retired army general john jr. chairman of the board of the military officers association of america. retired army general gordon sullivan, president and chief executive officer of the association of the united states army. retired vice admiral john, association of the united states navy. retired air force general craig mckinley, president of the air force association. gentlemen, we thank you for your past svrs. we thank you for your current service to our service members that are retired and their families. i believe that the order that we are calling on you is to first call on general tellelli. thank you for being here, and please give us your statement. >> chairman levin, ranking member. >> i'm sorry. i make -- i apologize for that. i should know better. please carry on. >> members of the senate armed services committee thank you for the opportunity to discuss the 2015 year budget affecting the entire military community. on behalf the over 380,000 members and survivors and retirees of the retired officers associa

retired army general john jr. chairman of the board of the military officers association of america. retired army general gordon sullivan, president and chief executive officer of the association of the united states army. retired vice admiral john, association of the united states navy. retired air force general craig mckinley, president of the air force association. gentlemen, we thank you for your past svrs. we thank you for your current service to our service members that are retired and their families. i believe that the order that we are calling on you is to first call on general tellelli. thank you for being here, and please give us your statement. >> chairman levin, ranking member. >> i'm sorry. i make -- i apologize for that. i should know better. please carry on. >> members of the senate armed services committee thank you for the opportunity to discuss the 2015 year budget affecting the entire military community. on behalf the over 380,000 members and survivors and retirees of the retired officers associa

john beddano, the passed. only the memories remain. david shuster, al jazeera. >> james hoffa jr. is the generalnt of the international brotherhood of teamsters, one of the world's largest labor unions with 1.4 million members. thank you for being with us. you know, we, as people, as consumers, like free trade because it brings down the cost of our goods. how do we protect the rights of workers? you know, we don't want to support higher wages for them because we like the fact that goods are less expensive to us. >> well, i don't agree with that. i think what's happened in america is people want to work. and the good jobs have left america. >> that's because of naft nafta cafta, the china trade agreement. all of those jobs, millions of jobs have left america. and i could give you names of companies, one after the other like what wereton steel, talk about mr. coffee, oral b. i could give you 25 names of corporations that have just cold-heartedly closed down, moved their material to mexico and laid people off. >> that's a cold-hearted capitalism we have today. what we've got to do is try to turn th