and maintenance, navy reserve, $55,924,000. operation and maintenance, marine corps reserve, $25,477,000. operation and maintenance, air force reserve, $120,680 -- $120,618,000. army national guard, operation and maintenance, air national guard, $34,500,000. overseas contingency operations transfer fund, including transfer of funds, $3,250,000,000. afghan infrastructure fund, including transfer of funds, $375 million to remain available until september 30, 2014. the chair: the clerk will suspend. for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? mr. cicilline: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. cicilline of rhode island. page 130, line 14, after the dollaran amount insert, reduce by $375 million. page 153, line 15, after the dollar amount insert, increase by $375 million. the chair: the gentleman from rhode island is recognized for five minutes. mr. cicilline: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise today in opposition to the continued appropriation of hundreds of millions of dollars to the afghanistan infrastructure fund while our national infrastructure is crumbling right here in am

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the other area where it really is going to have a big effect is among returning vets and national guard and reserve and on duty military people because they are so concerned, particularly the people who are still on duty, that if they go someplace for assistance, there is going to be this record there that is going to ruin their career. and so the anonymity part of it is extremely important to them. so we have to look for safeguards and we also have to look for a lot of public education of the potential patients as they are going into the system and we will be talking a little bit about that when we come back. [music] there are 43 states that have an insurance law and there is a need for someone in each state to provide training on the state law, how it relates to the parity act, and then how it relates to all of the phases and phasing in of the affordable and accountable care act. the good news is drug and alcohol is included in the affordable healthcare act and the parity. one of the things that we are still struggling with, though, is how to access the benefit and we've really got to work out a

guard and reserve units across the country. and the bill contains $2 billion for the national guard and reserve equipment account. the bill supports today's equipment needs and develops tomorrow's technology. it supports secretary panetta's strategic focus on the asia pacific region by including robust funding for shipbuilding. the bill supports d.o.d.'s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance needs by providing the resources for global hawk u.a.v.'s. the bill addresses the navy's strike fighter shortfall by funding f-18 hornets and providing procurements for f-18-g electronic attack aircraft. the bill provides for ground equipments such as the abe -- abram's tank, bradley and humvee. it includes the guard and reserve and helps maintain a stable industrial base. the bill includes $250 million for the rapid innovation fund that will continue the committee's evers started in 2011 -- efforts started in 2011 to promote technologies among small businesses. and the bill includes funding above the request for joint u.s.-israeli missile defense technologies, including $680 million for iron dome. the bill funds opera

members of the national guard and reserves who he worked and trained at military bases on the weekenddouble the amount of their counterparts who are serving in wars. the troubling revelation revealed in a study this week has prompted calls for a change that would make military pay equal across the board. sean parnell retired captain. outlaw platoon. he joins us live from pittsburgh. good to see you, sir. >> good to be back, dave. thanks for having me. >> let's break down this discrepancy in pay. first, for reservists or guard members. here is how it goes. $407 for a day of weekend duty, which is interesting because it's only 269 on active duty. even less than the weekend number is deployed to war in, say, afghanistan. how do you fix this and what's the problem with the discrepancy? >> okay so the president of the united states every four years orders review of military compensation. it basically looks at the active duty pay system. reserve pay system. v.a., veterans benefits. look he at the total spectrum. one of the things they found was this large pay discrepancy between reserve com

jobs in particular offer a tremendous opportunity particularly to the members of our national guard and our reserve for the work you do on a daily basis. and for the country you've served. ted daywalt, president of vet jobs, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> all right. next on our rundown, it's been one year since he defended the most hated woman in america. so what does jose baez think of casey anthony today? hear from him and geraldo at the top of the hour. then could another t.s.a. nightmare be on the horizon? now your liquids may be taken after you've been cleared at security. put down the smoothie and walk away! [ buzz ] off to work! did you know honey nut cheerios is america's favorite cereal? oh, you're good! hey, did you know that honey nut cheerios is... oh you too! ooh, hey america's favorite cereais... honey nut cheerios ok then off to iceland! s we charge everything else... maybe it's time to recharge the human battery. only the beautyrest recharge sleep system combines the comfort of aircool memory foam layered on top of beautyrest pocketed coils to promote proper sleeping posture all n

