the question is on the underlying walz amendment. those in favor of the walz amenable say aye.hose opposed say no. the opinion of the chairs the no's have it. the gentleman from minnesota as for our row call both and that we will postpone. we can postpone that boat to the other votes at the end of the chairman's mark. as you all understand we had to go ahead and deal with the substitute before we knew what we were dealing with so we can now roll the underlined walz amendment. ms. gabbard. >> thank you mr. chairman to die of an amendment at the desk. >> the staff will please distribute the amendment. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] without objection the amendment is considered as read raid the jumbled lady from hawaii's recognize. >> i will iowa for withdrawing this amendment due to cross referral but is such an important issue effect is a couple of brief were thomas. we all know clean drinking water is the most critical resource that the community has and we destroy that drinking water you destroy the community. .. >> >> will not meet that standard because i

walz. mr. walz: thank you to my good friend from new york. it's a phrase we throw in here without a lot of authenticity, but a gentleman who served here in congress, i'm proud to stand with you. and you heard the gentleman's comments why we think now is not the right time to draw down this land force. the size of the force this nation needs should not be predicated. his rise of isis and china has built a new island and a belligerent russia and this is a deter rant not just to aggression. whether it be in haiti to respond to natural disasters or ebola. the best trained and most efficient and most ready force to uzbekistan our diplomacy is this land force. we were concerned about this. the gentleman and i co-authored a piece of legislation. we said let's let the data speak to itself. if they can assess this force is enough that needs to be done by the joint chiefs of staff, that's the way it should be. they came back with some alarming things that they talked about and one of them, we are heading down the wrong path. there is a belief that we c

walz. >> thank you, mr. chairman. briefly, i'd like to thank the gentleman for putting this forward. in full disclosure, i was one of these technicians. you wear your uniform to work. you're paid as a gs. in my case i was a one-man armory. all the readiness, training and administrative duties for that unit, preparation for drill, deployment and state and natural disaster callups was done by that person. as the gentleman said, all my technicians, all my mechanics, when they're furloughed, that entire guard unit is shut down, the readiness is reduced to zero and i don't think anyone intended that. this is a smart thing to do. these folks need to be there to make the unit work and it's a great fix. i yield back. >> mr. gibson. >> i just want to add my voice to this. due to the peculiarities of the way we shape the force, we have this duel status. without these maintainers, without the folks who keep our vehicles and our aircraft moving and flying, we're not going to be mission capable and then

i was able to walz through and get to the rear. what happened is, it's mostly a lot of water damage. but for the most part, structurely it's pretty sound. >> reporter: church members say they're praying for the owner of the warehouse and trying to stay strong themselves. and the pastor says there are many words to describe how he d parishioners are feeling, devastated and heartbroken among them. the food itself is salvageable. they are trying to find a place to have the food pantry. block at a day care. therer s information on our website, nbcnewyork.com, if you want to help out the church. back to you, david. >> in brooklyn, thank you, kat. >>> the kpab trail running through new york. hillary clinton joining governor cuomo this avenue noon at workers rally. e governor speaking now. this organized by victory for new york families. they're celebrating the passage of the $15 minimum wage. the governor is signing his new state budget. both the wage hike and the family leave will be phased in over time. >>> john kasich also on the trai

what are they going to do because they can't seem to get their act together because they ought to be walzingo a nomination. >> hugh, thanks. the conversation goes on. >>> the wisconsin results should be noted from the clinton campaign was telegraphed by the clinton campaign in advance. they've also been trying to play down the importance of this. the sanders campaign and the clinton campaign are going to have different perspectives on how important this win is, but we can hear from the sanders campaign right now because i believe we are joined by jeff weaver, who is the bernie sanders campaign manager. mr. weaver, thank you so much for being with us. congratulations tonight. >> how are you doing? >> great. thank you. let me ask, you had been confident heading into wisconsin you spent a lot of money trying to win wisconsin, did a lot of rallies there. is the result that you're seeing thus far in terms of the margin basically in accord with your expectations. >> it's a little bit higher than our expectations. we're performing better than we did in our final polls. the senator when he goes to a

walz? >> thank you, chairman and thank you all for being here again. we really appreciate it. the strategic need for the f-35, i think everyone knows that. we hear it. it's now crunch time, though, on the delivery piece of it. general bogdan, you were right. there's a perception issue both in what they are going to get and what they expect to get but there's also this perception that i've held and i use this as an example. i've been to know less than 14 hearings dealing with changes to retirement plans, taking away of the housing transferability and tri-car. when the pentagon needs to save money, they go to those programs and i always use the example that we haven't had as many of these. so i hear statements like this from one of our partners from the australian defense, keith jointer said it. he's responsible for evaluating this and he said some systems like the radar are fundamentally worse than earlier. that is not a good sign. here we are with bug fixes for the next seven years and they are looking at -- am i correct in this? they are re-evaluating their purchases on this.

walz, mr. jones, mr. gibson, miss gabbard, mr. bridenstein, miss graham, mr. cook and mr. zenke. this simple amendment would permanently treat the national guard dual status military texas personnel for the purpose of furlough. dual staff texs are uniformed full-time guardsmen but get paid out of different accounts on weekdays versus drill days. the dual staff technicians wear essentially two hats. they're trained to perform a particular job in the armed forces and drill in that role like all other guardsmen. often time the dual staff techs are maintainers of aircraft and vehicles. they are the lynchpin of readiness for their entire unit are critical to the first response missions. however these currently subject to furlough. we found this out the hard way in 2013. for florida, this was particularly dangerous because of a potential hurricane was brewing off the coast, and national guard helicopters couldn't get off the ground because maintainers were furloughed. i know every state representative faces similar natural disasters. to correct this program, congress had to pass an ann