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so i'm very much welcome to the suggestion and will talk to senator inhofe and see what he thinks so we might be either formally or informally to get our committee members together and start noodling this very important issue. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general odierno, to go from one of the broadest to one of the more narrow issues, as you know, the budget proposes a series of changes involving military pay raise, the base allowance, commissary subsidies, tri-care. the pressure here is going to be to wait. there's a commission on compensation that's supposed to report about a year from now. and i know that everybody's going to say, you know, let's put off this discussion until that commission reports. what's the downside of waiting? >> well, it's our budget figures in '15 and beyond. i mean, '15 is really -- it's the savings that we garner from those proposals immediately. it probably impacts '15 more, because we supposedly would have some output from them. so we'd have to figure out how we make up for the reductions that we booked based on our recommendations for the ch

. >> thank you very much, senator inhofe. secretary mchugh. >> let me express my appreciation to you, the ranking member, and individual discussions before the hearing, to the other members of the committee for their heartfelt expresses of sorrow and support. it's deeply appreciated. obviously, as you noted, mr. chairman, this long-standing posture hearing is being held now under a shadow of the tragic events that happened just yesterday afternoon at ft. hood. as i know you all understand, any time the army loses a soldier, we all mourn. when that loss comes at the hands of another soldier, and, indeed, when that event occurs at the very place that suffered so much pain, so much anguish, just 4 1/2 years ago, it only adds to the sorrow and the all-consuming sense of loss the army is feeling this day. our first responsibility, as i know you share, is to the families of the fallen. also, to those of course who have been wounded and those close to them, their family, their loved ones, as they make their way hopefully on a road t

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employment is more portable than twenty five percent would see young people whatever that is small inhofe the olive able to wed in bed the next generation the people there that should be taken the country folded hopes a long way to go yet it's a command to twenty seven minutes plus to eleven it might be the most good things to be with this lp but another update that in thirty three minutes time. after the break though more extreme economic stay at macs and stacy whitman the wings that make the skies the report ay ay ay ay ay ay. ch the legion media for dialed journalists politicians and the feelers from east and west riding of opinions confrontation of you the quest for compromises and new possibilities with you our current world affairs you're asian media forum april twenty fourth the first time. i love him in the room over one million children have voted with their lunch money and i've stopped eating lunch is based on the standards of michelle obama is anti obesity campaign. many students find the launch is offered under the terms of the healthy hunger free kids act to be either far too

it's essentially a problem because you have a kind of very inhofe urged education and north africa and the population living in the alienation and destitution in some horrible places. but saying his friends destined to be the new third reich, the answer is definitely no. it's very important not to see the kind of templates that repeats itself over and over again. in their own particular way they are not making light but it's also important to always. where hitler arrives it's not an enemy of the jews. but he is not a part, she is not an enemy. i don't know if it is any consolation or not. is there any particular -- >> not a parade in the middle of paris with 5,000 people. let's let the throats of jews -- i need exact dates and hard facts about that. it is news to me that there was a parade in the middle of fran france. yesterday there was a parade yesterday. i missed it on the road. anybody else? >> okay. it is news to me and it is a big surprise. i am genuinely asking for information. and this was a neo-nazi organization? >> [inaudible] >> in paris? i didn't read "the new york times"

senator inhofe. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the secretary mchugh, last night, we were together at an event where we had a lot of peop people's support. when you got the phone call of the tragedy that took place. i know that buzzing around the room there, was even though it's happened twice at ft. hood, it could just as well have happened at other places, is that right? from what we know now? >> from what we know now, we're viewing this as a threat across the entire army. >> i think it was kind of prophetic yesterday in the hearing, i think i mentioned this in my opening stable that senator ayotte was kind of challenging that we haven't done enough and expressed a concern, and just coincidentally, hours after that is when it took place. i know that was -- meant a lot to all of us. since this happened just last night, do you have any immediate thoughts about this that you would like to share with us? >> well, i think senator ayotte is posing a statement that we question ourselves about every day, and certainly particularly this d

. >> thank you very much, senator inhofe. secretary mchugh. >> let me express my appreciation to you, the ranking member, and individual discussions before the hearing, to the other members of the committee for their heartfelt expresses of sorrow and support. it's deeply appreciated. obviously, as you noted, mr. chairman, this long-standing posture hearing is being held now under a shadow of the tragic events that happened just yesterday afternoon at ft. hood. as i know you all understand, any time the army loses a soldier, we all mourn. when that loss comes at the hands of another soldier, and, indeed, when that event occurs at the very place that suffered so much pain, so much anguish, just 4 1/2 years ago, it only adds to the sorrow and the all-consuming sense of loss the army is feeling this day. our first responsibility, as i know you share, is to the families of the fallen. also, to those of course who have been wounded and those close to them, their family, their loved ones, as they make their way hopefully on a road t

