Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that lawmakers should not underestimate the Obama administration's resolve to eliminate wasteful spending, and he renewed a vow to recommend a veto of defense legislation if key programs are not dropped.Air Force Times...
In the same Wall Street Journal interview, Gates was also faced with a question about Kennedy, whom Trump has nominated to become the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the president’s administration. "Well, he wrote a book saying that Tony Fauci and I kill millions of childre...
If we’re going to solve climate change, it’s going to take courage, commitment, and partnership between the federal government and private industry, a point that Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm has made repeatedly. Gov. Mark Gordon and Senators John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis have been...
Gates said Congress has dedicated $100 million to the Global Agricultural and Food Security Program, which he launched last year with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the foreign ministers of Spain, Canada and South Korea. “That is welcome funding at a difficult time, but it only brings...
Here is what Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently told Congress: Setting a fixed date to withdraw would "essentially tell [the enemy] how long they would have to wait until we're gone." If American forces were to step back from Baghdad before it is more secure, the scale and scope...
Secretary General António Guterres called global attention to these threats: “The weaponization of artificial intelligence is a growing concern. The prospect of weapons that can select and attack a target on their own raises multiple alarms…. The prospect of machines with the discretion and power...
we need to invest more money in agricultural R&D. Doubling CGIAR’s funding so it can reach more farmers is one of the main recommendations by theGlobal Commission on Adaptation, which I led along with former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon and former World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva. (...
Top defense leaders, including Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, have said they support a repeal but want to move slowly to ensure changes won't hurt morale. Gates has asked Congress not to act until the military finishes a study, due Dec....
McRaven also had high praise for Obama's national security team, including those in place at the time of the raid, such as then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then-Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen, National Security Adviser ...
As Delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, September 23, 2008Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Mr. Warner. And thank you bo... RM Gates - Opening Statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee 被引量: 0发表: 2014年 having someone come in to do this...