulate the leaders of the committee and the members of the committee for their excellent work. thank you mr. president and i would yield the floor. mr. sullivan: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. mr. sullivan: i rise in support of the national defense authorization act. this is a bipartisan bill that will provide our service members with the funding they need to continue to keep our country safe. over the last five months, we've had numerous senior military officials, senior military officers foreign policy experts talk to the senate armed services committee on which i sit about the significant challenges that our country faces. the senior senator fr

and some patients, for example, some women who have the brac mutation have a higher ibs dents.ut that comes with your genetic background. what we're talking about is how to use the tumor once it arises and its moleckclar profile. host: more background the story is available on line. the f.d.a. has embraced an array of novel trial designs and shown a willingness to approve drugs rapidly saying this is a notable departure in which researchers try a new drug and hope for the best. a whole different approach. guest: when i started 35 years ago that's exactly what we did. we tried them based on the organ in which the zoozeo originated. starting 15 years ago with the development of a treatment of leukemia the focus had begun to switch to the moleckclar drivers responsible for the disease and developing drugs specifically against those. host: some of the targeted drugs according to the "washington post" showing a response rated of 50% higher in these early trials. that's being called something unheard of compared to drugs in the past. host: let's take a disease like mel ma where up in

that is the brac progress. i think we know that the base realignment and closing process has been going on since 1987. this is no time to be doing something with that. i'm very happy that we're able to continue that and not see one for a period of time. one thing that is consistent about brac rounds, that is they all cost a lot of money in the first five years. and people -- if there's ever a time in the history of this body and of the military that we can't afford to take money out it is now. we addressed a couple of things -- there are some things that need to be fixed in the -- as we move on to the floor. and i know that our chairman, senator mccain, has been asking people to bring down their amendments. i think that we should be doing that and i anticipate that a lot of amendments will be coming down. i would like to say one thing though about git gitmo. the whole idea of gitmo -- and there is this myth out there that somehow the terrorists think that we hurt people at gitmo. somehow we think it's something