mr. richardson: no. mr.mccain: will you ensure staff comply with dead ryan lines, including questions -- deadlines, including questions for the records and hearing? will you cooperate in providing witnesses and briefings? will those witnesses be protected from reprisals for their testimony or briefings? do you agree if confirmed to appear and testify upon request before this committee? do you agree to provide documents including copies of electronic forms of communications in a timely manner when requested by a duly constituted committee or to consult with the committee regarding the basis of any good-faith delay or denial in providing any such documents? welcome and please proceed. mr. richardson: thank you. i am honored and humbled to appear before you as the nominee to be our next chief of naval operations. i'm grateful for the confidence of president obama secretary carter and secretary may bills. i'd like to -- may advice. i'd like to begin by thanking admiral greenard and darlene for their service to o

admiral richardson: yes. mr. blum: -- mr. blum: you probably know about it than anyone else in the navy and in our department of defense and i believe you are committed to it personally and professionally is that correct? admiral richardson: it's our number one modernization priority. >> in that regard as the number one priority of modernization in the united states navy, the price tag is likely to be in the range of $100 billion, which seems staggering and obviously has to be met, even though the navy has other programs, other modernization projects. have you given thought of how that will be possible to do? admiral richardson: this is an absolutely critical program for the country and we are doing everything in the navy to make sure that we not only get the requirements right and stable and we treat our cost targets. and we are driving and on a good track to achieve all of those cost targets. having said that, it will be a significant investment for the nation one that i believe must be done. if we absorb that entire cost wi

mr. richardson. >>> now to this story, capitol gridlock is the norm.women. giuliana goldman is at the capitol where the females senators seem to be running laps around the men. >> reporter: they crunched the numbers and found women in the senate get more done than men. we sat down with four of them two democrats and two republicans to talk about how they're up ending the old boy's club. >> when we join forces we are ato be reckoned with. >> reporter: these are among the record 20 women currently serving in the united states senate. >> together there's a lot of trust. you don't have a lot of trust right now. among members of the congress. but we have it with the women senators. >> reporter: how? you don't see that as you said with male senators. >> our relationships are maybe a little bit fuller. the comfort level is higher once we get to the issues. it is friendships but it's relationships into other parts of our lives. >> reporter: >> there's a natural camaraderie because many of our stories are similar. we're working moerkts, many of us too, i think

mr. chairman. admiral richardson, thank you for being here.g a range of questions. one general question i would have here and would appreciate your personal opinion and your candor as it relates to the current advantage we enjoy with adversaries like russia and china and the specific threat to those gaps been narrowed as a result of sequestration if you have to do it that in 2016. >> yes sir. as i said, the pace of technological change is just picking up. >> can you talk to specific areas of greatest concern? >> in particular the ability to use the long-range precision guided munition, a weapon at longer and longer distances and anti-access denial capabilities that we talked about many times sorry particular concern. >> what it buys would you give us as we sit here trying to conference the defense authorization. we're trying to get appropriations process going. you are guiding us through what we need to do to help you do your job. what you need to tell us? what do we need to stop doing what do we need to start doing? >> we have proposed a soli

mr. chairman admiral richardson. following on the chairman's questioning, the biggest new program coming online is the ohio class replacement. you talked about getting it right from the beginning, which is requirements. and you're in a very significant position right now with your participation in the nuclear action program. are you satisfied with your requirements as they exist today? 16 missile tubes on the ohio class, one of the most significant aspects. >> the current requirements are exact what we need to continue do deliver that capability. >> you'll continue to look closely at those requirements to ensure that they're necessary and sufficient? >> yes, sir. >> what other requirements with respect to the ohio class replacement do you think are critical besides the tubes? are there any other game-changers that you're looking at? >> yes, sir. certainly, as i look at the ohio replacement program, a program that will be defending the nation well into -- for 50 years, potentially into 2080s, there are some things you

mr. pitts will you please tell us what monument this amendment deals with i'm sorry. >> yes, sir i apologize for interrupting. it is the richardson monument. and mr. speaker i would like at this point to bring to attention that this list of monuments are the ones that are listed on the tour on the state house tour when people come to visit our state house complex. >> thank you mr. pitts. mr. go van i'm going to sustain your point of order. mr. clerk will read. >> 50. 50, mr. pitts. >> starting to understand how lee felt at appomattox. >> mr. go van you raise the same point of order, that the amendment is outside of the scope of the signee dodd resolution. >> why don't you tell us what amendment we are dealing with and if it is near the confederate monument. >> this is the dr. james sands monument and i believe he is noted as the father of gynocology and it is nowhere near the confederate memorial. >> mr. go van, i'll sustain your point of order. clerk will read. >> 51. mr. pitts 51. >> mr. king raised a point of order that amendment 51 is outside of the signee dodd resolution. mr. pits. >> it is the benjamin ryan tillman monument

richardson: by but the sacrifice -- mr. richmond: but the sacrifice of every man and woman in this country deserves recognition. i am honored to be a part of this hour tonight and i feel really privileged that i get a chance to talk about a few of my constituents' families that really exesmified what's best in america and what's best about the american people. so the first sailor i will start with is ernest joseph gains. he was a native of new orleans. he enlisted in the navy in 1942 when he was only 20 years old. before enlisting, he worked as a helper with the sheet metal -- doing sheet metal work in a machine shop. at port chicago, he was a wench operator and worked loading the e.a. brian, one of the ships that was destroyed in the explosion at the base. at the mutiny trial, gaines testified that he had a lot of trouble controlling the wench he was operating. after the explosion, he said he became afraid of loading ammunition because he knew he could not control the wench. and just as a side note here there was a report

mr. speaker, i have in my -- now in my hand this is a leather bound new testament bible that was carried in the shirt pocket of my great uncle john richardson, and it's written in side here, presented to him on the eve of his departure for the war in july of 1862. . and he walked home three years to the day with this bible in his shoirt pocket, having protected him. it has verses that are written in it. i found his picture, his muss can he tell, his bayonet, his belt buckle and his ink file. that's what's left of this man who committed himself to putting an end to slavery but his cousin, my five times great grandfather, was killed in that effort. many gave their lives to put an end to slavery. as i was standing before lincoln's memorial reading his second inaugural address and i'll read this into the speaker. lincoln's second inaugural address, march 4,1865. fondly do we hope and pray yet if god wills does it -- by the bondsman 250 years of unrecognize witted toil shall be sunk and every drop of blood shall be paid by another drawn by the sword as was said 3,000 years ago and so still must be said, the judgments of the lord are true and rig