secretary, general dempsey, and mr. hale for your extraordinary service and your focus on this strategic priorities, which i believe are the right ones for this nation, for example, on the need for additional submarines at the rate of two per year in production for the focus on air superiority and joint strike fighter. and the consequence stration -- contration on the needs to keep our national guard and our reservists forces strong, and other strategic interests that have been the subject of questioning so far. and i could -- quick question about them as well. i want to if he cuss for the moment on one happen, happens to be a resident of connecticut, mr. monk, who enlisted in the united states marine corps in november of 1968 at the age of 20. went to paris island. served in vietnam. from july until november of 1969. where he was barraged by mortar fire, attacked by guerrillas, gassed, subject to rifle fire. he received a high proficiency rating for his conduct and performance on the field, and some months after leaving vie

not want to remind you that the end of this mr. hale would like to have a couple of minutes after the briefing is over. deputy undersecretary of defense for strategy, plans, and forced development and from the joint staff and director of force structure resources to meet lieutenant-general mark ramsey. following briefings leaders from the army, navy, air force unmanned missile defense agency will provide further information on their respective elements of the larger budget submission. last week you heard secretary hazel and chairman dempsey preview some of the key decisions contained within the documents we are releasing today. firmly believing that the key br represents the right strategy to a vin the united states and secure our interest during this historic transition from military. directing that that team define our goals and a fiscally informed manner which enables us to bill the budget that police supports our strategy. the analysis you will hear today the mysteries of the president's budget submission enables the department of d

secretary, general dempsey, and mr. hale for your extraordinary service and your focus on this -- the strategic priorities which i believe are the right ones for this nation. on example, for the need additional submarines at the rate of two per year in production, for the focus on air superiority and the joint strike fighter, and the concentration of the needs to keep the national guard and reservists strong. man whoo focus on one happens to be a resident of connecticut. who enlisted in the u.s. marine thes in november of 1968 at age of 20. went to paris island and served untiltnam from july november of 1969 where he was brushed by mortar fire and gassed, by guerrillas, subject to rifle fire, he received a high proficiency rating for his conduct and performance on the field, and some months after leaving vietnam, began to suffer from anxiety attacks, flashbacks, insomnia, symptoms that we now know are associated with poster manic stress. posttraumatic stress was not even diagnosed until 1980. he was involved in altercations,

of defense and comptroller bob hale who you know very well want to remind you at the end of this, mr. haleuple minutes with you after the briefing is over. the deputy undersecretary of defense, christine willmouth and director of structure resources and assessment lieutenant general mark ramsey. following their briefings leaders from the army, navy, air force and missile defense agency will provide further information on their respective elements of the larger budget. >> we will be this briefing and go back live to the senate floor for today's session. up to ten minutes each. with the time equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees with the republicans controlling the first half. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent following action on s. 1917 the senate proceed to executive session to consider the nominations numbered 504, 513, 640 and 547, that the senate proceed to vote on confirmation of the nominations listed and there be two minutes of debate prior to each vote equally divided in the usual form and the votes be ten minutes in length and the motion to recon

mr. freed? >> jason freed, lafco staff. i will not disagree with what ms. hale said. the one difference between the purchase, if i were moving this forward is actually go and talk with the cpuc if this was a good program, could we get money for the program if not addressing customers. one thing cpuc isn't able to do at this point, lafco could draft that letter on behalf of the board. as far as the cpuc is concerned, they have oversight over this program. [speaker not understood] could send a letter of inquiry to find out what the status is and how we could go about cashing in to that kind of money that might be available for us. >> thanks for teeing that letter up for us. is that something you can [speaker not understood]? >> [speaker not understood]. i'd be more than happy to draft that. it would be something that could come from the board of supervisors, not lafco itself. i could dylan ratiganv it since we have an advise i level to the board. i'm sure there are a few of them that might be interested in having it go through the board process. >> great, thank you. any

