thornberry and gop leaders want to cap of just 50 people.ach of the president's three previous defense secretaries, gates, panetta and hagel have expressed deep concerns about the nsc's growth and scope. >> it was the operational micromanagement that drove me nuts. of white house and nsc staffers calling senior commanders out on the field and asking them questions of second-guessing commanders. >> too many people talking and you know, special will i young smart, 35-year-old ph.d.s, allowed to talk, that's the way you let everybody know how smart you are. is how much you talk. >> white house officials say new and expanding threat levels make the need for more strategic coordination essential. >> insuring that the commander-in-chief has access to the information and judgment. of his advisers. not just here in the white house, but across a variety of national security agencies is vitally important. >> thornberry hoping to add his proposal to the national defense bill. we'll see how the bill turns out. the administration is crediting susan rice,

thornberry votes no. mr. smith. mr. smith votes aye. mr. jones, mr. jones votes aye. ms. sanchez. ms. sanchez votes aye. mr. forbes, mr. forbes votes no. mr. brady, mr. brady votes aye. mr. miller, mr. miller votes no. mrs. davis. mrs. davis votes aye. mr. wilson, mr. wilson votes no. mr. longman votes aye. mr. lobeando votes no. mr. larson, mr. larson votes aye. mr. bishop. mr. bishop votes no. mr. cooper. mr. cooper votes aye. mr. turner. mr. turner votes no. ms. bordio. ms. bordio votes aye. mr. klein. mr. klein votes no. mr. courtney. mr. courtney votes no. mr. rogers. mr. rogers? ms. songas. aye. mr. franks. mr. franks votes no. mr. maur amend. votes no. mr. schuster. mr. schuster. mr. johnson. mr. johnson votes no. mr. conway. mr. conway votes mow. ms. spear. ms. spear votes aye. mr. lamborn. mr. b no. mr. castro. mr. castro votes aye. mr. whitman. mr. whitman votes no. ms. duckworth. ms. duckworth votes aye. mr. hunter. mr. hunter? mr. peters. mr. peters votes aye. d dr. fleming, no. mr. visi. votes no. mr. kaufman, mr. kaufman votes no. ms. gabbart. ms. gabbart votes aye.

thornberry. >> no. >> mr. thornberry votes to. mr. smith. mr. smith votes aye. mr. jones. mr. jones votes no. miss sanchez. miss sanchez votes aye. mr. forbes. mr. forbes. mr. forbes mr. klein. mr. klein votes no. mr. courtney. mr. courtney votes aye. mr. rogers. mr. rogers votes no. mr. franks. mr. franks votes no. mr. garamendi. mr. garamendi votes aye. mr. schuster. mr. schuster. mr. schuster votes no. mr. johnson. >> aye. >> mr. johnson votes aye. mr. connoway. mr. connoway votes no. miss speier. mis miss speier votes a yeah. mr. castro votes aye. miss duckworth. miss duckworth votes aye. mr. hunter. plc mr. hunter votes no. mr. peters. mr. peters votes aye. dr. fleming votes no. mr. veasey votes. mr. gibson. mr. gibson votes no. mr. walls. mr. walls votes aye. mrs. hartsley votes no. mr. o'rourke rovotes aye. dr. heck votes no. mr. norcross. mr. norcross votes aye. mr. scott. mr. scott votes no. mr. gallego. mr. gallego votes aye. mr. brooks. mr. brooks votes no. mr. takai. mr. takai votes aye. mr. nugent. mr. nugent votes no. miss graham. miss graham votes aye. mr. cook.

i am grateful to chairman thornberry and to other subcommittee chairmen for their efforts to achieve our shared vision of a stronger military and a stronger national defense. there are many items in the subcommittee mark that i would like to highlight, but in the interest of time, i will conclude by reiterating that i believe that this mark constitutes a turning point. for many years we have trend lines going in the wrong direction. with this mark, however, i believe we are bending those curve lines in the right direction and taking some early, important steps toward the stronger military and the 350-ship navy we so clearly need. i want to once again thank chairman thornberry, ranking member smith for their efforts to turn the tide, and i'd urge the members to support the mark. and with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. >> thank you, gentleman. chair now recognizes the ranking member of the subcommittee on sea power and projection forces, gentleman from connecticut, mr. courtney. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i'm going to summarize my written remarks which i'll ask to be entered in

