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| [H.A.S.C. No. 115-2] | |
| CONSIDERATION OF THE COMMITTEE | |
| OVERSIGHT PLAN FOR THE | |
| 115TH CONGRESS | |
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| COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES | |
| HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | |
| ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS | |
| FIRST SESSION | |
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| MEETING HELD | |
| FEBRUARY 2, 2017 | |
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| COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES | |
| One Hundred Fifteenth Congress | |
| WILLIAM M. ``MAC'' THORNBERRY, Texas, Chairman | |
| WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina ADAM SMITH, Washington | |
| JOE WILSON, South Carolina ROBERT A. BRADY, Pennsylvania | |
| FRANK A. LoBIONDO, New Jersey SUSAN A. DAVIS, California | |
| ROB BISHOP, Utah JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island | |
| MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio RICK LARSEN, Washington | |
| MIKE ROGERS, Alabama JIM COOPER, Tennessee | |
| TRENT FRANKS, Arizona MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO, Guam | |
| BILL SHUSTER, Pennsylvania JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut | |
| K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas NIKI TSONGAS, Massachusetts | |
| DOUG LAMBORN, Colorado JOHN GARAMENDI, California | |
| ROBERT J. WITTMAN, Virginia JACKIE SPEIER, California | |
| DUNCAN HUNTER, California MARC A. VEASEY, Texas | |
| MIKE COFFMAN, Colorado TULSI GABBARD, Hawaii | |
| VICKY HARTZLER, Missouri BETO O'ROURKE, Texas | |
| AUSTIN SCOTT, Georgia DONALD NORCROSS, New Jersey | |
| MO BROOKS, Alabama RUBEN GALLEGO, Arizona | |
| PAUL COOK, California SETH MOULTON, Massachusetts | |
| JIM BRIDENSTINE, Oklahoma COLLEEN HANABUSA, Hawaii | |
| BRAD R. WENSTRUP, Ohio CAROL SHEA-PORTER, New Hampshire | |
| BRADLEY BYRNE, Alabama JACKY ROSEN, Nevada | |
| SAM GRAVES, Missouri A. DONALD McEACHIN, Virginia | |
| ELISE M. STEFANIK, New York SALUD O. CARBAJAL, California | |
| MARTHA McSALLY, Arizona ANTHONY G. BROWN, Maryland | |
| STEPHEN KNIGHT, California STEPHANIE N. MURPHY, Florida | |
| STEVE RUSSELL, Oklahoma RO KHANNA, California | |
| SCOTT DesJARLAIS, Tennessee SCOTT H. PETERS, California | |
| RALPH LEE ABRAHAM, Louisiana PETE AGUILAR, California | |
| TRENT KELLY, Mississippi JOAQUIN CASTRO, Texas | |
| MIKE GALLAGHER, Wisconsin | |
| MATT GAETZ, Florida | |
| DON BACON, Nebraska | |
| JIM BANKS, Indiana | |
| LIZ CHENEY, Wyoming | |
| Robert L. Simmons II, Staff Director | |
| Zach Steacy, Director, Legislative Operations | |
| CONSIDERATION OF THE COMMITTEE OVERSIGHT PLAN FOR THE 115TH CONGRESS | |
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| House of Representatives, | |
| Committee on Armed Services, | |
| Washington, DC, Thursday, February 2, 2017. | |
| The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:13 a.m., in room | |
| 2118, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. William M. ``Mac'' | |
| Thornberry (chairman of the committee) presiding. | |
| OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. WILLIAM M. ``MAC'' THORNBERRY, A | |
| REPRESENTATIVE FROM TEXAS, CHAIRMAN, COMMITTEE ON ARMED | |
| SERVICES | |
| The Chairman. The committee will come to order. A quorum is | |
| now present, although I know some of our members are stuck on a | |
| bus coming back from a late prayer breakfast. | |
| Let me welcome everyone. The plan today is to consider and | |
| vote on the committee oversight plan. We will then immediately | |
| adjourn and go upstairs for a classified briefing with the | |
| Defense Intelligence Agency to follow up on our hearing | |
| yesterday about the state of the world. | |
| Before we get to that, it is a tradition in this committee | |
| that we specifically introduce and welcome each of the new | |
| members to our committee. So let me do that on this side of the | |
| aisle right quick and then turn to Mr. Smith to introduce the | |
| members that he has so far on the other side of the aisle. | |
| First I want to welcome Dr. Scott DesJarlais, representing | |
| Tennessee's Fourth District, whose constituents are part of the | |
| workforce of Arnold Air Force Base, Oak Ridge National | |
| Laboratory, and Redstone Arsenal. Fourth term member, he has | |
| worked closely with this committee on force protection issues, | |
| especially after the shooting at the Chattanooga Naval Reserve | |
| Center. | |
| Next to him is Dr. Ralph Abraham. So if we have any medical | |
| problems in our late night markup, we are set. Dr. Abraham | |
| represents Louisiana's Fifth District, a voice for Louisiana's | |
| military installations. He is not only a medical doctor, he is | |
| also a veterinarian, and served in the Army National Guard and | |
| is currently a Coast Guard auxiliary pilot. | |
| The chair next to him is filled by Trent Kelly, who | |
