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[H.A.S.C. No. 115–2]

CONSIDERATION OF THE COMMITTEE OVERSIGHT PLAN FOR THE 115TH CONGRESS

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

MEETING HELD FEBRUARY 2, 2017

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ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS WILLIAM M. ‘‘MAC’’ THORNBERRY, Texas, Chairman

WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina , 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, , Washington MIKE ROGERS, Alabama , Tennessee TRENT FRANKS, MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO, Guam BILL SHUSTER, Pennsylvania JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas NIKI TSONGAS, Massachusetts , Colorado , California ROBERT J. WITTMAN, , California DUNCAN HUNTER, California MARC A. VEASEY, Texas MIKE COFFMAN, Colorado TULSI GABBARD, Hawaii , Missouri BETO O’ROURKE, Texas AUSTIN SCOTT, Georgia , New Jersey , Alabama , Arizona PAUL COOK, California , Massachusetts JIM BRIDENSTINE, Oklahoma COLLEEN HANABUSA, Hawaii BRAD R. WENSTRUP, Ohio CAROL SHEA–PORTER, New Hampshire BRADLEY BYRNE, Alabama JACKY ROSEN, Nevada , 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 , California SCOTT DESJARLAIS, Tennessee SCOTT H. PETERS, California RALPH LEE ABRAHAM, Louisiana , California , JOAQUIN CASTRO, Texas MIKE GALLAGHER, , Florida , Nebraska , Indiana ,

ROBERT L. SIMMONS II, Staff Director ZACH STEACY, Director, Legislative Operations

(II) CONSIDERATION OF THE COMMITTEE OVERSIGHT PLAN FOR THE 115TH CONGRESS

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’’ THORN- BERRY, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM TEXAS, CHAIRMAN, COM- MITTEE 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 Intelli- gence 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 Ten- nessee’s Fourth District, whose constituents are part of the work- force 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 rep- resents Louisiana’s Fifth District, a voice for Louisiana’s military installations. He is not only a medical doctor, he is also a veteri- narian, and served in the 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 Na- tional Guard, he served for 30 years as an engineer, including mul- tiple tours in . 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. (1) 2 The seat next to him, who is not here, is Dr. Mike Gallagher, an- other 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, 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 , 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 de- ployed 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 Af- ghanistan, 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 accom- plished author and commentator on 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 com- mittee before and welcome them back. Colleen Hanabusa, who represents Hawaii’s First District, which includes Camp H.M. Smith, headquarters of the Pa- cific Command. She is a lawyer by profession. As Mr. Thornberry said, we won’t hold that against anyone. I am a lawyer by profes- sion; fortunately got over it. She returns to Congress and the Armed Services Committee, having previously served in three Con- gresses: 112th, 113th, 114th. So we welcome back her expertise. And certainly, Hawaii is a critical part of our national security team. So welcome back. 3 Also returning is Carol Shea-Porter, who represents New Hamp- shire’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 com- mittee, 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 Dele- gates and the Virginia Senate. Next, we have , who represents California’s 24th District, which includes Vandenberg Air Force Base, Camp Roberts, and has Naval Base Ventura County and Fort Hunter Liggett near- by. He served 8 years in the Marine Corps Reserve, including ac- tive service during the 1991 , 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. , who represents Florida’s Sev- enth 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 na- tional security specialist in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where she worked on a wide range of security issues from counter- terrorism, 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 Com- merce 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 4 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 over- sight plan. This is required by House Rules. We sent it to every- body 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 Res- olution 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. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48

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 pur- pose of offering a motion. Mr. BISHOP. Mr. Chairman, I move to adopt the Committee Reso- lution 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 objec- tion, a motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. Without objec- tion, committee staff is authorized to make technical and conform- ing changes to reflect the action of the committee in adopting Com- mittee 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.] Æ