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I do commend the National Park Service for undertaking some pretty basic kinds of steps to put in place training, including a very needed ethics training.

The President proposes to cut funding to NPS by almost $400 million and approximately 1,200 people would lose their jobs.

Business is booming at our national parks, which just set a new record for attendance for the third consecutive year.

I am very interested in finding out about.

If we could just stop obstructing around here, maybe we can get some agenda moving and done

Without immigration reform, without getting an additional number of workers, our work pool would actually shrink

What effect do these programs that actually incentivize folks, in my opinion, to sit out the workforce, have on the low labor participation rate?

That is very good. Please keep that up.

I am not sure I understand. There are three submarines right now that should be deployable except that they are needing to be repaired. That is not accurate. Is it?

When you are talking about infrastructure, you are talking about the movement of a number of our troops from Futenma to Guam and recycling through Australia and eventually to Hawaii.

I would like to ask you how are you incorporating the shift to the Asia-Pacific as you consider expanding the fleet to deploy the number of ships you need?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

It has been long enough and the time for leadership is certainly now.

Funding for critical programs, both defense and non-defense, is not an either/or proposition.

The mindless cuts to defense and non-defense programs brought by sequestration were meant to be so bad that Congress would move forward or would be forced to find an alternative way forward.

I think it's really important that you are paying attention to the corrosion issue because the lifetime use of our aircraft can be extended by that kind of attention to that matter.

I would say the C-9s are not only hard down but we've transitioned them out of the Marine Corps inventory.

If we're committing to absolutely nothing, why do you even need authorization?

When Congress agrees to support an administration request for multi-year procurement authority, it is a serious matter

Unless Congress can achieve a broad and bipartisan agreement to repeal or modify the BCA, any approval of the $12 billion increase for the Navy and Marine Corps will trigger sequestration of a similar amount in domestic programs.

We must also make sure that any increases in resources do not come at the expense of important domestic programs.

These threats require us to consider how best to get the Navy and Marine Corps the resources that you need.

My understanding is that you would like to get to more than 5,500.

So the ultimately goal is 5,500 JLTVs.