frostburg serves the majority of veterans and active military connected to our region's national guard and reserve units. the number of veterans we serve very significantly from year to year. our overall in rahman right now is about 5500 students -- enrollment is 55 students. we're serving 100 to veterans. our growing on-line programs are accredited -- are mba and our bachelor of science in nursing are proving particularly popular with veterans, since these programs are designed to be very flexible. ascu, which serves as the administrative agency, supports the executive order. our nation's military personnel should be able to obtain quality information about institution's and the programs. our member institutions, including my own campus, value the perspective and experience that service members and veterans and to our institutions. as such, we take our commitment to providing quality educational experience very seriously. as the conflict in iraq and afghanistan wind down, and over 2 million troops are withdrawn from those areas, more and more veterans will be arriving on college campuses to use t

someone has a right to a gun if they're in the business of protecting the nation like the national guard or the reserves and in fact that last case. was the real original reason the founding fathers wrote the second amendment it was to protect the nation rewind back to the early days of america even after the british were beaten back in the revolutionary war there was still tremendous fear that america was vulnerable to attack it could be the spanish coming up from florida louisiana or the french or the british again coming down from canada or anybody coming across the oceans and most of our founding fathers also had an enormous fear of standing armies during times of peace internal problems after all thousands of years of history showed them the great nations that kept a standing army during times of peace were very often taken down by that very same army in a military coup thomas jefferson wrote extensively on this even threatening to blow up the constitutional convention since since the constitution the early version didn't include a protection from standing armies as jefferson wrote to james madison in

that has to include better coordination and information sharing not just with the air national guard and air force reserve, what with the national guard bureau and clearly the link between the national guard bureau and the council of governors has to be energized and a more meaningful projective to become productive way of i would offer if confirmed by will work very closely with general grass and with our great air national guard commander reserve director to help adjust the process so that we never end up here again. >> thank you for that. general welsh, let me ask you about a policy question which we asked in our pre-hearing questions and it relates to the european basis and you indicated in your answer that we should consider reductions in consolidation opportunities in europe and the planning must begin with a careful assessment of the missions in europe but that you are willing to take a look at possible reductions and consolidations. i just wonder if you know going in of any possiblities are you just want to go in there with them open mind. >> no, mr. sherman we've been working on this for about a

veterans affairs expand access to services particularly for performance in rural areas in the national guard and reserve. lower it says that is nearly 400 page report represents the first half of a multi-year review of t the broad range of screening and care services provided by the two departments. a second report will be released in 2014 to assess emerging treatments. become into the details which you have the story would be toward the bottom, it goes on to say that in describing barriers to care a panel noted that both departments had hired thousands of held care providers in recent years but were short of the personnel they needed. other obstacles included inaccessibility of service in rural areas, combat zone fear of service members their krrs would be hurt if they sought treatment and lack of time and busy schedules for the treatment. the broader use of telemedicine could help expand treatment in inaccessible areas and called on both departments to consider alternative therapy like yoga with widely accepted ones. long beach, new york, next, joe on the independent line. the topic is made in the u.s

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and call a rino. it supports thousands, a large number of the reserve and national guard and civilians working for thery. for the air force. there were some military personnel at the time of the shooting. we have a guest from the buckley air force base. what can you tell us about military personnel inside a movie theater? >> at this point and we have confirmed that we have a few military folks that have been injured. at this point, we have no confirmation on casualties. but we do know that we had military members involved in the shooting. rick: where they family members of military? were they active duty? >> a report shows that they are airmen, navy, air force and coast guard, some members were air force. we don't know if they are confirmed as active duty at this point. what we know of is injuries. however, we have not finished our count ability of everybody yet. rick: what about the extent of those injuries? do you know how severely injured they are? >> not completely, no, sir. we are trying to be responsible and let the response workers respond to the injured and not bother them with a lot of calls.

