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I support the decision to appoint a special counsel, properly handling classified information is crucial to national security. Any time classified material is found where it is not supposed to be, The Justice Department must do a thorough investigation.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Climate change is intensifying many of these extremes that lead to billion-dollar disasters.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re talking big money here and it’s consistent, this is another trend where the cost and the impacts are quite large and so we need to think about how to better mitigate future damages because we know these extremes will continue to happen.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Time is of the essence, because all of these extremes, impacts, disasters, and fatalities have happened, there’s so many different lessons across many parts of the country, for many different disaster types and many different populations that we can start to implement. And sooner is certainly better.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re still calculating the cost of that event, which was so late in the year, but it’s clearly a several billion-dollar event and will actually add to the total we already have of $165 billion, so the total of 2022 will actually exceed $165 once we add the Christmas, winter storm impacts on top of that number.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think we can do both. That's what the budget debate and the defense strategy debate is going to be about, i think it's pretty clear that we're ready for a more robust force posture in Eastern Europe with our NATO partners, without question.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
What's concerning about National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is it's yet another year in a series of years where we have both a high frequency, high cost and a large diversity of these extreme events that affect people's lives and livelihoods, over the last five years, the United States has experienced almost $ 750 billion of damages from these billion-dollar disasters, which is really off the charts.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The third most costly disaster in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was the Western wildfires, in excess of $ 10 billion, and with these late-year events, like what happened in Colorado, we'll probably have to up that even further in our first-quarter analysis this spring.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Taliban can not be trusted. I mean even The Taliban can't control the The Taliban, and they certainly can't control ISIS-K, as we learned a few days ago.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
As I have said, the scourge of sexual assault in our military must come to an end, and after years of trying and failing to address the problem the time has come to remove the prosecution of sexual assault crimes from the chain of command.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I also strongly believe it is critically important that Secretary-designate Austin be confirmed as quickly as possible after President-elect Biden becomes President on January 20th.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If we don't stand up for ourselves now, we're going to be rolled over countlessly.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I talked to( James Mattis), and James Mattis said James Mattis was perfectly willing to come before the House Armed Services Committee and talk to us, but the President Donald Trump administration said' no.' So James Mattis didn't. House Armed Services Committee's House Armed Services Committee, the Joe Biden people have told me that The Biden people're willing to let Joe Biden.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I talked to( James Mattis), and he said he was perfectly willing to come before the House Armed Services Committee and talk to us, but the President Donald Trump administration said' no.' So he didn't. That's the big difference, the Biden people have told me that The Biden people're willing to let him.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There really are no other possibilities. If the president vetoes it, we will come back and vote to override.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I certainly communicated to the Biden people that I think Michele Flournoy is hands down the best qualified person for the job, that does not mean that Michele Flournoy's the only person that could do the job.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
For me, the path is clear. There's not a single member of this Congress who can't vote for this bill in good conscience and feel good about it in my humble opinion. So we should pass it.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If the President vetoes it, yes, we will come back and vote to override.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The President has raised an issue that's not directly related to the NDAA there's simply no reason. I mean, he may as well veto every single bill that ever gets passed because it didn't have something in it that you want.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I certainly communicated to the Bidens Secretary of Defense nominee people that I think Michele Flournoy is hands down the best qualified person for the job, that does not mean that Michele Flournoy's the only person that could do the job.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The last thing we want is to have another 2017 or 2018 type of year in the fall, where we have these historically damaging and costly hurricanes and wildfires. And there is potential for that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The big story is the fact that we haven't even gotten to the hyperactive hurricane season, which is widely predicted in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Ocean states, we also haven't gotten to the wildfire season out West. For California, particularly Northern California, Oregon and Washington, the wildfire season could be another strong season.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
At a time when our nation is hurting the President continues to forgo any effort to calm tensions, as we had all hoped he would. Instead he used force to remove peaceful protesters to stage a photo opportunity. Instead of taking a moment of silence in front of the historic St Johns' Episcopal Church to pray for the lives lost he gathered his cronies to take a picture. Instead of doing the right thing, he once again did the absolute wrong thing, i have serious concerns about using military forces to respond to protestors. The role of the U.S. military in domestic U.S. law enforcement is limited by law. It must not be used in violation of those limits and I see little evidence that President Trump understands this fundamental premise.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I remain gravely concerned about President Trump's seemingly autocratic rule and how it affects the judgment of our military leadership, the fate of our democracy depends on how we navigate this time of crisis.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
