in the department of defense. and i believe we've achieved a bipartisan product that will improve the readiness of our service members, to ensure that they have the training and equipment necessary to do their jobs and to come home safe. additionally, this bill makes serious investments in environmental cleanup by funding the environmental remediation accounts by almost $200 million over the president's request. this is a commitment that will ensure communities living on or around our military installations have access to clean drinking water. and in minnesota this fund has been critical to cleaning up the twin cities' army ammunition plant. it's a site in my district and the restoration has made that community and business development possible on what was once deeply polluted land. but i do want to mention one longstanding concern i have. regarding the amount of money that we are set to spend on the pentagon's nuclear posture review over the next decade. we already have an incredible nuclear deterrent, spending o

thein congress will enforce skull discipline and what parts of the defense ajit do you think -- defense budget you think can be cut? rep. smith: there is no short answer to that question. it is important to give the more detailed answer. we have an unsustainable fiscal policy in this country right now. most people don't understand that. they are trapped in the partisan act and forth -- act and forth and the latest presidential tweet. the fiscal policy can best be summed up by 134 all republican members of the house road for three different ills over the space of a couple months. they voted for a $3 trillion tax cut, and an increase in spending, and a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget. if you're wondering, that makes no sense whatsoever. you can make your choice. decide we want tax cuts and spending increases and a balanced budget is not that important. but to do all three? that reflects for the country is at. we have promised so much that the country expects a balanced budget with no tax increases and no spending cuts. we continue to drive to work that the. -- drive

we were able to secure the biggest funding increase in defense spending in 15 years with this defense funding bill. we are putting these promises into action. we are starting a new era for our military. this bill invests in training, it invests in equipment, it provides funding for modern systems so our military is best equipped for the challenges we face in 21st century warfare. new challenges. tough challenges. this is about ensuring our armed forces. after years of being hallowed out can operate on the cutting edge with agility and efficiency. and this defense bill gives service members their biggest pay raise in nine years. what our troops do is nothing remarkable. they have our greatess admiration and this raise is well deserved. we want the men and women who wear our uniform to always, always have what they need rema. they have our to fulfill their missions and to take care of their families. so we are keeping promises that we have made. we are doing in office what we said we would do in the campaign in 2016. through our policies, whether 's bowlesering our economy or strengthen

secretary of defense mattis and the department of defense have admirably crafted the national defense strategy that was delivered to congress earlier this year. this was a critical first step for the administration to lay out its strategy, but now that strategy must be implemented, and the defense authorization bill will align our policies and resources in a way that will accomplish that. this legislation will modernize the military's rigid outdated personnel management system to increase the adaptability of the force, to increase its lethality, where necessary, invest in emerging technologies to ensure our troops have what they need in order to be successful, and reform the department of defense to empower strong civilian leadership. i'm glad that there are two pieces of this bill which are included that i want to highlight in particular. the first is called the children of military protection act. this will close the jurisdictional loophole affecting military installations where minors commit criminal offenses on base. this issue is brought to my attention by an army jag officer, a

at the government-sponsored laboratories and the defense community and the department of defense in the government sector and there are possibilities that are being pursued that have great promise and great potential. and i think it would be the height of foolishness to cut it off all right now when there isn't any money being appropriated for this. it's just even the possibility that the gentleman is trying to cut off when we have potential for something that would be helpful to saving our homeland and making those who want to rain missiles on us suffer the consequences of the missiles coming back on themselves. we shouldn't shut the door. mr. chairman, i would urge a no vote on this amendment. and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. foster: how much time do i have left? the chair: 30 seconds. mr. foster: toss -- you must make a judgment call as to what things are just way out there and not go to go happen in our lifetime and things that have a realistic chance of working o

scott is a defense analyst that focuses on the u.s. army modernization and capabilities and is a former officer that previously worked at the foundation received his masters degree in international relations from yale university and is a graduate of the u.s. military academy at west point. a policy researcher at grand focuses on security issues in russia and previously served as a senior analyst for the russian military capabilities of the department of defense. she received her masters degree in national security strategic studies from the u.s. naval war college. with that in the introductory comments i am pleased to turn over to scott for today's discussion. please join me in welcoming him. [applause] we are here to talk about how russia would fight with a pier and near peer adversary based on the short report that the released last year. plenty of copies outside so you can grab them. they are spelled -- filled with spoilers and before we get to those remarks i would like to say a few remarks about the origin of the study. this was d