action to protect the lives and property of our people, including the deployment of air national guard and air reserve resources when appropriate. we oftentimes think the department of defense is entirely -- should be aimed at defending our nation against foreign foes. but the fact is there are enormous resources held by the department of defense, such as cargo planes, that are capable of assisting in many other efforts, including firefighting efforts which threatens the lives and property of our people. for example, one specific concept, named precision container aerial delivery systems, or p-cads, needs only an additional $2.6 million in funding to complete an already many years evaluation of this technology. unfortunately, however, the d.o.d. has not committed this meager sum to finish evaluating pcads despite the authority to do so. what are pcads? they essentially add any cargo plane which has a ramp in the back, mainly our c-17's and our c-130's to assist in wildfire efforts without having to modify the airplane at all. this means the c-17's and the c-130's which we have right now, many statione

nation's economy and they certainly contribute to our nation's defense. at both mcconnell air force base and forbes field in topeka, members of the active, reserve and national guard serve our country through a variety of missions. since 1941, mcconnell air force base has been an instrumental part of the wichita community and kansans have a proud history of standing behind the airmen and women who have called mcconnell home. mcconnell air force base employs more than 17,000 people, military and civilian, and last year had an overall impact of more than $520 million on our local economy. i've come to the floor today to outline my support, my strong support, for mcconnell air force base as the best choice for our nation's new tanker fleet, the kc-46a's. currently air force is considering mcconnell as the first home or main operating base one for the new tanker, which will be put into service in 2016. mcconnell air force base is our nation's best choice. mcconnell already houses a total of 63 kc-135r tankers. 48 are assigned and manned, plus an additional 15 for global contingency purposes, making it by far the largest tanker presence in our country. in fact, mcconne

phone lists, trying to contact everybody, and they have about 10,000 military personnel stationed at buckley, who are both air force, army reserve, army national guarde in other services as well. this is sort of a joint base, if you think of it that way, so it's taken them several hours to get through that phone list, now confirming that they do have some military members among the injured, tragically the pentagon saying that florida mithere are casualties. >> you have fbi experience, police experience, but since barbara is mentioning casualties, possibly members of our military, here's what's interesting, we know how our members of the military are trained, we know what they're all about and their courage. it's possible that some of these men and women might have tried to take this gunman down, lost their lives doing that, injured doing that. now this adds an interesting element to this chaos. >> it does, in fact, i was speak earlier on our sister network hln to a marine who was there with his significant other, heard the weapon, was describing the shots, the chaos, what was going on right after that, but he wasn't in any position in the theater to

they believe we should have a strong national defense and join the guard units. they join our reserves. they didn't join that so they could go and have three or four, five, six tours of duty to the middle east. not even know while they are there, fighting a war that was undeclared. and never knowing what it's going to -- when it's going to end. this is something that the young people not only the ones who are in the military, but the ones who are inheriting this mess are very much opposed to. host: tom, independent caller, lawrence, kansas, welcome. caller: thank you. dr. paul, i honor your commitment to rooting out the criminal currency cartel that fronts through the federal reserve and it's high treezetreaston and finance that weaponizes the american people and people of the planet. and i would like to ask you straighten out your record in terms of foreign policy, because in many ways i honor what i see as your noninterventionist foreign polcy, which should actually be called a do no harm foreign polcy. as we know every single war that is start -- policy. as we know every single war

this would exempt military personnel, reserve, and national guard personnel accounts as well as the defense health program account from this potentially funding freeze. it also contains a waiver for any potential harm to national security or combat forces. now some of my colleagues may make the argument that the department of defense is making progress on this issue in response to congressional engagement. they might reference language in recent defense authorization bills requiring d.o.d. to develop separate and implement plans to achieve audit readiness by september 30, 2017. but 2017, let me just say, mr. chairman, this is wholly unacceptable that we are still just developing plans for the department of defense to have the fiscal house in order five years from now. this problem is not newly discovered and further delay is really an abandonment of our congressional duty, given the enormous and increasing proportion of federal dollars going toward the defense budget. in the 1990's, congress was promised these financial defense -- was promised that these financial deficiencies would be solv

are active duty guard and reserve, of veterans, military, this huge community that has pledged support for the president. is it anti virginian to support the commander in chief of this nation? of course it is not. we know that we work together. we support each other. we support this president. that is the right thing to do for the commonwealth and for this country. i want to conclude and say this. i am optimistic about this country's future. we have lived through tough times. we have lived through the toughest times since the 1930's. we have been through tough times before. we are tough people. tough times do not last. tough people last. one of the reasons we last is we are not just tough, we are optimistic. you watch the doom and gloom the other side it cranked out nonstop, they want to talk the president down. the one to talk anything down they can. i saw an interview recently with donald runs fell. he was asked, will you admit the president did a good job in taking out of some of the layton? he would not -- and osama bin laden? he would not even complement the president on that. the other guys will crank up the demand bloom nonstop. it is up to us to be the voice is a p