it will force you -- you can't do in the f.y. 13 but in f.y. 14 you have to make hard choices and reduce your structure, reduce your personnel, basically, shrink your military. you have to do it quickly. you have to down size your force which is not always the best and most informed options. >> going back to your exercise with the fueling tanker. is think there any particular service, army, navy, that is most vulnerable because of the number of acquisition programs they have that are at a key point right now? >> they are all veller inable in different ways. i would not want to guess on which one. looking at the air force they have a number of programs that they say are critical to the future things like the tanker, things like the bomber, these programs are critical to the air force to recapitalize their equipment for the future and be better equipped for the future. all of those programs are in the early stages of the program so they are all vulnerable. you can go through the marine corps, or the army and they are probably in the same situation. >> two aspects, how bad are the penalties

it will force you -- you can't do in the f.y. 13 but in f.y. 14 you have to make hard choices and reduceour structure, reduce your personnel, basically, shrink your military. you have to do it quickly. you have to down size your force which is not always the best and most informed options. >> going back to your exercise with the fueling tanker. is think there any particular service, army, navy, that is most vulnerable because of the number of acquisition programs they have that are at a key point right now? >> they are all vulnerable in different ways. i would not want to guess on which one. looking at the air force they have a number of programs that they say are critical to the future things like the tanker, things like the bomber, these programs are critical to the air force to recapitalize their equipment for the future and be better equipped for the future. all of those programs are in the early stages of the program so they are all vulnerable. you can go through the marine corps, or the army and they are probably in the same situation. >> two aspects, how bad are the penalties get

a final f.y. 13 appropriation bill to replace the continued resolution and the president's f.y. 14 budget. congress' recent decision to delay pulling the trigger on sequestration for two months was a positive step. we welcome the delay, we're still deeply concerned about what may happen should we fail to reach deficit reduction agreement by the end of february. our nation's ongoing budget gymnastics exerts consequences on the air force and create an atmosphere of unease among our uniformed and civilian airman. failure to enact a budget along with the overhanging threat of large cuts creates wasteful churn. given we are now into the second quarter of fiscal year 2013, we can no longer live under the uncertainty of sequestration and the continuing resolution without taking action now. as secretarying petraeus described yesterday even though we're not presuming this worst case will occur planning for the third and fourth quarter es is required. we received the secretary's guidance to begin implementing prudent measures that will help met investigate the budget risks. the air force is current

between f.y. 1990 and f.y. 2012, the removals rose from 30,000 a year to almost 410,000 per year. of all the enforcement fillers, removals have the greatest impact on immigrant families. one telling statistic from the report is that i.c.e. has reported 46,486 noncitizens with the u.s. citizen child who were removed over just a six-month period in 2011. removals have risen steadily over many administrations, democratic and republican, but they've certainly accelerated in recent years. the last four years have seen about 1.6 million removals. i think many have questioned why an administration that's devoted to comprehensive reform would remove the greatest number of people of any in u.s. history. and the report provides a partial answer at the least which is the legal authorities, the operational systems, the enforcement programs and the financial investments since 1986 have made large-scale removals almost at an inevidentibility. they've made high levels of enforcement and institutional -- an institutional authority. as muz kind of referenced the 1996 immigration act, also known as

in the mark of the house in the senate appropriations bills for f.y. 2013, it improves our forecasting, and what does it mean on the ground? what it means on the ground all across our country, when there is a severe weather incident, means we will have better information for evacuation purposes if needed. it's about $1 million a mile to evacuate and it's about saving lives. when the gentleman who is the maker of this amendment who says he wishes we could do this faster and not oppose todd having better information, i join with him in that part, because this is about providing necessary information to the american public about severe weather incidents and saving lives. this is money that both the house and senate intended to provide, but in the 112th, we were unable to complete our work. this is vitally important to every single members' districts that the national weather service and the satellite system be upgraded as quickly as possible. we have had the greatest series of severe weather events, over $1 billion each than we have ever had in our history. it is now time for the greatest

government assistance for f.y. 2012 for sri lanka was $27 million including $13.3 million in bilateral assistance programs primarily related to peace and security, human rights, economic growth and democracy programs. we have a 2013 request for $16.5 billion for sri lanka in the same -- million, million, what did i say? million. in bilateral assistance for sri lanka. frankly, i will say it's too soon to say what impact the actions will have on our foreign assistance for sri lanka going forward. >> have you received any response from the sleelan can government explaining why it's so unusual? >> we're obviously in contact with them. i would not say that the explanations are satisfactory in terms of the second democracy. >> reactions you mean specifically the impeachment of the chief justice? >> correct. >> i have to clarify one more -- not on nigeria but syria and the chemical weapons report. you said at the time of the incident or shortly thereafter, which is is roughly the day, 23rd of december to the end of the year, you conclude, or the administration concluded there was not evidence

it's written that the department of justice will invest $20 million in f.y. 2013 to give states strongerincentives to make more data available including criminal history records and records of persons prohibited from having guns for mental health reasons. that's one mention of money. help communities across the country keep 15,000 cops on the street. the president is calling on congress to act on the administration's $4 billion proposal to help keep 15,000 cops on the street in cities and towns across the nation. and a couple more money proposals. congress should provide an additional $14 million to help train 14,000 more police officers and other public and private personnel to respond to active shooter situations. another money issue. and the administration is calling on congress to provide $10 million for the centers for disease control to conduct further research including investigating the relationship between video games, media images and violence. better understand how and when firearms are used in violent death. congress should invest an additional $20 million to expand a system

and help resolving the coming debates on sequestration, the expiring continuing resolution, and the f.y14 budget to fiscal discipline and entitlement reform. suspending the debt ceiling until may 19 provides the house and the senate with much needed time to pass their budgets and then consider how best to deal with the sequester. the underlying bill also takes action to ensure that the senate becomes an active partner which we want and need and the american people, i think, expect in order for our efforts to reform federal spending. for nearly four years, the senate has failed to meet its most basic obligation -- passing a budget. during this time, the senate has collected its own paychecks despite being derelict in its most important duty. in the private sector there are consequences for failing to do one's job. this resolution will impose the same accountability on members of congress that the private sector workers face. oh, yes, we are putting that same obligation on the house as we would want them to accept in the senate. that is, if you don't get your work done, you don't get paid