air defenses, strike. part of that traditionally was always built around the northern fleet, and kind of the mer blanks area. this was centered on natural resources. but i mean, i am certain that the country, you know -- norway, who borders russia in the far north, they're very active in talking about this and thinking about this. but i've actually struggled myself to figure out, how do you think about this from a military perspective. a lot of what we're seeing as i understand it is coordination for search and rescue. because your life span is measured in minutes if you go down that far north. so it makes sense for everyone to work together. >> and there's also sort of a presumption of very cold war type flavor to this. if you have googled images of their newa arctic bases up ther, they're pretty cool-looking, shaped like clovers and paintsed in the russian flag. you're seeing soviet era bases. so if they need to, they would deploy up there. why would you need to deploy up there? there is patrolling the s

i'm proud that connecticut plays such a vital role in our defense industry. 5% of our country's defense contract spending is done in connecticut and every dollar of it is critical to our national security involving production of submarines and electric boats and f-35 engines at pratt & whitney and helicopters at sycorsky, notably the heavy lift, and the submarines and helicopters are proudly produced in this asker nape of domestic -- arsenal. grotten, connecticut, is where many submarines are made and we have $4.4 billion for two virginia-class submarines. i fought to include an additional $250 million in funding above the president's request for over $3 billion in advanced procurement of advanced submarines to achieve the navy's goal of 66 attack submarines for the 355-ship navy. this is not a luxury or convenience. they are the stealthiest, most versatile, stronger weapons platform we have, capable of surveillance and other vital means of war. i've also championed more than $10.4 billion in funding for 75f-35 joint strike fighters across air force, navy, and marine corps services for

first, russia's military posture and strategic defense. the key characteristics of conflict against a peer or near peer adversary? today our speakers will warfare there are 10. and finally, and importantly for all this means for u.s. policy. today, i'm s to welcome -- and scott. cott is a defense analyst at rand and focuses on u.s. modernization and russia capabilities. a former army officer and previously worked at the smith foundation. he received his masters degree international relations from graduate s an academy at west point. her issues focus on security in russia and euro-russia. her degree from the u.s. naval college. with that, i'm very pleased to to start er to scott today's discussion. please join him in welcoming him. [applause] morning. so we're here to talk about how we think russia would fight in a war with a peer or near peer particularly nato, based on a short report that was released last year, there are plenty of copies outside, feel them, copies are entirely filled with spoilers. essentially all we're going to talk abo

mccain national defense authorization act. we made tough choices about where and how to invest our resources, but i'm pleased with the work that we have done to restore america as the leader of the free world. we're making needed investments in training, maintenance, modernization. those are the three areas. any time you are starving a military, the things that you see first are the maintenance, modernization, and of course that means training. we are in the process of doing this, and that's what this bill is all about. we are changing this. we have addressed that by catching up where we are falling behind -- artillery, hypersonics, nuclear triad. you know, meese people get talked to out in the real world. we assume that america has the best system of anybody else. their systems, plural, are better. artillery, for example, is measured by rapid fire and range. in terms of rapid fire and range, both russia and china are better than we are. we have hypersonics. hypersonics is a new system whereby people are talking about a weapon

and non-defense accounts. i think all of us acknowledge that our national security is broader. customs and border patrol, the security agency, the coast guard, the state department and many other agencies also contribute to our national security. what we have proposed in this bill before us will be short lived if we cannot provide in the years to come for all these critical functions of our government. t conclude byegain thanking inhofe and my colleagues on the committee for working on a bipartisan basis to develop this important piece of legislation. i would also like to thank the staff who worked tessly on the bill throughout this year and will continue to work tirelessly for many many days ahead. i look forward to the debate on the issues that face the department of defense and our national security. finally ian't think of no m appropriate title for this bill than the john mccain national defense authorization act to symbolize the leadership and the inspiration and the direction that he is still providing u

