rohrabacher is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chairman. first of all, let me note -- i do not know if i am disappointed or what. not even having a cost estimate from moscow, rigid for us, coming before congress, letting us know that there is a military operation -- have these at 100 troops already been sent? are they on the way? >> only some of the initial personnel have arrived. the full 100 have not yet deployed. >> so the mission is actually under way. you have people already sent, but you do not have a cost estimate? even investment? >> i apologize, congressman. i'm embarrassed not have a more specific answer for you. the forces already there are being funded by regular operations. but when we get further along, there will be more cost incurred in we will definitely have that estimate to you. >> i take it they will also bring with them their equipment. >> correct. >> i do not think it is our place to ask about specific equipment going into a combat area. but that is considerably costly as well. i noticed in your testimony that you said

rohrabacher. thank you very much. mr. marino one of the recognize, and i think in because he will be asking questions that have been submitted to our committee's website, which connects our constituents more directly to our work in congress. and we're also asking the public to enter the questions when we have the honor of having secretary clinton appeared before our committee on thursday. so thank you, mr. marino, for using those questions. >> thank you, madam chair. and in addition to the questions that were submitted to the committee, i have a website for us, and i asked my constituents to send questions to me prior to hearing. so the questions i'm going to ask are going to be repetitive, but if you could answer them in a different light, please bear in mind i have no less than four and half minutes. please be succinct. and whoever feels they can answer the question to satisfy my constituents, please jump in. first question, comes from shared. who will be paying for this trip deployment and what are the anticipated cost

. >> good morning, rohrabacher they live law mt bank still be on where the reagans will be playing later this evening. it is 50 degrees at the inner harbor in windsor of the west at 9 miles per hour. we have seen wind gusts higher than that and it is chilly as you go throughout the day. it feels like fall out there may have rain to go with it. the radar is showing most of the rain as well out of maryland now despite the shower that has been near hagerstown all morning. the pink shades is now being reported in the western areas of pennsylvania. west virginia got about 1 inch of snow. we're definitely changing seasons and we will be talking about snow in baltimore, he eventually. there are clouds in the area and maybe some fog and there could be some drizzle at any point. across the area, these of the temperatures we woke up to. it is 50 at the inner harbor, 43 and westminster and colder as you go into the western mountains, 39 in frostburg. it is not out of the question that if we see some rain showers this morning in the western mountains, some of that could come down as snow but we are

rohrabacher?should not indicate whether we oppose our support this particular mission. i happen to believe that missions like this are positive and can play a positive role and a positive strategy post-cold war, helping other people fight for their freedom. the cost is a really important factor. since they cannot afford to pay the price to win everyone's else's freedom in the world, the libyan operation that this administration just engage the san, perhaps, is a good example of that. if indeed the libyans now, and i would challenge the libyan a party sama to step forward and announce that they will repay the united states for every time that we spent in helping them win their freedom, we are in a financial crisis. they are sitting on the biggest deposits of oil and gas in the world. they should repay us. if indeed they do, then it was the right thing for us to help the people of libya overthrew their tyrant. if indeed the cost of this mission is repaid to us from it, theno benefit from ne this typ

rohrabacher is recognized. >> thank you very much. welcome, madam secretary. and let me just note for the record that the chairman is not the, the chairwoman is not the only person who is deeply concerned about the castro regime and the brutality and the horrible repercussions we have suffered because we have permitted this gangster to ally himself with all of the hostile elements of the world and the hemisphere. so we shouldn't take that lightly and don't think of it just as the chairman's cause but our cause. second of all, you stated that we're going to do as much as we can in terms of camp ashraf. you are not doing as much as you can. it has been 500 days since the court was ordered us to reconsider this terrorist designation and that should be plenty of time to understand what the issues are. and other people around the world now have determined that they don't put them on the terrorist list. so we are not doing as much as we can. i would hope that you take that up and do as much as you can to insure there's not another massacre of people there that we co

dana rohrabacher, a congressman, former associate of mine in the white house, now confident from california puts in to build nearly every are saying let's give the postal service new employees. and the unions fight that tooth and nail. well, i'm not surprised if you have the current system, right, and you offered, and the postal service we're offering ipo, what kind of feisty think it would bring? zero. it's not an ongoing proposition. in fact, ladies and gentlemen, if the postal service were an ordinary corporation, today it would be in chapter 11, perhaps chapter nine. postal service is -- i hate to say that, i don't know whether that will create new tonight, i've said it before. so changes have to be made. now, but basically that is a nonstarter. we could do some reform of the labor law. one proposal has been they should take into account the financial condition of the postal service. to me, this is not an elegant solution. because it shouldn't matter, you know? the postal service and organized labor should be able to contest these things and solve it. so that's one thing that might impr

chairman rohrabacher led a delegation there a few months ago when we got to see a unique operation therend training camps there. again, is this a unique model? are you drawing on others, e