| represents Mississippi's First District. A colonel in the | |
| Mississippi Army National Guard, he served for 30 years as an | |
| engineer, including multiple tours in Iraq. It is good to see | |
| Mississippi represented again on this committee. | |
| Next to him is--oh, no. Kelly is--I am sorry. I didn't see | |
| you. Trent Kelly is here. | |
| The seat next to him, who is not here, is Dr. Mike | |
| Gallagher, another kind of doctor, he has a Ph.D. from | |
| Georgetown, representing Wisconsin's Eighth District. Mike | |
| served 7 years as a Marine Corps intelligence officer, | |
| including tours in Iraq, and has focused his work on | |
| counterterrorism, Middle East policy, including time at the | |
| National Counterterrorism Center, and unfortunately the Senate | |
| Foreign Relations Committee, which we will have to work out of | |
| him as soon as we can. | |
| Now, next to him on the end is Matt Gaetz representing | |
| Florida's First District, home of one of the largest military | |
| districts in the country, including Naval Air Station Pensacola | |
| and Eglin Air Force Base. Matt is a recovering lawyer, and | |
| joins us from his service in the Florida State legislature. | |
| I think on the bus coming back from the prayer breakfast is | |
| Don Bacon, who represents Nebraska's Second Congressional | |
| District. He is a retired Air Force brigadier general, | |
| commanded twice at the wing level at Offutt Air Force Base and | |
| at Ramstein. He deployed four times to the Middle East. | |
| Next is Jim Banks, who represents Indiana's Third District, | |
| home of the 122nd Fighter Wing of the Indiana National Guard. A | |
| naval supply officer, he has very recently completed a tour in | |
| Afghanistan, and also chaired the Indiana State Senate Veterans | |
| and Military Committee. | |
| And, finally, we have Liz Cheney, who represents Wyoming, | |
| home of F.E. Warren Air Force Base. Liz, of course, has served | |
| multiple policy roles in the State Department, including the | |
| second ranked official on U.S. policy in the Middle East. She | |
| is an accomplished author and commentator on American | |
| exceptionalism and national security, and has provided | |
| assistance to this committee even before she was elected to | |
| Congress. | |
| So we are very pleased at each of the new members on our | |
| side of the aisle, as we are with all new members to this | |
| committee. | |
| Let me yield to Mr. Smith for any comments and | |
| introductions. | |
| STATEMENT OF HON. ADAM SMITH, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM WASHINGTON, | |
| RANKING MEMBER, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES | |
| Mr. Smith. Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. | |
| We have eight new members, we have three more coming, which | |
| as I understand it, the Steering and Policy Committee will | |
| finalize tomorrow. So we will introduce them when the time is | |
| appropriate, but we do have eight new members, six of whom, I | |
| believe, are here. So we will start with a couple who have been | |
| on this committee before and welcome them back. | |
| Colleen Hanabusa, who represents Hawaii's First District, | |
| which includes Camp H.M. Smith, headquarters of the United | |
| States Pacific Command. She is a lawyer by profession. As Mr. | |
| Thornberry said, we won't hold that against anyone. I am a | |
| lawyer by profession; fortunately got over it. She returns to | |
| Congress and the Armed Services Committee, having previously | |
| served in three Congresses: 112th, 113th, 114th. So we welcome | |
| back her expertise. And certainly, Hawaii is a critical part of | |
| our national security team. So welcome back. | |
| Also returning is Carol Shea-Porter, who represents New | |
| Hampshire's First District, which includes Pease Air Force | |
| National Guard Base and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. She is also | |
| returning to Congress, having served in the 110th, 111th, and | |
| 113th; is the daughter of a Navy World War II veteran and was a | |
| military spouse while her husband served in the Army during | |
| Vietnam. Welcome back. | |
| We now have freshmen members, who are brand-new to the | |
| committee, starting with Jacky Rosen, who represents Nevada's | |
| Third District, which is just south of Las Vegas. And just | |
| north of her district is Nellis and Creech Air Force Bases. And | |
| she comes to the committee with experience as a software | |
| developer and computer programmer for a variety of businesses | |
| in Nevada. Welcome. | |
| And we have Donald McEachin, who represents Virginia's | |
| Fourth District, which includes Fort Lee, with the Navy | |
| installations in Norfolk and Newport News area just outside the | |
| district. He is the son of an Army veteran and a lawyer by | |
| profession. He joins the committee having previously served in | |
| the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate. | |