however, safeguarding our clear defense contractors only protects part of our defense industrial base. the increasing ease of access to large amounts of unclassified and nongovernment data in the defense industrial base offers opportunities for exploitation, which, in aggregation, can be as damaging as a breach of classified information. to narrow this gap between protecting classified information and unclassified information, we're developing a program protection plan to cover controlled unclassified information to identify the policies and resources necessary to do this. third, using authorities provided by this committee, including section 806 of the fiscal year 2011 ndaa, and section 1696 of last year's ndaa, we are strengthening the integrity of the supply chain as well as establishing a pilot program to enhance information sharing with clear defense contractors. and fourth, we are enhancing our counterintelligence capabilities to better address the nontraditional collection methods being employed by our adversaries. we are adding security and counterintelligence personnel resour

i know department of defense has done work with the faa on ssa. with respect to the space renaissance act from the last congress the one stop shop at the department of transportation at the department of commerce, what is your insight or your perspective where we are looking now? >> a great question. as you just recognize, in the past i have sponsored or authored legislation have a one stop shop especially moving it out of the faa to the department of transportation to the secretary. i ran that legislation a couple of years ago to force the conversation about this activity and how important it is. as a member of the science committee, space subcommittee specifically i voted multiple times on the americans face commerce free enterprise act which put that commerce. my views have shifted but more importantly than anything else that has to be done. and it doesn't matter so much where but the fact we don't have time to waste anymore and if we are caught if it is a parochial or jurisdictional and this thing is hd up for a year or two, we are at risk if

defense?agree with the prosecution on one point. that when gene called 91 1 to report her husband dead, the murder was days old. >> shots. i heard it. >> that call is 100% fake. there's no question about it. >> not only was the mom lying to 911 about when the murder occurred, but no, argued the defense, she was lying about something much bigger. who the true killer was. the defense attorney saved his surprise for closing arguments. >> it was an unusual moment. certainly i knew there were many supporters of gene tan in the courtroom, and i was going to basically suggest to the jurors that she had pulled the trigger. >> gene tan, the mom, the wife, the true killer. the defense said the shotgun was in her hand. she pulled the trigger. she solved her own problem. not her son. that was the story the defense say will be 11th hour. >> not an easy thing to do in a packed courtroom where. >> according to the defense, it was gene tan who had the motive, the moetive to get rid of her bully husband, get t

assume you have a lot of questions about the defense bill? chad? >> [inaudible]. >> well, obviously i typically don't think that the speaker of the house has to get involved every time we have a legitimate document request from the executive brancho the legislative branch. i got involved a week ago. and since that we have had compliance coming forth from the doj. now the question is, will all the requests be honored this week? i think they are going to be very honored very very soon. we had them working through the weekend to deal with completing the document requests that our committees have made among the department of justice. there are technical issues involved. it is literally computer search terms and things like that. we do expect full compliance very very soon. and if we do not get that, then we're going to keep every single option available to us, because again, the legislative branch has a constitutional duty to do oversight over the executive branch. that is what we're doing. we have gotten more documents in the past week than we have go

and and lastly $10 billion for missile defense. for the missile defense agency. that's timely getting us up where we have fallen behind during the last administration. might as well see it -- say it as it is. now we have everyone agreeing that this is good. this is in the bill, in the bill that we have unnecessarily postponed for another week. so i guess that's -- someone is making a point there. that along the way the ndaa makes adjustments to the administration's budget request to ensure programs are sustainable and accountable and in protecting american taxpayers -- tax dollars. it takes steps to ensure we're prepared for a world defined by strategic competition with china and russia, addressing china's militarization in the south china sea, and deterring russia's military aggression in cyber attacks. we know that's happening right now. several of us, including the chair, we were not long ago, just about a month ago, in the south china sea. and when you see what the chinese are doing, totally illegally, it's not land that they own. they're talking about reclai

one of the problems that -- and i've been on niece defense authorization -- on these defense authorization bills for years and years, decades, is they know it's going to pass. it passed for 57 consecutive years. so a lot of people that want to put things that are nongermane and very often controversial, they want to put 0 on that because they know it's going to pass. senator corker is not the only amendment that is a problem amendment to this. there are two other nongermane amendments, one by senator lee and one by senator paul. they say if i don't get a vote on my amendment, then i'm going to stop all other amendments from coming up, so nobody gets to h anmendment. now at the same time they're saying that about the paul amendment and the lee amendment, we have other members, such as senator grassley and senator senator graham, graham and grassley are both saying if you end up getting a vote on that, we're going to make sure -- we'll make sure you don't get a vote on it. so you have opposing parties saying whatever the case is, if you get a vote on something i disagree with, therefore, i'm

