army secretary john mccue and chief of staff ray odierno. the white house acting budget director appears before the house budget committee to discuss the $3.8 trillion budget. >>> and later on, ed gillespie, the former counselor for president george w. bush speaks at the hispanic leadership conference network. >>> saturday on "washington journal," reuters tax policy correspondent kim dixon looks at the tax proposals included in the $3.8 trillion budget that president obama released earlier this week. lar lawrence yun talks about the current state of the housing market. after that, "usa today" correspondent dennis kauchon talks about an analysis in a drop for spending for services, employee compensation and infrastructure upkeep in certain states and localities. plus your e-mails, phone calls and tweets. "washington journal" live saturday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. oh >>> army secretary john mccue testified before the house armed services committee friday on the budget request. the overall army budget request of $184.6 billion is down fr

army secretary john mccue and chief of staff ray odierno testifying before congress on the army's budget. then at about 10:20 the white house acting budget director appears before the house budget committee to discuss the $3.8 trillion budget. and later on ed gillespie the former counselor for president george w. bush speaks at the hispanic leadership network conference. >> in 1966, julian bond was prevented from taking his elected seat in the georgia state house, after state representatives voted 184-12 not to seat him due to his stance against the vietnam war. his appeal went to the u.s. supreme court. >> i went to the court to hear the argument, and i was sitting in the court, just behind the bar with the lawyers in front of me, and i was sitting next to my lawyer's partner, victor robinowitz and the attorney general of georgia was making an argument that georgia had a right to throw me out because i said things that were treasonous and sad ishs. and i think it was judge white said to him, he said, is this all you have? he said, you come all the way up here and this is all you have? s

oh >>> army secretary john mccue testified before the house armed services committee friday on the budget request. the overall army budget request of $184.6 billion is down from 2012. but includes a 1.7% pay increase for soldiers. and a housing assistance increase of 3.9%. the total defense department 2013 budget request is $525 billion. a 1% decrease from 2012. this runs about 2 hours and 15 minutes. >> we just got notice that the role was voice voted. they were going to have a vote about 10:00. so they said final votes will be at about 10:45. so we'll get as far into it as we can, and then we'll go vote, and with your patience, we'll be back as quickly as we can. good morning. thank you for joining us today, as we consider the president's fiscal year 2013 budget for the army. general mchugh, general ray odierno, thank you for your service. general, 38th chief 6 staff with the a.m., welcome to your first of your many posture hearings. i'm sure you're glad to hear that. our nation's very fortunate to have the two of you leading our army during these challenging times. we clearly understan

my first day was on june 10th, 2010, when secretary mccue created the executive director position. mr. cooper, to be accountable, for the management and the operation of arlington. >> so everyone is pretty much just since 2008. and, sir, you just came on board very recently? >> personally, yes, sir. i do know that there were operational assessments that were conducted at arlington cemetery based on my document research that i did as i come on the job. '96, '97, '98 because they, in fact, had oversight responsibility during that time. >> nothing was indicated in those reports? >> nothing that had to do with mismarked graves or accountability of graves was reported during that particular time, no, sir. >> since the digital system came on in 1999, has there been any -- is there any documentation of issues of mismarked graves since 1999 forward? maybe in your audit report, is there anything -- now, prior to 1999, obviously we have some issues because of paper records and, you know, hopefully there are cemeteries across the country that existed to that prior but notwithstanding that. an

army secretary john mccue all the matily decided the archbishop's letter was in the a matter for militaryeview but he voluntarily removed the line about noncompliance with the law. a former army intelligence officer served two tours in afghanistan. >> the army's job is to be a military organization not be in the my all of a social values conflict. >> reporter: the army told fox news that the chaplain never intended to render judge minneapolis on the archbishop's ruling to the hhs ruling and that the army never intended to censor the clergy. james rosen, fox news. s. >>> defense and prosecuting attorneys in the uva la crosse murder trial will choose a jury this morning and then opening statements will begin. george huguely is accused of killing his girlfriend yeardley love in 2010. paul wagner will be live outside the courtroom in our the 9:00 hour. >>> a man who stabbed his supervisor to death will learn his sentence today. keithling allegedly killed roosevelt brockington, jr. because he had received a bad performance review. >>> speed cameras are here in our area. it seems they are every

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