>> yes maam, but go ahead and ask and we will fire away as quickly as we can. we also covered the replacement of 155 dead community living center in maryland that has been stripped out of the house budget. >> you are replacing its? >> we had in our 2016 budget money to replace the 155 bed community center and that was stripped out of the house markup markup. >> i would like to mr. chairman, mr. vice chair, top talk with you about this. this is a facility that is really oriented to mental health and takes care of veterans with significant mental health challenges as well as alzheimer's unit. some parts of that delving are oh my -- pre-world war i and i will ask the to validate the need and the necessity for the request. i think it's a compelling need. on the choice card i understand and it's a program that i supported to shrink the waiting list but i understand that the 8.5 veterans that have been issued choice cards less than 1% have been authorized non-va facility. would you give us the status of the choice program? is isn't working the way we hoped and if it'

maam let's start with you. in kind of a dusty pink sweater. the microphone is coming over to you. >> one question i have is in china there are hundreds of different languages and dialects whereas in the united states almost everybody speaks english. does that make any difference to how well china can do in the future having so many different languages and dialects? >> well i think dialects do present a problem in china but they have been able to overcome that. i don't think that's a major problem. i think more of her problem is how they are going to deal with minorities and wang shone into that which is more than just a linguistic problem. it's how would they integrate so i wouldn't focus as much on the language part is the minorities part. [inaudible] >> i don't have that off the top of my head. doug paul probably does. >> when we bring the microphone over here. >> thank y

>> yes maam. >> thank you. i yield back. >> i will yield back my time. >> the gentlelady yields back a balance of her time. is there any additional debate on the amendment? at not the questions on the adoption of the amendment offered by ms. speier. so many years in favor was a aye. those opposed, no. the nose habit. the amendment is not adopted. a roll call vote is ordered. are there any additional amendments to the subcommittee mark? >> i have one more amendment. >> will the clerk please pass out the amendment and without objection we will read the amendment and ms. speier is recognized for the purpose of offering and explaining her amendment. >> mr. chairman members like others on this committee there are some issues that require us as individuals to reintroduce them year after year because we feel so strongly about them. this particular issue is the issue of sexual assault in the military and the issue of chain of command. with this particular amendment would do would be to when a complaint is filed of a se

>> i'm not familiar with that story maam, i'm sorry. >> the defense secretary in japan talks about defense issues. are they going to talk about any future issues? >> on any of those issues i'm not briefed on what he's going to be talking about. >> the air force needs radar for homeland defense. i was wondering where he stands with this and. where do things stand at this and why it is radar needed right now to put those upgrades in their case program? >> i actually submitted that urgent need first for the national capital region. we have some boxes. we have airplanes we should be able to marry them up. you know it goes against the cruise missile threat that's out there. i have been defending against the christmas will sense the threats since i was a lieutenant jg on the uss nimitz and i've shot over 1300 cruise missiles so i know how effective they are and how hard they are to shoot downs of you need a system of system in order to do that and when it comes to the airborne piece of that you need the capabilities that the radar can give you to that. but it's only a single piece. it's also the