when defense work shipped from american companies to other countries, it can hurt our national defense, our workers, and our communities. finally, i want to highlight a provision that has been mentioned by my colleagues i strongly supported in this bill that helps protect american telecommunications security, whn important p of ourional security. specifically, this bill includes a provision that prohibits the department of defense from procuring, obtaining, or renewing contracts that utilize equipment or services from china's huawei's technologies or z.t.e. corporation. huawei is reportedly being investigated by the department of justice for potentially violating u.s. sanctions laws as it relates to iran. z.t.e. solid sensitive technologies to iran and north korea in violation of u.s. sanctions laws. i'm concerned about the administration's recently announced deal to roll back penalties against z.t.e., and i think this measure in the senate, in our national defense bill would be an important step tordng safeguard our telecommunications industry. i'm hopeful the senate will soon pass th

of a defense contractor get 100 times more salary than the secretary of defense? and that is why, mr. president, i have filed an amendment to prohibit defense contractor c.e.o.'s from making more money than the secretary of defense. moreover, mr. president, as the g.a.o. has told us, there assive defense department's acquisition budget that we have got to address. according to the g.a.o., the pentagon's $1.66 trillion acquisition portfolio currently suffers from more than $537 billion in cost overruns, with much of the cost growth taking place after production. you know, i was a mayor for the city of burlington, vermont, for eight years. like other mayors throughout this country, republicans, democrats, independents, whatever, you sit down and you negotiate a contract with somebody who perhaps is going to repave the streets. the contractor says i'm going to do it for $5 million. you sign a contract. and you don't accept the fact that the contractor comes back and says oh, i'm sorry, we made a little mistake. it's going to cost your people $10 million. not the way

and that is related to national defense and that contingency fund. and that is what we should be doing. that always should have been. then from the defense budget and sequestration and harmed by military readiness. it has not held the adversaries.ve and russia and china that is why i said areas areas such as the artillery they are ahead of us. and then the evacuate. and not just the triad that we had we could not keep that up all the time we did nothing over the last ten years.ea with the chinese in the russians. hypersonic. and this is something where the future wars would be fought. that was the bill to advance in some areas and the goal is to provide the resources and to do so on time and on schedule at a reasonable cost it is important for people out there to know even people in this body may not be aware of it but it is the authorization with 23 billion for shipbuilding, provide for procurement 7.6 william was a joint strike fighters and at that time we should've seen with the original amount we don't want to make that same essay so we have that

space commercial and defense policy. your work is imperative to the future achievement and well-being of the united states. the trump administration and the department of commerce are creating more opportunities for the space community to develop and thrive. in just six months president trump has signed three presidential space directives. the first calls for human expansion across the solar system. it's about time. the second sets a schedule for streamlining regulations to unshackle commercial activity in space. commerce is already advancing ambitious regulatory reform. over the last year we have worked with department of defense, state, department of of interior, and the director of national intelligence to reduce commercial remote sensing application timelines by about 50% from where they were before. we've cut what was 210 days down to an average of 91 days. the president's third space policy directive signed at this week's space council meeting establishes the country's first comprehensive national space traffic man

granger: the defense of -- the department of defense is responsible for defending the homeland and u.s. interests from attack, including attacks that may occur in cyberspace. this is an important mission and one that this bill prioritizes by providing $8 billion across the entire cybersecurity lands escape. our nation's cybersecurity posture starts with our cybersecurity professionals. the gentlewoman's amendment provides an additional $5 million to ensure that we continue to have the most qualified and highly trained cybersecurity professionals in the world. i'm pleased to accept the amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentlewoman from nevada. ms. rosen: i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from nevada. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. he amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 5 printed in house