i applaud chairman mccain, senator reid, chairman thornberry, each of whom i was able to speak to earliermorning, and also congressman smith. i look forward to continuing to work closely with all of them in their committees because when it comes to these fundamental matters of our national security, that's what we have to do. work together. now let me begin with transregional and transfunctional integration and advice, imperative considering the challenges we face today are less likely than ever before to confine themselves to neat regional or functional boundaries. our campaign to deliver isil a lasting defeat is one example. as we and our coalition partners have take then fight to isil both in its parent tumor in iraq and syria, and where it's metastasizing, our combatant commanders from central command, european command, africa command, special operations command have had to coordinate efforts more than ever before. increasingly, i've also brought strategic command and cybercommand into these operations. as well. to leverage their unique capabilities in space and cyberto contribute to

i applaud chairman mccain, senator reid, chairman thornberry, each of whom i was able to speak to earlier this morning, and also congressman smith. i look forward to continuing to work closely with all them in their committees. when it comes to these fundamental matters of our national security, that is what we have to do. work together. let me begin with trans-regional and trans-functional integration and advice. an imperative considering the challenges we face are less likely than ever before to confine themselves to neat regional, or functional countries. our campaign to deliver isil a lasting defeat is one example. as we take the fight to its apparent tumor in iraq and syria, and where it has been metastasizing, our combatant command, central european command, africa command have had to coordinate efforts more than ever before. increasingly i brought cyber command in these operations as well to leverage their unique capabilities in space and cyber to contribute to the defeat of isil. beyond terrorism, we also face potential future nationstate adversaries with wiping geographic reach a

thornberry and gop leaders want to cap of just 50 people. the president's three previous defense secretaries, gates, panetta and hagel have expressed deep concerns about the nsc's growth and scope. >> it was the operational micromanagement that drove me nuts. of white house and nsc staffers calling senior commanders out on the field and asking them questions of second-guessing commanders. >> too many people talking and you know, special will i young smart, 35-year-old ph.d.s, allowed to talk, that's the way you let everybody know how smart you are. is how much you talk. >> white house officials say new eat levels make the need for more strategic coordination essential. >> insuring that the commander-in-chief has access to the information and judgment. of his advisers. not just here in the white house, but across a variety of national security agencies is vitally important. >> thornberry hoping to add his proposal to the national defense bill. we'll see how the bill turns out. the administration is crediting susan rice, the national security

i want to once again thank chairman thornberry, ranking member smith for their efforts to turn the tide, and i'd urge the members to support the mark. with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. >> the chair now recognizes the ranking member, the gentleman from connecticut, mr. courtney. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm going to summarize my written remarks which i'll ask to be entered into the record. again, i want to salute my chairman randy forbes who our subcommittee again has worked totally on a bipartisan basis in terms of the hearing and record that we built up over the last four or five months to get to today's mark which, as he said, passed unanimously in subcommittee. i also want to salute the hard work of our staff, that again, it's almost impossible to tell whose majority and minority. they work together so seamlessly. phil, dave and katie who have done an outstanding job of getting us to today's place. i want to again reiterate the general comments of chairman forbes which is that when i first came to congress in 2007, the administration submitted a shipbuilding plan that called

i applaud chairman mccain, senator reid, chairman thornberry, each of whom i was able to speak to earlier this morning, and also promised and smith. i look forward to continuing to work closely with all them in our committees. when it comes to these fundamental matters of our national security, that is what we have to do. work together. let me begin with trans regional and trans functional integration and advice. consideringrative the challenges we face are less likely than ever before to confine themselves to need, regional, or functional countries. our campaign does deliver -- to defeat isil a lasting one example. as we take the fight to its apparent tumor in iraq and syria, and where it has been metastasizing, ar are combatant commanders have had to courtney efforts more than ever coordinate efforts more than ever before. in these cyber command operations as well to leverage their unique capabilities in space and cyber to contribute to the defeat of faisil. the on terrorism, we also potentially face future nationstate adversaries with widening reach and also widening exposure, somethin