oklahoma senator jim inhofe is a ranking member of the senate armed services committee and a member ofagainst kerry's confirmation as secretary of state. good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. >> what do you think about, first of all, kerry saying this apartheid stuff? he didn't know anybody had a recorder, somebody did. now looks bad. >> i'm not surprised. i'm not surprised at all. we made some comments about his lack of, i felt, allegiance at that time to our best friend in the middle east. keep in mind that in israel, the arabs have full citizens' rights. they have 10% of them of the kinneset has full rights and to associates that with apartheid is outrageous. but again, i'm not surprised. >> surely. one of the things that was said during the confirmation hearing was that if mr. kerry was selected as secretary of state, we were going to have trouble with israel because our president and then mr. kerry as well, not israel's biggest fans. >> that's right. they associated -- that has to be a relationship there. the reason that he was chosen by our president. that's something we w

the legislation, senator john cornyn of texas, obviously a big energy-producing state, senator gyms inhofe of oklahoma, and senator david vitter of louisiana. what the energy security act does, quite simply, is first it approves the keystone x.l. pipeline project. now, this is a more than $5 billion pipeline that has been in the permitting process now for more than five years. we're now in the sixth year of the permitting process, trying to get a permit from the administration. we have thousands of pipelines all across this country, millions of miles of pipeline, and here's a project that for six years the administration has held in limbo. the latest, greatest technology, moves canadian oil, our closest ally, moves oil from canada, as well as oil from my state, north dakota and montana, to refineries across the united states. now, we import 50% of our oil. do americans want to get that from the middle east or do they want to produce it here in our country and get it from our closest friend and ally, canada? that's an obvious answer. that's why in poll after poll, 3-1, americans wouldn't th

that was organized and we did hear from senator inhof. he railed against what we were he came down and doing. he said it is a hoax. we respect him and his view. but no one came down here. this is where people are. i am so sorry to have to say this in partisan terms. i served with the great john chafee. i served with the great john warner. i saw bipartisan support to move. i see none of it now. it is sad. it is sad. the reasons i do not even want to go into. i think i know why. the bottom line is 81% of americans think climate change will be a serious problem if nothing is done to reduce it. thank you for doing what you do. despite all the pressure, despite all the insults, send of the population thinks that america should take action. we do not wait for china to decide how to treat our people. we are america. the american people get it. i do not have a lots of questions for you. you will get plenty. keep going. i just want to say keep doing what you are doing based on science. >> thank you. i am going to use my very limited time to ask so

i also want to thank our other cosponsors, senator mcconnell and senator inhofe, for their support as well. the tragic story that inspired this bill has a connection to my state of pennsylvania and senator manchin's state of west virginia. so it made it kind of a natural, natural for us to work together on this. it's a terrible story indeed, madam president. i just want to summarize it because it goes to the heart of why i'm here this morning. the story begins in delaware county, pennsylvania, where one of the schoolteachers was found to have molested several boys and raped one. prosecutors decided there was not enough evidence to actually press charges, but the school knew what had happened so they dismissed the teacher for this outrageous behavior. shockingly and so disturbingly, the school also helped this teacher to get a new job so that they could just pass him along and let him become someone else's problem. it happened that the new job was in west virginia, and the school even went so far as to send a letter of recommendation for this monster to get that job in west virginia, w

inhofe: i appreciate that. i appreciate the senator from texas yielding at this time. every time i hear people talk about the jobs that are at stake here, i think about my state of oklahoma per capita probably has more jobs in the state than any other state does because we are -- cushing, oklahoma, is the crossroads of the pipeline throughout america. this chart right here -- just over two years ago president obama dame t came to cushing toa speech. you can see the tubes there, talking about how this is a major breakthrough that we're going to -- quote -- "cut through the red tape, break through bureaucratic hurdles and make this project a priority, to go ahead and get it done." that's his quote right there. yet he's done nothing but obstruct this ever since that tiesm the southern leg of the pipeline may be finished but that was part of the project the president dissents hav didn't hy in. the president could do something when you cross international lines but he could not do it from that point south. it is completely stalled because the president has delayed making a

inhofe: mr.resident, today marks the 225th anniversary of george washington's inaugural address to the nation. i -- i don't think anyone's said anything about it. that's a major thing for us to think about each year. it's the 225th anniversary. it's reported that more than 10,000 people -- this is way back 225 years ago -- gathered on this day in 1789 to hear from a man who won a war, who is now ushering in an era of's and freedom in our new nation. there's a historian, peter loback, he pointed out -- and i read his book recently -- about our first president, washington, knew that everything he was to say in the first inaugural address would set a precedent for all that was to come after him in establishing our nation. it's why americans should take a note at how washington weaved in the international -- intentionality of his belief in the omnipotent. washington said -- and this is a quote -- he said, "it would be prospectlpeculiarly improper ton this first official act my fefb yofervent suppocat