secretary of defense the japanese defense minister spoke and he said a couple of things about the situation with the summit and now that it is officially back on in the be here in this city in about ten days and he said that you can't reward north korea just for the dialogue there needs to be concrete actions from their side and also south korean defense minister chimed in as well he said this is the first step down the right path but there needs to be international support and north korea needs to remain committed it is a historic path but it's going to be a difficult path so yes as you said you know there's there was a lot of focus has been a lot of focus will continue to be a lot of focus on china and what's going on in the south china sea but obviously because you have these heads of defense departments around the world that there's going to be a focus on what's happening on the korean peninsula and the summit in this city in ten days. the u.s. defense secretary talking as your about situation with china particularly how he's going to modernize the alliances in the region what's on the

that was before he was secretary of defense. there were a bunch of retired generals and admirals from all the services. they studied this. they came back in january 2001 and issued a final report. they said the way the military was organized and how it was managing space is not commensurate with what space had four u.s. interest. think how much more dependent we are in space today. that commission report went on to recommend how to reorganize. they said in the middle term that we should create a space core within the air force, like the marine corps is a department of the navy. we should have a space core that still falls under the department of the air force and in the long-term that report said we should have a separate military department for space, a space force. this was recommended 17 years ago. it has been hotly debated in defense circles ever since then. not a lot of the debate has made it out into public because it is a nerdy thing and it may seem far-fetched and whimsical and even silly. when i heard trump say it it di

how about on the defense spending bill and how did democrats in general feel about it? did you get a say in this bill customer. >> in the approach of patients subcommittee or upper patients committee there was not as much consternation but some back-and-forth and there's hoping measures that they could have a foresight in the markup of this but it has not been as polarizing as it's been in years past. a large part of that is the fact that lawmakers have already agreed on the top line defense spending for this year and was part of the to your budget agreement. >> always seen in past years as back-and-forth over just how much money will go to the fence and just how much money will go to other nondefense programs in the budget and this year that is settled and across the board not just on this but on the defense authorization bill and a lot of those debates have been muted. >> where is the process of the defense spending bill in the arctic? >> a little behind still trying to move their operations bill along and we've seen a handful of the provision spells starting to move

with the department of defense with those standards. and oaa and eventually now those are required for commercial operations as well. ra and promulgated for the international community. i will be clear not all countries follow the same standards but it is important for us to lead there is enough international pressure around the world. >> now any questions you may have. i'm worried they underestimate the difficulty from the testimony that there are 600,000 pieces of very tiny degree to monitor because each one could be deadly. your offloading that priceless work for space traffic will be the acute phase when secretary ross pointed out a large percentage it is just too collisions. just to but there will be thousands or tens of thousands of impossibility pointing out each could lead to a devastating chain reaction of further debris that you would need a super. so should be punished nation toward the city that caused satellite debris? migrating cobalt within the outerspace treaty, nations nations are responsible for what they do they face

host: where is the senate in the process in the defense spending bill? mr. shane: little bit behind but still trying to move their appropriations bill along and starting to move over there. and a vote early next week on the veterans affairs and military construction bill which incorporates this military spending, too. the goal of lawmakers is to move these more quickly than they have in the past. typically, this has taken late in the year and in this year's case, even into the next calendar year. lawmakers think they can get it done. and we'll see if they can it done. host: leo shane, deputy editor of "military times." you can follow his reporting on twitter as well at leo shane. thank you for joining us. week,congress this defense spending bill for 2019 and members are expected to vote on whether to go to conference with senate over approving policies and programs for the next fiscal year. it is also possible they will bring up a bill on immigration and border security that was debated last week. the senate returns tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. eastern to debate a

this week we're debating the national defense authorization act, which funds our nation's defense programs for the coming year. mr. jones: like senator lankford, i want to thank chairman mccain and ranking member reed for their work on this important legislation as well as senator inhofe, who has done such yeoman's work in senator mccain's absence. this bill has tremendous implications for our country both abroad and here at home. in alabama, we know all too well about the need for national security and good economy. from redstone arsenal, from maximum we will air force base and for all of our reserve and national guards men and women in the state of alabama, they are on the front lines. in addition to the tens of thousands of civilians that support their work, alabama is home to a first-class workforce that supports our national security mission every single day. so it only makes sense that this legislation continues to support the work of alabamians to include a well-deserved 2.6% pay raise for our troops, and just as important, it also includes funds for the missile defense agency at re