| Next, we have Salud Carbajal, who represents California's | |
| 24th District, which includes Vandenberg Air Force Base, Camp | |
| Roberts, and has Naval Base Ventura County and Fort Hunter | |
| Liggett nearby. He served 8 years in the Marine Corps Reserve, | |
| including active service during the 1991 Gulf war, and | |
| previously served on the Santa Barbara County Board of | |
| Supervisors for 12 years. Thank you for joining us. | |
| Next, we have Anthony Brown, not far from here, | |
| representing Maryland's Fourth District, which borders Fort | |
| Meade and the U.S. Naval Academy. He is a retired colonel. He | |
| served in the Army from 1984 to 1989, in the Army Reserves from | |
| 1989 to 2014, and was the recipient of the Bronze Star while | |
| deployed in Iraq in 2004. He served in the Maryland House of | |
| Delegates for 8 years and as lieutenant governor for another 8 | |
| years. It is great to have your experience on the committee. | |
| Two more members who are not yet here, but I will introduce | |
| them anyway. Stephanie Murphy, who represents Florida's Seventh | |
| District, which includes Naval Support Activity Orlando, which | |
| is involved in a range of research and development programs | |
| supporting the Department of Defense. She also served as a | |
| national security specialist in the Office of the Secretary of | |
| Defense, where she worked on a wide range of security issues | |
| from counterterrorism, foreign military relations, to strategic | |
| planning for the Department. | |
| And last, we have Ro Khanna, who represents California's | |
| 17th District, a district that includes a number of technology | |
| companies doing work with the Department of Defense. He served | |
| in the Obama administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary | |
| of Commerce for International Trade and recently taught | |
| economics at Stanford University. | |
| And let me just say in sum in agreeing with the chairman, | |
| we have a remarkable amount of talent on both sides of the | |
| aisle, as you can hear. I mean, the breadth of experience from | |
| military to technology, and on, I think, is going to serve this | |
| committee very well. So we welcome all of you and look forward | |
| to working with you. | |
| I yield back. | |
| The Chairman. Very well said. I completely agree. | |
| Now we will go to our business, which is adoption of the | |
| oversight plan. This is required by House Rules. We sent it to | |
| everybody a couple days ago, so that you have had a chance to | |
| look at it. Obviously, we touch on a number of topics in the | |
| oversight plan, but we also try to leave flexibility so that we | |
| can adjust to changes that happen over the course of the next 2 | |
| years. | |
| So we have worked on this collaboratively with Mr. Smith, | |
| and hopefully this can be adopted with the committee. | |
| What? Painlessly, he says. So I am all for that as well. | |
| Do you have any other comments you would like to make? | |
| Mr. Smith. No, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. | |
| The Chairman. Great. So let me officially call up Committee | |
| Resolution No. 4 regarding the committee oversight plan for the | |
| 115th Congress. The clerk shall read the resolution. | |
| Dr. Bright. Committee Resolution No. 4. Resolved, that the | |
| Committee on Armed Services, U.S. House of Representatives, | |
| adopt the committee oversight plan for the 115th Congress, a | |
| copy of which has been distributed to each member. | |
| The Chairman. Following consultation with Mr. Smith, I ask | |
| unanimous consent the resolution be considered as read and open | |
| for amendment at any point. | |
| Without objection, it is so ordered. | |
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| The Chairman. Is there any discussion on the oversight | |
| plan? | |
| Are there any amendments to the oversight plan? | |
| If not, the chair recognizes the gentleman from Utah for | |
| the purpose of offering a motion. | |
| Mr. Bishop. Mr. Chairman, I move to adopt the Committee | |
| Resolution No. 4, concerning the committee oversight plan. | |
| The Chairman. The question now occurs on the motion from | |
| the gentleman from Utah. So members in favor will say aye. | |
| Those opposed, say no. | |
| In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The ayes | |
| have it, a quorum being present. The motion is adopted. And | |
| without objection, a motion to reconsider is laid upon the | |
| table. Without objection, committee staff is authorized to make | |
| technical and conforming changes to reflect the action of the | |
| committee in adopting Committee Resolution No. 4. | |
| And I think that is all the business we have. Again, we | |
| will start immediately upstairs in 2212 with our classified | |
| briefing with the Defense Intelligence Agency. | |
| The committee stands adjourned. | |
| [Whereupon, at 10:24 a.m., the committee was adjourned.] | |
| [all] | |
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