chairman, my wife holly is here with me today. she is a symbol of the strength and dedication of families around the globe who waited home for their loved ones while they engage in critical work in afghanistan, iraq, and elsewhere. so what others on told spouses, children, and loved ones as their troops have deployed and continue to raise their right hand time and time again. our families are the spawn some heroes of a long campaign on which we have been embarked over the past decade. one of america's greatest presidents, teddy roosevelt, once observed that far and away the best prize that life has to offfr is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. there currently nearly 140,000 coalition troops and over 2 minute 35 afghan security force members engaged in hard work very much worth doing in afghanistan. if i am confirmed by the senate, it will be a great privilege to soldier with them in that hard work that is so worth doing in that country thank you, very much. >> now that we have a quorum, we would do some committee busine

chairman, my wife holly is here with me today. she is a symbol of the strength and dedication of families around the globe who waited home for their loved ones while they engage in critical work in afghanistan, iraq, and elsewhere. so what others on told spouses, children, and loved ones as theirroops have deployed and continue to raise their right hand time and time again. our families are the spawn some heroes of a long campaign on which we have been embarked over the past decade. one of america's greatest presidents, teddy roosevelt, once observed that far and away the best prize that life has to offfr is the chance to work ha at work worth doing. there currently nearly 140,000 coalition troops and over 2 minute 35 afghan security force members engaged in hard work very much worth doing in afghanistan. if i am confirmed by the senate, it will be a great privilege to soldier with them in that hard work that is so worth doing in that country thank you, very much. >> now that we have a quorum, we would do some committee business.

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that met that the egg donor, holly, was someone who would be part of their lives.rogate also makes an appearance in their life and stays in their lives. >> larry: why not have the egg donor also be the carrier? >> particularly for gay men who are having babies with surrogates, they have found that if the child is not a biological offspring of the surrogate -- it's called gestational surrogacy, then it's easy for that surrogate to give that child to the intended parts. and in the process, we had a social worker, it's emotionally not easy. >> larry: "in america" special hosted by the terrific soledad o'brien, one of the best in the business. "tony & gary have a baby," thursday at 8:00, repeated at 11:00. we'll be right back. less travel? more video conferences? limit the cell phone minutes. that's not good enough. we're not leaving this room unless we can cut something else. can they really keep us here? what about all this stuff? what stuff? all this stuff. what does it cost to create all this? time, effort, people. how much? it could be millions. ♪ millions. [ male

your wife, holly, is with you this morning.e all want to thank her personally for commitment and her sacrifices along the way. i must tell you, general, that her understanding of your doing your patriotic duty, as you are now taking over the command in afghanistan, her understanding and support of that is truly inspiring. if the we profoundly thank you, mrs. patraeus. ordaz -- we've brownley thank you, mrs. patraeus. i also want to express my gratitude to general mcchrystal for his great service over three decades. fate takes strange pathways' at times. the general mcchrystal is a hallmark of leadership and character. the challenges we face are in many ways as complex or more complex than general patraeus in the rigid when he assumed command in iraq. news reports in afghanistan is that things are spotty. some normal activities have returned to helmand province, and insurgents intimidation continue to threaten governance in the south. the karzai government has yet to live -- yet to deliver services in regions locally. and news r

cat hollis, institute for defense analysis. i have a questioning and i think it's pretty inherent. it's been touched on a little bit. there's a vulnerability in cyber that i think we kind of ignore, which comes along with all the social engineering posed by our allies, our non-allies, other countries in the world. nation states with little or no division between academia and government. students raised with the role of promoting their government's goals. there's little or no repercussion for them. in fact, it's looked at in terms of probably a boon to their academic endeavors or their industrial endeavors if they can show ways that either they can get into, how they can compromise, how they can gain access into our networks, international networks, whether they're government, whether they're industry. my concern is how is -- is cyber command along with other agencies, along with industry in the united states actually going to address this? because i think as we look in the future, that's where our real threat lies. these are people brought up in how to do what we're trying to learn

over the past several years, the holly bee population has been in decline including the hos lost of habitat, the introduction of diseases and pests and migratory stress. all of these factors have contributed to higher operating costs for the pollinator industry as well as the agriculture producers who rely on a steady available production of pollinator bees. they add more than $15 billion annually to the value of u.s. crops. with one third of our food supply dependent upon pollination by honey bees, we need to have a solid understanding of c.c.d. and how to eradicate it. i commend researchers from the federal and state level as well as the industry, state universities, state departments of agriculture for coming together under the c.c.d. working group. i'm hopeful that this collective group of experts can get to the bottom of this very important problem. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to join me in recognizing the valuable contribution of pleark's pollinator industry by supporting -- america's pollinator industry by supporting house resolution 1460. and i would note to my colleague from