when you are responding to such a violation, you are using it defensively. we have embedded into our law these very different conceptions of offense and defense. i am confident that our colleagues in the ai world can help us create defenses to what they can imagine will be the offensive uses, and that, i am very much in support of as long as it is also being done with this clear eyed view to the ethics that are involved, and very briefly, the world continues to understand the importance of these rules on restricting resorts to military force. when they just last december, agreed to add to the international criminal court the crime of aggression. i was disappointed on the good bad news story. the u.s., which is not even party to the criminal court, persuaded the other many members to only add a very diluted version of aggression in order to give continuing space for the u.s. the u.s. feared, even where we do not have an actual treaty, not party to a treaty, these norms as skate. -- norms of escape, and they are, i think, very unproductive for our future and l

in 2019, the total defense budget will be up to $716 billion. that is the highest it has been since back in the early obama administration at the peak of the surges in iraq and afghanistan. it is higher even when you adjust for inflation -- higher than the peak of the reagan buildup back in the 1980's. it is fair to question where that money is going and whether or not we have the right priorities. but when it comes to a space force, creating an independent service for space is not necessarily going to grow the budget. it does not require a higher budget. you can do it within existing resources. within the defense budget, you can carve out money to keep our space system safe and reliable for the military. new mexico, independent line, for todd harrison. color from new mexico, good morning? from new mexico, good morning? one more time. caller: hello? can you hear me? thank you for giving me a chance to speak. as someone who has always supported nasa's desire to explore space, from that generation, as a sci-fi kid, i always supported our explorati

could -- how much could the defense department save? guest: id gi a number,, which is huge. we could say tends of billions -- tens of billions of dollars could saved, but individual actions could have tens of ionsllf dollars in benefits. host: i want to get to viewer calls in a second. if you have questions about to gernment, before get the calls, i wanted to ask about one of those specific regulations you had that you could point at saving potentially 527 going dollars over the next five years, defense distribution centers. guest: defense has the centers across the country to help provide supplies in its operations. some of those are runs -- are run by the logistic ageies, some are run by the services. what we found when we looked at it, and this is the department of defense's own study that found they had application, overlap in their distribution centers. some of them were on in the same location. they were serving more populations, so they identified the distribution centers that the potentially the closed, but they have decided they do not have the authority to do that,

of defense so five to 7% reasonable and maybe even a good value to me. it's interesting the united states china and north korea had superiority so focusing on china which you mention. their number of reasons for that one might think china's economy has been booming over the past several decades but that was nice the case and the second part of it was financial restrictions that prevent building a super power arsenal. in thinking about nuclear deterrence mao tse-tung and deng xiaoping still have a mutually-assured destruction model in mind. they say once you have a nuclear weapon that's enough to deter your adversary and so china today says we are going to quote nuclear deterrent. they have no interest in doing that. the final thing is china also has some arsenal problems that has prevented them from a robust nuclear arsenal. i'm told they don't really trust sending nuclear weapons to their military commanders that for a long time china has had a central post with the missiles and the submarines and other things. it's difficult to do what the united state

she is on the board of many organizations including women and defense, charleston defense contractors association, and south carolina cyber. in conclusion, god bless our troops and we will never forget september 11 and the global war on terrorism. congratulations on yesterday primary victories by governor henry mcmaster, torge ellen wilson, and congressional nom jackson lee william timmons. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the ntleman from illinois seek recognition. >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. >> mr. speaker, i rise today on behalf of the more than 130 million americans with pre-existing conditions who are under attack from the trump administration. mr. schneider: some of these people have chronic health conditions recognition. >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my such as as diabetes. some are waging courageous fights against cancer. som