During this time of crisis, Captain Crozier is exactly what our Sailors need: a leader who inspires confidence.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When I listened to the speech that Navy Secretary Thomas Modly gave -- Navy Secretary Thomas Modly was trying to do a half a -- ed attempt at a speech that Trump would have given, hes trying to figure out what would the narcissist do -- people are trying to figure out how to lead when their example is someone who is not competent orcapable.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I am proud that this bill will change the lives of millions by providing paid parental leave.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This was not an easy process. This is an incredibly important piece of legislation.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I was able to get them to enthusiastically support the largest expansion of the social welfare state since the Affordable Care Act -- the widows tax and paid parental leave, that was an enormous accomplishment, OK? I got them to do things that they never wanted to do.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I actually don't think this could make things worse, but ... there's still more that needs to be released about how this will work and what the risks are if you get it wrong.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I appreciate the questions, but we're not going to tell you how we're going to have an outcome here at this press conference.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
All she told me was' my first born Jennifer would have been 21 years old today,'.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I still believed the box contained a wedding cake topper. That's just what I assumed.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I remember being curious as a small child. I remember trying to grab a stool and rip through the plastic, other than that I never touched it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
What our maximum pressure campaign has done in terms of achieving our objectives, I have not seen, it was not very enlightening from what they said in there in terms of how it's going to progress ... how our actions are going to force the changes we're looking for.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don't anticipate the use of military force, i think the President is, I take him at his word that he doesn't want to get into a war. But that doesn't mean that there's not a risk of it. And we need to manage that risk.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The committee denies this request. The committee does not approve the proposed use of Department of Defense funds to construct additional physical barriers and roads or install lighting in the vicinity of the United States border.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I hoped that President Trump and DoD (Department of Defense) would exercise careful consideration and develop a realistic path forward, however, the details of the Space Force proposal sent to Congress by the president are highly problematic.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I have followed up on that hearing with a phone call to Secretary Shanahan, and he has provided more details on the increase. I appreciate his willingness to discuss it with me, but a phone call is not a substitute for transparency before Congress and public candor.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This was at best an error in judgment, and at worst flat-out dishonesty.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It demonstrates a continued unwillingness to seriously recognize and address the threat that climate change poses to our national security and military readiness.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
That will be one of the chief things that my committee tries to do, is to put into the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) strict restrictions on how money can be used.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
What we can do is try to shine a light on it, to make the case that this is a bad idea, drum up public pressure so the president will stop doing these things.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
But that's not so much a job for the military as it is: we need more judges. We need to process them (the asylum seekers) more quickly.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's undeniable that we have a significant increase in asylum seekers, but that's not so much a job for the military as it is: we need more judges. We need to process them (the asylum seekers) more quickly.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Obviously, from a legal standpoint, Supreme Court nominee's making things worse, to the extent that the President is trying to stop( the investigation), he is not only potentially committing a crime, he is harming the national security interests of United States of America.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We will give people access to food until it becomes a human right to have food, we won't stop until we do that.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We have fed half a million people across the world with expired food, i don't know how much more we have to do to prove it is safe.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We're not here to stop hunger, we're here to stop food going to waste, i truly believe the environmental aspect is what we should be looking at first.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We get everything from caviar and lobster to fruit and vegetables, the majority of dishes on our menus are chicken infused as we get 150 kilos of chicken a week.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
They could have shut us down quite easily, but there were 500 people in the warehouse, including families and kids, with shopping trollies full of food.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
What I am really worried about is not the amount of money, but how we spend it, you decide you want a 355-ship Navy, so you start building the ships, but then you don’t have the money to finish them. We are going to need some long-term planning based on realistic numbers.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We do not have $600, $700, $800, $900 billion to spend on defense unless we pretty much completely eliminate all non-defense discretionary spending, which there isn’t support for doing, twenty trillion dollars in debt, a $706 billion deficit, trying to find $50 billion in mandatory savings, and the majority can’t even do that, all right?
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It’s not clear to me that if they maxed out sanctions and made it like Iran that it would make any policy difference.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If the allegations articulated by the investigator, who was handpicked by Gowdy, are true then we should slam the door shut on this ugly chapter in American history and close down the House Armed Services Committee.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think this is a small issue that's being blown out of proportion by those who oppose the deal for a variety of reasons.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't think it is anywhere near as alarming as it's being presented, it's a matter of taking samples. And the Iranians want to take the samples themselves while the IAEA monitors them taking those samples. That's it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Chick-fil-A is a hateful company, i don’t know how you sleep at night.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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