support operationsin central africa to assist the multinational effort to remove joseph kony and hisop lieutenants from the battlefield. this committee and general inhofe has been very active in this effort and assad to ensure that this mission is adequately resourced including additional intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. general rodriquez i know you are familiar with this mission and the committee looks forward to hearing from you about it and to working with you on it and so many of the other challenges he will be facing. i'm going to turn the gavel over to senator kaine who has agreed to take over because i must go to the floor and i i will call upon the senator inhofe. >> thank you mr. mr. mr. chair i join you in weoming our witness. i've had an opportunity to get to know them in the past personally and i'm very anxious to mo vaughn with this and i think -- thanks charlene and jenny for being here. you are the ones who work harder than they do so we appreciate your sacrifices if they are concerned. general austin will be in charge of overseeing arguably t

and this film, about war lord joseph kony has been seen by 96 million people, the most viral video ever. now, companies are desperate to create the next viral hit. and a new book, the viral video manifesto, promises to spill those secrets. its authors know the subject well. you already know them as the diet coke and mentos guy. stephen voltz is a lawyer working at both federal court and state court in his home state of massachusetts. he's, however, best known as that guy from youtube. i think i have to start with, how many times have you turned and said ladies and gentlemen of the jury. and that one guy go, i know -- i've been thinking for days who that guy is. and i just figured it out. has that happened? >> if has not happened. i closed my practice back in 2007. >> so you do not stand before jurors anymore. >> but there was a dicey time i was doing viral video and trying cases. and i had to break it to my clients. i was like how am i going to let me represent them. i'm a clown on the internet. >> did you see the viral video thing? >> we got on letterman, i can't keep it a see krecht a

support operations in central africa to assist the multinational effort to remove joseph kony and his top lieutenants from the battlefield. this committee and general inhofe has been very active in this effort and assad to ensure that this mission is adequately resourced including additional intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. general rodriquez i know you are familiar with this mission and the committee looks forward to hearing from you about it and to working with you on it and so many of the other challenges he will be facing. i'm going to turn the gavel over to senator kaine who has agreed to take over because i must go to the floor and i i will call upon the senator inhofe. >> thank you mr. mr. mr. chair i join you in welcoming our witnesses. i've had an opportunity to get to know them in the past personally and i'm very anxious to mo vaughn with this and i think -- thanks charlene and jenny for being here. you are the ones who work harder than they do so we appreciate your sacrifices if they are concerned. general austin will be in charge of overseeing argu

support operations in central africa to assist the multinational effort to remove joseph kony and his top lieutenants from the battlefield. this committee and general inhofe has been very active in this effort and assad to ensure that this mission is adequately resourced including additional intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. general rodriquez i know you are familiar with this mission and the committee looks forward to hearing from you about it and to working with you on it and so many of the other challenges he will be facing. i'm going to turn the gavel over to senator kaine who has agreed to take over because i must go to the floor and i i will call upon the senator inhofe. >> thank you mr. mr. mr. chair i join you in welcoming our witnesses. i've had an opportunity to get to know them in the past personally and i'm very anxious to mo vaughn with this and i think -- thanks charlene and jenny for being here. you are the ones who work harder than they do so we appreciate your sacrifices if they are concerned. general austin will be in charge of overseeing argu

with the ugandans we are working to put joseph kony and the lord's resistance army out of business.y're in the central african republic. in 2010 congress passed a bill led by a former colleague and a great champion of africa, and a former friend and colleague of the presiding officer, senator russ feingold of wisconsin called the lrd's resistance army disarmament in northern uganda recovery act of 2009 an important step forward and it was. i was pro -- proud to cosponsor the bill. as a result, last year, president obama because of the finegold legislation, sent military personnel to track down and bring an end to the lord's resistance army menace. i met in the bush with our military in uganda who were following up on this feingold legislation. i can't tell you what a remarkable job they're doing, under very difficult circumstances. the l.r.a. is on the run. defections are increasing. formerly terrorized communities are starting to live without fear. there is still more to be done, but i was impressed and proud of how the united states stepped up and is doing something that will be r

training ugandan military forces to take down a notorious leader of the lord's resistance army, joseph kony. they are making significant progress. their mission so important to increasing stability in a difficult region of the world and it could be sacrificed to a sequester. in bahrain, home of the navy's fifth fleet -- i met with admiral john miller. he took me on these ships and i met with the men and women in our naval forces who are keeping america safe and watching some of america's most threatening enemies. they've already canceled deployment of a second aircraft carrier to the gulf. we were going to have the truman come to the gulf and supplement our naval forces in the fifth fleet. it's been canceled because of sequestration. why? because the truman was supposed to be in depot under repair and ready to steam out to meet with the fifth fleet. the depot had to lay off employees in anticipation of sequestration. the carier won't be ready. there will be one carier. should be two. because of budget cutbacks, that won't be possible. as secretary panetta stated, the pentagon is facing a pe