the defense had to make certain they didn't.hink she had invented this story and started to live it and really wanted to believe it. >> so they aimed for the jugular. could this woman be trusted? >> she had a jaded past. theft convictions, stealing. that's not something that an honest, credible person does. >> a one-time bartender at a strip club who managed the dancers, jennifer crew admitted to misdemeanor brushes with the law. >> you were convicted of theft? >> yes, sir. >> also of fraudulent practices, correct? >> i believe that's when my record states. >> she was also in a methadone treatment program for her addiction to painkillers. >> you were using oxycontin for five years. you've used false names to get drugs? >> yes, i did. >> the defense indicated because of her addiction to drugs, her memory was not to be trusted. >> when detectives talked to you, you told them that your memory is not very good, didn't you? >> i don't recall saying that. >> do you remember telling them, i don't remember verbatim the conversation betw

host: where is the senate in the process of the defense spending bill? >> little bit behind but still trying to move their appropriations bill along and we've seen a handful of appropriations bills starting to move over there. and a vote early next week on the construction bill which incorporates this military spending, too. the goal of lawmakers is to move these more quickly. typically this is taken late in the year and in this year's case, even into the next calendar year. we hear from a lot of lawmakers that say they think they can get it done before the election and before the start of the new fiscal year. we will see if they can actually do it this time. >> leo shane, deputy editor with "military times." thanks for joining us. >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up saturday morning, a discussion on the recent supreme court ruling allowing states to online sales tax on purchases. and if the u.s. is ready for the next plague. bloomberg agriculture reporter on the house passed farm bill inc

is that offense of her defensive weapon? what's the empty five that the swiss guards have that's being used to protect the poker that's also used by special forces all over the world. if we attack isis because they are turning women into sex slaves, is that an offense of her defensive use. if we use an autonomous weapon for those purposes, is that an offense of or defensive use? i think maryellen raises a whole question about when should we use force. that's a different discussion. what we need to focus here is how we can use when we do decide through democratic processes that force needs to be used, how can we do it most efficiently and effectively? i woulduggest to you that it may be uthical and en illegal at some future point not to use an autonomous weapon system because if you look at article 51 of protocol one to the geneva convention, it requires commanders to use the method or means of method that will be most protective of civilians, and that often may be an autonomous system because if people think we have full con

as top do anything about sequestration with defense unless we do the same thing for the non-defense programs. that's all shoe there is no priority tome defend america. that is not what the constitution says that should be a priority. as a result we have a lot of systemsen going down as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said we are limiting our competitive edge and he said that two years ago as we have lost and artillery is a good example measured by two means by rapidfire and range both china and russia have better artillery than we have in the united states some people don't believe that talk to our military high persona is the new weapon to operate five times the speednd of sound that is something we have been working on and working against our competitors china and russia and they are ahead of us. they are ahead of us in the areas of the nuclear triad. we haven't done anything to our nuclear program in years and they are ahead of us. all of these things are happening they know the pay raise is in this bill and benefits are in this bill and it is a good bill and it should

but the missile defenses took a heavy toll of the attacking ak rofft.by day four of the war israel had lost forty eight panes and eight of its entire afros . set off by fire thirty one me side and down sixteen aircraft and that's one point eight me sides were each target that's a record because their issue is supposed to be two or three missiles for each plane . i only ever know i was wrong in my open exploded rules. don't remember me powerful people exploded and i woke up with. an addiction. is the first week of conflict ended israel suffered another serious blow. on the thirteenth of october in front of the world's media the last of israel's bar-lev line of fortresses surrendered to the forty third battalion of egyptian commandos. said in an assurance i couldn't believe my eyes seeing the israeli soldiers waving the white flag and humiliated as those still we cheated them very well. for using. last out for india. even if. the israeli surrender was a moment of humiliation not for many thought that when your enemy is so humiliated so the extent that it

. >> the house next week takes up the defense department spending bill. leo shane with "military times" what are the main priorities versus the president's request? >> it is pretty close to the president's request. and looking at the at the same level of military end strength. and same level for the military pay raise. and generally the same level of funding. little bit lower than what the administration asked for. we have gotten a note from milk mulvaney and wants to see those accounts fully restored. but it is pretty close. the two places that we have see the administration, this bill would purchase two extra lit ral ships with the administration we spent money offer and j-star program and another $00 million. minor things in the larger scope and in line. host: reading some of your porting, military, the headline. here's what the appropriators want. you quote the chair of the appropriations subcommittee, last year, we took the first big step to he rebuilding the military. what are the improved improvements? >> she is talking about this idea of rebuildin

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