mr. secretary, general dempsey, and thank you, secretary hale for your outstanding service. we come here for a budget today, and i appreciate your comments that you are doing your best under the budget constraints that you are forced to abide by, and certainly some of the challenges you face by sequestration, as senator inhofe whited out, but i don't think it's in dispute that this would give us the smallest army and the smallest air force in that. -- period of time. admittedly more capable, but smaller. >> there is more to it than that. there is capability. >> i'm sure there is much more to it. there are also things such as presence and others. those are not disputable. i must say your timing is exquisite. you are coming here with the budget we agree on, at least on the numbers. at a time when the world is probably more unsettled than it has been since the end of world war ii. the south china sea, china more and more aggressive. syrian forces turned into a regional conflict, and the list goes on. today or yesterday china announced its biggest rise in military spending in th

mr. kim we can call them out. i don't think he's here we have a member from the puc barbara hale i don't see anyone back here. you can actually come to the podium >> good afternoon supervisors i wanted to ask how many led lights in this building. >> we have the building manager come and provide that some other ways. we have public comment cards here supervisor. public comment will be two minutes. (calling names) and i apologize in advance for mispronouncing names (calling names) go ahead >> i'm the part resident of north bay i'm here to support our climate action goals, however, the reuncle energy goals the last time i was here i was her hasn't to support the hiring of help with clean power 70 and strong supporter the thought campaign. especially there are alternatives with renewal energy products being developed and i recently talked to an expert witness and i asked him about the dicey questions about the energy at high levels he said california is egregious and california with hundreds and hundreds of power agencies with limited strategies of proprietors is really was it gentleman had in mind. now we have s

mr. secretary, general dempsey, and thank you, secretary hale for your outstanding service. we come here for a budget today, and i appreciate your comments that you are doing your best under the budget constraints that you are forced to abide by, and certainly some of the challenges you face by inuestration, as senator out, but i don't think it's in dispute that this would give us the smallest army and the smallest air force in that. of time. capable, butre smaller. >> there is more to it than that. there is capability. >> i'm sure there is much more to it. there are also things such as presence and others. those are not disputable. your timing is exquisite. with theoming here budget we agree on, at least on the numbers. time when the world is probably more unsettled than it has been since the end of world war ii. the south china sea, china more and more aggressive. syrian forces turned into a regional conflict, and the list goes on. today or yesterday china announced its biggest rise in military spending in three years . they increased their defense budget by 12.2%. i am su

mr. williams kept on trying to fight. and like i do with everybody in here, your first offense for fighting is going to be ten days. >> oh, man. come on, man. i ain't -- come on, hale. i comply with everything the officers have asked me to do. i've been in here. i ain't been kicking on no doors. i ain't been causing no ruckus or nothing. >> sign right there and right there. >> [ sighs ] that's just bull[bleep] man. lose all the way around. lose my money, lose my commissary, and lose my privileges. >> you want to sign that? >> that don't even make sense, man. you know me. collins, that don't even make sense. >> all right, let me explain something to you real quick, all right? i ain't got nothing to do with discipline. i'm just witnessing this. however, you know what this started from. >> dude's trying to steal my [bleep] >> no. what this originally started from. it started from putting money on an account illegally. >> i ain't know nothing about that was illegal. >> no, man. >> come on! i ain't never had a problem with my account. >> all right, let me ask you something. >> i ain't never had a problem with my account. >> if you didn't know nothing was wrong with it,

i will close there and turn over the podium to mr. hale and look forward to your questions at the end. >> good afternoon. our job is to give you an overview of the fiscal 15 budget rule. you heard then beach. we are kind of the post-game show. we will give you some commentary . the joint staff. an introductory. just to piggyback, this was a very concentrated effort on the part of the department to work through the elementary view and inform the president's budget which we will talk about for the next few minutes. a collaborative effort. is this strategy, resources, and they inform the strategy. okay. next slide. you heard this strategy. i will not spend time on this other than i spend probably a couple dozen budget meetings and almost every one of them has strategic discussion. strategy did inform this budget. let me get more comfortable, the dollars, this goes back to 2001. projected 15 through 19 under a plan. large growth after 9/11 compete in 2010, comedown, focused on fiscal 15 and focus on the top bar. there is a place holder of $79