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Support is growing for the legislation.

How does something like this occur over an extended period of time?

Increases in operational tempo coupled with the limited number of ships and sailors likely lead to more deployments of longer duration.

So, I would be interested to know what you're doing with your control and operational and schedule pressures to address these concerns that have been raised in this hearing.

So, what are you planning to change that situation?

The Optimized Fleet Response Plan, the new fleet deployment and maintenance model, appears to be falling short.

If we're aware that a ship is not certified and ready to deploy, that ship should not deploy.

Our Service Chiefs, including the Chief of Naval Operations, have testified repeatedly that the Budget Control Act and sequestration are endangering the lives of our men and women in uniform.

Years of budget cuts, continuing resolutions, and sequestration have forced our military to maintain a high operational tempo with limited resources.

In the last 3 years, fatal training accidents have taken the lives of four times more servicemembers than our enemies have in combat.

The ongoing reviews directed by Secretary Spencer and Admiral Richardson must quickly get to the bottom of this and identify root causes, corrective actions, and further accountability actions.

I agree. We should save our children. We need to start deporting some criminal gang members. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte), who is the chairman of the full committee.

I know we spent a lot of time in committee talking about a lot of different issues, but maybe the gentleman forgets that we had 3 whole days of hearings on the Davis-Oliver Act, which this bill was included in, and many arguments were made…

I mistakenly cast a ``no'' vote on rollcall vote 492. While I am counted as a ``no'' vote, I intended to vote ``yes'' on the amendment. Vacating Demand for Recorded Vote on Amendment No. 175 Offered By Mr. Murphy of Pennsylvania

If you become Chairman of FERC, will you commit to continuing FERC's information sharing with Hawaii?

I think what we are looking for is an open commitment to that kind of a process because apparently that has not always been thus at your Department.

I would want your commitment that in future actions you would bring to the table the stakeholders, such as the environmental people and the commercial people, before you take action.

I am not in favor of the bill because I think it is bad for consumers.

Representative Keith Ellison and I have a bill that will help consumers to reestablish their credit, by utilizing their mortgage payments, car payments, and utility payments to help build their credit score.

Something is definitely wrong. In my 9 months as a member of the House Armed Services Committee, I think I have lost count at the number of times that senior leaders from all services have come to this committee and said that 'We are ready…

I will go so far as adopt and associate myself with General Milley's comment, and I paraphrase, that continuing resolutions--and I will add sequestration--is comparable to legislative malpractice.

Eighty percent, 84 percent, I am told, of wildfires are caused by human action, but in Hawaii it's 98 percent.

I would like to note that wildfire risk is very high in Hawaii.

I intend to offer the following motion to H.R. 1628, and I ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Motion to Commit With…