share chairman thornberry's opinion. and i think mac's mindset look at the selective service process and deal with that in a comprehensive way. reporter: thanks for having mine and my three-year-old daughter -- the speaker: what's her name? reporter: olivia. bill shuster and jeff miller endorsed donald trump, a third republican, mike kelly said he voted for donald trump. is that a sign that the g.o.p. going to accept that donald trump will be the g.o.p. nominee? the speaker: every little grain of truth. look, the process is going to play itself out. our members are free what they want to do. our members are free to endorse or not endorse. this will play itself, either the candidate will get. and my job is to make sure that it is done smoothly and by the rules and i'm sticking to that. reporter: to follow up on that. thanks for having the children. i'm following up on that. but trump has made comments if 100 or t hit 1,237 or 00 shy it would be unfair. the speaker: rules are rules. reporter: how are the rules -- the speak

i share chairman thornberry's opinion. and i think mac's mindset look at the selective service process and deal with that in a comprehensive way. reporter: thanks for having mine and my three-year-old daughter -- the speaker: what's her name? reporter: olivia. bill shuster and jeff miller endorsed donald trump, a third republican, mike kelly said he voted for donald trump. is that a sign that the g.o.p. establishment is going to accept that donald trump will be the g.o.p. nominee? the speaker: every little grain of truth. look, the process is going to play itself out. our members are free what they want to do. our members are free to endorse or not endorse. this will play itself, either the candidate will get. and my job is to make sure that it is done smoothly and by the rules and i'm sticking to that. reporter: to follow up on that. thanks for having the children. i'm following up on that. but trump has made comments if he doesn't hit 1,237 or 100 or 200 shy it would be unfair. the speaker: rules are rules. reporter: how

i'd like to thank small business committee chairman chabot and armed services committee chairman thornberry for supporting that important language, to hold agency managers accountable for meeting subcontracting goals, included in the defense authorization act that was signed into law. however, large contractors must also be held accountable for meeting subcontracting goals. while the vast majority of contractors honor these goals, some do not. currently the small business act holds bad actors accountable by imposing liquidated damages if prime contractors fail to make a good faith effort to meet the goals. however, s.b.a. regulations only offer examples of what they are supposed to do, not what would constitute a violation. consequently, the last time the aw was enforced was in 1982. because of this, bad actors are able to continue receiving federal contracts. my legislation, h.r. 4284, the service provider opportunity clarification act, or the spoc act, simply requires the s.b.a. to issue rules explaining what a failure to act in good faith means, ensuring transparency and accountability i

thornberry talked about it. where do you fall on that issue? the speaker: i support what mac thornberry is marking up and the propertyors will follow up -- appropriators will follow up. reporter: someone who has a vested interest. what is your sense of what is going on? the speaker: he feels like they are back at being legislators. when harry reid ran the senate, no votes, no amendments, nothing. now they are legislating. they have energy and water on the floor. they are doing their jobs and we are here as well and we are meeting in conference committees. i can't tell you how many times i have talked to members who are fairly new here who are seeing because they are participating in conference committees how a bill becomes a law and that to me was very important. this place basically shut down on both sides. now we are getting it working again, not perfectly, but regular order was never perfect order but it's regular order. our members in the senate -- i think democrats, too. they are passing bills and get things done. reporter: why aren't we s

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one of the issues on the house side, chairman thornberry, is getting us to the cost getting new systems to the field. in thise three pieces equation. one, what is the requirement? my do we need a particular capability? second, the research and development. the third piece is producing the system and getting into the field. getting from that second category of research and , thatpment to procurement has been one of our most difficult challenges. we are seeing the house members focus on different approaches, but you are right, our caller is right, in terms of the incredible costs make it difficult to do what we did in the 1980's, which is to recapitalize equipment of our military force. so, we really do have to do a better job of not only maintaining the cost and getting cost down, but moving from next generation research and development in practical ways to help our troops in the field. host: mackenzie eaglen. guest: that is a great point. pentagon has been trying to reverse the cost equation. we built $14 billion aircraft carriers. that is exactly what leadership is trying to undertake

thornberry. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] >> the clerk will read for the results. >> mr. chairman, they are 29 aye votes, 30 no votes. >> the amendment it is not adopted. the issue is on amendment number 279 i mr. conaway of texas regarding alternative fuel facilities. the clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] >> the clerk will report the result. >> mr. chairman, there are 29 i go votes, 32 no votes. >> the enemy is not adopted. the question occurs on amendment number 188 by mr. rogers of alabama regarding fiscal transfers. the clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [